Words that rhyme with moire

• bay 3
  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]
• allay 0
  v 1: lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears" [syn: still, allay, relieve, ease] 2: satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst" [syn: quench, slake, allay, assuage]
• allow 0
  v 1: make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen; "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off" [syn: let, allow, permit] [ant: keep, prevent] 2: consent to, give permission; "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam" [syn: permit, allow, let, countenance] [ant: disallow, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, veto] 3: let have; "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison" [syn: allow, grant] [ant: deny, refuse] 4: give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause; "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day" [syn: allow, appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve] 5: make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain; "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway" [syn: leave, allow for, allow, provide] 6: allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something; "I allow for this possibility"; "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash" [syn: allow, take into account] 7: afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations" [syn: admit, allow] 8: allow the other (baseball) team to score; "give up a run" [syn: give up, allow] 9: grant as a discount or in exchange; "The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera" 10: allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting; "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital" [syn: allow, permit, tolerate]
• are 0
  n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]
• array 0
  n 1: an orderly arrangement; "an array of troops in battle order" 2: an impressive display; "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall" 3: especially fine or decorative clothing [syn: array, raiment, regalia] 4: an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics v 1: lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line; "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments" [syn: range, array, lay out, set out] 2: align oneself with a group or a way of thinking [syn: align, array]
• assay 0
  n 1: an appraisal of the state of affairs; "they made an assay of the contents"; "a check on its dependability under stress" [syn: assay, check] 2: a substance that is undergoing an analysis of its components 3: a written report of the results of an analysis of the composition of some substance 4: a quantitative or qualitative test of a substance (especially an ore or a drug) to determine its components; frequently used to test for the presence or concentration of infectious agents or antibodies etc. v 1: analyze (chemical substances) 2: make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world" [syn: try, seek, attempt, essay, assay]
• astray 0
  adv 1: away from the right path or direction; "he was led astray" 2: far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander" [syn: wide, astray]
• away 0
  adv 1: from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach" [syn: away, off, forth] 2: from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets" [syn: away, out] 3: out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away" [syn: aside, away] 4: out of existence; "the music faded away"; "tried to explain away the affair of the letter"- H.E.Scudder; "idled the hours away"; "her fingernails were worn away" 5: at a distance in space or time; "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)"; "away back in the 18th century" [syn: off, away] 6: indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily; "he worked away at the project for more than a year"; "the child kept hammering away as if his life depended on it" 7: so as to be removed or gotten rid of; "cleared the mess away"; "the rotted wood had to be cut away" 8: freely or at will; "fire away!" 9: in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping); "put the toys away"; "her jewels are locked away in a safe"; "filed the letter away" 10: in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away" [syn: away, aside] 11: in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day" [syn: aside, by, away] adj 1: not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away" 2: used of an opponent's ground; "an away game" [ant: home(a)] 3: (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter; "the pitch was away (or wide)"; "an outside pitch" [syn: away, outside]
• aweigh 0
  adj 1: (used of an anchor) hanging clear of the bottom; "anchors aweigh" 2: (of an anchor) just clear of the bottom [syn: aweigh, atrip]
• baa 0
  n 1: the cry made by sheep v 1: cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [syn: bleat, blate, blat, baa]
• ballet 0
  n 1: a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers [syn: ballet, concert dance] 2: music written for a ballet
• bar 0
  n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom] 2: a counter where you can obtain food or drink; "he bought a hot dog and a coke at the bar" 3: a rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon; "there were bars in the windows to prevent escape" 4: musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats; "the orchestra omitted the last twelve bars of the song" [syn: measure, bar] 5: an obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal; "it was an excellent kick but the ball hit the bar" 6: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza" [syn: prevention, bar] 7: (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter; "unfortunately some writers have used bar for one dyne per square centimeter" 8: a submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore; "the boat ran aground on a submerged bar in the river" 9: the body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction; "he was admitted to the bar in New Jersey" [syn: legal profession, bar, legal community] 10: a narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background; "a green toad with small black stripes or bars"; "may the Stars and Stripes forever wave" [syn: stripe, streak, bar] 11: a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); "a bar of chocolate" [syn: cake, bar] 12: a portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War [syn: Browning automatic rifle, BAR] 13: a horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises 14: a heating element in an electric fire; "an electric fire with three bars" 15: (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried; "spectators were not allowed past the bar" v 1: prevent from entering; keep out; "He was barred from membership in the club" [syn: bar, debar, exclude] 2: render unsuitable for passage; "block the way"; "barricade the streets"; "stop the busy road" [syn: barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar] 3: expel, as if by official decree; "he was banished from his own country" [syn: banish, relegate, bar] 4: secure with, or as if with, bars; "He barred the door" [ant: unbar]
• beret 0
  n 1: a cap with no brim or bill; made of soft cloth
• betray 0
  v 1: reveal unintentionally; "Her smile betrayed her true feelings" [syn: betray, bewray] 2: deliver to an enemy by treachery; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The spy betrayed his country" [syn: betray, sell] 3: disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis" [syn: fail, betray] 4: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" [syn: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander] 5: give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag] 6: cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" [syn: deceive, betray, lead astray] [ant: undeceive]
• bidet 0
  n 1: a basin for washing genitals and anal area
• blah 0
  n 1: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah]
• bouquet 0
  n 1: an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present [syn: bouquet, corsage, posy, nosegay] 2: a pleasingly sweet olfactory property [syn: bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness]
• bra 0
  n 1: an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts [syn: brassiere, bra, bandeau]
• bray 0
  n 1: the cry of an ass v 1: braying characteristic of donkeys [syn: hee-haw, bray] 2: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn: grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute] 3: laugh loudly and harshly
• cabaret 0
  n 1: a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink; "don't expect a good meal at a cabaret"; "the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night"; "he played the drums at a jazz club" [syn: cabaret, nightclub, night club, club, nightspot] 2: a series of acts at a night club [syn: cabaret, floorshow, floor show]
• cachet 0
  n 1: an indication of approved or superior status [syn: cachet, seal, seal of approval] 2: a warrant formerly issued by a French king who could warrant imprisonment or death in a signed letter under his seal [syn: cachet, lettre de cachet] 3: a seal on a letter
• cafe 0
  n 1: a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold [syn: cafe, coffeehouse, coffee shop, coffee bar]
• car 0
  n 1: a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine; "he needs a car to get to work" [syn: car, auto, automobile, machine, motorcar] 2: a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad; "three cars had jumped the rails" [syn: car, railcar, railway car, railroad car] 3: the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant [syn: car, gondola] 4: where passengers ride up and down; "the car was on the top floor" [syn: car, elevator car] 5: a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway; "they took a cable car to the top of the mountain" [syn: cable car, car]
• chalet 0
  n 1: a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style
• char 0
  n 1: a charred substance 2: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman] 3: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: char, charr] v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" [syn: char, coal] 2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]
• clay 0
  n 1: a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired 2: water soaked soil; soft wet earth [syn: mud, clay] 3: United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978) [syn: Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay] 4: United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) [syn: Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser] 5: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains]
• convey 0
  v 1: make known; pass on, of information; "She conveyed the message to me" 2: serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger" [syn: carry, convey, express] 3: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey, transmit, communicate] 4: transmit a title or property 5: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel] 6: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" [syn: bring, convey, take] 7: go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" [syn: bring, get, convey, fetch] [ant: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away]
• crochet 0
  n 1: needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle [syn: crochet, crocheting] v 1: create by looping or crocheting; "crochet a bedspread" 2: make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day" [syn: crochet, hook]
• croquet 0
  n 1: a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg v 1: drive away by hitting with one's ball, "croquet the opponent's ball" 2: play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops
• czar 0
  n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar] 2: a person having great power
• day 0
  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.]
• decay 0
  n 1: the process of gradually becoming inferior 2: a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current [syn: decay, decline] 3: the organic phenomenon of rotting [syn: decay, decomposition] 4: an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; "the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair" 5: the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation [syn: decay, radioactive decay, disintegration] v 1: lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" [syn: disintegrate, decay, decompose] 2: fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay" [syn: decay, crumble, dilapidate] 3: undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated"
• disallow 0
  v 1: command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans" [syn: forbid, prohibit, interdict, proscribe, veto, disallow, nix] [ant: allow, countenance, let, permit]
• disbar 0
  v 1: remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action; "The corrupt lawyer was disbarred"
• far 0
  adv 1: to a considerable degree; very much; "a far far better thing that I do"; "felt far worse than yesterday"; "eyes far too close together" 2: at or to or from a great distance in space; "he traveled far"; "strayed far from home"; "sat far away from each other" 3: at or to a certain point or degree; "I can only go so far before I have to give up"; "how far can we get with this kind of argument?" 4: remote in time; "if we could see far into the future"; "all that happened far in the past" 5: to an advanced stage or point; "a young man who will go very far" adj 1: located at a great distance in time or space or degree; "we come from a far country"; "far corners of the earth"; "the far future"; "a far journey"; "the far side of the road"; "far from the truth"; "far in the future" [ant: close, near, nigh] 2: being of a considerable distance or length; "a far trek" 3: being the animal or vehicle on the right or being on the right side of an animal or vehicle; "the horse on the right is the far horse"; "the right side is the far side of the horse" 4: beyond a norm in opinion or actions; "the far right" n 1: a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again; "in 1999 ALIR guerrillas kidnapped and killed eight foreign tourists" [syn: Army for the Liberation of Rwanda, ALIR, Former Armed Forces, FAR, Interahamwe]
• foray 0
  n 1: a sudden short attack [syn: foray, raid, maraud] 2: an initial attempt (especially outside your usual areas of competence); "scientists' forays into politics" v 1: steal goods; take as spoils; "During the earthquake people looted the stores that were deserted by their owners" [syn: plunder, despoil, loot, reave, strip, rifle, ransack, pillage, foray] 2: briefly enter enemy territory
• gar 0
  n 1: primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth [syn: gar, garfish, garpike, billfish, Lepisosteus osseus] 2: elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters [syn: needlefish, gar, billfish]
• guitar 0
  n 1: a stringed instrument usually having six strings; played by strumming or plucking
• ha 0
  n 1: (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day [syn: hour angle, HA]
• jar 0
  n 1: a vessel (usually cylindrical) with a wide mouth and without handles 2: the quantity contained in a jar; "he drank a jar of beer" [syn: jar, jarful] 3: a sudden jarring impact; "the door closed with a jolt"; "all the jars and jolts were smoothed out by the shock absorbers" [syn: jolt, jar, jounce, shock] v 1: be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash" [syn: clash, jar, collide] 2: move or cause to move with a sudden jerky motion [syn: jolt, jar] 3: shock physically; "Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game" [syn: jar, shake up, bump around] 4: affect in a disagreeable way; "This play jarred the audience" 5: place in a cylindrical vessel; "jar the jam"
• la 0
  n 1: a white soft metallic element that tarnishes readily; occurs in rare earth minerals and is usually classified as a rare earth [syn: lanthanum, La, atomic number 57] 2: a state in southern United States on the Gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn: Louisiana, Pelican State, LA] 3: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]
• ma 0
  n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy] 2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM] 3: one thousandth of an ampere [syn: milliampere, mA] 4: a state in New England; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Massachusetts, Bay State, Old Colony, MA]
