Words that rhyme with mckey

n 1: one that is absent or not in residence

n 1: one to whom something is addressed

v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord] [ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue] 2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something; "She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her alone" 3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree, discord] 4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree] 5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always agree in English" 6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me" 7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman"

adv 1: on or toward the lee; "put the helm alee"

n 1: someone who has had a limb removed by amputation

n 1: an official who is appointed 2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn: appointee, appointment]

n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death [syn: banshee, banshie]

adj 1: (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1: an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf [syn: bay, embayment] 2: the sound of a hound on the scent 3: small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors [syn: true laurel, bay, bay laurel, bay tree, Laurus nobilis] 4: a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital; "they put him in the sick bay" 5: a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose; "he opened the bomb bay" 6: a small recess opening off a larger room [syn: alcove, bay] 7: a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color v 1: utter in deep prolonged tones 2: bark with prolonged noises, of dogs [syn: bay, quest]

n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element [syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4] v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" 2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house" 3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" 4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: exist, be] 5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen" 6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ] 7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be] 8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow] 9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify] 10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour" 11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live] 12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be" 13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]

n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species 2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions

n 1: the social class between the lower and upper classes [syn: middle class, bourgeoisie]

n 1: soft creamy white cheese; milder than Camembert

n 1: a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida [syn: key, cay, Florida key]

n 1: a person on whom something is bestowed; "six honorary were conferred; the conferees were..." 2: a member of a conference

n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie, Ci] 2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: Curie, Pierre Curie] 3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska]

n 1: time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" [syn: day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day] 2: some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual" 3: a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance; "Mother's Day" 4: the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime" [syn: day, daytime, daylight] [ant: dark, night, nighttime] 5: the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working); "my day began early this morning"; "it was a busy day on the stock exchange"; "she called it a day and went to bed" 6: an era of existence or influence; "in the day of the dinosaurs"; "in the days of the Roman Empire"; "in the days of sailing ships"; "he was a successful pianist in his day" 7: the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis; "how long is a day on Jupiter?" 8: the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day [syn: sidereal day, day] 9: a period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day" 10: United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935) [syn: Day, Clarence Day, Clarence Shepard Day Jr.]

n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]

n 1: the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]

n 1: a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there" [syn: decree, edict, fiat, order, rescript] v 1: issue a decree; "The King only can decree" 2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree]

adj 1: bright and pleasant; promoting a feeling of cheer; "a cheery hello"; "a gay sunny room"; "a sunny smile" [syn: cheery, gay, sunny] 2: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful] 3: given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies" 4: brightly colored and showy; "girls decked out in brave new dresses"; "brave banners flying"; "`braw' is a Scottish word"; "a dress a bit too gay for her years"; "birds with gay plumage" [syn: brave, braw, gay] 5: offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening" [syn: gay, festal, festive, merry] 6: homosexual or arousing homosexual desires [syn: gay, queer, homophile(a)] n 1: someone who practices homosexuality; having a sexual attraction to persons of the same sex [syn: homosexual, homophile, homo, gay]

n 1: a state in New England [syn: Maine, Pine Tree State, ME]

adj 1: (meaning literally `born') used to indicate the maiden or family name of a married woman; "Hillary Clinton nee Rodham"

n 1: a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace [syn: cuddle, nestle, snuggle] v 1: move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags" [syn: cuddle, snuggle, nestle, nest, nuzzle, draw close] 2: lie in a sheltered position; "The little cottage nestles in the forest" 3: position comfortably; "The baby nestled her head in her mother's elbow" [syn: nestle, snuggle]

n 1: a politician who is running for public office [syn: campaigner, candidate, nominee]

n 1: someone released on probation or on parole [syn: probationer, parolee]

