Words that rhyme with pembroke

• arrack 0
  n 1: any of various strong liquors distilled from the fermented sap of toddy palms or from fermented molasses [syn: arrack, arak]
• backstroke 0
  n 1: a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back v 1: swim on one's back
• barrack 0
  n 1: a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel v 1: lodge in barracks 2: spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts; "The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers" [syn: cheer, root on, inspire, urge, barrack, urge on, exhort, pep up] 3: laugh at with contempt and derision; "The crowd jeered at the speaker" [syn: jeer, scoff, flout, barrack, gibe]
• breaststroke 0
  n 1: a swimming stroke; the arms are extended together in front of the head and swept back on either side accompanied by a frog kick v 1: swim with the face down and extend the arms forward and outward while kicking with the leg
• broke 0
  adj 1: lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term" [syn: broke, bust, skint, stone-broke, stony-broke]
• brook 0
  n 1: a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer" [syn: brook, creek] v 1: put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage" [syn: digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up]
• carrack 0
  n 1: a large galleon sailed in the Mediterranean as a merchantman [syn: carrack, carack]
• cook 0
  n 1: someone who cooks food 2: English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779) [syn: Cook, James Cook, Captain Cook, Captain James Cook] v 1: prepare a hot meal; "My husband doesn't cook" 2: prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" [syn: cook, fix, ready, make, prepare] 3: transform and make suitable for consumption by heating; "These potatoes have to cook for 20 minutes" 4: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent] 5: transform by heating; "The apothecary cooked the medicinal mixture in a big iron kettle"
• gobbledygook 0
  n 1: incomprehensible or pompous jargon of specialists
• gook 0
  n 1: any thick, viscous matter [syn: sludge, slime, goo, goop, gook, guck, gunk, muck, ooze] 2: (slang) a disparaging term for an Asian person (especially for North Vietnamese soldiers in the Vietnam War) [syn: gook, slant-eye]
• heatstroke 0
  n 1: collapse caused by exposure to excessive heat [syn: heatstroke, heat hyperpyrexia]
• hook 0
  n 1: a catch for locking a door 2: a sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook [syn: hook, crotchet] 3: anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come- on, hook, lure, sweetener] 4: a mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something [syn: hook, claw] 5: a curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something 6: a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer; "he took lessons to cure his hooking" [syn: hook, draw, hooking] 7: a short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent 8: a basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket [syn: hook shot, hook] v 1: fasten with a hook [ant: unhook] 2: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook] [ant: undercharge] 3: make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day" [syn: crochet, hook] 4: hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left 5: take by theft; "Someone snitched my wallet!" [syn: hook, snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom] 6: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift] 7: hit with a hook; "His opponent hooked him badly" 8: catch with a hook; "hook a fish" 9: to cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug) [syn: addict, hook] 10: secure with the foot; "hook the ball" 11: entice and trap; "The car salesman had snared three potential customers" [syn: hook, snare] 12: approach with an offer of sexual favors; "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park" [syn: hook, solicit, accost]
• keystroke 0
  n 1: the stroke of a key; one depression of a key on a keyboard; "the number of keystrokes was used as a measure of work" [syn: keystroke, key stroke]
• look 0
  n 1: the feelings expressed on a person's face; "a sad expression"; "a look of triumph"; "an angry face" [syn: expression, look, aspect, facial expression, face] 2: the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; "he went out to have a look"; "his look was fixed on her eyes"; "he gave it a good looking at"; "his camera does his looking for him" [syn: look, looking, looking at] 3: physical appearance; "I don't like the looks of this place" 4: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell] v 1: perceive with attention; direct one's gaze towards; "She looked over the expanse of land"; "Look at your child!"; "Look--a deer in the backyard!" 2: give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect; "She seems to be sleeping"; "This appears to be a very difficult problem"; "This project looks fishy"; "They appeared like people who had not eaten or slept for a long time" [syn: look, appear, seem] 3: have a certain outward or facial expression; "How does she look?"; "The child looks unhappy"; "She looked pale after the surgery" 4: search or seek; "We looked all day and finally found the child in the forest"; "Look elsewhere for the perfect gift!" [syn: search, look] 5: be oriented in a certain direction, often with respect to another reference point; be opposite to; "The house looks north"; "My backyard look onto the pond"; "The building faces the park" [syn: front, look, face] [ant: back] 6: take charge of or deal with; "Could you see about lunch?"; "I must attend to this matter"; "She took care of this business" [syn: attend, take care, look, see] 7: convey by one's expression; "She looked her devotion to me" 8: look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" [syn: expect, look, await, wait] 9: accord in appearance with; "You don't look your age!" 10: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon]
• masterstroke 0
  n 1: an achievement demonstrating great skill or mastery
• nook 0
  n 1: a sheltered and secluded place 2: an interior angle formed by two meeting walls; "a piano was in one corner of the room" [syn: corner, nook]
• precook 0
  v 1: cook beforehand so that the actual preparation won't take long; "precook the rice"
• sidestroke 0
  n 1: a swimming stroke in which the arms move forward and backward while the legs do a scissors kick
• sunstroke 0
  n 1: sudden prostration due to exposure to the sun or excessive heat [syn: sunstroke, insolation, thermic fever, siriasis]
• unhook 0
  v 1: take off a hook [ant: hook]
• upstroke 0
  n 1: a stroke normally made in an upward direction
• snook 0
  n 1: large tropical American food and game fishes of coastal and brackish waters; resemble pike
• baruch 0
  n 1: economic advisor to United States Presidents (1870-1965) [syn: Baruch, Bernard Baruch, Bernard Mannes Baruch] 2: a disciple of and secretary for the prophet Jeremiah 3: an Apocryphal book ascribed to Baruch [syn: Baruch, Book of Baruch]
• kirkuk 0
  n 1: a city in northeastern Iraq; the center of a rich oilfield with pipelines to the Mediterranean
• downstroke 0
  n 1: a stroke normally made in a downward direction
• chinook 0
  n 1: a warm dry wind blowing down the eastern slopes of the Rockies [syn: chinook, chinook wind, snow eater] 2: a member of an important North American Indian people who controlled the mouth of the Columbia river; they were organized into settlements rather than tribes 3: pink or white flesh of large Pacific salmon [syn: chinook salmon, chinook, king salmon] 4: a Penutian language spoken by the Chinook [syn: Chinookan, Chinook] 5: large Pacific salmon valued as food; adults die after spawning [syn: chinook, chinook salmon, king salmon, quinnat salmon, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha]
• overcook 0
  v 1: cook too long; "The vegetables were completely overcooked"
• cooke 0
  n 1: United States journalist (born in England in 1908) [syn: Cooke, Alistair Cooke, Alfred Alistair Cooke] 2: United States financier who marketed Union bonds to finance the American Civil War; the failure of his bank resulted in a financial panic in 1873 (1821-1905) [syn: Cooke, Jay Cooke]
• hooke 0
  n 1: English scientist who formulated the law of elasticity and proposed a wave theory of light and formulated a theory of planetary motion and proposed the inverse square law of gravitational attraction and discovered the cellular structure of cork and introduced the term `cell' into biology and invented a balance spring for watches (1635-1703) [syn: Hooke, Robert Hooke]
• brooke 0
  n 1: English lyric poet (1887-1915) [syn: Brooke, Rupert Brooke]
• mistook 0
• overtook 0
• undercook 0
• undertook 0
• oke 0
• flook 0
• stroock 0
• decook 0
• mccook 0
• rebook 0
• retook 0
• unbook 0
• vanhook 0
• mook 0
• schook 0
• tooke 0
• zook 0

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