Words that rhyme with raison

n 1: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition, ban, proscription] 2: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Moldova 3: 100 bani equal 1 leu in Romania 4: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn: ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding] 5: a bachelor's degree in nursing [syn: Bachelor of Arts in Nursing, BAN] v 1: forbid the public distribution of ( a movie or a newspaper) [syn: ban, censor] 2: prohibit especially by legal means or social pressure; "Smoking is banned in this building" 3: ban from a place of residence, as for punishment [syn: banish, ban] 4: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball]

v 1: decorate tastelessly 2: dress up garishly and tastelessly [syn: bedizen, dizen]

adj 1: supported by both sides; "a two-way treaty" [syn: bipartisan, bipartizan, two-party, two-way]

n 1: the official symbols of a family, state, etc. [syn: coat of arms, arms, blazon, blazonry] v 1: decorate with heraldic arms [syn: emblazon, blazon]

n 1: broken husks of the seeds of cereal grains that are separated from the flour by sifting 2: food prepared from the husks of cereal grains

adj 1: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent] 2: made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness) v 1: face with defiance or impudence; "brazen it out"

n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can] 2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful] 3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can buoy] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne] 6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom] v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty" [syn: can, tin, put up] 2: 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]

n 1: one who is the object of choice; who is given preference; "she was Mama's chosen" 2: the name for Korea as a Japanese province (1910-1945) 3: an exclusive group of people; "one of the elect who have power inside the government" [syn: chosen, elect]

n 1: a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community [ant: alien, foreigner, noncitizen, outlander]

n 1: group of people related by blood or marriage [syn: kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe]

n 1: the child of your aunt or uncle [syn: cousin, first cousin, cousin-german, full cousin]

v 1: be false to; be dishonest with [syn: deceive, lead on, delude, cozen] 2: act with artful deceit 3: cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"

adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet] 2: characterized by violence or bloodshed; "writes of crimson deeds and barbaric days"- Andrea Parke; "fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing"- Thomas Gray; "convulsed with red rage"- Hudson Strode [syn: crimson, red, violent] 3: (especially of the face) reddened or suffused with or as if with blood from emotion or exertion; "crimson with fury"; "turned red from exertion"; "with puffy reddened eyes"; "red- faced and violent"; "flushed (or crimson) with embarrassment" [syn: crimson, red, reddened, red-faced, flushed] n 1: a deep and vivid red color [syn: crimson, ruby, deep red] v 1: turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame; "The girl blushed when a young man whistled as she walked by" [syn: blush, crimson, flush, redden]

n 1: a person who inhabits a particular place [syn: inhabitant, habitant, dweller, denizen, indweller] 2: a plant or animal naturalized in a region; "denizens of field and forest"; "denizens of the deep"

n 1: either of the two main stops on a pipe organ [syn: diapason, diapason stop]

adj 1: belonging to or governing a diocese n 1: a bishop having jurisdiction over a diocese

adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units [syn: twelve, 12, xii, dozen] n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of eleven and one [syn: twelve, 12, XII, dozen]

v 1: decorate with colors; "color the walls with paint in warm tones" [syn: color, colour, emblazon] 2: decorate with heraldic arms [syn: emblazon, blazon]

n 1: a device for creating a current of air by movement of a surface or surfaces 2: an enthusiastic devotee of sports [syn: sports fan, fan, rooter] 3: an ardent follower and admirer [syn: fan, buff, devotee, lover] v 1: strike out (a batter), (of a pitcher) 2: make (an emotion) fiercer; "fan hatred" 3: agitate the air 4: separate the chaff from by using air currents; "She stood there winnowing chaff all day in the field" [syn: winnow, fan]

n 1: open pastry filled with fruit or custard

adj 1: turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold; "the frozen North"; "frozen pipes"; "children skating on a frozen brook" [ant: unfrozen] 2: absolutely still; "frozen with horror"; "they stood rooted in astonishment" [syn: frozen(p), rooted(p), stock-still] 3: devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain; "a frigid greeting"; "got a frosty reception"; "a frozen look on their faces"; "a glacial handshake"; "icy stare"; "wintry smile" [syn: frigid, frosty, frozen, glacial, icy, wintry] 4: not thawed 5: (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value; "frozen foods" [syn: flash-frozen, quick-frozen, frozen] 6: not convertible to cash; "frozen assets" 7: incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"; "living on fixed incomes" [syn: fixed, frozen]

