Words that rhyme with glyptodont

adj 1: being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a bouffant skirt" [syn: bouffant, puffy] n 1: a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance

n 1: an officer in command of a military unit [syn: commanding officer, commandant, commander]

n 1: someone to whom private matters are confided [syn: confidant, intimate]

n 1: a young woman making her debut into society [syn: debutante, deb]

n 1: the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations)

n 1: an informal alliance between countries [syn: entente, entente cordiale] 2: a friendly understanding between political powers [syn: entente, entente cordiale]

n 1: a specific size and style of type within a type family [syn: font, fount, typeface, face, case] 2: bowl for baptismal water [syn: baptismal font, baptistry, baptistery, font]

n 1: a specific size and style of type within a type family [syn: font, fount, typeface, face, case] 2: a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water [syn: fountain, fount]

n 1: the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama 2: a gentle slope leading from the base of a mountain to a region of flat land 3: the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley [syn: Piedmont, Piemonte]

n 1: a building where people go to eat [syn: restaurant, eating house, eating place, eatery]

n 1: someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field [syn: initiate, learned person, pundit, savant]

n 1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: privation, want, deprivation, neediness] 2: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [syn: lack, deficiency, want] 3: anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants" [syn: need, want] 4: a specific feeling of desire; "he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire" [syn: wish, wishing, want] v 1: feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room" [syn: desire, want] 2: have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" [syn: want, need, require] 3: hunt or look for; want for a particular reason; "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you" 4: wish or demand the presence of; "I want you here at noon!" 5: be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"

n 1: an established custom; "it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening" [syn: habit, wont]

n 1: a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Elmont on Long Island; site of the Belmont Stakes [syn: Belmont Park, Belmont]

n 1: a state in New England [syn: Vermont, Green Mountain State, VT]

n 1: the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey [syn: Dardanelles, Canakkale Bogazi, Hellespont]

n 1: a port city in western France on the Loire estuary

n 1: the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents 2: United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982) [syn: Rand, Ayn Rand] 3: a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese [syn: Witwatersrand, Rand, Reef]

n 1: French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study [syn: Comte, Auguste Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte]

n 1: United States surgeon remembered for his studies of digestion (1785-1853) [syn: Beaumont, William Beaumont] 2: English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616) [syn: Beaumont, Francis Beaumont] 3: a city of southeastern Texas near Houston

n 1: United States explorer who mapped much of the American west and Northwest (1813-1890) [syn: Fremont, John C. Fremont, John Charles Fremont]