Words that rhyme with tours
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boor
n 1: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike] -
corps
n 1: an army unit usually consisting of two or more divisions and their support [syn: corps, army corps] 2: a body of people associated together; "diplomatic corps" -
cure
n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain [syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic] v 1: provide a cure for, make healthy again; "The treatment cured the boy's acne"; "The quack pretended to heal patients but never managed to" [syn: bring around, cure, heal] 2: prepare by drying, salting, or chemical processing in order to preserve; "cure meats"; "cure pickles"; "cure hay" 3: make (substances) hard and improve their usability; "cure resin"; "cure cement"; "cure soap" 4: be or become preserved; "the apricots cure in the sun" -
dour
adj 1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding] 2: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie [syn: dour, forbidding, grim] 3: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen] -
drawers
n 1: underpants worn by men [syn: drawers, underdrawers, shorts, boxers, boxershorts] 2: underpants worn by women; "she was afraid that her bloomers might have been showing" [syn: bloomers, pants, drawers, knickers] -
lure
n 1: qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward [syn: lure, enticement, come-on] 2: anything that serves as an enticement [syn: bait, come- on, hook, lure, sweetener] 3: something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed [syn: bait, decoy, lure] v 1: provoke someone to do something through (often false or exaggerated) promises or persuasion; "He lured me into temptation" [syn: entice, lure, tempt] -
moor
n 1: one of the Muslim people of north Africa; of mixed Arab and Berber descent; converted to Islam in the 8th century; conqueror of Spain in the 8th century 2: open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss [syn: moor, moorland] v 1: secure in or as if in a berth or dock; "tie up the boat" [syn: moor, berth, tie up] 2: come into or dock at a wharf; "the big ship wharfed in the evening" [syn: moor, berth, wharf] 3: secure with cables or ropes; "moor the boat" -
outdoors
adv 1: outside a building; "in summer we play outside" [syn: outside, outdoors, out of doors, alfresco] [ant: indoors, inside] n 1: where the air is unconfined; "he wanted to get outdoors a little"; "the concert was held in the open air"; "camping in the open" [syn: outdoors, out-of-doors, open air, open] -
poor
adj 1: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched] 2: having little money or few possessions; "deplored the gap between rich and poor countries"; "the proverbial poor artist living in a garret" [ant: rich] 3: characterized by or indicating poverty; "the country had a poor economy"; "they lived in the poor section of town" [ant: rich] 4: lacking in specific resources, qualities or substances; "a poor land"; "the area was poor in timber and coal"; "food poor in nutritive value" [ant: rich] 5: not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience" [syn: inadequate, poor, short] 6: unsatisfactory; "a poor light for reading"; "poor morale"; "expectations were poor" n 1: people without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance" [syn: poor people, poor] [ant: rich, rich people] -
pure
adj 1: free of extraneous elements of any kind; "pure air and water"; "pure gold"; "pure primary colors"; "the violin's pure and lovely song"; "pure tones"; "pure oxygen" [ant: impure] 2: without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers; "an arrant fool"; "a complete coward"; "a consummate fool"; "a double-dyed villain"; "gross negligence"; "a perfect idiot"; "pure folly"; "what a sodding mess"; "stark staring mad"; "a thoroughgoing villain"; "utter nonsense"; "the unadulterated truth" [syn: arrant(a), complete(a), consummate(a), double-dyed(a), everlasting(a), gross(a), perfect(a), pure(a), sodding(a), stark(a), staring(a), thoroughgoing(a), utter(a), unadulterated] 3: (of color) being chromatically pure; not diluted with white or grey or black [syn: saturated, pure] [ant: unsaturated] 4: free from discordant qualities 5: concerned with theory and data rather than practice; opposed to applied; "pure science" 6: (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow" [ant: impure] 7: in a state of sexual virginity; "pure and vestal modesty"; "a spinster or virgin lady"; "men have decreed that their women must be pure and virginal" [syn: pure, vestal, virgin, virginal, virtuous] -
scores
n 1: a large number or amount; "made lots of new friends"; "she amassed stacks of newspapers" [syn: tons, dozens, heaps, lots, piles, scores, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings] -
spoor
n 1: the trail left by a person or an animal; what the hunter follows in pursuing game; "the hounds followed the fox's spoor" -
sure
