Words that rhyme with kurth

n 1: the placenta and fetal membranes that are expelled from the uterus after the baby is born

n 1: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation] 2: a place where a craft can be made fast [syn: mooring, moorage, berth, slip] 3: a bed on a ship or train; usually in tiers [syn: berth, bunk, built in bed] v 1: provide with a berth 2: secure in or as if in a berth or dock; "tie up the boat" [syn: moor, berth, tie up] 3: come into or dock at a wharf; "the big ship wharfed in the evening" [syn: moor, berth, wharf]

n 1: the time when something begins (especially life); "they divorced after the birth of the child"; "his election signaled the birth of a new age" [ant: death, demise, dying] 2: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" [syn: birth, nativity, nascency, nascence] [ant: death, decease, expiry] 3: the process of giving birth [syn: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing] 4: the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents [syn: parentage, birth] 5: a baby born; an offspring; "the overall rate of incidence of Down's syndrome is one in every 800 births" v 1: cause to be born; "My wife had twins yesterday!" [syn: give birth, deliver, bear, birth, have]

n 1: the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child [syn: childbirth, childbearing, accouchement, vaginal birth]

n 1: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine, shortage] 2: an insufficient quantity or number [syn: dearth, paucity]

n 1: the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on; "the Earth moves around the sun"; "he sailed around the world" [syn: Earth, earth, world, globe] 2: the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface; "they dug into the earth outside the church" [syn: earth, ground] 3: the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" [syn: land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma] 4: the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell); "it was hell on earth" [syn: Earth, earth] 5: once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles) 6: the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife; "they consider the church to be independent of the world" [syn: worldly concern, earthly concern, world, earth] 7: a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) [syn: ground, earth] v 1: hide in the earth like a hunted animal 2: connect to the earth; "earth the circuit"

n 1: English linguist who contributed to linguistic semantics and to prosodic phonology and who was noted for his insistence on studying both sound and meaning in context (1890-1960) [syn: Firth, J. R. Firth, John Rupert Firth] 2: a long narrow estuary (especially in Scotland)

n 1: the distance around a person's body 2: stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place [syn: cinch, girth] v 1: tie a cinch around; "cinch horses" [syn: cinch, girth]

n 1: great merriment [syn: hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, glee, gleefulness]

n 1: after death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body [syn: metempsychosis, rebirth] 2: a second or new birth [syn: reincarnation, rebirth, renascence] 3: the revival of learning and culture [syn: rebirth, Renaissance, Renascence] 4: a spiritual enlightenment causing a person to lead a new life [syn: conversion, rebirth, spiritual rebirth]

n 1: a natural loss of the products of conception [syn: spontaneous abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth] [ant: live birth]

v 1: bring to light; "The CIA unearthed a plot to kill the President" 2: recover through digging; "Schliemann excavated Troy"; "excavate gold" [syn: excavate, unearth]

adj 1: worthy of being treated in a particular way; "an idea worth considering"; "the deserving poor" (often used ironically) [syn: deserving, worth(p)] 2: having a specified value; "not worth his salt"; "worth her weight in gold" n 1: an indefinite quantity of something having a specified value; "10 dollars worth of gasoline" 2: the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful [ant: ineptitude, worthlessness] 3: French couturier (born in England) regarded as the founder of Parisian haute couture; noted for introducing the bustle (1825-1895) [syn: Worth, Charles Frederick Worth]

n 1: the state capital of Western Australia