Words that rhyme with minke

n 1: a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving [syn: anchor, ground tackle] 2: a central cohesive source of support and stability; "faith is his anchor"; "the keystone of campaign reform was the ban on soft money"; "he is the linchpin of this firm" [syn: anchor, mainstay, keystone, backbone, linchpin, lynchpin] 3: a television reporter who coordinates a broadcast to which several correspondents contribute [syn: anchor, anchorman, anchorperson] v 1: fix firmly and stably; "anchor the lamppost in concrete" [syn: anchor, ground] 2: secure a vessel with an anchor; "We anchored at Baltimore" [syn: anchor, cast anchor, drop anchor]

n 1: a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank 2: the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game

v 1: cause oneself to consider something 2: consider or ponder something carefully; "She bethought her of their predicament"

n 1: a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly [syn: blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictation] v 1: briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink" [syn: blink, wink, nictitate, nictate] 2: force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears" [syn: wink, blink, blink away] 3: gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" [syn: flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle]

n 1: a light that flashes on and off; used as a signal or to send messages [syn: blinker, flasher] 2: a blinking light on a motor vehicle that indicates the direction in which the vehicle is about to turn [syn: blinker, turn signal, turn indicator, trafficator] 3: blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side [syn: winker, blinker, blinder] v 1: put blinders on (a horse)

n 1: a region marking a boundary [syn: brink, threshold, verge] 2: the edge of a steep place 3: the limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy" [syn: verge, brink]

n 1: a hazard on a golf course [syn: bunker, sand trap, trap] 2: a large container for storing fuel; "the ship's bunkers were full of coal" 3: a fortification of earth; mostly or entirely below ground [syn: bunker, dugout] v 1: hit a golf ball into a bunker 2: fill (a ship's bunker) with coal or oil 3: transfer cargo from a ship to a warehouse

n 1: a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark 2: an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth) [syn: canker, canker sore] 3: a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst" [syn: pestilence, canker] v 1: become infected with a canker 2: infect with a canker

n 1: a small hard painless nodule at the site of entry of a pathogen (as syphilis)

n 1: (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Chinese descent [syn: chink, Chinaman] 2: a narrow opening as e.g. between planks in a wall 3: a short light metallic sound [syn: chink, click, clink] v 1: make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: tinkle, tink, clink, chink] 2: fill the chinks of, as with caulking 3: make cracks or chinks in; "The heat checked the paint" [syn: check, chink]

n 1: 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]

n 1: a short light metallic sound [syn: chink, click, clink] 2: a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence) [syn: jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, poky, pokey] v 1: make a high sound typical of glass; "champagne glasses clinked to make a toast" 2: make or emit a high sound; "tinkling bells" [syn: tinkle, tink, clink, chink]

n 1: a fragment of incombustible matter left after a wood or coal or charcoal fire [syn: cinder, clinker] 2: a hard brick used as a paving stone [syn: clinker, clinker brick] v 1: clear out the cinders and clinker from; "we clinkered the fire frequently" 2: turn to clinker or form clinker under excessive heat in burning

n 1: the inedible nutlike seed of the horse chestnut [syn: buckeye, horse chestnut, conker]

v 1: to put down by force or authority; "suppress a nascent uprising"; "stamp down on littering"; "conquer one's desires" [syn: suppress, stamp down, inhibit, subdue, conquer, curb] 2: take possession of by force, as after an invasion; "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle" [syn: appropriate, capture, seize, conquer] 3: overcome by conquest; "conquer your fears"; "conquer a country"

n 1: a couple who both have careers and no children (an acronym for dual income no kids) 2: a soft return so that the tennis ball drops abruptly after crossing the net [syn: drop shot, dink]

adj 1: small and insignificant; "we stayed in a dinky old hotel" 2: (British informal) pretty and neat; "what a dinky little hat" n 1: a small locomotive [syn: dinky, dinkey]

