Words that rhyme with culvert

• advert 0
  n 1: a public promotion of some product or service [syn: ad, advertisement, advertizement, advertising, advertizing, advert] v 1: give heed (to); "The children in the audience attended the recital quietly"; "She hung on his every word"; "They attended to everything he said" [syn: attend, hang, advert, pay heed, give ear] 2: make a more or less disguised reference to; "He alluded to the problem but did not mention it" [syn: allude, touch, advert] 3: make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" [syn: mention, advert, bring up, cite, name, refer]
• animadvert 0
  v 1: express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation; "John spoke up at the meeting" [syn: opine, speak up, speak out, animadvert, sound off] 2: express blame or censure or make a harshly critical remark
• avert 0
  v 1: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" [syn: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward off] 2: turn away or aside; "They averted their eyes when the King entered" [syn: avert, turn away]
• controvert 0
  v 1: be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion" [syn: oppose, controvert, contradict] 2: prove to be false or incorrect [syn: refute, rebut, controvert]
• convert 0
  n 1: a person who has been converted to another religious or political belief v 1: change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy; "We converted from 220 to 110 Volt" [syn: convert, change over] 2: change the nature, purpose, or function of something; "convert lead into gold"; "convert hotels into jails"; "convert slaves to laborers" 3: change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief; "She converted to Buddhism" 4: exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares" [syn: change, exchange, commute, convert] 5: cause to adopt a new or different faith; "The missionaries converted the Indian population" 6: score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone; "Smith converted and his team won" 7: complete successfully; "score a penalty shot or free throw" 8: score (a spare) 9: make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; "He had finally convinced several customers of the advantages of his product" [syn: convert, win over, convince] 10: exchange a penalty for a less severe one [syn: commute, convert, exchange] 11: change in nature, purpose, or function; undergo a chemical change; "The substance converts to an acid"
• covert 0
  adj 1: secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels" [ant: open, overt] 2: (of a wife) being under the protection of her husband; "a woman covert" n 1: a flock of coots 2: a covering that serves to conceal or shelter something; "a screen of trees afforded privacy"; "under cover of darkness"; "the brush provided a covert for game"; "the simplest concealment is to match perfectly the color of the background" [syn: screen, cover, covert, concealment]
• covet 0
  v 1: wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person); "She covets her sister's house"
• divert 0
  v 1: turn aside; turn away from [syn: deviate, divert] 2: send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one 3: occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion; "The play amused the ladies" [syn: amuse, divert, disport] 4: withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions [syn: divert, hive off]
• divot 0
  n 1: (golf) the cavity left when a piece of turf is cut from the ground by the club head in making a stroke; "it was a good drive but the ball ended up in a divot" 2: a piece of turf dug out of a lawn or fairway (by an animals hooves or a golf club)
• extravert 0
  adj 1: being concerned with the social and physical environment [syn: extrovert, extravert, extroverted, extraverted, extrovertive, extravertive] n 1: (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings [syn: extrovert, extravert] [ant: introvert]
• extrovert 0
  adj 1: being concerned with the social and physical environment [syn: extrovert, extravert, extroverted, extraverted, extrovertive, extravertive] n 1: (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings [syn: extrovert, extravert] [ant: introvert]
• introvert 0
  n 1: (psychology) a person who tends to shrink from social contacts and to become preoccupied with their own thoughts [ant: extravert, extrovert] v 1: fold inwards; "some organs can invaginate" [syn: invaginate, introvert] 2: turn inside; "He introverted his feelings"
• invert 0
  v 1: make an inversion (in a musical composition); "here the theme is inverted" 2: reverse the position, order, relation, or condition of; "when forming a question, invert the subject and the verb" [syn: invert, reverse] 3: turn inside out or upside down [syn: turn back, invert, reverse]
• overt 0
  adj 1: open and observable; not secret or hidden; "an overt lie"; "overt hostility"; "overt intelligence gathering"; "open ballots" [syn: overt, open] [ant: covert]
• pervert 0
  n 1: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior [syn: pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate] v 1: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect] 2: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words" [syn: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate] 3: change the inherent purpose or function of something; "Don't abuse the system"; "The director of the factory misused the funds intended for the health care of his workers" [syn: pervert, misuse, abuse]
• pivot 0
  n 1: the person in a rank around whom the others wheel and maneuver [syn: pivot, pivot man] 2: axis consisting of a short shaft that supports something that turns [syn: pivot, pin] 3: the act of turning on (or as if on) a pivot; "the golfer went to the driving range to practice his pivot" v 1: turn on a pivot [syn: pivot, swivel]
• private 0
  adj 1: confined to particular persons or groups or providing privacy; "a private place"; "private discussions"; "private lessons"; "a private club"; "a private secretary"; "private property"; "the former President is now a private citizen"; "public figures struggle to maintain a private life" [ant: public] 2: concerning things deeply private and personal; "private correspondence"; "private family matters" 3: concerning one person exclusively; "we all have individual cars"; "each room has a private bath" [syn: individual(a), private] 4: not expressed; "secret (or private) thoughts" [syn: secret, private] n 1: an enlisted man of the lowest rank in the Army or Marines; "our prisoner was just a private and knew nothing of value" [syn: private, buck private, common soldier]
• reconvert 0
  v 1: convert back; "Hollywood is reconverting old films"
• revert 0
  v 1: go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" [syn: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back] 2: undergo reversion, as in a mutation
• semiprivate 0
  adj 1: confined to a small number of hospital patients; "semiprivate room"
• subvert 0
  v 1: cause the downfall of; of rulers; "The Czar was overthrown"; "subvert the ruling class" [syn: overthrow, subvert, overturn, bring down] 2: corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals" [syn: corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, demoralise, debauch, debase, profane, vitiate, deprave, misdirect] 3: destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" [syn: sabotage, undermine, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken] 4: destroy completely; "we must not let our civil liberties be subverted by the current crisis"
• evert 0
  n 1: United States tennis player who won women's singles titles in the United States and at Wimbledon (born in 1954) [syn: Evert, Chris Evert, Chrissie Evert, Christine Marie Evert] v 1: turn inside out; turn the inner surface of outward; "evert the eyelid"
• retrovert 0
  v 1: go back to a previous state; "We reverted to the old rules" [syn: revert, return, retrovert, regress, turn back]
• vervet 0
  n 1: South African monkey with black face and hands [syn: vervet, vervet monkey, Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus]
• obvert 0
• olivet 0
• ambivert 0
• calvert 0
• ulvert 0
• discovert 0

See also culvert definition