Words that rhyme with bureaux

n 1: music written in the rhythm of the bolero dance 2: a short jacket; worn mostly by women 3: a Spanish dance in triple time accompanied by guitar and castanets

n 1: an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" [syn: agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority] 2: furniture with drawers for keeping clothes [syn: chest of drawers, chest, bureau, dresser]

n 1: a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color

n 1: an isomer of glucose that is found in honey and sweet fruits [syn: dextrose, dextroglucose, grape sugar]

n 1: nocturnal fruit-eating bird of South America that has fatty young yielding an oil that is used instead of butter [syn: oilbird, guacharo, Steatornis caripensis]

n 1: the chief executive and political committee of the Communist Party

n 1: any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads [syn: primrose, primula]

n 1: a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent [syn: sucrose, saccharose]

n 1: a tuberous Mexican herb having grasslike leaves and cultivated for its spikes of highly fragrant lily-like waxy white flowers [syn: tuberose, Polianthes tuberosa]

n 1: the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies

n 1: United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997) [syn: Burroughs, William Burroughs, William S. Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs] 2: United States inventor who patented the first practical adding machine (1855-1898) [syn: Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs] 3: United States novelist and author of the Tarzan stories (1875-1950) [syn: Burroughs, Edgar Rice Burroughs]

n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397) [syn: Ambrose, Saint Ambrose, St. Ambrose]

n 1: a linear unit of the size of type slightly larger than an em 2: a Roman statesman and orator remembered for his mastery of Latin prose (106-43 BC) [syn: Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Tully]

n 1: French philosopher who was a leading figure of the Enlightenment in France; principal editor of an encyclopedia that disseminated the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the time (1713-1784) [syn: Diderot, Denis Diderot]

n 1: a complex carbohydrate found in many plants and used as a sweetening agent [syn: sucrose, saccharose]