Words that rhyme with aurous

• brontosaurus 0
  n 1: huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic [syn: apatosaur, apatosaurus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard, Apatosaurus excelsus]
• chorus 0
  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]
• cirrus 0
  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
• ferrous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or containing iron [syn: ferric, ferrous]
• fibrous 0
  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]
• fortress 0
  n 1: a fortified defensive structure [syn: fortress, fort]
• harass 0
  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"
• heiress 0
  n 1: a female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix]
• humorous 0
  adj 1: full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" [syn: humorous, humourous] [ant: humorless, humourless, unhumorous]
• huntress 0
  n 1: a woman hunter
• lustrous 0
  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]
• ogress 0
  n 1: (folklore) a female ogre
• peeress 0
  n 1: a woman of the peerage in Britain [syn: Lady, noblewoman, peeress] [ant: Lord, noble, nobleman]
• porous 0
  adj 1: able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous" 2: full of pores or vessels or holes [syn: porous, poriferous] [ant: nonporous] 3: allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" [syn: holey, porous]
• scabrous 0
  adj 1: rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf [syn: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy] 2: dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel"
• serous 0
  adj 1: of or producing or containing serum; "a serous exudate"
• stegosaurus 0
  n 1: herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon [syn: stegosaur, stegosaurus, Stegosaur stenops]
• terrace 0
  n 1: usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence [syn: patio, terrace] 2: a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) [syn: terrace, bench] 3: a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face); "Grosvenor Terrace" v 1: provide (a house) with a terrace; "We terrassed the country house" [syn: terrace, terrasse] 2: make into terraces as for cultivation; "The Incas terraced their mountainous land"
• thesaurus 0
  n 1: a book containing a classified list of synonyms [syn: thesaurus, synonym finder]
• torus 0
  n 1: a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle [syn: torus, toroid] 2: commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column [syn: torus, tore]
• tyrannosaurus 0
  n 1: large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations; may have been a scavenger rather than an active predator; later Cretaceous period in North America [syn: tyrannosaur, tyrannosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex]
• doris 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids 2: a small region of ancient Greece where the Doric dialect was spoken
• horace 0
  n 1: Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)
• morris 0
  n 1: United States suffragist in Wyoming (1814-1902) [syn: Morris, Esther Morris, Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris] 2: English poet and craftsman (1834-1896) [syn: Morris, William Morris] 3: leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806) [syn: Morris, Robert Morris] 4: United States statesman who led the committee that produced the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816) [syn: Morris, Gouverneur Morris]
• taurus 0
  n 1: Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949) [syn: Sanchez, Ilich Sanchez, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos, Carlos the Jackal, Salim, Andres Martinez, Taurus, Glen Gebhard, Hector Hevodidbon, Michael Assat] 2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus [syn: Taurus, Bull] 3: a zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere near Orion; between Aries and Gemini 4: the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20 [syn: Taurus, Taurus the Bull, Bull]
• laurus 0
  n 1: small evergreen trees or shrubs with aromatic leaves [syn: Laurus, genus Laurus]
• horus 0
  n 1: Egyptian solar god with the head of a falcon; the son of Osiris and Isis
• sorus 0
  n 1: a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi 2: cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond
• centaurus 0
  n 1: a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross [syn: Centaurus, Centaur]
• forests 0
• scirrhous 0
• scirrhus 0
• sclerous 0
• dolores 0
• goris 0
• maurus 0
• torras 0
• mcmorris 0
• maquiladoras 0
• caphaurus 0
• rainforests 0
• cytissorus 0
• epidaurus 0
• tetrasporous 0

See also aurous definition and aurous synonyms