Words that rhyme with plantain

• abdomen 0
  n 1: the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis [syn: abdomen, venter, stomach, belly] 2: the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm [syn: abdominal cavity, abdomen]
• abstain 0
  v 1: refrain from voting 2: choose not to consume; "I abstain from alcohol" [syn: abstain, refrain, desist] [ant: consume, have, ingest, take, take in]
• airman 0
  n 1: someone who operates an aircraft [syn: aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer]
• alderman 0
  n 1: a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council); "aldermen usually represent city wards"
• appertain 0
  v 1: be a part or attribute of [syn: pertain, appertain]
• artilleryman 0
  n 1: a serviceman in the artillery [syn: artilleryman, cannoneer, gunner, machine gunner]
• ascertain 0
  v 1: establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" [syn: determine, find, find out, ascertain] 2: be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product" [syn: see, check, insure, see to it, ensure, control, ascertain, assure] 3: find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" [syn: determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn] 4: learn or discover with certainty
• assemblyman 0
  n 1: someone who is a member of a legislative assembly
• attain 0
  v 1: to gain with effort; "she achieved her goal despite setbacks" [syn: achieve, accomplish, attain, reach] 2: reach a point in time, or a certain state or level; "The thermometer hit 100 degrees"; "This car can reach a speed of 140 miles per hour" [syn: reach, hit, attain] 3: find unexpectedly; "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake" [syn: fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover] 4: reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" [syn: reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain]
• backgammon 0
  n 1: a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice
• badminton 0
  n 1: a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
• barman 0
  n 1: an employee who mixes and serves alcoholic drinks at a bar [syn: bartender, barman, barkeep, barkeeper, mixologist]
• baton 0
  n 1: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir [syn: baton, wand] 2: a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club] 3: a short staff carried by some officials to symbolize an office or an authority 4: a hollow metal rod that is wielded or twirled by a drum major or drum majorette 5: a hollow cylinder passed from runner to runner in a relay race
• bloodstain 0
  n 1: a discoloration caused by blood
• bondwoman 0
  n 1: a female bound to serve without wages [syn: bondwoman, bondswoman, bondmaid] 2: a female slave [syn: bondwoman, bondswoman, bondmaid]
• bowman 0
  n 1: a person who is expert in the use of a bow and arrow [syn: archer, bowman]
• brimstone 0
  n 1: an old name for sulfur [syn: brimstone, native sulfur, native sulphur]
• businesswoman 0
  n 1: a female businessperson
• butane 0
  n 1: occurs in natural gas; used in the manufacture of rubber and fuels
• cacodemon 0
  n 1: an evil spirit [syn: cacodemon, cacodaemon] [ant: eudaemon, eudemon, good spirit]
• caiman 0
  n 1: a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly [syn: caiman, cayman]
• canton 0
  n 1: a city on the Zhu Jiang delta in southern China; the capital of Guangdong province and a major deep-water port [syn: Guangzhou, Kuangchou, Kwangchow, Canton] 2: a small administrative division of a country v 1: provide housing for (military personnel) [syn: quarter, billet, canton] 2: divide into cantons, of a country
• capstan 0
  n 1: a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails
• catechumen 0
  n 1: a new convert being taught the principles of Christianity by a catechist [syn: catechumen, neophyte]
• cavalryman 0
  n 1: a soldier in a motorized army unit [syn: cavalryman, trooper] 2: a soldier mounted on horseback; "a cavalryman always takes good care of his mount" [syn: cavalryman, trooper]
• chairman 0
  n 1: the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson" [syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chair, chairperson] v 1: act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university; "She chaired the department for many years" [syn: chair, chairman]
• chairwoman 0
  n 1: the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization; "address your remarks to the chairperson" [syn: president, chairman, chairwoman, chair, chairperson]
• charwoman 0
  n 1: a human female employed to do housework; "the char will clean the carpet"; "I have a woman who comes in four hours a day while I write" [syn: charwoman, char, cleaning woman, cleaning lady, woman]
• chevrotain 0
  n 1: very small hornless deer-like ruminant of tropical Asia and west Africa [syn: chevrotain, mouse deer]