• mar 0
  n 1: the month following February and preceding April [syn: March, Mar] 2: a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body); "a facial blemish" [syn: blemish, defect, mar] v 1: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate] 2: destroy or injure severely; "mutilated bodies" [syn: mutilate, mar]
• mare 0
  n 1: female equine animal [syn: mare, female horse] 2: a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon [syn: mare, maria]
• pa 0
  n 1: an informal term for a father; probably derived from baby talk [syn: dad, dada, daddy, pa, papa, pappa, pop] 2: a short-lived radioactive metallic element formed from uranium and disintegrating into actinium and then into lead [syn: protactinium, protoactinium, Pa, atomic number 91] 3: a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter [syn: pascal, Pa] 4: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Pennsylvania, Keystone State, PA] 5: an electronic amplification system used as a communication system in public areas [syn: public address system, P.A. system, PA system, P.A., PA]
• par 0
  n 1: (golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course; "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72" 2: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality, equivalence, equation, par] v 1: make a score (on a hole) equal to par
• pas 0
  n 1: (ballet) a step in dancing (especially in classical ballet)
• scar 0
  n 1: a mark left (usually on the skin) by the healing of injured tissue [syn: scar, cicatrix, cicatrice] 2: an indication of damage [syn: scratch, scrape, scar, mark] v 1: mark with a scar; "The skin disease scarred his face permanently" [syn: scar, mark, pock, pit]
• schwa 0
  n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: schwa, shwa]
• shah 0
  n 1: title for the former hereditary monarch of Iran [syn: Shah, Shah of Iran]
• snowplough 0
  n 1: a vehicle used to push snow from roads [syn: snowplow, snowplough]
• soiree 0
  n 1: a party of people assembled in the evening (usually at a private house)
• spa 0
  n 1: a health resort near a spring or at the seaside [syn: watering place, watering hole, spa] 2: a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area [syn: resort hotel, spa] 3: a place of business with equipment and facilities for exercising and improving physical fitness [syn: health spa, spa, health club]
• spar 0
  n 1: any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable 2: a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging 3: making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer [syn: spar, sparring] v 1: furnish with spars 2: fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring" 3: box lightly 4: fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"
• star 0
  adj 1: indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)] n 1: (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior 2: someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field [syn: ace, adept, champion, sensation, maven, mavin, virtuoso, genius, hotshot, star, superstar, whiz, whizz, wizard, wiz] 3: any celestial body visible (as a point of light) from the Earth at night 4: an actor who plays a principal role [syn: star, principal, lead] 5: a plane figure with 5 or more points; often used as an emblem 6: a performer who receives prominent billing [syn: headliner, star] 7: a star-shaped character * used in printing [syn: asterisk, star] 8: the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub [syn: star topology, star] v 1: feature as the star; "The movie stars Dustin Hoffman as an autistic man" 2: be the star in a performance 3: mark with an asterisk; "Linguists star unacceptable sentences" [syn: star, asterisk]
• tar 0
  n 1: any of various dark heavy viscid substances obtained as a residue [syn: pitch, tar] 2: a man who serves as a sailor [syn: mariner, seaman, tar, Jack-tar, Jack, old salt, seafarer, gob, sea dog] v 1: coat with tar; "tar the roof"; "tar the roads"
• tsar 0
  n 1: a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917) [syn: czar, tsar, tzar]
• ar 0
  n 1: a colorless and odorless inert gas; one of the six inert gases; comprises approximately 1% of the earth's atmosphere [syn: argon, Ar, atomic number 18] 2: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar] 3: a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War [syn: Arkansas, Land of Opportunity, AR]
• parr 0
  n 1: Queen of England as the 6th wife of Henry VIII (1512-1548) [syn: Parr, Catherine Parr] 2: a young salmon up to 2 years old 3: the young of various fishes
