Words that rhyme with leapt

v 1: consider or hold as true; "I cannot accept the dogma of this church"; "accept an argument" [ant: reject] 2: receive willingly something given or offered; "The only girl who would have him was the miller's daughter"; "I won't have this dog in my house!"; "Please accept my present" [syn: accept, take, have] [ant: decline, pass up, refuse, reject, turn down] 3: give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to; "I cannot accept your invitation"; "I go for this resolution" [syn: accept, consent, go for] [ant: decline, refuse] 4: react favorably to; consider right and proper; "People did not accept atonal music at that time"; "We accept the idea of universal health care" 5: admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" [syn: accept, admit, take, take on] 6: take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility" [syn: bear, take over, accept, assume] 7: tolerate or accommodate oneself to; "I shall have to accept these unpleasant working conditions"; "I swallowed the insult"; "She has learned to live with her husband's little idiosyncrasies" [syn: accept, live with, swallow] 8: be designed to hold or take; "This surface will not take the dye" [syn: accept, take] 9: receive (a report) officially, as from a committee 10: make use of or accept for some purpose; "take a risk"; "take an opportunity" [syn: take, accept] 11: be sexually responsive to, used of a female domesticated mammal; "The cow accepted the bull"

adj 1: having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching" [syn: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful, skilful] n 1: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz]

adj 1: used of hair [syn: backswept, sweptback]

n 1: an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances [syn: concept, conception, construct] [ant: misconception]

v 1: take exception to; "he demurred at my suggestion to work on Saturday" [syn: demur, except] 2: prevent from being included or considered or accepted; "The bad results were excluded from the report"; "Leave off the top piece" [syn: exclude, except, leave out, leave off, omit, take out] [ant: include]

adj 1: not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" [syn: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen] 2: generally incompetent and ineffectual; "feckless attempts to repair the plumbing"; "inept handling of the account" [syn: feckless, inept] 3: revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable" [syn: inept, tactless]

n 1: the point at which a line intersects a coordinate axis v 1: seize on its way; "The fighter plane was ordered to intercept an aircraft that had entered the country's airspace" [syn: intercept, stop] 2: tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?" [syn: wiretap, tap, intercept, bug]

adj 1: (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded; "unbroken promises"; "promises kept" [syn: unbroken, kept] [ant: broken, unkept]

n 1: the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a concept [syn: percept, perception, perceptual experience]

n 1: rule of personal conduct [syn: principle, precept] 2: a doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he believed all the Christian precepts" [syn: teaching, precept, commandment]

adj 1: possessing sweep; "the sleek swept wings of the plane" [ant: unswept]

n 1: structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles

adj 1: open to or swept by wind; "windswept headlands"

n 1: the month following August and preceding October [syn: September, Sep, Sept] 2: people descended from a common ancestor; "his family has lived in Massachusetts since the Mayflower" [syn: family, family line, folk, kinfolk, kinsfolk, sept, phratry]

adj 1: (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts" [syn: broken, unkept] [ant: kept, unbroken]

n 1: a person seized by nympholepsy

adj 1: not swept or having sweep; "a boxy little plane with square unswept wings" [ant: swept] 2: not having been swept; "unswept floors"