Words that rhyme with strachan

n 1: (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe [syn: eon, aeon] 2: the longest division of geological time [syn: eon, aeon] 3: an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago" [syn: eon, aeon]

v 1: cause to become awake or conscious; "He was roused by the drunken men in the street"; "Please wake me at 6 AM." [syn: awaken, wake, waken, rouse, wake up, arouse] [ant: cause to sleep] 2: stop sleeping; "She woke up to the sound of the alarm clock" [syn: wake up, awake, arouse, awaken, wake, come alive, waken] [ant: dope off, doze off, drift off, drop off, drowse off, fall asleep, flake out, nod off] 3: make aware; "They were awakened to the sad facts"

adj 1: having or showing a feeling of mixed reverence and respect and wonder and dread; "stood in awed silence before the shrine"; "in grim despair and awestruck wonder" [syn: awed, awestruck, awestricken] [ant: unawed]

n 1: slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses

n 1: back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried 2: English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292) [syn: Bacon, Roger Bacon] 3: English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626) [syn: Bacon, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam, 1st Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans]

n 1: a tower that is part of a defensive structure (such as a castle) [syn: barbican, barbacan]

v 1: signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably" [syn: beckon, wave] 2: appear inviting; "The shop window decorations beckoned" 3: summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture

adj 1: (of clothing) custom-made [syn: bespoke, bespoken, made-to-order, tailored, tailor-made] 2: pledged to be married; "the engaged couple" [syn: bespoken, betrothed]

v 1: be a signal for or a symptom of; "These symptoms indicate a serious illness"; "Her behavior points to a severe neurosis"; "The economic indicators signal that the euro is undervalued" [syn: bespeak, betoken, indicate, point, signal] 2: indicate by signs; "These signs bode bad news" [syn: bode, portend, auspicate, prognosticate, omen, presage, betoken, foreshadow, augur, foretell, prefigure, forecast, predict]

v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten] 2: burn slightly and superficially so as to affect color; "The cook blackened the chicken breast"; "The fire charred the ceiling above the mantelpiece"; "the flames scorched the ceiling" [syn: char, blacken, sear, scorch]

adj 1: brought into existence; "he was a child born of adultery" [ant: unborn] 2: being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn: natural, born(p), innate(p)] n 1: British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970) [syn: Born, Max Born]

n 1: an archaic term for a boundary [syn: bourn, bourne] 2: an archaic term for a goal or destination [syn: bourn, bourne]

n 1: fern of southeastern Asia; not hardy in cold temperate regions [syn: bracken, Pteridium esculentum] 2: large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan [syn: bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum]

n 1: possessing muscular strength [syn: brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness]

adj 1: physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split; "a broken mirror"; "a broken tooth"; "a broken leg"; "his neck is broken" [ant: unbroken] 2: not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs" [ant: unbroken] 3: subdued or brought low in condition or status; "brought low"; "a broken man"; "his broken spirit" [syn: broken, crushed, humbled, humiliated, low] 4: (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded; "broken (or unkept) promises"; "broken contracts" [syn: broken, unkept] [ant: kept, unbroken] 5: tamed or trained to obey; "a horse broken to the saddle"; "this old nag is well broken in" [syn: broken, broken in] 6: topographically very uneven; "broken terrain"; "rugged ground" [syn: broken, rugged] 7: imperfectly spoken or written; "broken English" 8: thrown into a state of disarray or confusion; "troops fleeing in broken ranks"; "a confused mass of papers on the desk"; "the small disordered room"; "with everything so upset" [syn: broken, confused, disordered, upset] 9: weakened and infirm; "broken health resulting from alcoholism" 10: destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family" [syn: broken, wiped out(p), impoverished] 11: out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken'); "a broken washing machine"; "the coke machine is broken"; "the coke machine is busted" [syn: broken, busted] 12: discontinuous; "broken clouds"; "broken sunshine" 13: lacking a part or parts; "a broken set of encyclopedia"

