Words that rhyme with composite

• anthracite 0
  n 1: a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat [syn: anthracite, anthracite coal, hard coal]
• at 0
  n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium [syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85] 2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
• bauxite 0
  n 1: a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst
• bombsight 0
  n 1: a sighting device in an aircraft for aiming bombs
• calcite 0
  n 1: a common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone
• campsite 0
  n 1: a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent [syn: campsite, campground, camping site, camping ground, bivouac, encampment, camping area]
• closet 0
  n 1: a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space [syn: cupboard, closet] 2: a toilet in Britain [syn: water closet, closet, W.C., loo] 3: a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes [syn: wardrobe, closet, press] 4: a small private room for study or prayer v 1: confine to a small space, as for intensive work
• cosset 0
  v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
• deposit 0
  n 1: the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating [syn: deposit, sedimentation, alluviation] 2: matter that has been deposited by some natural process [syn: sediment, deposit] 3: the natural process of laying down a deposit of something [syn: deposition, deposit] 4: money deposited in a bank or some similar institution [syn: deposit, bank deposit] 5: a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later [syn: down payment, deposit] 6: money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use; "his deposit was refunded when he returned the car" 7: a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met 8: a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping [syn: depository, deposit, depositary, repository] 9: the act of putting something somewhere [syn: deposit, deposition] v 1: put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack" [syn: lodge, wedge, stick, deposit] [ant: dislodge, free] 2: put into a bank account; "She deposits her paycheck every month" [syn: deposit, bank] [ant: draw, draw off, take out, withdraw] 3: put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" [syn: situate, fix, posit, deposit]
• erythrocyte 0
  n 1: a mature blood cell that contains hemoglobin to carry oxygen to the bodily tissues; a biconcave disc that has no nucleus [syn: red blood cell, RBC, erythrocyte]
• excite 0
  v 1: arouse or elicit a feeling 2: act as a stimulant; "The book stimulated her imagination"; "This play stimulates" [syn: stimulate, excite] [ant: dampen, stifle] 3: stir feelings in; "stimulate my appetite"; "excite the audience"; "stir emotions" [syn: stimulate, excite, stir] 4: cause to be agitated, excited, or roused; "The speaker charged up the crowd with his inflammatory remarks" [syn: agitate, rouse, turn on, charge, commove, excite, charge up] [ant: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, quieten, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize] 5: stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience" [syn: arouse, sex, excite, turn on, wind up] 6: stir the feelings, emotions, or peace of; "These stories shook the community"; "the civil war shook the country" [syn: stimulate, shake, shake up, excite, stir] 7: raise to a higher energy level; "excite the atoms" [syn: excite, energize, energise] 8: produce a magnetic field in; "excite the neurons"
• exit 0
  n 1: an opening that permits escape or release; "he blocked the way out"; "the canyon had only one issue" [syn: exit, issue, outlet, way out] 2: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release] 3: the act of going out v 1: move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country" [syn: exit, go out, get out, leave] [ant: come in, enter, get in, get into, go in, go into, move into] 2: lose the lead 3: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born]
• eyesight 0
  n 1: normal use of the faculty of vision [syn: eyesight, seeing, sightedness]
• foresight 0
  n 1: providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future [syn: foresight, foresightedness, foresightfulness] 2: seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing [syn: prevision, foresight, farsightedness, prospicience]
• gametocyte 0
  n 1: an immature animal or plant cell that develops into a gamete by meiosis
• hindsight 0
  n 1: understanding the nature of an event after it has happened; "hindsight is always better than foresight"
• incite 0
  v 1: give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite] 2: provoke or stir up; "incite a riot"; "set off great unrest among the people" [syn: incite, instigate, set off, stir up] 3: urge on; cause to act; "The other children egged the boy on, but he did not want to throw the stone through the window" [syn: prod, incite, egg on]
• insight 0
  n 1: clear or deep perception of a situation [syn: penetration, insight] 2: a feeling of understanding [syn: insight, perceptiveness, perceptivity] 3: the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation [syn: insight, brainstorm, brainwave] 4: grasping the inner nature of things intuitively [syn: insight, sixth sense]
• monazite 0
  n 1: a reddish-brown mineral containing rare earth metals; an important source of thorium and cerium
• opposite 0
  adv 1: directly facing each other; "the two photographs lay face-to-face on the table"; "lived all their lives in houses face-to-face across the street"; "they sat opposite at the table" [syn: face-to-face, opposite] adj 1: being directly across from each other; facing; "And I on the opposite shore will be, ready to ride and spread the alarm"- Longfellow; "we lived on opposite sides of the street"; "at opposite poles" 2: of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem; "opposite leaves" [syn: opposite, paired] [ant: alternate] 3: moving or facing away from each other; "looking in opposite directions"; "they went in opposite directions" 4: the other one of a complementary pair; "the opposite sex"; "the two chess kings are set up on squares of opposite colors" 5: altogether different in nature or quality or significance; "the medicine's effect was opposite to that intended"; "it is said that opposite characters make a union happiest"- Charles Reade 6: characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions" [syn: diametric, diametrical, opposite, polar] n 1: a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other; "to him the antonym of `gay' was `depressed'" [syn: antonym, opposite word, opposite] [ant: equivalent word, synonym] 2: a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true" [syn: reverse, contrary, opposite] 3: a contestant that you are matched against [syn: opposition, opponent, opposite] 4: something inverted in sequence or character or effect; "when the direct approach failed he tried the inverse" [syn: inverse, opposite]
