Words that rhyme with rowbotham

v 1: make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music" [syn: habituate, accustom]

n 1: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; discovered by bombarding uranium with helium atoms [syn: americium, Am, atomic number 95] 2: a master's degree in arts and sciences [syn: Master of Arts, MA, Artium Magister, AM] 3: modulation of the amplitude of the (radio) carrier wave [syn: amplitude modulation, AM]

n 1: a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition [syn: arboretum, botanical garden]

n 1: (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element 2: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck]

n 1: the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973" [syn: fall, autumn]

adj 1: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck] n 1: any of various small breeds of fowl

adj 1: situated at the bottom or lowest position; "the bottom drawer" [ant: side(a), top(a)] 2: the lowest rank; "bottom member of the class" n 1: the lower side of anything [syn: bottom, underside, undersurface] 2: the lowest part of anything; "they started at the bottom of the hill" 3: 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] 4: the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat [syn: bottom, bottom of the inning] [ant: top, top of the inning] 5: a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: bed, bottom] 6: low-lying alluvial land near a river [syn: bottomland, bottom] 7: a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship] v 1: provide with a bottom or a seat; "bottom the chairs" 2: strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom 3: come to understand [syn: penetrate, fathom, bottom]

n 1: a river in east central England that flows past Cambridge to join the Ouse River [syn: Cam, River Cam, Cam River] 2: a rotating disk shaped to convert circular into linear motion

n 1: burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud; the shell closes with viselike firmness 2: a piece of paper money worth one dollar [syn: dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, buck, clam] 3: flesh of either hard-shell or soft-shell clams v 1: gather clams, by digging in the sand by the ocean

v 1: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad] 2: put something somewhere so that the space is completely filled; "cram books into the suitcase" 3: study intensively, as before an exam; "I had to bone up on my Latin verbs before the final exam" [syn: cram, grind away, drum, bone up, swot, get up, mug up, swot up, bone] 4: prepare (students) hastily for an impending exam

adj 1: made according to the specifications of an individual [syn: custom-made, custom] [ant: ready-made] n 1: accepted or habitual practice [syn: custom, usage, usance] 2: a specific practice of long standing [syn: custom, tradition] 3: money collected under a tariff [syn: customs, customs duty, custom, impost] 4: habitual patronage; "I have given this tailor my custom for many years"

n 1: a barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea [syn: dam, dike, dyke] 2: a metric unit of length equal to ten meters [syn: decameter, dekameter, decametre, dekametre, dam, dkm] 3: female parent of an animal especially domestic livestock v 1: obstruct with, or as if with, a dam; "dam the gorges of the Yangtse River" [syn: dam, dam up]

adv 1: extremely; "you are bloody right"; "Why are you so all- fired aggressive?" [syn: bloody, damn, all-fired] adj 1: used as expletives; "oh, damn (or goddamn)!" [syn: damn, goddamn] 2: expletives used informally as intensifiers; "he's a blasted idiot"; "it's a blamed shame"; "a blame cold winter"; "not a blessed dime"; "I'll be damned (or blessed or darned or goddamned) if I'll do any such thing"; "he's a damn (or goddam or goddamned) fool"; "a deuced idiot"; "an infernal nuisance" [syn: blasted, blame, blamed, blessed, damn, damned, darned, deuced, goddam, goddamn, goddamned, infernal] n 1: something of little value; "his promise is not worth a damn"; "not worth one red cent"; "not worth shucks" [syn: damn, darn, hoot, red cent, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam] v 1: wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" [syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant: bless]

n 1: an item of factual information derived from measurement or research [syn: datum, data point]

n 1: something desired as a necessity; "the desiderata for a vacation are time and money"

n 1: microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica

n 1: an authoritative declaration [syn: pronouncement, dictum, say-so] 2: an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding [syn: obiter dictum, dictum]

n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains [syn: dram, drachm, drachma] 2: 1/16 ounce or 1.771 grams 3: the basic unit of money in Armenia

n 1: a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment

n 1: a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind [syn: misprint, erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal]

n 1: a servant employed to do a variety of jobs

n 1: a truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed

n 1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g]

n 1: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: ham, jambon, gammon] 2: (Old Testament) son of Noah 3: a licensed amateur radio operator 4: an unskilled actor who overacts [syn: ham, ham actor] v 1: exaggerate one's acting [syn: overact, ham it up, ham, overplay] [ant: underact, underplay]

adv 1: (used when listing or enumerating items) also; "a length of chain, item a hook"-Philip Guedalla n 1: a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list; "he noticed an item in the New York Times"; "she had several items on her shopping list"; "the main point on the agenda was taken up first" [syn: item, point] 2: a small part that can be considered separately from the whole; "it was perfect in all details" [syn: detail, particular, item] 3: a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection; "they reduced the price on many items" 4: an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information" [syn: detail, item, point] 5: an individual instance of a type of symbol; "the word`error' contains three tokens of `r'" [syn: token, item]

n 1: preserve of crushed fruit 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] 3: a dense crowd of people [syn: crush, jam, press] 4: deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems [syn: jamming, electronic jamming, jam] v 1: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam] 2: push down forcibly; "The driver jammed the brake pedal to the floor" 3: crush or bruise; "jam a toe" [syn: jam, crush] 4: interfere with or prevent the reception of signals; "Jam the Voice of America"; "block the signals emitted by this station" [syn: jam, block] 5: get stuck and immobilized; "the mechanism jammed" 6: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad] 7: block passage through; "obstruct the path" [syn: obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up] [ant: disengage, free]

n 1: upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame

n 1: a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam" [syn: getaway, lam] 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] 2: give a thrashing to; beat hard [syn: thrash, thresh, lam, flail]

n 1: young sheep 2: English essayist (1775-1834) [syn: Lamb, Charles Lamb, Elia] 3: a person easily deceived or cheated (especially in financial matters) 4: a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) [syn: lamb, dear] 5: the flesh of a young domestic sheep eaten as food v 1: give birth to a lamb; "the ewe lambed"

n 1: an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried it off the road" [syn: momentum, impulse] 2: the product of a body's mass and its velocity; "the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities"

n 1: a semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication [syn: petrolatum, petroleum jelly, mineral jelly]

adj 1: something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb" n 1: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre] 2: something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow]

n 1: a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory 2: (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)

n 1: the most common computer memory which can be used by programs to perform necessary tasks while the computer is on; an integrated circuit memory chip allows information to be stored or accessed in any order and all storage locations are equally accessible [syn: random-access memory, random access memory, random memory, RAM, read/write memory] 2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries [syn: Aries, Ram] 3: the first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19 [syn: Aries, Aries the Ram, Ram] 4: a tool for driving or forcing something by impact 5: uncastrated adult male sheep; "a British term is `tup'" [syn: ram, tup] v 1: strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door" [syn: ram, ram down, pound] 2: force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically; "She rammed her mind into focus"; "He drives me mad" [syn: force, drive, ram] 3: undergo damage or destruction on impact; "the plane crashed into the ocean"; "The car crashed into the lamp post" [syn: crash, ram] 4: crowd or pack to capacity; "the theater was jampacked" [syn: jam, jampack, ram, chock up, cram, wad]

n 1: the terminal section of the alimentary canal; from the sigmoid flexure to the anus

n 1: a place of inviolable privacy; "he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go" [syn: sanctum, sanctum sanctorum] 2: a sacred place of pilgrimage [syn: holy place, sanctum, holy]

n 1: a fraudulent business scheme [syn: scam, cozenage] v 1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]

v 1: leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form; "Scram!" [syn: scram, buzz off, fuck off, get, bugger off]

n 1: the external pouch that contains the testes

n 1: (anatomy) a dividing partition between two tissues or cavities 2: a partition or wall especially in an ovary

adj 1: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham] n 1: something that is a counterfeit; not what it seems to be [syn: fake, sham, postiche] 2: a person who makes deceitful pretenses [syn: imposter, impostor, pretender, fake, faker, fraud, sham, shammer, pseudo, pseud, role player] v 1: make a pretence of; "She assumed indifference, even though she was seething with anger"; "he feigned sleep" [syn: simulate, assume, sham, feign] 2: make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" [syn: feign, sham, pretend, affect, dissemble]

n 1: winning all or all but one of the tricks in bridge [syn: slam, sweep] 2: the noise made by the forceful impact of two objects 3: a forceful impact that makes a loud noise 4: an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" [syn: shot, shaft, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe] v 1: close violently; "He slammed the door shut" [syn: slam, bang] 2: strike violently; "slam the ball" [syn: slam, bang] 3: dance the slam dance [syn: slam dance, slam, mosh, thrash] 4: throw violently; "He slammed the book on the table" [syn: slam, flap down]

n 1: expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness [syn: phlegm, sputum]

n 1: one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock) 2: people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class" [syn: class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class] 3: an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously" [syn: level, layer, stratum]

n 1: a surface on which an organism grows or is attached; "the gardener talked about the proper substrate for acid-loving plants" [syn: substrate, substratum] 2: any stratum or layer lying underneath another [syn: substrate, substratum] 3: an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population; "the Celtic languages of Britain are a substrate for English" [syn: substrate, substratum]

n 1: a system that is part of some larger system

n 1: (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease 2: anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence

n 1: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity; "he bought a new stereo system"; "the system consists of a motor and a small computer" 2: a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" [syn: system, scheme] 3: (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium; "in a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface"; "a system generating hydrogen peroxide" 4: a complex of methods or rules governing behavior; "they have to operate under a system they oppose"; "that language has a complex system for indicating gender" [syn: system, system of rules] 5: an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification" [syn: arrangement, organization, organisation, system] 6: a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts; "the body has a system of organs for digestion" 7: a procedure or process for obtaining an objective; "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation" 8: the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole; "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system" 9: an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized; "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality"; "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here" [syn: organization, organisation, system]

n 1: a woolen cap of Scottish origin [syn: tam, tam-o'-shanter, tammy]

n 1: a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object 2: emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians)

n 1: a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers [syn: tramway, tram, aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway] 2: a four-wheeled wagon that runs on tracks in a mine; "a tramcar carries coal out of a coal mine" [syn: tramcar, tram] 3: a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity [syn: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car] v 1: travel by tram

n 1: a final peremptory demand

v 1: hit hard; "The teacher whacked the boy" [syn: whack, wham, whop, wallop]

n 1: edible tuber of any of several yams 2: any of a number of tropical vines of the genus Dioscorea many having edible tuberous roots [syn: yam, yam plant] 3: sweet potato with deep orange flesh that remains moist when baked 4: edible tuberous root of various yam plants of the genus Dioscorea grown in the tropics world-wide for food

n 1: a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram [syn: gram, gramme, gm, g] 2: Danish physician and bacteriologist who developed a method of staining bacteria to distinguish among them (1853-1938) [syn: Gram, Hans C. J. Gram]

n 1: a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target [syn: surface-to-air missile, SAM]

n 1: a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula; "Thailand is the official name of the former Siam" [syn: Thailand, Kingdom of Thailand, Siam]

n 1: cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae [syn: Adiantum, genus Adiantum]

n 1: a member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala 2: a Mayan language spoken by the Mam

adj 1: occurring or done after death; "postmortem changes"; "a postmortem examination to determine cause of death"; "postmortal wounds" [syn: postmortem, postmortal] [ant: antemortem] 2: after death or after an event; "a postmortem examination to determine the cause of death"; "the postmortem discussion of the President's TV address" n 1: discussion of an event after it has occurred [syn: postmortem, post-mortem] 2: an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease [syn: autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination]

n 1: a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth [syn: cementum, cement]

n 1: a fold of peritoneum supporting the viscera

n 1: filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz" [syn: hair, fuzz, tomentum] 2: a network of tiny blood vessels between the cerebral surface of the pia mater and the cerebral cortex [syn: tomentum, tomentum cerebri]

n 1: a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect [syn: indumentum, indument]

n 1: rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium [syn: mistflower, mist-flower, ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum, Eupatorium coelestinum] 2: any plant of the genus Ageratum having opposite leaves and small heads of blue or white flowers

n 1: United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975) [syn: Tatum, Edward Lawrie Tatum] 2: United States jazz pianist who was almost completely blind; his innovations influenced many other jazz musicians (1910-1956) [syn: Tatum, Art Tatum, Arthur Tatum]

n 1: hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment [syn: pomade, pomatum]

n 1: a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin; "he got a bright red top and string for his birthday" [syn: top, whirligig, teetotum, spinning top]

n 1: any stratum or layer superimposed on another [syn: superstrate, superstratum] 2: the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language [syn: superstrate, superstratum]