n 1: something that remunerates; "wages were paid by check"; "he wasted his pay on drink"; "they saved a quarter of all their earnings" [syn: wage, pay, earnings, remuneration, salary] v 1: give money, usually in exchange for goods or services; "I paid four dollars for this sandwich"; "Pay the waitress, please" 2: convey, as of a compliment, regards, attention, etc.; bestow; "Don't pay him any mind"; "give the orders"; "Give him my best regards"; "pay attention" [syn: give, pay] 3: cancel or discharge a debt; "pay up, please!" [syn: pay up, ante up, pay] [ant: default, default on] 4: bring in; "interest-bearing accounts"; "How much does this savings certificate pay annually?" [syn: yield, pay, bear] 5: do or give something to somebody in return; "Does she pay you for the work you are doing?" [syn: pay, pay off, make up, compensate] 6: dedicate; "give thought to"; "give priority to"; "pay attention to" [syn: give, pay, devote] 7: be worth it; "It pays to go through the trouble" 8: render; "pay a visit"; "pay a call" 9: bear (a cost or penalty), in recompense for some action; "You'll pay for this!"; "She had to pay the penalty for speaking out rashly"; "You'll pay for this opinion later" 10: make a compensation for; "a favor that cannot be paid back" 11: discharge or settle; "pay a debt"; "pay an obligation"

n 1: a person to whom money is paid

n 1: seed of a pea plant used for food 2: the fruit or seed of a pea plant 3: a leguminous plant of the genus Pisum with small white flowers and long green pods containing edible green seeds [syn: pea, pea plant]

n 1: liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" [syn: urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water] 2: informal terms for urination; "he took a pee" [syn: peeing, pee, pissing, piss] v 1: eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water]

n 1: a humble request for help from someone in authority [syn: supplication, plea] 2: (law) a defendant's answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer) 3: an answer indicating why a suit should be dismissed

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: a musical composition consisting of a series of songs or other musical pieces from various sources [syn: medley, potpourri, pastiche] 3: a jar of mixed flower petals and spices used as perfume

n 1: wharf usually built parallel to the shoreline

n 1: a rare heavy polyvalent metallic element that resembles manganese chemically and is used in some alloys; is obtained as a by-product in refining molybdenum [syn: rhenium, Re, atomic number 75] 2: ancient Egyptian sun god with the head of a hawk; a universal creator; he merged with the god Amen as Amen-Ra to become the king of the gods [syn: Ra, Re] 3: the syllable naming the second (supertonic) note of any major scale in solmization [syn: re, ray]

n 1: (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play [syn: referee, ref] 2: someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication [syn: reviewer, referee, reader] 3: an attorney appointed by a court to investigate and report on a case v 1: be a referee or umpire in a sports competition [syn: referee, umpire] 2: evaluate professionally a colleague's work [syn: referee, peer review]

n 1: adroitness and cleverness in reply

n 1: someone who has retired from active working [syn: retiree, retired person]

n 1: the basic unit of money in Sri Lanka; equal to 100 cents [syn: Sri Lanka rupee, rupee] 2: the basic unit of money in Seychelles; equal to 100 cents [syn: Seychelles rupee, rupee] 3: the basic unit of money in Nepal; equal to 100 paisa [syn: Nepalese rupee, rupee] 4: the basic unit of money in Mauritius; equal to 100 cents [syn: Mauritian rupee, rupee] 5: the basic unit of money in Pakistan; equal to 100 paisa [syn: Pakistani rupee, rupee] 6: the basic unit of money in India; equal to 100 paise [syn: Indian rupee, rupee]

n 1: a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff [syn: talus, scree]

n 1: a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land 2: anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume [syn: ocean, sea] 3: turbulent water with swells of considerable size; "heavy seas"