• chieftain 0
  n 1: the leader of a group of people; "a captain of industry" [syn: captain, chieftain] 2: the head of a tribe or clan [syn: headman, tribal chief, chieftain, chief]
• cistern 0
  n 1: a sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid [syn: cisterna, cistern] 2: a tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet [syn: cistern, water tank] 3: an artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater
• clergyman 0
  n 1: a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church [syn: clergyman, reverend, man of the cloth] [ant: layman, layperson, secular]
• committeewoman 0
  n 1: a woman who is a member of a committee
• common 0
  adj 1: belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community" [ant: individual, single] 2: having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap" [ant: uncommon] 3: common to or shared by two or more parties; "a common friend"; "the mutual interests of management and labor" [syn: common, mutual] 4: commonly encountered; "a common (or familiar) complaint"; "the usual greeting" [syn: common, usual] 5: being or characteristic of or appropriate to everyday language; "common parlance"; "a vernacular term"; "vernacular speakers"; "the vulgar tongue of the masses"; "the technical and vulgar names for an animal species" [syn: common, vernacular, vulgar] 6: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed] 7: of low or inferior quality or value; "of what coarse metal ye are molded"- Shakespeare; "produced...the common cloths used by the poorer population" [syn: coarse, common] 8: lacking refinement or cultivation or taste; "he had coarse manners but a first-rate mind"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "an untutored and uncouth human being"; "an uncouth soldier--a real tough guy"; "appealing to the vulgar taste for violence"; "the vulgar display of the newly rich" [syn: coarse, common, rough-cut, uncouth, vulgar] 9: to be expected; standard; "common decency" n 1: a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area; "they went for a walk in the park" [syn: park, commons, common, green]
• congresswoman 0
  n 1: a member of the United States House of Representatives [syn: congressman, congresswoman, representative]
• contain 0
  v 1: include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's" [syn: incorporate, contain, comprise] 2: contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water" [syn: hold, bear, carry, contain] 3: lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits; "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger" [syn: control, hold in, hold, contain, check, curb, moderate] 4: be divisible by; "24 contains 6" 5: be capable of holding or containing; "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon" [syn: contain, take, hold] 6: hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of; "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism" [syn: check, turn back, arrest, stop, contain, hold back]
• councilwoman 0
  n 1: a woman who is a council member
• countryman 0
  n 1: a man from your own country 2: a man who lives in the country and has country ways [syn: countryman, ruralist]
• countrywoman 0
  n 1: a woman who lives in the country and has country ways 2: a woman from your own country
• cowman 0
  n 1: a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowboy, cowpuncher, puncher, cowman, cattleman, cowpoke, cowhand, cowherd]
• cretonne 0
  n 1: an unglazed heavy fabric; brightly printed; used for slipcovers and draperies
• crewman 0
  n 1: any member of a ship's crew [syn: sailor, crewman] 2: a member of a flight crew [syn: crewman, crew member] 3: a member of a work crew
• crouton 0
  n 1: a small piece of toasted or fried bread; served in soup or salads
• daemon 0
  n 1: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon] 2: a person who is part mortal and part god [syn: daemon, demigod]
• dairyman 0
  n 1: the owner or manager of a dairy [syn: dairyman, dairy farmer] 2: a man who works in a dairy
• deliveryman 0
  n 1: someone employed to make deliveries [syn: deliveryman, delivery boy, deliverer]
• demon 0
  n 1: an evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon] 2: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre] 3: someone extremely diligent or skillful; "he worked like a demon to finish the job on time"; "she's a demon at math"
• destine 0
  v 1: decree or designate beforehand; "She was destined to become a great pianist" [syn: destine, fate, doom, designate] 2: design or destine; "She was intended to become the director" [syn: intend, destine, designate, specify]
• detain 0
