Words that rhyme with hirota

n 1: all the plant and animal life of a particular region [syn: biota, biology]

n 1: spots before the eyes caused by opaque cell fragments in the vitreous humor and lens; "floaters seem to drift through the field of vision" [syn: musca volitans, muscae volitantes, floater, spots] 2: a debt instrument with a variable interest rate tied to some other interest rate (e.g. the rate paid by T-bills) 3: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond] 4: an employee who is reassigned from job to job as needed 5: a voter who votes illegally at different polling places in the same election 6: a swimmer who floats in the water 7: an object that floats or is capable of floating 8: an insurance policy covering loss of movable property (e.g. jewelry) regardless of its location [syn: floater, floating policy]

n 1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge] 2: the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet

adj 1: conveying information to the muscles from the CNS; "motor nerves" [syn: centrifugal, motor(a)] 2: causing or able to cause motion; "a motive force"; "motive power"; "motor energy" [syn: motive(a), motor] n 1: machine that converts other forms of energy into mechanical energy and so imparts motion 2: a nonspecific agent that imparts motion; "happiness is the aim of all men and the motor of all action" v 1: travel or be transported in a vehicle; "We drove to the university every morning"; "They motored to London for the theater" [syn: drive, motor]

adj 1: indicating the first or earliest or original; "`proto' is a combining form in a word like `protolanguage' that refers to the hypothetical ancestor of another language or group of languages"

n 1: a prescribed number; "all the salesmen met their quota for the month" 2: a proportional share assigned to each participant 3: a limitation on imports; "the quota for Japanese imports was negotiated"

n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) the supreme ecclesiastical tribunal for cases appealed to the Holy See from diocesan courts 2: a roster of names showing the order in which people should perform certain duties

n 1: a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux 2: the area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota 3: the Siouan language spoken by the Dakota

n 1: a member of the large western branch of Sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains [syn: Teton, Lakota, Teton Sioux, Teton Dakota]

n 1: an industrial city of Japan in southern Honshu

n 1: a midwestern state [syn: Minnesota, Gopher State, North Star State, MN]

n 1: a town in west central Florida on the Gulf of Mexico