Words that rhyme with burow

n 1: brilliant and showy technical skill; "in a final bravura the ballerina appeared to be floating in water"; "the music ends with a display of bravura"

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: a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music [syn: coloratura, coloratura soprano] 2: singing with florid ornamentation

n 1: the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest

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

n 1: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [syn: gold, Au, atomic number 79] 2: a unit of length used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers) [syn: Astronomical Unit, AU]

n 1: one of the sections (or chapters) in the Koran; "the Quran is divided in 114 suras" 2: the muscular back part of the shank [syn: calf, sura]

n 1: the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges [syn: dura mater, dura]

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: thorn apple [syn: Datura, genus Datura]

n 1: the capital and largest city of Burundi; "Usumbura was renamed Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in 1962" [syn: Bujumbura, Usumbura, capital of Burundi]

n 1: the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party

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: a commercial city in northern Japan on western Hokkaido