  v 1: deprive of freedom; take into confinement [syn: confine, detain] [ant: free, liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen] 2: stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" [syn: stay, detain, delay] 3: cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform" [syn: delay, detain, hold up] [ant: hurry, rush]
• doorman 0
  n 1: someone who guards an entrance [syn: doorkeeper, doorman, door guard, hall porter, porter, gatekeeper, ostiary]
• doubleton 0
  n 1: (bridge) a pair of playing cards that are the only cards in their suit in the hand dealt to a player
• eastern 0
  adj 1: lying toward or situated in the east; "the eastern end of the island" 2: of or characteristic of eastern regions of the United States; "the Eastern establishment" [ant: western] 3: lying in or toward the east; "the east side of New York"; "eastern cities" [syn: easterly, eastern] 4: relating to or characteristic of regions of eastern parts of the world; "Eastern Europe"; "the Eastern religions" [ant: western] 5: from the east; used especially of winds; "an eastern wind"; "the winds are easterly" [syn: easterly, eastern]
• entertain 0
  v 1: provide entertainment for 2: take into consideration, have in view; "He entertained the notion of moving to South America" [syn: entertain, think of, toy with, flirt with, think about] 3: maintain (a theory, thoughts, or feelings); "bear a grudge"; "entertain interesting notions"; "harbor a resentment" [syn: harbor, harbour, hold, entertain, nurse]
• etymon 0
  n 1: a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes [syn: etymon, root]
• famine 0
  n 1: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine, shortage] 2: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
• ferryman 0
  n 1: a man who operates a ferry
• fireman 0
  n 1: play in which children pretend to put out a fire 2: a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship) [syn: stoker, fireman] 3: a pitcher who does not start the game [syn: reliever, relief pitcher, fireman] 4: a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires [syn: fireman, firefighter, fire fighter, fire-eater]
• foreman 0
  n 1: a person who exercises control over workers; "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman" [syn: foreman, chief, gaffer, honcho, boss] 2: a man who is foreperson of a jury
• forewoman 0
  n 1: a woman who is foreperson of a jury [syn: forewoman, forelady] 2: a woman in charge of a group of workers
• fountain 0
  n 1: a structure from which an artificially produced jet of water arises 2: a natural flow of ground water [syn: spring, fountain, outflow, outpouring, natural spring] 3: an artificially produced flow of water [syn: fountain, jet] 4: a plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water [syn: fountain, fount]
• freedwoman 0
  n 1: a person who has been freed from slavery [syn: freedman, freedwoman]
• freeman 0
  n 1: a person who is not a serf or a slave [syn: freeman, freewoman]
• gentlewoman 0
  n 1: a woman of refinement; "a chauffeur opened the door of the limousine for the grand lady" [syn: dame, madam, ma'am, lady, gentlewoman]
• graviton 0
  n 1: a gauge boson that mediates the (extremely weak) gravitational interactions between particles
• highwayman 0
  n 1: a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it [syn: highjacker, highwayman, hijacker, road agent]
• horsewoman 0
  n 1: a woman horseman
• human 0
  adj 1: characteristic of humanity; "human nature" 2: relating to a person; "the experiment was conducted on 6 monkeys and 2 human subjects" 3: having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings; "human beings"; "the human body"; "human kindness"; "human frailty" [ant: nonhuman] n 1: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being, human]
• hymen 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the god of marriage 2: a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin [syn: hymen, maidenhead, virginal membrane]
• hyperbaton 0
  n 1: reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')
• ichneumon 0
  n 1: northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs [syn: ichneumon, Herpestes ichneumon]
• infantryman 0
  n 1: fights on foot with small arms [syn: infantryman, marcher, foot soldier, footslogger]
• inhuman 0
  adj 1: without compunction or human feeling; "in cold blood"; "cold-blooded killing"; "insensate destruction" [syn: cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate] 2: belonging to or resembling something nonhuman; "something dark and inhuman in form"; "a babel of inhuman noises"
• intestine 0
  n 1: the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus [syn: intestine, bowel, gut]
• journeyman 0
  n 1: a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft [syn: craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificer]
• juryman 0
  n 1: someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury [syn: juror, juryman, jurywoman]
