Words that rhyme with batticaloa

n 1: an acknowledgment that can be used to say hello or goodbye (aloha is Hawaiian and ciao is Italian) [syn: aloha, ciao]

n 1: an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; "he stared over the edge with a feeling of awe" 2: a feeling of profound respect for someone or something; "the fear of God"; "the Chinese reverence for the dead"; "the French treat food with gentle reverence"; "his respect for the law bordered on veneration" [syn: fear, reverence, awe, veneration] v 1: inspire awe in; "The famous professor awed the undergraduates"

n 1: a long thin fluffy scarf of feathers or fur [syn: feather boa, boa] 2: any of several chiefly tropical constrictors with vestigial hind limbs

n 1: a person who accepts the leadership of another [ant: leader] 2: someone who travels behind or pursues another

n 1: in some classifications considered a superphylum or a subkingdom; comprises flagellates; ciliates; sporozoans; amoebas; foraminifers [syn: Protozoa, phylum Protozoa]

n 1: an agency in the Department of Commerce that maps the oceans and conserves their living resources; predicts changes to the earth's environment; provides weather reports and forecasts floods and hurricanes and other natural disasters related to weather [syn: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA]

n 1: Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601) [syn: Brahe, Tycho Brahe]

n 1: the capital and chief port of Qatar [syn: Doha, Bida, El Beda, capital of Qatar]

n 1: the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis

n 1: a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony

n 1: the basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos 2: Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519) [syn: Balboa, Vasco Nunez de Balboa]

n 1: United States biochemist (born in Spain) who studied the biological synthesis of nucleic acids (1905-1993) [syn: Ochoa, Severo Ochoa]

n 1: a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of Samoa in the South Pacific [syn: Samoa, Independent State of Samoa, Western Samoa, Samoa i Sisifo] 2: a group of volcanic islands in the South Pacific midway between Hawaii and Australia; its climate and scenery and Polynesian culture make it a popular tourist stop [syn: Samoa, Samoan Islands]

n 1: multicellular organisms having less-specialized cells than in the Metazoa; comprises the single phylum Porifera [syn: Parazoa, subkingdom Parazoa]