Words that rhyme with esteem

• agleam 0
  adj 1: bright with a steady but subdued shining; "from the plane we saw the city below agleam with lights"; "the gleaming brass on the altar"; "Nereids beneath the nitid moon" [syn: agleam, gleaming, nitid]
• beam 0
  n 1: a signal transmitted along a narrow path; guides airplane pilots in darkness or bad weather [syn: radio beam, beam] 2: long thick piece of wood or metal or concrete, etc., used in construction 3: a group of nearly parallel lines of electromagnetic radiation [syn: beam, ray, electron beam] 4: a column of light (as from a beacon) [syn: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation] 5: (nautical) breadth amidships 6: the broad side of a ship; "they sighted land on the port beam" 7: a gymnastic apparatus used by women gymnasts [syn: balance beam, beam] v 1: smile radiantly; express joy through one's facial expression 2: emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light; "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces" [syn: shine, beam] 3: express with a beaming face or smile; "he beamed his approval" 4: broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television; "We cannot air this X-rated song" [syn: air, send, broadcast, beam, transmit] 5: have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine] 6: experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine]
• beseem 0
  v 1: accord or comport with; "This kind of behavior does not suit a young woman!" [syn: befit, suit, beseem]
• blaspheme 0
  v 1: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate] 2: speak of in an irreverent or impious manner; "blaspheme God"
• bream 0
  n 1: flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe [syn: bream, freshwater bream] 2: flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae [syn: bream, sea bream] 3: any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae [syn: sea bream, bream] 4: any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis [syn: freshwater bream, bream] v 1: clean (a ship's bottom) with heat
• centime 0
  n 1: a fractional monetary unit of several countries: France and Algeria and Belgium and Burkina Faso and Burundi and Cameroon and Chad and the Congo and Gabon and Haiti and the Ivory Coast and Luxembourg and Mali and Morocco and Niger and Rwanda and Senegal and Switzerland and Togo 2: a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit [syn: penny, cent, centime]
• cream 0
  n 1: the best people or things in a group; "the cream of England's young men were killed in the Great War" [syn: cream, pick] 2: the part of milk containing the butterfat 3: toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin [syn: cream, ointment, emollient] v 1: make creamy by beating; "Cream the butter" 2: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick] 3: put on cream, as on one's face or body; "She creams her face every night" 4: remove from the surface; "skim cream from the surface of milk" [syn: skim, skim off, cream off, cream] 5: add cream to one's coffee, for example
• deem 0
  v 1: keep in mind or convey as a conviction or view; "take for granted"; "view as important"; "hold these truths to be self-evident"; "I hold him personally responsible" [syn: deem, hold, view as, take for]
• disesteem 0
  n 1: the state in which esteem has been lost [ant: esteem, regard, respect] v 1: have little or no respect for; hold in contempt [syn: disrespect, disesteem] [ant: esteem, prise, prize, respect, value]
• downstream 0
  adv 1: away from the source or with the current [syn: downriver, downstream] [ant: upriver, upstream] adj 1: in the direction of a stream's current [ant: upstream]
• dream 0
  n 1: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dream, dreaming] 2: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dream, dreaming] 3: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" [syn: ambition, aspiration, dream] 4: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe" [syn: pipe dream, dream] 5: a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream" 6: someone or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream" v 1: have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy [syn: dream, daydream, woolgather, stargaze] 2: experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"
• extreme 0
  adj 1: of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity; "extreme cold"; "extreme caution"; "extreme pleasure"; "utmost contempt"; "to the utmost degree"; "in the uttermost distress" [syn: extreme, utmost(a), uttermost(a)] 2: far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree; "an extreme example"; "extreme temperatures"; "extreme danger" 3: beyond a norm in views or actions; "an extreme conservative"; "an extreme liberal"; "extreme views on integration"; "extreme opinions" 4: most distant in any direction; "the extreme edge of town" n 1: the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes" 2: the point located farthest from the middle of something [syn: extreme point, extreme, extremum]
• gleam 0
  n 1: an appearance of reflected light [syn: gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency] 2: a flash of light (especially reflected light) [syn: gleam, gleaming, glimmer] v 1: be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening" [syn: glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shine] 2: shine brightly, like a star or a light [syn: gleam, glimmer] 3: appear briefly; "A terrible thought gleamed in her mind"
• passim 0
  adv 1: used to refer to cited works [syn: passim, throughout]
• ream 0
  n 1: a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams" 2: a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires v 1: squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oranges" 2: remove by making a hole or by boring; "the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment" 3: enlarge with a reamer; "ream a hole"
• redeem 0
  v 1: save from sins [syn: deliver, redeem, save] 2: restore the honor or worth of 3: to turn in (vouchers or coupons) and receive something in exchange 4: exchange or buy back for money; under threat [syn: ransom, redeem] 5: pay off (loans or promissory notes) [syn: redeem, pay off] 6: convert into cash; of commercial papers
