Words that rhyme with pressroom

adj 1: bursting into flower; "flowering spring trees" [syn: abloom, efflorescent]

n 1: a large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule]

v 1: take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof; "I assume his train was late" [syn: assume, presume, take for granted] 2: take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities; "When will the new President assume office?" [syn: assume, adopt, take on, take over] 3: take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect; "His voice took on a sad tone"; "The story took a new turn"; "he adopted an air of superiority"; "She assumed strange manners"; "The gods assume human or animal form in these fables" [syn: assume, acquire, adopt, take on, take] 4: take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; "I'll accept the charges"; "She agreed to bear the responsibility" [syn: bear, take over, accept, assume] 5: occupy or take on; "He assumes the lotus position"; "She took her seat on the stage"; "We took our seats in the orchestra"; "She took up her position behind the tree"; "strike a pose" [syn: assume, take, strike, take up] 6: seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession; "He assumed to himself the right to fill all positions in the town"; "he usurped my rights"; "She seized control of the throne after her husband died" [syn: assume, usurp, seize, take over, arrogate] 7: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: simulate, assume, sham, feign] 8: take up someone's soul into heaven; "This is the day when May was assumed into heaven" 9: put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "He put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately robes"; "He got into his jeans" [syn: wear, put on, get into, don, assume]

n 1: large room used mainly for dancing [syn: ballroom, dance hall, dance palace]

n 1: a room (as in a residence) containing a bathtub or shower and usually a washbasin and toilet [syn: bathroom, bath] 2: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom]

n 1: a room used primarily for sleeping [syn: bedroom, sleeping room, sleeping accommodation, chamber, bedchamber]

n 1: the organic process of bearing flowers; "you will stop all bloom if you let the flowers go to seed" [syn: blooming, bloom] 2: reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts [syn: flower, bloom, blossom] 3: the best time of youth [syn: bloom, bloom of youth, salad days] 4: a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health [syn: bloom, blush, flush, rosiness] 5: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush] 6: a powdery deposit on a surface [syn: efflorescence, bloom] v 1: produce or yield flowers; "The cherry tree bloomed" [syn: bloom, blossom, flower]

n 1: a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company) [syn: boardroom, council chamber]

n 1: a deep prolonged loud noise [syn: boom, roar, roaring, thunder] 2: a state of economic prosperity 3: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce] 4: a pole carrying an overhead microphone projected over a film or tv set [syn: boom, microphone boom] 5: any of various more-or-less horizontal spars or poles used to extend the foot of a sail or for handling cargo or in mooring v 1: make a resonant sound, like artillery; "His deep voice boomed through the hall" [syn: boom, din] 2: hit hard; "He smashed a 3-run homer" [syn: smash, nail, boom, blast] 3: be the case that thunder is being heard; "Whenever it thunders, my dog crawls under the bed" [syn: thunder, boom] 4: make a deep hollow sound; "Her voice booms out the words of the song" [syn: boom, boom out] 5: grow vigorously; "The deer population in this town is thriving"; "business is booming" [syn: boom, thrive, flourish, expand]

n 1: a man who has recently been married [syn: groom, bridegroom] 2: a man participant in his own marriage ceremony [syn: groom, bridegroom]

n 1: a cleaning implement for sweeping; bundle of straws or twigs attached to a long handle 2: any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers 3: common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the northern hemisphere [syn: heather, ling, Scots heather, broom, Calluna vulgaris] v 1: sweep with a broom or as if with a broom; "Sweep the crumbs off the table"; "Sweep under the bed" [syn: sweep, broom] 2: finish with a broom

n 1: a room where baggage or parcels are checked [syn: checkroom, left-luggage office]

n 1: a room in a school where lessons take place [syn: classroom, schoolroom]

n 1: a private lounge off of a legislative chamber 2: a room where coats and other articles can be left temporarily [syn: cloakroom, coatroom]

n 1: a room used for the activities of a club

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]

