Words that rhyme with billowy

  • bowie
    n 1: United States pioneer and hero of the Texas revolt against Mexico; he shared command of the garrison that resisted the Mexican attack on the Alamo where he died (1796-1836) [syn: Bowie, Jim Bowie, James Bowie]
  • buoy
    n 1: bright-colored; a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards v 1: float on the surface of water 2: keep afloat; "The life vest buoyed him up" [syn: buoy, buoy up] 3: mark with a buoy
  • chewy
    adj 1: requiring much chewing 2: (of a consistency) requiring chewing; "chewy caramels"
  • dewy
    adj 1: wet with dew [syn: bedewed, dewy]
  • doughy
    adj 1: having the consistency of dough because of insufficient leavening or improper cooking; "the cake fell; it's a doughy mess" [syn: doughy, soggy]
  • gluey
    adj 1: having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous]
  • gooey
    adj 1: soft and sticky [syn: gooey, icky]
  • hooey
    n 1: senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" [syn: stuff, stuff and nonsense, hooey, poppycock]
  • screwy
    adj 1: not behaving normally [syn: screw-loose, screwy]
  • shadowy
    adj 1: filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands" [syn: shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous] 2: lacking clarity or distinctness; "a dim figure in the distance"; "only a faint recollection"; "shadowy figures in the gloom"; "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"; "a few wispy memories of childhood" [syn: dim, faint, shadowy, vague, wispy] 3: lacking in substance; "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler; "dim shadowy forms"; "a wraithlike column of smoke" [syn: shadowy, wraithlike]
  • showy
    adj 1: marked by ostentation but often tasteless; "a cheap showy rhinestone bracelet"; "a splashy half-page ad" [syn: flamboyant, showy, splashy] 2: displaying brilliance and virtuosity 3: (used especially of clothes) marked by conspicuous display [syn: flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, sporty] 4: superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense; "a glossy TV series" [syn: glossy, showy]
  • sinewy
    adj 1: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable] 2: consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon [syn: tendinous, sinewy] 3: (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms" [syn: brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy]
  • snowy
    adj 1: marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter" [syn: white, snowy] 2: covered with snow; "snow-clad hills"; "snow-covered roads"; "a long snowy winter" [syn: snow-clad, snow-covered, snowy] 3: of the white color of snow [syn: snow-white, snowy]
  • towhee
    n 1: any of numerous long-tailed American finches
  • willowy
    adj 1: slender and graceful [syn: gracile, willowy]
  • louis
    n 1: United States prizefighter who was world heavyweight champion for 12 years (1914-1981) [syn: Louis, Joe Louis, Joseph Louis Barrow]
  • billy
    n 1: a short stout club used primarily by policemen [syn: truncheon, nightstick, baton, billy, billystick, billy club] 2: male goat [syn: billy, billy goat, he-goat]
  • blowy
    adj 1: abounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes; "blowy weather"; "a windy bluff" [syn: blowy, breezy, windy]
  • dewey
    n 1: United States librarian who founded the decimal system of classification (1851-1931) [syn: Dewey, Melvil Dewey, Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey] 2: a United States naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War [syn: Dewey, George Dewey, Admiral Dewey] 3: United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952) [syn: Dewey, John Dewey]
  • pompeii
    n 1: ancient city to the southeast of Naples that was buried by a volcanic eruption from Vesuvius
  • pahoehoe
    n 1: freely flowing lava
  • joey
  • mildewy
  • phooey
  • bluey
  • chloe
  • strawy
  • suey
  • sui
  • louie
  • douai
  • zoe
  • huey
  • tuohy
  • cloey
  • slowey
  • howie
  • sheehy
  • skyey
  • pillowy
  • toey
  • towy

See also billowy definition and billowy synonyms