• regime 0
  n 1: the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; "the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities" [syn: government, authorities, regime] 2: (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) [syn: regimen, regime]
• scheme 0
  n 1: an elaborate and systematic plan of action [syn: scheme, strategy] 2: a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery [syn: dodge, dodging, scheme] 3: a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" [syn: system, scheme] 4: an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world [syn: schema, scheme] 5: a schematic or preliminary plan [syn: outline, schema, scheme] v 1: form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner [syn: scheme, intrigue, connive] 2: devise a system or form a scheme for
• scream 0
  n 1: sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors" [syn: scream, screaming, shriek, shrieking, screech, screeching] 2: a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes" [syn: screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking, scream, screaming] 3: a joke that seems extremely funny [syn: belly laugh, sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot] v 1: utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall] 2: utter or declare in a very loud voice; "You don't have to yell--I can hear you just fine" [syn: yell, scream] 3: make a loud, piercing sound; "Fighter planes are screaming through the skies"
• seam 0
  n 1: joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces 2: a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles" [syn: wrinkle, furrow, crease, crinkle, seam, line] 3: a stratum of ore or coal thick enough to be mined with profit; "he worked in the coal beds" [syn: seam, bed] v 1: put together with a seam; "seam a dress"
• seem 0
  v 1: give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" [syn: look, appear, seem] 2: seem to be true, probable, or apparent; "It seems that he is very gifted"; "It appears that the weather in California is very bad" [syn: appear, seem] 3: appear to exist; "There seems no reason to go ahead with the project now" 4: appear to one's own mind or opinion; "I seem to be misunderstood by everyone"; "I can't seem to learn these Chinese characters"
• steam 0
  n 1: water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere v 1: travel by means of steam power; "The ship steamed off into the Pacific" [syn: steamer, steam] 2: emit steam; "The rain forest was literally steaming" 3: rise as vapor 4: get very angry; "her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man" 5: clean by means of steaming; "steam-clean the upholstered sofa" [syn: steam, steam clean] 6: cook something by letting steam pass over it; "just steam the vegetables"
• stream 0
  n 1: a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth [syn: stream, watercourse] 2: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" [syn: stream, flow, current] 3: the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression [syn: flow, stream] 4: something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously; "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"; "the museum had planned carefully for the flow of visitors" [syn: stream, flow] 5: a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water" [syn: current, stream] v 1: to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind; "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind" 2: exude profusely; "She was streaming with sweat"; "His nose streamed blood" 3: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate] 4: rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" [syn: pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets] 5: flow freely and abundantly; "Tears streamed down her face" [syn: stream, well out]
• supreme 0
  adj 1: final or last in your life or progress; "the supreme sacrifice"; "the supreme judgment" 2: greatest in status or authority or power; "a supreme tribunal" [syn: sovereign, supreme] 3: highest in excellence or achievement; "supreme among musicians"; "a supreme endxxeavor"; "supreme courage" 4: greatest or maximal in degree; extreme; "supreme folly"
• team 0
  n 1: a cooperative unit (especially in sports) [syn: team, squad] 2: two or more draft animals that work together to pull something v 1: form a team; "We teamed up for this new project" [syn: team, team up]
• teem 0
  v 1: be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries" [syn: teem, pullulate, swarm] 2: move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate]
• theme 0
  n 1: the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love" [syn: subject, topic, theme] 2: a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary or artistic work; "it was the usual `boy gets girl' theme" [syn: theme, motif] 3: (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it" [syn: theme, melodic theme, musical theme, idea] 4: an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition" [syn: composition, paper, report, theme] 5: (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] v 1: provide with a particular theme or motive; "the restaurant often themes its menus"
• upstream 0
  adv 1: toward the source or against the current [syn: upriver, upstream] [ant: downriver, downstream] adj 1: in the direction against a stream's current [ant: downstream]
• hakim 0
  n 1: a Muslim ruler or governor or judge 2: a Muslim physician [syn: hakim, hakeem]
• ibrahim 0
  n 1: the first of the Old Testament patriarchs and the father of Isaac; according to Genesis, God promised to give Abraham's family (the Hebrews) the land of Canaan (the Promised Land); God tested Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son; "Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each has a special claim on Abraham" [syn: Abraham, Ibrahim]
• self-esteem 0
  n 1: a feeling of pride in yourself [syn: self-esteem, self- pride]
• diem 0
• beahm 0
• beem 0
• bleam 0
• creme 0
• deam 0
• diehm 0
• siem 0
• thieme 0
• avrim 0
• basim 0
• daelim 0
• chromakalim 0
• semanteme 0
• septime 0

See also esteem definition and esteem synonyms