v 1: eat immoderately; "Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal" [syn: devour, down, consume, go through] 2: serve oneself to, or consume regularly; "Have another bowl of chicken soup!"; "I don't take sugar in my coffee" [syn: consume, ingest, take in, take, have] [ant: abstain, desist, refrain] 3: spend extravagantly; "waste not, want not" [syn: consume, squander, waste, ware] 4: destroy completely; "The fire consumed the building" 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: engage fully; "The effort to pass the exam consumed all his energy"

n 1: the attire worn in a play or at a fancy dress ball; "he won the prize for best costume" 2: unusual or period attire not characteristic of or appropriate to the time and place; "in spite of the heat he insisted on his woolen costume" 3: the prevalent fashion of dress (including accessories and hair style as well as garments) 4: the attire characteristic of a country or a time or a social class; "he wore his national costume" v 1: dress in a costume; "We dressed up for Halloween as pumpkins" [syn: costume, dress up] 2: furnish with costumes; as for a film or play

n 1: a room in which a lawcourt sits; "television cameras were admitted in the courtroom" [syn: court, courtroom]

n 1: a room in which photographs are developed

n 1: a backstage room in a theater where performers rest or have visitors

n 1: a cell in which soldiers who are prisoners are confined 2: a room used by soldiers on guard

n 1: vertical space available to allow easy passage under something [syn: headroom, headway, clearance] 2: the capacity of a system to reproduce loud sounds without distortion [syn: headroom, dynamic headroom]

n 1: a classroom in which all students in a particular grade (or in a division of a grade) meet at certain times under the supervision of a teacher who takes attendance and does other administrative business [syn: home room, homeroom]

n 1: space for accommodation in a house; "I wouldn't give that table houseroom"

n 1: a restaurant (in a facility) where lunch can be purchased

n 1: common name for an edible agaric (contrasting with the inedible toadstool) [ant: toadstool] 2: mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.) 3: any of various fleshy fungi of the subdivision Basidiomycota consisting of a cap at the end of a stem arising from an underground mycelium 4: a large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb) [syn: mushroom, mushroom cloud, mushroom- shaped cloud] 5: fleshy body of any of numerous edible fungi v 1: pick or gather mushrooms; "We went mushrooming in the Fall" 2: grow and spread fast; "The problem mushroomed"

n 1: the staff of a newspaper or the news department of a periodical; "every newspaper editor is criticized by the newsroom" 2: an office in which news is processed by a newspaper or news agency or television or radio station 3: a reading room (in a library or club) where newspapers and other periodicals can be read

n 1: a recreation room for noisy activities (parties or children's play etc) [syn: rumpus room, playroom, game room]

n 1: a room with pool tables where pool is played

n 1: a toilet that is available to the public [syn: public toilet, comfort station, public convenience, convenience, public lavatory, restroom, toilet facility, wash room]

n 1: an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling; "the rooms were very small but they had a nice view" 2: space for movement; "room to pass"; "make way for"; "hardly enough elbow room to turn around" [syn: room, way, elbow room] 3: opportunity for; "room for improvement" 4: the people who are present in a room; "the whole room was cheering" v 1: live and take one's meals at or in; "she rooms in an old boarding house" [syn: board, room]

n 1: an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed; "in Britain a showroom is called a salesroom" [syn: showroom, salesroom, saleroom]

n 1: an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed; "in Britain a showroom is called a salesroom" [syn: showroom, salesroom, saleroom]

n 1: a room in a school where lessons take place [syn: classroom, schoolroom]

n 1: an area where merchandise (such as cars) can be displayed; "in Britain a showroom is called a salesroom" [syn: showroom, salesroom, saleroom]

n 1: a room to which a sick person is confined

n 1: a guest cabin

n 1: storeroom for storing goods and supplies used in a business [syn: stockroom, stock room]

n 1: a room in which things are stored [syn: storeroom, storage room, stowage]

n 1: a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, saloon, ginmill, taproom]

n 1: a restaurant where tea and light meals are available [syn: teashop, teahouse, tearoom, tea parlor, tea parlour]

n 1: military quarters for dining and recreation for officers of a warship (except the captain)

n 1: a lavatory (particularly a lavatory in a public place)

n 1: room where work is done

n 1: a burglarproof and fireproof room in which valuables are kept

n 1: a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun [syn: sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunporch, sunroom, sun lounge, solarium]