Words that rhyme with thrombose
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hose
n 1: socks and stockings and tights collectively (the British include underwear) [syn: hosiery, hose] 2: man's close-fitting garment of the 16th and 17th centuries covering the legs and reaching up to the waist; worn with a doublet 3: a flexible pipe for conveying a liquid or gas [syn: hose, hosepipe] v 1: water with a hose; "hose the lawn" [syn: hose, hose down] -
impose
v 1: compel to behave in a certain way; "Social relations impose courtesy" [syn: enforce, impose] 2: impose something unpleasant; "The principal visited his rage on the students" [syn: inflict, bring down, visit, impose] 3: impose and collect; "levy a fine" [syn: levy, impose] -
nose
n 1: the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals; "he has a cold in the nose" [syn: nose, olfactory organ] 2: a front that resembles a human nose (especially the front of an aircraft); "the nose of the rocket heated up on reentry" 3: the front or forward projection of a tool or weapon; "he ducked under the nose of the gun" 4: a small distance; "my horse lost the race by a nose" 5: a symbol of inquisitiveness; "keep your nose out of it" 6: the sense of smell (especially in animals); "the hound has a good nose" 7: a natural skill; "he has a nose for good deals" 8: a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged [syn: nozzle, nose] v 1: search or inquire in a meddlesome way; "This guy is always nosing around the office" [syn: intrude, horn in, pry, nose, poke] 2: advance the forward part of with caution; "She nosed the car into the left lane" 3: catch the scent of; get wind of; "The dog nosed out the drugs" [syn: scent, nose, wind] 4: push or move with the nose 5: rub noses [syn: nuzzle, nose] 6: defeat by a narrow margin -
oppose
v 1: be against; express opposition to; "We oppose the ban on abortion" 2: fight against or resist strongly; "The senator said he would oppose the bill"; "Don't fight it!" [syn: fight, oppose, fight back, fight down, defend] 3: contrast with equal weight or force [syn: oppose, counterbalance] 4: set into opposition or rivalry; "let them match their best athletes against ours"; "pit a chess player against the Russian champion"; "He plays his two children off against each other" [syn: pit, oppose, match, play off] 5: act against or in opposition to; "She reacts negatively to everything I say" [syn: react, oppose] 6: be resistant to; "The board opposed his motion" [syn: oppose, controvert, contradict] -
pose
n 1: affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me" [syn: airs, pose] 2: a posture assumed by models for photographic or artistic purposes 3: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display [syn: affectation, mannerism, pose, affectedness] v 1: introduce; "This poses an interesting question" [syn: present, pose] 2: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn: model, pose, sit, posture] 3: pretend to be someone you are not; sometimes with fraudulent intentions; "She posed as the Czar's daughter" [syn: pose, impersonate, personate] 4: behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others; "Don't pay any attention to him--he is always posing to impress his peers!"; "She postured and made a total fool of herself" [syn: pose, posture] 5: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay] 6: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound] -
propose
v 1: make a proposal, declare a plan for something; "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax" [syn: propose, suggest, advise] 2: present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc.; "He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity" [syn: project, propose] 3: propose or intend; "I aim to arrive at noon" [syn: aim, purpose, purport, propose] 4: put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission" [syn: nominate, propose] 5: ask (someone) to marry you; "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman" [syn: propose, declare oneself, offer, pop the question] -
prose
n 1: ordinary writing as distinguished from verse 2: matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression -
repose
n 1: freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility); "took his repose by the swimming pool" [syn: rest, ease, repose, relaxation] 2: the absence of mental stress or anxiety [syn: peace, peacefulness, peace of mind, repose, serenity, heartsease, ataraxis] 3: a disposition free from stress or emotion [syn: repose, quiet, placidity, serenity, tranquillity, tranquility] v 1: put or confide something in a person or thing; "These philosophers reposed the law in the people" 2: be inherent or innate in; [syn: rest, reside, repose] 3: lie when dead; "Mao reposes in his mausoleum" 4: lean in a comfortable resting position; "He was reposing on the couch" [syn: recumb, repose, recline] 5: put in a horizontal position; "lay the books on the table"; "lay the patient carefully onto the bed" [syn: lay, put down, repose] 6: to put something (eg trust) in something; "The nation reposed its confidence in the King" -
ribose
n 1: a pentose sugar important as a component of ribonucleic acid -
rose
adj 1: of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: rose, roseate, rosaceous] n 1: any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses [syn: rose, rosebush] 2: pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began [syn: blush wine, pink wine, rose, rose wine] 3: a dusty pink color [syn: rose, rosiness] -
transpose
n 1: a matrix formed by interchanging the rows and columns of a given matrix v 1: change the order or arrangement of; "Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word" [syn: permute, commute, transpose] 2: transfer from one place or period to another; "The ancient Greek story was transplanted into Modern America" [syn: transfer, transpose, transplant] 3: cause to change places; "interchange this screw for one of a smaller size" [syn: counterchange, transpose, interchange] 4: transfer a quantity from one side of an equation to the other side reversing its sign, in order to maintain equality 5: put (a piece of music) into another key 6: exchange positions without a change in value; "These operators commute with each other" [syn: commute, transpose] 7: change key; "Can you transpose this fugue into G major?" -
verbose
adj 1: using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes" [syn: long-winded, tedious, verbose, windy, wordy] -
bose
n 1: Indian physicist who with Albert Einstein proposed statistical laws based on the indistinguishability of particles; led to the description of fundamental particles that later came to be known as bosons [syn: Bose, Satyendra N. Bose, Satyendra Nath Bose] -
globose
adj 1: having the shape of a sphere or ball; "a spherical object"; "nearly orbicular in shape"; "little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"- Zane Grey [syn: ball- shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical] -
corymbose
adj 1: resembling a corymb -
beaus
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beaux
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bows
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elbows
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jumbos
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knows
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lows
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owes
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plainclothes
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rainbows
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tows
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ohs
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bestows
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dubose
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boase
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boes
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bowes
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boze
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sows
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woes
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hoboes
See also thrombose definition