n 1: a single serving of a beverage; "I asked for a hot drink"; "likes a drink before dinner" 2: the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall" [syn: drink, drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulence] 3: any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?" [syn: beverage, drink, drinkable, potable] 4: any large deep body of water; "he jumped into the drink and had to be rescued" 5: the act of swallowing; "one swallow of the liquid was enough"; "he took a drink of his beer and smacked his lips" [syn: swallow, drink, deglutition] v 1: take in liquids; "The patient must drink several liters each day"; "The children like to drink soda" [syn: drink, imbibe] 2: consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night" [syn: drink, booze, fuddle] 3: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail] 4: be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to; "The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage" [syn: drink in, drink] 5: drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic; "The husband drinks and beats his wife" [syn: drink, tope]

n 1: a person who drinks liquids 2: a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) [syn: drinker, imbiber, toper, juicer] [ant: abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker]

n 1: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary] v 1: take the place of work of someone on strike [syn: fink, scab, rat, blackleg] 2: confess to a punishable or reprehensible deed, usually under pressure [syn: confess, squeal, fink]

n 1: a back stationed wide of the scrimmage line; used as a pass receiver [syn: flanker back, flanker] 2: a soldier who is a member of a detachment assigned to guard the flanks of a military formation

n 1: a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it [syn: deist, freethinker]

v 1: desire strongly or persistently [syn: hanker, long, yearn]

v 1: sit on one's heels; "In some cultures, the women give birth while squatting"; "The children hunkered down to protect themselves from the sandstorm" [syn: squat, crouch, scrunch, scrunch up, hunker, hunker down]

n 1: a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing 2: dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods v 1: append one's signature to; "They inked the contract" 2: mark, coat, cover, or stain with ink; "he inked his finger" 3: fill with ink; "ink a pen"

adj 1: of the color of black ink [syn: ink-black, inky, inky-black]

v 1: be interwoven or interconnected; "The bones are interconnected via the muscle" [syn: complect, interconnect, interlink] 2: cause to be interconnected or interwoven [syn: interconnect, interlink]

adj 1: (used of sexual behavior) showing or appealing to bizarre or deviant tastes; "kinky sex"; "perverted practices" [syn: kinky, perverted] 2: (of hair) in small tight curls [syn: crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy] 3: informal terms; strikingly unconventional [syn: far-out, kinky, offbeat, quirky, way-out]

n 1: the means of connection between things linked in series [syn: link, nexus] 2: a fastener that serves to join or connect; "the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction" [syn: link, linkup, tie, tie-in] 3: the state of being connected; "the connection between church and state is inescapable" [syn: connection, link, connectedness] [ant: disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction, disjuncture] 4: a connecting shape [syn: connection, connexion, link] 5: a unit of length equal to 1/100 of a chain 6: (computing) an instruction that connects one part of a program or an element on a list to another program or list 7: a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: liaison, link, contact, inter-group communication] 8: a two-way radio communication system (usually microwave); part of a more extensive telecommunication network [syn: radio link, link] 9: an interconnecting circuit between two or more locations for the purpose of transmitting and receiving data [syn: link, data link] v 1: make a logical or causal connection; "I cannot connect these two pieces of evidence in my mind"; "colligate these facts"; "I cannot relate these events at all" [syn: associate, tie in, relate, link, colligate, link up, connect] [ant: decouple, dissociate] 2: connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces; "Can you connect the two loudspeakers?"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms" [syn: connect, link, tie, link up] [ant: disconnect] 3: be or become joined or united or linked; "The two streets connect to become a highway"; "Our paths joined"; "The travelers linked up again at the airport" [syn: connect, link, link up, join, unite] 4: link with or as with a yoke; "yoke the oxen together" [syn: yoke, link]

n 1: the expensive fur of a mink 2: fur coat made from the soft lustrous fur of minks [syn: mink, mink coat] 3: slender-bodied semiaquatic mammal having partially webbed feet; valued for its fur

n 1: the finger farthest from the thumb [syn: little finger, pinkie, pinky]

