Words that rhyme with earth

  • afterbirth
    n 1: the placenta and fetal membranes that are expelled from the uterus after the baby is born
  • berth
    n 1: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation] 2: a place where a craft can be made fast [syn: mooring, moorage, berth, slip] 3: a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers [syn: berth, bunk, built in bed] v 1: provide with a berth 2: secure in or as if in a berth or dock; "tie up the boat" [syn: moor, berth, tie up] 3: come into or dock at a wharf; "the big ship wharfed in the evening" [syn: moor, berth, wharf]
  • birth
    n 1: the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age" [ant: death, demise, dying] 2: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" [syn: birth, nativity, nascency, nascence] [ant: death, decease, expiry] 3: the process of giving birth [syn: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing] 4: the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents [syn: parentage, birth] 5: a baby born; an offspring; "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births" v 1: cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!" [syn: give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have]
  • childbirth
    n 1: the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child [syn: childbirth, childbearing, accouchement, vaginal birth]
  • dearth
    n 1: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine, shortage] 2: an insufficient quantity or number [syn: dearth, paucity]
  • firth
    n 1: English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960) [syn: Firth, J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth] 2: a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)
  • girth
    n 1: the distance around a person's body 2: stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place [syn: cinch, girth] v 1: tie a cinch around; "cinch horses" [syn: cinch, girth]
  • mirth
    n 1: great merriment [syn: hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, glee, gleefulness]
  • rebirth
    n 1: after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body [syn: metempsychosis, rebirth] 2: a second or new birth [syn: reincarnation, rebirth, renascence] 3: the revival of learning and culture [syn: rebirth, Renaissance, Renascence] 4: a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life [syn: conversion, rebirth, spiritual rebirth]
  • stillbirth
    n 1: a natural loss of the products of conception [syn: spontaneous abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth] [ant: live birth]
  • unearth
    v 1: bring to light; "The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President" 2: recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold" [syn: excavate, unearth]
  • worth
    adj 1: worthy of being treated in a particular way; "an idea worth considering"; "the deserving poor" (often used ironically) [syn: deserving, worth(p)] 2: having a specified value; "not worth his salt"; "worth her weight in gold" n 1: an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value; "10 dollars worth of gasoline" 2: the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful [ant: ineptitude, worthlessness] 3: French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the bustle (1825-1895) [syn: Worth, Charles Frederick Worth]
  • woolworth
    n 1: United States businessman who opened a shop in 1879 selling low-priced goods and built it into a national chain of stores (1852-1919) [syn: Woolworth, Frank Winfield Woolworth]
  • wordsworth
    n 1: a romantic English poet whose work was inspired by the Lake District where he spent most of his life (1770-1850) [syn: Wordsworth, William Wordsworth]
  • perth
    n 1: the state capital of Western Australia
  • furth
  • wentworth
  • gerth
  • hirth
  • kerth
  • kurth
  • werth
  • wirth
  • wurth
  • crossbirth
  • cutbirth
  • lamberth
  • narberth

See also earth definition and earth synonyms