• oversight 0
  n 1: an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something [syn: oversight, inadvertence] 2: management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group [syn: supervision, supervising, superintendence, oversight] 3: a mistake resulting from inattention [syn: oversight, lapse]
• parasite 0
  n 1: an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host [ant: host] 2: a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage [syn: leech, parasite, sponge, sponger]
• perquisite 0
  n 1: an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right); "a limousine is one of the fringe benefits of the job" [syn: fringe benefit, perquisite, perk] 2: a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males" [syn: prerogative, privilege, perquisite, exclusive right]
• phagocyte 0
  n 1: a cell that engulfs and digests debris and invading microorganisms [syn: phagocyte, scavenger cell]
• plebiscite 0
  n 1: a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance
• posit 0
  n 1: (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning [syn: postulate, posit] v 1: put (something somewhere) firmly; "She posited her hand on his shoulder"; "deposit the suitcase on the bench"; "fix your eyes on this spot" [syn: situate, fix, posit, deposit] 2: put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty" [syn: submit, state, put forward, posit] 3: take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom; "He posited three basic laws of nature" [syn: postulate, posit]
• prerequisite 0
  adj 1: required as a prior condition or course of study n 1: something that is required in advance; "Latin was a prerequisite for admission" [syn: prerequisite, requirement]
• quartzite 0
  n 1: hard metamorphic rock consisting essentially of interlocking quartz crystals
• recite 0
  v 1: recite in elocution [syn: declaim, recite] 2: repeat aloud from memory; "she recited a poem"; "The pupil recited his lesson for the day" 3: render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story" [syn: recite, retell] 4: narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" [syn: tell, narrate, recount, recite] 5: specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug" [syn: enumerate, recite, itemize, itemise]
• requisite 0
  adj 1: necessary for relief or supply; "provided them with all things needful" [syn: needed, needful, required, requisite] n 1: anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [syn: necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary] [ant: inessential, nonessential]
• revisit 0
  v 1: visit again; "We revisited Rome after 25 years"
• transit 0
  n 1: a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod [syn: theodolite, transit] 2: a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods [syn: transportation system, transportation, transit] 3: a journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days" [syn: passage, transit] v 1: make a passage or journey from one place to another; "The tourists moved through the town and bought up all the souvenirs;" "Some travelers pass through the desert" [syn: transit, pass through, move through, pass across, pass over] 2: pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place); "The comet will transit on September 11" 3: revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction 4: cause or enable to pass through; "The canal will transit hundreds of ships every day"
• visit 0
  n 1: the act of going to see some person or place or thing for a short time; "he dropped by for a visit" 2: a meeting arranged by the visitor to see someone (such as a doctor or lawyer) for treatment or advice; "he scheduled a visit to the dentist" 3: the act of visiting in an official capacity (as for an inspection) 4: the act of going to see some person in a professional capacity; "a visit to the dentist" 5: a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) [syn: sojourn, visit] v 1: go to see a place, as for entertainment; "We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning" [syn: visit, see] 2: go to certain places as for sightseeing; "Did you ever visit Paris?" [syn: travel to, visit] 3: pay a brief visit; "The mayor likes to call on some of the prominent citizens" [syn: visit, call in, call] 4: come to see in an official or professional capacity; "The governor visited the prison"; "The grant administrator visited the laboratory" [syn: visit, inspect] 5: impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students" [syn: inflict, bring down, visit, impose] 6: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit] 7: stay with as a guest; "Every summer, we visited our relatives in the country for a month" 8: assail; "He was visited with a terrible illness that killed him quickly"
• hussite 0
  n 1: an adherent of the religious reforms of John Huss
• andesite 0
  n 1: a dark grey volcanic rock
• leucocyte 0
  n 1: blood cells that engulf and digest bacteria and fungi; an important part of the body's defense system [syn: leukocyte, leucocyte, white blood cell, white cell, white blood corpuscle, white corpuscle, WBC]
• martensite 0
  n 1: a solid solution of carbon in alpha-iron that is formed when steel is cooled so rapidly that the change from austenite to pearlite is suppressed; responsible for the hardness of quenched steel
• monocyte 0
  n 1: a type of granular leukocyte that functions in the ingestion of bacteria
• oocyte 0
  n 1: a female gametocyte that develops into an ovum after two meiotic divisions
• plasmacyte 0
  n 1: a cell that develops from a B lymphocyte in reaction to a specific antigen; found in bone marrow and sometimes in the blood [syn: plasma cell, plasmacyte]
• thrombocyte 0
  n 1: tiny bits of protoplasm found in vertebrate blood; essential for blood clotting [syn: platelet, blood platelet, thrombocyte]
• granulocyte 0
  n 1: a leukocyte that has granules in its cytoplasm
• histiocyte 0
  n 1: a macrophage that is found in connective tissue
• monophysite 0
  adj 1: of or relating to Monophysitism [syn: Monophysite, Monophysitic] n 1: an adherent of Monophysitism
• spermatocyte 0
  n 1: a male gametocyte that develops into four spermatids
• ectoparasite 0
  n 1: any external parasitic organism (as fleas) [syn: ectoparasite, ectozoan, ectozoon, epizoan, epizoon]
• endoparasite 0
  n 1: any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) [syn: endoparasite, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon, endozoan]
• entoparasite 0
  n 1: any of various parasites that live in the internal organs of animals (especially intestinal worms) [syn: endoparasite, entoparasite, entozoan, entozoon, endozoan]
• kassite 0
  n 1: a member of an ancient people who ruled Babylonia between 1600 and 1200 BC [syn: Kassite, Cassite] 2: an ancient language spoken by the Kassites [syn: Kassite, Cassite]
• lewisite 0
• overexcite 0
• backsight 0
• brucite 0
• marcasite 0
• anorthosite 0
• eurodeposit 0
• oviposit 0
• resite 0

See also composite definition and composite synonyms