Words that rhyme with prokaryote

• afoot 0
  adv 1: on foot; walking; "they went to the village afoot"; "quail are hunted either afoot or on horseback" adj 1: traveling by foot; "she was afoot when I saw her this morning" 2: currently in progress; "there is mischief afoot"; "plans are afoot"; "preparations for the trial are underway" [syn: afoot(p), underway]
• at 0
  n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium [syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85] 2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
• barefoot 0
  adv 1: without shoes on; "he chased her barefoot across the meadow" [syn: barefooted, barefoot] adj 1: without shoes; "the barefoot boy"; "shoeless Joe Jackson" [syn: barefoot, barefooted, shoeless]
• bat 0
  n 1: nocturnal mouselike mammal with forelimbs modified to form membranous wings and anatomical adaptations for echolocation by which they navigate [syn: bat, chiropteran] 2: (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit; "he was at bat when it happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats" [syn: bat, at-bat] 3: a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash [syn: squash racket, squash racquet, bat] 4: the club used in playing cricket; "a cricket bat has a narrow handle and a broad flat end for hitting" [syn: cricket bat, bat] 5: a club used for hitting a ball in various games v 1: strike with, or as if with a baseball bat; "bat the ball" 2: wink briefly; "bat one's eyelids" [syn: bat, flutter] 3: have a turn at bat; "Jones bats first, followed by Martinez" 4: use a bat; "Who's batting?" 5: beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight; "We licked the other team on Sunday!" [syn: cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick]
• brat 0
  n 1: a very troublesome child [syn: terror, brat, little terror, holy terror] 2: a small pork sausage [syn: bratwurst, brat]
• cat 0
  n 1: feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats [syn: cat, true cat] 2: an informal term for a youth or man; "a nice guy"; "the guy's only doing it for some doll" [syn: guy, cat, hombre, bozo] 3: a spiteful woman gossip; "what a cat she is!" 4: the leaves of the shrub Catha edulis which are chewed like tobacco or used to make tea; has the effect of a euphoric stimulant; "in Yemen kat is used daily by 85% of adults" [syn: kat, khat, qat, quat, cat, Arabian tea, African tea] 5: a whip with nine knotted cords; "British sailors feared the cat" [syn: cat-o'-nine-tails, cat] 6: a large tracked vehicle that is propelled by two endless metal belts; frequently used for moving earth in construction and farm work [syn: Caterpillar, cat] 7: any of several large cats typically able to roar and living in the wild [syn: big cat, cat] 8: a method of examining body organs by scanning them with X rays and using a computer to construct a series of cross- sectional scans along a single axis [syn: computerized tomography, computed tomography, CT, computerized axial tomography, computed axial tomography, CAT] v 1: beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails 2: eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; "After drinking too much, the students vomited"; "He purged continuously"; "The patient regurgitated the food we gave him last night" [syn: vomit, vomit up, purge, cast, sick, cat, be sick, disgorge, regorge, retch, puke, barf, spew, spue, chuck, upchuck, honk, regurgitate, throw up] [ant: keep down]
• chat 0
  n 1: an informal conversation [syn: chat, confab, confabulation, schmooze, schmoose] 2: birds having a chattering call [syn: New World chat, chat] 3: songbirds having a chattering call [syn: Old World chat, chat] v 1: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze" [syn: chew the fat, shoot the breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit]
• cocksfoot 0
  n 1: widely grown stout Old World hay and pasture grass [syn: orchard grass, cocksfoot, cockspur, Dactylis glomerata]
• coltsfoot 0
  n 1: tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall [syn: galax, galaxy, wandflower, beetleweed, coltsfoot, Galax urceolata] 2: perennial herb with large rounded leaves resembling a colt's foot and yellow flowers appearing before the leaves do; native to Europe but now nearly cosmopolitan; used medicinally especially formerly [syn: coltsfoot, Tussilago farfara]
• combat 0
  n 1: an engagement fought between two military forces [syn: combat, armed combat] 2: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" [syn: fight, fighting, combat, scrap] v 1: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget" [syn: battle, combat]
• crowfoot 0
  n 1: any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus [syn: buttercup, butterflower, butter-flower, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup]
• eukaryote 0
  n 1: an organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such as bacteria; i.e. an organism with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei in its cells [syn: eukaryote, eucaryote] [ant: procaryote, prokaryote]
• fat 0
