Words that rhyme with jemima

n 1: a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants 2: someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior [syn: social climber, climber] 3: someone who ascends on foot; "a solitary mounter of the staircase" [syn: mounter, climber] 4: someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains; "the lead climber looked strong still but his partner often slumped in his ropes" 5: an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing [syn: crampon, crampoon, climbing iron, climber]

n 1: (architecture) a molding for a cornice; in profile it is shaped like an S (partly concave and partly convex) [syn: cyma, cymatium]

n 1: an abnormal condition of the lungs marked by decreased respiratory function; associated with smoking or chronic bronchitis or old age [syn: emphysema, pulmonary emphysema]

adj 1: indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)] n 1: used primarily as eating apples

n 1: an introductory textbook 2: any igniter that is used to initiate the burning of a propellant [syn: fuse, fuze, fusee, fuzee, primer, priming] 3: the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface [syn: flat coat, ground, primer, priming, primer coat, priming coat, undercoat]

n 1: an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world [syn: schema, scheme] 2: a schematic or preliminary plan [syn: outline, schema, scheme]

n 1: a timepiece that measures a time interval and signals its end 2: (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed [syn: timekeeper, timer] 3: a regulator that activates or deactivates a mechanism at set times

n 1: an upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments [syn: wise guy, smart aleck, wiseacre, wisenheimer, weisenheimer]

n 1: an actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression [syn: mime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist]

n 1: a writer who composes rhymes; a maker of poor verses (usually used as terms of contempt for minor or inferior poets) [syn: rhymer, rhymester, versifier, poetizer, poetiser]

n 1: capital and largest city and economic center of Peru; located in western Peru; was capital of the Spanish empire in the New World until the 19th century [syn: Lima, capital of Peru]

n 1: a member of the North American Indian people living in southern Arizona and northern Mexico 2: the Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Pima

n 1: a narrow elongated opening or fissure between two symmetrical parts

n 1: rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium

n 1: a port city on the southwestern coast of Honshu in Japan; on August 6, 1945 Hiroshima was almost completely destroyed by the first atomic bomb dropped on a populated area

n 1: a compound whose molecules are composed of two identical monomers

n 1: United States physicist who directed the project at Los Alamos that developed the first atomic bomb (1904-1967) [syn: Oppenheimer, Robert Oppenheimer]

n 1: a polymer (or a molecule of a polymer) consisting of three identical monomers

n 1: someone who deceives a lover or spouse by carrying on a sexual relationship with somebody else 2: a person who says one thing and does another [syn: double- crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitor]