Words that rhyme with upgrowth

v 1: give to in marriage [syn: betroth, engage, affiance, plight]

adj 1: (used with count nouns) two considered together; the two; "both girls are pretty"

n 1: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" [syn: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment] 2: a progression from simpler to more complex forms; "the growth of culture" 3: a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important; "the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population" [syn: increase, increment, growth] [ant: decrease, decrement] 4: vegetation that has grown; "a growth of trees"; "the only growth was some salt grass" 5: the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" [syn: emergence, outgrowth, growth] 6: (pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor) 7: something grown or growing; "a growth of hair"

adj 1: unwillingness to do something contrary to your custom; "a reluctant smile"; "loath to admit a mistake" [syn: loath, loth, reluctant] 2: (usually followed by `to') strongly opposed; "antipathetic to new ideas"; "averse to taking risks"; "loath to go on such short notice"; "clearly indisposed to grant their request" [syn: antipathetic, antipathetical, averse(p), indisposed(p), loath(p), loth(p)]

n 1: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss] 2: a commitment to tell the truth (especially in a court of law); to lie under oath is to become subject to prosecution for perjury [syn: oath, swearing] 3: a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior; "they took an oath of allegiance"

n 1: a natural consequence of development [syn: outgrowth, branch, offshoot, offset] 2: the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" [syn: emergence, outgrowth, growth] 3: a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant; "a bony process" [syn: process, outgrowth, appendage]

n 1: excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland [syn: giantism, gigantism, overgrowth] 2: a profusion of growth on or over something else

n 1: a disinclination to work or exert yourself [syn: sloth, slothfulness] 2: any of several slow-moving arboreal mammals of South America and Central America; they hang from branches back downward and feed on leaves and fruits [syn: sloth, tree sloth] 3: apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: sloth, laziness, acedia]

n 1: a mutual promise to marry [syn: betrothal, troth, engagement] 2: a solemn pledge of fidelity [syn: plight, troth]

n 1: the brush (small trees and bushes and ferns etc.) growing beneath taller trees in a wood or forest [syn: underbrush, undergrowth, underwood]

adj 1: vehemently incensed and condemnatory; "they trembled before the wrathful queen"; "but wroth as he was, a short struggle ended in reconciliation" [syn: wrathful, wroth, wrothful]

n 1: German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832) [syn: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

n 1: United States writer whose novels portray middle-class Jewish life (born in 1933) [syn: Roth, Philip Roth, Philip Milton Roth]

n 1: Egyptian Moon deity with the head of an ibis; god of wisdom and learning and the arts; scribe of the gods

n 1: something that grows inward

adj 1: preceding even the first