Words that rhyme with pleat

• backseat 0
  n 1: a secondary or inferior position or status; "tennis has had to take a backseat while his work is so demanding" 2: a seat at the back of a vehicle (especially the seat at the back of an automobile)
• beat 0
  adj 1: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)] n 1: a regular route for a sentry or policeman; "in the old days a policeman walked a beat and knew all his people by name" [syn: beat, round] 2: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" [syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat] 3: the basic rhythmic unit in a piece of music; "the piece has a fast rhythm"; "the conductor set the beat" [syn: rhythm, beat, musical rhythm] 4: a single pulsation of an oscillation produced by adding two waves of different frequencies; has a frequency equal to the difference between the two oscillations 5: a member of the beat generation; a nonconformist in dress and behavior [syn: beatnik, beat] 6: the sound of stroke or blow; "he heard the beat of a drum" 7: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence] 8: a regular rate of repetition; "the cox raised the beat" 9: a stroke or blow; "the signal was two beats on the steam pipe" 10: the act of beating to windward; sailing as close as possible to the direction from which the wind is blowing v 1: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish] 2: give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" [syn: beat, beat up, work over] 3: hit repeatedly; "beat on the door"; "beat the table with his shoe" 4: move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" [syn: beat, pound, thump] 5: shape by beating; "beat swords into ploughshares" 6: make a rhythmic sound; "Rain drummed against the windshield"; "The drums beat all night" [syn: drum, beat, thrum] 7: glare or strike with great intensity; "The sun was beating down on us" 8: move with a thrashing motion; "The bird flapped its wings"; "The eagle beat its wings and soared high into the sky" [syn: beat, flap] 9: sail with much tacking or with difficulty; "The boat beat in the strong wind" 10: stir vigorously; "beat the egg whites"; "beat the cream" [syn: beat, scramble] 11: strike (a part of one's own body) repeatedly, as in great emotion or in accompaniment to music; "beat one's breast"; "beat one's foot rhythmically" 12: be superior; "Reading beats watching television"; "This sure beats work!" 13: avoid paying; "beat the subway fare" [syn: beat, bunk] 14: make a sound like a clock or a timer; "the clocks were ticking"; "the grandfather clock beat midnight" [syn: tick, ticktock, ticktack, beat] 15: move with a flapping motion; "The bird's wings were flapping" [syn: beat, flap] 16: indicate by beating, as with the fingers or drumsticks; "Beat the rhythm" 17: move with or as if with a regular alternating motion; "the city pulsated with music and excitement" [syn: pulsate, beat, quiver] 18: make by pounding or trampling; "beat a path through the forest" 19: produce a rhythm by striking repeatedly; "beat the drum" 20: strike (water or bushes) repeatedly to rouse animals for hunting 21: beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" [syn: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent] 22: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound] 23: wear out completely; "This kind of work exhausts me"; "I'm beat"; "He was all washed up after the exam" [syn: exhaust, wash up, beat, tucker, tucker out]
• beet 0
  n 1: biennial Eurasian plant usually having a swollen edible root; widely cultivated as a food crop [syn: beet, common beet, Beta vulgaris] 2: round red root vegetable [syn: beet, beetroot]
• bleat 0
  n 1: the sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this) v 1: talk whiningly 2: cry plaintively; "The lambs were bleating" [syn: bleat, blate, blat, baa]
• cheat 0
  n 1: weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous [syn: darnel, tare, bearded darnel, cheat, Lolium temulentum] 2: weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat [syn: chess, cheat, Bromus secalinus] 3: someone who leads you to believe something that is not true [syn: deceiver, cheat, cheater, trickster, beguiler, slicker] 4: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud" [syn: swindle, cheat, rig] 5: a deception for profit to yourself [syn: cheat, cheating] v 1: deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" [syn: cheat, rip off, chisel] 2: defeat someone through trickery or deceit [syn: cheat, chouse, shaft, screw, chicane, jockey] 3: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?" [syn: cheat, chisel] 4: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" [syn: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander]