v 1: dress very carefully and in a finicky manner 2: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party" [syn: overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out] [ant: dress down, underdress]

n 1: a large fan consisting of a frame covered with canvas that is suspended from the ceiling; used in India for circulating air in a room

n 1: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn: resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour]

n 1: a commissioned officer who has been promoted from enlisted status 2: an enlisted soldier who serves in the ranks of the armed forces

n 1: thinking again about a choice previously made; "he had second thoughts about his purchase" [syn: reconsideration, second thought, afterthought, rethink] v 1: change one's mind; "He rethought his decision to take a vacation"

n 1: building that contains a surface for ice skating or roller skating [syn: rink, skating rink]

n 1: a physician who specializes in psychiatry [syn: psychiatrist, head-shrinker, shrink] v 1: wither, as with a loss of moisture; "The fruit dried and shriveled" [syn: shrivel, shrivel up, shrink, wither] 2: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail] 3: reduce in size; reduce physically; "Hot water will shrink the sweater"; "Can you shrink this image?" [syn: shrink, reduce] 4: become smaller or draw together; "The fabric shrank"; "The balloon shrank" [syn: shrink, contract] [ant: expand, spread out, stretch] 5: decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me" [syn: shrink, shrivel]

n 1: plumbing fixture consisting of a water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe 2: (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system; "the ocean is a sink for carbon dioxide" [ant: source] 3: a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof [syn: sinkhole, sink, swallow hole] 4: a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it [syn: cesspool, cesspit, sink, sump] v 1: fall or descend to a lower place or level; "He sank to his knees" [syn: sink, drop, drop down] 2: cause to sink; "The Japanese sank American ships in Pearl Harbor" 3: pass into a specified state or condition; "He sank into nirvana" [syn: sink, pass, lapse] 4: go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" [syn: sink, settle, go down, go under] [ant: float, swim] 5: descend into or as if into some soft substance or place; "He sank into bed"; "She subsided into the chair" [syn: sink, subside] 6: appear to move downward; "The sun dipped below the horizon"; "The setting sun sank below the tree line" [syn: dip, sink] 7: fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off" [syn: slump, fall off, sink] 8: fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank" [syn: slump, slide down, sink] 9: embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" [syn: bury, sink]

n 1: a small ring-shaped friedcake [syn: doughnut, donut, sinker] 2: a weight that sinks (as to hold nets or fishing lines under water) 3: a pitch that curves downward rapidly as it approaches the plate

n 1: alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide [syn: skink, scincid, scincid lizard]

v 1: walk stealthily; "I saw a cougar slinking toward its prey"

n 1: a hitter who slaps (usually another person) with an open hand; "someone slapped me on the back and I turned to see who the slapper was"; "my father was the designated spanker in our family" [syn: slapper, spanker] 2: a fore-and-aft sail set on the aftermost lower mast (usually the mizzenmast) of a vessel

n 1: a person who explores caves [syn: potholer, spelunker, speleologist, spelaeologist]

n 1: a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant [syn: malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor, foetor, mephitis] v 1: be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance; "This term paper stinks!" 2: smell badly and offensively; "The building reeks of smoke" [syn: reek, stink]

n 1: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git] 2: anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar) 3: an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory [syn: lemon, stinker]

adj 1: having an unpleasant smell [syn: malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling, ill-smelling, stinky] [ant: fragrant] 2: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky]

v 1: make synchronous and adjust in time or manner; "Let's synchronize our efforts" [syn: synchronize, synchronise, sync] [ant: desynchronise, desynchronize]

n 1: a cargo ship designed to carry crude oil in bulk [syn: oil tanker, oiler, tanker, tank ship] 2: a soldier who drives a tank [syn: tanker, tank driver]

