Words that rhyme with lava

  • carver
    n 1: United States botanist and agricultural chemist who developed many uses for peanuts and soy beans and sweet potatoes (1864-1943) [syn: Carver, George Washington Carver] 2: makes decorative wooden panels [syn: woodcarver, carver] 3: an artist who creates sculptures [syn: sculptor, sculpturer, carver, statue maker] 4: someone who carves the meat [syn: cutter, carver]
  • balaclava
    n 1: a cap that is close-fitting and woolen and covers all of the head but the face [syn: balaclava, balaclava helmet]
  • cadaver
    n 1: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains]
  • cassava
    n 1: a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics [syn: cassava, cassava starch, manioc, manioca] 2: cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca [syn: cassava, manioc] 3: any of several plants of the genus Manihot having fleshy roots yielding a nutritious starch [syn: cassava, casava]
  • genre
    n 1: a kind of literary or artistic work 2: a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style, literary genre, genre] 3: an expressive style of music [syn: music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style] 4: a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
  • guava
    n 1: small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit [syn: guava, strawberry guava, yellow cattley guava, Psidium littorale] 2: small tropical American shrubby tree; widely cultivated in warm regions for its sweet globular yellow fruit [syn: guava, true guava, guava bush, Psidium guajava] 3: tropical fruit having yellow skin and pink pulp; eaten fresh or used for e.g. jellies
  • java
    n 1: an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions 2: a beverage consisting of an infusion of ground coffee beans; "he ordered a cup of coffee" [syn: coffee, java] 3: a platform-independent object-oriented programming language
  • kava
    n 1: an alcoholic drink made from the aromatic roots of the kava shrub [syn: kava, kavakava]
  • larva
    n 1: the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
  • palaver
    n 1: flattery intended to persuade [syn: blandishment, cajolery, palaver] 2: loud and confused and empty talk; "mere rhetoric" [syn: palaver, hot air, empty words, empty talk, rhetoric] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble] 2: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along" [syn: wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk, inveigle] 3: have a lengthy discussion, usually between people of different backgrounds
  • woodcarver
    n 1: makes decorative wooden panels [syn: woodcarver, carver]
  • costa
    n 1: a riblike part of a plant or animal (such as a middle rib of a leaf or a thickened vein of an insect wing) 2: any of the 12 pairs of curved arches of bone extending from the spine to or toward the sternum in humans (and similar bones in most vertebrates) [syn: rib, costa]
  • bratislava
    n 1: capital and largest city of Slovakia [syn: Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, Pressburg, Pozsony]
  • asha
  • actava
  • bava
  • cava
  • fava
  • sava
  • gustava
  • lacava
  • brattaslava
  • piassava
  • brava

See also lava definition