Words that rhyme with mcnerney

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: 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: a professional person authorized to practice law; conducts lawsuits or gives legal advice [syn: lawyer, attorney]

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: 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: 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 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: 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]

adj 1: dull and tiresome but with pretensions of significance or originality; "bromidic sermons" [syn: bromidic, corny, platitudinal, platitudinous]

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: 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]

adj 1: abounding in or covered with ferns; "the ferny undergrowth" [syn: ferned, ferny] [ant: fernless] 2: resembling ferns especially in leaf shape; "the ferny shadows of locust leaves" [syn: fernlike, ferny]

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

n 1: (Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death

n 1: Austrian virtuoso pianist and composer of many works for the piano; studied with Beethoven and was a teacher of Liszt (1791-1857) [syn: Czerny, Karl Czerny]

n 1: state capital of New York; located in eastern New York State on the west bank of the Hudson river [syn: Albany, capital of New York] 2: a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans

n 1: Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC) [syn: Antony, Anthony, Mark Antony, Mark Anthony, Antonius, Marcus Antonius] 2: United States suffragist (1820-1906) [syn: Anthony, Susan Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Susan Brownell Anthony]