Words that rhyme with gurkha

• abaca 0
  n 1: a kind of hemp obtained from the abaca plant in the Philippines [syn: Manila hemp, Manilla hemp, abaca] 2: Philippine banana tree having leafstalks that yield Manila hemp used for rope and paper etc [syn: abaca, Manila hemp, Musa textilis]
• arnica 0
  n 1: used especially in treating bruises 2: any of various rhizomatous usually perennial plants of the genus Arnica 3: an ointment used in treating bruises
• awe 0
  n 1: an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe" 2: a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for the law bordered on veneration" [syn: fear, reverence, awe, veneration] v 1: inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"
• baccarat 0
  n 1: a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine [syn: baccarat, chemin de fer]
• basilica 0
  n 1: an early Christian church designed like a Roman basilica; or a Roman Catholic church or cathedral accorded certain privileges; "the church was raised to the rank of basilica" 2: a Roman building used for public administration [syn: basilica, Roman basilica]
• berserker 0
  n 1: one of the ancient Norse warriors legendary for working themselves into a frenzy before a battle and fighting with reckless savagery and insane fury [syn: berserker, berserk]
• blah 0
  n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]
• bourgeois 0
  adj 1: (according to Marxist thought) being of the property- owning class and exploitive of the working class 2: conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class; "a bourgeois mentality" [syn: bourgeois, conservative, materialistic] 3: belonging to the middle class n 1: a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise [syn: businessperson, bourgeois] 2: a member of the middle class [syn: bourgeois, burgher]
• bra 0
  n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts [syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]
• caseworker 0
  n 1: someone employed to provide social services (especially to the disadvantaged) [syn: social worker, caseworker, welfare worker]
• erotica 0
  n 1: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut]
• fieldworker 0
  n 1: a researcher who works in the field
• ha 0
  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]
• harmonica 0
  n 1: a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole [syn: harmonica, mouth organ, harp, mouth harp]
• hurrah 0
  n 1: a victory cheer; "let's give the team a big hurrah" [syn: hurrah, hooray] v 1: shout `hurrah!'
• japonica 0
  n 1: greenhouse shrub with glossy green leaves and showy fragrant rose-like flowers; cultivated in many varieties [syn: japonica, Camellia japonica] 2: deciduous thorny shrub native to Japan having red blossoms [syn: japonica, maule's quince, Chaenomeles japonica]
• jerker 0
  n 1: someone who gives a strong sudden pull [syn: yanker, jerker]
• la 0
  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]
• law 0
  n 1: the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" [syn: law, jurisprudence] 2: legal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity; "there is a law against kidnapping" 3: a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society [syn: law, natural law] 4: a generalization that describes recurring facts or events in nature; "the laws of thermodynamics" [syn: law, law of nature] 5: the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do [syn: jurisprudence, law, legal philosophy] 6: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate study in a law school and that is responsible for the judicial system; "he studied law at Yale" [syn: law, practice of law] 7: the force of policemen and officers; "the law came looking for him" [syn: police, police force, constabulary, law]
• ma 0
  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]
• majolica 0
  n 1: highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide [syn: majolica, maiolica]
• massacre 0
  n 1: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery] v 1: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [syn: massacre, slaughter, mow down]
• metalworker 0
  n 1: someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable) [syn: smith, metalworker]
• mineworker 0
  n 1: laborer who works in a mine [syn: miner, mineworker]
• moniker 0
  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]
• pa 0
  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]
• paprika 0
  n 1: plant bearing large mild thick-walled usually bell-shaped fruits; the principal salad peppers [syn: sweet pepper, bell pepper, pimento, pimiento, paprika, sweet pepper plant, Capsicum annuum grossum] 2: a mild powdered seasoning made from dried pimientos
• pasha 0
  n 1: a civil or military authority in Turkey or Egypt [syn: pasha, pacha]
• picnicker 0
  n 1: a person who is picnicking [syn: picnicker, picknicker]
• raw 0
  adj 1: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: natural, raw(a), rude(a)] 2: having the surface exposed and painful; "a raw wound" 3: not treated with heat to prepare it for eating [ant: cooked] 4: not processed or refined; "raw sewage" 5: devoid of elaboration or diminution or concealment; bare and pure; "naked ambition"; "raw fury"; "you may kill someone someday with your raw power" [syn: naked, raw] 6: brutally unfair or harsh; "received raw treatment from his friends"; "a raw deal" 7: not processed or subjected to analysis; "raw data"; "the raw cost of production"; "only the crude vital statistics" [syn: crude, raw] 8: untempered and unrefined; "raw talent"; "raw beauty" 9: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: sensitive, sore, raw, tender] 10: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" [syn: bleak, cutting, raw] 11: used of wood and furniture; "raw wood" [syn: raw(a), unsanded] 12: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new] 13: (used informally) completely unclothed [syn: bare-assed, bare-ass, in the altogether, in the buff, in the raw, raw, peeled, naked as a jaybird, stark naked] n 1: informal terms for nakedness; "in the raw"; "in the altogether"; "in his birthday suit" [syn: raw, altogether, birthday suit]
• replica 0
  n 1: copy that is not the original; something that has been copied [syn: replica, replication, reproduction]
• sciatica 0
  n 1: neuralgia along the sciatic nerve
• shah 0
  n 1: title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran [syn: Shah, Shah of Iran]
• silica 0
  n 1: a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite [syn: silica, silicon oxide, silicon dioxide]
• spa 0
  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]
• spinnaker 0
  n 1: a large and usually triangular headsail; carried by a yacht as a headsail when running before the wind
• steelworker 0
  n 1: a worker engaged in making steel [syn: steelmaker, steelworker, steelman]
• stomacher 0
  n 1: garment consisting of a V-shaped panel of stiff material worn over the chest and stomach in the 16th century
• swastika 0
  n 1: the official emblem of the Nazi Party and the Third Reich; a cross with the arms bent at right angles in a clockwise direction [syn: swastika, Hakenkreuz]
• tearjerker 0
  n 1: an excessively sentimental narrative
• trafficker 0
  n 1: someone who promotes or exchanges goods or services for money [syn: seller, marketer, vender, vendor, trafficker]
• tunica 0
  n 1: an enveloping or covering membrane or layer of body tissue [syn: tunic, tunica, adventitia]
• woodworker 0
  n 1: makes things out of wood [syn: woodworker, woodsman, woodman]
• worker 0
  n 1: a person who works at a specific occupation; "he is a good worker" [ant: nonworker] 2: a member of the working class (not necessarily employed); "workers of the world--unite!" [syn: proletarian, prole, worker] 3: sterile member of a colony of social insects that forages for food and cares for the larvae 4: a person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker" [syn: actor, doer, worker]
• shirker 0
  n 1: a person who shirks his work or duty (especially one who tries to evade military service in wartime) [syn: slacker, shirker]
• smirker 0
  n 1: a smiler whose smile is offensively self-satisfied
• ca 0
  n 1: a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals [syn: calcium, Ca, atomic number 20] 2: a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes [syn: California, Golden State, CA, Calif.]