adj 1: easily frightened [syn: chicken, chickenhearted, lily-livered, white-livered, yellow, yellow- bellied] n 1: the flesh of a chicken used for food [syn: chicken, poulet, volaille] 2: a domestic fowl bred for flesh or eggs; believed to have been developed from the red jungle fowl [syn: chicken, Gallus gallus] 3: a person who lacks confidence, is irresolute and wishy-washy [syn: wimp, chicken, crybaby] 4: a foolhardy competition; a dangerous activity that is continued until one competitor becomes afraid and stops

n 1: tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears: widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America since pre-Columbian times [syn: corn, maize, Indian corn, Zea mays] 2: the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or ground for meal 3: ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food [syn: corn, edible corn] 4: a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes [syn: corn, clavus] 5: (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats in Scotland and Ireland) 6: whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent corn [syn: corn whiskey, corn whisky, corn] 7: something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn" v 1: feed (cattle) with corn 2: preserve with salt; "corned beef"

adj 1: of or relating to or resembling the Cyclops; "Cyclopean eye"

v 1: become dark or darker; "The sky darkened" [ant: lighten, lighten up] 2: tarnish or stain; "a scandal that darkened the family's good name" 3: make dark or darker; "darken a room" [ant: brighten, lighten, lighten up]

n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow] [ant: sundown, sunset] 2: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" [syn: dawn, morning] 3: an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman Empire" v 1: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow" [syn: click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into place] 2: appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned" 3: become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"

adj 1: showing the wearing effects of overwork or care or suffering; "looking careworn as she bent over her mending"; "her face was drawn and haggard from sleeplessness"; "that raddled but still noble face"; "shocked to see the worn look of his handsome young face"- Charles Dickens [syn: careworn, drawn, haggard, raddled, worn] 2: having the curtains or draperies closed or pulled shut; "the drawn draperies kept direct sunlight from fading the rug"

adj 1: given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; "a bibulous fellow"; "a bibulous evening"; "his boozy drinking companions"; "thick boozy singing"; "a drunken binge"; "two drunken gentlemen holding each other up"; "sottish behavior" [syn: bibulous, boozy, drunken, sottish]

n 1: the longest division of geological time [syn: eon, aeon] 2: an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago" [syn: eon, aeon] 3: (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe [syn: eon, aeon]

n 1: diurnal birds of prey having long pointed powerful wings adapted for swift flight v 1: hunt with falcons; "The tribes like to falcon in the desert"

n 1: ancient Italian deity in human shape, with horns, pointed ears and a goat's tail; equivalent to Greek satyr

n 1: a color or pigment varying around a light grey-brown color; "she wore dun" [syn: dun, greyish brown, grayish brown, fawn] 2: a young deer v 1: show submission or fear [syn: fawn, crawl, creep, cringe, cower, grovel] 2: try to gain favor by cringing or flattering; "He is always kowtowing to his boss" [syn: fawn, toady, truckle, bootlick, kowtow, kotow, suck up] 3: have fawns; "deer fawn"

n 1: an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come; "he hoped it was an augury"; "it was a sign from God" [syn: augury, sign, foretoken, preindication]

n 1: large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases [syn: gyrfalcon, gerfalcon, Falco rusticolus]

adj 1: located in a dismal or remote area; desolate; "a desert island"; "a godforsaken wilderness crossroads"; "a wild stretch of land"; "waste places" [syn: godforsaken, waste, wild]

n 1: large and rare Arctic falcon having white and dark color phases [syn: gyrfalcon, gerfalcon, Falco rusticolus]

v 1: listen; used mostly in the imperative [syn: hark, harken, hearken]

adj 1: full of sorrow [syn: brokenhearted, heartbroken, heartsick]

n 1: a tuba that coils over the shoulder of the musician [syn: helicon, bombardon]

