Name Report For First Name KEY:
KEY
First name KEY's origin is Gaelic. KEY means "son of aidan". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with KEY below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of key.(Brown names are of the same origin (Gaelic) with KEY and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
Rhymes with KEY - Names & Words
First Names Rhyming KEY
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES KEY AS A WHOLE:
keyara mikeya birkey hickey keylan keyon keyser markey mickey rickey blakeyNAMES RHYMING WITH KEY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ey) - Names That Ends with ey:
shelley ashley abey bassey koofrey sibley kosey ackerley ainsley ansley ardley arley bartley bromley buckley burley farnley hadley harvey ransey ransley stockley whitney bailey culley dooley abbey ailey amberley audrey betsey beverley brinley britney brittaney brittney cailey cailsey carey carley casey chelsey chesney cidney cydney daisey daney daveney desirey devaney dorcey dorsey etney gormley hailey haisley haley halley ivey jacey jamey janey kacey kaeley kailey kaley karley kasey kayley keeley kelcey kelley kellsey kieley kiley kimberley kloey kortniey lacey lainey laney ley lindsey lynsey lynzey macey marley mckinley miley presley shailey shirley tawney teirney torey torrey whitley zaley zoey aceyNAMES RHYMING WITH KEY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ke) - Names That Begins with ke:
kea keagan keaghan keahi keaira keala kealan kealeboga keallach kealsea kealy kean keana keanan keandre keane keanna keannen keanu keara kearn kearne kearney keary keaton keavy kecia kedalion kedar keddrick kedric kedrick keefe keefer keegan keegsquaw keelan keelee keelia keelin keely keelyn keenan keenat keene keenon keesha keezheekoni kefira kegan kei keiana keianna keifer keiji keiki keiko keilah keilani kein keir keira keiran keirsten keisha keita keitaro keith keiyn kek keket kekiokolanee kekipi kekona kelan kelby kelcie kelcy keldan kele kelemen keleos keli kelilah kelile kellach kellan kellee kelleher kellen keller kellett kellie kellman kellsie kelly kelly-anne kelsa kelsea kelseeNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH KEY:
First Names which starts with 'k' and ends with 'y':
kacy kady kaity kally kaly kandy karly karney karoly kassidy kathy kay kelsey kelsy kendry kenley kenly kennedy kennelly kenney kenny kenway kenzy kerry ketty kevay khairy khoury kim-ly kimberly kimssy kingsley kinney kinny kinsey kinsley kirby kirkley kirkly kirsty kitty koby kody kolby kopecky korey kosmy krany krzy kundryEnglish Words Rhyming KEY
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES KEY AS A WHOLE:
| bedkey | noun (n.) An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead. |
| blickey | noun (n.) A tin dinner pail. |
| bockey | noun (n.) A bowl or vessel made from a gourd. |
| buckeye | noun (n.) A name given to several American trees and shrubs of the same genus (Aesculus) as the horse chestnut. |
| noun (n.) A cant name for a native in Ohio. |
| choky chokey | adjective (a.) Tending to choke or suffocate, or having power to suffocate. |
| adjective (a.) Inclined to choke, as a person affected with strong emotion. |
| cockeye | noun (n.) A squinting eye. |
| noun (n.) The socket in the ball of a millstone, which sits on the cockhead. |
| cookey | noun (n.) Alt. of Cookie |
| culverkey | noun (n.) A bunch of the keys or samaras of the ash tree. |
| noun (n.) An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans). |
| dickey | noun (n.) Alt. of Dicky |
| () A hat; esp., in U. S., a stiff hat or derby; in Eng., a straw hat. | |
| () One of various animals | |
| () A donkey. | |
| () Any small bird; -- called also dickey bird. | |
| () The hedge sparrow. | |
| () The haddock. | |
| () A seat for the driver; -- called also dickey box. | |
| () A seat at the back for servants. |
| donkey | noun (n.) An ass; or (less frequently) a mule. |
| noun (n.) A stupid or obstinate fellow; an ass. |
| hawkey | noun (n.) See Hockey. |
| hockey | noun (n.) A game in which two parties of players, armed with sticks curved or hooked at the end, attempt to drive any small object (as a ball or a bit of wood) toward opposite goals. |
| noun (n.) The stick used by the players. |
| hookey | noun (n.) See Hockey. |
| jockey | noun (n.) A professional rider of horses in races. |
| noun (n.) A dealer in horses; a horse trader. | |
| noun (n.) A cheat; one given to sharp practice in trade. | |
| verb (v. t.) " To jostle by riding against one." | |
| verb (v. t.) To play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer. | |
| verb (v. i.) To play or act the jockey; to cheat. |
| jockeying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Jockey |
| noun (n.) The act or management of one who jockeys; trickery. |
| jockeyism | noun (n.) The practice of jockeys. |
| jockeyship | noun (n.) The art, character, or position, of a jockey; the personality of a jockey. |
| key | noun (n.) An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place. |
| noun (n.) An instrument which is turned like a key in fastening or adjusting any mechanism; as, a watch key; a bed key, etc. | |
| noun (n.) That part of an instrument or machine which serves as the means of operating it; as, a telegraph key; the keys of a pianoforte, or of a typewriter. | |
| noun (n.) A position or condition which affords entrance, control, pr possession, etc.; as, the key of a line of defense; the key of a country; the key of a political situation. Hence, that which serves to unlock, open, discover, or solve something unknown or difficult; as, the key to a riddle; the key to a problem. | |
| noun (n.) That part of a mechanism which serves to lock up, make fast, or adjust to position. | |
| noun (n.) A piece of wood used as a wedge. | |
| noun (n.) The last board of a floor when laid down. | |
| noun (n.) A keystone. | |
| noun (n.) That part of the plastering which is forced through between the laths and holds the rest in place. | |
| noun (n.) A wedge to unite two or more pieces, or adjust their relative position; a cotter; a forelock. | |
| noun (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc. | |
| noun (n.) An indehiscent, one-seeded fruit furnished with a wing, as the fruit of the ash and maple; a samara; -- called also key fruit. | |
| noun (n.) A family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a key, under such names as " sharp four," "flat seven," etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key. | |
| noun (n.) The fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends; keynote. | |
| noun (n.) Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance. | |
| noun (n.) A metallic lever by which the circuit of the sending or transmitting part of a station equipment may be easily and rapidly opened and closed; any device for closing or opening an electric circuit. | |
| noun (n.) A simplified version or analysis which accompanies something as a clue to its explanation, a book or table containing the solutions to problems, ciphers, allegories, or the like, or a table or synopsis of conspicuous distinguishing characters of members of a taxonomic group. | |
| verb (v. t.) To fasten or secure firmly; to fasten or tighten with keys or wedges. | |
| () A bar or key, in a typewriter or typesetting machine, used for spacing between letters. |
| keying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Key |
| keyage | noun (n.) Wharfage; quayage. |
| keyboard | noun (n.) The whole arrangement, or one range, of the keys of an organ, typewriter, etc. |
| keyed | adjective (a.) Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to a key, as a tune. |
| keyhole | noun (n.) A hole or apertupe in a door or lock, for receiving a key. |
| noun (n.) A hole or excavation in beams intended to be joined together, to receive the key which fastens them. | |
| noun (n.) a mortise for a key or cotter. |
| keynote | noun (n.) The tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written; the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred; -- called also key tone. |
| noun (n.) The fundamental fact or idea; that which gives the key; as, the keynote of a policy or a sermon. |
| keystone | noun (n.) The central or topmost stone of an arch. This in some styles is made different in size from the other voussoirs, or projects, or is decorated with carving. See Illust. of Arch. |
| keyway | noun (n.) See Key way, under Key. |
| lackeying | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lackey |
| latchkey | noun (n.) A key used to raise, or throw back, the latch of a door, esp. a night latch. |
| monkey | noun (n.) In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs. |
| noun (n.) Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs. | |
| noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of Quadrumana (esp. such as have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons. | |
| noun (n.) A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child. | |
| noun (n.) The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging. | |
| noun (n.) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner. |
