Words that rhyme with conjoint

• anoint 0
  v 1: choose by or as if by divine intervention; "She was anointed the head of the Christian fundamentalist group" 2: administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing [syn: anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate]
• appoint 0
  v 1: create and charge with a task or function; "nominate a committee" [syn: appoint, name, nominate, constitute] 2: assign a duty, responsibility or obligation to; "He was appointed deputy manager"; "She was charged with supervising the creation of a concordance" [syn: appoint, charge] 3: furnish; "a beautifully appointed house"
• checkpoint 0
  n 1: a place (as at a frontier) where travellers are stopped for inspection and clearance
• counterpoint 0
  n 1: a musical form involving the simultaneous sound of two or more melodies v 1: to show differences when compared; be different; "the students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities" [syn: contrast, counterpoint] 2: write in counterpoint; "Bach perfected the art of counterpointing"
• disappoint 0
  v 1: fail to meet the hopes or expectations of; "Her boyfriend let her down when he did not propose marriage" [syn: disappoint, let down]
• disjoint 0
  adj 1: having no elements in common v 1: part; cease or break association with; "She disassociated herself from the organization when she found out the identity of the president" [syn: disassociate, dissociate, divorce, disunite, disjoint] 2: separate at the joints; "disjoint the chicken before cooking it" [syn: disjoint, disarticulate] 3: make disjoint, separated, or disconnected; undo the joining of [syn: disjoin, disjoint] [ant: bring together, join] 4: become separated, disconnected or disjoint [syn: disjoin, disjoint] [ant: conjoin, join]
• endpoint 0
  n 1: a place where something ends or is complete [syn: end point, endpoint, termination, terminus]
• gunpoint 0
  n 1: the gun muzzle's direction; "he held me up at the point of a gun" [syn: point, gunpoint]
• joint 0
  adj 1: united or combined; "a joint session of Congress"; "joint owners" [ant: separate] 2: affecting or involving two or more; "joint income-tax return"; "joint ownership" 3: involving both houses of a legislature; "a joint session of Congress" n 1: (anatomy) the point of connection between two bones or elements of a skeleton (especially if it allows motion) [syn: joint, articulation, articulatio] 2: a disreputable place of entertainment 3: the shape or manner in which things come together and a connection is made [syn: articulation, join, joint, juncture, junction] 4: a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion [syn: roast, joint] 5: junction by which parts or objects are joined together 6: marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking [syn: joint, marijuana cigarette, reefer, stick, spliff] v 1: fit as if by joints; "The boards fit neatly" 2: provide with a joint; "the carpenter jointed two pieces of wood" [syn: joint, articulate] 3: fasten with a joint 4: separate (meat) at the joint
• midpoint 0
  n 1: a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure [syn: center, centre, midpoint]
• needlepoint 0
  n 1: lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern [syn: point lace, needlepoint] 2: embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry [syn: needlepoint, needlepoint embroidery]
• outpoint 0
  v 1: sail closer to the wind than 2: score more points than one's opponents [syn: outpoint, outscore]
• pinpoint 0
  n 1: a very brief moment; "they were strangers sharing a pinpoint of time together" 2: a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky" [syn: speck, pinpoint] 3: the sharp point of a pin v 1: locate exactly; "can you pinpoint the position of the enemy?"; "The chemists could not nail the identity of the chromosome" [syn: pinpoint, nail]
• point 0
  n 1: a geometric element that has position but no extension; "a point is defined by its coordinates" 2: the precise location of something; a spatially limited location; "she walked to a point where she could survey the whole street" 3: a brief version of the essential meaning of something; "get to the point"; "he missed the point of the joke"; "life has lost its point" 4: an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information" [syn: detail, item, point] 5: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree, level, stage, point] 6: an instant of time; "at that point I had to leave" [syn: point, point in time] 7: the object of an activity; "what is the point of discussing it?" 8: a V shape; "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points" [syn: point, tip, peak] 9: a very small circular shape; "a row of points"; "draw lines between the dots" [syn: point, dot] 10: the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest; "he scored 20 points in the first half"; "a touchdown counts 6 points" 11: a promontory extending out into a large body of water; "they sailed south around the point" 12: a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list; "he noticed an item in the New York Times"; "she had several items on her shopping list"; "the main point on the agenda was taken up first" [syn: item, point] 13: a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect 14: an outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie" [syn: point, spot] 15: sharp end; "he stuck the point of the knife into a tree"; "he broke the point of his pencil" 16: any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass; "he checked the point on his compass" [syn: compass point, point] 17: a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch 18: one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan 19: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" [syn: period, point, full stop, stop, full point] 20: a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer; "the point of the arrow was due north" [syn: point, head] 21: the dot at the left of a decimal fraction [syn: decimal point, percentage point, point] 22: the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip [syn: point, pointedness] [ant: unpointedness] 23: a distinguishing or individuating characteristic; "he knows my bad points as well as my good points" 24: the gun muzzle's direction; "he held me up at the point of a gun" [syn: point, gunpoint] 25: a wall socket [syn: point, power point] 26: a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs [syn: distributor point, breaker point, point] v 1: indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively; "I showed the customer the glove section"; "He pointed to the empty parking space"; "he indicated his opponents" [syn: indicate, point, designate, show] 2: be oriented; "The weather vane points North"; "the dancers toes pointed outward" [syn: orient, point] 3: direct into a position for use; "point a gun"; "He charged his weapon at me" [syn: charge, level, point] 4: direct the course; determine the direction of travelling [syn: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise] 5: be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" [syn: bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal] 6: sail close to the wind [syn: luff, point] 7: mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics 8: mark with diacritics; "point the letter" 9: mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes 10: be positionable in a specified manner; "The gun points with ease" 11: intend (something) to move towards a certain goal; "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself" [syn: target, aim, place, direct, point] 12: indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle; "the dog pointed the dead duck" 13: give a point to; "The candles are tapered" [syn: sharpen, taper, point] 14: repair the joints of bricks; "point a chimney" [syn: point, repoint]
• standpoint 0
  n 1: a mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events" [syn: point of view, viewpoint, stand, standpoint]
• viewpoint 0
  n 1: a mental position from which things are viewed; "we should consider this problem from the viewpoint of the Russians"; "teaching history gave him a special point of view toward current events" [syn: point of view, viewpoint, stand, standpoint] 2: a place from which something can be viewed; "from that vantage point he could survey the whole valley" [syn: vantage point, viewpoint]
• bluepoint 0
  n 1: oysters originally from Long Island Sound but now from anywhere along the northeastern seacoast; usually eaten raw [syn: bluepoint, blue point] 2: small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island [syn: bluepoint, blue point]
• flashpoint 0
  n 1: point at which something is ready to blow up [syn: flash point, flashpoint] 2: the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air [syn: flash point, flashpoint]
• repoint 0
  v 1: repair the joints of bricks; "point a chimney" [syn: point, repoint]
• ballpoint 0
  n 1: a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper [syn: ballpoint, ballpoint pen, ballpen, Biro]
• breakpoint 0
• pointe 0
• datapoint 0
• reappoint 0
• knifepoint 0

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