Words that rhyme with derm

v 1: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" [syn: confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm] [ant: contradict, negate] 2: to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear] 3: say yes to

v 1: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; "his story confirmed my doubts"; "The evidence supports the defendant" [syn: confirm, corroborate, sustain, substantiate, support, affirm] [ant: contradict, negate] 2: strengthen or make more firm; "The witnesses confirmed the victim's account" [syn: confirm, reassert] 3: make more firm; "Confirm thy soul in self-control!" 4: support a person for a position; "The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense" 5: administer the rite of confirmation to; "the children were confirmed in their mother's faith"

adv 1: with resolute determination; "we firmly believed it"; "you must stand firm" [syn: firm, firmly, steadfastly, unwaveringly] adj 1: marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty" [syn: firm, steadfast, steady, stiff, unbendable, unfaltering, unshakable, unwavering] 2: not soft or yielding to pressure; "a firm mattress"; "the snow was firm underfoot"; "solid ground" [syn: firm, solid] 3: strong and sure; "a firm grasp"; "gave a strong pull on the rope" [syn: firm, strong] 4: not subject to revision or change; "a firm contract"; "a firm offer" 5: (of especially a person's physical features) not shaking or trembling; "his voice was firm and confident"; "a firm step" 6: not liable to fluctuate or especially to fall; "stocks are still firm" [syn: firm, steady, unfluctuating] 7: securely established; "holds a firm position as the country's leading poet" 8: possessing the tone and resiliency of healthy tissue; "firm muscles" 9: securely fixed in place; "the post was still firm after being hit by the car" [syn: fast, firm, immobile] 10: unwavering in devotion to friend or vow or cause; "a firm ally"; "loyal supporters"; "the true-hearted soldier...of Tippecanoe"- Campaign song for William Henry Harrison; "fast friends" [syn: firm, loyal, truehearted, fast(a)] n 1: the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a brokerage house" [syn: firm, house, business firm] v 1: become taut or tauter; "Your muscles will firm when you exercise regularly"; "the rope tautened" [syn: tauten, firm] 2: make taut or tauter; "tauten a rope" [syn: tauten, firm]

n 1: anything that provides inspiration for later work [syn: source, seed, germ] 2: a small apparently simple structure (as a fertilized egg) from which new tissue can develop into a complete organism 3: a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use [syn: microbe, bug, germ]

n 1: a statue consisting of a squared stone pillar with a carved head (usually a bearded Hermes) on top; used in ancient Greece as a boundary marker or signpost

n 1: small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae [syn: measuring worm, inchworm, looper]

adj 1: lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless" [syn: decrepit, debile, feeble, infirm, rickety, sapless, weak, weakly] 2: lacking firmness of will or character or purpose; "infirm of purpose; give me the daggers" - Shakespeare

n 1: a city in the European part of Russia [syn: Perm, Molotov] 2: a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals [syn: permanent wave, permanent, perm] v 1: give a permanent wave to; "She perms her hair"

v 1: affirm once again; "He reaffirmed his faith in the church"

v 1: confirm again; "You must reconfirm your flight reservations"

n 1: the commercially bred hairless white caterpillar of the domestic silkworm moth which spins a cocoon that can be processed to yield silk fiber; the principal source of commercial silk 2: larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon [syn: silkworm, giant silkworm, wild wilkworm]

n 1: the male reproductive cell; the male gamete; "a sperm is mostly a nucleus surrounded by little other cellular material" [syn: sperm, sperm cell, spermatozoon, spermatozoan]

n 1: the act of wiggling [syn: wiggle, wriggle, squirm] v 1: to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn: writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist]

n 1: ribbonlike flatworms that are parasitic in the intestines of humans and other vertebrates [syn: tapeworm, cestode]

n 1: a word or expression used for some particular thing; "he learned many medical terms" 2: a limited period of time; "a prison term"; "he left school before the end of term" 3: (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous" [syn: condition, term] 4: any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial; "the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree" 5: one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition; "the major term of a syllogism must occur twice" 6: the end of gestation or point at which birth is imminent; "a healthy baby born at full term" [syn: term, full term] 7: (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome [syn: terminus, terminal figure, term] v 1: name formally or designate with a term

n 1: a larva of a woodborer

n 1: any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae 2: a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect [syn: worm, louse, insect, dirt ball] 3: a software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network; "worms take advantage of automatic file sending and receiving features found on many computers" 4: screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack v 1: to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn: writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist]

n 1: German mystic and theosophist who founded modern theosophy; influenced George Fox (1575-1624) [syn: Boehme, Jakob Boehme, Bohme, Jakob Bohme, Boehm, Jakob Boehm, Behmen, Jakob Behmen]

n 1: a narrow ledge or shelf typically at the top or bottom of a slope 2: a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road; "the car pulled off onto the shoulder" [syn: shoulder, berm]

n 1: a unit of heat equal to 100,000 British thermal units

n 1: the luminous larva or wingless grub-like female of a firefly

n 1: noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain [syn: armyworm, army worm, Pseudaletia unipuncta] 2: moth whose destructive larvae travel in multitudes [syn: armyworm, Pseudaletia unipuncta] 3: larva of fungus gnat that feed on cereals and other grains; they march in large companies in regular order when the food is exhausted

n 1: a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula [syn: blastoderm, germinal disc, blastodisc, germinal area]