Words that rhyme with course

• bourse 0
  n 1: the stock exchange in Paris
• clotheshorse 0
  n 1: a framework on which to hang clothes (as for drying) 2: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]
• coarse 0
  adj 1: of textures that are rough to the touch or substances consisting of relatively large particles; "coarse meal"; "coarse sand"; "a coarse weave" [syn: coarse, harsh] [ant: fine] 2: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar] 3: of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" [syn: coarse, common]
• cockhorse 0
  n 1: anything used as a toy horse (such as a rocking horse or one knee of an adult)
• concourse 0
  n 1: a large gathering of people [syn: multitude, throng, concourse] 2: a wide hallway in a building where people can walk 3: a coming together of people [syn: concourse, confluence]
• discourse 0
  n 1: extended verbal expression in speech or writing 2: an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) [syn: sermon, discourse, preaching] 3: an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased" [syn: discussion, treatment, discourse] v 1: to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The author talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'" [syn: discourse, talk about, discuss] 2: carry on a conversation [syn: converse, discourse] 3: talk at length and formally about a topic; "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England" [syn: hold forth, discourse, dissertate]
• divorce 0
  n 1: the legal dissolution of a marriage [syn: divorce, divorcement] 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: get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage; "The couple divorced after only 6 months" [syn: divorce, split up]
• endorse 0
  v 1: be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960" [syn: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support] 2: give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn: second, back, endorse, indorse] 3: guarantee as meeting a certain standard; "certified grade AAA meat" [syn: certify, endorse, indorse] 4: sign as evidence of legal transfer; "endorse cheques" [syn: endorse, indorse]
• enforce 0
  v 1: ensure observance of laws and rules; "Apply the rules to everyone"; [syn: enforce, implement, apply] [ant: exempt, free, relieve] 2: compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose courtesy" [syn: enforce, impose]
• force 0
  n 1: a powerful effect or influence; "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them" 2: (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity; "force equals mass times acceleration" 3: physical energy or intensity; "he hit with all the force he could muster"; "it was destroyed by the strength of the gale"; "a government has not the vitality and forcefulness of a living man" [syn: force, forcefulness, strength] 4: group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" [syn: force, personnel] 5: a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" [syn: military unit, military force, military group, force] 6: an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one" [syn: violence, force] 7: one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority; "the mysterious presence of an evil power"; "may the force be with you"; "the forces of evil" [syn: power, force] 8: a group of people having the power of effective action; "he joined forces with a band of adventurers" 9: (of a law) having legal validity; "the law is still in effect" [syn: effect, force] 10: a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base; "the shortstop got the runner at second on a force" [syn: force out, force-out, force play, force] v 1: to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :"She forced him to take a job in the city"; "He squeezed her for information" [syn: coerce, hale, squeeze, pressure, force] 2: urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate [syn: impel, force] 3: move with force, "He pushed the table into a corner" [syn: push, force] [ant: draw, force, pull] 4: impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably; "She forced her diet fads on him" [syn: force, thrust] 5: squeeze like a wedge into a tight space; "I squeezed myself into the corner" [syn: wedge, squeeze, force] 6: force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" [syn: force, drive, ram] 7: cause to move by pulling; "draw a wagon"; "pull a sled" [syn: pull, draw, force] [ant: force, push] 8: do forcibly; exert force; "Don't force it!" 9: take by force; "Storm the fort" [syn: storm, force]
• gorse 0
  n 1: very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden- yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe [syn: gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus]
• hoarse 0
  adj 1: deep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion; "gruff voices"; "the dog's gruff barking"; "hoarse cries"; "makes all the instruments sound powerful but husky"- Virgil Thomson [syn: gruff, hoarse, husky]
• horse 0
  n 1: solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times [syn: horse, Equus caballus] 2: a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs [syn: horse, gymnastic horse] 3: troops trained to fight on horseback; "500 horse led the attack" [syn: cavalry, horse cavalry, horse] 4: a framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn: sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck] 5: a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa) [syn: knight, horse] v 1: provide with a horse or horses
