Words that rhyme with spurgeon

n 1: any substance that can cause an allergy

n 1: male sex hormone that is produced in the testes and responsible for typical male sexual characteristics [syn: androgen, androgenic hormone]

n 1: any substance (as a toxin or enzyme) that stimulates an immune response in the body (especially the production of antibodies)

n 1: a club used as a weapon v 1: overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club; "The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas" 2: strike with a club or a bludgeon [syn: club, bludgeon]

v 1: grow and flourish; "The burgeoning administration"; "The burgeoning population"

n 1: any substance that produces cancer

n 1: a fibrous scleroprotein in bone and cartilage and tendon and other connective tissue; yields gelatin on boiling

n 1: any disease easily transmitted by contact [syn: contagious disease, contagion] 2: an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted [syn: infection, contagion, transmission] 3: the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people; "a contagion of mirth"; "the infection of his enthusiasm for poetry" [syn: contagion, infection]

n 1: a liquid that boils at below -160 C and is used as a refrigerant

n 1: a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas

n 1: the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress [syn: keep, donjon, dungeon]

n 1: a feeling of intense indignation (now used only in the phrase `in high dudgeon') [syn: dudgeon, high dudgeon]

n 1: the main tower within the walls of a medieval castle or fortress [syn: keep, donjon, dungeon] 2: a dark cell (usually underground) where prisoners can be confined

n 1: a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside [syn: monocot, monocotyledon, liliopsid, endogen]

n 1: motor that converts thermal energy to mechanical work 2: something used to achieve a purpose; "an engine of change" 3: a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks [syn: locomotive, engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive] 4: an instrument or machine that is used in warfare, such as a battering ram, catapult, artillery piece, etc.; "medieval engines of war"

n 1: a protein present in blood plasma; converts to fibrin when blood clots [syn: fibrinogen, factor I]

n 1: one form in which body fuel is stored; stored primarily in the liver and broken down into glucose when needed by the body [syn: glycogen, animal starch]

n 1: small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker [syn: goby, gudgeon] 2: small slender European freshwater fish often used as bait by anglers [syn: gudgeon, Gobio gobio]

n 1: a psychoactive drug that induces hallucinations or altered sensory experiences [syn: hallucinogen, hallucinogenic drug, psychedelic drug, psychodelic drug]

n 1: any of five related nonmetallic elements (fluorine or chlorine or bromine or iodine or astatine) that are all monovalent and readily form negative ions

n 1: a nonmetallic univalent element that is normally a colorless and odorless highly flammable diatomic gas; the simplest and lightest and most abundant element in the universe [syn: hydrogen, H, atomic number 1]

v 1: form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" [syn: imagine, conceive of, ideate, envisage] 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]

n 1: the quality of not being devout [syn: irreligiousness, irreligion]

adj 1: amounting to a large indefinite number; "numerous times"; "the family was numerous"; "Palomar's fans are legion" [syn: numerous, legion(p)] n 1: archaic terms for army [syn: host, legion] 2: association of ex-servicemen; "the American Legion" 3: a large military unit; "the French Foreign Legion" 4: a vast multitude [syn: horde, host, legion]

n 1: a common nonmetallic element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless inert diatomic gas; constitutes 78 percent of the atmosphere by volume; a constituent of all living tissues [syn: nitrogen, N, atomic number 7]

n 1: a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics [syn: estrogen, oestrogen]

n 1: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source] 2: properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins" [syn: origin, descent, extraction] 3: an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events [syn: origin, origination, inception] 4: the point of intersection of coordinate axes; where the values of the coordinates are all zero 5: the source of something's existence or from which it derives or is derived; "the rumor had its origin in idle gossip"; "vegetable origins"; "mineral origin"; "origin in sensation" 6: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock]

n 1: a nonmetallic bivalent element that is normally a colorless odorless tasteless nonflammable diatomic gas; constitutes 21 percent of the atmosphere by volume; the most abundant element in the earth's crust [syn: oxygen, O, atomic number 8]

n 1: any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)

n 1: wild and domesticated birds having a heavy body and short legs

n 1: the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space" [syn: region, part] 2: a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region" [syn: area, region] 3: a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions" 4: the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'); "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100" [syn: region, neighborhood] 5: a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult" [syn: region, realm]

n 1: a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality" [syn: religion, faith, religious belief] 2: an institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him" [syn: religion, faith, organized religion]

n 1: a tiny or scarcely detectable amount [syn: shred, scintilla, whit, iota, tittle, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, smidge]

n 1: a temporary stay (e.g., as a guest) [syn: sojourn, visit] v 1: spend a certain length of time; reside temporarily

n 1: large primitive fishes valued for their flesh and roe; widely distributed in the North Temperate Zone

n 1: a physician who specializes in surgery [syn: surgeon, operating surgeon, sawbones]

n 1: someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology [syn: theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser]

adj 1: being used or worked for the first time; "virgin wool" 2: in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" [syn: pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous] n 1: a person who has never had sex 2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo [syn: Virgo, Virgin] 3: the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22 [syn: Virgo, Virgo the Virgin, Virgin]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Belgium or the Belgian people; "the Belgian Queen" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Belgium

n 1: an artificial language used for trade between speakers of different languages

adj 1: of or relating to the ancient city of Troy or its inhabitants; "Trojan cities" n 1: a native of ancient Troy [syn: Trojan, Dardan, Dardanian] 2: a program that appears desirable but actually contains something harmful; "the contents of a trojan can be a virus or a worm"; "when he downloaded the free game it turned out to be a trojan horse" [syn: trojan, trojan horse]

n 1: belongs to lowest social and ritual class in India [syn: untouchable, Harijan]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Barbados or its inhabitants; "a Barbadian vacation" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Barbados

n 1: Roman Emperor and adoptive son of Nerva; extended the Roman Empire to the east and conducted an extensive program of building (53-117) [syn: Trajan, Marcus Ulpius Traianus]

adj 1: of or relating to Norway or its people or culture or language; "Norwegian herring" [syn: Norwegian, Norse] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Norway [syn: Norwegian, Norseman, Norse] 2: a Scandinavian language that is spoken in Norway

n 1: a member of the Carolingian dynasty [syn: Carolingian, Carlovingian]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Glasgow or its inhabitants n 1: an inhabitant of Glasgow

adj 1: of or relating to the former British colony of Georgia; "the Georgian colony" 2: of or relating to or characteristic of the Asian republic of Georgia or its people or language; "the Georgian capital is Tbilisi"; "Georgian farmers"; "Georgian vowels" 3: of or relating to or characteristic of the American state of Georgia or its inhabitants; "the Georgian state capital is Atlanta"; "Georgian peach farmers" 4: of or relating to the Hanoverian kings of England; "the first Georgian monarch" n 1: a native or resident of the American state of Georgia 2: a native or inhabitant of Georgia in Asia 3: a southern Caucasian language with 3 million speakers and a long literary tradition

n 1: a colorless toxic gas with a pungent almond odor; has been used in chemical warfare

n 1: freshwater duck of Eurasia and northern Africa related to mallards and teals [syn: widgeon, wigeon, Anas penelope]

n 1: (slang) offensive term for Native Americans [syn: Redskin, Injun, red man]

n 1: a general term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics [syn: estrogen, oestrogen]

n 1: any agent (physical or environmental) that can induce a genetic mutation or can increase the rate of mutation

n 1: (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk

n 1: inactive precursor of trypsin; a substance secreted by the pancreas and converted to active trypsin by enterokinase in the small intestine