| monkeytail | noun (n.) A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery. |
| pokey | adjective (a.) See Poky. |
| stokey | adjective (a.) Close; sultry. |
| tackey | noun (a. & n.) See Tacky. |
| turkey | noun (n.) An empire in the southeast of Europe and southwest of Asia. |
| noun (n.) Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus Meleagris, especially the North American wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America. |
| turkeys | adjective (a.) Turkish. |
| (pl. ) of Turkey |
| turnkey | noun (n.) A person who has charge of the keys of a prison, for opening and fastening the doors; a warder. |
| noun (n.) An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist. |
| whiskey | noun (n.) Same as Whisky, a liquor. |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Whisky | |
| noun (n.) An intoxicating liquor distilled from grain, potatoes, etc., especially in Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. In the United States, whisky is generally distilled from maize, rye, or wheat, but in Scotland and Ireland it is often made from malted barley. |
| whiskeyfied | adjective (a.) Drunk with whisky; intoxicated. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH KEY (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 2 Letters (ey) - English Words That Ends with ey:
| abbey | noun (n.) A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings. |
| noun (n.) The church of a monastery. |
| alderney | noun (n.) One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3. |
| alley | noun (n.) A narrow passage; especially a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. |
| noun (n.) A narrow passage or way in a city, as distinct from a public street. | |
| noun (n.) A passageway between rows of pews in a church. | |
| noun (n.) Any passage having the entrance represented as wider than the exit, so as to give the appearance of length. | |
| noun (n.) The space between two rows of compositors' stands in a printing office. | |
| noun (n.) A choice taw or marble. |
| archierey | noun (n.) The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans, archbishops, and bishops. |
| attorney | noun (n.) A substitute; a proxy; an agent. |
| noun (n.) One who is legally appointed by another to transact any business for him; an attorney in fact. | |
| noun (n.) A legal agent qualified to act for suitors and defendants in legal proceedings; an attorney at law. | |
| verb (v. t.) To perform by proxy; to employ as a proxy. |
| bailey | noun (n.) The outer wall of a feudal castle. |
| noun (n.) The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. | |
| noun (n.) A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. |
| barley | noun (n.) A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum, used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale, and whisky. |
| bey | noun (n.) A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg; as, the bey of Tunis. |
| blarney | noun (n.) Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery. |
| verb (v. t.) To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney. |
| bluey | adjective (a.) Bluish. |
| adjective (a.) A bushman's blanket; -- named from its color. | |
| adjective (a.) A bushman's bundle; a swag; -- so called because a blanket is sometimes used as the outside covering. |
| bogey | noun (n.) A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy. |
| noun (n.) A goblin; a bugbear. | |
| noun (n.) A given score or number of strokes, for each hole, against which players compete; -- said to be so called because assumed to be the score of an imaginary first-rate player called Colonel Bogey. |
| boley | noun (n.) Alt. of Bolye |
| bridgey | adjective (a.) Full of bridges. |
| carney | noun (n.) A disease of horses, in which the mouth is so furred that the afflicted animal can not eat. |
| causey | noun (n.) A way or road raised above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. |
| chimney | noun (n.) A fireplace or hearth. |
| noun (n.) That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft. | |
| noun (n.) A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion. | |
| noun (n.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein. |
| chisley | adjective (a.) Having a large admixture of small pebbles or gravel; -- said of a soil. |
| chutney | noun (n.) Alt. of Chutnee |
| clayey | adjective (a.) Consisting of clay; abounding with clay; partaking of clay; like clay. |
| cockney | noun (n.) An effeminate person; a spoilt child. |
| noun (n.) A native or resident of the city of London; -- used contemptuously. | |
| adjective (a.) Of or relating to, or like, cockneys. |