  adj 1: having an (over)abundance of flesh; "he hadn't remembered how fat she was" [ant: lean, thin] 2: having a relatively large diameter; "a fat rope" 3: containing or composed of fat; "fatty food"; "fat tissue" [syn: fatty, fat] [ant: fat-free, fatless, nonfat] 4: lucrative; "a juicy contract"; "a nice fat job" [syn: fat, juicy] 5: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat, fertile, productive, rich] n 1: a soft greasy substance occurring in organic tissue and consisting of a mixture of lipids (mostly triglycerides); "pizza has too much fat" 2: a kind of body tissue containing stored fat that serves as a source of energy; it also cushions and insulates vital organs; "fatty tissue protected them from the severe cold" [syn: adipose tissue, fat, fatty tissue] 3: excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others" [syn: fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois] [ant: leanness, spareness, thinness] v 1: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up]
• flat 0
  adv 1: with flat sails; "sail flat against the wind" 2: in a forthright manner; candidly or frankly; "he didn't answer directly"; "told me straight out"; "came out flat for less work and more pay" [syn: directly, flat, straight] [ant: indirectly] adj 1: having a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another; "a flat desk"; "acres of level farmland"; "a plane surface"; "skirts sewn with fine flat seams" [syn: flat, level, plane] 2: having a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness; "flat computer monitors" 3: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional] 4: stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor" [syn: flat, prostrate] 5: lacking contrast or shading between tones [ant: contrasty] 6: (of a musical note) lowered in pitch by one chromatic semitone; "B flat" [ant: natural, sharp] 7: flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes) [syn: compressed, flat] 8: lacking taste or flavor or tang; "a bland diet"; "insipid hospital food"; "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"; "vapid beer"; "vapid tea" [syn: bland, flat, flavorless, flavourless, insipid, savorless, savourless, vapid] 9: lacking stimulating characteristics; uninteresting; "a bland little drama"; "a flat joke" [syn: bland, flat] 10: having lost effervescence; "flat beer"; "a flat cola" 11: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous] 12: horizontally level; "a flat roof" 13: lacking the expected range or depth; not designed to give an illusion or depth; "a film with two-dimensional characters"; "a flat two-dimensional painting" [syn: two-dimensional, 2-dimensional, flat] 14: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat, matt, matte, matted] 15: commercially inactive; "flat sales for the month"; "prices remained flat"; "a flat market" n 1: a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah" 2: a shallow box in which seedlings are started 3: a musical notation indicating one half step lower than the note named 4: freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: flatcar, flatbed, flat] 5: a deflated pneumatic tire [syn: flat, flat tire] 6: scenery consisting of a wooden frame covered with painted canvas; part of a stage setting 7: a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house [syn: apartment, flat]
• flatfoot 0
  n 1: a policeman who patrols a given region [syn: flatfoot, patrolman] 2: a foot afflicted with a fallen arch; abnormally flattened and spread out [syn: flatfoot, splayfoot, pes planus]
• foot 0
  n 1: the part of the leg of a human being below the ankle joint; "his bare feet projected from his trousers"; "armored from head to foot" [syn: foot, human foot, pes] 2: a linear unit of length equal to 12 inches or a third of a yard; "he is six feet tall" [syn: foot, ft] 3: the lower part of anything; "curled up on the foot of the bed"; "the foot of the page"; "the foot of the list"; "the foot of the mountain" [ant: head] 4: the pedal extremity of vertebrates other than human beings [syn: animal foot, foot] 5: lowest support of a structure; "it was built on a base of solid rock"; "he stood at the foot of the tower" [syn: foundation, base, fundament, foot, groundwork, substructure, understructure] 6: any of various organs of locomotion or attachment in invertebrates [syn: foot, invertebrate foot] 7: travel by walking; "he followed on foot"; "the swiftest of foot" 8: a member of a surveillance team who works on foot or rides as a passenger 9: an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot; "there came ten thousand horsemen and as many fully-armed foot" [syn: infantry, foot] 10: (prosody) a group of 2 or 3 syllables forming the basic unit of poetic rhythm [syn: metrical foot, foot, metrical unit] 11: a support resembling a pedal extremity; "one foot of the chair was on the carpet" v 1: pay for something; "pick up the tab"; "pick up the burden of high-interest mortgages"; "foot the bill" [syn: foot, pick] 2: walk; "let's hoof it to the disco" [syn: foot, leg it, hoof, hoof it] 3: add a column of numbers [syn: foot, foot up]
