Words that rhyme with nawab

  • absorb
    v 1: become imbued; "The liquids, light, and gases absorb" 2: take up mentally; "he absorbed the knowledge or beliefs of his tribe" [syn: absorb, assimilate, ingest, take in] 3: take up, as of debts or payments; "absorb the costs for something" [syn: absorb, take over] 4: take in, also metaphorically; "The sponge absorbs water well"; "She drew strength from the minister's words" [syn: absorb, suck, imbibe, soak up, sop up, suck up, draw, take in, take up] 5: cause to become one with; "The sales tax is absorbed into the state income tax" 6: suck or take up or in; "A black star absorbs all matter" [syn: absorb, take in] [ant: emit, give off, give out] 7: devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his studies" [syn: steep, immerse, engulf, plunge, engross, absorb, soak up] 8: assimilate or take in; "The immigrants were quickly absorbed into society" 9: consume all of one's attention or time; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" [syn: absorb, engross, engage, occupy]
  • adsorb
    v 1: accumulate (liquids or gases) on the surface
  • barb
    n 1: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" [syn: shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe] 2: the pointed part of barbed wire 3: a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove 4: one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather v 1: provide with barbs; "barbed wire"
  • bedaub
    v 1: spread or daub (a surface) [syn: bedaub, besmear]
  • daub
    n 1: material used to daub walls 2: a blemish made by dirt; "he had a smudge on his cheek" [syn: smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur] 3: an unskillful painting v 1: coat with plaster; "daub the wall" [syn: plaster, daub] 2: apply to a surface; "daub paint onto the wall" 3: cover (a surface) by smearing (a substance) over it; "smear the wall with paint"; "daub the ceiling with plaster" [syn: daub, smear]
  • garb
    n 1: clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress" [syn: attire, garb, dress] v 1: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel] [ant: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress]
  • kabob
    n 1: cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a skewer usually with vegetables [syn: kabob, kebab, shish kebab]
  • orb
    n 1: the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye [syn: eyeball, orb] 2: an object with a spherical shape; "a ball of fire" [syn: ball, globe, orb] v 1: move in an orbit; "The moon orbits around the Earth"; "The planets are orbiting the sun"; "electrons orbit the nucleus" [syn: orb, orbit, revolve]
  • reabsorb
    v 1: undergo resorption [syn: reabsorb, resorb]
  • rhubarb
    n 1: long pinkish sour leafstalks usually eaten cooked and sweetened [syn: pieplant, rhubarb] 2: plants having long green or reddish acidic leafstalks growing in basal clumps; stems (and only the stems) are edible when cooked; leaves are poisonous [syn: rhubarb, rhubarb plant]
  • sahib
    n 1: formerly a term of respect for important white Europeans in colonial India; used after the name
  • punjab
    n 1: a historical region on northwestern India and northern Pakistan
  • sorb
    n 1: acid gritty-textured fruit [syn: sorb, sorb apple] v 1: take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by absorption [syn: sorb, take up]
  • desorb
    v 1: go away from the surface to which (a substance) is adsorbed 2: remove from a surface on which it is adsorbed; "the substance was desorbed"
  • resorb
    v 1: undergo resorption [syn: reabsorb, resorb]
  • arb
    n 1: someone who engages in arbitrage (who purchases securities in one market for immediate resale in another in the hope of profiting from the price differential) [syn: arbitrageur, arbitrager, arb]
  • mihrab
    n 1: (Islam) a design in the shape of niche in a Muslim prayer rug; during worship the niche must be pointed toward Mecca 2: (Islam) a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the direction of Mecca
  • forb
  • aube
  • carb
  • bicarb

See also nawab definition