Words that rhyme with praam

n 1: great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool" [syn: aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang- froid]

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]

n 1: a human limb; technically the part of the superior limb between the shoulder and the elbow but commonly used to refer to the whole superior limb 2: any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer" [syn: arm, branch, limb] 3: any instrument or instrumentality used in fighting or hunting; "he was licensed to carry a weapon" [syn: weapon, arm, weapon system] 4: the part of an armchair or sofa that supports the elbow and forearm of a seated person 5: a division of some larger or more complex organization; "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages" [syn: branch, subdivision, arm] 6: the part of a garment that is attached at the armhole and that provides a cloth covering for the arm [syn: sleeve, arm] v 1: prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border" [syn: arm, build up, fortify, gird] [ant: demilitarise, demilitarize, disarm] 2: supply with arms; "The U.S. armed the freedom fighters in Afghanistan"

n 1: any of various aromatic resinous substances used for healing and soothing 2: semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation [syn: ointment, unction, unguent, balm, salve]

v 1: make steady; "steady yourself" [syn: steady, calm, becalm]

n 1: an explosive device fused to explode under specific conditions 2: strong sealed vessel for measuring heat of combustion [syn: bomb calorimeter, bomb] 3: an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned" [syn: turkey, bomb, dud] v 1: throw bombs at or attack with bombs; "The Americans bombed Dresden" [syn: bombard, bomb] 2: fail to get a passing grade; "She studied hard but failed nevertheless"; "Did I fail the test?" [syn: fail, flunk, bomb, flush it] [ant: make it, pass]

adj 1: not agitated; without losing self-possession; "spoke in a calm voice"; "remained calm throughout the uproar"; "he remained serene in the midst of turbulence"; "a serene expression on her face"; "she became more tranquil"; "tranquil life in the country" [syn: calm, unagitated, serene, tranquil] 2: (of weather) free from storm or wind; "calm seas" [ant: stormy] n 1: steadiness of mind under stress; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity" [syn: composure, calm, calmness, equanimity] [ant: discomposure] 2: wind moving at less than 1 knot; 0 on the Beaufort scale [syn: calm air, calm] v 1: make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear" [syn: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still] [ant: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on] 2: make steady; "steady yourself" [syn: steady, calm, becalm] 3: become quiet or calm, especially after a state of agitation; "After the fight both men need to cool off."; "It took a while after the baby was born for things to settle down again." [syn: calm, calm down, cool off, chill out, simmer down, settle down, cool it] 4: cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to; "The patient must be sedated before the operation" [syn: sedate, calm, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise] [ant: arouse, brace, energise, energize, perk up, stimulate]

n 1: a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River [syn: Cam, River Cam, Cam River] 2: a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion

n 1: attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates; "his smile was part of his appeal to her" [syn: appeal, appealingness, charm] 2: a verbal formula believed to have magical force; "he whispered a spell as he moved his hands"; "inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese" [syn: spell, magic spell, magical spell, charm] 3: something believed to bring good luck [syn: charm, good luck charm] 4: (physics) one of the six flavors of quark v 1: attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant] 2: control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft [syn: charm, becharm] 3: protect through supernatural powers or charms 4: induce into action by using one's charm; "She charmed him into giving her all his money" [syn: charm, influence, tempt]

n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness 2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam] 3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams v 1: gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

v 1: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad] 2: put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase" 3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone] 4: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam

n 1: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea [syn: dam, dike, dyke] 2: a metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn: decameter, dekameter, decametre, dekametre, dam, dkm] 3: female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock v 1: obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River" [syn: dam, dam up]

adv 1: extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all- fired aggressive?" [syn: bloody, damn, all-fired] adj 1: used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn: damn, goddamn] 2: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal] n 1: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam] v 1: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" [syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant: bless]

v 1: remove offensive capability from [syn: disarm, demilitarize, demilitarise] [ant: arm, build up, fortify, gird] 2: make less hostile; win over; "Her charm disarmed the prosecution lawyer completely" 3: take away the weapons from; render harmless [syn: disarm, unarm]

n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains [syn: dram, drachm, drachma] 2: 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams 3: the basic unit of money in Armenia

v 1: preserve a dead body

n 1: workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm" v 1: be a farmer; work as a farmer; "My son is farming in California" 2: collect fees or profits 3: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: grow, raise, farm, produce]

n 1: a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) [syn: incendiary bomb, incendiary, firebomb] v 1: attack with incendiary bombs; "The rioters fire-bombed the stores"

n 1: the part of the superior limb between the elbow and the wrist v 1: arm in advance of a confrontation

n 1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g]

n 1: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: ham, jambon, gammon] 2: (Old Testament) son of Noah 3: a licensed amateur radio operator 4: an unskilled actor who overacts [syn: ham, ham actor] v 1: exaggerate one's acting [syn: overact, ham it up, ham, overplay] [ant: underact, underplay]

n 1: any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc. [syn: injury, hurt, harm, trauma] 2: the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: damage, harm, impairment] 3: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: damage, harm, hurt, scathe] v 1: cause or do harm to; "These pills won't harm your system"

n 1: preserve of crushed fruit 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] 3: a dense crowd of people [syn: crush, jam, press] 4: deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems [syn: jamming, electronic jamming, jam] v 1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam] 2: push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor" 3: crush or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: jam, crush] 4: interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station" [syn: jam, block] 5: get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed" 6: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad] 7: block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up] [ant: disengage, free]

