Words that rhyme with leech

• beach 0
  n 1: an area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake v 1: land on a beach; "the ship beached near the port"
• beech 0
  n 1: any of several large deciduous trees with rounded spreading crowns and smooth grey bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts enclosed in burs; north temperate regions [syn: beech, beech tree] 2: wood of any of various beech trees; used for flooring and containers and plywood and tool handles [syn: beech, beechwood]
• beseech 0
  v 1: ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons" [syn: bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure]
• bleach 0
  n 1: the whiteness that results from removing the color from something; "a complete bleach usually requires several applications" 2: an agent that makes things white or colorless [syn: bleaching agent, bleach, blanching agent, whitener] 3: the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent) v 1: remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt" [syn: bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise] 2: make whiter or lighter; "bleach the laundry"
• breach 0
  n 1: a failure to perform some promised act or obligation 2: an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification) 3: a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" [syn: rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out] v 1: act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise" [syn: transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break] [ant: keep, observe] 2: make an opening or gap in [syn: gap, breach]
• breech 0
  n 1: opening in the rear of the barrel of a gun where bullets can be loaded [syn: breech, rear of barrel, rear of tube]
• each 0
  adv 1: to or from every one of two or more (considered individually); "they received $10 each" [syn: each, to each one, for each one, from each one, apiece] adj 1: (used of count nouns) every one considered individually; "each person is mortal"; "each party is welcome"
• horseleech 0
  n 1: any of several large freshwater leeches
• impeach 0
  v 1: challenge the honesty or veracity of; "the lawyers tried to impeach the credibility of the witnesses" 2: charge (a public official) with an offense or misdemeanor committed while in office; "The President was impeached" 3: bring an accusation against; level a charge against; "The neighbors accused the man of spousal abuse" [syn: accuse, impeach, incriminate, criminate]
• leach 0
  n 1: the process of leaching [syn: leach, leaching] v 1: cause (a liquid) to leach or percolate 2: permeate or penetrate gradually; "the fertilizer leached into the ground" [syn: leach, percolate] 3: remove substances from by a percolating liquid; "leach the soil" [syn: leach, strip]
• outreach 0
  n 1: the act of reaching out; "the outreach toward truth of the human spirit"
• overreach 0
  v 1: fail by aiming too high or trying too hard 2: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" [syn: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent]
• peach 0
  n 1: cultivated in temperate regions [syn: peach, peach tree, Prunus persica] 2: a very attractive or seductive looking woman [syn: smasher, stunner, knockout, beauty, ravisher, sweetheart, peach, lulu, looker, mantrap, dish] 3: downy juicy fruit with sweet yellowish or whitish flesh 4: a shade of pink tinged with yellow [syn: yellowish pink, apricot, peach, salmon pink] v 1: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful-- his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth]
• preach 0
  v 1: deliver a sermon; "The minister is not preaching this Sunday" [syn: preach, prophesy] 2: speak, plead, or argue in favor of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house" [syn: preach, advocate]
• reach 0
  n 1: the limits within which something can be effective; "range of motion"; "he was beyond the reach of their fire" [syn: range, reach] 2: an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" [syn: scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit] 3: the act of physically reaching or thrusting out [syn: reach, reaching, stretch] 4: the limit of capability; "within the compass of education" [syn: compass, range, reach, grasp] v 1: reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" [syn: reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain] 2: reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour" [syn: reach, hit, attain] 3: move forward or upward in order to touch; also in a metaphorical sense; "Government reaches out to the people" [syn: reach, reach out] 4: be in or establish communication with; "Our advertisements reach millions"; "He never contacted his children after he emigrated to Australia" [syn: reach, get through, get hold of, contact] 5: to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks" [syn: achieve, accomplish, attain, reach] 6: to extend as far as; "The sunlight reached the wall"; "Can he reach?" "The chair must not touch the wall" [syn: reach, extend to, touch] 7: reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!"; "She may not make the grade" [syn: reach, make, get to, progress to] 8: place into the hands or custody of; "hand me the spoon, please"; "Turn the files over to me, please"; "He turned over the prisoner to his lawyers" [syn: pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give] 9: to exert much effort or energy; "straining our ears to hear" [syn: strive, reach, strain]
• screech 0
  n 1: a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes" [syn: screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking, scream, screaming] 2: sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors" [syn: scream, screaming, shriek, shrieking, screech, screeching] v 1: make a high-pitched, screeching noise; "The door creaked when I opened it slowly"; "My car engine makes a whining noise" [syn: whine, squeak, screech, creak, screak, skreak] 2: utter a harsh abrupt scream [syn: squawk, screak, skreak, skreigh, screech]
• speech 0
  n 1: the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets" [syn: address, speech] 2: (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets" [syn: speech, speech communication, spoken communication, spoken language, language, voice communication, oral communication] 3: something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry speeches" 4: the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech" 5: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" [syn: manner of speaking, speech, delivery] 6: a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" [syn: lecture, speech, talking to] 7: words making up the dialogue of a play; "the actor forgot his speech" [syn: actor's line, speech, words] 8: the mental faculty or power of vocal communication; "language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals" [syn: language, speech]
• teach 0
  n 1: an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) [syn: Teach, Edward Teach, Thatch, Edward Thatch, Blackbeard] v 1: impart skills or knowledge to; "I taught them French"; "He instructed me in building a boat" [syn: teach, learn, instruct] 2: accustom gradually to some action or attitude; "The child is taught to obey her parents"
• pleach 0
  v 1: form or weave into a braid or braids; "braid hair" [syn: braid, pleach] [ant: unbraid] 2: interlace the shoots of; "pleach a hedge" [syn: pleach, plash]
• unteach 0
  v 1: cause to disbelieve; teach someone the contrary of what he or she had learned earlier 2: cause to unlearn; "teach somebody to unlearn old habits or methods"
• creach 0
• creech 0
• inspeech 0
• cheech 0
• leitch 0
• meech 0
• piech 0
• pietsch 0
• veach 0
• veatch 0
• veech 0
• weech 0
• wiech 0
• misteach 0
• reteach 0

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