n 1: the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet [syn: horizon, apparent horizon, visible horizon, sensible horizon, skyline] 2: the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" [syn: horizon, view, purview] 3: a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land 4: the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth [syn: horizon, celestial horizon]

v 1: lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life" [syn: imprison, incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand] 2: confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"

v 1: throw away, of something encumbering 2: throw as from an airplane

n 1: leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria

n 1: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour] 2: a channel for communication between groups; "he provided a liaison with the guerrillas" [syn: liaison, link, contact, inter-group communication]

n 1: an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus" [syn: man, adult male] [ant: adult female, woman] 2: someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force; "two men stood sentry duty" [syn: serviceman, military man, man, military personnel] [ant: civilian] 3: the generic use of the word to refer to any human being; "it was every man for himself" 4: any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage [syn: homo, man, human being, human] 5: a male subordinate; "the chief stationed two men outside the building"; "he awaited word from his man in Havana" 6: an adult male person who has a manly character (virile and courageous competent); "the army will make a man of you" 7: a manservant who acts as a personal attendant to his employer; "Jeeves was Bertie Wooster's man" [syn: valet, valet de chambre, gentleman, gentleman's gentleman, man] 8: a male person who plays a significant role (husband or lover or boyfriend) in the life of a particular woman; "she takes good care of her man" [ant: woman] 9: one of the British Isles in the Irish Sea [syn: Man, Isle of Man] 10: game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" [syn: man, piece] 11: all of the living human inhabitants of the earth; "all the world loves a lover"; "she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women" [syn: world, human race, humanity, humankind, human beings, humans, mankind, man] v 1: take charge of a certain job; occupy a certain work place; "Mr. Smith manned the reception desk in the morning" 2: provide with workers; "We cannot man all the desks"; "Students were manning the booths"

n 1: third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy [syn: mizzenmast, mizenmast, mizzen, mizen] 2: fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast [syn: mizzen, mizen]

n 1: reverent petition to a deity [syn: prayer, petition, orison]

n 1: cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel [syn: pan, cooking pan] 2: (Greek mythology) god of fields and woods and shepherds and flocks; represented as a man with goat's legs and horns and ears; identified with Roman Sylvanus or Faunus [syn: Pan, goat god] 3: shallow container made of metal 4: chimpanzees; more closely related to Australopithecus than to other pongids [syn: Pan, genus Pan] v 1: make a sweeping movement; "The camera panned across the room" 2: wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals [syn: pan, pan out, pan off] 3: express a totally negative opinion of; "The critics panned the performance" [syn: pan, tear apart, trash]

adj 1: devoted to a cause or party [syn: partisan, partizan] [ant: nonpartisan, nonpartizan] n 1: a fervent and even militant proponent of something [syn: partisan, zealot, drumbeater] [ant: nonpartisan, nonpartizan] 2: an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity [syn: enthusiast, partisan, partizan] 3: a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries [syn: partisan, partizan]

n 1: a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans for a new bond issue" [syn: plan, program, programme] 2: an arrangement scheme; "the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for living"; "a plan for seating guests" [syn: design, plan] 3: scale drawing of a structure; "the plans for City Hall were on file" [syn: plan, architectural plan] v 1: have the will and intention to carry out some action; "He plans to be in graduate school next year"; "The rebels had planned turmoil and confusion" [syn: plan, be after] 2: make plans for something; "He is planning a trip with his family" 3: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack" [syn: plan, project, contrive, design] 4: make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form; "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum" [syn: design, plan]

n 1: any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism [syn: poison, toxicant, poisonous substance] 2: anything that harms or destroys; "the poison of fascism" v 1: spoil as if by poison; "poison someone's mind"; "poison the atmosphere in the office" 2: kill with poison; "She poisoned her husband" 3: add poison to; "Her husband poisoned her drink in order to kill her" [syn: poison, envenom] 4: kill by its poison; "This mushrooms can poison" 5: administer poison to; "She poisoned her husband but he did not die"

n 1: a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment [syn: prison, prison house] 2: a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement [syn: prison, prison house]

