Words that rhyme with levee

• bevy 0
  n 1: a large gathering of people of a particular type; "he was surrounded by a bevy of beauties in bathing attire"; "a bevy of young beach boys swarmed around him" 2: a flock of birds (especially when gathered close together on the ground); "we were visited at breakfast by a bevy of excited ducks"
• convey 0
  v 1: make known; pass on, of information; "She conveyed the message to me" 2: serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger" [syn: carry, convey, express] 3: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey, transmit, communicate] 4: transmit a title or property 5: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel] 6: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" [syn: bring, convey, take] 7: go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" [syn: bring, get, convey, fetch] [ant: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away]
• duvet 0
  n 1: a soft quilt usually filled with the down of the eider [syn: eiderdown, duvet, continental quilt]
• envy 0
  n 1: a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another [syn: envy, enviousness] 2: spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: envy, invidia] v 1: feel envious towards; admire enviously 2: be envious of; set one's heart on [syn: envy, begrudge]
• heavy 0
  adv 1: slowly as if burdened by much weight; "time hung heavy on their hands" [syn: heavy, heavily] adj 1: of comparatively great physical weight or density; "a heavy load"; "lead is a heavy metal"; "heavy mahogany furniture" [ant: light] 2: unusually great in degree or quantity or number; "heavy taxes"; "a heavy fine"; "heavy casualties"; "heavy losses"; "heavy rain"; "heavy traffic" [ant: light] 3: of the military or industry; using (or being) the heaviest and most powerful armaments or weapons or equipment; "heavy artillery"; "heavy infantry"; "a heavy cruiser"; "heavy guns"; "heavy industry involves large-scale production of basic products (such as steel) used by other industries" [ant: light] 4: marked by great psychological weight; weighted down especially with sadness or troubles or weariness; "a heavy heart"; "a heavy schedule"; "heavy news"; "a heavy silence"; "heavy eyelids" [ant: light] 5: usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it [syn: fleshy, heavy, overweight] 6: (used of soil) compact and fine-grained; "the clayey soil was heavy and easily saturated" [syn: clayey, cloggy, heavy] 7: darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" [syn: heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening] 8: of great intensity or power or force; "a heavy blow"; "the fighting was heavy"; "heavy seas" [ant: light] 9: (physics, chemistry) being or containing an isotope with greater than average atomic mass or weight; "heavy hydrogen"; "heavy water" [ant: light] 10: (of an actor or role) being or playing the villain; "Iago is the heavy role in `Othello'" 11: permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" [syn: dense, heavy, impenetrable] 12: of relatively large extent and density; "a heavy line" 13: made of fabric having considerable thickness; "a heavy coat" 14: prodigious; "big spender"; "big eater"; "heavy investor" [syn: big(a), heavy(a)] 15: full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice" [syn: heavy, sonorous] 16: given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker" [syn: intemperate, hard, heavy] 17: of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" [syn: grave, grievous, heavy, weighty] 18: slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn" [syn: heavy, lumbering, ponderous] 19: large and powerful; especially designed for heavy loads or rough work; "a heavy truck"; "heavy machinery" 20: dense or inadequately leavened and hence likely to cause distress in the alimentary canal; "a heavy pudding" 21: sharply inclined; "a heavy grade" 22: full of; bearing great weight; "trees heavy with fruit"; "vines weighed down with grapes" [syn: heavy, weighed down] 23: requiring or showing effort; "heavy breathing"; "the subject made for labored reading" [syn: heavy, labored, laboured] 24: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome] 25: lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation" [syn: heavy, leaden] 26: (of sleep) deep and complete; "a heavy sleep"; "fell into a profound sleep"; "a sound sleeper"; "deep wakeless sleep" [syn: heavy, profound, sound, wakeless] 27: in an advanced stage of pregnancy; "was big with child"; "was great with child" [syn: big(p), enceinte, expectant, gravid, great(p), large(p), heavy(p), with child(p)] n 1: an actor who plays villainous roles 2: a serious (or tragic) role in a play
• inveigh 0
  v 1: complain bitterly [syn: rail, inveigh] 2: speak against in an impassioned manner; "he declaimed against the wasteful ways of modern society" [syn: declaim, inveigh]
• levy 0
  n 1: a charge imposed and collected 2: the act of drafting into military service [syn: levy, levy en masse] v 1: impose and collect; "levy a fine" [syn: levy, impose] 2: cause to assemble or enlist in the military; "raise an army"; "recruit new soldiers" [syn: recruit, levy, raise]
• pave 0
  n 1: a setting with precious stones so closely set that no metal shows v 1: cover with a material such as stone or concrete to make suitable for vehicle traffic; "pave the roads in the village"
• purvey 0
  v 1: supply with provisions [syn: provision, purvey]
• survey 0
  n 1: a detailed critical inspection [syn: survey, study] 2: short descriptive summary (of events) [syn: sketch, survey, resume] 3: the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited" [syn: view, survey, sight] v 1: consider in a comprehensive way; "He appraised the situation carefully before acting" [syn: survey, appraise] 2: look over carefully or inspect; "He surveyed his new classmates" 3: keep under surveillance; "The police had been following him for weeks but they could not prove his involvement in the bombing" [syn: surveil, follow, survey] 4: hold a review (of troops) [syn: review, go over, survey] 5: make a survey of; for statistical purposes 6: plot a map of (land)
• top-heavy 0
  adj 1: unstable by being overloaded at the top
• very 0
  adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling] 2: precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite" adj 1: precisely as stated; "the very center of town" 2: being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" [syn: identical, selfsame(a), very(a)]
• levi 0
  n 1: (New Testament) disciple of Jesus; traditionally considered to be the author of the first Gospel [syn: Matthew, Saint Matthew, St. Matthew, Saint Matthew the Apostle, St. Matthew the Apostle, Levi]
• neve 0
  n 1: the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice
• humvee 0
  n 1: a high mobility, multipurpose, military vehicle with four- wheel drive [syn: Humvee, Hum-Vee]
• corvee 0
  n 1: unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
• champleve 0
  adj 1: (for metals) having areas separated by metal and filled with colored enamel and fired [syn: champleve, cloisonne]
• resurvey 0
  n 1: a new survey or study
• solvay 0
  n 1: Belgian chemist who developed the Solvay process and built factories exploiting it (1838-1922) [syn: Solvay, Ernest Solvay]
• chevy 0
  v 1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]
• breathy 0
• beauvais 0
• mcvay 0
• mcvey 0
• ave 0
• chevet 0
• cuvee 0
• releve 0
• tevye 0
• vevey 0
• steffi 0
• replevy 0

See also levee definition and levee synonyms