Words that rhyme with guarani

  • ab
    n 1: a bachelor's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Bachelor of Arts, BA, Artium Baccalaurens, AB] 2: the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and August) [syn: Ab, Av] 3: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal muscle, ab] 4: the blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens [syn: AB, type AB, group AB]
  • aborigine
    n 1: an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" [syn: native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal] 2: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Aborigine, Abo, Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine]
  • absentee
    n 1: one that is absent or not in residence
  • accompany
    v 1: be present or associated with an event or entity; "French fries come with the hamburger"; "heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of heart tissue"; "fish usually goes with white wine"; "this kind of vein accompanies certain arteries" [syn: attach to, accompany, come with, go with] 2: go or travel along with; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere" 3: perform an accompaniment to; "The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano" [syn: play along, accompany, follow] 4: be a companion to somebody [syn: company, companion, accompany, keep company]
  • acrimony
    n 1: a rough and bitter manner [syn: bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness]
  • addressee
    n 1: one to whom something is addressed
  • adoptee
    n 1: someone (such as a child) who has been adopted
  • afghani
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Afghanistan or its people [syn: Afghani, Afghan, Afghanistani] n 1: the basic unit of money in Afghanistan 2: an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan [syn: Pashto, Pashtu, Paxto, Afghani, Afghan]
  • agony
    n 1: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn: agony, torment, torture] 2: a state of acute pain [syn: agony, suffering, excruciation]
  • agree
    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"
  • alee
    adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"
  • alimony
    n 1: court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated [syn: alimony, maintenance]
  • amputee
    n 1: someone who has had a limb removed by amputation
  • androgyny
    n 1: showing characteristics of both sexes [syn: androgyny, hermaphroditism, bisexuality]
  • anemone
    n 1: any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves [syn: anemone, windflower] 2: marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton [syn: sea anemone, anemone]
  • antiphony
    n 1: alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts 2: a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response [syn: antiphon, antiphony]
  • appointee
    n 1: an official who is appointed 2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn: appointee, appointment]
  • assignee
    n 1: (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred)
  • attendee
    n 1: a person who is present and participates in a meeting; "he was a regular attender at department meetings"; "the gathering satisfied both organizers and attendees" [syn: attendant, attender, attendee, meeter]
  • balcony
    n 1: an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium 2: a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
  • banshee
    n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]
  • barony
    n 1: the estate of a baron 2: the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness [syn: baronetcy, barony] 3: the domain of a baron
  • be
    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]
  • bee
    n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species 2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions
  • bonny
    adj 1: very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens" [syn: bonny, bonnie, comely, fair, sightly]
  • botany
    n 1: all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation, flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology] 2: the branch of biology that studies plants [syn: botany, phytology]
  • bourgeoisie
    n 1: the social class between the lower and upper classes [syn: middle class, bourgeoisie]
  • brawny
    adj 1: (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms" [syn: brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy]
  • brie
    n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert
  • cacophony
    n 1: a loud harsh or strident noise [syn: blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor, din] 2: loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  • cc
    adj 1: being ten more than one hundred ninety [syn: two hundred, 200, cc] n 1: a metric unit of volume equal to one thousandth of a liter [syn: milliliter, millilitre, mil, ml, cubic centimeter, cubic centimetre, cc]
  • ceremony
    n 1: a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor" [syn: ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance] 2: any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony" 3: the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony"
  • chalcedony
    n 1: a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz [syn: chalcedony, calcedony]
  • cod
    adv 1: collecting the charges upon delivery; "mail a package C.O.D." [syn: C.O.D., COD, cash on delivery] adj 1: payable by the recipient on delivery; "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel" [syn: collect, cod] n 1: the vessel that contains the seeds of a plant (not the seeds themselves) [syn: pod, cod, seedcase] 2: lean white flesh of important North Atlantic food fish; usually baked or poached [syn: cod, codfish] 3: major food fish of Arctic and cold-temperate waters [syn: cod, codfish] v 1: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across] 2: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride]
