Words that rhyme with macklem

adj 1: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow] 2: temporarily incapable of speaking; "struck dumb"; "speechless with shock" [syn: speechless, dumb] 3: lacking the power of human speech; "dumb animals" 4: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb, mute, silent]

n 1: a preparation (usually made of sweetened chicle) for chewing [syn: chewing gum, gum] 2: the tissue (covered by mucous membrane) of the jaws that surrounds the bases of the teeth [syn: gingiva, gum] 3: any of various substances (soluble in water) that exude from certain plants; they are gelatinous when moist but harden on drying 4: cement consisting of a sticky substance that is used as an adhesive [syn: glue, gum, mucilage] 5: wood or lumber from any of various gum trees especially the sweet gum [syn: gumwood, gum] 6: any of various trees of the genera Eucalyptus or Liquidambar or Nyssa that are sources of gum [syn: gum tree, gum] v 1: cover, fill, fix or smear with or as if with gum; "if you gum the tape it is stronger" 2: grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food" [syn: mumble, gum] 3: become sticky 4: exude or form gum; "these trees gum in the Spring"

n 1: the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity; "they manifested all the busyness of a pack of beavers"; "there is a constant hum of military preparation" [syn: busyness, hum] 2: an Islamic fundamentalist group in Pakistan that fought the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the 1980s; now operates as a terrorist organization primarily in Kashmir and seeks Kashmir's accession by Pakistan [syn: Harkat-ul-Mujahidin, HUM, Harkat ul-Ansar, HUA, Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, Al Faran, Movement of Holy Warriors] 3: a humming noise; "the hum of distant traffic" [syn: hum, humming] v 1: sing with closed lips; "She hummed a melody" 2: be noisy with activity; "This office is buzzing with activity" [syn: hum, buzz, seethe] 3: sound with a monotonous hum [syn: hum, thrum] 4: make a low continuous sound; "The refrigerator is humming"

adj 1: failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent" [syn: mum, silent] n 1: of China [syn: florist's chrysanthemum, florists' chrysanthemum, mum, Dendranthema grandifloruom, Chrysanthemum morifolium] 2: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy] 3: secrecy; "mum's the word"

adj 1: lacking sensation; "my foot is asleep"; "numb with cold" [syn: asleep(p), benumbed, numb] 2: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)] 3: so frightened as to be unable to move; stunned or paralyzed with terror; petrified; "too numb with fear to move" v 1: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull]

n 1: a line on a sphere that cuts all meridians at the same angle; the path taken by a ship or plane that maintains a constant compass direction [syn: rhumb line, rhumb, loxodrome]

adj 1: beyond or deviating from the usual or expected; "a curious hybrid accent"; "her speech has a funny twang"; "they have some funny ideas about war"; "had an odd name"; "the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves"; "something definitely queer about this town"; "what a rum fellow"; "singular behavior" [syn: curious, funny, odd, peculiar, queer, rum, rummy, singular] n 1: liquor distilled from fermented molasses 2: a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards [syn: rummy, rum]

n 1: (rugby) the method of beginning play in which the forwards of each team crouch side by side with locked arms; play starts when the ball is thrown in between them and the two sides compete for possession [syn: scrum, scrummage]

n 1: worthless people [syn: trash, scum] 2: a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid v 1: remove the scum from

adv 1: (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct; "lasted approximately an hour"; "in just about a minute"; "he's about 30 years old"; "I've had about all I can stand"; "we meet about once a month"; "some forty people came"; "weighs around a hundred pounds"; "roughly $3,000"; "holds 3 gallons, more or less"; "20 or so people were at the party" [syn: approximately, about, close to, just about, some, roughly, more or less, around, or so] adj 1: quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity; "have some milk"; "some roses were still blooming"; "having some friends over"; "some apples"; "some paper" [ant: all(a), no(a)] 2: relatively much but unspecified in amount or extent; "we talked for some time"; "he was still some distance away" 3: relatively many but unspecified in number; "they were here for some weeks"; "we did not meet again for some years" 4: remarkable; "that was some party"; "she is some skier"

n 1: sound of strumming; "the strum of a guitar" v 1: sound the strings of (a string instrument); "strum a guitar" [syn: strum, thrum]

v 1: consent reluctantly [syn: yield, give in, succumb, knuckle under, buckle under] 2: be fatally overwhelmed [syn: succumb, yield] [ant: come through, make it, pull round, pull through, survive]

n 1: a quantity of money; "he borrowed a large sum"; "the amount he had in cash was insufficient" [syn: sum, sum of money, amount, amount of money] 2: a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers [syn: sum, amount, total] 3: the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" [syn: sum, summation, sum total] 4: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty- gritty] 5: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate] 6: a set containing all and only the members of two or more given sets; "let C be the union of the sets A and B" [syn: union, sum, join] v 1: be a summary of; "The abstract summarizes the main ideas in the paper" [syn: summarize, summarise, sum, sum up] 2: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up]

n 1: a thrumming sound; "he could hear the thrum of a banjo" v 1: sound with a monotonous hum [syn: hum, thrum] 2: sound the strings of (a string instrument); "strum a guitar" [syn: strum, thrum] 3: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, beat, thrum]

n 1: the thick short innermost digit of the forelimb [syn: thumb, pollex] 2: the part of a glove that provides a covering for the thumb 3: a convex molding having a cross section in the form of a quarter of a circle or of an ellipse [syn: ovolo, thumb, quarter round] v 1: travel by getting free rides from motorists [syn: hitchhike, hitch, thumb] 2: look through a book or other written material; "He thumbed through the report"; "She leafed through the volume" [syn: flick, flip, thumb, riffle, leaf, riff] 3: feel or handle with the fingers; "finger the binding of the book" [syn: finger, thumb]