Words that rhyme with breccia

  • alexia
    n 1: inability to perceive written words [syn: visual aphasia, alexia, word blindness]
  • anorexia
    n 1: a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite
  • anoxia
    n 1: severe hypoxia; absence of oxygen in inspired gases or in arterial blood or in the tissues
  • asphyxia
    n 1: a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas
  • ataxia
    n 1: inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait [syn: ataxia, ataxy, dyssynergia, motor ataxia]
  • dyslexia
    n 1: impaired ability to learn to read
  • elixir
    n 1: a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste 2: hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold [syn: philosopher's stone, philosophers' stone, elixir] 3: a substance believed to cure all ills
  • etcher
    n 1: someone who etches
  • fletcher
    n 1: prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625) [syn: Fletcher, John Fletcher]
  • hypoxia
    n 1: oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency
  • lecher
    n 1: man with strong sexual desires [syn: satyr, lecher, lech, letch]
  • pyrexia
    n 1: a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection [syn: fever, febrility, febricity, pyrexia, feverishness]
  • stretcher
    n 1: a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting 2: a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it 3: a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles 4: a stone that forms the top of wall or building [syn: capstone, copestone, coping stone, stretcher]
  • cia
    n 1: an independent agency of the United States government responsible for collecting and coordinating intelligence and counterintelligence activities abroad in the national interest; headed by the Director of Central Intelligence under the supervision of the President and National Security Council [syn: Central Intelligence Agency, CIA]
  • appalachia
    n 1: an impoverished coal mining area in the Appalachian Mountains (from Pennsylvania to North Carolina)
  • cachexia
    n 1: any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease [syn: cachexia, cachexy, wasting]
  • ixia
    n 1: a monocotyledonous genus of the family Iridaceae [syn: Ixia, genus Ixia]
  • apraxia
    n 1: inability to make purposeful movements
  • ataraxia
    n 1: peace of mind
  • banksia
    n 1: any shrub or tree of the genus Banksia having alternate leathery leaves apetalous yellow flowers often in showy heads and conelike fruit with winged seeds
  • cea
  • chia
  • betcha
  • paralexia
  • dyspraxia

See also breccia definition