Words that rhyme with femme

n 1: the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc. [syn: hem, ahem]

n 1: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms [syn: americium, Am, atomic number 95] 2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM] 3: modulation of the amplitude of the (radio) carrier wave [syn: amplitude modulation, AM]

n 1: a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River [syn: Cam, River Cam, Cam River] 2: a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion

n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness 2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam] 3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams v 1: gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

v 1: express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated" [syn: condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriate] 2: declare or judge unfit for use or habitation; "The building was condemned by the inspector" 3: compel or force into a particular state or activity; "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence" 4: demonstrate the guilt of (someone); "Her strange behavior condemned her" 5: pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison" [syn: sentence, condemn, doom] 6: appropriate (property) for public use; "the county condemned the land to build a highway"

v 1: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad] 2: put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase" 3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone] 4: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam

n 1: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea [syn: dam, dike, dyke] 2: a metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn: decameter, dekameter, decametre, dekametre, dam, dkm] 3: female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock v 1: obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River" [syn: dam, dam up]

adv 1: extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all- fired aggressive?" [syn: bloody, damn, all-fired] adj 1: used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn: damn, goddamn] 2: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal] n 1: 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: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" [syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant: bless]

n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains [syn: dram, drachm, drachma] 2: 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams 3: the basic unit of money in Armenia

n 1: art highly prized for its beauty or perfection [syn: gem, treasure] 2: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone, stone] 3: a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem] 4: a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan [syn: muffin, gem] 5: a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem, precious stone]

n 1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g]

n 1: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: ham, jambon, gammon] 2: (Old Testament) son of Noah 3: a licensed amateur radio operator 4: an unskilled actor who overacts [syn: ham, ham actor] v 1: exaggerate one's acting [syn: overact, ham it up, ham, overplay] [ant: underact, underplay]

n 1: the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down; "the hem of her dress was stained"; "let down the hem"; "he stitched weights into the curtain's hem"; "it seeped along the hem of his jacket" 2: the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc. [syn: hem, ahem] v 1: fold over and sew together to provide with a hem; "hem my skirt" 2: utter `hem' or `ahem'

n 1: preserve of crushed fruit 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] 3: a dense crowd of people [syn: crush, jam, press] 4: deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems [syn: jamming, electronic jamming, jam] v 1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam] 2: push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor" 3: crush or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: jam, crush] 4: interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station" [syn: jam, block] 5: get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed" 6: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad] 7: block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up] [ant: disengage, free]

n 1: upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame

n 1: a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam" [syn: getaway, lam] v 1: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away] 2: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh, lam, flail]

n 1: young sheep 2: English essayist (1775-1834) [syn: Lamb, Charles Lamb, Elia] 3: a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) 4: a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) [syn: lamb, dear] 5: the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food v 1: give birth to a lamb; "the ewe lambed"

n 1: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions [syn: emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality] 2: expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness [syn: phlegm, sputum] 3: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends" [syn: languor, lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm, flatness]

n 1: a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher]

n 1: the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible [syn: random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, RAM, read/write memory] 2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries [syn: Aries, Ram] 3: the first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19 [syn: Aries, Aries the Ram, Ram] 4: a tool for driving or forcing something by impact 5: uncastrated adult male sheep; "a British term is `tup'" [syn: ram, tup] v 1: strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door" [syn: ram, ram down, pound] 2: force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" [syn: force, drive, ram] 3: undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post" [syn: crash, ram] 4: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]

n 1: a fraudulent business scheme [syn: scam, cozenage] v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]

v 1: leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!" [syn: scram, buzz off, fuck off, get, bugger off]

adj 1: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham] n 1: something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be [syn: fake, sham, postiche] 2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player] v 1: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: simulate, assume, sham, feign] 2: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble]

n 1: winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge [syn: slam, sweep] 2: the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects 3: a forceful impact that makes a loud noise 4: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" [syn: shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe] v 1: close violently; "He slammed the door shut" [syn: slam, bang] 2: strike violently; "slam the ball" [syn: slam, bang] 3: dance the slam dance [syn: slam dance, slam, mosh, thrash] 4: throw violently; "He slammed the book on the table" [syn: slam, flap down]

n 1: (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] 2: a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: stalk, stem] 3: cylinder forming a long narrow part of something [syn: shank, stem] 4: the tube of a tobacco pipe 5: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem] 6: a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it [syn: stem turn, stem] v 1: grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war" 2: cause to point inward; "stem your skis" 3: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt] 4: remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"

n 1: a woolen cap of Scottish origin [syn: tam, tam-o'-shanter, tammy]

n 1: a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers)

n 1: a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers [syn: tramway, tram, aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway] 2: a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine; "a tramcar carries coal out of a coal mine" [syn: tramcar, tram] 3: a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity [syn: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car] v 1: travel by tram

v 1: hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack, wham, whop, wallop]

n 1: edible tuber of any of several yams 2: any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots [syn: yam, yam plant] 3: sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked 4: edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food

n 1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g] 2: Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938) [syn: Gram, Hans C. J. Gram]

n 1: a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target [syn: surface-to-air missile, SAM]

n 1: a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula; "Thailand is the official name of the former Siam" [syn: Thailand, Kingdom of Thailand, Siam]

n 1: a quad with a square body; "since `em quad' is hard to distinguish from `en quad', printers sometimes called it a `mutton quad'" [syn: em, em quad, mutton quad] 2: a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: em, pica em, pica]

n 1: a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings [syn: Jaish-i-Mohammed, Jaish-e-Muhammad, JEM, Army of Muhammad]

n 1: a spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back [syn: lunar excursion module, lunar module, LEM]

adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, m, k] n 1: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) [syn: meter, metre, m] 2: concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution [syn: molarity, molar concentration, M] 3: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard] 4: a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes [syn: megabyte, M, MB] 5: a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes [syn: megabyte, mebibyte, M, MB, MiB] 6: the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: M, m]

n 1: a member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala 2: a Mayan language spoken by the Mam

n 1: a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep [syn: paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, REM sleep, rapid eye movement, REM] 2: (Roentgen Equivalent Man) the dosage of ionizing radiation that will cause the same amount of injury to human tissue as 1 roentgen of X-rays

n 1: modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave [syn: frequency modulation, FM] 2: a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons [syn: fermium, Fm, atomic number 100]

n 1: an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease [syn: autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination] 2: a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium [syn: promethium, Pm, atomic number 61] 3: the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom [syn: Prime Minister, PM, premier] 4: modulation of the phase of the carrier wave [syn: phase modulation, PM]

n 1: a calcium blocker (trade name Cardizem) used in treating hypertension or angina or heart failure [syn: diltiazem, Cardizem]

n 1: rate of revolution of a motor; "the engine was doing 6000 revs" [syn: revolutions per minute, rpm, rev]

n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains [syn: dram, drachm, drachma] 2: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters [syn: fluidram, fluid dram, fluid drachm, drachm] 3: a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce [syn: fluidram, fluid dram, fluid drachm, drachm]

n 1: a herd of whales