Words that rhyme with electronvolt

n 1: angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) [syn: elevation, EL, altitude, ALT]

n 1: mixed asphalt and crushed gravel or sand; used especially for paving but also for roofing 2: a dark bituminous substance found in natural beds and as residue from petroleum distillation; consists mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: asphalt, mineral pitch] v 1: cover with tar or asphalt; "asphalt the driveway"

n 1: close fighting during the culmination of a military attack 2: a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped 3: thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946 4: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: rape, violation, assault, ravishment] v 1: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" [syn: assail, assault, set on, attack] 2: force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night" [syn: rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage] 3: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault]

n 1: the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene

adv 1: in a rigid manner; "the body was rigidly erect"; "he sat bolt upright" [syn: rigidly, stiffly, bolt] 2: directly; "he ran bang into the pole"; "ran slap into her" [syn: bang, slap, slapdash, smack, bolt] n 1: a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder [syn: thunderbolt, bolt, bolt of lightning] 2: a sliding bar in a breech-loading firearm that ejects an empty cartridge and replaces it and closes the breech 3: the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key [syn: bolt, deadbolt] 4: the act of moving with great haste; "he made a dash for the door" [syn: dash, bolt] 5: a roll of cloth or wallpaper of a definite length 6: a screw that screws into a nut to form a fastener 7: a sudden abandonment (as from a political party) v 1: move or jump suddenly; "She bolted from her seat" 2: secure or lock with a bolt; "bolt the door" [ant: unbolt] 3: swallow hastily 4: run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe" [syn: abscond, bolt, absquatulate, decamp, run off, go off, make off] 5: leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out" [syn: run off, run out, bolt, bolt out, beetle off] 6: eat hastily without proper chewing; "Don't bolt your food!" [syn: gobble, bolt] 7: make or roll into bolts; "bolt fabric"

n 1: loss due to not showing up; "he lost the game by default" 2: act of failing to meet a financial obligation [syn: default, nonpayment, nonremittal] 3: loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid [syn: nonpayment, default, nonremittal] [ant: payment] 4: an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified [syn: default option, default] v 1: fail to pay up [syn: default, default on] [ant: ante up, pay, pay up]

n 1: a person who is not very bright; "The economy, stupid!" [syn: stupid, stupid person, stupe, dullard, dolt, pudding head, pudden-head, poor fish, pillock]

v 1: praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: laud, extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim] 2: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" [syn: exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify] 3: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt] 4: raise in rank, character, or status; "exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser"

n 1: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" [syn: mistake, error, fault] 2: an imperfection in an object or machine; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" [syn: defect, fault, flaw] 3: the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did" [syn: demerit, fault] [ant: merit, virtue] 4: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust" [syn: fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break] 5: (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.); "it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it" 6: responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault" 7: (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults" v 1: put or pin the blame on [syn: blame, fault] [ant: absolve, free, justify]

n 1: a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its parts

adj 1: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg" [syn: crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game] n 1: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage] 2: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" [syn: stop, halt] 3: an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" [syn: freeze, halt] v 1: cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses" [syn: halt, hold, arrest] 2: come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" [syn: stop, halt] [ant: get going, go, start] 3: stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" [syn: stop, halt, block, kibosh] 4: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt]

n 1: a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers" [syn: jolt, jar, jounce, shock] 2: an abrupt spasmodic movement [syn: jerk, jerking, jolt, saccade] v 1: move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn: jolt, jar] 2: disturb (someone's) composure; "The audience was jolted by the play"

n 1: bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle [syn: kingbolt, kingpin, swivel pin]

n 1: a milkshake made with malt powder [syn: malted, malt, malted milk] 2: a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer [syn: malt, malt liquor] 3: a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling v 1: treat with malt or malt extract; "malt beer" 2: turn into malt, become malt 3: convert grain into malt 4: convert into malt

n 1: a unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt [syn: millivolt, mV]

n 1: periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles [syn: molt, molting, moult, moulting, ecdysis] v 1: cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "our dog sheds every Spring" [syn: shed, molt, exuviate, moult, slough]

n 1: organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another [syn: rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising] v 1: make revolution; "The people revolted when bread prices tripled again" 2: fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn: disgust, gross out, revolt, repel] 3: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up]

adj 1: (of speech) painful or bitter; "salt scorn"- Shakespeare; "a salt apology" n 1: a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal) 2: white crystalline form of especially sodium chloride used to season and preserve food [syn: salt, table salt, common salt] 3: negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons [syn: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, SALT] 4: the taste experience when common salt is taken into the mouth [syn: salt, saltiness, salinity] v 1: add salt to 2: sprinkle as if with salt; "the rebels had salted the fields with mines and traps" 3: add zest or liveliness to; "She salts her lectures with jokes" 4: preserve with salt; "people used to salt meats on ships"

n 1: a discharge of lightning accompanied by thunder [syn: thunderbolt, bolt, bolt of lightning] 2: a shocking surprise; "news of the attack came like a bombshell" [syn: bombshell, thunderbolt, thunderclap]

v 1: undo the bolt of; "unbolt the door" [ant: bolt]

n 1: a burial chamber (usually underground) [syn: vault, burial vault] 2: a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables [syn: vault, bank vault] 3: an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof 4: the act of jumping over an obstacle [syn: vault, hurdle] v 1: jump across or leap over (an obstacle) [syn: vault, overleap] 2: bound vigorously

n 1: a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it [syn: volt, V]

n 1: the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key [syn: bolt, deadbolt]

n 1: German philologist noted for his studies of the relation between language and culture (1767-1835) [syn: Humboldt, Baron Wilhelm von Humboldt, Baron Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt] 2: German naturalist who explored Central and South America and provided a comprehensive description of the physical universe (1769-1859) [syn: Humboldt, Baron Alexander von Humboldt, Baron Friedrich Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt]

n 1: German chemist (1853-1932) [syn: Ostwald, Wilhelm Ostwald]

n 1: a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany [syn: Black Forest, Schwarzwald]