Words that rhyme with thrombi

n 1: (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question 2: a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.; "he kept finding excuses to stay"; "every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job"; "his transparent self-justification was unacceptable" [syn: excuse, alibi, exculpation, self-justification] v 1: exonerate by means of an alibi

n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element [syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4] v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" 2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house" 3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" 4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: exist, be] 5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen" 6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ] 7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be] 8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow] 9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify] 10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour" 11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live] 12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be" 13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]

n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species 2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions

n 1: a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn: adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]

adv 1: (formal) by means of this; "I hereby declare you man and wife" [syn: hereby, herewith]

n 1: a quiet song intended to lull a child to sleep [syn: lullaby, cradlesong, berceuse] 2: the act of singing a quiet song to lull a child to sleep [syn: lullaby, cradlesong]

adv 1: not far away in relative terms; "she works nearby"; "the planets orbiting nearby are Venus and Mars" adj 1: close at hand; "the nearby towns"; "concentrated his study on the nearby planet Venus"

n 1: spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation; qualified to expound and apply Jewish law 2: a Hebrew title of respect for a Jewish scholar or teacher

adj 1: ready for emergency use; "a standby generator"; "a standby crew" n 1: something that can be relied on when needed 2: an actor able to replace a regular performer when required [syn: understudy, standby]

adv 1: by that means or because of that; "He knocked over the red wine, thereby ruining the table cloth"

n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil [syn: bacillus, B] 2: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins [syn: B-complex vitamin, B complex, vitamin B complex, vitamin B, B vitamin, B] 3: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn: boron, B, atomic number 5] 4: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels [syn: Bel, B] 5: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter [syn: barn, b] 6: the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: B, b] 7: the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [syn: B, type B, group B]

n 1: port city in the United Arab Emirates on the Persian Gulf

n 1: (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body [syn: zombi, zombie, zombi spirit, zombie spirit] 2: a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies [syn: zombi, zombie, snake god] 3: a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force [syn: zombi, zombie, living dead] 4: someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed" [syn: automaton, zombi, zombie] 5: several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur [syn: zombie, zombi]

n 1: a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn: adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]