• intercourse 0
  n 1: communication between individuals [syn: intercourse, social intercourse] 2: the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge]
• packhorse 0
  n 1: a workhorse used as a pack animal
• perforce 0
  adv 1: by necessity; by force of circumstance
• racecourse 0
  n 1: a course over which races are run [syn: racetrack, racecourse, raceway, track]
• racehorse 0
  n 1: a horse bred for racing [syn: racehorse, race horse, bangtail]
• recourse 0
  n 1: act of turning to for assistance; "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort" [syn: recourse, resort, refuge] 2: something or someone turned to for assistance or security; "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying" [syn: recourse, refuge, resort]
• reinforce 0
  v 1: make stronger; "he reinforced the concrete" [syn: reinforce, reenforce] 2: strengthen and support with rewards; "Let's reinforce good behavior" [syn: reinforce, reward]
• remorse 0
  n 1: a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed) [syn: compunction, remorse, self-reproach]
• sauce 0
  n 1: flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food v 1: behave saucily or impudently towards 2: dress (food) with a relish 3: add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast"
• sawhorse 0
  n 1: a framework for holding wood that is being sawed [syn: sawhorse, horse, sawbuck, buck]
• source 0
  n 1: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source] 2: a document (or organization) from which information is obtained; "the reporter had two sources for the story" 3: anything that provides inspiration for later work [syn: source, seed, germ] 4: a facility where something is available 5: a person who supplies information [syn: informant, source] 6: someone who originates or causes or initiates something; "he was the generator of several complaints" [syn: generator, source, author] 7: (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system; "a heat source"; "a source of carbon dioxide" [ant: sink] 8: anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies; "an infectious agent depends on a reservoir for its survival" [syn: reservoir, source] 9: a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to; "he carried an armful of references back to his desk"; "he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation" [syn: reference, source] v 1: get (a product) from another country or business; "She sourced a supply of carpet"; "They are sourcing from smaller companies" 2: specify the origin of; "The writer carefully sourced her report"
• unhorse 0
  v 1: alight from (a horse) [syn: unhorse, dismount, light, get off, get down]
• watercourse 0
  n 1: natural or artificial channel through which water flows 2: a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth [syn: stream, watercourse] 3: a conduit through which water flows [syn: watercourse, waterway]
• workhorse 0
  n 1: machine that performs dependably under heavy use; "the IBM main frame computers have been the workhorse of the business world" 2: a horse used for plowing and hauling and other heavy labor
• corse 0
  n 1: an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France [syn: Corse, Corsica] 2: a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte [syn: Corse, Corsica]
• morse 0
  n 1: a telegraph code in which letters and numbers are represented by strings of dots and dashes (short and long signals) [syn: Morse, Morse code, international Morse code] 2: United States portrait painter who patented the telegraph and developed the Morse code (1791-1872) [syn: Morse, Samuel Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse]
• norse 0
  adj 1: of or relating to Scandinavia or its peoples or cultures; "Norse sagas"; "Norse nomads" [syn: Scandinavian, Norse] 2: of or relating to Norway or its people or culture or language; "Norwegian herring" [syn: Norwegian, Norse] n 1: an inhabitant of Scandinavia [syn: Scandinavian, Norse, Northman] 2: a native or inhabitant of Norway [syn: Norwegian, Norseman, Norse] 3: the northern family of Germanic languages that are spoken in Scandinavia and Iceland [syn: Scandinavian, Scandinavian language, Nordic, Norse, North Germanic, North Germanic language]
• indorse 0
  v 1: be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960" [syn: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support] 2: give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn: second, back, endorse, indorse] 3: guarantee as meeting a certain standard; "certified grade AAA meat" [syn: certify, endorse, indorse] 4: sign as evidence of legal transfer; "endorse cheques" [syn: endorse, indorse]
• outsource 0
  v 1: obtain goods or services from an outside supplier; to contract work out; "Many companies outsource and hire consultants in order to maintain a flexible workforce"
• whitehorse 0
  n 1: the provincial capital of the Yukon Territory
• fourths 0
• midcourse 0
• stringcourse 0
• borse 0
• forse 0
• morss 0
• nourse 0
• sorce 0
• torse 0
• vorce 0
• ecorse 0
• ensource 0
• laforce 0
• deforce 0
• forecourse 0
• telecourse 0
• lobscourse 0

See also course definition and course synonyms