Words that rhyme with palestine

• adamantine 0
  adj 1: consisting of or having the hardness of adamant 2: having the hardness of a diamond 3: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" [syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent]
• amethystine 0
  adj 1: containing or resembling amethyst
• argentine 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people; "Argentinian tango" [syn: Argentine, Argentinian] n 1: any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes
• clandestine 0
  adj 1: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and- corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground]
• diamantine 0
  adj 1: consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds
• eglantine 0
  n 1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria]
• elephantine 0
  adj 1: of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo]
• mine 0
  n 1: excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted 2: explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel v 1: get from the earth by excavation; "mine ores and metals" 2: lay mines; "The Vietnamese mined Cambodia"
• serpentine 0
  adj 1: resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky ridges in the sand" [syn: serpentine, snaky, snakelike]
• tontine 0
  n 1: a form of life insurance whereby on the death or default of a participant his share is distributed to the remaining members [syn: tontine, tontine insurance] 2: an annuity scheme wherein participants share certain benefits and on the death of any participant his benefits are redistributed among the remaining participants; can run for a fixed period of time or until the death of all but one participant
• turpentine 0
  n 1: obtained from conifers (especially pines) [syn: turpentine, gum terpentine] 2: volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally [syn: turpentine, oil of turpentine, spirit of turpentine, turps]
• valentine 0
  n 1: a sweetheart chosen to receive a greeting on Saint Valentine's Day; "will you be my valentine?" 2: a card sent or given (as to a sweetheart) on Saint Valentine's Day
• epstein 0
  n 1: British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959) [syn: Epstein, Jacob Epstein, Sir Jacob Epstein]
• augustine 0
  n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian church; after a dramatic conversion to Christianity he became bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa; St. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace (354-430) [syn: Augustine, Saint Augustine, St. Augustine, Augustine of Hippo]
• byzantine 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites" 2: of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium 3: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
• clementine 0
  n 1: a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa [syn: clementine, clementine tree] 2: a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds
• constantine 0
  n 1: Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337) [syn: Constantine, Constantine I, Constantine the Great, Flavius Valerius Constantinus] 2: a walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I
• florentine 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the city of Florence; "Florentine art" n 1: a native or resident of Florence, Italy
• frankenstein 0
  n 1: an agency that escapes control and destroys its creator 2: the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation) [syn: Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster] 3: the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses
• hammerstein 0
  n 1: United States lyricist who collaborated on many musical comedies (most successfully with Richard Rodgers) (1895-1960) [syn: Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein II]
• lichtenstein 0
  n 1: United States painter who was a leading exponent of pop art (1923-1997) [syn: Lichtenstein, Roy Lichtenstein]
• philistine 0
  adj 1: of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people 2: smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values [syn: anti-intellectual, philistine] n 1: a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [syn: philistine, anti-intellectual, lowbrow] 2: a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
• rubinstein 0
  n 1: United States pianist (born in Poland) known for his interpretations of the music of Chopin (1886-1982) [syn: Rubinstein, Arthur Rubinstein, Artur Rubinstein] 2: Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894) [syn: Rubinstein, Anton Rubenstein, Anton Gregor Rubinstein, Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein]
• eisenstein 0
  n 1: Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures (1898-1948) [syn: Eisenstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein]
• levantine 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the Levant or its inhabitants; "the Levantine coast" n 1: (formerly) a native or inhabitant of the Levant
• wittgenstein 0
  n 1: British philosopher born in Austria; a major influence on logic and logical positivism (1889-1951) [syn: Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein]
• einstein 0
  n 1: physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955) [syn: Einstein, Albert Einstein] 2: someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein" [syn: genius, mastermind, brain, brainiac, Einstein]
• bernstein 0
  n 1: United States conductor and composer (1918-1990) [syn: Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein]
• chryselephantine 0
• goldstein 0
• finkelstein 0
• heseltine 0
• celestine 0
• ballantine 0
• infantine 0
• lacertine 0
• vespertine 0
• tridentine 0
• asbestine 0
• transpontine 0

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