  • colony
    n 1: a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris" [syn: colony, settlement] 2: a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together 3: one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States 4: a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony" 5: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country [syn: colony, dependency] 6: (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
  • colophony
    n 1: translucent brittle substance produced from pine oleoresin; used especially in varnishes and inks and on the bows of stringed instruments
  • company
    n 1: an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage" 2: small military unit; usually two or three platoons 3: the state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends" [syn: company, companionship, fellowship, society] 4: organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel" [syn: company, troupe] 5: a social or business visitor; "the room was a mess because he hadn't expected company" [syn: caller, company] 6: a social gathering of guests or companions; "the house was filled with company when I arrived" 7: a band of people associated temporarily in some activity; "they organized a party to search for food"; "the company of cooks walked into the kitchen" [syn: party, company] 8: crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship [syn: ship's company, company] 9: a unit of firefighters including their equipment; "a hook- and-ladder company" v 1: be a companion to somebody [syn: company, companion, accompany, keep company]
  • conferee
    n 1: a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were conferred; the conferees were..." 2: a member of a conference
  • consignee
    n 1: the person to whom merchandise is delivered over
  • cosmogony
    n 1: the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe [syn: cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogeny]
  • cottony
    adj 1: resembling cotton; as soft as cotton
  • curie
    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]
  • cushiony
    adj 1: softened by the addition of cushions or padding [syn: cushioned, cushiony, padded]
  • de
    n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
  • debris
    n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
  • decree
    n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" [syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript] v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree" 2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]
  • degree
    n 1: a position on a scale of intensity or amount or quality; "a moderate grade of intelligence"; "a high level of care is required"; "it is all a matter of degree" [syn: degree, grade, level] 2: a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process; "a remarkable degree of frankness"; "at what stage are the social sciences?" [syn: degree, level, stage, point] 3: an award conferred by a college or university signifying that the recipient has satisfactorily completed a course of study; "he earned his degree at Princeton summa cum laude" [syn: academic degree, degree] 4: a measure for arcs and angles; "there are 360 degrees in a circle" [syn: degree, arcdegree] 5: the highest power of a term or variable 6: a unit of temperature on a specified scale; "the game was played in spite of the 40-degree temperature" 7: the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
  • deportee
    n 1: a person who is expelled from home or country by authority [syn: exile, deportee]
  • destiny
    n 1: an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future [syn: destiny, fate] 2: the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny" [syn: destiny, fate] 3: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]
  • detainee
    n 1: some held in custody [syn: detainee, political detainee]
  • devotee
    n 1: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff, devotee, lover]
  • disagree
    v 1: be of different opinions; "I beg to differ!"; "She disagrees with her husband on many questions" [syn: disagree, differ, dissent, take issue] [ant: agree, concord, concur, hold] 2: be different from one another [syn: disagree, disaccord, discord] [ant: agree, check, correspond, fit, gibe, jibe, match, tally]
  • disharmony
    n 1: a lack of harmony [syn: disharmony, inharmoniousness]
  • dittany
    n 1: Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather [syn: fraxinella, dittany, burning bush, gas plant, Dictamnus alba]
  • dominie
    n 1: a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson [syn: dominus, dominie, domine, dominee]
  • draftee
    n 1: someone who is drafted into military service [syn: draftee, conscript, inductee] [ant: military volunteer, voluntary, volunteer]
  • ebony
    adj 1: of a very dark black [syn: ebon, ebony] n 1: a very dark black [syn: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black] 2: hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys 3: tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork [syn: ebony, ebony tree, Diospyros ebenum]
  • emcee
    n 1: a person who acts as host at formal occasions (makes an introductory speech and introduces other speakers) [syn: master of ceremonies, emcee, host] v 1: act as a master of ceremonies [syn: emcee, compere]
  • enlistee
    n 1: any new member or supporter (as in the armed forces) [syn: recruit, enlistee]
  • epiphany
    n 1: a divine manifestation 2: twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus [syn: Epiphany, Epiphany of Our Lord, Twelfth day, Three Kings' Day, January 6]
  • escapee
    n 1: someone who escapes
  • esprit
    n 1: liveliness of mind or spirit
  • euphony
