Words that rhyme with premise

• amiss 0
  adv 1: away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations" [syn: awry, amiss] 2: in an improper or mistaken or unfortunate manner; "if you think him guilty you judge amiss"; "he spoke amiss"; "no one took it amiss when she spoke frankly" 3: in an imperfect or faulty way; "The lobe was imperfectly developed"; "Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more"- Jane Austen [syn: imperfectly, amiss] [ant: perfectly] adj 1: not functioning properly; "something is amiss"; "has gone completely haywire"; "something is wrong with the engine" [syn: amiss(p), awry(p), haywire, wrong(p)]
• demise 0
  n 1: the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: death, dying, demise] [ant: birth] v 1: transfer by a lease or by a will
• dermis 0
  n 1: the deep vascular inner layer of the skin [syn: dermis, corium, derma]
• dismiss 0
  v 1: bar from attention or consideration; "She dismissed his advances" [syn: dismiss, disregard, brush aside, brush off, discount, push aside, ignore] 2: cease to consider; put out of judicial consideration; "This case is dismissed!" [syn: dismiss, throw out] 3: stop associating with; "They dropped her after she had a child out of wedlock" [syn: dismiss, send packing, send away, drop] 4: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire] 5: end one's encounter with somebody by causing or permitting the person to leave; "I was dismissed after I gave my report" [syn: dismiss, usher out] 6: declare void; "The President dissolved the parliament and called for new elections" [syn: dissolve, dismiss]
• epidermis 0
  n 1: the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates [syn: epidermis, cuticle]
• hypodermis 0
  n 1: layer of cells that secretes the chitinous cuticle in e.g. arthropods
• promise 0
  n 1: a verbal commitment by one person to another agreeing to do (or not to do) something in the future 2: grounds for feeling hopeful about the future; "there is little or no promise that he will recover" [syn: promise, hope] v 1: make a promise or commitment [syn: promise, assure] 2: promise to undertake or give; "I promise you my best effort" 3: make a prediction about; tell in advance; "Call the outcome of an election" [syn: predict, foretell, prognosticate, call, forebode, anticipate, promise] 4: give grounds for expectations; "The new results were promising"; "The results promised fame and glory"
• pumice 0
  n 1: a light glass formed on the surface of some lavas; used as an abrasive [syn: pumice, pumice stone] v 1: rub with pumice, in order to clean or to smoothen
• remise 0
  n 1: an expensive or high-class hackney 2: a small building for housing coaches and carriages and other vehicles [syn: coach house, carriage house, remise] 3: (fencing) a second thrust made on the same lunge (as when your opponent fails to riposte)
• remiss 0
  adj 1: failing in what duty requires; "derelict (or delinquent) in his duty"; "neglectful of his duties"; "remiss of you not to pay your bills" [syn: derelict, delinquent, neglectful, remiss]
• surmise 0
  n 1: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence [syn: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis] v 1: infer from incomplete evidence 2: imagine to be the case or true or probable; "I suspect he is a fugitive"; "I surmised that the butler did it" [syn: suspect, surmise]
• koumiss 0
  n 1: an alcoholic beverage made from fermented mare's milk; made originally by nomads of central Asia [syn: koumiss, kumis]
• atomize 0
  v 1: spray very finely; "atomize perfume" [syn: atomize, atomise] 2: strike at with firepower or bombs; "zap the enemy" [syn: nuke, atomize, atomise, zap] 3: break up into small particles; "the fine powder had been atomized by air" [syn: atomize, atomise]
• customize 0
  v 1: make to specifications; "I had this desk custom-made for me" [syn: custom-make, customize, customise, tailor- make] 2: make according to requirements; "customize a car" [syn: customize, customise]
• itemize 0
  v 1: specify individually; "She enumerated the many obstacles she had encountered"; "The doctor recited the list of possible side effects of the drug" [syn: enumerate, recite, itemize, itemise] 2: place on a list of items; "itemize one's tax deductions" [syn: itemize, itemise]
• optimize 0
  v 1: make optimal; get the most out of; use best; "optimize your resources" [syn: optimize, optimise] 2: modify to achieve maximum efficiency in storage capacity or time or cost; "optimize a computer program" [syn: optimize, optimise] 3: act as an optimist and take a sunny view of the world [syn: optimize, optimise]
• systemize 0
  v 1: arrange according to a system or reduce to a system; "systematize our scientific knowledge" [syn: systematize, systematise, systemize, systemise]
• victimize 0
  v 1: make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man" [syn: victimize, victimise] 2: punish unjustly [syn: victimize, victimise] 3: 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]
• epitomize 0
  v 1: embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; "The fugue typifies Bach's style of composition" [syn: typify, epitomize, epitomise]
• legitimize 0
  v 1: make legal; "Marijuana should be legalized" [syn: legalize, legalise, decriminalize, decriminalise, legitimize, legitimise, legitimate, legitimatize, legitimatise] [ant: criminalise, criminalize, illegalise, illegalize, outlaw]
• artemis 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the virgin goddess of the hunt and the Moon; daughter of Leto and twin sister of Apollo; identified with Roman Diana [syn: Artemis, Cynthia]
• epididymis 0
  n 1: a convoluted tubule in each testis; carries sperm to vas deferens
• premiss 0
  n 1: a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play" [syn: premise, premiss, assumption] v 1: take something as preexisting and given [syn: premise, premiss]
• amice 0
• extremis 0
• kermis 0
• amis 0
• commis 0
• pomace 0
• bemiss 0
• emmis 0
• semiramis 0
• airmiss 0

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