Words that rhyme with waterway

• allay 0
  v 1: lessen the intensity of or calm; "The news eased my conscience"; "still the fears" [syn: still, allay, relieve, ease] 2: satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst" [syn: quench, slake, allay, assuage]
• anyway 0
  adv 1: used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement; "Anyhow, he is dead now"; "I think they're asleep; anyhow, they're quiet"; "I don't know what happened to it; anyway, it's gone"; "anyway, there is another factor to consider"; "I don't know how it started; in any case, there was a brief scuffle"; "in any event, the government faced a serious protest"; "but at any rate he got a knighthood for it" [syn: anyhow, anyway, anyways, in any case, at any rate, in any event] 2: in any way whatsoever; "they came anyhow they could"; "get it done anyway you can" [syn: anyhow, anyway]
• array 0
  n 1: an orderly arrangement; "an array of troops in battle order" 2: an impressive display; "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall" 3: especially fine or decorative clothing [syn: array, raiment, regalia] 4: an arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics v 1: lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line; "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments" [syn: range, array, lay out, set out] 2: align oneself with a group or a way of thinking [syn: align, array]
• astray 0
  adv 1: away from the right path or direction; "he was led astray" 2: far from the intended target; "the arrow went wide of the mark"; "a bullet went astray and killed a bystander" [syn: wide, astray]
• away 0
  adv 1: from a particular thing or place or position (`forth' is obsolete); "ran away from the lion"; "wanted to get away from there"; "sent the children away to boarding school"; "the teacher waved the children away from the dead animal"; "went off to school"; "they drove off"; "go forth and preach" [syn: away, off, forth] 2: from one's possession; "he gave out money to the poor"; "gave away the tickets" [syn: away, out] 3: out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts); "brush the objections aside"; "pushed all doubts away" [syn: aside, away] 4: out of existence; "the music faded away"; "tried to explain away the affair of the letter"- H.E.Scudder; "idled the hours away"; "her fingernails were worn away" 5: at a distance in space or time; "the boat was 5 miles off (or away)"; "the party is still 2 weeks off (or away)"; "away back in the 18th century" [syn: off, away] 6: indicating continuing action; continuously or steadily; "he worked away at the project for more than a year"; "the child kept hammering away as if his life depended on it" 7: so as to be removed or gotten rid of; "cleared the mess away"; "the rotted wood had to be cut away" 8: freely or at will; "fire away!" 9: in or into a proper place (especially for storage or safekeeping); "put the toys away"; "her jewels are locked away in a safe"; "filed the letter away" 10: in a different direction; "turn aside"; "turn away one's face"; "glanced away" [syn: away, aside] 11: in reserve; not for immediate use; "started setting aside money to buy a car"; "put something by for her old age"; "has a nest egg tucked away for a rainy day" [syn: aside, by, away] adj 1: not present; having left; "he's away right now"; "you must not allow a stranger into the house when your mother is away" 2: used of an opponent's ground; "an away game" [ant: home(a)] 3: (of a baseball pitch) on the far side of home plate from the batter; "the pitch was away (or wide)"; "an outside pitch" [syn: away, outside]
• ballet 0
  n 1: a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers [syn: ballet, concert dance] 2: music written for a ballet
• bay 0
  adj 1: (used of animals especially a horse) of a moderate reddish-brown color n 1: an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf [syn: bay, embayment] 2: the sound of a hound on the scent 3: small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors [syn: true laurel, bay, bay laurel, bay tree, Laurus nobilis] 4: a compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital; "they put him in the sick bay" 5: a compartment in an aircraft used for some specific purpose; "he opened the bomb bay" 6: a small recess opening off a larger room [syn: alcove, bay] 7: a horse of a moderate reddish-brown color v 1: utter in deep prolonged tones 2: bark with prolonged noises, of dogs [syn: bay, quest]
• betray 0