• cleat 0
  n 1: a metal or leather projection (as from the sole of a shoe); prevents slipping 2: a fastener (usually with two projecting horns) around which a rope can be secured 3: a strip of wood or metal used to strengthen the surface to which it is attached v 1: provide with cleats; "cleat running shoes for better traction" 2: secure on a cleat; "cleat a line"
• compete 0
  v 1: compete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others [syn: compete, vie, contend]
• complete 0
  adj 1: having every necessary or normal part or component or step; "a complete meal"; "a complete wardrobe"; "a complete set of the Britannica"; "a complete set of china"; "a complete defeat"; "a complete accounting" [ant: incomplete, uncomplete] 2: perfect and complete in every respect; having all necessary qualities; "a complete gentleman"; "consummate happiness"; "a consummate performance" [syn: complete, consummate] 3: highly skilled; "an accomplished pianist"; "a complete musician" [syn: accomplished, complete] 4: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated] 5: having come or been brought to a conclusion; "the harvesting was complete"; "the affair is over, ended, finished"; "the abruptly terminated interview" [syn: complete, concluded, ended, over(p), all over, terminated] v 1: come or bring to a finish or an end; "He finished the dishes"; "She completed the requirements for her Master's Degree"; "The fastest runner finished the race in just over 2 hours; others finished in over 4 hours" [syn: complete, finish] 2: bring to a whole, with all the necessary parts or elements; "A child would complete the family" 3: complete or carry out; "discharge one's duties" [syn: dispatch, discharge, complete] 4: complete a pass [syn: complete, nail] 5: write all the required information onto a form; "fill out this questionnaire, please!"; "make out a form" [syn: complete, fill out, fill in, make out]
• conceit 0
  n 1: feelings of excessive pride [syn: amour propre, conceit, self-love, vanity] 2: an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things 3: a witty or ingenious turn of phrase; "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit" 4: an artistic device or effect; "the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree" 5: the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride [syn: conceit, conceitedness, vanity] [ant: humbleness, humility]
• concrete 0
  adj 1: capable of being perceived by the senses; not abstract or imaginary; "concrete objects such as trees" [ant: abstract] 2: formed by the coalescence of particles n 1: a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water v 1: cover with cement; "concrete the walls" 2: form into a solid mass; coalesce
• deceit 0
  n 1: the quality of being fraudulent [syn: fraudulence, deceit] 2: a misleading falsehood [syn: misrepresentation, deceit, deception] 3: the act of deceiving [syn: deception, deceit, dissembling, dissimulation]
• defeat 0
  n 1: an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking" [syn: defeat, licking] [ant: triumph, victory] 2: the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals [syn: frustration, defeat] v 1: win a victory over; "You must overcome all difficulties"; "defeat your enemies"; "He overcame his shyness"; "He overcame his infirmity"; "Her anger got the better of her and she blew up" [syn: get the better of, overcome, defeat] 2: thwart the passage of; "kill a motion"; "he shot down the student's proposal" [syn: kill, shoot down, defeat, vote down, vote out]
• delete 0
  v 1: remove or make invisible; "Please delete my name from your list" [syn: delete, cancel] 2: wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information; "Who erased the files form my hard disk?" [syn: erase, delete] [ant: record, tape] 3: cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: edit, blue-pencil, delete]
• deplete 0
  v 1: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out]
• discreet 0
  adj 1: marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint; "his trusted discreet aide"; "a discreet, finely wrought gold necklace" [ant: indiscreet] 2: unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence" [syn: discerning, discreet] 3: heedful of potential consequences; "circumspect actions"; "physicians are now more circumspect about recommending its use"; "a discreet investor" [syn: circumspect, discreet]
• discrete 0
  adj 1: constituting a separate entity or part; "a government with three discrete divisions"; "on two distinct occasions" [syn: discrete, distinct]
• downbeat 0
