Words that rhyme with leonie

n 1: any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior [syn: abalone, ear-shell]

n 1: an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" [syn: native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal] 2: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Aborigine, Abo, Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine]

v 1: be present or associated with an event or entity; "French fries come with the hamburger"; "heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of heart tissue"; "fish usually goes with white wine"; "this kind of vein accompanies certain arteries" [syn: attach to, accompany, come with, go with] 2: go or travel along with; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere" 3: perform an accompaniment to; "The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano" [syn: play along, accompany, follow] 4: be a companion to somebody [syn: company, companion, accompany, keep company]

n 1: a rough and bitter manner [syn: bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness]

n 1: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn: agony, torment, torture] 2: a state of acute pain [syn: agony, suffering, excruciation]

n 1: court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated [syn: alimony, maintenance]

n 1: showing characteristics of both sexes [syn: androgyny, hermaphroditism, bisexuality]

n 1: any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves [syn: anemone, windflower] 2: marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton [syn: sea anemone, anemone]

n 1: alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts 2: a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response [syn: antiphon, antiphony]

adv 1: to any degree or extent; "it isn't any better" adj 1: one or some or every or all without specification; "give me any peaches you don't want"; "not any milk is left"; "any child would know that"; "pick any card"; "any day now"; "cars can be rented at almost any airport"; "at twilight or any other time"; "beyond any doubt"; "need any help we can get"; "give me whatever peaches you don't want"; "no milk whatsoever is left" [syn: any(a), whatever, whatsoever]

n 1: an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium 2: a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet

n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]

n 1: the estate of a baron 2: the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness [syn: baronetcy, barony] 3: the domain of a baron

n 1: small usually scaleless fishes with comb-like teeth living about rocky shores; are territorial and live in holes between rocks [syn: blenny, combtooth blenny]

n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]

adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] 2: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: osseous, osteal, bony] 3: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" [syn: bony, boney] [ant: boneless]

n 1: all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation, flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology] 2: the branch of biology that studies plants [syn: botany, phytology]

n 1: a loud harsh or strident noise [syn: blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor, din] 2: loud confusing disagreeable sounds

n 1: tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese

adj 1: designed to sell quickly without concern for quality; "catchpenny ornaments"

n 1: a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor" [syn: ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance] 2: any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony" 3: the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony"

n 1: a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz [syn: chalcedony, calcedony]

n 1: a guide who conducts and informs sightseers

n 1: a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris" [syn: colony, settlement] 2: a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together 3: one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States 4: a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony" 5: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country [syn: colony, dependency] 6: (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell

n 1: translucent brittle substance produced from pine oleoresin; used especially in varnishes and inks and on the bows of stringed instruments

n 1: an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage" 2: small military unit; usually two or three platoons 3: the state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends" [syn: company, companionship, fellowship, society] 4: organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel" [syn: company, troupe] 5: a social or business visitor; "the room was a mess because he hadn't expected company" [syn: caller, company] 6: a social gathering of guests or companions; "the house was filled with company when I arrived" 7: a band of people associated temporarily in some activity; "they organized a party to search for food"; "the company of cooks walked into the kitchen" [syn: party, company] 8: crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship [syn: ship's company, company] 9: a unit of firefighters including their equipment; "a hook- and-ladder company" v 1: be a companion to somebody [syn: company, companion, accompany, keep company]

n 1: the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe [syn: cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogeny]

adj 1: resembling cotton; as soft as cotton

n 1: a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick]

adj 1: softened by the addition of cushions or padding [syn: cushioned, cushiony, padded]

n 1: an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future [syn: destiny, fate] 2: the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny" [syn: destiny, fate] 3: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]

n 1: a lack of harmony [syn: disharmony, inharmoniousness]

n 1: Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather [syn: fraxinella, dittany, burning bush, gas plant, Dictamnus alba]

n 1: a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson [syn: dominus, dominie, domine, dominee]

adj 1: of a very dark black [syn: ebon, ebony] n 1: a very dark black [syn: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black] 2: hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys 3: tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork [syn: ebony, ebony tree, Diospyros ebenum]

n 1: a divine manifestation 2: twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus [syn: Epiphany, Epiphany of Our Lord, Twelfth day, Three Kings' Day, January 6]

n 1: any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes" [syn: music, euphony]

n 1: a serious crime (such as murder or arson)

adj 1: used of nail size; 1 3/8 in or 3.8 cm long

n 1: habitual eating to excess 2: eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: gluttony, overeating, gula]

n 1: compatibility in opinion and action [syn: harmony, harmoniousness] 2: the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords [syn: harmony, musical harmony] 3: a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole [syn: harmony, concord, concordance] 4: agreement of opinions [syn: harmony, concord, concordance] 5: an agreeable sound property [ant: dissonance]

n 1: the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others; "the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation"; "to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony"; "the consolidation of the United States' hegemony over a new international economic system"

n 1: hulled corn with the bran and germ removed

n 1: (biology) similarity because of common evolution

n 1: the same pronunciation for words of different origins 2: part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style)

n 1: a state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison" [syn: shame, disgrace, ignominy]

n 1: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"-- Jonathan Swift [syn: sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark] 2: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" 3: a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

n 1: United States architect who designed the first skyscraper in which a metal skeleton was used (1832-1907) [syn: Jenny, William Le Baron Jenny] 2: female donkey [syn: jennet, jenny, jenny ass]

n 1: the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing]