adv 1: at or to or in the direction of one's home or family; "He stays home on weekends"; "after the game the children brought friends home for supper"; "I'll be home tomorrow"; "came riding home in style"; "I hope you will come home for Christmas"; "I'll take her home"; "don't forget to write home" 2: on or to the point aimed at; "the arrow struck home" 3: to the fullest extent; to the heart; "drove the nail home"; "drove his point home"; "his comments hit home" adj 1: used of your own ground; "a home game" [ant: away] 2: relating to or being where one lives or where one's roots are; "my home town" 3: inside the country; "the British Home Office has broader responsibilities than the United States Department of the Interior"; "the nation's internal politics" [syn: home(a), interior(a), internal, national] n 1: where you live at a particular time; "deliver the package to my home"; "he doesn't have a home to go to"; "your place or mine?" [syn: home, place] 2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house] 3: the country or state or city where you live; "Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home"; "his home is New Jersey" 4: (baseball) base consisting of a rubber slab where the batter stands; it must be touched by a base runner in order to score; "he ruled that the runner failed to touch home" [syn: home plate, home base, home, plate] 5: the place where you are stationed and from which missions start and end [syn: base, home] 6: place where something began and flourished; "the United States is the home of basketball" 7: an environment offering affection and security; "home is where the heart is"; "he grew up in a good Christian home"; "there's no place like home" 8: a social unit living together; "he moved his family to Virginia"; "It was a good Christian household"; "I waited until the whole house was asleep"; "the teacher asked how many people made up his home" [syn: family, household, house, home, menage] 9: an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" [syn: home, nursing home, rest home] v 1: provide with, or send to, a home 2: return home accurately from a long distance; "homing pigeons"

n 1: a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it 2: one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates 3: a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning; 4: a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) [syn: horn, saddle horn] 5: 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] 6: any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn 7: the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails 8: a device having the shape of a horn; "horns at the ends of a new moon"; "the hornof an anvil"; "the cleat had two horns" 9: an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound 10: a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves [syn: French horn, horn] 11: a device on an automobile for making a warning noise [syn: automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, horn, hooter] v 1: stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer" [syn: horn, tusk]

n 1: a severe tropical cyclone usually with heavy rains and winds moving a 73-136 knots (12 on the Beaufort scale)

n 1: rise and fall of the voice pitch [syn: intonation, modulation, pitch contour] 2: singing by a soloist of the opening piece of plainsong 3: the act of singing in a monotonous tone [syn: intonation, chanting] 4: the production of musical tones (by voice or instrument); especially the exactitude of the pitch relations

n 1: the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance [syn: poisoning, toxic condition, intoxication] 2: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol [syn: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety] [ant: soberness, sobriety] 3: excitement and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety; "the intoxication of wealth and power"

n 1: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge, alluvion] 2: an overwhelming number or amount; "a flood of requests"; "a torrent of abuse" [syn: flood, inundation, deluge, torrent]

n 1: (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) [syn: annulment, invalidation]

n 1: a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something; "an invitation to lunch"; "she threw the invitation away" 2: a tempting allurement; "she was an invitation to trouble"

n 1: a prayer asking God's help as part of a religious service [syn: invocation, supplication] 2: an incantation used in conjuring or summoning a devil 3: calling up a spirit or devil [syn: conjuring, conjuration, conjury, invocation] 4: the act of appealing for help

n 1: the condition of being exposed to radiation 2: a column of light (as from a beacon) [syn: beam, beam of light, light beam, ray, ray of light, shaft, shaft of light, irradiation] 3: (physiology) the spread of sensory neural impulses in the cortex 4: the apparent enlargement of a bright object when viewed against a dark background 5: (Pavolvian conditioning) the elicitation of a conditioned response by stimulation similar but not identical to the original stimulus 6: (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance [syn: radiotherapy, radiation therapy, radiation, actinotherapy, irradiation]

n 1: supplying dry land with water by means of ditches etc 2: (medicine) cleaning a wound or body organ by flushing or washing out with water or a medicated solution

n 1: the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed [syn: irritation, annoyance, vexation, botheration] 2: a sudden outburst of anger; "his temper sparked like damp firewood" [syn: pique, temper, irritation] 3: (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation; "any food produced irritation of the stomach" 4: the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland [syn: excitation, innervation, irritation] 5: an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress [syn: discomfort, soreness, irritation] 6: unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment [syn: aggravation, irritation, provocation] 7: the act of troubling or annoying someone [syn: annoyance, annoying, irritation, vexation]

n 1: a state of separation between persons or groups 2: a feeling of being disliked and alone 3: the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others [syn: isolation, closing off] 4: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it 5: a country's withdrawal from international politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"

n 1: a feeling of extreme joy [syn: exultation, jubilance, jubilancy, jubilation] 2: a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event [syn: celebration, jubilation] 3: the utterance of sounds expressing great joy [syn: exultation, rejoicing, jubilation]

n 1: a field of cultivated and mowed grass

n 1: a language user's knowledge of words [syn: vocabulary, lexicon, mental lexicon] 2: a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them [syn: dictionary, lexicon]

n 1: any of several eruptive skin diseases characterized by hard thick lesions grouped together and resembling lichens growing on rocks 2: any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.

