Words that rhyme with ppm

n 1: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms [syn: americium, Am, atomic number 95] 2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM] 3: modulation of the amplitude of the (radio) carrier wave [syn: amplitude modulation, AM]

v 1: express strong disapproval of; "We condemn the racism in South Africa"; "These ideas were reprobated" [syn: condemn, reprobate, decry, objurgate, excoriate] 2: declare or judge unfit for use or habitation; "The building was condemned by the inspector" 3: compel or force into a particular state or activity; "His devotion to his sick wife condemned him to a lonely existence" 4: demonstrate the guilt of (someone); "Her strange behavior condemned her" 5: pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison" [syn: sentence, condemn, doom] 6: appropriate (property) for public use; "the county condemned the land to build a highway"

n 1: an ornamental jeweled headdress signifying sovereignty [syn: crown, diadem]

n 1: art highly prized for its beauty or perfection [syn: gem, treasure] 2: a crystalline rock that can be cut and polished for jewelry; "he had the gem set in a ring for his wife"; "she had jewels made of all the rarest stones" [syn: gem, gemstone, stone] 3: a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem] 4: a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan [syn: muffin, gem] 5: a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem, precious stone]

n 1: the edge of a piece of cloth; especially the finished edge that has been doubled under and stitched down; "the hem of her dress was stained"; "let down the hem"; "he stitched weights into the curtain's hem"; "it seeped along the hem of his jacket" 2: the utterance of a sound similar to clearing the throat; intended to get attention, express hesitancy, fill a pause, hide embarrassment, warn a friend, etc. [syn: hem, ahem] v 1: fold over and sew together to provide with a hem; "hem my skirt" 2: utter `hem' or `ahem'

n 1: apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions [syn: emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference, stolidity, unemotionality] 2: expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness [syn: phlegm, sputum] 3: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends" [syn: languor, lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm, flatness]

n 1: (linguistics) the form of a word after all affixes are removed; "thematic vowels are part of the stem" [syn: root, root word, base, stem, theme, radical] 2: a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ [syn: stalk, stem] 3: cylinder forming a long narrow part of something [syn: shank, stem] 4: the tube of a tobacco pipe 5: front part of a vessel or aircraft; "he pointed the bow of the boat toward the finish line" [syn: bow, fore, prow, stem] 6: a turn made in skiing; the back of one ski is forced outward and the other ski is brought parallel to it [syn: stem turn, stem] v 1: grow out of, have roots in, originate in; "The increase in the national debt stems from the last war" 2: cause to point inward; "stem your skis" 3: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt] 4: remove the stem from; "for automatic natural language processing, the words must be stemmed"

n 1: a quad with a square body; "since `em quad' is hard to distinguish from `en quad', printers sometimes called it a `mutton quad'" [syn: em, em quad, mutton quad] 2: a linear unit (1/6 inch) used in printing [syn: em, pica em, pica]

n 1: a terrorist organization founded in 2000; a militant Islamic group active in Kashmir and closely aligned with al-Rashid Trust; seeks to secure release of imprisoned fellow militants by kidnappings [syn: Jaish-i-Mohammed, Jaish-e-Muhammad, JEM, Army of Muhammad]

n 1: a spacecraft that carries astronauts from the command module to the surface of the moon and back [syn: lunar excursion module, lunar module, LEM]

adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000 items or units [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, m, k] n 1: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) [syn: meter, metre, m] 2: concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution [syn: molarity, molar concentration, M] 3: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard] 4: a unit of information equal to 1000 kilobytes or 10^6 (1,000,000) bytes [syn: megabyte, M, MB] 5: a unit of information equal to 1024 kibibytes or 2^20 (1,048,576) bytes [syn: megabyte, mebibyte, M, MB, MiB] 6: the 13th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: M, m]

n 1: a member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala 2: a Mayan language spoken by the Mam

n 1: a recurring sleep state during which dreaming occurs; a state of rapidly shifting eye movements during sleep [syn: paradoxical sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, REM sleep, rapid eye movement, REM] 2: (Roentgen Equivalent Man) the dosage of ionizing radiation that will cause the same amount of injury to human tissue as 1 roentgen of X-rays

n 1: modulation of the frequency of the (radio) carrier wave [syn: frequency modulation, FM] 2: a radioactive transuranic metallic element produced by bombarding plutonium with neutrons [syn: fermium, Fm, atomic number 100]

n 1: an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease [syn: autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination] 2: a soft silvery metallic element of the rare earth group having no stable isotope; was discovered in radioactive form as a fission product of uranium [syn: promethium, Pm, atomic number 61] 3: the person who holds the position of head of the government in the United Kingdom [syn: Prime Minister, PM, premier] 4: modulation of the phase of the carrier wave [syn: phase modulation, PM]

n 1: a calcium blocker (trade name Cardizem) used in treating hypertension or angina or heart failure [syn: diltiazem, Cardizem]

n 1: rate of revolution of a motor; "the engine was doing 6000 revs" [syn: revolutions per minute, rpm, rev]