n 1: the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located v 1: perceive by sight or have the power to perceive by sight; "You have to be a good observer to see all the details"; "Can you see the bird in that tree?"; "He is blind--he cannot see" 2: perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea" [syn: understand, realize, realise, see] 3: perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" [syn: witness, find, see] 4: imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind; "I can't see him on horseback!"; "I can see what will happen"; "I can see a risk in this strategy" [syn: visualize, visualise, envision, project, fancy, see, figure, picture, image] 5: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard] 6: get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted" [syn: learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see] 7: see or watch; "view a show on television"; "This program will be seen all over the world"; "view an exhibition"; "Catch a show on Broadway"; "see a movie" [syn: watch, view, see, catch, take in] 8: come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" [syn: meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see] 9: find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" [syn: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn] 10: be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product" [syn: see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure] 11: go to see for professional or business reasons; "You should see a lawyer"; "We had to see a psychiatrist" 12: go to see for a social visit; "I went to see my friend Mary the other day" 13: go to see a place, as for entertainment; "We went to see the Eiffel Tower in the morning" [syn: visit, see] 14: take charge of or deal with; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business" [syn: attend, take care, look, see] 15: receive as a specified guest; "the doctor will see you now"; "The minister doesn't see anybody before noon" 16: date regularly; have a steady relationship with; "Did you know that she is seeing an older man?"; "He is dating his former wife again!" [syn: go steady, go out, date, see] 17: see and understand, have a good eye; "The artist must first learn to see" 18: deliberate or decide; "See whether you can come tomorrow"; "let's see--which movie should we see tonight?" 19: observe as if with an eye; "The camera saw the burglary and recorded it" 20: observe, check out, and look over carefully or inspect; "The customs agent examined the baggage"; "I must see your passport before you can enter the country" [syn: examine, see] 21: go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" [syn: experience, see, go through] 22: accompany or escort; "I'll see you to the door" [syn: see, escort] 23: match or meet; "I saw the bet of one of my fellow players" 24: make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?" [syn: interpret, construe, see]

v 1: visit famous or interesting sights

n 1: narrow wood or metal or plastic runners used in pairs for gliding over snow v 1: move along on skis; "We love to ski the Rockies"; "My children don't ski"

n 1: a brief indulgence of your impulses [syn: spree, fling] v 1: engage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping

n 1: continuing or remaining in a place or state; "they had a nice stay in Paris"; "a lengthy hospital stay"; "a four- month stay in bankruptcy court" 2: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage] 3: a judicial order forbidding some action until an event occurs or the order is lifted; "the Supreme Court has the power to stay an injunction pending an appeal to the whole Court" 4: a thin strip of metal or bone that is used to stiffen a garment (e.g. a corset) 5: (nautical) brace consisting of a heavy rope or wire cable used as a support for a mast or spar v 1: stay the same; remain in a certain state; "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week" [syn: stay, remain, rest] [ant: change] 2: stay put (in a certain place); "We are staying in Detroit; we are not moving to Cincinnati"; "Stay put in the corner here!"; "Stick around and you will learn something!" [syn: stay, stick, stick around, stay put] [ant: move] 3: dwell; "You can stay with me while you are in town"; "stay a bit longer--the day is still young" [syn: bide, abide, stay] 4: continue in a place, position, or situation; "After graduation, she stayed on in Cambridge as a student adviser"; "Stay with me, please"; "despite student protests, he remained Dean for another year"; "She continued as deputy mayor for another year" [syn: stay, stay on, continue, remain] 5: remain behind; "I had to stay at home and watch the children" [ant: depart, quit, take leave] 6: stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" [syn: stay, detain, delay] 7: stay behind; "The smell stayed in the room"; "The hostility remained long after they made up" [syn: persist, remain, stay] 8: hang on during a trial of endurance; "ride out the storm" [syn: last out, stay, ride out, outride] 9: stop a judicial process; "The judge stayed the execution order" 10: fasten with stays 11: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: quell, stay, appease]

n 1: a beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water; "iced tea is a cooling drink" 2: a light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes; "an Englishman would interrupt a war to have his afternoon tea" [syn: tea, afternoon tea, teatime] 3: a tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves; "tea has fragrant white flowers" [syn: tea, Camellia sinensis] 4: a reception or party at which tea is served; "we met at the Dean's tea for newcomers" 5: dried leaves of the tea shrub; used to make tea; "the store shelves held many different kinds of tea"; "they threw the tea into Boston harbor" [syn: tea, tea leaf]