| colley | noun (n.) See Collie. |
| comfrey | noun (n.) A rough, hairy, perennial plant of several species, of the genus Symphytum. |
| coney | noun (n.) A rabbit. See Cony. |
| noun (n.) A fish. See Cony. |
| cooey | noun (n.) Alt. of Cooee |
| noun (n.) Alt. of Cooee | |
| verb (v. i.) Alt. of Cooee |
| cosey | adjective (a.) See Cozy. |
| coursey | noun (n.) A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. |
| covey | noun (n.) A brood or hatch of birds; an old bird with her brood of young; hence, a small flock or number of birds together; -- said of game; as, a covey of partridges. |
| noun (n.) A company; a bevy; as, a covey of girls. | |
| noun (n.) A pantry. | |
| verb (v. i.) To brood; to incubate. |
| cumfrey | noun (n.) See Comfrey. |
| chantey | noun (n.) A sailor's song. |
| dey | noun (n.) A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid. |
| noun (n.) The governor of Algiers; -- so called before the French conquest in 1830. |
| diabley | noun (n.) Devilry; sorcery or incantation; a diabolical deed; mischief. |
| dingey | noun (n.) Alt. of Dinghy |
| drey | noun (n.) A squirrel's nest. See Dray. |
| druxey | adjective (a.) Alt. of Druxy |
| dipsey | noun (n.) Alt. of Dipsy |
| adjective (a.) Alt. of Dipsy |
| dopey | adjective (a.) Affected by "dope"; esp., sluggish or dull as though under the influence of a narcotic. |
| fey | noun (n.) Faith. |
| adjective (a.) Fated; doomed. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cleanse; to clean out. |
| fluey | adjective (a.) Downy; fluffy. |
| fo'gey | noun (n.) See Fogy. |
| frowey | adjective (a.) Working smoothly, or without splitting; -- said of timber. |
| galley | noun (n.) A vessel propelled by oars, whether having masts and sails or not |
| noun (n.) A large vessel for war and national purposes; -- common in the Middle Ages, and down to the 17th century. | |
| noun (n.) A name given by analogy to the Greek, Roman, and other ancient vessels propelled by oars. | |
| noun (n.) A light, open boat used on the Thames by customhouse officers, press gangs, and also for pleasure. | |
| noun (n.) One of the small boats carried by a man-of-war. | |
| noun (n.) The cookroom or kitchen and cooking apparatus of a vessel; -- sometimes on merchant vessels called the caboose. | |
| noun (n.) An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace. | |
| noun (n.) An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc. | |
| noun (n.) A proof sheet taken from type while on a galley; a galley proof. |
| garganey | noun (n.) A small European duck (Anas querquedula); -- called also cricket teal, and summer teal. |
| gluey | adjective (a.) Viscous; glutinous; of the nature of, or like, glue. |
| goldney | noun (n.) See Gilthead. |
| grey | adjective (a.) See Gray (the correct orthography). |
| gypsey | noun (n.) A gypsy. See Gypsy. |
| hackney | noun (n.) A horse for riding or driving; a nag; a pony. |
| noun (n.) A horse or pony kept for hire. | |
| noun (n.) A carriage kept for hire; a hack; a hackney coach. | |
| noun (n.) A hired drudge; a hireling; a prostitute. | |
| adjective (a.) Let out for hire; devoted to common use; hence, much used; trite; mean; as, hackney coaches; hackney authors. | |
| verb (v. t.) To devote to common or frequent use, as a horse or carriage; to wear out in common service; to make trite or commonplace; as, a hackneyed metaphor or quotation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To carry in a hackney coach. |
| hey | adjective (a.) High. |
| (interj.) An exclamation of joy, surprise, or encouragement. | |
| (interj.) A cry to set dogs on. |
| honey | noun (n.) A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb. |
| noun (n.) That which is sweet or pleasant, like honey. | |
| noun (n.) Sweet one; -- a term of endearment. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be gentle, agreeable, or coaxing; to talk fondly; to use endearments; also, to be or become obsequiously courteous or complimentary; to fawn. | |
| verb (v. t.) To make agreeable; to cover or sweeten with, or as with, honey. |
| jarvey | noun (n.) Alt. of Jarvy |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH KEY (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 2 Letters (ke) - Words That Begins with ke:
| kecking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keck |
| keck | noun (n.) An effort to vomit; queasiness. |
| verb (v. i.) To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit. |
| keckle | noun (v. i. & n.) See Keck, v. i. & n. |