n 1: the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged 2: a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm; produces cells involved in immune responses [syn: spleen, lien]

v 1: consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous; "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"; "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed" [syn: compare, liken, equate]

n 1: a principle that limits the extent of something; "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements" [syn: restriction, limitation] 2: the quality of being limited or restricted; "it is a good plan but it has serious limitations" 3: the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed; "there are limits on the amount you can bet"; "it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight" [syn: limit, limitation] 4: (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought; "statute of limitations" 5: an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) [syn: limitation, restriction]

n 1: termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities [syn: liquidation, settlement] 2: the act of exterminating [syn: extermination, liquidation] 3: the murder of a competitor [syn: elimination, liquidation]

n 1: a legal proceeding in a court; a judicial contest to determine and enforce legal rights [syn: litigation, judicial proceeding]

n 1: a point or extent in space 2: the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement] 3: a determination of the place where something is; "he got a good fix on the target" [syn: localization, localisation, location, locating, fix] 4: a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made; "they shot the film on location in Nevada" [ant: studio]

n 1: the condition of having been made smooth or slippery by the application of a lubricant 2: an application of a lubricant to something

n 1: a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends [syn: intrigue, machination]

n 1: an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed [syn: deformity, malformation, misshapenness] 2: something abnormal or anomalous [syn: malformation, miscreation]

n 1: exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage; "his manipulation of his friends was scandalous" [syn: manipulation, use] 2: the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means [syn: handling, manipulation]

n 1: manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure [syn: masturbation, onanism]

n 1: coming to full development; becoming mature [syn: maturation, ripening, maturement] 2: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" [syn: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment] 3: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus [syn: festering, suppuration, maturation]

n 1: a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party 2: the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement [syn: mediation, intermediation]

n 1: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease [syn: medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug] 2: the act of treating with medicines or remedies

n 1: continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature; "the habit of meditation is the basis for all real knowledge" [syn: meditation, speculation] 2: (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects)

n 1: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped" --Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle [syn: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow]

n 1: the movement of persons from one country or locality to another 2: a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period) 3: (chemistry) the nonrandom movement of an atom or radical from one place to another within a molecule 4: the periodic passage of groups of animals (especially birds or fishes) from one region to another for feeding or breeding

adj 1: wrong in e.g. opinion or judgment; "well-meaning but misguided teachers"; "a mistaken belief"; "mistaken identity" [syn: misguided, mistaken] 2: arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" [syn: false, mistaken]

n 1: the time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands" [syn: morning, morn, morning time, forenoon]

v 1: feel sadness; "She is mourning her dead child" 2: observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one

n 1: a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing [syn: napkin, table napkin, serviette] 2: garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement [syn: diaper, nappy, napkin]

n 1: a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic] 2: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: nation, land, country] 3: United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) [syn: Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation] 4: a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation"

adj 1: consisting of or made of wood of the oak tree; "a solid oak table"; "the old oaken bucket"

adj 1: given to expressing yourself freely or insistently; "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal assembly" [syn: outspoken, vocal] 2: 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]

n 1: a formal expression of praise [syn: encomium, eulogy, panegyric, paean, pean] 2: (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity) [syn: paean, pean]

n 1: a large moving van (especially one used for moving furniture)

n 1: an article deposited as security 2: a person used by another to gain an end [syn: instrument, pawn, cat's-paw] 3: (chess) the least powerful piece; moves only forward and captures only to the side; it can be promoted to a more powerful piece if it reaches the 8th rank 4: borrowing and leaving an article as security for repayment of the loan v 1: leave as a guarantee in return for money; "pawn your grandfather's gold watch" [syn: pawn, soak, hock]

