Words that rhyme with cactaceous

adj 1: associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"

adj 1: of or pertaining to the botanical genus Allium; "onions, leeks, garlic, chives are alliaceous plants" 2: smelling of onions or garlic

adj 1: having a strong desire for success or achievement [ant: ambitionless, unambitious] 2: requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake" [syn: ambitious, challenging]

adj 1: invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers" [syn: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing] 2: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent] 3: 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: auguring favorable circumstances and good luck; "an auspicious beginning for the campaign" [ant: inauspicious, unfortunate]

adj 1: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees" [syn: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]

adj 1: incorrigible; "a bodacious gossip" 2: unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent]

adj 1: producing or growing from bulbs

adj 1: large in capacity; "she carried a capacious bag"

adj 1: changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather" [syn: capricious, freakish] 2: determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions" [syn: capricious, impulsive, whimsical]

adj 1: relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon [syn: carbonaceous, carbonous, carbonic, carboniferous]

adj 1: obvious to the eye or mind; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening" [ant: inconspicuous, invisible] 2: without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "blatant disregard of the law"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion" [syn: blatant, blazing, conspicuous]

adj 1: wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient; "a contumaceous witness is subject to punishment"

adj 1: of or belonging to the class Crustacea [syn: crustaceous, crustacean] 2: being or having or resembling a hard crust or shell

adj 1: greatly pleasing or entertaining; "a delightful surprise"; "the comedy was delightful"; "a delicious joke" [syn: delightful, delicious] 2: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy] n 1: variety of sweet eating apples

adj 1: inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits; "a style described as abrasive and contentious"; "a disputatious lawyer"; "a litigious and acrimonious spirit" [syn: contentious, combative, disputatious, disputative, litigious]

adj 1: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]

adj 1: marked by qualities giving the power to produce an intended effect; "written propaganda is less efficacious than the habits and prejudices...of the readers"-Aldous Huxley; "the medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough" [ant: inefficacious] 2: producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect; "an air-cooled motor was more effective than a witch's broomstick for rapid long-distance transportation"-LewisMumford; "effective teaching methods"; "effective steps toward peace"; "made an effective entrance"; "his complaint proved to be effectual in bringing action"; "an efficacious law" [syn: effective, effectual, efficacious] [ant: ineffective, ineffectual, uneffective]

adj 1: marked by speed and efficiency

adj 1: cleverly amusing in tone; "a bantering tone"; "facetious remarks"; "tongue-in-cheek advice" [syn: bantering, facetious, tongue-in-cheek]

adj 1: not produced by natural forces; "brokers created a factitious demand for stocks"

adj 1: formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character" [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious] 2: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham]

adj 1: extremely wicked, deeply criminal; "a flagitious crime"; "heinous accusations" [syn: flagitious, heinous] 2: shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" [syn: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous]

adj 1: like a coquette [syn: coquettish, flirtatious]

adj 1: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious]

adj 1: characterized by charm, good taste, and generosity of spirit; "gracious even to unexpected visitors"; "gracious living"; "he bears insult with gracious good humor" [ant: ungracious] 2: characterized by kindness and warm courtesy especially of a king to his subjects; "our benignant king" [syn: benignant, gracious] 3: exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture" [syn: courteous, gracious, nice] 4: disposed to bestow favors; "thanks to the gracious gods"

adj 1: characteristic of a nonwoody herb or plant part

adj 1: lacking the power to produce a desired effect; "laws that are inefficacious in stopping crime" [ant: efficacious]

adj 1: lacking or showing lack of judgment or discretion; unwise; "an injudicious measure"; "the result of an injudicious decision"

adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Iridaceae

adj 1: marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; "judicious use of one's money"; "a wise decision" [syn: judicious, wise, heady]

adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Liliaceae

adj 1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky]

adj 1: having a smooth or slippery quality; "the skin of cephalopods is thin and lubricious" 2: characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious, lustful, prurient, salacious]

adj 1: having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling [ant: unmalicious]

adj 1: given to lying; "a mendacious child" 2: intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"

adj 1: like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships" 2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy] 3: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: gilded, meretricious, specious]

adj 1: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious] 2: biting or given to biting; "they deliberately gave me a skittish and mordacious mount"

adj 1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]

adj 1: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business" [syn: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied]

adj 1: intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat" [syn: ostentatious, pretentious] [ant: unostentatious, unpretending, unpretentious] 2: (of a display) tawdry or vulgar [syn: ostentatious, pretentious]

adj 1: exceedingly harmful [syn: baneful, deadly, pernicious, pestilent] 2: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" [syn: insidious, pernicious, subtle]

adj 1: acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators" [syn: perspicacious, sagacious, sapient] 2: mentally acute or penetratingly discerning; "too clear-eyed not to see what problems would follow"; "chaos could be prevented only by clear-sighted leadership"; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument" [syn: clear-eyed, clear-sighted, perspicacious]

adj 1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding]

adj 1: hunting and killing other animals for food [syn: predacious, predaceous] 2: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton [syn: predaceous, predacious, predatory]