• r 0
  n 1: a unit of radiation exposure; the dose of ionizing radiation that will produce 1 electrostatic unit of electricity in 1 cc of dry air [syn: roentgen, R] 2: (physics) the universal constant in the gas equation: pressure times volume = R times temperature; equal to 8.3143 joules per kelvin per mole [syn: gas constant, universal gas constant, R] 3: the 18th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: R, r] 4: the length of a line segment between the center and circumference of a circle or sphere [syn: radius, r]
• starr 0
  n 1: rock star and drummer for the Beatles (born in 1940) [syn: Starr, Ringo Starr, Starkey, Richard Starkey]
• dinar 0
  n 1: 100 dinars equal 1 rial in Iran [syn: Iranian dinar, dinar] 2: the basic unit of money in Yugoslavia [syn: Yugoslavian dinar, dinar] 3: the basic unit of money in Tunisia [syn: Tunisian dinar, dinar] 4: the basic unit of money in Libya [syn: Libyan dinar, dinar] 5: the basic unit of money in Kuwait; equal 1,000 fils [syn: Kuwaiti dinar, dinar] 6: the basic unit of money in Jordan; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Jordanian dinar, dinar] 7: the basic unit of money in Iraq; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Iraqi dinar, dinar] 8: the basic unit of money in Bahrain; equal to 1,000 fils [syn: Bahrain dinar, dinar] 9: the basic unit of money in Algeria [syn: Algerian dinar, dinar]
• ka 0
  n 1: unknown god; an epithet of Prajapati and Brahma
• ta 0
  n 1: a hard grey lustrous metallic element that is highly resistant to corrosion; occurs in niobite and fergusonite and tantalite [syn: tantalum, Ta, atomic number 73]
• blase 0
  adj 1: very sophisticated especially because of surfeit; versed in the ways of the world; "the blase traveler refers to the ocean he has crossed as `the pond'"; "the benefits of his worldly wisdom" [syn: blase, worldly] 2: uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; "his blase indifference"; "a petulant blase air"; "the bored gaze of the successful film star" [syn: blase, bored] 3: nonchalantly unconcerned; "a blase attitude about housecleaning"
• bombay 0
  n 1: a city in western India just off the coast of the Arabian Sea; India's 2nd largest city (after Calcutta); has the only natural deep-water harbor in western India [syn: Mumbai, Bombay]
• cliche 0
  n 1: a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide]
• dah 0
  n 1: the longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code [syn: dash, dah]
• fa 0
  n 1: the syllable naming the fourth (subdominant) note of the diatonic scale in solmization
• kwa 0
  n 1: a group of African language in the Niger-Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast east to Nigeria
• pya 0
  n 1: 100 pyas equal 1 kyat in Myanmar
• shwa 0
  n 1: a neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables [syn: schwa, shwa]
• charr 0
  n 1: any of several small trout-like fish of the genus Salvelinus [syn: char, charr]
• guar 0
  n 1: drought-tolerant herb grown for forage and for its seed which yield a gum used as a thickening agent or sizing material [syn: guar, cluster bean, Cyamopsis tetragonolobus, Cyamopsis psoraloides]
• maar 0
  n 1: a flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was formed by an explosion; often filled with water
• pilau 0
  n 1: rice cooked in well-seasoned broth with onions or celery and usually poultry or game or shellfish and sometimes tomatoes [syn: pilaf, pilaff, pilau, pilaw]
• signore 0
  n 1: an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name)
• breslau 0
  n 1: a city in southwestern Poland on the Oder [syn: Wroclaw, Breslau]
• palau 0
  n 1: a republic in the western central Pacific Ocean in association with the United States [syn: Palau, Republic of Palau, TT] 2: a chain of more than 200 islands about 400 miles long in the western central Pacific Ocean [syn: Palau, Palau Islands, Belau, Pelew]
• loire 0
  n 1: the longest French river; rises in the Massif Central and flows north and west to the Atlantic Ocean [syn: Loire, Loire River]
• lah 0
  n 1: the syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization [syn: la, lah]
• aah 0
  v 1: express admiration and pleasure by uttering `ooh' or `aah'; "They oohed and aahed when they unwrapped the presents" [syn: ooh, aah]
• ah 0
• aye 0
• bah 0
• hah 0
• knar 0
• our 0
• qua 0
• rah 0
• yah 0
• barre 0
• ahr 0
• barr 0
• carr 0
• haar 0
• maher 0
• marr 0
• saar 0
• thar 0

See also moire definition and moire synonyms