Words that rhyme with lavina

n 1: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" [syn: sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena] 2: the central area of an ancient Roman amphitheater where contests and spectacles were held; especially an area that was strewn with sand 3: a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments [syn: stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium] 4: a playing field where sports events take place [syn: arena, scene of action]

n 1: a female ballet dancer [syn: ballerina, danseuse]

n 1: a chain of connected ideas or passages or objects so arranged that each member is closely related to the preceding and following members (especially a series of patristic comments elucidating Christian dogma)

n 1: coiled barbed wire used as an obstacle 2: free-reed instrument played like an accordion by pushing its ends together to force air through the reeds v 1: collapse like a concertina

n 1: doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion [syn: hyena, hyaena]

n 1: a fancy dock for small yachts and cabin cruisers

n 1: a fine coating of oxide on the surface of a metal

n 1: milled product of durum wheat (or other hard wheat) used in pasta

n 1: a writ issued by court authority to compel the attendance of a witness at a judicial proceeding; disobedience may be punishable as a contempt of court [syn: subpoena, subpoena ad testificandum] v 1: serve or summon with a subpoena; "The witness and her records were subpoenaed"

n 1: a blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart; "all veins except the pulmonary vein carry unaerated blood" [syn: vein, vena, venous blood vessel]

n 1: any of numerous tropical or subtropical American plants of the genus Verbena grown for their showy spikes of variously colored flowers [syn: verbena, vervain]

n 1: a city in western Saudi Arabia; site of the tomb of Muhammad; the second most holy city of Islam [syn: Medina, Al Madinah] 2: the ancient quarter of many cities in northern Africa

n 1: the Babylonian goddess of the watery deep and daughter of Ea

n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva [syn: Athena, Athene, Pallas, Pallas Athena, Pallas Athene]

n 1: a cobwebby partial veil consisting of silky fibrils

n 1: a port city in northeastern Sicily on the Strait of Messina

n 1: the provincial capital of Saskatchewan

n 1: a town in central Kansas

n 1: pilchards [syn: Sardina, genus Sardina, genus Sardinia]

n 1: a republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America [syn: Argentina, Argentine Republic] 2: type genus of the Argentinidae: argentines [syn: Argentina, genus Argentina]

n 1: a port in southeastern Spain on the Mediterranean 2: a port city in northwestern Colombia on the Caribbean

n 1: a Romanian resort city on the Black Sea

n 1: a river that rises in the Andes mountains in southwestern Colombia and flows generally northward to empty into the Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla [syn: Magdalena, Magdalena River]

n 1: goddess of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Persephone [syn: Proserpina, Proserpine]

n 1: a Russian river in Siberia; flows northward into the Laptev Sea [syn: Lena, Lena River]

n 1: tropical Asian starlings [syn: myna, mynah, mina, minah, myna bird, mynah bird]