Words that rhyme with sherrin

n 1: the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate [syn: dissemination, airing, public exposure, spreading] 2: a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air; "he took the dogs for an airing" 3: the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air [syn: ventilation, airing]

n 1: (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet

n 1: an orange-red crystalline compound used in making red pigments and in dyeing [syn: alizarin, alizarine]

adj 1: (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain [ant: nonbearing] n 1: relevant relation or interconnection; "those issues have no bearing on our situation" 2: the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies [syn: bearing, heading, aim] 3: dignified manner or conduct [syn: bearing, comportment, presence, mien] 4: characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture" [syn: carriage, bearing, posture] 5: heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield [syn: charge, bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing] 6: a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily

adj 1: unpleasantly loud and penetrating; "the blaring noise of trumpets"; "shut our ears against the blasting music from his car radio" [syn: blaring, blasting] n 1: a loud harsh or strident noise [syn: blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor, din]

n 1: a chisel of tempered steel with a sharp point; used for engraving

adj 1: feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others; "caring friends" n 1: a loving feeling [syn: lovingness, caring]

adj 1: relating to or suitable for childbirth; "of childbearing age" n 1: the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child [syn: childbirth, childbearing, accouchement, vaginal birth]

n 1: the act of examining resemblances; "they made a comparison of noise levels"; "the fractions selected for comparison must require pupils to consider both numerator and denominator" [syn: comparison, comparing]

n 1: a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries 2: a medieval musket

adj 1: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit" [syn: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous] 2: radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece" [syn: avant-garde, daring] n 1: a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he could never refuse a dare" [syn: dare, daring] 2: the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart" [syn: boldness, daring, hardiness, hardihood] [ant: timidity, timorousness]

adj 1: arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope; "a despairing view of the world situation"; "the last despairing plea of the condemned criminal"; "a desperate cry for help"; "helpless and desperate--as if at the end of his tether"; "her desperate screams" [syn: despairing, desperate]

n 1: any of various polysaccharides obtained by hydrolysis of starch; a tasteless and odorless gummy substance that is used as a thickening agent and in adhesives and in dietary supplements

adj 1: of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions; "endocrine system" [syn: endocrine, endocrinal] [ant: exocrine] n 1: the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect [syn: hormone, endocrine, internal secretion] 2: any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream [syn: endocrine gland, endocrine, ductless gland]

n 1: a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action [syn: epinephrine, epinephrin, adrenaline, Adrenalin]

adj 1: of or relating to exocrine glands or their secretions [ant: endocrinal, endocrine] n 1: a gland that secretes externally through a duct [syn: exocrine gland, exocrine, duct gland]

n 1: a white insoluble fibrous protein formed by the action of thrombin on fibrinogen when blood clots; it forms a network that traps red cells and platelets

adj 1: streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air; "ran quickly, her flaring coat behind her"; "flags aflare in the breeze" [syn: aflare, flaring]

adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary] 2: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]

n 1: a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils [syn: glycerol, glycerin, glycerine]

n 1: a polysaccharide produced in basophils (especially in the lung and liver) and that inhibits the activity of thrombin in coagulation of the blood; it (trade names Lipo-Hepin and Liquaemin) is used as an anticoagulant in the treatment of thrombosis and in heart surgery [syn: heparin, Lipo- Hepin, Liquaemin]

n 1: valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled 2: commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific [syn: herring, Clupea harangus]

n 1: shrub or small tree having flattened globose fruit with very sweet aromatic pulp and thin yellow-orange to flame- orange rind that is loose and easily removed; native to southeastern Asia [syn: mandarin, mandarin orange, mandarin orange tree, Citrus reticulata] 2: a member of an elite intellectual or cultural group 3: any high government official or bureaucrat 4: a high public official of imperial China 5: a somewhat flat reddish-orange loose skinned citrus of China [syn: mandarin, mandarin orange] 6: the dialect of Chinese spoken in Beijing and adopted as the official language for all of China [syn: Mandarin, Mandarin Chinese, Mandarin dialect, Beijing dialect]