n 1: upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame

n 1: a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam" [syn: getaway, lam] v 1: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed up" [syn: scat, run, scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape, fly the coop, break away] 2: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh, lam, flail]

n 1: young sheep 2: English essayist (1775-1834) [syn: Lamb, Charles Lamb, Elia] 3: a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) 4: a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) [syn: lamb, dear] 5: the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food v 1: give birth to a lamb; "the ewe lambed"

n 1: the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers [syn: palm, thenar] 2: a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand 3: any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves [syn: palm, palm tree] 4: an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event [syn: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon] v 1: touch, lift, or hold with the hands; "Don't handle the merchandise" [syn: handle, palm]

n 1: organized persecution of an ethnic group (especially Jews)

n 1: a small vehicle with four wheels in which a baby or child is pushed around [syn: baby buggy, baby carriage, carriage, perambulator, pram, stroller, go-cart, pushchair, pusher]

n 1: a formal ball held for a school class toward the end of the academic year [syn: promenade, prom]

n 1: one of the 150 lyrical poems and prayers that comprise the Book of Psalms in the Old Testament; said to have been written by David 2: any sacred song used to praise the deity v 1: sing or celebrate in psalms; "He psalms the works of God"

n 1: uneasiness about the fitness of an action [syn: scruple, qualm, misgiving] 2: a mild state of nausea [syn: queasiness, squeamishness, qualm]

n 1: the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible [syn: random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, RAM, read/write memory] 2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries [syn: Aries, Ram] 3: the first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19 [syn: Aries, Aries the Ram, Ram] 4: a tool for driving or forcing something by impact 5: uncastrated adult male sheep; "a British term is `tup'" [syn: ram, tup] v 1: strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door" [syn: ram, ram down, pound] 2: force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" [syn: force, drive, ram] 3: undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post" [syn: crash, ram] 4: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]

v 1: arm again; "After the war, the defeated country was not rearmed by the victors" 2: arm anew; "After the war, the defeated country was not allowed to rearm" [syn: rearm, re-arm]

n 1: a deep bow; a Muslim form of salutation v 1: greet with a salaam

n 1: a fraudulent business scheme [syn: scam, cozenage] v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]

v 1: leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!" [syn: scram, buzz off, fuck off, get, bugger off]

adj 1: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham] n 1: something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be [syn: fake, sham, postiche] 2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player] v 1: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: simulate, assume, sham, feign] 2: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble]

n 1: winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge [syn: slam, sweep] 2: the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects 3: a forceful impact that makes a loud noise 4: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" [syn: shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe] v 1: close violently; "He slammed the door shut" [syn: slam, bang] 2: strike violently; "slam the ball" [syn: slam, bang] 3: dance the slam dance [syn: slam dance, slam, mosh, thrash] 4: throw violently; "He slammed the book on the table" [syn: slam, flap down]

n 1: a woolen cap of Scottish origin [syn: tam, tam-o'-shanter, tammy]

n 1: a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers)

n 1: a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers [syn: tramway, tram, aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway] 2: a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine; "a tramcar carries coal out of a coal mine" [syn: tramcar, tram] 3: a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity [syn: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car] v 1: travel by tram

v 1: take away the weapons from; render harmless [syn: disarm, unarm]

v 1: hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack, wham, whop, wallop]

n 1: edible tuber of any of several yams 2: any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots [syn: yam, yam plant] 3: sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked 4: edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food

n 1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g] 2: Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938) [syn: Gram, Hans C. J. Gram]

n 1: a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target [syn: surface-to-air missile, SAM]

n 1: a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula; "Thailand is the official name of the former Siam" [syn: Thailand, Kingdom of Thailand, Siam]

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

n 1: the largest and southernmost island in the Marianas which is administered as a territory of the United States; it was ceded by Spain to the United States in 1898 [syn: Guam, GU]

n 1: the civilization of Muslims collectively which is governed by the Muslim religion; "Islam is predominant in northern Africa, the Middle East, Pakistan, and Indonesia" [syn: Islam, Muslimism] 2: the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran; "Islam is a complete way of life, not a Sunday religion"; "the term Muhammadanism is offensive to Muslims who believe that Allah, not Muhammad, founded their religion" [syn: Islam, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism, Muslimism]

n 1: Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran; his invasion of Kuwait led to the Gulf War (born in 1937) [syn: Hussein, Husain, Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Saddam, Saddam bin Hussein at-Takriti]

n 1: a republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1975 [syn: Suriname, Republic of Suriname, Surinam, Dutch Guiana, Netherlands Guiana]

n 1: a communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945 [syn: Vietnam, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Viet Nam, Annam] 2: a prolonged war (1954-1975) between the communist armies of North Vietnam who were supported by the Chinese and the armies of South Vietnam who were supported by the United States [syn: Vietnam War, Vietnam]

n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains [syn: dram, drachm, drachma] 2: a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 60 minims or 3.5516 cubic centimeters [syn: fluidram, fluid dram, fluid drachm, drachm] 3: a unit of capacity or volume in the apothecary system equal to one eighth of a fluid ounce [syn: fluidram, fluid dram, fluid drachm, drachm]

n 1: a herd of whales

n 1: a commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey [syn: yeast, barm]

n 1: excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm [syn: unction, smarm, fulsomeness]