  n 1: the first beat of a musical measure (as the conductor's arm moves downward)
• eat 0
  v 1: take in solid food; "She was eating a banana"; "What did you eat for dinner last night?" 2: eat a meal; take a meal; "We did not eat until 10 P.M. because there were so many phone calls"; "I didn't eat yet, so I gladly accept your invitation" 3: take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?" [syn: feed, eat] 4: worry or cause anxiety in a persistent way; "What's eating you?" [syn: eat, eat on] 5: use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week" [syn: consume, eat up, use up, eat, deplete, exhaust, run through, wipe out] 6: cause to deteriorate due to the action of water, air, or an acid; "The acid corroded the metal"; "The steady dripping of water rusted the metal stopper in the sink" [syn: corrode, eat, rust]
• effete 0
  adj 1: marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals" [syn: decadent, effete]
• en 0
  n 1: half the width of an em [syn: en, nut]
• excrete 0
  v 1: eliminate from the body; "Pass a kidney stone" [syn: excrete, egest, eliminate, pass]
• feat 0
  n 1: a notable achievement; "he performed a great feat"; "the book was her finest effort" [syn: feat, effort, exploit]
• fleet 0
  adj 1: moving very fast; "fleet of foot"; "the fleet scurrying of squirrels"; "a swift current"; "swift flight of an arrow"; "a swift runner" [syn: fleet, swift] n 1: group of aircraft operating together under the same ownership 2: group of motor vehicles operating together under the same ownership 3: a group of steamships operating together under the same ownership 4: a group of warships organized as a tactical unit v 1: move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; "The hummingbird flitted among the branches" [syn: flit, flutter, fleet, dart] 2: disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" [syn: evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass]
• gamete 0
  n 1: a mature sexual reproductive cell having a single set of unpaired chromosomes
• greet 0
  v 1: express greetings upon meeting someone [syn: greet, recognize, recognise] 2: send greetings to 3: react to in a certain way; "The President was greeted with catcalls" 4: be perceived by; "Loud music greeted him when he entered the apartment"
• heat 0
  n 1: a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature [syn: heat, heat energy] 2: the presence of heat [syn: hotness, heat, high temperature] [ant: cold, coldness, frigidity, frigidness, low temperature] 3: the sensation caused by heat energy [syn: heat, warmth] 4: the trait of being intensely emotional [syn: heat, warmth, passion] 5: applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity [syn: estrus, oestrus, heat, rut] [ant: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus] 6: a preliminary race in which the winner advances to a more important race 7: utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating" [syn: heating system, heating plant, heating, heat] v 1: make hot or hotter; "the sun heats the oceans"; "heat the water on the stove" [syn: heat, heat up] [ant: chill, cool, cool down] 2: provide with heat; "heat the house" 3: arouse or excite feelings and passions; "The ostentatious way of living of the rich ignites the hatred of the poor"; "The refugees' fate stirred up compassion around the world"; "Wake old feelings of hatred" [syn: inflame, stir up, wake, ignite, heat, fire up] 4: gain heat or get hot; "The room heated up quickly" [syn: heat, hot up, heat up] [ant: chill, cool, cool down]
• incomplete 0
  adj 1: not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass" [syn: incomplete, uncomplete] [ant: complete] 2: not yet finished; "his thesis is still incomplete"; "an uncompleted play" [syn: incomplete, uncompleted]
• indiscreet 0
  adj 1: lacking discretion; injudicious; "her behavior was indiscreet at the very best" [ant: discreet]
• meat 0
  n 1: the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food 2: the inner and usually edible part of a seed or grain or nut or fruit stone; "black walnut kernels are difficult to get out of the shell" [syn: kernel, meat] 3: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty- gritty]
• meet 0
