Words that rhyme with anchoress

adj 1: rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian" [syn: rigorous, strict] 2: demanding strict attention to rules and procedures; "rigorous discipline"; "tight security"; "stringent safety measures" [syn: rigorous, stringent, tight]

n 1: a female actor

n 1: (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored [syn: address, computer address, reference] 2: the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with 3: the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience; "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets" [syn: address, speech] 4: the manner of speaking to another individual; "he failed in his manner of address to the captain" 5: a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described 6: written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location [syn: address, destination, name and address] 7: the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball 8: social skill [syn: savoir-faire, address] v 1: speak to; "He addressed the crowd outside the window" [syn: address, turn to] 2: give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees" [syn: address, speak] 3: put an address on (an envelope) [syn: address, direct] 4: direct a question at someone 5: address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question 6: greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name; "He always addresses me with `Sir'"; "Call me Mister"; "She calls him by first name" [syn: address, call] 7: access or locate by address 8: act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression; "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China" [syn: cover, treat, handle, plow, deal, address] 9: speak to someone [syn: address, accost, come up to] 10: adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting

n 1: a woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop]

adj 1: characterized by adultery; "an adulterous relationship"; "extramarital affairs"; "the extracurricular activities of a philandering husband" [syn: adulterous, extramarital, extracurricular] 2: not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend" [syn: adulterous, cheating(a), two-timing(a)]

n 1: a woman adventurer

adj 1: willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy" [syn: adventurous, adventuresome] [ant: unadventurous]

v 1: take the initiative and go on the offensive; "The Serbs attacked the village at night"; "The visiting team started to attack" [syn: attack, aggress]

n 1: a woman ambassador

adj 1: equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon" [syn: ambidextrous, two-handed] [ant: left- handed, right-handed] 2: marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]

adj 1: inclined toward or displaying love; "feeling amorous" [syn: amative, amorous] 2: expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" [syn: amatory, amorous, romantic]

n 1: a woman ancestor

adj 1: without water; especially without water of crystallization [ant: hydrated, hydrous]

n 1: a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs [syn: tapestry, arras]

adj 1: containing gold; "auriferous quartz veins" [syn: auriferous, gold-bearing]

n 1: a woman author

adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious] 2: primitive in customs and culture

n 1: a woman benefactor

adj 1: blowing in violent and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day"; "a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind" [syn: blustering(a), blusterous, blustery]

adj 1: noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class" [syn: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly] 2: full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy" [syn: boisterous, knockabout] 3: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: boisterous, fierce, rough]

n 1: huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic [syn: apatosaur, apatosaurus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard, Apatosaurus excelsus]

n 1: a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building [syn: buttress, buttressing] v 1: reinforce with a buttress; "Buttress the church" 2: make stronger or defensible; "buttress your thesis"

adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] 2: of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end" [syn: cadaverous, cadaveric]

adj 1: relating to or affected with cancer; "a cancerous growth" 2: like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads; "remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"

adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous]

adj 1: richly melodious [syn: canorous, songful]

adj 1: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator [syn: bloody-minded, cantankerous] 2: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]

adj 1: of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era; "carboniferous rock system" 2: relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon [syn: carbonaceous, carbonous, carbonic, carboniferous] n 1: from 345 million to 280 million years ago [syn: Carboniferous, Carboniferous period]

n 1: a gentle affectionate stroking (or something resembling it); "he showered her with caresses"; "soft music was a fond caress"; "the caresses of the breeze played over his face" v 1: touch or stroke lightly in a loving or endearing manner; "He caressed her face"; "They fondled in the back seat of the taxi" [syn: caress, fondle]

adj 1: relating to or characteristic of carnivores; "the lion and other carnivorous animals" 2: (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects" [ant: herbivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous]

adj 1: being attentive to women like an ideal knight [syn: chivalrous, gallant, knightly]

n 1: any utterance produced simultaneously by a group; "a chorus of boos" 2: a group of people assembled to sing together 3: the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers [syn: refrain, chorus] 4: a body of dancers or singers who perform together [syn: chorus, chorus line] 5: a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play [syn: chorus, Greek chorus] v 1: utter in unison; "`yes,' the children chorused" 2: sing in a choir [syn: choir, chorus]