n 1: dried grape

n 1: a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration" [syn: reason, ground] 2: an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; "the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly" 3: the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" [syn: reason, understanding, intellect] 4: the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions" [syn: rationality, reason, reasonableness] 5: a justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice" [syn: cause, reason, grounds] 6: a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion; "there is reason to believe he is lying" v 1: decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house" [syn: reason, reason out, conclude] 2: present reasons and arguments [syn: argue, reason] 3: think logically; "The children must learn to reason"

adj 1: (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon; "the risen sun"

n 1: the act of scanning; systematic examination of a prescribed region; "he made a thorough scan of the beach with his binoculars" 2: an image produced by scanning; "he analyzed the brain scan"; "you could see the tumor in the CAT scan" [syn: scan, CAT scan] v 1: examine minutely or intensely; "the surgeon scanned the X-ray" 2: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, glance over, run down] 3: make a wide, sweeping search of; "The beams scanned the night sky" 4: conform to a metrical pattern 5: move a light beam over; in electronics, to reproduce an image 6: read metrically; "scan verses" 7: obtain data from magnetic tapes; "This dictionary can be read by the computer" [syn: read, scan]

n 1: the complete duration of something; "the job was finished in the span of an hour" 2: the distance or interval between two points 3: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad] 4: a unit of length based on the width of the expanded human hand (usually taken as 9 inches) 5: a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc. [syn: bridge, span] 6: the act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle, span] v 1: to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross, traverse, span, sweep]

adj 1: of a light yellowish-brown color n 1: a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun [syn: tan, suntan, sunburn, burn] 2: a light brown the color of topaz [syn: tan, topaz] 3: ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle [syn: tangent, tan] v 1: treat skins and hides with tannic acid so as to convert them into leather 2: get a tan, from wind or sun [syn: tan, bronze]

n 1: a crime that undermines the offender's government [syn: treason, high treason, lese majesty] 2: disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior [syn: treason, subversiveness, traitorousness] 3: an act of deliberate betrayal [syn: treachery, betrayal, treason, perfidy]

adj 1: not frozen; "unfrozen ground" [ant: frozen]

n 1: corresponding exactly; "marching in unison" 2: occurring together or simultaneously; "the two spoke in unison" 3: (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves; "singing in unison"

n 1: the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding [syn: irrationality, unreason]

n 1: any creative group active in the innovation and application of new concepts and techniques in a given field (especially in the arts) [syn: avant-garde, vanguard, van, new wave] 2: the leading units moving at the head of an army [syn: vanguard, van] 3: (Great Britain) a closed railroad car that carries baggage or freight 4: a camper equipped with living quarters [syn: van, caravan] 5: a truck with an enclosed cargo space

n 1: meat from a deer used as food

n 1: dark purple plum of the damson tree [syn: damson, damson plum]

n 1: (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs) 2: a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs [syn: Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes]

n 1: imperial dynasty that ruled China (most of the time from 206 BC to AD 220) and expanded its boundaries and developed its bureaucracy; remembered as one of the great eras of Chinese civilization [syn: Han, Han dynasty]

n 1: a port and resort city on the French Riviera; site of an annual film festival

n 1: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma, grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna]

n 1: United States educator who introduced reforms that significantly altered the system of public education (1796-1859) [syn: Mann, Horace Mann] 2: German writer concerned about the role of the artist in bourgeois society (1875-1955) [syn: Mann, Thomas Mann]

n 1: your grandmother 2: the mother of your father or mother [syn: grandma, grandmother, granny, grannie, gran, nan, nanna] 3: a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya [syn: Nan, Nan River] 4: leavened bread baked in a clay oven in India; usually shaped like a teardrop [syn: nan, naan]

n 1: a branch of the Tai languages [syn: Tai Long, Shan]

n 1: Queen of England and Scotland and Ireland; daughter if James II and the last of the Stuart monarchs; in 1707 she was the last English ruler to exercise the royal veto over parliament (1665-1714)

n 1: a large strong and aggressive woman [syn: amazon, virago] 2: (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively) 3: a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles) [syn: Amazon, Amazon River] 4: mainly green tropical American parrots

n 1: a native or resident of Kansas

n 1: a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica

n 1: carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts [syn: grison, Grison vittatus, Galictis vittatus]

n 1: German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797) [syn: Munchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen, Munchausen, Baron Munchausen]

n 1: pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel [syn: spiegeleisen, spiegel, spiegel iron]

n 1: a spoken blessing

n 1: a town in Czech Republic where Pilsner beer originated [syn: Pilsen, Plzen]