| verb (v. t.) To wind old rope around, as a cable, to preserve its surface from being fretted, or to wind iron chains around, to defend from the friction of a rocky bottom, or from the ice. |
| keckling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keckle |
| noun (n.) Old rope or iron chains wound around a cable. See Keckle, v. t. |
| kecklish | adjective (a.) Inclined to vomit; squeamish. |
| kecksy | noun (n.) The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cow parsnip or the hemlock. |
| kecky | adjective (a.) Resembling a kecksy. |
| kedging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Kedge |
| kedge | noun (n.) To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it. |
| verb (v. t.) A small anchor used whenever a large one can be dispensed witch. See Kedge, v. t., and Anchor, n. |
| kedger | noun (n.) A small anchor; a kedge. |
| kedlook | noun (n.) See Charlock. |
| kee | noun (n. pl.) See Kie, Ky, and Kine. |
| keech | noun (n.) A mass or lump of fat rolled up by the butcher. |
| keel | noun (n.) A brewer's cooling vat; a keelfat. |
| noun (n.) A longitudinal timber, or series of timbers scarfed together, extending from stem to stern along the bottom of a vessel. It is the principal timber of the vessel, and, by means of the ribs attached on each side, supports the vessel's frame. In an iron vessel, a combination of plates supplies the place of the keel of a wooden ship. See Illust. of Keelson. | |
| noun (n.) Fig.: The whole ship. | |
| noun (n.) A barge or lighter, used on the Type for carrying coal from Newcastle; also, a barge load of coal, twenty-one tons, four cwt. | |
| noun (n.) The two lowest petals of the corolla of a papilionaceous flower, united and inclosing the stamens and pistil; a carina. See Carina. | |
| noun (n.) A projecting ridge along the middle of a flat or curved surface. | |
| noun (n.) In a dirigible, a construction similar in form and use to a ship's keel; in an aeroplane, a fin or fixed surface employed to increase stability and to hold the machine to its course. | |
| verb (v. t. & i.) To cool; to skim or stir. | |
| verb (v. i.) To traverse with a keel; to navigate. | |
| verb (v. i.) To turn up the keel; to show the bottom. |
| keeling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keel |
| noun (n.) A cod. |
| keelage | noun (n.) The right of demanding a duty or toll for a ship entering a port; also, the duty or toll. |
| keeled | adjective (a.) Keel-shaped; having a longitudinal prominence on the back; as, a keeled leaf. |
| adjective (a.) Having a median ridge; carinate; as, a keeled scale. | |
| (imp. & p. p.) of Keel |
| keeler | noun (n.) One employed in managing a Newcastle keel; -- called also keelman. |
| noun (n.) A small or shallow tub; esp., one used for holding materials for calking ships, or one used for washing dishes, etc. |
| keelfat | noun (n.) A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc. |
| keelhauling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keelhaul |
| keelivine | noun (n.) A pencil of black or red lead; -- called also keelyvine pen. |
| keelman | noun (n.) See Keeler, 1. |
| keels | noun (n. pl.) Ninepins. See Kayles. |
| keelson | noun (n.) A piece of timber in a ship laid on the middle of the floor timbers over the keel, and binding the floor timbers to the keel; in iron vessels, a structure of plates, situated like the keelson of a timber ship. |
| keelvat | noun (n.) See Keelfat. |
| keen | noun (n.) A prolonged wail for a deceased person. Cf. Coranach. |
| superlative (superl.) Sharp; having a fine edge or point; as, a keen razor, or a razor with a keen edge. | |
| superlative (superl.) Acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness; as, a man of keen understanding; a keen look; keen features. | |
| superlative (superl.) Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm. | |
| superlative (superl.) Piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc, ; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen. | |
| superlative (superl.) Eager; vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite. | |
| verb (v. t.) To sharpen; to make cold. | |
| verb (v. i.) To wail as a keener does. |
| keener | noun (n.) A professional mourner who wails at a funeral. |
| keenness | noun (n.) The quality or state of being keen. |
| keeping | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keep |
| noun (n.) A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation. | |
| noun (n.) Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping. | |
| noun (n.) Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other. | |
| noun (n.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping. |
