Words that rhyme with pelczar

  • agriculture
    n 1: a large-scale farming enterprise [syn: agribusiness, agriculture, factory farm] 2: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn: farming, agriculture, husbandry] 3: the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862 [syn: Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDA] 4: the class of people engaged in growing food
  • apiculture
    n 1: the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey [syn: beekeeping, apiculture]
  • aquaculture
    n 1: rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food
  • aquiculture
    n 1: a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients [syn: hydroponics, aquiculture, tank farming]
  • arboriculture
    n 1: the cultivation of tree for the production of timber [syn: arboriculture, tree farming]
  • are
    n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]
  • counterculture
    n 1: a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture
  • culture
    n 1: a particular society at a particular time and place; "early Mayan civilization" [syn: culture, civilization, civilisation] 2: the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group 3: all the knowledge and values shared by a society [syn: acculturation, culture] 4: (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar); "the culture of cells in a Petri dish" 5: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph Conrad [syn: polish, refinement, culture, cultivation, finish] 6: the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization; "the developing drug culture"; "the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture" 7: the raising of plants or animals; "the culture of oysters" v 1: grow in a special preparation; "the biologist grows microorganisms"
  • floriculture
    n 1: the cultivation of flowering plants [syn: flower gardening, floriculture]
  • horticulture
    n 1: the cultivation of plants [syn: gardening, horticulture]
  • monoculture
    n 1: the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)
  • sericulture
    n 1: raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk 2: the production of raw silk by raising silkworms
  • squelcher
    n 1: a crushing remark [syn: put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedown] 2: an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise [syn: squelch circuit, squelch, squelcher]
  • subculture
    n 1: a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs
  • viniculture
    n 1: the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing [syn: viticulture, viniculture]
  • viticulture
    n 1: the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing [syn: viticulture, viniculture]
  • vulture
    n 1: any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion 2: someone who attacks in search of booty [syn: marauder, predator, vulture, piranha]
  • welcher
    n 1: someone who swindles you by not repaying a debt or wager [syn: welcher, welsher]
  • silviculture
    n 1: the branch of forestry dealing with the development and care of forests
  • sepulture
    n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture] 2: a chamber that is used as a grave [syn: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture]
  • aviculture
  • multure
  • belcher
  • melcher
  • melchor
  • pisciculture