Words that rhyme with griselda

n 1: wood of any of various alder trees; resistant to underwater rot; used for bridges etc 2: north temperate shrubs or trees having toothed leaves and conelike fruit; bark is used in tanning and dyeing and the wood is rot-resistant [syn: alder, alder tree]

n 1: (Norse mythology) god of light and peace and noted for his beauty and sweet nature; son of Odin and Frigg and husband of Nanna; killed by Hoth [syn: Balder, Baldr]

n 1: a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses [syn: perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder]

v 1: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me-- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound] 2: cause to be confused emotionally [syn: bewilder, bemuse, discombobulate, throw]

n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]

n 1: someone who does special exercises to develop a brawny musculature [syn: bodybuilder, muscle builder, muscle- builder, musclebuilder, muscleman]

n 1: a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation

n 1: a large smooth mass of rock detached from its place of origin [syn: boulder, bowlder] 2: a town in north central Colorado; Rocky Mountains resort center and university town

n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts [syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]

n 1: a substance added to soaps or detergents to increase their cleansing action [syn: builder, detergent builder] 2: a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country; "empire builder" 3: someone who contracts for and supervises construction (as of a building) [syn: builder, constructor]

n 1: mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor

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

n 1: a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat 2: a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting [syn: fielder, fieldsman]

n 1: a small book usually having a paper cover [syn: booklet, brochure, folder, leaflet, pamphlet] 2: covering that is folded over to protect the contents

n 1: the owner of a freehold

n 1: someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt

n 1: the basic unit of money in Suriname; equal to 100 cents [syn: guilder, gulden, florin] 2: formerly the basic unit of money in the Netherlands; equal to 100 cents [syn: guilder, gulden, florin, Dutch florin]

n 1: (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day [syn: hour angle, HA]

n 1: a holding device; "a towel holder"; "a cigarette holder"; "an umbrella holder" 2: a person who holds something; "they held two hostages"; "he holds the trophy"; "she holds a United States passport" 3: the person who is in possession of a check or note or bond or document of title that is endorsed to him or to whoever holds it; "the bond was marked `payable to bearer'" [syn: holder, bearer]

n 1: someone who owns a home [syn: homeowner, householder]

n 1: (baseball) a person who plays a position in the infield

n 1: an employee who holds a regular job

n 1: a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth [syn: lanthanum, La, atomic number 57] 2: a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn: Louisiana, Pelican State, LA] 3: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]

n 1: a holder or proprietor of land [syn: landowner, landholder, property owner]

n 1: a tenant who holds a lease [syn: leaseholder, lessee]

n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy] 2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM] 3: one thousandth of an ampere [syn: milliampere, mA] 4: a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Massachusetts, Bay State, Old Colony, MA]

v 1: break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat" [syn: decompose, rot, molder, moulder]

n 1: someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust; "he is an officer of the court"; "the club elected its officers for the coming year" [syn: officeholder, officer] 2: the official who holds an office [syn: incumbent, officeholder]

n 1: (baseball) a person who plays in the outfield 2: a fielder in cricket who is stationed in the outfield

n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop] 2: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead [syn: protactinium, protoactinium, Pa, atomic number 91] 3: a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter [syn: pascal, Pa] 4: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Pennsylvania, Keystone State, PA] 5: an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas [syn: public address system, P.A. system, PA system, P.A., PA]

n 1: (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)

n 1: a person authorized to act for another [syn: proxy, placeholder, procurator] 2: a symbol in a logical or mathematical expression that can be replaced by the name of any member of specified set

n 1: low-lying land that has been reclaimed and is protected by dikes (especially in the Netherlands)

n 1: a person who holds an insurance policy; usually, the client in whose name an insurance policy is written

n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: schwa, shwa]

n 1: title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran [syn: Shah, Shah of Iran]

n 1: someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation [syn: stockholder, shareholder, shareowner]

n 1: a carpenter who helps build and launch wooden vessels [syn: shipwright, shipbuilder, ship builder] 2: a person who builds ships as a business [syn: shipbuilder, ship builder] 3: a business that builds and repairs ships

n 1: the part of the body between the neck and the upper arm 2: a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg 3: a ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula [syn: shoulder, shoulder joint, articulatio humeri] 4: the part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder; "an ornamental gold braid on the shoulder of his uniform" 5: a narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road; "the car pulled off onto the shoulder" [syn: shoulder, berm] v 1: lift onto one's shoulders 2: push with the shoulders; "He shouldered his way into the crowd" 3: carry a burden, either real or metaphoric; "shoulder the burden"

n 1: someone who holds slaves [syn: slaveholder, slave owner, slaver]

n 1: a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame; "the smoulder suddenly became a blaze" [syn: smoulder, smolder] v 1: have strong suppressed feelings [syn: smolder, smoulder] 2: burn slowly and without a flame; "a smoldering fire" [syn: smolder, smoulder]

n 1: an alloy (usually of lead and tin) used when melted to join two metal surfaces v 1: join or fuse with solder; "solder these two pipes together"

n 1: a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn: watering place, watering hole, spa] 2: a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area [syn: resort hotel, spa] 3: a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness [syn: health spa, spa, health club]

n 1: someone entrusted to hold the stakes for two or more persons betting against one another; must deliver the stakes to the winner

n 1: someone who holds shares of stock in a corporation [syn: stockholder, shareholder, shareowner]

n 1: a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization

v 1: remove the soldering from

n 1: someone who upholds or maintains; "firm upholders of tradition"; "they are sustainers of the idea of democracy" [syn: upholder, maintainer, sustainer]

n 1: United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975) [syn: Wilder, Thornton Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder] 2: United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002) [syn: Wilder, Billy Wilder, Samuel Wilder]

n 1: a person who refrains from granting; "a withholder of payments" [ant: granter] 2: a person who restrains or checks or holds back

n 1: a person who yields or surrenders [syn: surrenderer, yielder]

v 1: break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat" [syn: decompose, rot, molder, moulder]

n 1: someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault [syn: scold, scolder, nag, nagger, common scold]

n 1: a fire that burns with thick smoke but no flame; "the smoulder suddenly became a blaze" [syn: smoulder, smolder] v 1: burn slowly and without a flame; "a smoldering fire" [syn: smolder, smoulder] 2: have strong suppressed feelings [syn: smolder, smoulder]

n 1: an official prosecutor for a judicial district [syn: district attorney, DA]

n 1: unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma

n 1: a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite [syn: tantalum, Ta, atomic number 73]

n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation [syn: angstrom, angstrom unit, A] 2: any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes [syn: vitamin A, antiophthalmic factor, axerophthol, A] 3: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxyadenosine monophosphate, A] 4: (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA [syn: adenine, A] 5: the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps" [syn: ampere, amp, A] 6: the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: A, a] 7: the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen [syn: A, type A, group A]

n 1: the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code [syn: dash, dah]

n 1: 100 pyas equal 1 kyat in Myanmar

n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: schwa, shwa]

n 1: United States sculptor who first created mobiles and stabiles (1898-1976) [syn: Calder, Alexander Calder]

n 1: (Middle Ages) the bride of the king of Cornwall who (according to legend) fell in love with the king's nephew (Tristan) after they mistakenly drank a love potion that left them eternally in love with each other [syn: Iseult, Isolde]

n 1: a person who holds a credit card or debit card 2: a player who holds a card or cards in a card game

n 1: a person who builds boats

n 1: a person owning or renting a smallholding