Words that rhyme with menachem

n 1: the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc. [syn: hem, ahem]

v 1: express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated" [syn: condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriate] 2: declare or judge unfit for use or habitation; "The building was condemned by the inspector" 3: compel or force into a particular state or activity; "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence" 4: demonstrate the guilt of (someone); "Her strange behavior condemned her" 5: pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison" [syn: sentence, condemn, doom] 6: appropriate (property) for public use; "the county condemned the land to build a highway"

n 1: an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty [syn: crown, diadem]

n 1: art highly prized for its beauty or perfection [syn: gem, treasure] 2: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone, stone] 3: a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem] 4: a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan [syn: muffin, gem] 5: a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem, precious stone]

n 1: the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down; "the hem of her dress was stained"; "let down the hem"; "he stitched weights into the curtain's hem"; "it seeped along the hem of his jacket" 2: the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc. [syn: hem, ahem] v 1: fold over and sew together to provide with a hem; "hem my skirt" 2: utter `hem' or `ahem'

n 1: the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person 2: violent and needless disturbance [syn: havoc, mayhem]

n 1: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions [syn: emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality] 2: expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness [syn: phlegm, sputum] 3: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends" [syn: languor, lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm, flatness]

n 1: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical] 2: a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: stalk, stem] 3: cylinder forming a long narrow part of something [syn: shank, stem] 4: the tube of a tobacco pipe 5: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem] 6: a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it [syn: stem turn, stem] v 1: grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war" 2: cause to point inward; "stem your skis" 3: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt] 4: remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"

n 1: modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave [syn: frequency modulation, FM] 2: a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons [syn: fermium, Fm, atomic number 100]

n 1: an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease [syn: autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination] 2: a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium [syn: promethium, Pm, atomic number 61] 3: the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom [syn: Prime Minister, PM, premier] 4: modulation of the phase of the carrier wave [syn: phase modulation, PM]

n 1: a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel production 2: a small town near Jerusalem on the West Bank of the Jordan River; early home of David and regarded as the place where Jesus was born [syn: Bethlehem, Bayt Lahm, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Bethlehem-Judah]