Words that rhyme with ballasts

n 1: a pale rose-colored variety of the ruby spinel [syn: balas, balas ruby]

adj 1: emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: callous, indurate, pachydermatous] 2: having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear; "calloused skin"; "with a workman's callous hands" [syn: calloused, callous, thickened] v 1: make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals [syn: callous, cauterize, cauterise]

n 1: an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) [syn: callosity, callus] 2: bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone 3: (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid v 1: cause a callus to form on; "The long march had callused his feet" 2: form a callus or calluses; "His foot callused"

n 1: a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove [syn: digitalis, digitalis glycoside, digitalin] 2: any of several plants of the genus Digitalis [syn: foxglove, digitalis]

n 1: feeling a need to see others suffer [syn: malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom] 2: the quality of threatening evil [syn: malevolence, malevolency, malice]

n 1: a large and stately mansion [syn: palace, castle] 2: the governing group of a kingdom; "the palace issued an order binding on all subjects" 3: a large ornate exhibition hall 4: official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign)

n 1: genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem [syn: Phallus, genus Phallus] 2: the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism) [syn: penis, phallus, member]

n 1: a large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields

n 1: a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system; characteristic of the thallophytes

n 1: (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus [syn: Daedalus, Daedal]

n 1: elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural) [syn: brace, suspender, gallus] 2: common domestic birds and related forms [syn: Gallus, genus Gallus]

n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva [syn: Athena, Athene, Pallas, Pallas Athena, Pallas Athene] 2: a large asteroid; the second asteroid to be discovered

adj 1: growing on or living among rocks [syn: saxicolous, saxatile, saxicoline]

n 1: (Greek mythology) a wicked king and son of Zeus; condemned in Hades to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink and beneath fruit that receded when he reached for it

n 1: cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts [syn: cone, strobilus, strobile]

adj 1: (of flowers) having no petals [syn: apetalous, petalless] [ant: petaled, petalled, petalous]

adj 1: having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel [syn: gamopetalous, sympetalous]

n 1: large genus of annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of north temperate regions; largest genus in the family Leguminosae [syn: Astragalus, genus Astragalus] 2: the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint [syn: anklebone, astragal, astragalus, talus]