Words that rhyme with daikon

  • awaken
    v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep] 2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off] 3: make aware; "They were awakened to the sad facts"
  • bacon
    n 1: back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried 2: English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292) [syn: Bacon, Roger Bacon] 3: English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) [syn: Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans]
  • blacken
    v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten] 2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]
  • bracken
    n 1: fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions [syn: bracken, Pteridium esculentum] 2: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan [syn: bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum]
  • godforsaken
    adj 1: located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" [syn: godforsaken, waste, wild]
  • hearken
    v 1: listen; used mostly in the imperative [syn: hark, harken, hearken]
  • lichen
    n 1: any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks 2: any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.
  • mistaken
    adj 1: wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity" [syn: misguided, mistaken] 2: arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" [syn: false, mistaken]
  • oaken
    adj 1: consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree; "a solid oak table"; "the old oaken bucket"
  • paean
    n 1: a formal expression of praise [syn: encomium, eulogy, panegyric, paean, pean] 2: (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) [syn: paean, pean]
  • quicken
    v 1: move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken] [ant: decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up] 2: make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite" [syn: whet, quicken] 3: give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him" [syn: quicken, invigorate] 4: show signs of life; "the fetus quickened" 5: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]
  • reawaken
    v 1: awaken once again
  • reckon
    v 1: expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess] 2: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast] 3: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard] 4: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure] 5: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon] 6: take account of; "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon" [syn: reckon, count]
  • shaken
    adj 1: disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock; "retrieved his named from her jolted memory"; "the accident left her badly shaken" [syn: jolted, shaken]
  • shrunken
    adj 1: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened] 2: reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken]
  • slacken
    v 1: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken] 2: make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now" [syn: slack, slacken, slack up, relax] 3: become looser or slack; "the rope slackened" 4: make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn: slacken, remit]
  • spoken
    adj 1: uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person"; "sharp-spoken" [ant: written]
  • stricken
    adj 1: grievously affected especially by disease [syn: afflicted, stricken] 2: (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming; "conscience-smitten"; "awe-struck" [syn: smitten, stricken, struck] 3: put out of action (by illness) [syn: laid low(p), stricken]
  • taken
    adj 1: understood in a certain way; made sense of; "a word taken literally"; "a smile taken as consent"; "an open door interpreted as an invitation" [syn: interpreted, taken] 2: be affected with an indisposition; "the child was taken ill"; "couldn't tell when he would be taken drunk"
  • thicken
    v 1: make thick or thicker; "Thicken the sauce"; "inspissate the tar so that it becomes pitch" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] 2: become thick or thicker; "The sauce thickened"; "The egg yolk will inspissate" [syn: thicken, inspissate] [ant: thin] 3: make viscous or dense; "thicken the sauce by adding flour" [syn: thicken, inspissate]
  • unshaken
    adj 1: unshaken in purpose; "wholly undismayed by the commercial failure of the three movies he had made" [syn: undaunted, undismayed, unshaken]
  • waken
    v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep] 2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off]
  • aiken
    n 1: United States writer (1889-1973) [syn: Aiken, Conrad Aiken, Conrad Potter Aiken]
  • aken
    n 1: a city in western Germany near the Dutch and Belgian borders; formerly it was Charlemagne's northern capital [syn: Aachen, Aken, Aix-la-Chapelle]
  • macon
    n 1: a city in central Georgia to the southeast of Atlanta 2: fine Burgundy wine usually white and dry [syn: macon, maconnais]
  • jamaican
    adj 1: of or relating to Jamaica (the island or the country) or to its inhabitants; "Jamaican rum"; "the Jamaican Prime Minister" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Jamaica
  • forsaken
  • kraken
  • overtaken
  • chaiken
  • retaken
  • unmistaken

See also daikon definition and daikon synonyms