Words that rhyme with spinet

• acute 0
  adj 1: having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course; "acute appendicitis"; "the acute phase of the illness"; "acute patients" [ant: chronic] 2: extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning" [syn: acute, intense] 3: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp] 4: of an angle; less than 90 degrees [ant: obtuse] 5: ending in a sharp point [syn: acuate, acute, sharp, needlelike] 6: of critical importance and consequence; "an acute (or critical) lack of research funds" n 1: a mark (') placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation [syn: acute accent, acute, ague]
• astute 0
  adj 1: marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow" [syn: astute, sharp, shrewd]
• binate 0
  adj 1: growing in two parts or in pairs; "binate leaves"
• bonnet 0
  n 1: a hat tied under the chin [syn: bonnet, poke bonnet] 2: protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine" [syn: hood, bonnet, cowl, cowling] v 1: dress in a bonnet
• boot 0
  n 1: footwear that covers the whole foot and lower leg 2: British term for the luggage compartment in a car 3: the swift release of a store of affective force; "they got a great bang out of it"; "what a boot!"; "he got a quick rush from injecting heroin"; "he does it for kicks" [syn: bang, boot, charge, rush, flush, thrill, kick] 4: protective casing for something that resembles a leg 5: an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg [syn: boot, the boot, iron boot, iron heel] 6: a form of foot torture in which the feet are encased in iron and slowly crushed 7: the act of delivering a blow with the foot; "he gave the ball a powerful kick"; "the team's kicking was excellent" [syn: kick, boot, kicking] v 1: kick; give a boot to 2: cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes; "boot your computer" [syn: boot, reboot, bring up]
• brut 0
  adj 1: (of champagne) extremely dry
• brute 0
  adj 1: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal] n 1: a cruelly rapacious person [syn: beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat] 2: a living organism characterized by voluntary movement [syn: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna]
• butte 0
  n 1: a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides 2: a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper
• chute 0
  n 1: rescue equipment consisting of a device that fills with air and retards your fall [syn: parachute, chute] 2: sloping channel through which things can descend [syn: chute, slide, slideway, sloping trough] v 1: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn: chute, parachute, jump]
• commute 0
  n 1: a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work; "there is standing room only on the high-speed commute" v 1: exchange positions without a change in value; "These operators commute with each other" [syn: commute, transpose] 2: travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home 3: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute, commute, transpose] 4: exchange a penalty for a less severe one [syn: commute, convert, exchange] 5: exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category; "Could you convert my dollars into pounds?"; "He changed his name"; "convert centimeters into inches"; "convert holdings into shares" [syn: change, exchange, commute, convert]
• compute 0
  v 1: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure]
• coot 0
  n 1: slate-black slow-flying birds somewhat resembling ducks
• cornet 0
  n 1: a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump]
• cute 0
  adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn: cunning, cute] 2: obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms" [syn: cute, precious]
• dispute 0
  n 1: a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats" [syn: dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict] 2: coming into conflict with [syn: dispute, contravention] v 1: take exception to; "She challenged his claims" [syn: challenge, dispute, gainsay] 2: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]
• disrepute 0
  n 1: the state of being held in low esteem; "your actions will bring discredit to your name"; "because of the scandal the school has fallen into disrepute" [syn: disrepute, discredit] [ant: reputation, repute]
• genet 0
  n 1: French diplomat who in 1793 tried to draw the United States into the war between France and England (1763-1834) [syn: Genet, Edmund Charles Edouard Genet, Citizen Genet] 2: French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986) [syn: Genet, Jean Genet] 3: agile Old World viverrine having a spotted coat and long ringed tail [syn: genet, Genetta genetta]
• impute 0
  v 1: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: impute, ascribe, assign, attribute] 2: attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; "The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness"
• linnet 0
  n 1: small finch originally of the western United States and Mexico [syn: house finch, linnet, Carpodacus mexicanus] 2: small Old World finch whose male has a red breast and forehead [syn: linnet, lintwhite, Carduelis cannabina]
• minute 0
  adj 1: infinitely or immeasurably small; "two minute whiplike threads of protoplasm"; "reduced to a microscopic scale" [syn: infinitesimal, minute] 2: characterized by painstaking care and detailed examination; "a minute inspection of the grounds"; "a narrow scrutiny"; "an exact and minute report" [syn: minute, narrow] n 1: a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour; "he ran a 4 minute mile" [syn: minute, min] 2: an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: moment, mo, minute, second, bit] 3: a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" [syn: moment, minute, second, instant] 4: a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree [syn: minute, arcminute, minute of arc] 5: a short note; "the secretary keeps the minutes of the meeting" 6: distance measured by the time taken to cover it; "we live an hour from the airport"; "its just 10 minutes away" [syn: hour, minute]
• permute 0
  v 1: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute, commute, transpose]
• pinnate 0
  adj 1: (of a leaf shape) featherlike; having leaflets on each side of a common axis [syn: pinnate, pinnated]
• planet 0
  n 1: (astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction [syn: planet, major planet] 2: a person who follows or serves another [syn: satellite, planet] 3: any celestial body (other than comets or satellites) that revolves around a star
• refute 0
  v 1: overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments" [syn: refute, rebut] 2: prove to be false or incorrect [syn: refute, rebut, controvert]
• repute 0
  n 1: the state of being held in high esteem and honor [syn: repute, reputation] [ant: discredit, disrepute] v 1: look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent" [syn: think of, repute, regard as, look upon, look on, esteem, take to be]
• sunbonnet 0
  n 1: a large bonnet that shades the face; worn by girls and women
• unit 0
  n 1: any division of quantity accepted as a standard of measurement or exchange; "the dollar is the United States unit of currency"; "a unit of wheat is a bushel"; "change per unit volume" [syn: unit of measurement, unit] 2: an individual or group or structure or other entity regarded as a structural or functional constituent of a whole; "the reduced the number of units and installations"; "the word is a basic linguistic unit" 3: an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit" [syn: unit, social unit] 4: a single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another" 5: a single undivided natural thing occurring in the composition of something else; "units of nucleic acids" [syn: unit, building block] 6: an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit" [syn: whole, unit]
• whodunit 0
  n 1: a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie [syn: mystery, mystery story, whodunit]
• beirut 0
  n 1: capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean [syn: Bayrut, Beirut, capital of Lebanon]
• cahoot 0
  n 1: collusion; "in cahoots with"
• bennett 0
  n 1: United States aviator who (with Richard E. Byrd) piloted the first flight over the North Pole (1890-1928) [syn: Bennett, Floyd Bennett]
• jennet 0
  n 1: female donkey [syn: jennet, jenny, jenny ass]
• sennett 0
  n 1: United States filmmaker (born in Canada) noted for slapstick movies (1880-1960) [syn: Sennett, Mack Sennett]
• sennit 0
  n 1: flat braided cordage that is used on ships
• pinot 0
  n 1: any of several purple or white wine grapes used especially for Burgundies and champagnes [syn: Pinot, Pinot grape]
• barnett 0
• bluett 0
• bluitt 0
• boote 0
• boutte 0
• bute 0
• clute 0
• coote 0
• crute 0
• beabout 0
• bebout 0
• cahouet 0
• minot 0
• mynatt 0
• sennet 0
• minott 0
• sinnott 0
• unknit 0
• interknit 0
• unbonnet 0

See also spinet definition