adj 1: tasting sour like a lemon [syn: lemony, lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart]

n 1: any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures" 2: a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation

n 1: a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms; "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" 2: pasta in the form of slender tubes

n 1: wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture 2: any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish [syn: mahogany, mahogany tree] 3: a shade of brown with a tinge of red [syn: reddish brown, sepia, burnt sienna, Venetian red, mahogany]

adj 1: a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number; "many temptations"; "the temptations are many"; "a good many"; "a great many"; "many directions"; "take as many apples as you like"; "too many clouds to see"; "never saw so many people" [ant: few]

n 1: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn: marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock] 2: the ceremony or sacrament of marriage

n 1: soup made with a variety of vegetables [syn: petite marmite, minestrone, vegetable soup]

n 1: a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" [syn: assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley] 2: an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. [syn: florilegium, garland, miscellany]

n 1: hatred of women [syn: misogyny, misogynism] [ant: philogyny]

n 1: having only one wife at a time

n 1: the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served" [syn: monotony, humdrum, sameness] 2: constancy of tone or pitch or inflection

n 1: open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers) v 1: engage in a mutiny against an authority

n 1: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" [syn: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment]

n 1: extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily [syn: parsimony, parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching] 2: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness]

n 1: a church endowment 2: an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) [syn: birthright, patrimony]

n 1: a fractional monetary unit of Ireland and the United Kingdom; equal to one hundredth of a pound 2: a coin worth one-hundredth of the value of the basic unit [syn: penny, cent, centime]

n 1: any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers [syn: peony, paeony]

n 1: a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage)

adj 1: fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: bogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastard] n 1: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives [syn: hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender]

n 1: (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms [syn: evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis]

adv 1: as much as necessary; "Have I eaten enough?"; (`plenty' is nonstandard) "I've had plenty, thanks" [syn: enough, plenty] n 1: a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone" [syn: plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude] 2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]

n 1: music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments [syn: polyphony, polyphonic music, concerted music] [ant: monody, monophonic music, monophony]

n 1: a range horse of the western United States 2: an informal term for a racehorse; "he liked to bet on the ponies" 3: a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) [syn: pony, trot, crib] 4: a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey [syn: shot glass, jigger, pony] 5: any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder

n 1: the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue" [syn: offspring, progeny, issue]

n 1: tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces

n 1: the quality of being hypocritically devout [syn: sanctimoniousness, sanctimony]

adj 1: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters" [syn: satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick]

n 1: the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) [syn: examination, scrutiny] 2: a prolonged intense look

n 1: traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments [syn: simony, barratry]

adj 1: of trifling worth [syn: sixpenny, threepenny, twopenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny- halfpenny]

n 1: reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound [syn: stereo, stereophony, stereo system, stereophonic system]

adj 1: abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" [syn: rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony] 2: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony] 3: hard as granite; "a granitic fist" [syn: granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony]

n 1: a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra [syn: symphony, symphonic music] 2: a large orchestra; can perform symphonies; "we heard the Vienna symphony" [syn: symphony orchestra, symphony, philharmonic]

n 1: the relation that exists when things occur at the same time; "the drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves" [syn: synchronism, synchrony, synchronicity, synchroneity, synchronization, synchronisation, synchronizing] [ant: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing]

n 1: transmitting speech at a distance [syn: telephone, telephony]

n 1: a solemn statement made under oath 2: an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact; "according to his own testimony he can't do it" 3: something that serves as evidence; "his effort was testimony to his devotion" [syn: testimony, testimonial]

n 1: United States artist who developed Tiffany glass (1848-1933) [syn: Tiffany, Louis Comfort Tiffany]

n 1: a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it [syn: kettle, kettledrum, tympanum, tympani, timpani]

n 1: a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner [syn: tournament, tourney] v 1: engage in a tourney

adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units [syn: twenty, 20, xx] n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of nineteen and one [syn: twenty, 20, XX] 2: a United States bill worth 20 dollars [syn: twenty dollar bill, twenty]

n 1: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny] 2: dominance through threat of punishment and violence [syn: absolutism, tyranny, despotism]

n 1: the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior [syn: villainy, villainousness] 2: a criminal or vicious act

n 1: light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled [syn: zabaglione, sabayon]

n 1: black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins [syn: coney, Epinephelus fulvus] 2: any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes [syn: hyrax, coney, cony, dassie, das] 3: small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America [syn: pika, mouse hare, rock rabbit, coney, cony] 4: any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food [syn: rabbit, coney, cony]

n 1: East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil [syn: sesame, benne, benni, benny, Sesamum indicum] 2: United States comedian known for his timeing and delivery and self-effacing humor (1894-1974) [syn: Benny, Jack Benny, Benjamin Kubelsky]

n 1: the basic unit of money in Paraguay; equal to 100 centimos 2: a member of the South American people living in Paraguay and Bolivia 3: the language spoken by the Guarani of Paraguay and Bolivia

n 1: Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937) [syn: Marconi, Guglielmo Marconi]

n 1: a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States [syn: Shoshone, Shoshoni] 2: the language spoken by the Shoshone (belonging to the Uto- Aztecan family)

n 1: having more than one wife at a time

n 1: the capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy to the east of the Apennines 2: large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork [syn: bologna, Bologna sausage]

n 1: Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813) [syn: Bodoni, Gianbattista Bodoni] 2: a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes [syn: modern, modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font] [ant: old style, old style font]