Words that rhyme with conduct
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abduct
v 1: take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; "The industrialist's son was kidnapped" [syn: kidnap, nobble, abduct, snatch] 2: pull away from the body; "this muscle abducts" [ant: adduct] -
adduct
n 1: a compound formed by an addition reaction v 1: draw a limb towards the body; "adduct the thigh muscle" [ant: abduct] -
aqueduct
n 1: a conduit that resembles a bridge but carries water over a valley -
construct
n 1: an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances [syn: concept, conception, construct] [ant: misconception] v 1: make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer" [syn: construct, build, make] 2: put together out of artificial or natural components or parts; "the company fabricates plastic chairs"; "They manufacture small toys"; He manufactured a popular cereal" [syn: manufacture, fabricate, construct] 3: draw with suitable instruments and under specified conditions; "construct an equilateral triangle" 4: create by linking linguistic units; "construct a sentence"; "construct a paragraph" 5: create by organizing and linking ideas, arguments, or concepts; "construct a proof"; "construct an argument" 6: reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago" [syn: reconstruct, construct, retrace] -
deconstruct
v 1: interpret (a text or an artwork) by the method of deconstructing -
deduct
v 1: make a subtraction; "subtract this amount from my paycheck" [syn: subtract, deduct, take off] [ant: add, add together] 2: retain and refrain from disbursing; of payments; "My employer is withholding taxes" [syn: withhold, deduct, recoup] 3: reason by deduction; establish by deduction [syn: deduce, infer, deduct, derive] -
destruct
v 1: destroy (one's own missile or rocket); "The engineers had to destruct the rocket for safety reasons" 2: do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of; "The fire destroyed the house" [syn: destroy, destruct] -
duct
n 1: a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs" [syn: duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel] 2: a continuous tube formed by a row of elongated cells lacking intervening end walls 3: an enclosed conduit for a fluid -
eruct
v 1: eject or send out in large quantities, also metaphorical; "the volcano spews out molten rocks every day"; "The editors of the paper spew out hostile articles about the Presidential candidate" [syn: spew, spew out, eruct] 2: expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table" [syn: burp, bubble, belch, eruct] -
imperfect
adj 1: not perfect; defective or inadequate; "had only an imperfect understanding of his responsibilities"; "imperfect mortals"; "drainage here is imperfect" [ant: perfect] 2: wanting in moral strength, courage, or will; having the attributes of man as opposed to e.g. divine beings; "I'm only a fallible human"; "frail humanity" [syn: fallible, frail, imperfect, weak] n 1: a tense of verbs used in describing action that is on-going [syn: progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense] -
induct
v 1: place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy" [syn: induct, invest, seat] 2: accept people into an exclusive society or group, usually with some rite; "African men are initiated when they reach puberty" [syn: initiate, induct] 3: admit as a member; "We were inducted into the honor society" 4: produce electric current by electrostatic or magnetic processes [syn: induce, induct] 5: introduce or initiate; "The young geisha was inducted into the ways of her profession" -
instruct
v 1: impart skills or knowledge to; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" [syn: teach, learn, instruct] 2: give instructions or directions for some task; "She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation" 3: make aware of; "Have the students been apprised of the tuition hike?" [syn: instruct, apprise, apprize] -
misconduct
n 1: bad or dishonest management by persons supposed to act on another's behalf 2: activity that transgresses moral or civil law; "he denied any wrongdoing" [syn: wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus] v 1: behave badly; "The children misbehaved all morning" [syn: misbehave, misconduct, misdemean] [ant: behave, comport] 2: manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged" [syn: mismanage, mishandle, misconduct] -
object
n 1: a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets, balls and other objects" [syn: object, physical object] 2: the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable); "the sole object of her trip was to see her children" [syn: aim, object, objective, target] 3: (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon; "the object of the verb" 4: the focus of cognitions or feelings; "objects of thought"; "the object of my affection" 5: (computing) a discrete item that provides a description of virtually anything known to a computer; "in object-oriented programming, objects include data and define its status, its methods of operation and how it interacts with other objects" v 1: express or raise an objection or protest or criticism or express dissent; "She never objected to the amount of work her boss charged her with"; "When asked to drive the truck, she objected that she did not have a driver's license" 2: be averse to or express disapproval of; "My wife objects to modern furniture" -
obstruct