  adj 1: being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first" [syn: fitting, meet] n 1: a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held [syn: meet, sports meeting] v 1: come together; "I'll probably see you at the meeting"; "How nice to see you again!" [syn: meet, run into, encounter, run across, come across, see] 2: get together socially or for a specific purpose [syn: meet, get together] 3: be adjacent or come together; "The lines converge at this point" [syn: converge, meet] [ant: diverge] 4: fill or meet a want or need [syn: meet, satisfy, fill, fulfill, fulfil] 5: satisfy a condition or restriction; "Does this paper meet the requirements for the degree?" [syn: meet, fit, conform to] 6: satisfy or fulfill; "meet a need"; "this job doesn't match my dreams" [syn: meet, match, cope with] 7: collect in one place; "We assembled in the church basement"; "Let's gather in the dining room" [syn: meet, gather, assemble, forgather, foregather] 8: get to know; get acquainted with; "I met this really handsome guy at a bar last night!"; "we met in Singapore" 9: meet by design; be present at the arrival of; "Can you meet me at the train station?" 10: contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle; "Princeton plays Yale this weekend"; "Charlie likes to play Mary" [syn: meet, encounter, play, take on] 11: experience as a reaction; "My proposal met with much opposition" [syn: meet, encounter, receive] 12: undergo or suffer; "meet a violent death"; "suffer a terrible fate" [syn: suffer, meet] 13: be in direct physical contact with; make contact; "The two buildings touch"; "Their hands touched"; "The wire must not contact the metal cover"; "The surfaces contact at this point" [syn: touch, adjoin, meet, contact]
• mete 0
  n 1: a line that indicates a boundary [syn: boundary line, border, borderline, delimitation, mete]
• mistreat 0
  v 1: treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead" [syn: mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat]
• neat 0
  adj 1: clean or organized; "her neat dress"; "a neat room" [syn: neat, orderly] 2: showing care in execution; "neat homework"; "neat handwriting" 3: free from what is tawdry or unbecoming; "a neat style"; "a neat set of rules"; "she hated to have her neat plans upset" [syn: neat, refined, tasteful] 4: free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife" [syn: clean, neat] 5: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" [syn: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing] 6: without water; "took his whiskey neat" [syn: neat, straight, full-strength]
• obsolete 0
  adj 1: no longer in use; "obsolete words" [syn: disused, obsolete]
• offbeat 0
  adj 1: informal terms; strikingly unconventional [syn: far- out, kinky, offbeat, quirky, way-out] n 1: an unaccented beat (especially the last beat of a measure) [syn: upbeat, offbeat]
• overeat 0
  v 1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out]
• peat 0
  n 1: partially carbonized vegetable matter saturated with water; can be used as a fuel when dried
• petite 0
  adj 1: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck] n 1: a garment size for short or slender women
• receipt 0
  n 1: the act of receiving [syn: reception, receipt] 2: an acknowledgment (usually tangible) that payment has been made v 1: report the receipt of; "The program committee acknowledged the submission of the authors of the paper" [syn: acknowledge, receipt] 2: mark or stamp as paid
• repeat 0
  n 1: an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's" [syn: repeat, repetition] v 1: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell] 2: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate] 3: happen or occur again; "This is a recurring story" [syn: recur, repeat] 4: to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders" [syn: repeat, echo] 5: do over; "They would like to take it over again" [syn: repeat, take over] 6: repeat an earlier theme of a composition [syn: reprise, reprize, repeat, recapitulate]
• replete 0
  adj 1: filled to satisfaction with food or drink; "a full stomach" [syn: full, replete(p)] 2: (followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated; "imbued with the spirit of the Reformation"; "words instinct with love"; "it is replete with misery" [syn: instinct(p), replete(p)] v 1: fill to satisfaction; "I am sated" [syn: satiate, sate, replete, fill]
• retreat 0
  n 1: (military) withdrawal of troops to a more favorable position to escape the enemy's superior forces or after a defeat; "the disorderly retreat of French troops" 2: a place of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet 3: (military) a signal to begin a withdrawal from a dangerous position 4: (military) a bugle call signaling the lowering of the flag at sunset 5: an area where you can be alone [syn: hideaway, retreat] 6: withdrawal for prayer and study and meditation; "the religious retreat is a form of vacation activity" [syn: retirement, retreat] 7: the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant) [ant: advance, advancement, forward motion, onward motion, procession, progress, progression] v 1: 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] 2: move away, as for privacy; "The Pope retreats to Castelgondolfo every summer" 3: move back; "The glacier retrogrades" [syn: retrograde, retreat] 4: make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity; "We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him"; "He backed out of his earlier promise"; "The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns" [syn: retreat, pull back, back out, back away, crawfish, crawfish out, pull in one's horns, withdraw]
