Words that rhyme with peripeteia

• attire 0
  n 1: clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion; "formal attire"; "battle dress" [syn: attire, garb, dress] v 1: put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive; "She never dresses up, even when she goes to the opera"; "The young girls were all fancied up for the party" [syn: overdress, dress up, fig out, fig up, deck up, gussy up, fancy up, trick up, deck out, trick out, prink, attire, get up, rig out, tog up, tog out] [ant: dress down, underdress]
• charioteer 0
  n 1: the driver of a chariot 2: a conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Great Bear and Orion at edge of Milky Way [syn: Auriga, Charioteer]
• frontier 0
  n 1: a wilderness at the edge of a settled area of a country; "the individualism of the frontier in Andrew Jackson's day" 2: an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary 3: an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development; "he worked at the frontier of brain science"
• gazetteer 0
  n 1: a journalist who writes for a gazette 2: a geographical dictionary (as at the back of an atlas)
• messiah 0
  n 1: any expected deliverer [syn: messiah, christ] 2: Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer 3: the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people 4: an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742
• muleteer 0
  n 1: a worker who drives mules [syn: muleteer, mule skinner, mule driver, skinner]
• musketeer 0
  n 1: a foot soldier armed with a musket
• pamphleteer 0
  n 1: a writer of pamphlets (usually taking a partisan stand on public issues)
• papaya 0
  n 1: tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit [syn: papaya, papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree, Carica papaya] 2: large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh
• pariah 0
  n 1: a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael]
• privateer 0
  n 1: an officer or crew member of a privateer [syn: privateer, privateersman] 2: a privately owned warship commissioned to prey on the commercial shipping or warships of an enemy nation
• profiteer 0
  n 1: someone who makes excessive profit (especially on goods in short supply) v 1: make an unreasonable profit, as on the sale of difficult to obtain goods
• puppeteer 0
  n 1: one who operates puppets or marionettes
• racketeer 0
  n 1: someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion) v 1: carry on illegal business activities involving crime
• retire 0
  v 1: go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position; "He retired at age 68" 2: withdraw from active participation; "He retired from chess" [syn: retire, withdraw] 3: pull back or move away or backward; "The enemy withdrew"; "The limo pulled away from the curb" [syn: withdraw, retreat, pull away, draw back, recede, pull back, retire, move back] [ant: advance, go on, march on, move on, pass on, progress] 4: withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds 5: break from a meeting or gathering; "We adjourned for lunch"; "The men retired to the library" [syn: adjourn, withdraw, retire] 6: make (someone) retire; "The director was retired after the scandal" 7: dispose of (something no longer useful or needed); "She finally retired that old coat" 8: lose interest; "he retired from life when his wife died" [syn: retire, withdraw] 9: cause to be out on a fielding play [syn: put out, retire] 10: cause to get out; "The pitcher retired three batters"; "the runner was put out at third base" [syn: retire, strike out] 11: prepare for sleep; "I usually turn in at midnight"; "He goes to bed at the crack of dawn" [syn: go to bed, turn in, bed, crawl in, kip down, hit the hay, hit the sack, sack out, go to sleep, retire] [ant: arise, get up, rise, turn out, uprise]
• satire 0
  n 1: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"-- Jonathan Swift [syn: sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark]
• sonneteer 0
  n 1: a poet who writes sonnets
• volunteer 0
  adj 1: without payment; "the soup kitchen was run primarily by unpaid helpers"; "a volunteer fire department" [syn: unpaid, volunteer(a)] n 1: (military) a person who freely enlists for service [syn: volunteer, military volunteer, voluntary] [ant: conscript, draftee, inductee] 2: a person who performs voluntary work [syn: volunteer, unpaid worker] 3: a native or resident of Tennessee [syn: Tennessean, Volunteer] v 1: tell voluntarily; "He volunteered the information" 2: agree freely; "She volunteered to drive the old lady home"; "I offered to help with the dishes but the hostess would not hear of it" [syn: volunteer, offer] 3: do volunteer work
• galatea 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) a maiden who was first a sculpture created by Pygmalion and was brought to life by Aphrodite in answer to Pygmalion's prayers
• maya 0
  n 1: a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy; "Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar" [syn: Mayan, Maya] 2: a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya [syn: Maya, Mayan, Mayan language]
• gaia 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology [syn: Gaea, Gaia, Ge]
• maia 0
  n 1: type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: Maja, genus Maja, Maia, genus Maia]
• elia 0
  n 1: English essayist (1775-1834) [syn: Lamb, Charles Lamb, Elia]
• rupiah 0
  n 1: the basic unit of money in Indonesia; equal to 100 sen
• himalaya 0
  n 1: a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain [syn: Himalayas, Himalaya Mountains, Himalaya]
• jeremiah 0
  n 1: (Old Testament) an Israelite prophet who is remembered for his angry lamentations (jeremiads) about the wickedness of his people (circa 626-587 BC) 2: a book in the Old Testament containing the oracles of the prophet Jeremiah [syn: Jeremiah, Book of Jeremiah]
• nehemiah 0
  n 1: an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity [syn: Nehemiah, Book of Nehemiah]
• obadiah 0
  n 1: a Hebrew minor prophet [syn: Obadiah, Abdias] 2: an Old Testament book telling Obadiah's prophecies; the shortest book in the Christian Bible [syn: Obadiah, Abdias, Book of Obadiah]
• blantyre 0
  n 1: city in southern Malawi; largest city and commercial center of Malawi
• overtire 0
  v 1: tire excessively [syn: overtire, overweary, overfatigue]
• gadgeteer 0
  n 1: a person who delights in designing or building or using gadgets
• saltire 0
  n 1: a cross resembling the letter x, with diagonal bars of equal length [syn: St. Andrew's cross, saltire]
• playa 0
• via 0
• mcteer 0
• marketeer 0
• summiteer 0
• vizcaya 0
• aja 0
• czaja 0
• daya 0
• jaya 0
• araya 0
• berjaya 0
• cartaya 0
• josiah 0
• mariah 0
• zelaya 0
• plisetskaya 0
• sovetskaya 0
• stolichnaya 0
• zachariah 0
• zaslavskaya 0
• zedekiah 0
• corsetiere 0
• mcateer 0
• pulpiteer 0
• rocketeer 0

See also peripeteia definition