n 1: the starting place for each hole on a golf course; "they were waiting on the first tee" [syn: tee, teeing ground] 2: support holding a football on end and above the ground preparatory to the kickoff [syn: tee, football tee] 3: a short peg put into the ground to hold a golf ball off the ground [syn: tee, golf tee] v 1: place on a tee; "tee golf balls" [syn: tee, tee up] 2: connect with a tee; "tee two pipes"

adj 1: being one more than two [syn: three, 3, iii] n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce- ace] 2: one of four playing cards in a deck having three pips [syn: trey, three]

n 1: someone who is being trained

n 1: a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms 2: a figure that branches from a single root; "genealogical tree" [syn: tree, tree diagram] 3: English actor and theatrical producer noted for his lavish productions of Shakespeare (1853-1917) [syn: Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree] v 1: force a person or an animal into a position from which he cannot escape [syn: corner, tree] 2: plant with trees; "this lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer" 3: chase an animal up a tree; "the hunters treed the bear with dogs and killed it"; "her dog likes to tree squirrels" 4: stretch (a shoe) on a shoetree [syn: tree, shoetree]

n 1: a person (or institution) to whom legal title to property is entrusted to use for another's benefit [syn: trustee, legal guardian] 2: members of a governing board [syn: regent, trustee]

adj 1: beneath the surface of the sea [syn: submarine, undersea]

n 1: a person who buys [syn: buyer, purchaser, emptor, vendee]

adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of six items or units [syn: six, 6, vi, half dozen, half-dozen] n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of five and one [syn: six, 6, VI, sixer, sise, Captain Hicks, half a dozen, sextet, sestet, sextuplet, hexad] 2: more than 130 southeastern Virgin Islands; a dependent territory of the United States [syn: United States Virgin Islands, American Virgin Islands, VI]

adj 1: (used informally) very small; "a wee tot" [syn: bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy] 2: very early; "the wee hours of the morning" n 1: a short time; "bide a wee" v 1: eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water]

n 1: noisy and boisterous revelry

adj 1: being one more than ten [syn: eleven, 11, xi] n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one [syn: eleven, 11, XI] 2: the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet

n 1: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: Z, z, zee, zed, ezed, izzard]

n 1: a member of an Algonquian people living in central Canada 2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Cree

n 1: a member of the Pawnee nation formerly living in Nebraska and Kansas but now largely in Oklahoma 2: the Caddoan language spoken by the Pawnee

n 1: a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time [syn: personal computer, PC, microcomputer]

n 1: broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects; "she is a star of screen and video"; "Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done" - Ernie Kovacs [syn: television, telecasting, TV, video] 2: an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen; "the British call a tv set a telly" [syn: television receiver, television, television set, tv, tv set, idiot box, boob tube, telly, goggle box]

n 1: the longest river of Asia; flows eastward from Tibet into the East China Sea near Shanghai [syn: Chang Jiang, Changjiang, Chang, Yangtze, Yangtze River, Yangtze Kiang]

n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil [syn: bacillus, B] 2: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins [syn: B-complex vitamin, B complex, vitamin B complex, vitamin B, B vitamin, B] 3: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn: boron, B, atomic number 5] 4: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels [syn: Bel, B] 5: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter [syn: barn, b] 6: the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: B, b] 7: the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [syn: B, type B, group B]

adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one hundred, 100, c] n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn: degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C] 2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn: speed of light, light speed, c] 3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C, ascorbic acid] 4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C] 5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C] 6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C, atomic number 6] 7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C] 8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn: coulomb, C, ampere-second] 9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system 10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major 11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c] 12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C]

adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units [syn: five hundred, 500, d] n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: vitamin D, calciferol, viosterol, ergocalciferol, cholecalciferol, D] 2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five [syn: five hundred, 500, D] 3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: D, d]