| keep | noun (n.) The act or office of keeping; custody; guard; care; heed; charge. |
| noun (n.) The state of being kept; hence, the resulting condition; case; as, to be in good keep. | |
| noun (n.) The means or provisions by which one is kept; maintenance; support; as, the keep of a horse. | |
| noun (n.) That which keeps or protects; a stronghold; a fortress; a castle; specifically, the strongest and securest part of a castle, often used as a place of residence by the lord of the castle, especially during a siege; the donjon. See Illust. of Castle. | |
| noun (n.) That which is kept in charge; a charge. | |
| noun (n.) A cap for retaining anything, as a journal box, in place. | |
| verb (v. t.) To care; to desire. | |
| verb (v. t.) To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to lose; to retain; to detain. | |
| verb (v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation or condition; to maintain unchanged; to hold or preserve in any state or tenor. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have in custody; to have in some place for preservation; to take charge of. | |
| verb (v. t.) To preserve from danger, harm, or loss; to guard. | |
| verb (v. t.) To preserve from discovery or publicity; not to communicate, reveal, or betray, as a secret. | |
| verb (v. t.) To attend upon; to have the care of; to tend. | |
| verb (v. t.) To record transactions, accounts, or events in; as, to keep books, a journal, etc. ; also, to enter (as accounts, records, etc. ) in a book. | |
| verb (v. t.) To maintain, as an establishment, institution, or the like; to conduct; to manage; as, to keep store. | |
| verb (v. t.) To supply with necessaries of life; to entertain; as, to keep boarders. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have in one's service; to have and maintain, as an assistant, a servant, a mistress, a horse, etc. | |
| verb (v. t.) To have habitually in stock for sale. | |
| verb (v. t.) To continue in, as a course or mode of action; not to intermit or fall from; to hold to; to maintain; as, to keep silence; to keep one's word; to keep possession. | |
| verb (v. t.) To observe; to adhere to; to fulfill; not to swerve from or violate; to practice or perform, as duty; not to neglect; to be faithful to. | |
| verb (v. t.) To confine one's self to; not to quit; to remain in; as, to keep one's house, room, bed, etc. ; hence, to haunt; to frequent. | |
| verb (v. t.) To observe duty, as a festival, etc. ; to celebrate; to solemnize; as, to keep a feast. | |
| verb (v. i.) To remain in any position or state; to continue; to abide; to stay; as, to keep at a distance; to keep aloft; to keep near; to keep in the house; to keep before or behind; to keep in favor; to keep out of company, or out reach. | |
| verb (v. i.) To last; to endure; to remain unimpaired. | |
| verb (v. i.) To reside for a time; to lodge; to dwell. | |
| verb (v. i.) To take care; to be solicitous; to watch. | |
| verb (v. i.) To be in session; as, school keeps to-day. |
| keeper | noun (n.) One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything. |
| noun (n.) One who retains in custody; one who has the care of a prison and the charge of prisoners. | |
| noun (n.) One who has the care, custody, or superintendence of anything; as, the keeper of a park, a pound, of sheep, of a gate, etc. ; the keeper of attached property; hence, one who saves from harm; a defender; a preserver. | |
| noun (n.) One who remains or keeps in a place or position. | |
| noun (n.) A ring, strap, clamp, or any device for holding an object in place; as: (a) The box on a door jamb into which the bolt of a lock protrudes, when shot. (b) A ring serving to keep another ring on the finger. (c) A loop near the buckle of a strap to receive the end of the strap. | |
| noun (n.) A fruit that keeps well; as, the Roxbury Russet is a good keeper. |
| keepership | noun (n.) The office or position of a keeper. |
| keepsake | noun (n.) Anything kept, or given to be kept, for the sake of the giver; a token of friendship. |
| keesh | noun (n.) See Kish. |
| keeve | noun (n.) A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub. |
| noun (n.) A bleaching vat; a kier. | |
| noun (n.) A large vat used in dressing ores. | |
| verb (v. t.) To set in a keeve, or tub, for fermentation. | |
| verb (v. t.) To heave; to tilt, as a cart. |
| keeving | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Keeve |
| keever | noun (n.) See Keeve, n. |
| keg | noun (n.) A small cask or barrel. |
| keir | noun (n.) See Kier. |