adj 1: hunting and killing other animals for food [syn: predacious, predaceous] 2: living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain; "predatory capitalists"; "a predatory, insensate society in which innocence and decency can prove fatal"- Peter S. Prescott; "a predacious kind of animal--the early geological gangster"- W.E.Swinton [syn: predaceous, predacious, predatory]

adj 1: presenting favorable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs of success; "propitious omens"; "propitious gales speeded us along"; "a propitious alignment of planets for space exploration" [ant: unpropitious]

adj 1: tough and callous by virtue of experience [syn: hard- bitten, hard-boiled, pugnacious] 2: ready and able to resort to force or violence; "pugnacious spirits...lamented that there was so little prospect of an exhilarating disturbance"- Herman Melville; "they were rough and determined fighting men" [syn: pugnacious, rough]

adj 1: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous] 2: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" [syn: rapacious, ravening, voracious] 3: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]

adj 1: characterized by repetition; "repetitive movement" [syn: repetitive, repetitious] [ant: nonrepetitive]

adj 1: acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators" [syn: perspicacious, sagacious, sapient] 2: skillful in statecraft or management; "an astute and sagacious statesman"

adj 1: characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious, lustful, prurient, salacious] 2: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks" [syn: lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious]

adj 1: resembling or having the qualities of soap; "a soapy consistency" [syn: saponaceous, soapy]

adj 1: containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds" [syn: greasy, oily, sebaceous, oleaginous]

adj 1: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble- rousing, seditious] 2: in opposition to a civil authority or government [syn: insurgent, seditious, subversive]

adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]

adj 1: relating to or containing or resembling silica; "gritrock is siliceous sandstone" [syn: siliceous, silicious]

adj 1: very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: broad, spacious, wide] 2: (of buildings and rooms) having ample space; "a roomy but sparsely furnished apartment"; "a spacious ballroom" [syn: roomy, spacious]

adj 1: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences" [syn: specious, spurious] 2: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: gilded, meretricious, specious]

adj 1: showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance; "finally realized that the horror he felt was superstitious in origin"

adj 1: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]

adj 1: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]

adj 1: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" [syn: furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious] 2: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground]

adj 1: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary] 2: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious]

adj 1: good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory" [syn: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious] [ant: forgetful, short, unretentive] 2: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding] 3: sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs" [syn: coherent, tenacious]

adj 1: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing]

adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious] 2: having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious] 3: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious] 4: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn: poisonous, venomous, vicious]

adj 1: vigorous and animated; "a vibrant group that challenged the system"; "a charming and vivacious hostess"; "a vivacious folk dance" [syn: vibrant, vivacious]

adj 1: excessively greedy and grasping; "a rapacious divorcee on the prowl"; "ravening creditors"; "paying taxes to voracious governments" [syn: rapacious, ravening, voracious] 2: devouring or craving food in great quantities; "edacious vultures"; "a rapacious appetite"; "ravenous as wolves"; "voracious sharks" [syn: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious, wolfish]

n 1: bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (died 110) [syn: Ignatius, Saint Ignatius, St. Ignatius]

n 1: a parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius [syn: Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius] 2: an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean

adj 1: covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds" [syn: downy, pubescent, puberulent, sericeous]

adj 1: like or relevant to or having the properties of cement; "the adhesion of cementitious materials"

adj 1: not suspicious; "deceiving the unsuspecting public" [syn: unsuspecting, unsuspicious]

adj 1: abounding in chalk 2: of or relating to or denoting the third period of the Mesozoic era n 1: from 135 million to 63 million years ago; end of the age of reptiles; appearance of modern insects and flowering plants [syn: Cretaceous, Cretaceous period]

adj 1: of or related to a drupe

adj 1: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening]

adj 1: relating to or possessing a testa or hard shell; "testaceous fish"

adj 1: of or relating to wine [syn: vinous, vinaceous] 2: of the color of wine

adj 1: resembling or containing or abounding in sand; or growing in sandy areas; "arenaceous limestone"; "arenaceous grasses" [syn: arenaceous, sandy, sandlike] [ant: argillaceous, clayey]

n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373) [syn: Athanasius, Saint Athanasius, St. Athanasius, Athanasius the Great]

adj 1: resembling or made to resemble leather; tough but pliable [syn: coriaceous, leathered, leatherlike, leathery]

adj 1: of or pertaining to or resembling the leaf of a plant 2: bearing numerous leaves [syn: foliaceous, foliose, foliaged] 3: (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata [syn: foliate, foliated, foliaceous]

adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of trees or shrubs of the olive family

adj 1: having male and female reproductive organs in separate plants or animals [syn: dioecious, dioecian] [ant: monecious, monoecious, monoicous]

adj 1: having male and female reproductive organs in the same plant or animal [syn: monoecious, monecious, monoicous] [ant: dioecian, dioecious]

adj 1: having male and female reproductive organs mixed in the same gametoecium [syn: synoicous, synoecious]