Words that rhyme with damascene

• adenosine 0
  n 1: (biochemistry) a nucleoside that is a structural component of nucleic acids; it is present in all living cells in a combined form as a constituent of DNA and RNA and ADP and ATP and AMP
• arsine 0
  n 1: a poisonous colorless flammable gas used in organic synthesis and to dope transistors and as a poison gas in warfare
• australopithecine 0
  adj 1: of or belonging to the hominid genus Australopithecus n 1: any of several extinct humanlike bipedal primates with relatively small brains of the genus Australopithecus; from 1 to 4 million years ago
• bean 0
  n 1: any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food [syn: bean, edible bean] 2: any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans 3: any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods [syn: bean, bean plant] 4: informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome] v 1: hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball
• benzene 0
  n 1: a colorless liquid hydrocarbon; highly inflammable; carcinogenic; the simplest of the aromatic compounds [syn: benzene, benzine, benzol]
• between 0
  adv 1: in the interval; "dancing all the dances with little rest between" [syn: between, betwixt] 2: in between; "two houses with a tree between" [syn: between, 'tween]
• caffeine 0
  n 1: a bitter alkaloid found in coffee and tea that is responsible for their stimulating effects [syn: caffeine, caffein]
• canteen 0
  n 1: a flask for carrying water; used by soldiers or travelers 2: sells food and personal items to personnel at an institution or school or camp etc. 3: a restaurant outside; often for soldiers or policemen [syn: canteen, mobile canteen] 4: a recreation room in an institution 5: restaurant in a factory; where workers can eat
• careen 0
  n 1: pitching dangerously to one side [syn: rock, careen, sway, tilt] v 1: walk as if unable to control one's movements; "The drunken man staggered into the room" [syn: stagger, reel, keel, lurch, swag, careen] 2: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift, tilt]
• casein 0
  n 1: a milk protein used in making e.g. plastics and adhesives 2: a water-base paint made with a protein precipitated from milk [syn: casein paint, casein]
• clean 0
  adv 1: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: clean, plumb, plum] 2: in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly" [syn: fairly, fair, clean] [ant: below the belt, unfairly] adj 1: free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals" [ant: dirty, soiled, unclean] 2: free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner" [syn: clean, clear] 3: (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell" [syn: clean, clear, light, unclouded] 4: free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh air" [syn: clean, fresh] 5: (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense; "a clean voting record"; "a clean driver's license" 6: ritually clean or pure [ant: impure, unclean] 7: not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean" [syn: clean, uncontaminating] [ant: contaminating, dirty] 8: (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke" [syn: clean, unobjectionable] [ant: dirty] 9: free from sepsis or infection; "a clean (or uninfected) wound" [syn: uninfected, clean] 10: morally pure; "led a clean life" [syn: clean, clean- living] 11: (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript" [syn: clean, fair] 12: (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" [syn: blank, clean, white] 13: exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct" [syn: clean, sporting, sporty, sportsmanlike] 14: without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight" 15: thorough and without qualification; "a clean getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break" 16: not carrying concealed weapons 17: free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife" [syn: clean, neat] 18: free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years" n 1: a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead [syn: clean and jerk, clean] v 1: make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth" [syn: clean, make clean] [ant: begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil] 2: remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey" [syn: clean, pick] 3: clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans every week" [syn: houseclean, clean house, clean] 4: clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner" [syn: cleanse, clean] 5: be cleanable; "This stove cleans easily" 6: deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.; "The other players cleaned him completely" 7: remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm" [syn: clean, strip] 8: remove while making clean; "Clean the spots off the rug" 9: remove unwanted substances from [syn: scavenge, clean] 10: remove shells or husks from; "clean grain before milling it"