• forefoot 0
  n 1: a front foot of a quadruped
• gat 0
  n 1: a gangster's pistol [syn: gat, rod]
• gnat 0
  n 1: any of various small biting flies: midges; biting midges; black flies; sand flies 2: (British usage) mosquito
• goosefoot 0
  n 1: any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers
• hat 0
  n 1: headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim [syn: hat, chapeau, lid] 2: an informal term for a person's role; "he took off his politician's hat and talked frankly" v 1: put on or wear a hat; "He was unsuitably hatted" 2: furnish with a hat
• hotfoot 0
  adv 1: without delay; speedily; "sent ambassadors hotfoot to the Turks"- Francis Hackett; "drove hotfoot for Boston" n 1: a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it v 1: move fast; "He rushed down the hall to receive his guests"; "The cars raced down the street" [syn: rush, hotfoot, hasten, hie, speed, race, pelt along, rush along, cannonball along, bucket along, belt along, step on it] [ant: dawdle, linger]
• input 0
  n 1: signal going into an electronic system [syn: input signal, input] 2: a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information; "from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account" [syn: remark, comment, input] 3: any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action [syn: stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, input] 4: a component of production; something that goes into the production of output v 1: enter (data or a program) into a computer
• kaput 0
  adj 1: destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese" [syn: done for(p), kaput(p), gone(a)]
• lat 0
  n 1: a broad flat muscle on either side of the back [syn: latissimus dorsi, lat]
• mat 0
  adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat, matt, matte, matted] n 1: a thick flat pad used as a floor covering 2: mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture [syn: mat, matting] 3: sports equipment consisting of a piece of thick padding on the floor for gymnastic sports [syn: mat, gym mat] 4: a mass that is densely tangled or interwoven; "a mat of weeds and grass" 5: a master's degree in teaching [syn: Master of Arts in Teaching, MAT] 6: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte] 7: a small pad of material that is used to protect surface from an object placed on it v 1: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord" [syn: entangle, tangle, mat, snarl] [ant: disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl] 2: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The fabric felted up after several washes" [syn: felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat]
• matt 0
  adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat, matt, matte, matted] n 1: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte]
• matte 0
  adj 1: not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" [syn: flat, mat, matt, matte, matted] n 1: a mixture of sulfides that forms when sulfide metal ores are smelted 2: the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss [syn: flatness, lusterlessness, lustrelessness, mat, matt, matte] v 1: change texture so as to become matted and felt-like; "The fabric felted up after several washes" [syn: felt, felt up, mat up, matt-up, matte up, matte, mat]
• output 0
  n 1: final product; the things produced [syn: end product, output] 2: production of a certain amount [syn: output, yield] 3: signal that comes out of an electronic system [syn: output signal, output] 4: the quantity of something (as a commodity) that is created (usually within a given period of time); "production was up in the second quarter" [syn: output, yield, production] 5: what is produced in a given time period [syn: output, outturn, turnout] v 1: to create or manufacture a specific amount; "the computer is outputting the data from the job I'm running"
• pat 0
  adv 1: completely or perfectly; "he has the lesson pat"; "had the system down pat" adj 1: having only superficial plausibility; "glib promises"; "a slick commercial" [syn: glib, pat, slick] 2: exactly suited to the occasion; "a pat reply" n 1: the sound made by a gentle blow [syn: pat, rap, tap] 2: a light touch or stroke [syn: tap, pat, dab] v 1: pat or squeeze fondly or playfully, especially under the chin [syn: chuck, pat] 2: hit lightly; "pat him on the shoulder" [syn: dab, pat]
• pussyfoot 0
  v 1: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot]
• put 0
  n 1: the option to sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date [syn: put option, put] [ant: call, call option] v 1: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay] 2: cause to be in a certain state; cause to be in a certain relation; "That song put me in awful good humor"; "put your ideas in writing" 3: formulate in a particular style or language; "I wouldn't put it that way"; "She cast her request in very polite language" [syn: frame, redact, cast, put, couch] 4: attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story" [syn: put, assign] 5: make an investment; "Put money into bonds" [syn: invest, put, commit, place] [ant: disinvest, divest] 6: estimate; "We put the time of arrival at 8 P.M." [syn: place, put, set] 7: cause (someone) to undergo something; "He put her to the torture" 8: adapt; "put these words to music" 9: arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events; "arrange my schedule"; "set up one's life"; "I put these memories with those of bygone times" [syn: arrange, set up, put, order]