n 1: usually coiled [syn: cirrus, cirrhus] 2: a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles) [syn: cirrus, cirrus cloud] 3: a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile

n 1: any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions [syn: citrus, citrus fruit, citrous fruit] 2: any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds [syn: citrus, citrus tree]

adj 1: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous]

n 1: monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance

n 1: a cloth pad or dressing (with or without medication) applied firmly to some part of the body (to relieve discomfort or reduce fever) v 1: make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data" [syn: compress, compact, pack together] [ant: decompress, uncompress] 2: squeeze or press together; "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle" [syn: compress, constrict, squeeze, compact, contract, press]

n 1: a woman conductor

n 1: the legislature of the United States government [syn: Congress, United States Congress, U.S. Congress, US Congress] 2: a meeting of elected or appointed representatives 3: a national legislative assembly 4: the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge]

adj 1: of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves [syn: coniferous, cone- bearing]

adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae

adj 1: difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing" [syn: cumbersome, cumbrous]

adj 1: of or containing divalent copper [syn: cupric, cuprous]

n 1: wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus 2: any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones [syn: cypress, cypress tree]

adj 1: involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions" [syn: dangerous, unsafe] [ant: safe] 2: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening]

v 1: restore to its uncompressed form; "decompress data" [syn: decompress, uncompress] [ant: compact, compress, pack together] 2: decrease the pressure of; "depressurize the cabin in the air plane" [syn: depressurize, depressurise, decompress] [ant: pressurise, pressurize] 3: become less tense, rest, or take one's ease; "He relaxed in the hot tub"; "Let's all relax after a hard day's work" [syn: relax, loosen up, unbend, unwind, decompress, slow down] [ant: tense, tense up]

adj 1: characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme" [ant: indecorous, indelicate] 2: according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior" [syn: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly]

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: lower (prices or markets); "The glut of oil depressed gas prices" 3: cause to drop or sink; "The lack of rain had depressed the water level in the reservoir" [syn: lower, depress] 4: press down; "Depress the space key" [syn: press down, depress] 5: lessen the activity or force of; "The rising inflation depressed the economy"

adj 1: having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem" [syn: desirous, wishful] [ant: undesiring, undesirous]

adj 1: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind" [syn: deft, dexterous, dextrous]

adj 1: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind" [syn: deft, dexterous, dextrous]

v 1: lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking; "She always digresses when telling a story"; "her mind wanders"; "Don't digress when you give a lecture" [syn: digress, stray, divagate, wander] 2: wander from a direct or straight course [syn: sidetrack, depart, digress, straggle]

adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera

adj 1: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]

v 1: relieve from; "Rid the house of pests" [syn: rid, free, disembarrass]

n 1: psychological suffering; "the death of his wife caused him great distress" [syn: distress, hurt, suffering] 2: a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need); "a ship in distress"; "she was the classic maiden in distress" 3: extreme physical pain; "the patient appeared to be in distress" 4: the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim; "Originally distress was a landlord's remedy against a tenant for unpaid rents or property damage but now the landlord is given a landlord's lien" [syn: distress, distraint] v 1: bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship [syn: straiten, distress] 2: cause mental pain to; "The news of her child's illness distressed the mother"

adj 1: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping]

n 1: compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress"

n 1: any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants

v 1: come into or as if into flower; "These manifestations effloresced in the past" [syn: effloresce, burst forth] 2: assume crystalline form; become crystallized [syn: crystallize, crystalize, crystalise, effloresce] 3: become encrusted with crystals due to evaporation

n 1: (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse [syn: egress, emersion] [ant: immersion, ingress] 2: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" [syn: emergence, egress, issue] 3: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent [syn: egress, egression, emergence] v 1: come out of; "Water issued from the hole in the wall"; "The words seemed to come out by themselves" [syn: issue, emerge, come out, come forth, go forth, egress]

n 1: a simple electrostatic generator that generates repeated charges of static electricity 2: type genus of the family Electrophoridae; electric eels [syn: Electrophorus, genus Electrophorus]

v 1: cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious [syn: embarrass, abash] 2: hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn" [syn: obstruct, blockade, block, hinder, stymie, stymy, embarrass]