    n 1: any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes" [syn: music, euphony]
  • examinee
    n 1: someone who is tested (as by an intelligence test or an academic examination) [syn: testee, examinee]
  • fee
    n 1: a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services 2: an interest in land capable of being inherited v 1: give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on; "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward" [syn: tip, fee, bung]
  • felony
    n 1: a serious crime (such as murder or arson)
  • flea
    n 1: any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap
  • flee
    v 1: run away quickly; "He threw down his gun and fled" [syn: flee, fly, take flight]
  • fop
    n 1: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse]
  • foresee
    v 1: realize beforehand [syn: anticipate, previse, foreknow, foresee] 2: picture to oneself; imagine possible; "I cannot envision him as President" [syn: envision, foresee] 3: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn: anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter]
  • fourpenny
    adj 1: used of nail size; 1 3/8 in or 3.8 cm long
  • free
    adv 1: without restraint; "cows in India are running loose" [syn: loose, free] adj 1: able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice" [ant: unfree] 2: unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron" [ant: bound] 3: costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission" [syn: complimentary, costless, free, gratis(p), gratuitous] 4: not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane" 5: not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran" [syn: detached, free] 6: not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man" [ant: unfree] 7: not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands" [syn: spare, free] 8: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn: barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent] 9: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free, loose, liberal] n 1: people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave" [syn: free, free people] v 1: grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose] [ant: confine, detain] 2: relieve from; "Rid the house of pests" [syn: rid, free, disembarrass] 3: remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble" [syn: dislodge, free] [ant: deposit, lodge, stick, wedge] 4: grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam" [syn: exempt, relieve, free] [ant: apply, enforce, implement] 5: make (information) available for publication; "release the list with the names of the prisoners" [syn: free, release] 6: free from obligations or duties [syn: free, discharge] 7: free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the cluttered floor" [syn: free, disengage] [ant: block, close up, impede, jam, obstruct, obturate, occlude] 8: let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility" [syn: absolve, justify, free] [ant: blame, fault] 9: part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne" [syn: release, relinquish, resign, free, give up] 10: release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition [syn: release, free, liberate] 11: make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account" [syn: unblock, unfreeze, free, release] [ant: block, freeze, immobilise, immobilize]
  • gee
    n 1: a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated [syn: g, gee, g-force] v 1: turn to the right side; "the horse geed" 2: give a command to a horse to turn to the right side
  • ghee
    n 1: clarified butter used in Indian cookery
  • glee
    n 1: great merriment [syn: hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, glee, gleefulness] 2: malicious satisfaction [syn: gloat, gloating, glee]
  • gluttony
    n 1: habitual eating to excess 2: eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: gluttony, overeating, gula]
  • goatee
    n 1: a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard
  • guarantee
    n 1: a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications [syn: guarantee, warrant, warrantee, warranty] 2: an unconditional commitment that something will happen or that something is true; "there is no guarantee that they are not lying" 3: a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults [syn: guarantee, guaranty] v 1: give surety or assume responsibility; "I vouch for the quality of my products" [syn: guarantee, vouch] 2: make certain of; "This nest egg will ensure a nice retirement for us"; "Preparation will guarantee success!" [syn: guarantee, ensure, insure, assure, secure] 3: promise to do or accomplish; "guarantee to free the prisoners" [syn: undertake, guarantee] 4: stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I warrant this information" [syn: guarantee, warrant]
  • guaranty
    n 1: a collateral agreement to answer for the debt of another in case that person defaults [syn: guarantee, guaranty]
  • gutsy
    adj 1: marked by courage and determination in the face of difficulties or danger; robust and uninhibited; "you have to admire her; it was a gutsy thing to do"; "the gutsy...intensity of her musical involvement"-Judith Crist; "a gutsy red wine" [syn: gutsy, plucky] [ant: gutless]
  • harmony
    n 1: compatibility in opinion and action [syn: harmony, harmoniousness] 2: the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords [syn: harmony, musical harmony] 3: a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole [syn: harmony, concord, concordance] 4: agreement of opinions [syn: harmony, concord, concordance] 5: an agreeable sound property [ant: dissonance]
  • he
    n 1: a very light colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; the most difficult gas to liquefy; occurs in economically extractable amounts in certain natural gases (as those found in Texas and Kansas) [syn: helium, He, atomic number 2] 2: the 5th letter of the Hebrew alphabet
