Words that rhyme with civic
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beatific
adj 1: experiencing or bestowing celestial joy; "beatific peace" 2: marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother" [syn: angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted] -
calorific
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graphic
adj 1: written or drawn or engraved; "graphic symbols" [syn: graphic, graphical, in writing(p)] 2: describing nudity or sexual activity in graphic detail; "graphic sexual scenes" 3: of or relating to the graphic arts; "the etchings, drypoints, lithographs, and engravings which together form his graphic work"- British Book News 4: relating to or presented by a graph; "a graphic presentation of the data" [syn: graphic, graphical] 5: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid] n 1: an image that is generated by a computer [syn: graphic, computer graphic] -
hieroglyphic
adj 1: resembling hieroglyphic writing [syn: hieroglyphic, hieroglyphical] 2: written in or belonging to a writing system using pictorial symbols [syn: hieroglyphic, hieroglyphical] n 1: writing that resembles hieroglyphics (usually by being illegible) [syn: hieroglyph, hieroglyphic] 2: a writing system using picture symbols; used in ancient Egypt [syn: hieroglyph, hieroglyphic] -
honorific
adj 1: conferring or showing honor or respect; "honorific social status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized profession" n 1: an expression of respect; "the Japanese use many honorifics" -
horrific
adj 1: grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror; "subjected to outrageous cruelty"; "a hideous pattern of injustice"; "horrific conditions in the mining industry" [syn: hideous, horrid, horrific, outrageous] 2: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible] -
mythic
adj 1: relating to or having the nature of myth; "a novel of almost mythic consequence" 2: based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn" [syn: fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological] -
pacific
adj 1: relating to or bordering the Pacific Ocean; "Pacific islands" 2: disposed to peace or of a peaceful nature; "the pacific temper seeks to settle disputes on grounds of justice rather than by force"; "a quiet and peaceable person"; "in a peaceable and orderly manner" [syn: pacific, peaceable] 3: promoting peace; "the result of this pacific policy was that no troops were called up" n 1: the largest ocean in the world [syn: Pacific, Pacific Ocean] -
prolific
adj 1: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific] 2: bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: prolific, fertile] -
scientific
adj 1: of or relating to the practice of science; "scientific journals" 2: conforming with the principles or methods used in science; "a scientific approach" [ant: unscientific] -
soporific
adj 1: sleep inducing [syn: soporific, soporiferous, somniferous, somnific, hypnogogic, hypnagogic] 2: inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" [syn: narcotic, soporiferous, soporific] n 1: a drug that induces sleep [syn: soporific, hypnotic] -
specific
adj 1: (sometimes followed by `to') applying to or characterized by or distinguishing something particular or special or unique; "rules with specific application"; "demands specific to the job"; "a specific and detailed account of the accident" [ant: general, nonspecific] 2: stated explicitly or in detail; "needed a specific amount" 3: relating to or distinguishing or constituting a taxonomic species; "specific characters" 4: being or affecting a disease produced by a particular microorganism or condition; used also of stains or dyes used in making microscope slides; "quinine is highly specific for malaria"; "a specific remedy"; "a specific stain is one having a specific affinity for particular structural elements" [ant: nonspecific] n 1: a fact about some part (as opposed to general); "he always reasons from the particular to the general" [syn: particular, specific] [ant: general] 2: a medicine that has a mitigating effect on a specific disease; "quinine is a specific for malaria" -
terrific
adj 1: very great or intense; "a terrific noise"; "a terrific thunderstorm storm"; "fought a terrific battle" 2: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous] 3: causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail" [syn: terrific, terrifying] -
traffic
n 1: the aggregation of things (pedestrians or vehicles) coming and going in a particular locality during a specified period of time 2: buying and selling; especially illicit trade 3: the amount of activity over a communication system during a given period of time; "heavy traffic overloaded the trunk lines"; "traffic on the internet is lightest during the night" 4: social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') [syn: dealings, traffic] v 1: deal illegally; "traffic drugs" 2: trade or deal a commodity; "They trafficked with us for gold" -
unscientific
adj 1: not consistent with the methods or principles of science; "an unscientific lack of objectivity" [ant: scientific] -
xerographic
adj 1: of or relating to xerography -
lithic
adj 1: of or containing lithium 2: relating to or composed of stone; "lithic sandstone" -
sapphic
adj 1: a meter used by Sappho and named after her 2: of or relating to or characterized by homosexual relations between woman [syn: lesbian, sapphic] -
calcific
adj 1: involving or resulting from calcification -
morbific
adj 1: able to cause disease; "infective agents"; "pathogenic bacteria" [syn: infective, morbific, pathogenic] -
conspecific
adj 1: belonging to the same species; "cultivated cabbage and wild cabbage are conspecific" n 1: an organism belonging to the same species as another organism -
sudorific
adj 1: inducing perspiration [syn: diaphoretic, sudorific] n 1: a medicine that causes or increases sweating [syn: sudorific, sudatory] -
vaporific
adj 1: (used of substances) capable of being volatilized [syn: evaporable, vaporific, vapourific, vaporizable, vapourisable, volatilizable, volatilisable] 2: resembling or characteristic of vapor; "vaporous clouds" [syn: vaporific, vapourific, vaporish, vapourish, vaporous, vapourous] -
olympic
adj 1: of or relating to the Olympic Games; "Olympic winners" 2: of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants; "Olympian plain" [syn: Olympian, Olympic] -
felicific
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transpacific
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zoogeographic
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orographic
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reprographic
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omnific
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ossific
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pontific
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colorific
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torporific
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