  v 1: reveal unintentionally; "Her smile betrayed her true feelings" [syn: betray, bewray] 2: deliver to an enemy by treachery; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The spy betrayed his country" [syn: betray, sell] 3: disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake; "His sense of smell failed him this time"; "His strength finally failed him"; "His children failed him in the crisis" [syn: fail, betray] 4: be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage; "She cheats on her husband"; "Might her husband be wandering?" [syn: cheat on, cheat, cuckold, betray, wander] 5: give away information about somebody; "He told on his classmate who had cheated on the exam" [syn: denounce, tell on, betray, give away, rat, grass, shit, shop, snitch, stag] 6: cause someone to believe an untruth; "The insurance company deceived me when they told me they were covering my house" [syn: deceive, betray, lead astray] [ant: undeceive]
• bouquet 0
  n 1: an arrangement of flowers that is usually given as a present [syn: bouquet, corsage, posy, nosegay] 2: a pleasingly sweet olfactory property [syn: bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness]
• brae 0
  n 1: a slope or hillside
• bray 0
  n 1: the cry of an ass v 1: braying characteristic of donkeys [syn: hee-haw, bray] 2: reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading; "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic" [syn: grind, mash, crunch, bray, comminute] 3: laugh loudly and harshly
• breakaway 0
  adj 1: having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction" [syn: breakaway, fissiparous, separatist] n 1: the act of breaking away or withdrawing from; "there was a breakaway by the discontented members"; "a breaking away from family and neighborhood" [syn: breakaway, breaking away]
• buffet 0
  n 1: a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers [syn: buffet, counter, sideboard] 2: a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves 3: usually inexpensive bar [syn: snack bar, snack counter, buffet] v 1: strike against forcefully; "Winds buffeted the tent" [syn: buffet, knock about, batter] 2: strike, beat repeatedly; "The wind buffeted him" [syn: buffet, buff]
• cabaret 0
  n 1: a spot that is open late at night and that provides entertainment (as singers or dancers) as well as dancing and food and drink; "don't expect a good meal at a cabaret"; "the gossip columnist got his information by visiting nightclubs every night"; "he played the drums at a jazz club" [syn: cabaret, nightclub, night club, club, nightspot] 2: a series of acts at a night club [syn: cabaret, floorshow, floor show]
• cabriolet 0
  n 1: small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and a folding hood [syn: cab, cabriolet]
• cache 0
  n 1: a hidden storage space (for money or provisions or weapons) 2: a secret store of valuables or money [syn: hoard, cache, stash] 3: (computer science) RAM memory that is set aside as a specialized buffer storage that is continually updated; used to optimize data transfers between system elements with different characteristics [syn: cache, memory cache] v 1: save up as for future use [syn: hoard, stash, cache, lay away, hive up, squirrel away]
• cafe 0
  n 1: a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are sold [syn: cafe, coffeehouse, coffee shop, coffee bar]
• caraway 0
  n 1: a Eurasian plant with small white flowers yielding caraway seed [syn: caraway, Carum carvi] 2: leaves used sparingly in soups and stews
• castaway 0
  n 1: a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael] 2: a shipwrecked person [syn: castaway, shipwreck survivor]
• cay 0
  n 1: a coral reef off the southern coast of Florida [syn: key, cay, Florida key]
• chalet 0
  n 1: a Swiss house with a sloping roof and wide eaves or a house built in this style
• clay 0
  n 1: a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired 2: water soaked soil; soft wet earth [syn: mud, clay] 3: United States general who commanded United States forces in Europe from 1945 to 1949 and who oversaw the Berlin airlift (1897-1978) [syn: Clay, Lucius Clay, Lucius DuBignon Clay] 4: United States politician responsible for the Missouri Compromise between free and slave states (1777-1852) [syn: Clay, Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser] 5: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains]
• convey 0
  v 1: make known; pass on, of information; "She conveyed the message to me" 2: serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger" [syn: carry, convey, express] 3: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey, transmit, communicate] 4: transmit a title or property 5: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel] 6: take something or somebody with oneself somewhere; "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point" [syn: bring, convey, take] 7: go or come after and bring or take back; "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine?"; "The dog fetched the hat" [syn: bring, get, convey, fetch] [ant: bear away, bear off, carry away, carry off, take away]