v 1: hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn" [syn: obstruct, blockade, block, hinder, stymie, stymy, embarrass] 2: block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up] [ant: disengage, free] 3: shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight; "The thick curtain blocked the action on the stage"; "The trees obstruct my view of the mountains" [syn: obstruct, block] -
oviduct
n 1: either of a pair of tubes conducting the egg from the ovary to the uterus [syn: Fallopian tube, uterine tube, oviduct] -
perfect
adj 1: being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day" [ant: imperfect] 2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated] 3: precisely accurate or exact; "perfect timing" n 1: a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) [syn: perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense] v 1: make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!" [syn: perfect, hone] -
plucked
adj 1: of a stringed instrument; sounded with the fingers or a plectrum [ant: bowed] 2: having the feathers removed, as from a pelt or a fowl; "a plucked chicken"; "an unfeathered goose" -
product
n 1: commodities offered for sale; "good business depends on having good merchandise"; "that store offers a variety of products" [syn: merchandise, ware, product] 2: an artifact that has been created by someone or some process; "they improve their product every year"; "they export most of their agricultural production" [syn: product, production] 3: a quantity obtained by multiplication; "the product of 2 and 3 is 6" [syn: product, mathematical product] 4: a chemical substance formed as a result of a chemical reaction; "a product of lime and nitric acid" 5: a consequence of someone's efforts or of a particular set of circumstances; "skill is the product of hours of practice"; "his reaction was the product of hunger and fatigue" 6: the set of elements common to two or more sets; "the set of red hats is the intersection of the set of hats and the set of red things" [syn: intersection, product, Cartesian product] -
reconstruct
v 1: reassemble mentally; "reconstruct the events of 20 years ago" [syn: reconstruct, construct, retrace] 2: build again; "The house was rebuild after it was hit by a bomb" [syn: rebuild, reconstruct] 3: cause somebody to adapt or reform socially or politically 4: return to its original or usable and functioning condition; "restore the forest to its original pristine condition" [syn: restore, reconstruct] 5: do over, as of (part of) a house; "We are remodeling these rooms" [syn: remodel, reconstruct, redo] -
subject
adj 1: possibly accepting or permitting; "a passage capable of misinterpretation"; "open to interpretation"; "an issue open to question"; "the time is fixed by the director and players and therefore subject to much variation" [syn: capable, open, subject] 2: being under the power or sovereignty of another or others; "subject peoples"; "a dependent prince" [syn: subject, dependent] 3: likely to be affected by something; "the bond is subject to taxation"; "he is subject to fits of depression" n 1: the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love" [syn: subject, topic, theme] 2: something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation; "a moving picture of a train is more dramatic than a still picture of the same subject" [syn: subject, content, depicted object] 3: a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" [syn: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick] 4: some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police" [syn: topic, subject, issue, matter] 5: (grammar) one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated 6: a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities" [syn: subject, case, guinea pig] 7: a person who owes allegiance to that nation; "a monarch has a duty to his subjects" [syn: national, subject] 8: (logic) the first term of a proposition v 1: cause to experience or suffer or make liable or vulnerable to; "He subjected me to his awful poetry"; "The sergeant subjected the new recruits to many drills"; "People in Chernobyl were subjected to radiation" 2: make accountable for; "He did not want to subject himself to the judgments of his superiors" 3: make subservient; force to submit or subdue [syn: subjugate, subject] 4: refer for judgment or consideration; "The lawyers submitted the material to the court" [syn: submit, subject] -
tucked
adj 1: having tucked or being tucked; "tightly tucked blankets"; "a fancy tucked shirt" [ant: untucked] -
usufruct
n 1: a legal right to use and derive profit from property belonging to someone else provided that the property itself is not injured in any way -
viaduct
n 1: bridge consisting of a series of arches supported by piers used to carry a road (or railroad) over a valley -
bucked
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chucked
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ducked
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fucked
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lucked
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sucked
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trucked
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lucht
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shucked
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subduct
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unplucked
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ventiduct
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