Words that rhyme with gravamen

n 1: the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: abdomen, venter, stomach, belly] 2: the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm [syn: abdominal cavity, abdomen]

n 1: an additional name or an epithet appended to a name (as in `Ferdinand the Great')

n 1: someone who operates an aircraft [syn: aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer]

n 1: a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council); "aldermen usually represent city wards"

n 1: a primeval Egyptian personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes [syn: Amen, Amon, Amun]

n 1: a serviceman in the artillery [syn: artilleryman, cannoneer, gunner, machine gunner]

n 1: someone who is a member of a legislative assembly

n 1: a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice

n 1: a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net

n 1: an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar [syn: bartender, barman, barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist]

n 1: a female bound to serve without wages [syn: bondwoman, bondswoman, bondmaid] 2: a female slave [syn: bondwoman, bondswoman, bondmaid]

n 1: a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow [syn: archer, bowman]

n 1: an old name for sulfur [syn: brimstone, native sulfur, native sulphur]

n 1: the body of individuals who manage businesses [syn: businessmen, business community]

n 1: a female businessperson

n 1: an evil spirit [syn: cacodemon, cacodaemon] [ant: eudaemon, eudemon, good spirit]

n 1: a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly [syn: caiman, cayman]

n 1: a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port [syn: Guangzhou, Kuangchou, Kwangchow, Canton] 2: a small administrative division of a country v 1: provide housing for (military personnel) [syn: quarter, billet, canton] 2: divide into cantons, of a country

n 1: a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails

n 1: a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist [syn: catechumen, neophyte]

n 1: a soldier in a motorized army unit [syn: cavalryman, trooper] 2: a soldier mounted on horseback; "a cavalryman always takes good care of his mount" [syn: cavalryman, trooper]

n 1: the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson" [syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chair, chairperson] v 1: act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; "She chaired the department for many years" [syn: chair, chairman]

n 1: the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson" [syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chair, chairperson]

n 1: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman]

n 1: the leader of a group of people; "a captain of industry" [syn: captain, chieftain] 2: the head of a tribe or clan [syn: headman, tribal chief, chieftain, chief]

n 1: a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid [syn: cisterna, cistern] 2: a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet [syn: cistern, water tank] 3: an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater

n 1: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church [syn: clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth] [ant: layman, layperson, secular]

n 1: a familiar name for a person (often a shortened version of a person's given name); "Joe's mother would not use his nickname and always called him Joseph"; "Henry's nickname was Slim" [syn: nickname, moniker, cognomen, sobriquet, soubriquet, byname] 2: the name used to identify the members of a family (as distinguished from each member's given name) [syn: surname, family name, cognomen, last name]

n 1: a woman who is a member of a committee

adj 1: belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community" [ant: individual, single] 2: having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap" [ant: uncommon] 3: common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor" [syn: common, mutual] 4: commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" [syn: common, usual] 5: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" [syn: common, vernacular, vulgar] 6: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed] 7: of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" [syn: coarse, common] 8: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar] 9: to be expected; standard; "common decency" n 1: a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons, common, green]

n 1: a member of the United States House of Representatives [syn: congressman, congresswoman, representative]

n 1: a woman who is a council member

n 1: a man from your own country 2: a man who lives in the country and has country ways [syn: countryman, ruralist]

n 1: a woman who lives in the country and has country ways 2: a woman from your own country

n 1: a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd]

n 1: any member of a ship's crew [syn: sailor, crewman] 2: a member of a flight crew [syn: crewman, crew member] 3: a member of a work crew

n 1: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon] 2: a person who is part mortal and part god [syn: daemon, demigod]

n 1: the owner or manager of a dairy [syn: dairyman, dairy farmer] 2: a man who works in a dairy

n 1: someone employed to make deliveries [syn: deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer]

n 1: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon] 2: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre] 3: someone extremely diligent or skillful; "he worked like a demon to finish the job on time"; "she's a demon at math"

v 1: decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: destine, fate, doom, designate] 2: design or destine; "She was intended to become the director" [syn: intend, destine, designate, specify]

n 1: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary]

n 1: (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player

adj 1: lying toward or situated in the east; "the eastern end of the island" 2: of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States; "the Eastern establishment" [ant: western] 3: lying in or toward the east; "the east side of New York"; "eastern cities" [syn: easterly, eastern] 4: relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world; "Eastern Europe"; "the Eastern religions" [ant: western] 5: from the east; used especially of winds; "an eastern wind"; "the winds are easterly" [syn: easterly, eastern]

n 1: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes [syn: etymon, root]

n 1: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine, shortage] 2: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

n 1: a man who operates a ferry

n 1: play in which children pretend to put out a fire 2: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) [syn: stoker, fireman] 3: a pitcher who does not start the game [syn: reliever, relief pitcher, fireman] 4: a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires [syn: fireman, firefighter, fire fighter, fire-eater]

n 1: a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure [syn: foramen, hiatus]

n 1: a person who exercises control over workers; "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman" [syn: foreman, chief, gaffer, honcho, boss] 2: a man who is foreperson of a jury

n 1: a woman who is foreperson of a jury [syn: forewoman, forelady] 2: a woman in charge of a group of workers

n 1: a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises 2: a natural flow of ground water [syn: spring, fountain, outflow, outpouring, natural spring] 3: an artificially produced flow of water [syn: fountain, jet] 4: a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water [syn: fountain, fount]

n 1: a person who has been freed from slavery [syn: freedman, freedwoman]

n 1: a person who is not a serf or a slave [syn: freeman, freewoman]

n 1: a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady" [syn: dame, madam, ma'am, lady, gentlewoman]

n 1: a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it [syn: highjacker, highwayman, hijacker, road agent]

n 1: a woman horseman

adj 1: characteristic of humanity; "human nature" 2: relating to a person; "the experiment was conducted on 6 monkeys and 2 human subjects" 3: having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings; "human beings"; "the human body"; "human kindness"; "human frailty" [ant: nonhuman] n 1: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being, human]

n 1: (Greek mythology) the god of marriage 2: a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin [syn: hymen, maidenhead, virginal membrane]

n 1: northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs [syn: ichneumon, Herpestes ichneumon]

n 1: fights on foot with small arms [syn: infantryman, marcher, foot soldier, footslogger]

adj 1: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate] 2: belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"

n 1: the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus [syn: intestine, bowel, gut]

n 1: a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft [syn: craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificer]

n 1: someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury [syn: juror, juryman, jurywoman]

n 1: a female relative

n 1: light in a transparent protective case

n 1: an officer of the law [syn: lawman, law officer, peace officer]

n 1: someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person [syn: layman, layperson, secular] [ant: clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend]

n 1: desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer [syn: lectern, reading desk]

n 1: yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh 2: a strong yellow color [syn: gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maize] 3: a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit [syn: lemon, lemon tree, Citrus limon] 4: a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons 5: an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory [syn: lemon, stinker]

n 1: an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport

n 1: a worker in a livery stable

n 1: a person whose occupation is catching lobsters

n 1: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper]

n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack, logger, feller, faller]

n 1: a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions [syn: lumen, lm] 2: a cavity or passage in a tubular organ; "the lumen of the intestine"

n 1: a woman lunatic

adj 1: reduced to liquid form by heating; "a mass of molten rock" [syn: molten, liquefied, liquified]

n 1: a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill [syn: mountain, mount] 2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]

n 1: someone who makes or mends dresses [syn: dressmaker, modiste, needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress]

n 1: the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales

n 1: a woman of the peerage in Britain [syn: Lady, noblewoman, peeress] [ant: Lord, noble, nobleman]

n 1: someone who takes care of a garden [syn: gardener, nurseryman]

adv 1: many times at short intervals; "we often met over a cup of coffee" [syn: frequently, often, oftentimes, oft, ofttimes] [ant: infrequently, rarely, seldom] 2: frequently or in great quantities; "I don't drink much"; "I don't travel much" [syn: much, a great deal, often] 3: in many cases or instances

n 1: the part between the fetlock and the hoof [syn: pastern, fetter bone]

n 1: any of several tropical trees of the genus Diospyros [syn: persimmon, persimmon tree] 2: orange fruit resembling a plum; edible when fully ripe

n 1: a hypothetical substance once believed to be present in all combustible materials and to be released during burning

n 1: photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae

n 1: United States neoclassical composer (1894-1976) [syn: Piston, Walter Piston] 2: mechanical device that has a plunging or thrusting motion [syn: piston, plunger]

n 1: any of numerous plants of the genus Plantago; mostly small roadside or dooryard weeds with elliptic leaves and small spikes of very small flowers; seeds of some used medicinally 2: a banana tree bearing hanging clusters of edible angular greenish starchy fruits; tropics and subtropics [syn: plantain, plantain tree, Musa paradisiaca] 3: starchy banana-like fruit; eaten (always cooked) as a staple vegetable throughout the tropics

n 1: a man who plows [syn: plowman, ploughman, plower]

n 1: a woman policeman [syn: police matron, policewoman]

n 1: a small gate in the rear of a fort or castle

n 1: a dealer in poultry and poultry products [syn: poultryman, poulterer]

v 1: decree or determine beforehand 2: foreordain by divine will or decree [syn: predestine, predestinate, foreordain] 3: foreordain or determine beforehand [syn: predestine, foreordain, preordain]

n 1: a man who works in a quarry [syn: quarryman, quarrier]

n 1: an employee of a railroad [syn: trainman, railroader, railroad man, railwayman, railway man]

n 1: (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet) [syn: regimen, regime]

n 1: the first compartment of the stomach of a ruminant; here food is collected and returned to the mouth as cud for chewing [syn: rumen, first stomach]