• crochet 0
  n 1: needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle [syn: crochet, crocheting] v 1: create by looping or crocheting; "crochet a bedspread" 2: make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle; "She sat there crocheting all day" [syn: crochet, hook]
• croquet 0
  n 1: a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg v 1: drive away by hitting with one's ball, "croquet the opponent's ball" 2: play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops
• cutaway 0
  n 1: a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts [syn: cutaway, cutaway drawing, cutaway model] 2: a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees
• day 0
  n 1: time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day" [syn: day, twenty-four hours, twenty-four hour period, 24-hour interval, solar day, mean solar day] 2: some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual" 3: a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance; "Mother's Day" 4: the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime" [syn: day, daytime, daylight] [ant: dark, night, nighttime] 5: the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working); "my day began early this morning"; "it was a busy day on the stock exchange"; "she called it a day and went to bed" 6: an era of existence or influence; "in the day of the dinosaurs"; "in the days of the Roman Empire"; "in the days of sailing ships"; "he was a successful pianist in his day" 7: the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis; "how long is a day on Jupiter?" 8: the time for one complete rotation of the earth relative to a particular star, about 4 minutes shorter than a mean solar day [syn: sidereal day, day] 9: a period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day" 10: United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935) [syn: Day, Clarence Day, Clarence Shepard Day Jr.]
• de 0
  n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]
• decay 0
  n 1: the process of gradually becoming inferior 2: a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current [syn: decay, decline] 3: the organic phenomenon of rotting [syn: decay, decomposition] 4: an inferior state resulting from the process of decaying; "the corpse was in an advanced state of decay"; "the house had fallen into a serious state of decay and disrepair" 5: the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation [syn: decay, radioactive decay, disintegration] v 1: lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current; "the particles disintegrated during the nuclear fission process" [syn: disintegrate, decay, decompose] 2: fall into decay or ruin; "The unoccupied house started to decay" [syn: decay, crumble, dilapidate] 3: undergo decay or decomposition; "The body started to decay and needed to be cremated"
• defray 0
  v 1: bear the expenses of
• delay 0
  n 1: time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action" [syn: delay, hold, time lag, postponement, wait] 2: the act of delaying; inactivity resulting in something being put off until a later time [syn: delay, holdup] v 1: cause to be slowed down or delayed; "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform" [syn: delay, detain, hold up] [ant: hurry, rush] 2: act later than planned, scheduled, or required; "Don't delay your application to graduate school or else it won't be considered" 3: stop or halt; "Please stay the bloodshed!" [syn: stay, detain, delay] 4: slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development" [syn: check, retard, delay]
• disarray 0
  n 1: a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior; "a confusion of impressions" [syn: confusion, mental confusion, confusedness, muddiness, disarray] 2: untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) [syn: disarray, disorderliness] v 1: bring disorder to [syn: disorder, disarray] [ant: order]
• dismay 0
  n 1: the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles [syn: discouragement, disheartenment, dismay] 2: fear resulting from the awareness of danger [syn: alarm, dismay, consternation] v 1: lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; "These news depressed her"; "The bad state of her child's health demoralizes her" [syn: depress, deject, cast down, get down, dismay, dispirit, demoralize, demoralise] [ant: elate, intoxicate, lift up, pick up, uplift] 2: fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us" [syn: dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify]
• disobey 0
  v 1: refuse to go along with; refuse to follow; be disobedient; "He disobeyed his supervisor and was fired" [ant: obey]