  • hegemony
    n 1: the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others; "the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation"; "to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony"; "the consolidation of the United States' hegemony over a new international economic system"
  • hominy
    n 1: hulled corn with the bran and germ removed
  • homogeny
    n 1: (biology) similarity because of common evolution
  • homophony
    n 1: the same pronunciation for words of different origins 2: part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style)
  • id
    n 1: a state in the Rocky Mountains [syn: Idaho, Gem State, ID] 2: a card or badge used to identify the bearer; "you had to show your ID in order to get in" [syn: ID, I.D.] 3: (psychoanalysis) primitive instincts and energies underlying all psychic activity
  • ignominy
    n 1: a state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison" [syn: shame, disgrace, ignominy]
  • inductee
    n 1: a person inducted into an organization or social group; "Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth were 1936 inductees in the National Baseball Hall of Fame" 2: someone who is drafted into military service [syn: draftee, conscript, inductee] [ant: military volunteer, voluntary, volunteer]
  • internee
    n 1: a person who is interned; "the internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists"
  • interviewee
    n 1: a person who is interviewed
  • invitee
    n 1: a visitor to whom hospitality is extended [syn: guest, invitee]
  • irony
    n 1: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"-- Jonathan Swift [syn: sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark] 2: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" 3: a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
  • jubilee
    n 1: a special anniversary (or the celebration of it)
  • kea
    n 1: large brownish-green New Zealand parrot [syn: kea, Nestor notabilis]
  • key
    adj 1: serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure" [syn: cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal] n 1: metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated 2: something crucial for explaining; "the key to development is economic integration" 3: pitch of the voice; "he spoke in a low key" 4: any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music [syn: key, tonality] [ant: atonalism, atonality] 5: a kilogram of a narcotic drug; "they were carrying two keys of heroin" 6: a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple [syn: samara, key fruit, key] 7: United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star- Spangled Banner' (1779-1843) [syn: Key, Francis Scott Key] 8: a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida [syn: key, cay, Florida key] 9: (basketball) a space (including the foul line) in front of the basket at each end of a basketball court; usually painted a different color from the rest of the court; "he hit a jump shot from the top of the key"; "he dominates play in the paint" [syn: key, paint] 10: a list of answers to a test; "some students had stolen the key to the final exam" 11: a list of words or phrases that explain symbols or abbreviations 12: a generic term for any device whose possession entitles the holder to a means of access; "a safe-deposit box usually requires two keys to open it" 13: mechanical device used to wind another device that is driven by a spring (as a clock) [syn: winder, key] 14: the central building block at the top of an arch or vault [syn: keystone, key, headstone] 15: a lever (as in a keyboard) that actuates a mechanism when depressed v 1: identify as in botany or biology, for example [syn: identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name] 2: provide with a key; "We were keyed after the locks were changed in the building" 3: vandalize a car by scratching the sides with a key; "His new Mercedes was keyed last night in the parking lot" 4: regulate the musical pitch of 5: harmonize with or adjust to; "key one's actions to the voters' prevailing attitude"
  • knee
    n 1: hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella [syn: knee, knee joint, human knee, articulatio genus, genu] 2: joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee [syn: stifle, knee] 3: the part of a trouser leg that provides the cloth covering for the knee
  • larceny
    n 1: the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing]
  • lea
    n 1: a unit of length of thread or yarn 2: a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock [syn: pasture, pastureland, grazing land, lea, ley]
  • lee
    adj 1: towards the side away from the wind [syn: downwind, lee(a)] n 1: United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957) [syn: Lee, Spike Lee, Shelton Jackson Lee] 2: United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970) [syn: Lee, Gypsy Rose Lee, Rose Louise Hovick] 3: United States actor who was an expert in kung fu and starred in martial arts films (1941-1973) [syn: Lee, Bruce Lee, Lee Yuen Kam] 4: United States physicist (born in China) who collaborated with Yang Chen Ning in disproving the principle of conservation of parity (born in 1926) [syn: Lee, Tsung Dao Lee] 5: leader of the American Revolution who proposed the resolution calling for independence of the American Colonies (1732-1794) [syn: Lee, Richard Henry Lee] 6: soldier of the American Revolution (1756-1818) [syn: Lee, Henry Lee, Lighthorse Harry Lee] 7: American general who led the Confederate Armies in the American Civil War (1807-1870) [syn: Lee, Robert E. Lee, Robert Edward Lee] 8: the side of something that is sheltered from the wind [syn: lee, lee side, leeward] [ant: windward]

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