• seat 0
  n 1: a space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane); "he booked their seats in advance"; "he sat in someone else's place" [syn: seat, place] 2: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 3: furniture that is designed for sitting on; "there were not enough seats for all the guests" 4: any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit); "he dusted off the seat before sitting down" 5: a center of authority (as a city from which authority is exercised) 6: the location (metaphorically speaking) where something is based; "the brain is said to be the seat of reason" 7: the legal right to sit as a member in a legislative or similar body; "he was elected to a seat in the Senate" 8: a part of a machine that supports or guides another part 9: the cloth covering for the buttocks; "the seat of his pants was worn through" v 1: show to a seat; assign a seat for; "The host seated me next to Mrs. Smith" [syn: seat, sit, sit down] 2: be able to seat; "The theater seats 2,000" 3: place ceremoniously or formally in an office or position; "there was a ceremony to induct the president of the Academy" [syn: induct, invest, seat] 4: put a seat on a chair 5: provide with seats; "seat a concert hall" 6: place or attach firmly in or on a base; "seat the camera on the tripod" 7: place in or on a seat; "the mother seated the toddler on the high chair"
• secrete 0
  v 1: generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream" [syn: secrete, release] 2: place out of sight; keep secret; "The money was secreted from his children"
• sheet 0
  n 1: any broad thin expanse or surface; "a sheet of ice" 2: paper used for writing or printing [syn: sheet, piece of paper, sheet of paper] 3: bed linen consisting of a large rectangular piece of cotton or linen cloth; used in pairs [syn: sheet, bed sheet] 4: (mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape; "we will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane"; "any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane" [syn: plane, sheet] 5: newspaper with half-size pages [syn: tabloid, rag, sheet] 6: a flat artifact that is thin relative to its length and width [syn: sheet, flat solid] 7: (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind [syn: sheet, tack, mainsheet, weather sheet, shroud] 8: a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel [syn: sail, canvas, canvass, sheet] v 1: come down as if in sheets; "The rain was sheeting down during the monsoon" 2: cover with a sheet, as if by wrapping; "sheet the body"
• skeet 0
  n 1: the sport of shooting at clay pigeons that are hurled upward in such a way as to simulate the flight of a bird [syn: skeet, skeet shooting, trapshooting]
• sleet 0
  n 1: partially melted snow (or a mixture of rain and snow) v 1: precipitate as a mixture of rain and snow; "If the temperature rises above freezing, it will probably sleet"
• street 0
  n 1: a thoroughfare (usually including sidewalks) that is lined with buildings; "they walked the streets of the small town"; "he lives on Nassau Street" 2: the part of a thoroughfare between the sidewalks; the part of the thoroughfare on which vehicles travel; "be careful crossing the street" 3: the streets of a city viewed as a depressed environment in which there is poverty and crime and prostitution and dereliction; "she tried to keep her children off the street" 4: a situation offering opportunities; "he worked both sides of the street"; "cooperation is a two-way street" 5: people living or working on the same street; "the whole street protested the absence of street lights"
• suite 0
  n 1: a musical composition of several movements only loosely connected 2: apartment consisting of a series of connected rooms used as a living unit (as in a hotel) [syn: suite, rooms] 3: the group following and attending to some important person [syn: cortege, retinue, suite, entourage] 4: a matching set of furniture
• sweet 0
