Words that rhyme with wavery

n 1: a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear [syn: courage, courageousness, bravery, braveness] [ant: cowardice, cowardliness] 2: feeling no fear [syn: fearlessness, bravery] [ant: fear, fearfulness, fright]

n 1: the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail); "his reluctant delivery of bad news" [syn: delivery, bringing] 2: the event of giving birth; "she had a difficult delivery" 3: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech" [syn: manner of speaking, speech, delivery] 4: the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another [syn: delivery, livery, legal transfer] 5: (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter [syn: pitch, delivery] 6: recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives" [syn: rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving] 7: the act of delivering a child [syn: delivery, obstetrical delivery]

n 1: the act of discovering something [syn: discovery, find, uncovering] 2: something that is discovered 3: a productive insight [syn: discovery, breakthrough, find] 4: (law) compulsory pretrial disclosure of documents relevant to a case; enables one side in a litigation to elicit information from the other side concerning the facts in the case

n 1: the work of a housewife

n 1: a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses [syn: ivory, tusk] 2: a shade of white the color of bleached bones [syn: bone, ivory, pearl, off-white]

n 1: lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing [syn: dishonesty, knavery]

adj 1: suffering from or suggesting a liver disorder or gastric distress [syn: bilious, liverish, livery] n 1: uniform worn by some menservants and chauffeurs 2: the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another [syn: delivery, livery, legal transfer] 3: the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay

n 1: the branch of medicine dealing with childbirth and care of the mother [syn: obstetrics, OB, tocology, midwifery] 2: assisting women at childbirth

n 1: the organ that bears the ovules of a flower 2: (vertebrates) one of usually two organs that produce ova and secrete estrogen and progesterone

n 1: the outside boundary or surface of something [syn: periphery, fringe, outer boundary]

n 1: a flattering commendation (especially when used for promotional purposes)

n 1: return to an original state; "the recovery of the forest after the fire was surprisingly rapid" 2: gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury [syn: convalescence, recuperation, recovery] 3: the act of regaining or saving something lost (or in danger of becoming lost) [syn: recovery, retrieval]

n 1: the act of discovering again

n 1: absentminded dreaming while awake [syn: reverie, revery, daydream, daydreaming, oneirism, air castle, castle in the air, castle in Spain] 2: an abstracted state of absorption [syn: reverie, revery]

adj 1: of or relating to saliva; "salivary gland"

adj 1: morally wholesome or acceptable; "a past that was scarcely savory" [syn: savory, savoury] [ant: offensive, unsavory, unsavoury] 2: having an agreeably pungent taste [syn: piquant, savory, savoury, spicy, zesty] 3: pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: mouth-watering, savory, savoury] n 1: either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family [syn: savory, savoury] 2: an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre [syn: savory, savoury]

adj 1: cold enough to cause shivers; "felt all shivery"; "shivery weather" 2: provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery]

adj 1: resembling or reminiscent of silver; "a soft silvern voice"; "singing in her silvery tones" [syn: silvern, silvery] 2: having the white lustrous sheen of silver; "a land of silver (or silvern) rivers where the salmon leap"; "repeated scrubbings have given the wood a silvery sheen" [syn: silver, silvern, silvery] 3: of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair" [syn: argent, silver, silvery, silverish]

n 1: the state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom] 2: the practice of owning slaves [syn: slavery, slaveholding] 3: work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay

n 1: the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing]

adj 1: morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal" [syn: unsavory, unsavoury, offensive] [ant: savory, savoury] 2: not pleasing in odor or taste [syn: distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury]

adj 1: morally wholesome or acceptable; "a past that was scarcely savory" [syn: savory, savoury] [ant: offensive, unsavory, unsavoury] 2: having an agreeably pungent taste [syn: piquant, savory, savoury, spicy, zesty] 3: pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: mouth-watering, savory, savoury] n 1: any of several aromatic herbs or subshrubs of the genus Satureja having spikes of flowers attractive to bees 2: dwarf aromatic shrub of Mediterranean regions [syn: savory, Micromeria juliana] 3: either of two aromatic herbs of the mint family [syn: savory, savoury] 4: an aromatic or spicy dish served at the end of dinner or as an hors d'oeuvre [syn: savory, savoury]

adj 1: morally offensive; "an unsavory reputation"; "an unsavory scandal" [syn: unsavory, unsavoury, offensive] [ant: savory, savoury] 2: not pleasing in odor or taste [syn: distasteful, unsavory, unsavoury]

n 1: a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified [syn: Calvary, Golgotha] 2: any experience that causes intense suffering [syn: calvary, martyrdom]