Words that rhyme with busam

n 1: any garden plant of the genus Alyssum having clusters of small yellow or white flowers [syn: alyssum, madwort] 2: a genus of the family Cruciferae [syn: Alyssum, genus Alyssum]

n 1: a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam [syn: chrism, chrisom, sacramental oil, holy oil]

adj 1: moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike]

n 1: nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America [syn: opossum, possum] 2: small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails [syn: phalanger, opossum, possum]

adj 1: given to quarreling; "arguing children"; "quarrelsome when drinking"

n 1: money demanded for the return of a captured person [syn: ransom, ransom money] 2: payment for the release of someone 3: the act of freeing from captivity or punishment v 1: exchange or buy back for money; under threat [syn: ransom, redeem]

n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce- ace] 2: three people considered as a unit [syn: trio, threesome, triad, trinity]

adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]

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]

adj 1: acceptable to the taste or mind; "palatable food"; "a palatable solution to the problem" [syn: palatable, toothsome] [ant: unpalatable] 2: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy] 3: having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"; "a toothsome blonde in a tight dress" [syn: juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous]

n 1: a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door [syn: transom, transom window, fanlight] 2: a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it [syn: transom, traverse]

adj 1: difficult to deal with; "a troublesome infection"; "a troublesome situation"

n 1: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad] 2: a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" [syn: couple, twosome, duo, duet]

adj 1: detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" [ant: wholesome]

adj 1: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit" [syn: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous]

adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]

adj 1: charming in a childlike or naive way

n 1: eight people considered as a unit [syn: octet, octette, eightsome] 2: a Scottish reel for eight dancers

n 1: large genus of mostly African and Australian herbs and shrubs: everlasting flowers; in some classifications includes genus Ozothamnus [syn: Helichrysum, genus Helichrysum]