• ka 0
  n 1: unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma
• na 0
  n 1: a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt) [syn: sodium, Na, atomic number 11]
• ra 0
  n 1: an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores [syn: radium, Ra, atomic number 88] 2: ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the king of the gods [syn: Ra, Re] 3: (astronomy) the equatorial coordinate specifying the angle, measured eastward along the celestial equator, from the vernal equinox to the intersection of the hour circle that passes through an object in the sky; usually expressed in hours and minutes and seconds; used with declination to specify positions on the celestial sphere; "one hour of right ascension equals fifteen degrees" [syn: right ascension, RA, celestial longitude]
• ta 0
  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]
• wa 0
  n 1: a state in northwestern United States on the Pacific [syn: Washington, Evergreen State, WA]
• artois 0
  n 1: a former province of northern France near the English Channel (between Picardy and Flanders)
• attica 0
  n 1: the territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken
• africa 0
  n 1: the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean
• america 0
  n 1: North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 [syn: United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.] 2: North America and South America and Central America
• angelica 0
  n 1: any of various tall and stout herbs of the genus Angelica having pinnately compound leaves and small white or greenish flowers in compound umbels [syn: angelica, angelique] 2: candied stalks of the angelica plant 3: aromatic stems or leaves or roots of Angelica Archangelica
• antarctica 0
  n 1: an extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to 13,000 feet deep; "Antarctica is twice the size of Australia" [syn: Antarctica, Antarctic continent]
• dominica 0
  n 1: a country on the island of Dominica [syn: Dominica, Commonwealth of Dominica] 2: a volcanic island in the Windward Islands that was once a stronghold of the Carib Indians
• erica 0
  n 1: any plant of the genus Erica [syn: erica, true heath]
• baedeker 0
  n 1: German publisher of a series of travel guidebooks (1801-1859) [syn: Baedeker, Karl Baedeker] 2: any of a series of travel guidebooks published by the German firm founded by Karl Baedeker
• mazurka 0
  n 1: music composed for dancing the mazurka 2: a Polish national dance in triple time
• vesica 0
  n 1: a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas) [syn: bladder, vesica]
• veronica 0
  n 1: any plant of the genus Veronica [syn: veronica, speedwell]
• hanukkah 0
  n 1: (Judaism) an eight-day Jewish holiday commemorating the rededication of the Temple of Jerusalem in 165 BC [syn: Hanukkah, Hanukah, Hannukah, Chanukah, Chanukkah, Channukah, Channukkah, Festival of Lights, Feast of Lights, Feast of Dedication, Feast of the Dedication]
• corsica 0
  n 1: an island in the Mediterranean; with adjacent islets it constitutes a region of France [syn: Corse, Corsica] 2: a region of France on the island of Corsica; birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte [syn: Corse, Corsica]
• areca 0
  n 1: any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts
• perestroika 0
  n 1: an economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy
• ithaca 0
  n 1: a college town in central New York on Lake Cayuga 2: a Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king [syn: Ithaca, Ithaki]
• seneca 0
  n 1: Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD) [syn: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca] 2: a member of the Iroquoian people formerly living in New York State south of Lake Ontario 3: the Iroquoian language spoken by the Seneca
• burka 0
  n 1: a loose garment (usually with veiled holes for the eyes) worn by Muslim women especially in India and Pakistan; "the Taliban forced all women to wear the burqa" [syn: burqa, burka]
• brassica 0
  n 1: mustards: cabbages; cauliflowers; turnips; etc. [syn: Brassica, genus Brassica]
• maiolica 0
  n 1: highly decorated earthenware with a glaze of tin oxide [syn: majolica, maiolica]
• ah 0
• aha 0
• bah 0
• circa 0
• exotica 0
• hah 0
• qua 0
• rah 0
• stoneworker 0
• yah 0
• cha 0
• gras 0
• nah 0
• ya 0
• ahh 0
• bandaranaike 0
• autoworker 0
• boudicca 0
• monica 0
• santonica 0
• manuka 0
• eroica 0
• jessica 0
• farmworker 0
• homeworker 0
• networker 0
• guernica 0

See also gurkha definition