Words that rhyme with muscovite

• alight 0
  adj 1: lighted up by or as by fire or flame; "forests set ablaze (or afire) by lightning"; "even the car's tires were aflame"; "a night aflare with fireworks"; "candles alight on the tables"; "houses on fire" [syn: ablaze(p), afire(p), aflame(p), aflare(p), alight(p), on fire(p)] v 1: to come to rest, settle; "Misfortune lighted upon him" [syn: alight, light, perch] 2: come down; "the birds alighted" [syn: alight, climb down]
• alright 0
  adv 1: without doubt (used to reinforce an assertion); "it's expensive all right" [syn: all right, alright] 2: an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence [syn: very well, fine, alright, all right, OK] 3: in a satisfactory or adequate manner; "she'll do okay on her own"; "held up all right under pressure"; (`alright' is a nonstandard variant of `all right') [syn: okay, O.K., all right, alright] adj 1: nonstandard usage
• bight 0
  n 1: a loop in a rope 2: a bend or curve (especially in a coastline) 3: a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline; "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight" 4: the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends) v 1: fasten with a bight
• bite 0
  n 1: a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person 2: a small amount of solid food; a mouthful; "all they had left was a bit of bread" [syn: morsel, bit, bite] 3: a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin [syn: sting, bite, insect bite] 4: a light informal meal [syn: bite, collation, snack] 5: (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait; "after fishing for an hour he still had not had a bite" 6: wit having a sharp and caustic quality; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire" [syn: pungency, bite] 7: a strong odor or taste property; "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"; "the raciness of the wine" [syn: pungency, bite, sharpness, raciness] 8: the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws [syn: bite, chomp] 9: a portion removed from the whole; "the government's weekly bite from my paycheck" v 1: to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws; "Gunny invariably tried to bite her" [syn: bite, seize with teeth] 2: cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort; "The sun burned his face" [syn: bite, sting, burn] 3: penetrate or cut, as with a knife; "The fork bit into the surface" 4: deliver a sting to; "A bee stung my arm yesterday" [syn: sting, bite, prick]
• blight 0
  n 1: a state or condition being blighted 2: any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting v 1: cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold" [syn: blight, plague]
• bright 0
  adv 1: with brightness; "the stars shone brilliantly"; "the windows glowed jewel bright" [syn: brilliantly, brightly, bright] adj 1: emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts; "the sun was bright and hot"; "a bright sunlit room" [ant: dull] 2: having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" [syn: bright, brilliant, vivid] 3: characterized by quickness and ease in learning; "some children are brighter in one subject than another"; "smart children talk earlier than the average" [syn: bright, smart] 4: having lots of light either natural or artificial; "the room was bright and airy"; "a stage bright with spotlights" 5: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents" [syn: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny] 6: splendid; "the bright stars of stage and screen"; "a bright moment in history"; "the bright pageantry of court" 7: not made dim or less bright; "undimmed headlights"; "surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed" [syn: undimmed, bright] [ant: dim, dimmed] 8: clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets" [syn: bright, brilliant] 9: characterized by happiness or gladness; "bright faces"; "all the world seems bright and gay" 10: full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"; "a hopeful new singer on Broadway" [syn: bright, hopeful, promising]
• byte 0
  n 1: a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
• cite 0
  n 1: a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases" [syn: citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation] v 1: make reference to; "His name was mentioned in connection with the invention" [syn: mention, advert, bring up, cite, name, refer] 2: commend; "he was cited for his outstanding achievements" [syn: mention, cite] 3: refer to; "he referenced his colleagues' work" [syn: reference, cite] 4: repeat a passage from; "He quoted the Bible to her" [syn: quote, cite] 5: refer to for illustration or proof; "He said he could quote several instances of this behavior" [syn: quote, cite] 6: advance evidence for [syn: adduce, abduce, cite] 7: call in an official matter, such as to attend court [syn: summon, summons, cite]
• contrite 0
  adj 1: feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses [syn: contrite, remorseful, rueful, ruthful]
• delight 0
  n 1: a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction; "his delight to see her was obvious to all" [syn: delight, delectation] 2: something or someone that provides a source of happiness; "a joy to behold"; "the pleasure of his company"; "the new car is a delight" [syn: joy, delight, pleasure] v 1: give pleasure to or be pleasing to; "These colors please the senses"; "a pleasing sensation" [syn: please, delight] [ant: displease] 2: take delight in; "he delights in his granddaughter" [syn: delight, enjoy, revel] 3: hold spellbound [syn: enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight] [ant: disenchant, disillusion]
• despite 0
  n 1: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary" [syn: contempt, disdain, scorn, despite] 2: contemptuous disregard; "she wanted neither favor nor despite"
• invite 0
  n 1: a colloquial expression for invitation; "he didn't get no invite to the party" v 1: increase the likelihood of; "ask for trouble"; "invite criticism" [syn: invite, ask for] 2: invite someone to one's house; "Can I invite you for dinner on Sunday night?" [syn: invite, ask over, ask round] 3: give rise to a desire by being attractive or inviting; "the window displays tempted the shoppers" [syn: tempt, invite] 4: ask someone in a friendly way to do something [syn: invite, bid] 5: have as a guest; "I invited them to a restaurant" [syn: invite, pay for] 6: ask to enter; "We invited the neighbors in for a cup of coffee" [syn: invite, ask in] 7: request the participation or presence of; "The organizers invite submissions of papers for the conference" [syn: invite, call for] 8: express willingness to have in one's home or environs; "The community warmly received the refugees" [syn: receive, take in, invite]
• smite 0
  v 1: inflict a heavy blow on, with the hand, a tool, or a weapon 2: affect suddenly with deep feeling; "He was smitten with love for this young girl" 3: cause physical pain or suffering in; "afflict with the plague" [syn: afflict, smite]
• spite 0
  n 1: feeling a need to see others suffer [syn: malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom] 2: malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty [syn: cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness] v 1: hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised my ego" [syn: hurt, wound, injure, bruise, offend, spite]
• sprite 0
  n 1: a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers [syn: fairy, faery, faerie, fay, sprite]
• tight 0
  adv 1: firmly or closely; "held fast to the rope"; "her foot was stuck fast"; "held tight" [syn: fast, tight] 2: in an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard" [syn: close, closely, tight] adj 1: closely constrained or constricted or constricting; "tight skirts"; "he hated tight starched collars"; "fingers closed in a tight fist"; "a tight feeling in his chest" [ant: loose] 2: pulled or drawn tight; "taut sails"; "a tight drumhead"; "a tight rope" [syn: taut, tight] 3: set so close together as to be invulnerable to penetration; "in tight formation"; "a tight blockade" 4: pressed tightly together; "with lips compressed" [syn: compressed, tight] 5: (used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" [syn: mean, mingy, miserly, tight] 6: affected by scarcity and expensive to borrow; "tight money"; "a tight market" 7: of such close construction as to be impermeable; "a tight roof"; "warm in our tight little house" [ant: leaky] 8: of textiles; "a close weave"; "smooth percale with a very tight weave" [syn: close, tight] 9: securely or solidly fixed in place; rigid; "the bolts are tight" 10: (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched; "a close contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game" [syn: close, tight] 11: very drunk [syn: besotted, blind drunk, blotto, crocked, cockeyed, fuddled, loaded, pie-eyed, pissed, pixilated, plastered, slopped, sloshed, smashed, soaked, soused, sozzled, squiffy, stiff, tight, wet] 12: exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent; "a nasty problem"; "a good man to have on your side in a tight situation" [syn: nasty, tight] 13: demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures" [syn: rigorous, stringent, tight] 14: packed closely together; "they stood in a tight little group"; "hair in tight curls"; "the pub was packed tight"
• tonight 0
  adv 1: during the night of the present day; "drop by tonight" [syn: tonight, this evening, this night] n 1: the present or immediately coming night
• trite 0
  adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]
• upright 0
  adj 1: in a vertical position; not sloping; "an upright post" [syn: upright, unsloped] 2: of moral excellence; "a genuinely good person"; "a just cause"; "an upright and respectable man" [syn: good, just, upright] 3: upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright" [syn: erect, vertical, upright] [ant: unerect] n 1: a vertical structural member as a post or stake; "the ball sailed between the uprights" [syn: upright, vertical] 2: a piano with a vertical sounding board [syn: upright, upright piano]
