Words that rhyme with rowse

n 1: a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn: adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]

adv 1: near in time or place or relationship; "as the wedding day drew near"; "stood near the door"; "don't shoot until they come near"; "getting near to the true explanation"; "her mother is always near"; "The end draws nigh"; "the bullet didn't come close"; "don't get too close to the fire" [syn: near, nigh, close] 2: in an attentive manner; "he remained close on his guard" [syn: close, closely, tight] adj 1: at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other; "close to noon"; "how close are we to town?"; "a close formation of ships" [ant: distant] 2: close in relevance or relationship; "a close family"; "we are all...in close sympathy with..."; "close kin"; "a close resemblance" [ant: distant, remote] 3: not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances; "near neighbors"; "in the near future"; "they are near equals"; "his nearest approach to success"; "a very near thing"; "a near hit by the bomb"; "she was near tears"; "she was close to tears"; "had a close call" [syn: near, close, nigh] [ant: far] 4: rigorously attentive; strict and thorough; "close supervision"; "paid close attention"; "a close study"; "kept a close watch on expenditures" 5: marked by fidelity to an original; "a close translation"; "a faithful copy of the portrait"; "a faithful rendering of the observed facts" [syn: close, faithful] 6: (of a contest or contestants) evenly matched; "a close contest"; "a close election"; "a tight game" [syn: close, tight] 7: crowded; "close quarters" [syn: close, confining] 8: lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke" [syn: airless, close, stuffy, unaired] 9: of textiles; "a close weave"; "smooth percale with a very tight weave" [syn: close, tight] 10: strictly confined or guarded; "kept under close custody" 11: confined to specific persons; "a close secret" 12: fitting closely but comfortably; "a close fit" [syn: close, snug, close-fitting] 13: used of hair or haircuts; "a close military haircut" 14: giving or spending with reluctance; "our cheeseparing administration"; "very close (or near) with his money"; "a penny-pinching miserly old man" [syn: cheeseparing, close, near, penny-pinching, skinny] 15: inclined to secrecy or reticence about divulging information; "although they knew her whereabouts her friends kept close about it" [syn: close, closelipped, closemouthed, secretive, tightlipped] n 1: the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season" [syn: stopping point, finale, finis, finish, last, conclusion, close] 2: the last section of a communication; "in conclusion I want to say..." [syn: conclusion, end, close, closing, ending] 3: the concluding part of any performance [syn: finale, close, closing curtain, finis] v 1: move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut; "Close the door"; "shut the window" [syn: close, shut] [ant: open, open up] 2: become closed; "The windows closed with a loud bang" [syn: close, shut] [ant: open, open up] 3: cease to operate or cause to cease operating; "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P.M."; "close up the shop" [syn: close up, close, fold, shut down, close down] [ant: open, open up] 4: finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc.); "The meeting was closed with a charge by the chairman of the board" [ant: open] 5: come to a close; "The concert closed with a nocturne by Chopin" [syn: conclude, close] 6: complete a business deal, negotiation, or an agreement; "We closed on the house on Friday"; "They closed the deal on the building" 7: be priced or listed when trading stops; "The stock market closed high this Friday"; "My new stocks closed at $59 last night" 8: engage at close quarters; "close with the enemy" 9: cause a window or an application to disappear on a computer desktop [ant: open] 10: change one's body stance so that the forward shoulder and foot are closer to the intended point of impact 11: come together, as if in an embrace; "Her arms closed around her long lost relative" [syn: close, come together] 12: draw near; "The probe closed with the space station" 13: bring together all the elements or parts of; "Management closed ranks" 14: bar access to; "Due to the accident, the road had to be closed for several hours" 15: fill or stop up; "Can you close the cracks with caulking?" [syn: close, fill up] 16: unite or bring into contact or bring together the edges of; "close the circuit"; "close a wound"; "close a book"; "close up an umbrella" [syn: close up, close] 17: finish a game in baseball by protecting a lead; "The relief pitcher closed with two runs in the second inning"

v 1: force to leave (an office) [syn: depose, force out] 2: make a deposition; declare under oath [syn: swear, depose, depone]

v 1: determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a diagnostic analysis [syn: diagnose, name] 2: subject to a medical analysis

v 1: make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out] 2: disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set" [syn: disclose, expose]

n 1: a measured portion of medicine taken at any one time [syn: dose, dosage] 2: the quantity of an active agent (substance or radiation) taken in or absorbed at any one time [syn: dose, dosage] 3: a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact [syn: venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch, Cupid's disease, Venus's curse, dose, sexually transmitted disease, STD] 4: street name for lysergic acid diethylamide [syn: acid, back breaker, battery-acid, dose, dot, Elvis, loony toons, Lucy in the sky with diamonds, pane, superman, window pane, Zen] v 1: treat with an agent; add (an agent) to; "The ray dosed the paint" 2: administer a drug to; "They drugged the kidnapped tourist" [syn: drug, dose]

