Words that rhyme with subbranch

n 1: a slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain 2: a sudden appearance of an overwhelming number of things; "the program brought an avalanche of mail" v 1: gather into a huge mass and roll down a mountain, of snow [syn: avalanche, roll down]

v 1: turn pale, as if in fear [syn: pale, blanch, blench] 2: cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them" [syn: blanch, parboil]

n 1: a division of some larger or more complex organization; "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages" [syn: branch, subdivision, arm] 2: a division of a stem, or secondary stem arising from the main stem of a plant 3: a part of a forked or branching shape; "he broke off one of the branches" [syn: branch, leg, ramification] 4: a natural consequence of development [syn: outgrowth, branch, offshoot, offset] 5: a stream or river connected to a larger one 6: any projection that is thought to resemble a human arm; "the arm of the record player"; "an arm of the sea"; "a branch of the sewer" [syn: arm, branch, limb] v 1: grow and send out branches or branch-like structures; "these plants ramify early and get to be very large" [syn: ramify, branch] 2: divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork; "The road forks" [syn: branch, ramify, fork, furcate, separate]

n 1: farm consisting of a large tract of land along with facilities needed to raise livestock (especially cattle) [syn: ranch, spread, cattle ranch, cattle farm] v 1: manage or run a ranch; "Her husband is ranching in Arizona"

v 1: stop the flow of a liquid; "staunch the blood flow"; "stem the tide" [syn: stem, stanch, staunch, halt]

n 1: a portion of something (especially money)

adj 1: of or relating to the Romansh language [syn: Romansh, Rumansh] n 1: the Rhaeto-Romance language spoken in southeastern Switzerland; it is an official language of Switzerland [syn: Romansh, Rumansh]