Words that rhyme with ostankino

n 1: very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streams [syn: minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus]

n 1: the act of separating grain from chaff; "the winnowing was done by women" [syn: winnow, winnowing, sifting] v 1: separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field" [syn: winnow, fan] 2: blow on; "The wind was winnowing her hair"; "the wind winnowed the grass" 3: select desirable parts from a group or list; "cull out the interesting letters from the poet's correspondence"; "winnow the finalists from the long list of applicants" [syn: cull out, winnow] 4: blow away or off with a current of air; "winnow chaff"

n 1: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [syn: gold, Au, atomic number 79] 2: a unit of length used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers) [syn: Astronomical Unit, AU]