n 1: variety or mutation of the peach bearing fruit with smooth skin and (usually) yellow flesh [syn: nectarine, nectarine tree, Prunus persica nectarina] 2: a variety or mutation of the peach that has a smooth skin

adj 1: expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" [syn: authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing] 2: having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, imperious, lordly, overbearing, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]

n 1: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union] 2: the act of grouping things or people in pairs

n 1: a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something [syn: paring, sliver, shaving] 2: (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel; "she could peel an apple with a single long paring"

adj 1: migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes" [syn: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering] n 1: a widely distributed falcon formerly used in falconry [syn: peregrine, peregrine falcon, Falco peregrinus]

adj 1: (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness; "impatient to begin"; "raring to go" [syn: impatient(p), raring(p)]

n 1: a crystalline substance 500 times sweeter than sugar; used as a calorie-free sweetener

adj 1: overly sweet [syn: cloying, saccharine, syrupy, treacly]

n 1: a sweetish crystalline amino acid involved in the synthesis by the body of cysteine

adj 1: unselfishly willing to share with others; "a warm and sharing friend" n 1: using or enjoying something jointly with others 2: having in common; "the sharing of electrons creates molecules" 3: sharing thoughts and feelings [syn: communion, sharing] 4: a distribution in shares [syn: sharing, share-out]

adj 1: avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally" [syn: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting]

adj 1: (used of eyes) open and fixed as if in fear or wonder; "staring eyes" [syn: agaze, staring] 2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated]

n 1: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss] 2: a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury [syn: oath, swearing]

adj 1: lacking affection or warm feeling; "an uncaring person" [syn: detached, unaffectionate, uncaring] 2: without care or thought for others; "the thoughtless saying of a great princess on being informed that the people had no bread; `Let them eat cake'" [syn: thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking]

adj 1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain" [syn: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting] 2: not forbearing; ruthless; "an unsparing critic"

n 1: liquid excretory product; "there was blood in his urine"; "the child had to make water" [syn: urine, piss, pee, piddle, weewee, water]

adj 1: producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing" [syn: exhausting, tiring, wearing, wearying] n 1: (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) [syn: erosion, eroding, eating away, wearing, wearing away] 2: the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment; "she bought it for everyday wear" [syn: wear, wearing]

n 1: an early name of Ireland that is now used in poetry

n 1: any of various brown and yellow finches of parts of Europe

n 1: semiprecious yellow quartz resembling topaz

adj 1: of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice); "a murine plague" n 1: a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae

n 1: an isomer of amphetamine (trade name Dexedrine) used as a central nervous system stimulant [syn: dextroamphetamine sulphate, Dexedrine]

n 1: a drug (trade name Atabrine) used to treat certain worm infestations and once used to treat malaria [syn: quinacrine, quinacrine hydrochloride, mepacrine, Atabrine]

n 1: an alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium; used to relax smooth muscles; it is nonaddictive [syn: papaverine, Kavrin]

n 1: Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741) [syn: Bering, Vitus Bering, Behring, Vitus Behring]

n 1: Danish explorer who explored the northern Pacific Ocean for the Russians and discovered the Bering Strait (1681-1741) [syn: Bering, Vitus Bering, Behring, Vitus Behring]

n 1: a B vitamin that prevents beriberi; maintains appetite and growth [syn: vitamin B1, thiamine, thiamin, aneurin, antiberiberi factor]

adj 1: (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion; "mother's milk is one apocrine secretion" [ant: eccrine]

n 1: capital city of the Piemonte region of northwestern Italy [syn: Turin, Torino]

n 1: small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail [syn: tamarin, lion monkey, lion marmoset, leoncita]

n 1: an ester of glycerol and stearic acid

adj 1: of or resembling alabaster; "alabaster statue" [syn: alabaster, alabastrine]

n 1: white odorless powdered or crystalline alkaloid from plants of the genus Ephedra (especially Ephedra sinica) or made synthetically; used as a bronchodilator to treat bronchitis and asthma

n 1: a highly toxic chemical nerve agent that inhibits the activity of cholinesterase [syn: sarin, GB]