n 1: an instance of deliberate thinking; "I need to give it a good think" v 1: judge or regard; look upon; judge; "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior" [syn: think, believe, consider, conceive] 2: expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess] 3: use or exercise the mind or one's power of reason in order to make inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments; "I've been thinking all day and getting nowhere" [syn: think, cogitate, cerebrate] 4: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" [syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block, draw a blank, forget] 5: imagine or visualize; "Just think--you could be rich one day!"; "Think what a scene it must have been!" 6: focus one's attention on a certain state; "Think big"; "think thin" 7: have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night" [syn: intend, mean, think] 8: decide by pondering, reasoning, or reflecting; "Can you think what to do next?" 9: ponder; reflect on, or reason about; "Think the matter through"; "Think how hard life in Russia must be these days" 10: dispose the mind in a certain way; "Do you really think so?" 11: have or formulate in the mind; "think good thoughts" 12: be capable of conscious thought; "Man is the only creature that thinks" 13: bring into a given condition by mental preoccupation; "She thought herself into a state of panic over the final exam"

n 1: an important intellectual; "the great minds of the 17th century" [syn: thinker, creative thinker, mind] 2: someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision)

n 1: a person who enjoys fixing and experimenting with machines and their parts [syn: tinker, tinkerer] 2: formerly a person (traditionally a Gypsy) who traveled from place to place mending pots and kettles and other metal utensils as a way to earn a living 3: small mackerel found nearly worldwide [syn: chub mackerel, tinker, Scomber japonicus] v 1: do random, unplanned work or activities or spend time idly; "The old lady is usually mucking about in her little house" [syn: putter, mess around, potter, tinker, monkey, monkey around, muck about, muck around] 2: work as a tinker or tinkerer 3: try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend" [syn: tinker, fiddle]

n 1: a very short time (as the time it takes the eye to blink or the heart to beat); "if I had the chance I'd do it in a flash" [syn: blink of an eye, flash, heartbeat, instant, jiffy, split second, trice, twinkling, wink, New York minute] 2: closing one eye quickly as a signal 3: a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly [syn: blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, winking, nictitation, nictation] v 1: signal by winking; "She winked at him" 2: gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" [syn: flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle] 3: briefly shut the eyes; "The TV announcer never seems to blink" [syn: blink, wink, nictitate, nictate] 4: force to go away by blinking; "blink away tears" [syn: wink, blink, blink away]

n 1: a person who winks 2: blind consisting of a leather eyepatch sewn to the side of the halter that prevents a horse from seeing something on either side [syn: winker, blinker, blinder]

n 1: a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende [syn: zinc, Zn, atomic number 30] v 1: coat or cover with zinc

n 1: member of the Prussian aristocracy noted especially for militarism

n 1: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn: resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour]

n 1: a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals [syn: calcium, Ca, atomic number 20] 2: a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes [syn: California, Golden State, CA, Calif.]

n 1: a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family) 2: a member of the Quechuan people living in the Cuzco valley in Peru [syn: Inca, Inka, Incan] 3: the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s [syn: Inca, Inka]

n 1: a heterogeneous collection of groups united in their opposition to Saddam Hussein's government of Iraq; formed in 1992 it is comprised of Sunni and Shiite Arabs and Kurds who hope to build a new government [syn: Iraqi National Congress, INC]

n 1: terms of abuse for a masturbator [syn: tosser, jerk- off, wanker]

n 1: a young person (especially a young man or boy) [syn: young person, youth, younker, spring chicken]

v 1: conquer anew; "The country reconquered the territory lost in the previous war"

n 1: 100 stotinka equal 1 lev in Bulgaria

n 1: a port on the Atlantic and the largest city of Morocco

n 1: Russian composer (1804-1857) [syn: Glinka, Mikhail Glinka, Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka]

n 1: periwinkles: low creeping evergreen perennials [syn: Vinca, genus Vinca]

n 1: (anatomy) a structure that resembles a shell in shape

n 1: a form of Japanese poetry; the 1st and 3rd lines have five syllables and the 2nd, 4th, and 5th have seven syllables 2: a Tibetan religious painting on fabric

n 1: the largest class of oil tankers