Words that rhyme with cancellous

  • acidulous
    adj 1: being sour to the taste [syn: acidic, acid, acidulent, acidulous]
  • credulous
    adj 1: disposed to believe on little evidence; "the gimmick would convince none but the most credulous" [ant: incredulous] 2: showing a lack of judgment or experience; "so credulous he believes everything he reads"
  • errorless
    adj 1: free from error; "an errorless baseball game"
  • featureless
    adj 1: lacking distinguishing characteristics or features; "the featureless landscape of the steppe"
  • fistulous
    adj 1: of or pertaining to or resembling a fistula 2: hollow and tube-shaped like a reed [syn: fistular, fistulate, fistulous]
  • futureless
    adj 1: having no prospect or hope of a future
  • garrulous
    adj 1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky]
  • incredulous
    adj 1: not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving [ant: credulous]
  • measureless
    adj 1: without limits in extent or size or quantity; "limitless vastness of our solar system" [syn: illimitable, limitless, measureless]
  • modulus
    n 1: an integer that can be divided without remainder into the difference between two other integers; "2 is a modulus of 5 and 9" 2: the absolute value of a complex number 3: (physics) a coefficient that expresses how much of a specified property is possessed by a specified substance
  • motherless
    adj 1: having no living or known mother
  • pendulous
    adj 1: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn: cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping]
  • perilous
    adj 1: fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch- and-go recovery" [syn: parlous, perilous, precarious, touch-and-go]
  • querulous
    adj 1: habitually complaining; "a whiny child" [syn: fretful, querulous, whiney, whiny]
  • scurrilous
    adj 1: expressing offensive reproach [syn: abusive, opprobrious, scurrilous]
  • sedulous
    adj 1: marked by care and persistent effort; "her assiduous attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research"; "sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles" [syn: assiduous, sedulous]
  • thiobacillus
    n 1: small rod-shaped bacteria living in sewage or soil and oxidizing sulfur
  • carolus
    n 1: king of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor; conqueror of the Lombards and Saxons (742-814) [syn: Charlemagne, Carolus, Charles, Charles I, Charles the Great]
  • angelus
    n 1: the sound of a bell rung in Roman Catholic churches to announce the time when the Angelus should be recited [syn: angelus bell, angelus] 2: a prayer said 3 times a day by Roman Catholics in memory of the Annunciation
  • cillus
  • oxylus

See also cancellous definition and cancellous synonyms