Words that rhyme with pylant

n 1: social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers [syn: ant, emmet, pismire]

n 1: the sister of your father or mother; the wife of your uncle [syn: aunt, auntie, aunty] [ant: uncle]

n 1: stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition [syn: buzzword, cant] 2: a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force [syn: bank, cant, camber] 3: a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves); "they don't speak our lingo" [syn: slang, cant, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular] 4: insincere talk about religion or morals [syn: cant, pious platitude] 5: two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees [syn: bevel, cant, chamfer] v 1: heel over; "The tower is tilting"; "The ceiling is slanting" [syn: cant, cant over, tilt, slant, pitch]

n 1: a repetitive song in which as many syllables as necessary are assigned to a single tone v 1: recite with musical intonation; recite as a chant or a psalm; "The rabbi chanted a prayer" [syn: chant, intone, intonate, cantillate] 2: utter monotonously and repetitively and rhythmically; "The students chanted the same slogan over and over again" [syn: tone, chant, intone]

n 1: an officer in command of a military unit [syn: commanding officer, commandant, commander]

v 1: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare]

n 1: a young woman making her debut into society [syn: debutante, deb]

v 1: pour out; "the sommelier decanted the wines" [syn: decant, pour, pour out]

n 1: the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations)

n 1: the act of displaying something ostentatiously; "his behavior was an outrageous flaunt" v 1: display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously; "he showed off his new sports car" [syn: flaunt, flash, show off, ostentate, swank]

adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]

n 1: a frequently visited place [syn: haunt, hangout, resort, repair, stamping ground] v 1: follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her" [syn: haunt, stalk] 2: haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her" [syn: haunt, obsess, ghost] 3: be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place; "She haunts the ballet" [syn: frequent, haunt]

n 1: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay] v 1: make a trip for pleasure [syn: travel, trip, jaunt]

n 1: a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion [syn: harangue, rant, ranting] 2: pompous or pretentious talk or writing [syn: bombast, fustian, rant, claptrap, blah] v 1: talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, rave]

v 1: formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure; "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs" [syn: abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile]

v 1: plant again or anew; "They replanted the land"; "He replanted the seedlings"

n 1: someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field [syn: initiate, learned person, pundit, savant]

adj 1: less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight" [syn: light, scant(p), short] v 1: work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially [syn: skimp, scant] 2: limit in quality or quantity [syn: scant, skimp] 3: supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance" [syn: stint, skimp, scant]

v 1: take the place or move into the position of; "Smith replaced Miller as CEO after Miller left"; "the computer has supplanted the slide rule"; "Mary replaced Susan as the team's captain and the highest-ranked player in the school" [syn: supplant, replace, supersede, supervene upon, supercede]

n 1: aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing [syn: twit, taunt, taunting] v 1: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride]

n 1: (surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient [syn: graft, transplant] 2: an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient); "he had a kidney transplant"; "the long-term results of cardiac transplantation are now excellent"; "a child had a multiple organ transplant two months ago" [syn: transplant, transplantation, organ transplant] 3: the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location; "the transplant did not flower until the second year"; "too frequent transplanting is not good for families"; "she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation" [syn: transplant, transplantation, transplanting] v 1: lift and reset in another soil or situation; "Transplant the young rice plants" [syn: transplant, transfer] 2: be transplantable; "These delicate plants do not transplant easily" 3: place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient [syn: transplant, graft] 4: transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" [syn: transfer, transpose, transplant]

n 1: extravagant self-praise v 1: show off [syn: boast, tout, swash, shoot a line, brag, gas, blow, bluster, vaunt, gasconade]

n 1: a state of extreme poverty [syn: privation, want, deprivation, neediness] 2: the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" [syn: lack, deficiency, want] 3: anything that is necessary but lacking; "he had sufficient means to meet his simple needs"; "I tried to supply his wants" [syn: need, want] 4: a specific feeling of desire; "he got his wish"; "he was above all wishing and desire" [syn: wish, wishing, want] v 1: feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room" [syn: desire, want] 2: have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner" [syn: want, need, require] 3: hunt or look for; want for a particular reason; "Your former neighbor is wanted by the FBI"; "Uncle Sam wants you" 4: wish or demand the presence of; "I want you here at noon!" 5: be without, lack; be deficient in; "want courtesy"; "want the strength to go on living"; "flood victims wanting food and shelter"

n 1: German statesman who as chancellor of West Germany worked to reduce tensions with eastern Europe (1913-1992) [syn: Brandt, Willy Brandt]

n 1: small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward [syn: brant, brant goose, brent, brent goose]

n 1: a state in New England [syn: Vermont, Green Mountain State, VT]

n 1: French philosopher remembered as the founder of positivism; he also established sociology as a systematic field of study [syn: Comte, Auguste Comte, Isidore Auguste Marie Francois Comte]