n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn: Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA]

n 1: destruction of heart tissue resulting from obstruction of the blood supply to the heart muscle [syn: myocardial infarction, myocardial infarct, MI] 2: a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile [syn: nautical mile, naut mi, mile, mi, geographical mile, Admiralty mile] 3: a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude [syn: nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile] 4: a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters [syn: mile, statute mile, stat mi, land mile, international mile, mi] 5: a midwestern state in north central United States in the Great Lakes region [syn: Michigan, Wolverine State, Great Lakes State, MI] 6: the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence on British territory [syn: Security Service, MI, Military Intelligence Section 5] 7: the government agency in the United Kingdom that is responsible for internal security and counterintelligence overseas [syn: Secret Intelligence Service, MI, Military Intelligence Section 6] 8: the syllable naming the third (mediant) note of any major scale in solmization

n 1: a radioactive transuranic element [syn: meitnerium, Mt, element 109, atomic number 109] 2: a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms [syn: metric ton, MT, tonne, t] 3: a state in northwestern United States on the Canadian border [syn: Montana, Treasure State, MT] 4: the use of computers to translate from one language to another [syn: machine translation, MT]

n 1: a colorless odorless gaseous element that give a red glow in a vacuum tube; one of the six inert gasses; occurs in the air in small amounts [syn: neon, Ne, atomic number 10] 2: the compass point midway between north and east; at 45 degrees [syn: northeast, nor'-east, northeastward, NE] 3: a midwestern state on the Great Plains [syn: Nebraska, Cornhusker State, NE]

n 1: 100 ngwee equal 1 kwacha in Zambia

n 1: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn: nickel, Ni, atomic number 28]

n 1: a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms [syn: phosphorus, P, atomic number 15] 2: the 16th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: P, p]

n 1: the circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health [syn: qi, chi, ch'i, ki]

n 1: the month following August and preceding October [syn: September, Sep, Sept]

n 1: a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors [syn: silicon, Si, atomic number 14] 2: a complete metric system of units of measurement for scientists; fundamental quantities are length (meter) and mass (kilogram) and time (second) and electric current (ampere) and temperature (kelvin) and amount of matter (mole) and luminous intensity (candela); "Today the United States is the only country in the world not totally committed to the Systeme International d'Unites" [syn: Systeme International d'Unites, Systeme International, SI system, SI, SI unit, International System of Units, International System] 3: the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization [syn: ti, te, si]

n 1: a base found in DNA (but not in RNA) and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with adenine [syn: thymine, T] 2: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxythymidine monophosphate, T] 3: a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms [syn: metric ton, MT, tonne, t] 4: the 20th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: T, t] 5: thyroid hormone similar to thyroxine but with one less iodine atom per molecule and produced in smaller quantity; exerts the same biological effects as thyroxine but is more potent and briefer [syn: triiodothyronine, liothyronine, T] 6: hormone produced by the thyroid glands to regulate metabolism by controlling the rate of oxidation in cells; "thyroxine is 65% iodine" [syn: thyroxine, thyroxin, tetraiodothyronine, T]

n 1: a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold [syn: tellurium, Te, atomic number 52] 2: the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization [syn: ti, te, si]

n 1: a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite [syn: titanium, Ti, atomic number 22] 2: shrub with terminal tufts of elongated leaves used locally for thatching and clothing; thick sweet roots are used as food; tropical southeastern Asia, Australia and Hawaii [syn: ti, Cordyline terminalis] 3: the syllable naming the seventh (subtonic) note of any musical scale in solmization [syn: ti, te, si]

adj 1: being one more than four [syn: five, 5, v] n 1: a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it [syn: volt, V] 2: a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite [syn: vanadium, V, atomic number 23] 3: the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, fin, Phoebe, Little Phoebe] 4: the 22nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: V, v]

n 1: a Loloish language [syn: Lolo, Yi]

