Words that rhyme with rhombic

• amoebic 4
  adj 1: pertaining to or resembling amoebae; "amoebic dysentery" [syn: amoebic, amebic, amoeban, ameban, amoebous, amebous]
• acerbic 0
  adj 1: sour or bitter in taste [syn: acerb, acerbic, astringent] 2: harsh or corrosive in tone; "an acerbic tone piercing otherwise flowery prose"; "a barrage of acid comments"; "her acrid remarks make her many enemies"; "bitter words"; "blistering criticism"; "caustic jokes about political assassination, talk-show hosts and medical ethics"; "a sulfurous denunciation"; "a vitriolic critique" [syn: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, blistering, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic]
• acrophobic 0
  adj 1: suffering from acrophobia; abnormally afraid of high places
• aerobic 0
  adj 1: depending on free oxygen or air; "aerobic fermentation" [syn: aerobic, aerophilic, aerophilous] [ant: anaerobic, anaerobiotic] 2: based on or using the principles of aerobics; enhancing respiratory and circulatory efficiency; "aerobic dance"; "running is very aerobic" [ant: anaerobic]
• agoraphobic 0
  adj 1: suffering from agoraphobia; abnormally afraid of open or public places
• alembic 0
  n 1: an obsolete kind of container used for distillation; two retorts connected by a tube
• anaerobic 0
  adj 1: living or active in the absence of free oxygen; "anaerobic bacteria" [syn: anaerobic, anaerobiotic] [ant: aerobic, aerophilic, aerophilous] 2: not aerobic; "isometric exercises are anaerobic" [ant: aerobic]
• back 0
  adv 1: in or to or toward a former location; "she went back to her parents' house" 2: at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards] [ant: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards] 3: in or to or toward an original condition; "he went back to sleep" 4: in or to or toward a past time; "set the clocks back an hour"; "never look back"; "lovers of the past looking fondly backward" [syn: back, backward] [ant: ahead, forward] 5: in reply; "he wrote back three days later" 6: in repayment or retaliation; "we paid back everything we had borrowed"; "he hit me and I hit him back"; "I was kept in after school for talking back to the teacher" adj 1: related to or located at the back; "the back yard"; "the back entrance" [ant: front(a)] 2: located at or near the back of an animal; "back (or hind) legs"; "the hinder part of a carcass" [syn: back(a), hind(a), hinder(a)] 3: of an earlier date; "back issues of the magazine" n 1: the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned" [syn: back, dorsum] 2: the side that goes last or is not normally seen; "he wrote the date on the back of the photograph" [syn: rear, back] [ant: front] 3: the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer; "he stood at the back of the stage"; "it was hidden in the rear of the store" [syn: back, rear] [ant: front] 4: (football) a person who plays in the backfield 5: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back" [syn: spinal column, vertebral column, spine, backbone, back, rachis] 6: the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book; "the book had a leather binding" [syn: binding, book binding, cover, back] 7: the part of a garment that covers the back of your body; "they pinned a `kick me' sign on his back" 8: a support that you can lean against while sitting; "the back of the dental chair was adjustable" [syn: back, backrest] 9: (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage v 1: be behind; approve of; "He plumped for the Labor Party"; "I backed Kennedy in 1960" [syn: back, endorse, indorse, plump for, plunk for, support] 2: travel backward; "back into the driveway"; "The car backed up and hit the tree" 3: give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn: second, back, endorse, indorse] 4: cause to travel backward; "back the car into the parking spot" [ant: advance, bring forward] 5: support financial backing for; "back this enterprise" 6: be in back of; "My garage backs their yard" [ant: face, front, look] 7: place a bet on; "Which horse are you backing?"; "I'm betting on the new horse" [syn: bet on, back, gage, stake, game, punt] 8: shift to a counterclockwise direction; "the wind backed" [ant: veer] 9: establish as valid or genuine; "Can you back up your claims?" [syn: back, back up] 10: strengthen by providing with a back or backing
• cherubic 0
  adj 1: having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition" [syn: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet]
• claustrophobic 0
  adj 1: uncomfortably closed or hemmed in; "a claustrophobic little room" 2: suffering from claustrophobia; abnormally afraid of closed-in places
• cubic 0
  adj 1: having three dimensions [syn: cubic, three- dimensional] [ant: linear, one-dimensional, planar, two-dimensional]
• decasyllabic 0
  adj 1: having or characterized by or consisting of ten syllables
• disyllabic 0
  adj 1: having or characterized by or consisting of two syllables
• dithyrambic 0
  adj 1: of or in the manner of a dithyramb
• hydrophobic 0
  adj 1: lacking affinity for water; tending to repel and not absorb water; tending not to dissolve in or mix with or be wetted by water [ant: hydrophilic] 2: abnormally afraid of water [syn: hydrophobic, aquaphobic]
• iambic 0
  adj 1: of or consisting of iambs; "iambic pentameter" n 1: a verse line consisting of iambs
• limbic 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or forming a limbus
• monosyllabic 0
  adj 1: having or characterized by or consisting of one syllable
• phobic 0
  adj 1: suffering from irrational fears
• plumbic 0
  adj 1: relating to or consisting of lead [syn: plumbic, plumbous]
• polysyllabic 0
  adj 1: having or characterized by words of more than three syllables 2: (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables; "sesquipedalian technical terms" [syn: polysyllabic, sesquipedalian]
• pubic 0
  adj 1: relating or near the pubis; "pubic bones"; "pubic hair"
• razorback 0
  adj 1: having a sharp narrow back; "a razor-backed horse"; "razorback hogs" [syn: razorback, razor-backed] n 1: a mongrel hog with a thin body and long legs and a ridged back; a wild or semi-wild descendant of improved breeds; found chiefly in the southeastern United States [syn: razorback, razorback hog, razorbacked hog] 2: any of several baleen whales of the family Balaenopteridae having longitudinal grooves on the throat and a small pointed dorsal fin [syn: rorqual, razorback]
• rollback 0
  n 1: the act of forcing the enemy to withdraw [syn: rollback, push back] 2: reducing prices back to some earlier level
• setback 0
  n 1: an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating [syn: reverse, reversal, setback, blow, black eye]
• stickleback 0
  n 1: small (2-4 inches) pugnacious mostly scaleless spiny-backed fishes of northern fresh and littoral waters having elaborate courtship; subjects of much research [syn: stickleback, prickleback]
• syllabic 0
  adj 1: of or relating to syllables; "syllabic accent"; "syllabic characters each represent a syllable" 2: consisting of or using a syllabary; "eskimos of the eastern Arctic have a system of syllabic writing" 3: (of verse) having lines based on number of syllables rather than on rhythmical arrangement of stresses or quantities [ant: accentual, quantitative] 4: consisting of a syllable or syllables [ant: nonsyllabic, unsyllabic] 5: (of speech sounds) forming the nucleus of a syllable; "the syllabic 'nl' in 'riddle'" [ant: nonsyllabic]
• tailback 0
  n 1: (American football) the person who plays tailback 2: (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage
• throwback 0
  adj 1: characteristic of an atavist [syn: atavistic, throwback(a)] n 1: an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism [syn: atavist, throwback] 2: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic [syn: atavism, reversion, throwback]
• tieback 0
  n 1: a device (as a decorative loop of cord or fabric) for holding or drawing something back; "the draperies were drawn to the sides by pullbacks" [syn: pullback, tieback]
• touchback 0
  n 1: (American football) a play in which the opposing team has kicked the football into your end zone
• wetback 0
  n 1: (ethnic slur) offensive term for a person of Mexican descent [syn: greaser, wetback, taco]
• xenophobic 0
  adj 1: suffering from xenophobia; having abnormal fear or hatred of the strange or foreign
• homophobic 0
  adj 1: prejudiced against homosexual people
• saddleback 0
  n 1: a pass or ridge that slopes gently between two peaks (is shaped like a saddle) [syn: saddleback, saddle] 2: a double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end [syn: gable roof, saddle roof, saddleback, saddleback roof]
• cornerback 0
  n 1: a defensive football player stationed outside the linebackers
• pickaback 0
  adv 1: on a railroad flatcar; "the trailer rode piggyback across the country" [syn: piggyback, pickaback, pig-a-back] 2: on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip; "she carried her child piggyback" [syn: piggyback, pickaback, pig-a-back]
• octosyllabic 0
  adj 1: having or characterized by or consisting of eight syllables
• tombac 0
  n 1: an alloy of copper and zinc (and sometimes arsenic) used to imitate gold in cheap jewelry and for gilding [syn: tombac, tombak, tambac]
• arabic 0
  adj 1: relating to or characteristic of Arabs; "Arabic languages" n 1: the Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects [syn: Arabic, Arabic language]
• ascorbic 0
• hendecasyllabic 0
• orthorhombic 0
• photophobic 0
• runback 0
• shellback 0
• skewback 0
• splashback 0
• switchback 0
• ack 0
• akc 0
• backe 0
• bak 0
• bakke 0
• flyback 0
• talkback 0
• yellowback 0
• dissyllabic 0
• trisyllabic 0
• hexasyllabic 0
• parisyllabic 0
• sorbic 0
• ephebic 0
• sowback 0
• choliambic 0
• galliambic 0
• rubik 0
• niobic 0
• lyophobic 0
• orbach 0
• mozarabic 0
• wayback 0

See also rhombic definition