Words that rhyme with salt

• alt 0
  n 1: angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) [syn: elevation, EL, altitude, ALT]
• assault 0
  n 1: close fighting during the culmination of a military attack 2: a threatened or attempted physical attack by someone who appears to be able to cause bodily harm if not stopped 3: thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1946 4: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: rape, violation, assault, ravishment] v 1: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" [syn: assail, assault, set on, attack] 2: force (someone) to have sex against their will; "The woman was raped on her way home at night" [syn: rape, ravish, violate, assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage] 3: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault]
• bait 0
  n 1: anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come- on, hook, lure, sweetener] 2: something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed [syn: bait, decoy, lure] 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] 2: lure, entice, or entrap with bait 3: attack with dogs or set dogs upon
• basalt 0
  n 1: the commonest type of solidified lava; a dense dark grey fine-grained igneous rock that is composed chiefly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene
• cobalt 0
  n 1: a hard ferromagnetic silver-white bivalent or trivalent metallic element; a trace element in plant and animal nutrition [syn: cobalt, Co, atomic number 27]
• default 0
  n 1: loss due to not showing up; "he lost the game by default" 2: act of failing to meet a financial obligation [syn: default, nonpayment, nonremittal] 3: loss resulting from failure of a debt to be paid [syn: nonpayment, default, nonremittal] [ant: payment] 4: an option that is selected automatically unless an alternative is specified [syn: default option, default] v 1: fail to pay up [syn: default, default on] [ant: ante up, pay, pay up]
• exalt 0
  v 1: praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking" [syn: laud, extol, exalt, glorify, proclaim] 2: fill with sublime emotion; "The children were thrilled at the prospect of going to the movies"; "He was inebriated by his phenomenal success" [syn: exhilarate, tickle pink, inebriate, thrill, exalt, beatify] 3: heighten or intensify; "These paintings exalt the imagination" [syn: inspire, animate, invigorate, enliven, exalt] 4: raise in rank, character, or status; "exalted the humble shoemaker to the rank of King's adviser"
• fault 0
  n 1: a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "he made a bad mistake"; "she was quick to point out my errors"; "I could understand his English in spite of his grammatical faults" [syn: mistake, error, fault] 2: an imperfection in an object or machine; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" [syn: defect, fault, flaw] 3: the quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"; "he knew his own faults much better than she did" [syn: demerit, fault] [ant: merit, virtue] 4: (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right over a geological fault"; "he studied the faulting of the earth's crust" [syn: fault, faulting, geological fault, shift, fracture, break] 5: (electronics) equipment failure attributable to some defect in a circuit (loose connection or insulation failure or short circuit etc.); "it took much longer to find the fault than to fix it" 6: responsibility for a bad situation or event; "it was John's fault" 7: (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults" v 1: put or pin the blame on [syn: blame, fault] [ant: absolve, free, justify]
• gait 0
  n 1: the rate of moving (especially walking or running) [syn: pace, gait] 2: a horse's manner of moving 3: a person's manner of walking
• halt 0
  adj 1: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg" [syn: crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game] n 1: the state of inactivity following an interruption; "the negotiations were in arrest"; "held them in check"; "during the halt he got some lunch"; "the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow"; "he spent the entire stop in his seat" [syn: arrest, check, halt, hitch, stay, stop, stoppage] 2: the event of something ending; "it came to a stop at the bottom of the hill" [syn: stop, halt] 3: an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement; "a halt in the arms race"; "a nuclear freeze" [syn: freeze, halt] v 1: cause to stop; "Halt the engines"; "Arrest the progress"; "halt the presses" [syn: halt, hold, arrest] 2: come to a halt, stop moving; "the car stopped"; "She stopped in front of a store window" [syn: stop, halt] [ant: get going, go, start] 3: stop from happening or developing; "Block his election"; "Halt the process" [syn: stop, halt, block, kibosh] 4: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt]
• malt 0
  n 1: a milkshake made with malt powder [syn: malted, malt, malted milk] 2: a lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer [syn: malt, malt liquor] 3: a cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling v 1: treat with malt or malt extract; "malt beer" 2: turn into malt, become malt 3: convert grain into malt 4: convert into malt
• millivolt 0
  n 1: a unit of potential equal to one thousandth of a volt [syn: millivolt, mV]
• somersault 0
  n 1: an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return [syn: somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset, somersaulting, flip] v 1: do a somersault
• summersault 0
  n 1: an acrobatic feat in which the feet roll over the head (either forward or backward) and return [syn: somersault, somerset, summersault, summerset, somersaulting, flip]
• vault 0
  n 1: a burial chamber (usually underground) [syn: vault, burial vault] 2: a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables [syn: vault, bank vault] 3: an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof 4: the act of jumping over an obstacle [syn: vault, hurdle] v 1: jump across or leap over (an obstacle) [syn: vault, overleap] 2: bound vigorously
• volt 0
  n 1: a unit of potential equal to the potential difference between two points on a conductor carrying a current of 1 ampere when the power dissipated between the two points is 1 watt; equivalent to the potential difference across a resistance of 1 ohm when 1 ampere of current flows through it [syn: volt, V]
• desalt 0
  v 1: remove salt from; "desalinate water" [syn: desalinate, desalt, desalinize, desalinise] [ant: salinate]
• megavolt 0
• stringhalt 0
• renault 0
• brault 0
• dault 0
• galt 0
• gault 0
• kalt 0
• mault 0
• nault 0
• sault 0
• walt 0
• covault 0
• kuralt 0
• perrault 0
• pinault 0
• anawalt 0
• ault 0
• smalt 0
• volte 0
• oxysalt 0
• trachybasalt 0

See also salt definition and salt synonyms