Words that rhyme with curts

n 1: an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved [syn: deserts, comeuppance, comeupance]

n 1: the unit of frequency; one hertz has a periodic interval of one second [syn: hertz, Hz, cycle per second, cycles/second, cps, cycle] 2: German physicist who was the first to produce electromagnetic waves artificially (1857-1894) [syn: Hertz, Heinrich Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph Hertz] 3: German physicist who with James Franck proved the existence of the stationary energy states postulated by Bohr (1887-1975) [syn: Hertz, Gustav Hertz, Gustav Ludwig Hertz]

n 1: outlying areas (as of a city or town); "they lived on the outskirts of Houston"; "they mingled in the outskirts of the crowd"