Words that rhyme with boreas

• censorious 0
  adj 1: harshly critical or expressing censure; "was censorious of petty failings"
• glorious 0
  adj 1: having or deserving or conferring glory; "a long and glorious career"; "our glorious literature" [ant: inglorious] 2: characterized by grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony" [syn: brilliant, glorious, magnificent, splendid] 3: having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity" [syn: glorious, resplendent, splendid, splendiferous]
• inglorious 0
  adj 1: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful] 2: not bringing honor and glory; "some mute inglorious Milton here may rest" [ant: glorious]
• laborious 0
  adj 1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
• meritorious 0
  adj 1: deserving reward or praise; "a lifetime of meritorious service"; "meritorious conduct" [syn: meritorious, meritable]
• notorious 0
  adj 1: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold"; [syn: ill-famed, infamous, notorious]
• vicarious 0
  adj 1: experienced at secondhand; "read about mountain climbing and felt vicarious excitement" 2: occurring in an abnormal part of the body instead of the usual site involved in that function; "vicarious menstruation" 3: suffered or done by one person as a substitute for another; "vicarious atonement"
• victorious 0
  adj 1: having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team" [syn: victorious, winning] 2: experiencing triumph [syn: triumphant, victorious]
• vitreous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or constituting the vitreous humor of the eye; "the vitreous chamber" 2: relating to or resembling or derived from or containing glass; "vitreous rocks"; "vitreous silica" 3: (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it; "glazed pottery"; "glassy porcelain"; "hard vitreous china used for plumbing fixtures" [syn: glassy, vitreous, vitrified]
• urease 0
  n 1: an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of urea into carbon dioxide and ammonia; is present in intestinal bacteria
• aquarius 0
  n 1: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aquarius [syn: Aquarius, Water Bearer] 2: a zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere; between Capricornus and Pisces 3: the eleventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about January 20 to February 18 [syn: Aquarius, Aquarius the Water Bearer, Water Bearer]
• stradivarius 0
  n 1: Italian violin maker who developed the modern violin and created violins of unequaled tonal quality (1644?-1737) [syn: Stradivari, Antonio Stradivari, Stradivarius, Antonius Stradivarius]
• nereus 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) a sea god son of Pontus and Gaea; lived in the depths of the sea with his wife Doris and their daughters the Nereids
• guarnerius 0
  n 1: Italian violin maker and grandson of Andrea Guarneri (1687?-1745) [syn: Guarneri, Guarnieri, Guarnerius, Guiseppe Guarneri] 2: founder of a family of Italian violin makers (1626?-1698) [syn: Guarneri, Guarnieri, Guarnerius, Andrea Guarneri] 3: a violin made by a member of the Guarneri family
• belisarius 0
  n 1: Byzantine general under Justinian I; he recovered former Roman territories in northern Africa and fought against the Persians
• tiberius 0
  n 1: son-in-law of Augustus who became a suspicious tyrannical Emperor of Rome after a brilliant military career (42 BC to AD 37) [syn: Tiberius, Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar Augustus]
• sirius 0
  n 1: the brightest star in the sky; in Canis Major [syn: Sirius, Dog Star, Canicula, Sothis]
• sartorius 0
  n 1: a muscle in the thigh that helps to rotate the leg into the sitting position assumed by a tailor; the longest muscle in the human body [syn: sartorius, sartorius muscle, musculus sartorius]
• demetrius 0
  n 1: son of Antigonus Cyclops and king of Macedonia; he and his father were defeated at the battle of Ipsus (337-283 BC) [syn: Demetrius, Demetrius I, Demetrius Poliorcetes]
• arboreous 0
  adj 1: inhabiting or frequenting trees; "arboreal apes" [syn: arboreal, arboreous, tree-living] [ant: nonarboreal] 2: abounding in trees; "an arboreous landscape"; "violets in woodsy shady spots"; "a woody area near the highway" [syn: arboraceous, arboreous, woodsy, woody] 3: resembling a tree in form and branching structure; "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges" [syn: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped]
• atreus 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus
• darius 0
• scarious 0
• marius 0
• malarious 0
• denarius 0
• senarius 0
• octonarius 0
• subdelirious 0
• sulphureous 0
• aureus 0
• stiborius 0

See also boreas definition and boreas synonyms