• kinswoman 0
  n 1: a female relative
• krypton 0
  n 1: a colorless element that is one of the six inert gasses; occurs in trace amounts in air [syn: krypton, Kr, atomic number 36]
• lantern 0
  n 1: light in a transparent protective case
• lawman 0
  n 1: an officer of the law [syn: lawman, law officer, peace officer]
• layman 0
  n 1: someone who is not a clergyman or a professional person [syn: layman, layperson, secular] [ant: clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend]
• lectern 0
  n 1: desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer [syn: lectern, reading desk]
• lemon 0
  n 1: yellow oval fruit with juicy acidic flesh 2: a strong yellow color [syn: gamboge, lemon, lemon yellow, maize] 3: a small evergreen tree that originated in Asia but is widely cultivated for its fruit [syn: lemon, lemon tree, Citrus limon] 4: a distinctive tart flavor characteristic of lemons 5: an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory [syn: lemon, stinker]
• letterman 0
  n 1: an athlete who has earned a letter in a school sport
• liveryman 0
  n 1: a worker in a livery stable
• lobsterman 0
  n 1: a person whose occupation is catching lobsters
• longshoreman 0
  n 1: a laborer who loads and unloads vessels in a port [syn: stevedore, loader, longshoreman, docker, dockhand, dock worker, dockworker, dock-walloper, lumper]
• lumberman 0
  n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack, logger, feller, faller]
• lumen 0
  n 1: a unit of luminous flux equal to the amount of light given out through a solid angle of 1 steradian by a point source of 1 candela intensity radiating uniformly in all directions [syn: lumen, lm] 2: a cavity or passage in a tubular organ; "the lumen of the intestine"
• madwoman 0
  n 1: a woman lunatic
• maintain 0
  v 1: keep in a certain state, position, or activity; e.g., "keep clean"; "hold in place"; "She always held herself as a lady"; "The students keep me on my toes" [syn: keep, maintain, hold] 2: keep in safety and protect from harm, decay, loss, or destruction; "We preserve these archeological findings"; "The old lady could not keep up the building"; "children must be taught to conserve our national heritage"; "The museum curator conserved the ancient manuscripts" [syn: conserve, preserve, maintain, keep up] 3: supply with necessities and support; "She alone sustained her family"; "The money will sustain our good cause"; "There's little to earn and many to keep" [syn: sustain, keep, maintain] 4: state categorically [syn: assert, asseverate, maintain] 5: have and exercise; "wield power and authority" [syn: wield, exert, maintain] 6: maintain for use and service; "I keep a car in the countryside"; "She keeps an apartment in Paris for her shopping trips" [syn: keep, maintain] 7: maintain by writing regular records; "keep a diary"; "maintain a record"; "keep notes" [syn: keep, maintain] 8: state or assert; "He maintained his innocence" [syn: maintain, defend] 9: support against an opponent; "The appellate court upheld the verdict" [syn: uphold, maintain] 10: stick to correctly or closely; "The pianist kept time with the metronome"; "keep count"; "I cannot keep track of all my employees" [syn: observe, keep, maintain]
• molten 0
  adj 1: reduced to liquid form by heating; "a mass of molten rock" [syn: molten, liquefied, liquified]
• mountain 0
  n 1: a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill [syn: mountain, mount] 2: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]
• needlewoman 0
  n 1: someone who makes or mends dresses [syn: dressmaker, modiste, needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress]
• nekton 0
  n 1: the aggregate of actively swimming animals in a body of water ranging from microscopic organisms to whales
• noblewoman 0
  n 1: a woman of the peerage in Britain [syn: Lady, noblewoman, peeress] [ant: Lord, noble, nobleman]
• nurseryman 0
  n 1: someone who takes care of a garden [syn: gardener, nurseryman]
• obtain 0
  v 1: come into possession of; "How did you obtain the visa?" 2: receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: receive, get, find, obtain, incur] 3: be valid, applicable, or true; "This theory still holds" [syn: prevail, hold, obtain]
• octane 0
  n 1: any isomeric saturated hydrocarbon found in petroleum and used as a fuel and solvent
• often 0
  adv 1: many times at short intervals; "we often met over a cup of coffee" [syn: frequently, often, oftentimes, oft, ofttimes] [ant: infrequently, rarely, seldom] 2: frequently or in great quantities; "I don't drink much"; "I don't travel much" [syn: much, a great deal, often] 3: in many cases or instances
• pastern 0
  n 1: the part between the fetlock and the hoof [syn: pastern, fetter bone]

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