| keitloa | noun (n.) A black, two-horned, African rhinoceros (Atelodus keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one, or even longer. |
| keld | adjective (a.) Having a kell or covering; webbed. |
| kell | noun (n.) A kiln. |
| noun (n.) A sort of pottage; kale. See Kale, 2. | |
| noun (n.) The caul; that which covers or envelops as a caul; a net; a fold; a film. | |
| noun (n.) The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect. |
| keloid | noun (n.) A keloid tumor. |
| noun (n.) A keloid tumor. | |
| adjective (a.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin. | |
| adjective (a.) Applied to a variety of tumor forming hard, flat, irregular excrescences upon the skin. |
| kelotomy | noun (n.) See Celotomy. |
| kelp | noun (n.) The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine. |
| noun (n.) Any large blackish seaweed. |
| kelpfish | noun (n.) A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus. |
| kelpie | noun (n.) Alt. of Kelpy |
| kelpy | noun (n.) An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned. |
| kelpware | noun (n.) Same as Kelp, 2. |
| kelson | noun (n.) See Keelson. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH KEY:
English Words which starts with 'k' and ends with 'y':
| kakistocracy | noun (n.) Government by the worst men. |
| kanttry | noun (n.) Same as Cantred. |
| kempty | noun (n.) Coarse, rough hair wool or fur, injuring its quality. |
| kentucky | noun (n.) One of the United States. |
| kernelly | adjective (a.) Full of kernels; resembling kernels; of the nature of kernels. |
| kersey | noun (n.) A kind of coarse, woolen cloth, usually ribbed, woven from wool of long staple. |
| kiby | adjective (a.) Affected with kibes. |
| kiddy | noun (n.) A young fellow; formerly, a low thief. |
| verb (v. t.) To deceive; to outwit; to hoax. |
| kidney | noun (n.) A glandular organ which excretes urea and other waste products from the animal body; a urinary gland. |
| noun (n.) Habit; disposition; sort; kind. | |
| noun (n.) A waiter. |
| kimry | noun (n.) See Cymry. |
| kindly | noun (n.) According to the kind or nature; natural. |
| noun (n.) Humane; congenial; sympathetic; hence, disposed to do good to; benevolent; gracious; kind; helpful; as, kindly affections, words, acts, etc. | |
| noun (n.) Favorable; mild; gentle; auspicious; beneficent. | |
| adverb (adv.) Naturally; fitly. | |
| adverb (adv.) In a kind manner; congenially; with good will; with a disposition to make others happy, or to oblige. |
| kinesipathy | noun (n.) See Kinesiatrics. |
| noun (n.) See Kinesiatrics. |
| kinesitherapy | noun (n.) See Kinesiatrics. |
| kinky | adjective (a.) Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair. |
| adjective (a.) Queer; eccentric; crotchety. |
| kinology | noun (n.) That branch of physics which treats of the laws of motion, or of moving bodies. |
| knacky | adjective (a.) Having a knack; cunning; crafty; trickish. |
| knaggy | adjective (a.) Knotty; rough; figuratively, rough in temper. |
| knappy | adjective (a.) Having knaps; full of protuberances or humps; knobby. |
| knarry | adjective (a.) Knotty; gnarled. |
| knavery | noun (n.) The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. |
| noun (n.) Roguish or mischievous tricks. |
| knickknackatory | noun (n.) A collection of knickknacks. |
| knickknackery | noun (n.) Knickknacks. |
| knightly | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit. |
| adverb (adv.) In a manner becoming a knight. |
| knobby | adjective (a.) Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances. |
| adjective (a.) Irregular; stubborn in particulars. | |
| adjective (a.) Abounding in rounded hills or mountains; hilly. |
| knotberry | noun (n.) The cloudberry (Rudus Chamaemorus); -- so called from its knotted stems. |
| knurry | adjective (a.) Full of knots. |
| kritarchy | noun (n.) The rule of the judges over Israel. |
| kyley | noun (n.) A variety of the boomerang. |
| kymry | noun (n.) See Cymry. |
| kyriolexy | noun (n.) Alt. of Kyriology |
| kyriology | noun (n.) The use of literal or simple expressions, as distinguished from the use of figurative or obscure ones. |
| kitty | noun (n.) A kitten; also, a pet name or calling name for the cat. |
| noun (n.) The percentage taken out of a pool to pay for refreshments, or for the expenses of the table. |
| kolinsky | noun (n.) Among furriers, any of several Asiatic minks; esp., Putorius sibiricus, the yellowish brown pelt of which is valued, esp. for the tail, used for making artists' brushes. Trade names for the fur are red sable and Tatar sable. |
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