Words that rhyme with creta

n 1: long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game [syn: cheetah, chetah, Acinonyx jubatus]

n 1: waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body [syn: body waste, excretion, excreta, excrement, excretory product]

n 1: a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end [syn: seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, teetertotter, teeterboard, tilting board, dandle board] v 1: move unsteadily, with a rocking motion [syn: teeter, seesaw, totter]

n 1: any scientific instrument for observing events at a distance and transmitting the information back to the observer

n 1: the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet

n 1: a loudspeaker that reproduces higher audio frequency sounds; "the sound system had both tweeters and woofers"

n 1: meter that measures the potential difference between two points

n 1: an instrument for measuring in watts the flow of power in an electrical circuit

n 1: a kind of heavy jacket (`windcheater' is a British term) [syn: parka, windbreaker, windcheater, anorak]

n 1: the 6th letter of the Greek alphabet

n 1: someone who negotiates (confers with others in order to reach a settlement) [syn: negotiator, negotiant, treater]

n 1: a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional Basque party; want to create an independent homeland in Spain's western Pyrenees; "in 1968 ETA launched a campaign of political assassinations of government officials" [syn: Basque Homeland and Freedom, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, Euskadi ta Askatasuna, ETA] 2: the 7th letter of the Greek alphabet

n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of fertility and protector of marriage in ancient mythology; counterpart of Roman Ceres

n 1: wife of the Hindu god Rama; regarded as an ideal of womanhood

n 1: a stiff chitinous seta or bristle especially of an annelid worm

n 1: a large muscle that raises the lower jaw and is used in chewing

n 1: either of a pair of thick-walled tubes that carry urine from the kidney to the urinary bladder