• rat 0
  n 1: any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse 2: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike [syn: scab, strikebreaker, blackleg, rat] 3: a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible; "only a rotter would do that"; "kill the rat"; "throw the bum out"; "you cowardly little pukes!"; "the British call a contemptible person a `git'" [syn: rotter, dirty dog, rat, skunk, stinker, stinkpot, bum, puke, crumb, lowlife, scum bag, so-and-so, git] 4: one who reveals confidential information in return for money [syn: informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber] 5: a pad (usually made of hair) worn as part of a woman's coiffure v 1: desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage 2: employ scabs or strike breakers in 3: take the place of work of someone on strike [syn: fink, scab, rat, blackleg] 4: give (hair) the appearance of being fuller by using a rat 5: catch rats, especially with dogs 6: give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag]
• sat 0
  n 1: the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians [syn: Saturday, Sabbatum, Sat]
• scat 0
  n 1: singing jazz; the singer substitutes nonsense syllables for the words of the song and tries to sound like a musical instrument [syn: scat, scat singing] 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]
• slat 0
  n 1: a thin strip (wood or metal) [syn: slat, spline] v 1: equip or bar with slats; "Slat the windows" 2: close the slats of (windows)
• soot 0
  n 1: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink [syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock] v 1: coat with soot
• spat 0
  n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss] 2: a cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles [syn: spat, gaiter] 3: a young oyster or other bivalve v 1: come down like raindrops; "Bullets were spatting down on us" 2: become permanently attached; "mollusks or oysters spat" 3: strike with a sound like that of falling rain; "Bullets were spatting the leaves" 4: clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval [syn: applaud, clap, spat, acclaim] [ant: boo, hiss] 5: engage in a brief and petty quarrel 6: spawn; "oysters spat" 7: clap one's hands together; "The children were clapping to the music" [syn: clap, spat]
• splat 0
  n 1: a single splash; "he heard a splat as it hit the floor" 2: a slat of wood in the middle of the back of a straight chair v 1: give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact 2: split open and flatten for cooking; "splat fish over an open fire" 3: flatten on impact; "The snowballs splatted on the trees"
• sprat 0
  n 1: small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines [syn: sprat, brisling] 2: small herring processed like a sardine [syn: brisling, sprat, Clupea sprattus]
• tat 0
  n 1: tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar [syn: cheapness, tackiness, tat, sleaze] 2: a projective technique using black-and-white pictures; subjects tell a story about each picture [syn: Thematic Apperception Test, TAT] v 1: make lacework by knotting or looping [syn: tat, intertwine]
• tenderfoot 0
  n 1: an inexperienced person (especially someone inexperienced in outdoor living)
• throughput 0
  n 1: output relative to input; the amount passing through a system from input to output (especially of a computer program over a period of time)
• underfoot 0
  adv 1: under the feet; "trampled the beans underfoot"; "green grass growing underfoot" 2: in the way and hindering progress; "a house with children and pets and toys always underfoot"
• vat 0
  n 1: a tax levied on the difference between a commodity's price before taxes and its cost of production [syn: VAT, value-added tax, ad valorem tax] 2: a large open vessel for holding or storing liquids [syn: tub, vat]
• gatt 0
  n 1: a United Nations agency created by a multinational treaty to promote trade by the reduction of tariffs and import quotas [syn: General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, GATT]
• nonfat 0
  adj 1: without fat or fat solids; "nonfat or fat-free milk" [syn: nonfat, fat-free, fatless] [ant: fat, fatty]
• amniote 0
  n 1: any member of the Amniota
• lilliput 0
  n 1: a land imagined by Jonathan Swift that was inhabited by tiny people
• blackfoot 0
  n 1: a member of a warlike group of Algonquians living in the northwestern plains 2: any of the Algonquian languages spoken by the Blackfoot
• that 0
• nat 0
• pratt 0
• stat 0
• foote 0
• lightfoot 0

See also prokaryote definition and prokaryote synonyms