Words that rhyme with topekan

n 1: (Anglican Church) an ecclesiastical dignitary usually ranking just below a bishop

n 1: a fire (usually on a hill or tower) that can be seen from a distance [syn: beacon, beacon fire] 2: a radio station that broadcasts a directional signal for navigational purposes [syn: radio beacon, beacon] 3: a tower with a light that gives warning of shoals to passing ships [syn: beacon, lighthouse, beacon light, pharos] v 1: shine like a beacon 2: guide with a beacon

adj 1: formed or made thin by hammering; "beaten gold" 2: much trodden and worn smooth or bare; "did not stray from the beaten path"

n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can] 2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful] 3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can buoy] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne] 6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom] v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty" [syn: can, tin, put up] 2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire]

v 1: lower the grade of something; reduce its worth [syn: degrade, cheapen]

n 1: a Protestant layman who assists the minister [syn: deacon, Protestant deacon] 2: a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders

n 1: wood of a pecan tree 2: tree of southern United States and Mexico cultivated for its nuts [syn: pecan, pecan tree, Carya illinoensis, Carya illinoinsis] 3: smooth brown oval nut of south central United States

v 1: lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body" [ant: beef up, fortify, strengthen] 2: become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days" [ant: strengthen] 3: destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" [syn: sabotage, undermine, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken] 4: reduce the level or intensity or size or scope of; "de- escalate a crisis" [syn: de-escalate, weaken, step down] [ant: escalate, intensify, step up] 5: lessen in force or effect; "soften a shock"; "break a fall" [syn: dampen, damp, soften, weaken, break]

n 1: a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic [syn: Mohican, Mahican] 2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican [syn: Mohican, Mahican]

n 1: large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal [syn: fisher, pekan, fisher cat, black cat, Martes pennanti]

n 1: a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Dominican Republic or its people; "the Dominican population" 2: of or relating to Saint Dominic or the Dominican order; "Dominican monks" n 1: a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order [syn: Dominican, Black Friar, Blackfriar, friar preacher] 2: a native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic

adj 1: of or relating to or located in Mozambique; "Mozambican towns" 2: of or relating to the people of Mozambique; "Mozambican troops are at the border" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Mozambique