Words that rhyme with torrent
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abhorrent
adj 1: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels" [syn: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive] -
aspirant
adj 1: desiring or striving for recognition or advancement [syn: aspirant, aspiring(a), wishful] n 1: an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant"; "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience was full of Madonna wannabes" [syn: aspirant, aspirer, hopeful, wannabe, wannabee] -
concurrent
adj 1: occurring or operating at the same time; "a series of coincident events" [syn: coincident, coincidental, coinciding, concurrent, co-occurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous] -
crosscurrent
n 1: a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current [syn: rip, riptide, tide rip, crosscurrent, countercurrent] 2: actions counter to the main group activity; "political crosscurrents disrupted the conference" [syn: countercurrent, crosscurrent] -
current
adj 1: occurring in or belonging to the present time; "current events"; "the current topic"; "current negotiations"; "current psychoanalytic theories"; "the ship's current position" [ant: noncurrent] n 1: a flow of electricity through a conductor; "the current was measured in amperes" [syn: current, electric current] 2: a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes); "the raft floated downstream on the current"; "he felt a stream of air"; "the hose ejected a stream of water" [syn: current, stream] 3: dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas; "two streams of development run through American history"; "stream of consciousness"; "the flow of thought"; "the current of history" [syn: stream, flow, current] -
recurrent
adj 1: recurring again and again; "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements" [syn: perennial, recurrent, repeated] -
spirant
adj 1: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident] n 1: a continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tract [syn: fricative consonant, fricative, spirant] -
tyrant
n 1: a cruel and oppressive dictator [syn: tyrant, autocrat, despot] 2: in ancient Greece, a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it 3: any person who exercises power in a cruel way; "his father was a tyrant" -
undercurrent
n 1: a subdued emotional quality underlying an utterance; implicit meaning [syn: undertone, undercurrent] 2: a current below the surface of a fluid [syn: undertide, undercurrent] -
warrant
n 1: a writ from a court commanding police to perform specified acts 2: a type of security issued by a corporation (usually together with a bond or preferred stock) that gives the holder the right to purchase a certain amount of common stock at a stated price; "as a sweetener they offered warrants along with the fixed-income securities" [syn: warrant, stock warrant, stock-purchase warrant] 3: formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" [syn: sanction, countenance, endorsement, indorsement, warrant, imprimatur] 4: a written assurance that some product or service will be provided or will meet certain specifications [syn: guarantee, warrant, warrantee, warranty] v 1: show to be reasonable or provide adequate ground for; "The emergency does not warrant all of us buying guns"; "The end justifies the means" [syn: justify, warrant] 2: stand behind and guarantee the quality, accuracy, or condition of; "The dealer warrants all the cars he sells"; "I warrant this information" [syn: guarantee, warrant] -
blackcurrant
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redcurrant
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durrant
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laurent
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morant
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intercurrent
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insurant
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