v 1: put out, as of a candle or a light; "Douse the lights" [syn: douse, put out] 2: wet thoroughly [syn: douse, dowse] 3: dip into a liquid; "He dipped into the pool" [syn: dip, douse, duck] 4: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint" [syn: dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse] 5: lower quickly; "douse a sail" 6: slacken; "douse a rope" [syn: douse, dowse] 7: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse]

n 1: searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod [syn: dowse, dowsing, rhabdomancy] v 1: wet thoroughly [syn: douse, dowse] 2: use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal 3: slacken; "douse a rope" [syn: douse, dowse] 4: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse]

n 1: a light fitful sleep [syn: doze, drowse] v 1: sleep lightly or for a short period of time [syn: snooze, drowse, doze]

v 1: enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering; "Fog enveloped the house" [syn: envelop, enfold, enwrap, wrap, enclose] 2: close in; darkness enclosed him" [syn: enclose, hold in, confine] 3: surround completely; "Darkness enclosed him"; "They closed in the porch with a fence" [syn: enclose, close in, inclose, shut in] 4: introduce; "Insert your ticket here" [syn: insert, enclose, inclose, stick in, put in, introduce]

v 1: devote (oneself) fully to; "He immersed himself into his studies" [syn: steep, immerse, engulf, plunge, engross, absorb, soak up] 2: consume all of one's attention or time; "Her interest in butterflies absorbs her completely" [syn: absorb, engross, engage, occupy]

n 1: the exposure of an impostor or a fraud; "he published an expose of the graft and corruption in city government" [syn: expose, unmasking] v 1: expose or make accessible to some action or influence; "Expose your students to art"; "expose the blanket to sunshine" 2: make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case" [syn: unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out] 3: to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship" [syn: expose, exhibit, display] 4: remove all or part of one's clothes to show one's body; "uncover your belly"; "The man exposed himself in the subway" [syn: uncover, expose] [ant: cover] 5: disclose to view as by removing a cover; "The curtain rose to disclose a stunning set" [syn: disclose, expose] 6: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position [syn: queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril] 7: expose to light, of photographic film 8: expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims" [syn: debunk, expose] 9: abandon by leaving out in the open air; "The infant was exposed by the teenage mother"; "After Christmas, many pets get abandoned"

v 1: keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" [syn: prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid] 2: subject to foreclosing procedures; take away the right of mortgagors to redeem their mortgage

n 1: a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter 2: German mathematician who developed the theory of numbers and who applied mathematics to electricity and magnetism and astronomy and geodesy (1777-1855) [syn: Gauss, Karl Gauss, Karl Friedrich Gauss]

adj 1: impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval 2: affectedly genteel [syn: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, highfaluting, hoity-toity, la-di-da]

n 1: flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil 2: popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet v 1: hunt grouse 2: complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: gripe, bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler]

n 1: socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) [syn: hosiery, hose] 2: man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet 3: a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas [syn: hose, hosepipe] v 1: water with a hose; "hose the lawn" [syn: hose, hose down]

n 1: a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families; "he has a house on Cape Cod"; "she felt she had to get out of the house" 2: the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a brokerage house" [syn: firm, house, business firm] 3: the members of a religious community living together 4: the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema; "the house applauded"; "he counted the house" 5: an official assembly having legislative powers; "a bicameral legislature has two houses" 6: aristocratic family line; "the House of York" 7: play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults; "the children were playing house" 8: (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided [syn: sign of the zodiac, star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house] 9: the management of a gambling house or casino; "the house gets a percentage of every bet" 10: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage] 11: a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented; "the house was full" [syn: theater, theatre, house] 12: a building in which something is sheltered or located; "they had a large carriage house" v 1: contain or cover; "This box houses the gears" 2: provide housing for; "The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town" [syn: house, put up, domiciliate]

n 1: wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals [syn: louse, sucking louse] 2: a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect [syn: worm, louse, insect, dirt ball] 3: any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants [syn: plant louse, louse] 4: wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds [syn: bird louse, biting louse, louse]

adj 1: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]

adv 1: used to form the superlative; "the king cobra is the most dangerous snake" [syn: most, to the highest degree] [ant: least, to the lowest degree] 2: very; "a most welcome relief" 3: (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but; "the job is (just) about done"; "the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded"; "we're almost finished"; "the car all but ran her down"; "he nearly fainted"; "talked for nigh onto 2 hours"; "the recording is well-nigh perfect"; "virtually all the parties signed the contract"; "I was near exhausted by the run"; "most everyone agrees" [syn: about, almost, most, nearly, near, nigh, virtually, well-nigh] adj 1: (superlative of `many' used with count nouns and often preceded by `the') quantifier meaning the greatest in number; "who has the most apples?"; "most people like eggs"; "most fishes have fins" [ant: fewest(a)] 2: the superlative of `much' that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by `the'; a quantifier meaning the greatest in amount or extent or degree; "made the most money he could"; "what attracts the most attention?"; "made the most of a bad deal" [ant: least(a)]

n 1: any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails 2: a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye [syn: shiner, black eye, mouse] 3: person who is quiet or timid 4: a hand-operated electronic device that controls the coordinates of a cursor on your computer screen as you move it around on a pad; on the bottom of the device is a ball that rolls on the surface of the pad; "a mouse takes much more room than a trackball" [syn: mouse, computer mouse] v 1: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around spying on the neighbor's house" [syn: sneak, mouse, creep, pussyfoot] 2: manipulate the mouse of a computer

n 1: a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went to a movie every Saturday night"; "the film was shot on location" [syn: movie, film, picture, moving picture, moving-picture show, motion picture, motion-picture show, picture show, pic, flick]

n 1: the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals; "he has a cold in the nose" [syn: nose, olfactory organ] 2: a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft); "the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry" 3: the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon; "he ducked under the nose of the gun" 4: a small distance; "my horse lost the race by a nose" 5: a symbol of inquisitiveness; "keep your nose out of it" 6: the sense of smell (especially in animals); "the hound has a good nose" 7: a natural skill; "he has a nose for good deals" 8: a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged [syn: nozzle, nose] v 1: search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office" [syn: intrude, horn in, pry, nose, poke] 2: advance the forward part of with caution; "She nosed the car into the left lane" 3: catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs" [syn: scent, nose, wind] 4: push or move with the nose 5: rub noses [syn: nuzzle, nose] 6: defeat by a narrow margin

n 1: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me" [syn: airs, pose] 2: a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes 3: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn: affectation, mannerism, pose, affectedness] v 1: introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn: present, pose] 2: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn: model, pose, sit, posture] 3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: pose, impersonate, personate] 4: behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself" [syn: pose, posture] 5: 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] 6: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]

n 1: ordinary writing as distinguished from verse 2: matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression

adj 1: of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: rose, roseate, rosaceous] n 1: any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses [syn: rose, rosebush] 2: pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began [syn: blush wine, pink wine, rose, rose wine] 3: a dusty pink color [syn: rose, rosiness]

n 1: a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually [syn: alcoholic, alky, dipsomaniac, boozer, lush, soaker, souse] 2: pork trimmings chopped and pickled and jelled 3: the act of making something completely wet; "he gave it a good drenching" [syn: drenching, soaking, souse, sousing] v 1: cover with liquid; pour liquid onto; "souse water on his hot face" [syn: drench, douse, dowse, soak, sop, souse] 2: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate; "dip the garment into the cleaning solution"; "dip the brush into the paint" [syn: dunk, dip, souse, plunge, douse] 3: become drunk or drink excessively [syn: souse, soak, inebriate, hit it up] 4: cook in a marinade; "souse herring"

n 1: a person's partner in marriage [syn: spouse, partner, married person, mate, better half]

v 1: express a supposition; "Let us say that he did not tell the truth"; "Let's say you had a lot of money--what would you do?" [syn: suppose, say] 2: expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess] 3: to believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds; "Scientists supposed that large dinosaurs lived in swamps" [syn: speculate, theorize, theorise, conjecture, hypothesize, hypothesise, hypothecate, suppose] 4: take for granted or as a given; suppose beforehand; "I presuppose that you have done your work" [syn: presuppose, suppose] 5: require as a necessary antecedent or precondition; "This step presupposes two prior ones" [syn: presuppose, suppose]

n 1: common sense; "she has great social nous" 2: that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head" [syn: mind, head, brain, psyche, nous]

v 1: haul with a tackle [syn: bowse, bouse]

n 1: 100 groszy equal 1 zloty in Poland

n 1: a member of the Pueblo people living in northern New Mexico 2: an artist colony in northern New Mexico

n 1: Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons [syn: Bose, Satyendra N. Bose, Satyendra Nath Bose]

n 1: German composer of many operas; collaborated with librettist Hugo von Hoffmannsthal to produce several operas (1864-1949) [syn: Strauss, Richard Strauss] 2: Austrian composer and son of Strauss the Elder; composed many famous waltzes and became known as the `waltz king' (1825-1899) [syn: Strauss, Johann Strauss, Strauss the Younger] 3: Austrian composer of waltzes (1804-1849) [syn: Strauss, Johann Strauss, Strauss the Elder]

n 1: a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949 [syn: Laos, Lao People's Democratic Republic]