n 1: large long-winged warm-water seabird having a large bill with a distensible pouch for fish

n 1: lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians [syn: pemmican, pemican]

adj 1: using simple and direct language; "a plainspoken country doctor" 2: 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]

adj 1: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed] n 1: one of the common people [syn: plebeian, pleb]

n 1: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut]

n 1: any of various edible decapod crustaceans [syn: prawn, shrimp] 2: shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible v 1: fish for prawns

adj 1: taking on different forms; "eyes...of that baffling protean grey which is never twice the same"

n 1: the keeper of a public house [syn: publican, tavern keeper]

v 1: move faster; "The car accelerated" [syn: accelerate, speed up, speed, quicken] [ant: decelerate, retard, slow, slow down, slow up] 2: make keen or more acute; "whet my appetite" [syn: whet, quicken] 3: give life or energy to; "The cold water invigorated him" [syn: quicken, invigorate] 4: show signs of life; "the fetus quickened" 5: give new life or energy to; "A hot soup will revive me"; "This will renovate my spirits"; "This treatment repaired my health" [syn: animate, recreate, reanimate, revive, renovate, repair, quicken, vivify, revivify]

n 1: the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel); "the rations should be nutritionally balanced" 2: a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity) v 1: restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war; "Bread was rationed during the siege of the city" 2: distribute in rations, as in the army; "Cigarettes are rationed" [syn: ration, ration out]

v 1: awaken once again

v 1: 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] 2: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast] 3: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard] 4: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure] 5: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon] 6: take account of; "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon" [syn: reckon, count]

adj 1: relating to or belonging to the Republican Party; "a Republican senator"; "Republican party politics" 2: having the supreme power lying in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them or characteristic of such government; "the United States shall guarantee to every state in this union a republican form of government"- United States Constitution; "a very republican notion"; "so little republican and so much aristocratic sentiment"- Philip Marsh; "our republican and artistic simplicity"-Nathaniel Hawthorne n 1: a member of the Republican Party 2: an advocate of a republic (usually in opposition to a monarchy) 3: a tributary of the Kansas River that flows from eastern Colorado eastward through Nebraska and Kansas [syn: Republican, Republican River]

n 1: lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary" [syn: contempt, disdain, scorn, despite] 2: open disrespect for a person or thing [syn: contempt, scorn] v 1: look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately" [syn: contemn, despise, scorn, disdain] 2: reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" [syn: reject, spurn, freeze off, scorn, pooh-pooh, disdain, turn down]

adj 1: disturbed psychologically as if by a physical jolt or shock; "retrieved his named from her jolted memory"; "the accident left her badly shaken" [syn: jolted, shaken]

adj 1: having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep" [syn: sheared, shorn] [ant: unsheared, unshorn]

adj 1: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened] 2: reduced in efficacy or vitality or intensity; "our shriveled receipts during the storm"; "as the project wore on she found her enthusiasm shriveled"; "the dollar's shrunken buying power" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken]

v 1: cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of; "The pornographic pictures sickened us" [syn: disgust, revolt, nauseate, sicken, churn up] 2: get sick; "She fell sick last Friday, and now she is in the hospital" [syn: sicken, come down] 3: upset and make nauseated; "The smell of the food turned the pregnant woman's stomach"; "The mold on the food sickened the diners" [syn: sicken, nauseate, turn one's stomach] 4: make sick or ill; "This kind of food sickens me"

n 1: a tetravalent nonmetallic element; next to oxygen it is the most abundant element in the earth's crust; occurs in clay and feldspar and granite and quartz and sand; used as a semiconductor in transistors [syn: silicon, Si, atomic number 14]

adj 1: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters" [syn: satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick]

v 1: become slow or slower; "Production slowed" [syn: slow, slow down, slow up, slack, slacken] 2: make less active or fast; "He slackened his pace as he got tired"; "Don't relax your efforts now" [syn: slack, slacken, slack up, relax] 3: become looser or slack; "the rope slackened" 4: make slack as by lessening tension or firmness [syn: slacken, remit]

n 1: the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs v 1: call forth [syn: engender, breed, spawn] 2: lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"

adj 1: uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person"; "sharp-spoken" [ant: written]