  adv 1: in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other" [syn: sweetly, sweet] adj 1: having or denoting the characteristic taste of sugar [ant: sour] 2: having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition" [syn: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet] 3: pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweet] 4: pleasing to the senses; "the sweet song of the lark"; "the sweet face of a child" 5: pleasing to the mind or feeling; "sweet revenge" [syn: gratifying, sweet] 6: having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers" [syn: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling] 7: (used of wines) having a high residual sugar content; "sweet dessert wines" [ant: dry] 8: not containing or composed of salt water; "fresh water" [syn: fresh, sweet] [ant: salty] 9: not soured or preserved; "sweet milk" [syn: fresh, sweet, unfermented] 10: with sweetening added [syn: sugared, sweetened, sweet, sweet-flavored] n 1: English phonetician; one of the founders of modern phonetics (1845-1912) [syn: Sweet, Henry Sweet] 2: a dish served as the last course of a meal [syn: dessert, sweet, afters] 3: a food rich in sugar [syn: sweet, confection] 4: the taste experience when sugar dissolves in the mouth [syn: sweet, sweetness, sugariness] 5: the property of tasting as if it contains sugar [syn: sweetness, sweet]
• teat 0
  n 1: the small projection of a mammary gland [syn: nipple, mammilla, mamilla, pap, teat, tit]
• treat 0
  n 1: something considered choice to eat [syn: dainty, delicacy, goody, kickshaw, treat] 2: an occurrence that causes special pleasure or delight v 1: interact in a certain way; "Do right by her"; "Treat him with caution, please"; "Handle the press reporters gently" [syn: treat, handle, do by] 2: subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition; "process cheese"; "process hair"; "treat the water so it can be drunk"; "treat the lawn with chemicals" ; "treat an oil spill" [syn: process, treat] 3: provide treatment for; "The doctor treated my broken leg"; "The nurses cared for the bomb victims"; "The patient must be treated right away or she will die"; "Treat the infection with antibiotics" [syn: treat, care for] 4: act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China" [syn: cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, address] 5: provide with a gift or entertainment; "Grandmother always treated us to the circus"; "I like to treat myself to a day at a spa when I am depressed" 6: provide with choice or abundant food or drink; "Don't worry about the expensive wine--I'm treating"; "She treated her houseguests with good food every night" [syn: regale, treat] 7: engage in negotiations in order to reach an agreement; "they had to treat with the King" 8: regard or consider in a specific way; "I treated his advances as a joke"
• tweet 0
  n 1: a weak chirping sound as of a small bird v 1: make a weak, chirping sound; "the small bird was tweeting in the tree" [syn: tweet, twirp] 2: squeeze tightly between the fingers; "He pinched her behind"; "She squeezed the bottle" [syn: pinch, squeeze, twinge, tweet, nip, twitch]
• unseat 0
  v 1: remove from political office; "The Republicans are trying to unseat the liberal Democrat" 2: dislodge from one's seat, as from a horse
• wheat 0
  n 1: annual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains 2: grains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour [syn: wheat, wheat berry] 3: a variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white [syn: pale yellow, straw, wheat]
• crete 0
  n 1: the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC [syn: Crete, Kriti]
• skeat 0
  n 1: English philologist (1835-1912) [syn: Skeat, Walter William Skeat]
• marguerite 0
  n 1: tall leafy-stemmed Eurasian perennial with white flowers; widely naturalized; often placed in genus Chrysanthemum [syn: oxeye daisy, ox-eyed daisy, marguerite, moon daisy, white daisy, Leucanthemum vulgare, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum] 2: perennial subshrub of the Canary Islands having usually pale yellow daisylike flowers; often included in genus Chrysanthemum [syn: marguerite, marguerite daisy, Paris daisy, Chrysanthemum frutescens, Argyranthemum frutescens]
• uncomplete 0
  adj 1: not complete or total; not completed; "an incomplete account of his life"; "political consequences of incomplete military success"; "an incomplete forward pass" [syn: incomplete, uncomplete] [ant: complete]
• feet 0
• piet 0
• st 0
• breit 0
• cliett 0
• deet 0
• freet 0
• keitt 0
• leet 0
• neet 0
• pete 0
• amit 0
• bridgette 0
• bufete 0
• chafete 0
• jobete 0
• lalit 0
• lanete 0
• murveit 0
• marquerite 0
• noncompete 0
• leat 0

See also pleat definition and pleat synonyms