Words that rhyme with schwanke

n 1: sloping land (especially the slope beside a body of water); "they pulled the canoe up on the bank"; "he sat on the bank of the river and watched the currents" 2: a financial institution that accepts deposits and channels the money into lending activities; "he cashed a check at the bank"; "that bank holds the mortgage on my home" [syn: depository financial institution, bank, banking concern, banking company] 3: a long ridge or pile; "a huge bank of earth" 4: an arrangement of similar objects in a row or in tiers; "he operated a bank of switches" 5: a supply or stock held in reserve for future use (especially in emergencies) 6: the funds held by a gambling house or the dealer in some gambling games; "he tried to break the bank at Monte Carlo" 7: a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force [syn: bank, cant, camber] 8: a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home; "the coin bank was empty" [syn: savings bank, coin bank, money box, bank] 9: a building in which the business of banking transacted; "the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon" [syn: bank, bank building] 10: a flight maneuver; aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning); "the plane went into a steep bank" v 1: tip laterally; "the pilot had to bank the aircraft" 2: enclose with a bank; "bank roads" 3: do business with a bank or keep an account at a bank; "Where do you bank in this town?" 4: act as the banker in a game or in gambling 5: be in the banking business 6: put into a bank account; "She deposits her paycheck every month" [syn: deposit, bank] [ant: draw, draw off, take out, withdraw] 7: cover with ashes so to control the rate of burning; "bank a fire" 8: have confidence or faith in; "We can trust in God"; "Rely on your friends"; "bank on your good education"; "I swear by my grandmother's recipes" [syn: trust, swear, rely, bank] [ant: distrust, mistrust, suspect]

adj 1: (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" [syn: blank, clean, white] 2: void of expression; "a blank stare" [syn: blank, vacuous] 3: not charged with a bullet; "a blank cartridge" n 1: a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing; "he said the space is the most important character in the alphabet" [syn: space, blank] 2: a blank gap or missing part [syn: lacuna, blank] 3: a piece of material ready to be made into something 4: a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet [syn: blank, dummy, blank shell] v 1: keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning

n 1: a loud resonant repeating noise; "he could hear the clang of distant bells" [syn: clang, clangor, clangour, clangoring, clank, clash, crash] v 1: make a clank; "the train clanked through the village"

n 1: any of various edible tropical marine gastropods of the genus Strombus having a brightly-colored spiral shell with large outer lip

n 1: informal term for the nose v 1: come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway" [syn: stall, conk] 2: hit, especially on the head; "The stranger conked him and he fainted" 3: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born] 4: pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain [syn: faint, conk, swoon, pass out]

adj 1: (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail [syn: crank, cranky, tender, tippy] n 1: a bad-tempered person [syn: grouch, grump, crank, churl, crosspatch] 2: a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball] 3: an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant [syn: methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, ice, shabu, trash] 4: a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle [syn: crank, starter] v 1: travel along a zigzag path; "The river zigzags through the countryside" [syn: zigzag, crank] 2: start by cranking; "crank up the engine" [syn: crank, crank up] 3: rotate with a crank [syn: crank, crank up] 4: fasten with a crank 5: bend into the shape of a crank

adj 1: unpleasantly cool and humid; "a clammy handshake"; "clammy weather"; "a dank cellar"; "dank rain forests" [syn: clammy, dank]

n 1: a cheap wine of inferior quality 2: the noise of something dropping (as into liquid) v 1: set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa" [syn: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump]

n 1: slang for masturbation [syn: jacking off, jerking off, hand job, wank] v 1: get sexual gratification through self-stimulation [syn: masturbate, wank, fuck off, she-bop, jack off, jerk off]

n 1: an American who lives in the North (especially during the American Civil War) [syn: Yankee, Yank, Northerner] 2: an American (especially to non-Americans) [syn: Yankee, Yank, Yankee-Doodle] v 1: pull, or move with a sudden movement; "He turned the handle and jerked the door open" [syn: yank, jerk]

n 1: German physicist whose explanation of blackbody radiation in the context of quantized energy emissions initiated quantum theory (1858-1947) [syn: Planck, Max Planck, Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck]

n 1: an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang [syn: bronco, bronc, broncho]

v 1: utter a hoarse sound, like a raven [syn: croak, cronk] 2: cry like a goose; "The geese were honking" [syn: honk, cronk]

v 1: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk] 2: hit hard [syn: sock, bop, whop, whap, bonk, bash]

n 1: a mound or heap of snow [syn: snowbank, snow bank]

n 1: any of numerous fishes of the class Chondrichthyes characterized by a cartilaginous skeleton and placoid scales: sharks; rays; skates [syn: elasmobranch, selachian]

adv 1: in a direct and unequivocal manner; "I asked him point- blank whether he wanted the job" adj 1: characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion; "blunt talking and straight shooting"; "a blunt New England farmer"; "I gave them my candid opinion"; "forthright criticism"; "a forthright approach to the problem"; "tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank"; "it is possible to be outspoken without being rude"; "plainspoken and to the point"; "a point-blank accusation" [syn: blunt, candid, forthright, frank, free-spoken, outspoken, plainspoken, point-blank, straight- from-the-shoulder] 2: close enough to go straight to the target; "point-blank range"; "a point-blank shot"