Words that rhyme with edgecombe

n 1: any of various woodland and meadow grasses of the genus Bromus; native to temperate regions [syn: brome, bromegrass]

n 1: unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements) [syn: bunk, bunkum, buncombe, guff, rot, hogwash]

n 1: an underground tunnel with recesses where bodies were buried (as in ancient Rome)

n 1: another word for chromium when it is used in dyes or pigments v 1: plate with chromium; "chrome bathroom fixtures" [syn: chrome, chromium-plate] 2: treat with a chromium compound

n 1: garden annual with featherlike spikes of red or yellow flowers [syn: cockscomb, common cockscomb, Celosia cristata, Celosia argentea cristata] 2: a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishments [syn: coxcomb, cockscomb] 3: a cap worn by court jesters; adorned with a strip of red [syn: cockscomb, coxcomb] 4: the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds [syn: comb, cockscomb, coxcomb]

n 1: a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair 2: the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds [syn: comb, cockscomb, coxcomb] 3: any of several tools for straightening fibers 4: ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore 5: the act of drawing a comb through hair; "his hair needed a comb" [syn: comb, combing] v 1: straighten with a comb; "comb your hair" 2: search thoroughly; "They combed the area for the missing child" [syn: comb, ransack] 3: smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool" [syn: comb, comb out, disentangle]

n 1: a square comb with rows of small teeth; used to curry horses v 1: clean (a horse) with a currycomb

n 1: a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward 2: informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome] 3: a stadium that has a roof [syn: dome, domed stadium, covered stadium] 4: a hemispherical roof

n 1: a mass of small bubbles formed in or on a liquid; "the beer had a thick head of foam" [syn: foam, froth] 2: a lightweight material in cellular form; made by introducing gas bubbles during manufacture v 1: become bubbly or frothy or foaming; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water" [syn: foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form bubbles]

n 1: a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure [syn: gnome, dwarf] 2: a short pithy saying expressing a general truth

n 1: medicinal resin from the lignum vitae tree 2: hard greenish-brown wood of the lignum vitae tree and other trees of the genus Guaiacum [syn: lignum vitae, guaiac, guaiacum] 3: small genus of evergreen resinous trees or shrubs of warm and tropical America [syn: Guaiacum, genus Guaiacum]

n 1: a message that seems to convey no meaning [syn: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum]

adv 1: at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home" 2: on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home" 3: to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" adj 1: used of your own ground; "a home game" [ant: away] 2: relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town" 3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national] n 1: where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" [syn: home, place] 2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house] 3: the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey" 4: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [syn: home plate, home base, home, plate] 5: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: base, home] 6: place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball" 7: an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home" 8: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage] 9: an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" [syn: home, nursing home, rest home] v 1: provide with, or send to, a home 2: return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"

n 1: the financial gain (earned or unearned) accruing over a given period of time [ant: expenditure, outgo, outlay, spending]

n 1: a rich soil consisting of a mixture of sand and clay and decaying organic materials

n 1: someone (physician or clergyman) who substitutes temporarily for another member of the same profession [syn: locum tenens, locum]

n 1: a small or moderate or token amount; "England still expects a modicum of eccentricity in its artists"- Ian Jack

n 1: loose hemp or jute fiber obtained by unravelling old ropes; when impregnated with tar it was used to caulk seams and pack joints in wooden ships

n 1: a unit of electrical resistance equal to the resistance between two points on a conductor when a potential difference of one volt between them produces a current of one ampere 2: German physicist who formulated Ohm's law (1787-1854) [syn: Ohm, Georg Simon Ohm]

v 1: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]

n 1: a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder [syn: talc, talcum] 2: a toilet powder made of purified talc and usually scented; absorbs excess moisture [syn: talcum, talcum powder]

n 1: a (usually) large and scholarly book

adj 1: not welcome; not giving pleasure or received with pleasure; "unwelcome publicity"; "unwelcome interruptions"; "unwelcome visitors" [ant: welcome] 2: not welcome; "unwelcome publicity" [syn: unwelcome, unwished, unwished-for]

adj 1: giving pleasure or satisfaction or received with pleasure or freely granted; "a welcome relief"; "a welcome guest"; "made the children feel welcome"; "you are welcome to join us" [ant: unwelcome] n 1: the state of being welcome; "don't outstay your welcome" 2: a greeting or reception; "the proposal got a warm welcome" v 1: accept gladly; "I welcome your proposals" 2: bid welcome to; greet upon arrival [syn: welcome, receive] [ant: say farewell] 3: receive someone, as into one's house

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: (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed [syn: read-only memory, ROM, read-only storage, fixed storage]

n 1: any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers [syn: capsicum, pepper, capsicum pepper plant] 2: chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers [syn: genus Capsicum, Capsicum]

n 1: an asterid dicot genus of the family Compositae including dandelions [syn: Taraxacum, genus Taraxacum]

n 1: an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo [syn: airport, airdrome, aerodrome, drome]

n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420) [syn: Jerome, Saint Jerome, St. Jerome, Hieronymus, Eusebius Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus]

n 1: the cavity in which the large intestine begins and into which the ileum opens; "the appendix is an offshoot of the cecum" [syn: cecum, caecum, blind gut]

n 1: a town in western Alaska on the southern coast of the Seward Peninsula; an important center of an Alaskan gold rush at the beginning of the 20th century

n 1: capital and largest city of Italy; on the Tiber; seat of the Roman Catholic Church; formerly the capital of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire [syn: Rome, Roma, Eternal City, Italian capital, capital of Italy] 2: the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church

n 1: a terrorist organization whose goal is to take over Japan and then the world; based on a religion founded in 1987 that combines elements of Buddhism with Christianity; "in 1995 Aum members released deadly sarin gas on a Tokyo subway train" [syn: Aum Shinrikyo, Aum, Supreme Truth]

n 1: a fleshy fruit (apple or pear or related fruits) having seed chambers and an outer fleshy part [syn: pome, false fruit]

n 1: English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349) [syn: Occam, William of Occam, Ockham, William of Ockham]

n 1: chiefly fall-blooming perennial cormous herbs; sometimes placed in family Colchicaceae [syn: Colchicum, genus Colchicum]

n 1: genus of Eurasian perennial tuberous or rhizomatous herbs: leopard's bane [syn: Doronicum, genus Doronicum]

n 1: large almost cosmopolitan genus of evergreen or deciduous shrubs and herbs with often showy yellow flowers; cosmopolitan except tropical lowlands and Arctic or high altitudes and desert regions [syn: Hypericum, genus Hypericum]