adv 1: definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" [syn: surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting] adj 1: having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured; "felt certain of success"; "was sure (or certain) she had seen it"; "was very sure in his beliefs"; "sure of her friends" [syn: certain(p), sure] [ant: incertain, uncertain, unsure] 2: exercising or taking care great enough to bring assurance; "be certain to disconnect the iron when you are through"; "be sure to lock the doors" [syn: certain, sure] 3: certain to occur; destined or inevitable; "he was certain to fail"; "his fate is certain"; "In this life nothing is certain but death and taxes"- Benjamin Franklin; "he faced certain death"; "sudden but sure regret"; "he is sure to win" [syn: certain, sure] [ant: uncertain] 4: physically secure or dependable; "a sure footing"; "was on sure ground" 5: reliable in operation or effect; "a quick and certain remedy"; "a sure way to distinguish the two"; "wood dust is a sure sign of termites" [syn: certain, sure] 6: (of persons) worthy of trust or confidence; "a sure (or trusted) friend" [syn: sure, trusted] 7: infallible or unfailing; "a sure (or true) sign of one's commitment" 8: certain not to fail; "a sure hand on the throttle" 9: impossible to doubt or dispute; "indisputable (or sure) proof" [syn: indisputable, sure] -
tour
n 1: a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area; "they took an extended tour of Europe"; "we took a quick circuit of the park"; "a ten-day coach circuit of the island" [syn: tour, circuit] 2: a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work" [syn: go, spell, tour, turn] 3: a period of time spent in military service [syn: enlistment, hitch, term of enlistment, tour of duty, duty tour, tour] v 1: make a tour of a certain place; "We toured the Provence this summer" -
boer
n 1: a white native of Cape Province who is a descendant of Dutch settlers and who speaks Afrikaans [syn: Afrikaner, Afrikander, Boer] -
moore
n 1: United States composer of works noted for their use of the American vernacular (1893-1969) [syn: Moore, Douglas Moore] 2: English actor and comedian who appeared on television and in films (born in 1935) [syn: Moore, Dudley Moore, Dudley Stuart John Moore] 3: English philosopher (1873-1958) [syn: Moore, G. E. Moore, George Edward Moore] 4: Irish poet who wrote nostalgic and patriotic verse (1779-1852) [syn: Moore, Thomas Moore] 5: United States poet noted for irony and wit (1887-1872) [syn: Moore, Marianne Moore, Marianne Craig Moore] 6: British sculptor whose works are monumental organic forms (1898-1986) [syn: Moore, Henry Moore, Henry Spencer Moore] -
azores
n 1: islands in the Atlantic Ocean belonging to Portugal; "the Azores are strategically located on transatlantic air and shipping routes" [syn: Azores, Acores] -
muir
n 1: United States naturalist (born in England) who advocated the creation of national parks (1838-1914) [syn: Muir, John Muir] -
ruhr
n 1: a tributary of the Rhine [syn: Ruhr, Ruhr River] 2: a major industrial and coal mining region in the valley of the Ruhr river in northwestern Germany [syn: Ruhr, Ruhr Valley] -
tyr
n 1: (Norse mythology) god of war and strife and son of Odin; identified with Anglo-Saxon Tiu [syn: Tyr, Tyrr] -
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brochures
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chores
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cores
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deplores
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detours
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doors
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endures
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floors
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implores
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insures
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oars
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obscures
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reassures
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restores
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roars
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saboteurs
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secures
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shore's
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shores
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soars
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sores
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spores
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stores
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war's
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wars
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you're
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your
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yours
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boers
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bors
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cohrs
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morze
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roehrs
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rohrs
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storrs
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storz
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delors
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nemours
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outpours
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outscores
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guarantors
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mure
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stour
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