n 1: the ending of a series or sequence; "the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end"-- Revelation [syn: omega, Z] 2: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: Z, z, zee, zed, ezed, izzard]

n 1: corn [syn: Zea, genus Zea]

n 1: United States novelist (1909-1955) [syn: Agee, James Agee]

n 1: United States dramatist (1928-) [syn: Albee, Edward Albee, Edward Franklin Albeen]

n 1: an island (part of Campania) in the Bay of Naples in southern Italy; a tourist attraction noted for beautiful scenery

n 1: a town in north central France noted for white Burgundy wines 2: dry white table wine of Chablis, France or a wine resembling it [syn: Chablis, white Burgundy]

n 1: (the feminine of raja) a Hindu princess or the wife of a raja [syn: rani, ranee]

n 1: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite [syn: rubidium, Rb, atomic number 37]

n 1: a toxic nonmetallic element related to sulfur and tellurium; occurs in several allotropic forms; a stable grey metallike allotrope conducts electricity better in the light than in the dark and is used in photocells; occurs in sulfide ores (as pyrite) [syn: selenium, Se, atomic number 34] 2: the compass point midway between south and east; at 135 degrees [syn: southeast, sou'-east, southeastward, SE]

n 1: a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite [syn: terbium, Tb, atomic number 65] 2: infection transmitted by inhalation or ingestion of tubercle bacilli and manifested in fever and small lesions (usually in the lungs but in various other parts of the body in acute stages) [syn: tuberculosis, TB, T.B.] 3: a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabits or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bits [syn: terabit, Tbit, Tb] 4: a unit of information equal to 1000 gigabytes or 10^12 (1,000,000,000,000) bytes [syn: terabyte, TB] 5: a unit of information equal to 1024 gibibytes or 2^40 (1,099,511,627,776) bytes [syn: terabyte, tebibyte, TB, TiB]

n 1: an insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans; banned in the United States since 1972 [syn: dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, DDT]

n 1: an engineering university in Cambridge [syn: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT]

n 1: evergreen trees and shrubs having oily one-seeded fruits [syn: Olea, genus Olea]

adv 1: beyond or across the sea; "He lived overseas for many years" [syn: oversea, overseas] adj 1: being or passing over or across the sea; "some overseas trade in grain arose" [syn: oversea, overseas]

n 1: a state in east central United States [syn: Tennessee, Volunteer State, TN] 2: a river formed by the confluence of two other rivers near Knoxville; it follows a U-shaped course to become a tributary of the Ohio River in western Kentucky [syn: Tennessee, Tennessee River]

n 1: a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation [syn: angstrom, angstrom unit, A] 2: any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes [syn: vitamin A, antiophthalmic factor, axerophthol, A] 3: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxyadenosine monophosphate, A] 4: (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA [syn: adenine, A] 5: the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps" [syn: ampere, amp, A] 6: the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: A, a] 7: the blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen [syn: A, type A, group A]

n 1: (formerly) a title of respect for a man in Turkey or Egypt; "he introduced me to Ahmet Bey" 2: the governor of a district or province in the Ottoman Empire

adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, m, k] n 1: the basic unit of thermodynamic temperature adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: kelvin, K] 2: a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite [syn: potassium, K, atomic number 19] 3: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard] 4: a unit of information equal to 1000 bytes [syn: kilobyte, K, KB, kB] 5: a unit of information equal to 1024 bytes [syn: kilobyte, kibibyte, K, KB, kB, KiB] 6: the 11th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: K, k] 7: street names for ketamine [syn: K, jet, super acid, special K, honey oil, green, cat valium, super C]

n 1: a branch of the Tai languages

n 1: widely cultivated in tropical and subtropical regions for its fragrant flowers and colorful fruits; introduced in Jamaica by William Bligh [syn: akee, akee tree, Blighia sapida] 2: red pear-shaped tropical fruit with poisonous seeds; flesh is poisonous when unripe or overripe [syn: ackee, akee]