Words that rhyme with valentine

• adamantine 0
  adj 1: consisting of or having the hardness of adamant 2: having the hardness of a diamond 3: impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; "he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"; "Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him"- W.Churchill; "an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency" [syn: adamant, adamantine, inexorable, intransigent]
• align 0
  v 1: place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight; "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table" [syn: align, aline, line up, adjust] [ant: skew] 2: be or come into adjustment with 3: align oneself with a group or a way of thinking [syn: align, array] 4: bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation; "align the wheels of my car"; "ordinate similar parts" [syn: align, ordinate, coordinate]
• amethystine 0
  adj 1: containing or resembling amethyst
• argentine 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Argentina or its people; "Argentinian tango" [syn: Argentine, Argentinian] n 1: any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes
• assign 0
  v 1: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: delegate, designate, depute, assign] 2: give out; "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: assign, allot, portion] 3: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: impute, ascribe, assign, attribute] 4: select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" [syn: assign, specify, set apart] 5: attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story" [syn: put, assign] 6: make undue claims to having [syn: arrogate, assign] 7: transfer one's right to 8: decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" [syn: assign, attribute]
• benign 0
  adj 1: not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor) [ant: malignant] 2: pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence; "a benign smile"; "the benign sky"; "the benign influence of pure air" [syn: benign, benignant] [ant: malign] 3: kindness of disposition or manner; "the benign ruler of millions"; "benign intentions"
• brine 0
  n 1: water containing salts; "the water in the ocean is all saltwater" [syn: seawater, saltwater, brine] [ant: fresh water, freshwater] 2: a strong solution of salt and water used for pickling v 1: soak in brine
• clandestine 0
  adj 1: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and- corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground]
• cline 0
  n 1: American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934) [syn: Cline, Martin Cline]
• combine 0
  n 1: harvester that heads and threshes and cleans grain while moving across the field 2: a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service; "they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly" [syn: trust, corporate trust, combine, cartel] 3: an occurrence that results in things being united [syn: combining, combine] v 1: have or possess in combination; "she unites charm with a good business sense" [syn: unite, combine] 2: put or add together; "combine resources" [syn: compound, combine] 3: combine so as to form a whole; mix; "compound the ingredients" [syn: compound, combine] 4: add together from different sources; "combine resources" 5: join for a common purpose or in a common action; "These forces combined with others" 6: gather in a mass, sum, or whole [syn: aggregate, combine] 7: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge]
• confine 0
  v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle] 2: restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day" [syn: limit, circumscribe, confine] 3: prevent from leaving or from being removed 4: close in; darkness enclosed him" [syn: enclose, hold in, confine] 5: deprive of freedom; take into confinement [syn: confine, detain] [ant: free, liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen] 6: to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom" [syn: restrain, confine, hold]
• consign 0
  v 1: commit forever; commit irrevocably 2: give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage" [syn: consign, charge] 3: send to an address
• decline 0
  n 1: change toward something smaller or lower [syn: decline, diminution] 2: a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state [syn: decline, declination] [ant: improvement, melioration] 3: a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current [syn: decay, decline] 4: a downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope] [ant: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade] v 1: grow worse; "Conditions in the slum worsened" [syn: worsen, decline] [ant: ameliorate, better, improve, meliorate] 2: refuse to accept; "He refused my offer of hospitality" [syn: refuse, reject, pass up, turn down, decline] [ant: accept, have, take] 3: show unwillingness towards; "he declined to join the group on a hike" [syn: refuse, decline] [ant: accept, consent, go for] 4: grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" [syn: decline, go down, wane] 5: go down; "The roof declines here" 6: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped" [syn: decline, slump, correct] 7: inflect for number, gender, case, etc., "in many languages, speakers decline nouns, pronouns, and adjectives"
• diamantine 0
  adj 1: consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds
• eglantine 0
  n 1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria]
• elephantine 0
  adj 1: of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" [syn: elephantine, gargantuan, giant, jumbo]
• galantine 0
  n 1: boned poultry stuffed then cooked and covered with aspic; served cold
• mine 0
  n 1: excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted 2: explosive device that explodes on contact; designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel v 1: get from the earth by excavation; "mine ores and metals" 2: lay mines; "The Vietnamese mined Cambodia"
• serpentine 0
  adj 1: resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky ridges in the sand" [syn: serpentine, snaky, snakelike]
• shine 0