• uptight 0
  adj 1: being in a tense state [syn: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive, uptight]
• white 0
  adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress" [ant: black] 2: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population" [ant: black] 3: free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor" 4: marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter" [syn: white, snowy] 5: restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization" [syn: white, lily-white] 6: glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire" [syn: white, white-hot] 7: benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you" 8: (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" [syn: blank, clean, white] 9: (of coffee) having cream or milk added 10: (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age" [syn: white, whitened] 11: anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" [syn: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white] 12: of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights" n 1: a member of the Caucasoid race [syn: White, White person, Caucasian] 2: the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) [syn: white, whiteness] [ant: black, blackness, inkiness] 3: United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921) [syn: White, Edward White, Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White Jr.] 4: Australian writer (1912-1990) [syn: White, Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White] 5: United States political journalist (1915-1986) [syn: White, T. H. White, Theodore Harold White] 6: United States architect (1853-1906) [syn: White, Stanford White] 7: United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) [syn: White, E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White] 8: United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918) [syn: White, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White] 9: a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri [syn: White, White River] 10: the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water; "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs" [syn: egg white, white, albumen, ovalbumin] 11: (board games) the lighter pieces [ant: black] 12: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth [syn: flannel, gabardine, tweed, white] v 1: turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry" [syn: whiten, white] [ant: black, blacken, melanise, melanize, nigrify]
• wright 0
  n 1: United States writer of detective novels (1888-1939) [syn: Wright, Willard Huntington Wright, S. S. Van Dine] 2: United States writer whose work is concerned with the oppression of African Americans (1908-1960) [syn: Wright, Richard Wright] 3: United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Orville Wright) invented the airplane (1867-1912) [syn: Wright, Wilbur Wright] 4: United States aviation pioneer who (with his brother Wilbur Wright) invented the airplane (1871-1948) [syn: Wright, Orville Wright] 5: influential United States architect (1869-1959) [syn: Wright, Frank Lloyd Wright] 6: United States early feminist (born in Scotland) (1795-1852) [syn: Wright, Frances Wright, Fanny Wright] 7: someone who makes or repairs something (usually used in combination)
• write 0
  v 1: produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" [syn: write, compose, pen, indite] 2: communicate or express by writing; "Please write to me every week" 3: have (one's written work) issued for publication; "How many books did Georges Simenon write?"; "She published 25 books during her long career" [syn: publish, write] 4: communicate (with) in writing; "Write her soon, please!" [syn: write, drop a line] 5: communicate by letter; "He wrote that he would be coming soon" 6: write music; "Beethoven composed nine symphonies" [syn: compose, write] 7: mark or trace on a surface; "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet" 8: record data on a computer; "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk" [syn: write, save] 9: write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the word wrong in this letter" [syn: spell, write] 10: create code, write a computer program; "She writes code faster than anybody else"
• sylvite 0
  n 1: a mineral consisting of native potassium chloride; an important ore of potassium that is found in sedimentary beds [syn: sylvite, sylvine]
• levite 0
  n 1: a member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi (especially the branch that provided male assistants to the temple priests)
• beit 0
• brite 0
• dwight 0
• nite 0
• allright 0
• clevite 0
• disinvite 0
• clyte 0
• stakhanovite 0

See also muscovite definition