• display 0
  n 1: something intended to communicate a particular impression; "made a display of strength"; "a show of impatience"; "a good show of looking interested" [syn: display, show] 2: something shown to the public; "the museum had many exhibits of oriental art" [syn: display, exhibit, showing] 3: a visual representation of something [syn: display, presentation] 4: behavior that makes your feelings public; "a display of emotion" 5: exhibiting openly in public view; "a display of courage" 6: an electronic device that represents information in visual form [syn: display, video display] v 1: to show, make visible or apparent; "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts?"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship" [syn: expose, exhibit, display] 2: attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals
• flyaway 0
  adj 1: guided by whim and fancy; "flighty young girls" [syn: flighty, flyaway, head-in-the-clouds, scatterbrained] 2: (of hair or clothing) worn loose; "her flyaway hair"; "a flyaway coat"
• foldaway 0
  adj 1: capable of being folded up and stored; "a foldaway bed" [syn: foldable, foldaway, folding(a)]
• getaway 0
  n 1: the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup" [syn: pickup, getaway] 2: a rapid escape (as by criminals); "the thieves made a clean getaway"; "after the expose he had to take it on the lam" [syn: getaway, lam]
• giveaway 0
  n 1: a gift of public land or resources for the private gain of a limited group 2: an unintentional disclosure 3: a television or radio program in which contestants compete for awards [syn: game show, giveaway]
• hideaway 0
  n 1: a hiding place; usually a remote place used by outlaws [syn: hideout, hideaway, den] 2: an area where you can be alone [syn: hideaway, retreat]
• motorway 0
  n 1: a broad highway designed for high-speed traffic [syn: expressway, freeway, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway]
• runaway 0
  adj 1: completely out of control; "runaway inflation" n 1: an easy victory [syn: runaway, blowout, romp, laugher, shoo-in, walkaway] 2: someone who flees from an uncongenial situation; "fugitives from the sweatshops" [syn: fugitive, runaway, fleer]
• stowaway 0
  n 1: a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage
• straightaway 0
  adv 1: without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!" [syn: immediately, instantly, straightaway, straight off, directly, now, right away, at once, forthwith, like a shot] adj 1: performed with little or no delay; "an immediate reply to my letter"; "a prompt reply"; "was quick to respond"; "a straightaway denial" [syn: immediate, prompt, quick, straightaway] n 1: a straight segment of a roadway or racecourse [syn: straightaway, straight]
• takeaway 0
  n 1: prepared food that is intended to be eaten off of the premises; "in England they call takeout food `takeaway'" [syn: takeout, takeout food, takeaway] 2: a concession made by a labor union to a company that is trying to lower its expenditures 3: the act of taking the ball or puck away from the team on the offense (as by the interception of a pass)
• throwaway 0
  adj 1: thrown away; "wearing someone's cast-off clothes"; "throwaway children living on the streets"; "salvaged some thrown-away furniture" [syn: cast-off(a), discarded, throwaway(a), thrown-away(a)] 2: intended to be thrown away after use; "throwaway diapers" n 1: (sometimes offensive) a homeless boy who has been abandoned and roams the streets [syn: street arab, gamin, throwaway] 2: an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution; "he mailed the circular to all subscribers" [syn: circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway] 3: words spoken in a casual way with conscious under-emphasis
• galloway 0
  n 1: a district in southwestern Scotland 2: breed of hardy black chiefly beef cattle native to Scotland
• hathaway 0
  n 1: wife of William Shakespeare (1556-1623) [syn: Hathaway, Anne Hathaway]
• mulloway 0
  n 1: large important food fish of Australia; almost indistinguishable from the maigre [syn: mulloway, jewfish, Sciaena antarctica]
• tearaway 0
  adj 1: characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation; "a hotheaded decision"; "liable to such impulsive acts as hugging strangers"; "an impetuous display of spending and gambling"; "madcap escapades"; (`brainish' is archaic) [syn: hotheaded, impulsive, impetuous, madcap, tearaway(a), brainish] n 1: a reckless and impetuous person
• walkaway 0
  n 1: an easy victory [syn: runaway, blowout, romp, laugher, shoo-in, walkaway]
• rollaway 0
• soakaway 0
• ae 0
• alloway 0
• carraway 0
• greenaway 0
• holloway 0
• huntaway 0
• fadeaway 0

See also waterway definition and waterway synonyms