  n 1: the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light [syn: radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency] v 1: be bright by reflecting or casting light; "Drive carefully --the wet road reflects" [syn: reflect, shine] 2: emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light; "The sun shone bright that day"; "The fire beamed on their faces" [syn: shine, beam] 3: be shiny, as if wet; "His eyes were glistening" [syn: glitter, glisten, glint, gleam, shine] 4: be distinguished or eminent; "His talent shines" 5: be clear and obvious; "A shining example" 6: have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink; "Her face glowed when she came out of the sauna" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine] 7: throw or flash the light of (a lamp); "Shine the light on that window, please" 8: touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" [syn: fall, shine, strike] 9: experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion; "She was beaming with joy"; "Her face radiated with happiness" [syn: glow, beam, radiate, shine] 10: make (a surface) shine; "shine the silver, please"; "polish my shoes" [syn: polish, smooth, smoothen, shine]
• tontine 0
  n 1: a form of life insurance whereby on the death or default of a participant his share is distributed to the remaining members [syn: tontine, tontine insurance] 2: an annuity scheme wherein participants share certain benefits and on the death of any participant his benefits are redistributed among the remaining participants; can run for a fixed period of time or until the death of all but one participant
• turpentine 0
  n 1: obtained from conifers (especially pines) [syn: turpentine, gum terpentine] 2: volatile liquid distilled from turpentine oleoresin; used as paint thinner and solvent and medicinally [syn: turpentine, oil of turpentine, spirit of turpentine, turps]
• wine 0
  n 1: fermented juice (of grapes especially) [syn: wine, vino] 2: a red as dark as red wine [syn: wine, wine-colored, wine-coloured] v 1: drink wine 2: treat to wine; "Our relatives in Italy wined and dined us for a week"
• aline 0
  v 1: place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight; "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table" [syn: align, aline, line up, adjust] [ant: skew]
• epstein 0
  n 1: British sculptor (born in the United States) noted for busts and large controversial works (1880-1959) [syn: Epstein, Jacob Epstein, Sir Jacob Epstein]
• augustine 0
  n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian church; after a dramatic conversion to Christianity he became bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa; St. Augustine emphasized man's need for grace (354-430) [syn: Augustine, Saint Augustine, St. Augustine, Augustine of Hippo]
• byzantine 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the Eastern Orthodox Church or the rites performed in it; "Byzantine monks"; "Byzantine rites" 2: of or relating to or characteristic of the Byzantine Empire or the ancient city of Byzantium 3: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language"; "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering"; "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott; "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting for months" [syn: Byzantine, convoluted, involved, knotty, tangled, tortuous] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Byzantium or of the Byzantine Empire
• clementine 0
  n 1: a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa [syn: clementine, clementine tree] 2: a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds
• constantine 0
  n 1: Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337) [syn: Constantine, Constantine I, Constantine the Great, Flavius Valerius Constantinus] 2: a walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I
• florentine 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the city of Florence; "Florentine art" n 1: a native or resident of Florence, Italy
• frankenstein 0
  n 1: an agency that escapes control and destroys its creator 2: the monster created by Frankenstein in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (the creator's name is commonly used to refer to his creation) [syn: Frankenstein, Frankenstein's monster] 3: the fictional Swiss scientist who was the protagonist in a gothic novel by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley; he created a monster from parts of corpses
• hammerstein 0
  n 1: United States lyricist who collaborated on many musical comedies (most successfully with Richard Rodgers) (1895-1960) [syn: Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein, Oscar Hammerstein II]
• lichtenstein 0
  n 1: United States painter who was a leading exponent of pop art (1923-1997) [syn: Lichtenstein, Roy Lichtenstein]
• philistine 0
  adj 1: of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people 2: smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values [syn: anti-intellectual, philistine] n 1: a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits [syn: philistine, anti-intellectual, lowbrow] 2: a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC
• rubinstein 0
  n 1: United States pianist (born in Poland) known for his interpretations of the music of Chopin (1886-1982) [syn: Rubinstein, Arthur Rubinstein, Artur Rubinstein] 2: Russian composer and pianist (1829-1894) [syn: Rubinstein, Anton Rubenstein, Anton Gregor Rubinstein, Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein]
• eisenstein 0
  n 1: Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures (1898-1948) [syn: Eisenstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein]
• levantine 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the Levant or its inhabitants; "the Levantine coast" n 1: (formerly) a native or inhabitant of the Levant
• palestine 0
  n 1: a former British mandate on the east coast of the Mediterranean; divided between Jordan and Israel in 1948 2: an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism [syn: Palestine, Canaan, Holy Land, Promised Land]
• wittgenstein 0
  n 1: British philosopher born in Austria; a major influence on logic and logical positivism (1889-1951) [syn: Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johan Wittgenstein]
• einstein 0
  n 1: physicist born in Germany who formulated the special theory of relativity and the general theory of relativity; Einstein also proposed that light consists of discrete quantized bundles of energy (later called photons) (1879-1955) [syn: Einstein, Albert Einstein] 2: someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein" [syn: genius, mastermind, brain, brainiac, Einstein]
• bernstein 0
  n 1: United States conductor and composer (1918-1990) [syn: Bernstein, Leonard Bernstein]
• chryselephantine 0
• bryne 0
• clyne 0
• burdine 0
• goldstein 0
• finkelstein 0
• heseltine 0
• celestine 0
• ballantine 0
• infantine 0
• lacertine 0
• vespertine 0
• tridentine 0
• asbestine 0
• transpontine 0

See also valentine definition