Words that rhyme with embrute

  • boot
    n 1: footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg 2: British term for the luggage compartment in a car 3: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick] 4: protective casing for something that resembles a leg 5: an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg [syn: boot, the boot, iron boot, iron heel] 6: a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed 7: the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent" [syn: kick, boot, kicking] v 1: kick; give a boot to 2: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; "boot your computer" [syn: boot, reboot, bring up]
  • bruit
    v 1: tell or spread rumors; "It was rumored that the next president would be a woman" [syn: rumor, rumour, bruit]
  • brut
    adj 1: (of champagne) extremely dry
  • brute
    adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal] n 1: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat] 2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna]
  • butte
    n 1: a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides 2: a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper
  • chute
    n 1: rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall [syn: parachute, chute] 2: sloping channel through which things can descend [syn: chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough] v 1: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn: chute, parachute, jump]
  • coot
    n 1: slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks
  • cute
    adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn: cunning, cute] 2: obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms" [syn: cute, precious]
  • flute
    n 1: a high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown [syn: flute, transverse flute] 2: a tall narrow wineglass [syn: flute, flute glass, champagne flute] 3: a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) [syn: flute, fluting] v 1: form flutes in
  • fruit
    n 1: the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant 2: an amount of a product [syn: yield, fruit] 3: the consequence of some effort or action; "he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies" v 1: cause to bear fruit 2: bear fruit; "the trees fruited early this year"
  • hoot
    n 1: a loud raucous cry (as of an owl) 2: a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt [syn: boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort, bird] 3: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam] v 1: to utter a loud clamorous shout; "the toughs and blades of the city hoot and bang their drums, drink arak, play dice, and dance" 2: utter the characteristic sound of owls
  • jute
    n 1: a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks 2: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons
  • loot
    n 1: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: loot, booty, pillage, plunder, prize, swag, dirty money] 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] v 1: take illegally; of intellectual property; "This writer plundered from famous authors" [syn: loot, plunder] 2: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray]
  • lute
    n 1: a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid [syn: lute, luting] 2: chordophone consisting of a plucked instrument having a pear- shaped body, a usually bent neck, and a fretted fingerboard
  • moot
    adj 1: of no legal significance (as having been previously decided) 2: open to argument or debate; "that is a moot question" [syn: arguable, debatable, disputable, moot] n 1: a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; "he organized the weekly moot" v 1: think about carefully; weigh; "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind" [syn: consider, debate, moot, turn over, deliberate]
  • mute
    adj 1: expressed without speech; "a mute appeal"; "a silent curse"; "best grief is tongueless"- Emily Dickinson; "the words stopped at her lips unsounded"; "unspoken grief"; "choking exasperation and wordless shame"- Thomas Wolfe [syn: mute, tongueless, unspoken, wordless] 2: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb, mute, silent] n 1: a deaf person who is unable to speak [syn: mute, deaf- mute, deaf-and-dumb person] 2: a device used to soften the tone of a musical instrument v 1: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down]
  • newt
    n 1: small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia [syn: newt, triton]
  • root
    n 1: (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground 2: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source] 3: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical] 4: a number that, when multiplied by itself some number of times, equals a given number 5: the set of values that give a true statement when substituted into an equation [syn: solution, root] 6: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) [syn: ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root] [ant: descendant, descendent] 7: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes [syn: etymon, root] 8: the part of a tooth that is embedded in the jaw and serves as support [syn: root, tooth root] v 1: take root and begin to grow; "this plant roots quickly" 2: come into existence, originate; "The problem roots in her depression" 3: plant by the roots 4: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn: rout, root, rootle] 5: become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down" [syn: settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down] 6: cause to take roots
  • route
    n 1: an established line of travel or access [syn: path, route, itinerary] 2: an open way (generally public) for travel or transportation [syn: road, route] v 1: send documents or materials to appropriate destinations 2: send via a specific route 3: divert in a specified direction; "divert the low voltage to the engine cylinders"
  • salute
    n 1: an act of honor or courteous recognition; "a musical salute to the composer on his birthday" [syn: salute, salutation] 2: a formal military gesture of respect [syn: salute, military greeting] 3: an act of greeting with friendly words and gestures like bowing or lifting the hat v 1: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail] 2: greet in a friendly way; "I meet this men every day on my way to work and he salutes me" 3: express commendation of; "I salute your courage!" 4: become noticeable; "a terrible stench saluted our nostrils" 5: honor with a military ceremony, as when honoring dead soldiers 6: recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position; "When the officers show up, the soldiers have to salute" [syn: salute, present]
  • scoot
    v 1: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot]
  • shoot
    n 1: a new branch 2: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer" v 1: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: shoot, hit, pip] 2: kill by firing a missile [syn: shoot, pip] 3: fire a shot; "the gunman blasted away" [syn: blast, shoot] 4: make a film or photograph of something; "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: film, shoot, take] 5: send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly; "shoot a glance" 6: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: dart, dash, scoot, scud, flash, shoot] 7: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge, buck] 8: throw or propel in a specific direction or towards a specific objective; "shoot craps"; "shoot a golf ball" 9: record on photographic film; "I photographed the scene of the accident"; "She snapped a picture of the President" [syn: photograph, snap, shoot] 10: emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth" 11: cause a sharp and sudden pain in; "The pain shot up her leg" 12: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: inject, shoot] 13: variegate by interweaving weft threads of different colors; "shoot cloth" 14: throw dice, as in a crap game 15: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away] 16: score; "shoot a basket"; "shoot a goal" 17: utter fast and forcefully; "She shot back an answer" 18: measure the altitude of by using a sextant; "shoot a star" 19: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout] 20: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" [syn: inject, shoot]
  • snoot
    n 1: a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: snob, prig, snot, snoot] 2: informal terms for the nose [syn: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, snoot, snout, schnozzle, schnoz]
  • suit
    n 1: a set of garments (usually including a jacket and trousers or skirt) for outerwear all of the same fabric and color; "they buried him in his best suit" [syn: suit, suit of clothes] 2: a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the family brought suit against the landlord" [syn: lawsuit, suit, case, cause, causa] 3: (slang) a businessman dressed in a business suit; "all the suits care about is the bottom line" 4: a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief and intense courtship" [syn: courtship, wooing, courting, suit] 5: a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or rank 6: playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color; "a flush is five cards in the same suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what suit is trumps?" v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to; "This suits my needs" [syn: suit, accommodate, fit] 2: be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me" 3: accord or comport with; "This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!" [syn: befit, suit, beseem] 4: enhance the appearance of; "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: become, suit]
  • toot
    n 1: a blast of a horn 2: revelry in drinking; a merry drinking party [syn: carouse, carousal, bender, toot, booze-up] v 1: make a loud noise; "The horns of the taxis blared" [syn: honk, blare, beep, claxon, toot]
  • uproot
    v 1: move (people) forcibly from their homeland into a new and foreign environment; "The war uprooted many people" [syn: uproot, deracinate] 2: destroy completely, as if down to the roots; "the vestiges of political democracy were soon uprooted" "root out corruption" [syn: uproot, eradicate, extirpate, root out, exterminate] 3: pull up by or as if by the roots; "uproot the vine that has spread all over the garden" [syn: uproot, extirpate, deracinate, root out]
  • scute
    n 1: large bony or horny plate as on an armadillo or turtle or the underside of a snake
  • shute
    n 1: English writer who settled in Norway after World War II (1899-1960) [syn: Shute, Nevil Shute, Nevil Shute Norway]
  • beirut
    n 1: capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean [syn: Bayrut, Beirut, capital of Lebanon]
  • beabout
  • bebout