Words that rhyme with aja

n 1: spicy Creole dish of rice and ham, sausage, chicken, or shellfish with tomatoes, peppers, onions, and celery

n 1: the worship given to God alone [syn: adoration, latria]

n 1: any expected deliverer [syn: messiah, christ] 2: Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer 3: the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people 4: an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742

n 1: tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit [syn: papaya, papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree, Carica papaya] 2: large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh

n 1: a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael]

n 1: the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: Z, z, zee, zed, ezed, izzard]

n 1: any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue [syn: stria, striation] 2: a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps" [syn: band, banding, stria, striation]

n 1: an intelligence agency of the United States in the Department of Defense; is responsible for providing intelligence in support of military planning and operations and weapons acquisition [syn: Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA]

n 1: a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy; "Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar" [syn: Mayan, Maya] 2: a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya [syn: Maya, Mayan, Mayan language]

n 1: (Greek mythology) the Muse of comedy and pastoral poetry 2: (Greek mythology) one of the three Graces

n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology [syn: Gaea, Gaia, Ge]

n 1: type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: Maja, genus Maja, Maia, genus Maia]

n 1: English essayist (1775-1834) [syn: Lamb, Charles Lamb, Elia]

n 1: the basic unit of money in Indonesia; equal to 100 sen

n 1: a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain [syn: Himalayas, Himalaya Mountains, Himalaya]

n 1: (Old Testament) an Israelite prophet who is remembered for his angry lamentations (jeremiads) about the wickedness of his people (circa 626-587 BC) 2: a book in the Old Testament containing the oracles of the prophet Jeremiah [syn: Jeremiah, Book of Jeremiah]

n 1: an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity [syn: Nehemiah, Book of Nehemiah]

n 1: a Hebrew minor prophet [syn: Obadiah, Abdias] 2: an Old Testament book telling Obadiah's prophecies; the shortest book in the Christian Bible [syn: Obadiah, Abdias, Book of Obadiah]

n 1: substance discharged from the vagina (cellular debris and mucus and blood) that gradually decreases in amount during the weeks following childbirth

n 1: sustentacular tissue that surrounds and supports neurons in the central nervous system; glial and neural cells together compose the tissue of the central nervous system [syn: neuroglia, glia]

n 1: a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" [syn: affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia]

n 1: (Old Testament) the husband of Bathsheba and a soldier who was sent to die in battle so that king David could marry his wife (circa 10th century BC)

n 1: (Old Testament) king of Judah who abolished idolatry (715-687 BC) [syn: Hezekiah, Ezekias]

n 1: cactus of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico having edible juicy fruit [syn: pitahaya cactus, pitahaya, Acanthocereus tetragonus, Acanthocereus pentagonus] 2: highly colored edible fruit of pitahaya cactus having bright red juice; often as large as a peach

n 1: a Hebrew minor prophet of the late 6th century BC [syn: Zechariah, Zacharias] 2: an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zechariah which are concerned mainly with the renewal of Israel after the Babylonian Captivity [syn: Zechariah, Zacharias, Book of Zachariah]

n 1: a Hebrew minor prophet of the late 7th century BC [syn: Zephaniah, Sophonias] 2: an Old Testament book telling the prophecies of Zephaniah which are concerned mainly with the approaching judgment by God upon the sinners of Judah [syn: Zephaniah, Sophonias, Book of Zephaniah]

n 1: (Greek mythology) the daughter of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon; Agamemnon was obliged to offer her as a sacrifice to Artemis when the Greek fleet was becalmed on its way to Troy; Artemis rescued her and she later became a priestess

n 1: a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work); "a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling" [syn: peripeteia, peripetia, peripety]