Words that rhyme with abbess

• bouillabaisse 0
  n 1: highly seasoned Mediterranean soup or stew made of several kinds of fish and shellfish with tomatoes and onions or leeks and seasoned with saffron and garlic and herbs
• bulbous 0
  adj 1: shaped like a bulb [syn: bulblike, bulbous, bulb- shaped] 2: curving outward [syn: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant]
• cumulonimbus 0
  n 1: a dark cloud of great vertical extent charged with electricity; associated with thunderstorms [syn: cumulonimbus, cumulonimbus cloud, thundercloud]
• harquebus 0
  n 1: an obsolete firearm with a long barrel [syn: arquebus, harquebus, hackbut, hagbut]
• iambus 0
  n 1: a metrical unit with unstressed-stressed syllables [syn: iamb, iambus]
• incubus 0
  n 1: a male demon believed to lie on sleeping persons and to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women 2: a situation resembling a terrifying dream [syn: nightmare, incubus] 3: someone who depresses or worries others
• nimbus 0
  n 1: a dark grey cloud bearing rain [syn: nimbus, nimbus cloud, rain cloud] 2: an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint [syn: aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, glory, gloriole]
• omnibus 0
  adj 1: providing for many things at once; "an omnibus law" n 1: an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author 2: a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work" [syn: bus, autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle]
• rebus 0
  n 1: a puzzle where you decode a message consisting of pictures representing syllables and words
• rhombus 0
  n 1: a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram [syn: rhombus, rhomb, diamond]
• succubus 0
  n 1: a female demon believed to have sexual intercourse with sleeping men [syn: succubus, succuba]
• syllabus 0
  n 1: an integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university" [syn: course of study, program, programme, curriculum, syllabus]
• thrombus 0
  n 1: a blood clot formed within a blood vessel and remaining attached to its place of origin
• limbus 0
  n 1: a border or edge of any of various body parts distinguished by color or structure
• phoebus 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophecy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis [syn: Apollo, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo]
• erebus 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) Greek god of darkness who dwelt in the underworld; son of Chaos; brother of Nox; father of Aether and Day
• columbus 0
  n 1: the state capital of Ohio; located in the center of the state; site of Ohio State University [syn: Columbus, capital of Ohio] 2: Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) [syn: Columbus, Christopher Columbus, Cristoforo Colombo, Cristobal Colon] 3: a town in eastern Mississippi near the border with Alabama 4: a city in western Georgia on the Chattahoochee River; industrial center
• plumbous 0
  adj 1: relating to or consisting of lead [syn: plumbic, plumbous]
• arquebus 0
  n 1: an obsolete firearm with a long barrel [syn: arquebus, harquebus, hackbut, hagbut]
• colobus 0
  n 1: arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbs [syn: colobus, colobus monkey]
• forbes 0
• buice 0
• labus 0
• mabis 0
• mabus 0
• bis 0
• biss 0
• barabbas 0
• antrobus 0
• choriambus 0
• dithyrambus 0
• barnabas 0
• niobous 0

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