n 1: a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor

n 1: a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive [syn: enchantress, temptress, siren, Delilah, femme fatale] 2: a female sorcerer or magician [syn: enchantress, witch]

adv 1: by express; "please send the letter express" adj 1: not tacit or implied; "her express wish" 2: without unnecessary stops; "an express train"; "an express shipment" n 1: mail that is distributed by a rapid and efficient system [syn: express, express mail] 2: public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops; "he caught the express to New York" [syn: express, limited] [ant: local] 3: rapid transport of goods [syn: express, expressage] v 1: give expression to; "She showed her disappointment" [syn: express, show, evince] 2: articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise; "She expressed her anger"; "He uttered a curse" [syn: express, verbalize, verbalise, utter, give tongue to] 3: 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] 4: indicate through a symbol, formula, etc.; "Can you express this distance in kilometers?" [syn: express, state] 5: manifest the effects of (a gene or genetic trait); "Many of the laboratory animals express the trait" 6: obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it" [syn: press out, express, extract] 7: send by rapid transport or special messenger service; "She expressed the letter to Florida"

adj 1: of or relating to or containing iron [syn: ferric, ferrous]

adj 1: having or affected by a fever [syn: feverish, feverous]

adj 1: having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute [syn: hempen, fibrous] 2: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable]

adj 1: reproducing by fission 2: having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction" [syn: breakaway, fissiparous, separatist]

v 1: exhibit or undergo fluorescence

n 1: a fortified defensive structure [syn: fortress, fort]

adj 1: willing to give and share unstintingly; "a generous donation" [ant: stingy, ungenerous] 2: not petty in character and mind; "unusually generous in his judgment of people" [ant: meanspirited, ungenerous] 3: more than adequate; "a generous portion"

adj 1: having an air of allure, romance and excitement; "glamorous movie stars" [syn: glamorous, glamourous]

v 1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke] 2: exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy"

n 1: clothing for the head [syn: headdress, headgear]

n 1: a woman headmaster

n 1: a female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix]

adj 1: feeding only on plants [ant: carnivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous]

adj 1: full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" [syn: humorous, humourous] [ant: humorless, humourless, unhumorous]

n 1: a woman hunter

adj 1: containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate) [syn: hydrous, hydrated] [ant: anhydrous]

adj 1: relating to or practicing idolatry; "idolatrous worship" 2: blindly or excessively devoted or adoring

n 1: the act of coercing someone into government service [syn: impress, impressment] v 1: have an emotional or cognitive impact upon; "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd" [syn: affect, impress, move, strike] 2: impress positively; "The young chess player impressed her audience" 3: produce or try to produce a vivid impression of; "Mother tried to ingrain respect for our elders in us" [syn: impress, ingrain, instill] 4: mark or stamp with or as if with pressure; "To make a batik, you impress a design with wax" [syn: impress, imprint] 5: reproduce by printing [syn: print, impress] 6: take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship; "The men were shanghaied after being drugged" [syn: shanghai, impress] 7: dye (fabric) before it is spun [syn: impress, yarn-dye]

adj 1: lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct; "indecorous behavior" [syn: indecorous, indelicate] [ant: decorous] 2: not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry" [syn: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward]

n 1: (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse [syn: ingress, immersion] [ant: egress, emersion] 2: the act of entering; "she made a grand entrance" [syn: entrance, entering, entry, ingress, incoming]

n 1: a female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix]

adj 1: having no odor; "odorless gas"; "odorless flowers" [syn: odorless, odourless, inodorous] [ant: odorous]

adj 1: (of animals and plants) feeding on insects [ant: carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous]

n 1: a woman instructor

adj 1: lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous]

n 1: a working woman who takes in washing [syn: washwoman, washerwoman, laundrywoman, laundress]

adj 1: given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity; "a lecherous gleam in his eye"; "a lecherous good-for- nothing"

adj 1: relating to or resembling or having leprosy

n 1: printing from a plate with raised characters [syn: relief printing, letterpress]

adj 1: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair" [syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous] 2: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous]

adj 1: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents" [syn: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny] 2: brilliant; "set a lustrous example for others to follow"; "lustrous actors of the time" 3: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining]

adj 1: having an unpleasant smell [syn: malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling, ill-smelling, stinky] [ant: fragrant]

n 1: a woman manager

n 1: a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed