Words that rhyme with combe

n 1: any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions [syn: brome, bromegrass]

n 1: the organic process of bearing flowers; "you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed" [syn: blooming, bloom] 2: reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts [syn: flower, bloom, blossom] 3: the best time of youth [syn: bloom, bloom of youth, salad days] 4: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health [syn: bloom, blush, flush, rosiness] 5: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush] 6: a powdery deposit on a surface [syn: efflorescence, bloom] v 1: produce or yield flowers; "The cherry tree bloomed" [syn: bloom, blossom, flower]

n 1: a deep prolonged loud noise [syn: boom, roar, roaring, thunder] 2: a state of economic prosperity 3: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce] 4: a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set [syn: boom, microphone boom] 5: any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring v 1: make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall" [syn: boom, din] 2: hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer" [syn: smash, nail, boom, blast] 3: be the case that thunder is being heard; "Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed" [syn: thunder, boom] 4: make a deep hollow sound; "Her voice booms out the words of the song" [syn: boom, boom out] 5: grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming" [syn: boom, thrive, flourish, expand]

n 1: a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle 2: any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers 3: common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere [syn: heather, ling, Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris] v 1: sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed" [syn: sweep, broom] 2: finish with a broom

n 1: light carriage; pulled by a single horse 2: a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat

n 1: an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome)

n 1: another word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigments v 1: plate with chromium; "chrome bathroom fixtures" [syn: chrome, chromium-plate] 2: treat with a chromium compound

n 1: garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers [syn: cockscomb, common cockscomb, Celosia cristata, Celosia argentea cristata] 2: a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments [syn: coxcomb, cockscomb] 3: a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red [syn: cockscomb, coxcomb] 4: the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds [syn: comb, cockscomb, coxcomb]

n 1: a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair 2: the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds [syn: comb, cockscomb, coxcomb] 3: any of several tools for straightening fibers 4: ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore 5: the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb" [syn: comb, combing] v 1: straighten with a comb; "comb your hair" 2: search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child" [syn: comb, ransack] 3: smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool" [syn: comb, comb out, disentangle]

n 1: a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments [syn: coxcomb, cockscomb] 2: a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red [syn: cockscomb, coxcomb] 3: the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds [syn: comb, cockscomb, coxcomb]

n 1: a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses v 1: clean (a horse) with a currycomb

n 1: a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward 2: informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome] 3: a stadium that has a roof [syn: dome, domed stadium, covered stadium] 4: a hemispherical roof

n 1: an unpleasant or disastrous destiny; "everyone was aware of the approaching doom but was helpless to avoid it"; "that's unfortunate but it isn't the end of the world" [syn: doom, doomsday, day of reckoning, end of the world] v 1: decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: destine, fate, doom, designate] 2: pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison" [syn: sentence, condemn, doom] 3: make certain of the failure or destruction of; "This decision will doom me to lose my position"

n 1: a narrow gorge with a stream running through it [syn: gulch, flume] 2: watercourse that consists of an open artificial chute filled with water for power or for carrying logs

n 1: a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; "the beer had a thick head of foam" [syn: foam, froth] 2: a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture v 1: become bubbly or frothy or foaming; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water" [syn: foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form bubbles]

n 1: a cloud of fine particles suspended in a gas [syn: smoke, fume] v 1: be mad, angry, or furious 2: emit a cloud of fine particles; "The chimney was fuming" [syn: fume, smoke] 3: treat with fumes, expose to fumes, especially with the aim of disinfecting or eradicating pests [syn: fumigate, fume] 4: be wet with sweat or blood, as of one's face [syn: reek, fume]

n 1: a state of partial or total darkness; "he struck a match to dispel the gloom" [syn: gloom, somberness, sombreness] 2: a feeling of melancholy apprehension [syn: gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness] 3: an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office" [syn: gloom, gloominess, glumness]

n 1: a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure [syn: gnome, dwarf] 2: a short pithy saying expressing a general truth

n 1: a man participant in his own marriage ceremony [syn: groom, bridegroom] 2: someone employed in a stable to take care of the horses [syn: stableman, stableboy, groom, hostler, ostler] 3: a man who has recently been married [syn: groom, bridegroom] v 1: educate for a future role or function; "He is grooming his son to become his successor"; "The prince was prepared to become King one day"; "They trained him to be a warrior" [syn: prepare, groom, train] 2: give a neat appearance to; "groom the dogs"; "dress the horses" [syn: dress, groom, curry] 3: care for one's external appearance; "He is always well- groomed" [syn: groom, neaten]

adv 1: at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home" 2: on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home" 3: to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" adj 1: used of your own ground; "a home game" [ant: away] 2: relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town" 3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national] n 1: where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" [syn: home, place] 2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house] 3: the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey" 4: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [syn: home plate, home base, home, plate] 5: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: base, home] 6: place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball" 7: an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home" 8: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage] 9: an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" [syn: home, nursing home, rest home] v 1: provide with, or send to, a home 2: return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"

n 1: a structure of small hexagonal cells constructed from beeswax by bees and used to store honey and larvae 2: a framework of hexagonal cells resembling the honeycomb built by bees v 1: carve a honeycomb pattern into; "The cliffs were honeycombed" 2: penetrate thoroughly and into every part; "the revolutionaries honeycombed the organization" 3: make full of cavities, like a honeycomb

n 1: a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials

n 1: a textile machine for weaving yarn into a textile v 1: come into view indistinctly, often threateningly; "Another air plane loomed into the sky" 2: appear very large or occupy a commanding position; "The huge sculpture predominates over the fountain"; "Large shadows loomed on the canyon wall" [syn: loom, tower, predominate, hulk] 3: hang over, as of something threatening, dark, or menacing; "The terrible vision brooded over her all day long" [syn: brood, hover, loom, bulk large] 4: weave on a loom; "materials loomed in Egypt"

n 1: a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere 2: German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854) [syn: Ohm, Georg Simon Ohm]

n 1: anything that resembles a feather in shape or lightness; "a plume of smoke"; "grass with large plumes" 2: a feather or cluster of feathers worn as an ornament 3: the light horny waterproof structure forming the external covering of birds [syn: feather, plume, plumage] v 1: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook] [ant: undercharge] 2: be proud of; "He prides himself on making it into law school" [syn: pride, plume, congratulate] 3: deck with a plume; "a plumed helmet" 4: clean with one's bill; "The birds preened" [syn: preen, plume] 5: form a plume; "The chimneys were pluming the sky"; "The engine was pluming black smoke" 6: dress or groom with elaborate care; "She likes to dress when going to the opera" [syn: preen, primp, plume, dress]

n 1: a watery discharge from the mucous membranes (especially from the eyes or nose) 2: rhubarb [syn: Rheum, genus Rheum]

v 1: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]

n 1: an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" 2: space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: room, way, elbow room] 3: opportunity for; "room for improvement" 4: the people who are present in a room; "the whole room was cheering" v 1: live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house" [syn: board, room]

n 1: foam or froth on the sea v 1: make froth or foam and become bubbly; "The river foamed" [syn: froth, spume, suds]

n 1: a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone); "he put flowers on his mother's grave" [syn: grave, tomb]

n 1: a (usually) large and scholarly book

n 1: a hollow muscular organ in the pelvic cavity of females; contains the developing fetus [syn: uterus, womb]

n 1: a rapid rise [syn: rapid climb, rapid growth, zoom] 2: the act of rising upward into the air [syn: soar, zoom] v 1: move along very quickly [syn: zoom, zoom along, whizz, whizz along] 2: move with a low humming noise 3: rise rapidly; "the dollar soared against the yen" [syn: soar, soar up, soar upwards, surge, zoom]

n 1: small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae

n 1: Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses (1711-1776) [syn: Hume, David Hume]

n 1: German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624) [syn: Boehme, Jakob Boehme, Bohme, Jakob Bohme, Boehm, Jakob Boehm, Behmen, Jakob Behmen]

n 1: German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624) [syn: Boehme, Jakob Boehme, Bohme, Jakob Bohme, Boehm, Jakob Boehm, Behmen, Jakob Behmen]

n 1: a steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake [syn: cirque, corrie, cwm]

n 1: an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo [syn: airport, airdrome, aerodrome, drome]

n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]

n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420) [syn: Jerome, Saint Jerome, St. Jerome, Hieronymus, Eusebius Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus]

n 1: a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century

n 1: capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire [syn: Rome, Roma, Eternal City, Italian capital, capital of Italy] 2: the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church

n 1: a terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity; "in 1995 Aum members released deadly sarin gas on a Tokyo subway train" [syn: Aum Shinrikyo, Aum, Supreme Truth]