Words that rhyme with gerty

n 1: one to whom something is addressed

v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord] [ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue] 2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something; "She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her alone" 3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree, discord] 4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree] 5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always agree in English" 6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me" 7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"

n 1: someone who has had a limb removed by amputation

n 1: an official who is appointed 2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn: appointee, appointment]

n 1: (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)

n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]

n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element [syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4] v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" 2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house" 3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" 4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: exist, be] 5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen" 6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ] 7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be] 8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow] 9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify] 10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour" 11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live] 12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be" 13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]

n 1: (golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole 2: badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock, bird, birdie, shuttle] v 1: shoot in one stroke under par

n 1: a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies) [syn: bootee, bootie]

n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie, Ci] 2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: Curie, Pierre Curie] 3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska]

n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]

adj 1: soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" [syn: dirty, soiled, unclean] [ant: clean] 2: (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth" [ant: clean, unobjectionable] 3: vile; despicable; "a dirty (or lousy) trick"; "a filthy traitor" [syn: dirty, filthy, lousy] 4: spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" [syn: dirty, contaminating] [ant: clean, uncontaminating] 5: contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen [syn: dirty, pestiferous] 6: (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy] 7: (of a manuscript) defaced with changes; "foul (or dirty) copy" [syn: dirty, foul, marked-up] 8: obtained illegally or by improper means; "dirty money"; "ill- gotten gains" [syn: dirty, ill-gotten] 9: expressing or revealing hostility or dislike; "dirty looks" 10: violating accepted standards or rules; "a dirty fighter"; "used foul means to gain power"; "a nasty unsporting serve"; "fined for unsportsmanlike behavior" [syn: cheating(a), dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike] 11: unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political campaign" [syn: dirty, sordid] 12: unpleasantly stormy; "there's dirty weather in the offing" v 1: make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" [syn: dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire] [ant: clean, make clean]

adj 1: having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships; "hardy explorers of northern Canada"; "proud of her tall stalwart son"; "stout seamen"; "sturdy young athletes" [syn: hardy, stalwart, stout, sturdy] 2: not making concessions; "took an uncompromising stance in the peace talks"; "uncompromising honesty" [syn: uncompromising, sturdy, inflexible] [ant: compromising, conciliatory, flexible] 3: substantially made or constructed; "sturdy steel shelves"; "sturdy canvas"; "a tough all-weather fabric"; "some plastics are as tough as metal" [syn: sturdy, tough]

adj 1: being ten more than twenty [syn: thirty, 30, xxx] n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and three [syn: thirty, 30, XXX]

adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units [syn: five hundred, 500, d] n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: vitamin D, calciferol, viosterol, ergocalciferol, cholecalciferol, D] 2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five [syn: five hundred, 500, D] 3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: D, d]

n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn: Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA]

n 1: an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 [syn: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, DDT]

n 1: United States poet and critic (1916-1986) [syn: Ciardi, John Ciardi, John Anthony Ciardi]

adj 1: (British informal) ill-tempered or annoyed [syn: shirty, snorty]