• convene 0
  v 1: meet formally; "The council convened last week" 2: call together; "The students were convened in the auditorium" [syn: convoke, convene]
• cuisine 0
  n 1: the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared [syn: cuisine, culinary art]
• cytosine 0
  n 1: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C]
• dean 0
  n 1: an administrator in charge of a division of a university or college 2: United States film actor whose moody rebellious roles made him a cult figure (1931-1955) [syn: Dean, James Dean, James Byron Dean] 3: a man who is the senior member of a group; "he is the dean of foreign correspondents" [syn: dean, doyen] 4: (Roman Catholic Church) the head of the College of Cardinals
• epicene 0
  adj 1: having an ambiguous sexual identity [syn: bisexual, epicene] 2: having unsuitable feminine qualities [syn: effeminate, emasculate, epicene, cissy, sissified, sissyish, sissy] n 1: one having both male and female sexual characteristics and organs; at birth an unambiguous assignment of male or female cannot be made [syn: hermaphrodite, intersex, gynandromorph, androgyne, epicene, epicene person]
• hoatzin 0
  n 1: crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings [syn: hoatzin, hoactzin, stinkbird, Opisthocomus hoazin]
• kerosene 0
  n 1: a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters [syn: kerosene, kerosine, lamp oil, coal oil]
• lysine 0
  n 1: an essential amino acid found in proteins; occurs especially in gelatin and casein
• obscene 0
  adj 1: designed to incite to indecency or lust; "the dance often becomes flagrantly obscene"-Margaret Mead 2: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels" [syn: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive] 3: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious]
• piscine 0
  adj 1: of or relating to fish
• pyridoxine 0
  n 1: a B vitamin that is essential for metabolism of amino acids and starch [syn: vitamin B6, pyridoxine, pyridoxal, pyridoxamine, adermin]
• pyroxene 0
  n 1: any of a group of crystalline silicate mineral common in igneous and metamorphic rocks
• tyrosine 0
  n 1: an amino acid found in most proteins; a precursor of several hormones
• unforeseen 0
  adj 1: not anticipated; "unanticipated and disconcerting lines of development"- H.W.Glidden; "unforeseen circumstances"; "a virtue unlooked-for in people so full of energy"; "like a bolt out of the blue" [syn: unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for, out of the blue(p)]
• unseen 0
  adj 1: not observed [syn: unobserved, unseen] n 1: a belief that there is a realm controlled by a divine spirit [syn: spiritual world, spiritual domain, unseen]
• vaccine 0
  n 1: immunogen consisting of a suspension of weakened or dead pathogenic cells injected in order to stimulate the production of antibodies [syn: vaccine, vaccinum]
• glycine 0
  n 1: the simplest amino acid found in proteins and the principal amino acid in sugar cane 2: genus of Asiatic erect or sprawling herbs: soya bean [syn: Glycine, genus Glycine]
• nicene 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the ancient city of Nicaea in Asia Minor [syn: Nicaean, Nicene]
• racine 0
  n 1: French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699) [syn: Racine, Jean Racine, Jean Baptiste Racine] 2: a city in southeastern Wisconsin on Lake Michigan to the south of Milwaukee
• colchicine 0
  n 1: an analgesic drug derived from the saffron plant and used to treat gout
• eocene 0
  n 1: from 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals [syn: Eocene, Eocene epoch]
• holocene 0
  n 1: approximately the last 10,000 years [syn: Holocene, Holocene epoch, Recent, Recent epoch]
• hyoscine 0
  n 1: an alkaloid with anticholinergic effects that is used as a sedative and to treat nausea and to dilate the pupils in ophthalmic procedures; "transdermal scopolamine is used to treat motion sickness"; "someone sedated with scopolamine has difficulty lying" [syn: scopolamine, hyoscine]
• miocene 0
  n 1: from 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammals [syn: Miocene, Miocene epoch]
• pliocene 0
  n 1: from 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammals [syn: Pliocene, Pliocene epoch]
• oligocene 0
  n 1: from 40 million to 25 million years ago; appearance of sabertoothed cats [syn: Oligocene, Oligocene epoch]
• thylacine 0
  n 1: rare doglike carnivorous marsupial of Tasmania having stripes on its back; probably extinct [syn: thylacine, Tasmanian wolf, Tasmanian tiger, Thylacinus cynocephalus]
• thyroxine 0
  n 1: hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells; "thyroxine is 65% iodine" [syn: thyroxine, thyroxin, tetraiodothyronine, T]
• fascine 0
• foreseen 0
• glassine 0
• overseen 0
• christine 0
• francine 0
• maxine 0
• anthracene 0
• neocene 0
• palaeocene 0

See also damascene definition and damascene synonyms