Words that rhyme with basses

n 1: a relation that provides the foundation for something; "they were on a friendly footing"; "he worked on an interim basis" [syn: footing, basis, ground] 2: the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained; "the whole argument rested on a basis of conjecture" [syn: basis, base, foundation, fundament, groundwork, cornerstone] 3: the most important or necessary part of something; "the basis of this drink is orange juice" [syn: basis, base]

n 1: an appliance that corrects dental irregularities [syn: brace, braces, orthodontic braces]

n 1: optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision [syn: spectacles, specs, eyeglasses, glasses]

n 1: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed]

n 1: United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873) [syn: Agassiz, Louis Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz]