Words that rhyme with coeus

n 1: an insignia used by the medical profession; modeled after the staff of Hermes

adj 1: existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is water is the gaseous state" [ant: liquid, solid]

adj 1: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: osseous, osteal, bony]

adj 1: having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one; "a tendentious account of recent elections"; "distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion" [syn: tendentious, tendencious]

adj 1: not conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead; "lay unconscious on the floor" [ant: conscious] 2: without conscious volition 3: (followed by `of') not knowing or perceiving; "happily unconscious of the new calamity at home"- Charles Dickens n 1: that part of the mind wherein psychic activity takes place of which the person is unaware [syn: unconscious mind, unconscious]

adj 1: lacking charm and good taste; "an ungracious industrial city"; "this curt summary is not meant to be ungracious"; "ungracious behavior" [ant: gracious] 2: lacking social graces [syn: discourteous, ungracious]

adj 1: lacking pretension or affectation; "an unpretentious country church"; "her quiet unpretentious demeanor" [ant: pretentious] 2: not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office"; "unostentatious elegance" [syn: unostentatious, unpretentious, unpretending] [ant: ostentatious, pretentious] 3: exhibiting restrained good taste; "the room is pleasant and understated" [syn: understated, unostentatious, unpretentious]

adj 1: not self-conscious; "she grew up with him in unselfconscious friendship"

adj 1: habitually speaking the truth; "a veracious witness" 2: precisely accurate; "a veracious account" [syn: veracious, right]

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: 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]

adj 1: of or pertaining to the nature of a tort; "tortious acts"

adj 1: having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one; "a tendentious account of recent elections"; "distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion" [syn: tendentious, tendencious]

adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of plants of the family Rosaceae 2: of something having a dusty purplish pink color; "the roseate glow of dawn" [syn: rose, roseate, rosaceous]

adj 1: of or relating to plants of the family Solanaceae (the potato family)

n 1: (Greek mythology) a famous mythical Greek hero; his return to Ithaca after the siege of Troy was described in the Odyssey

n 1: the tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (430-367 BC) [syn: Dionysius, Dionysius the Elder]

n 1: Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death and became the basis of a philosophical doctrine known a Confucianism (circa 551-478 BC) [syn: Confucius, Kongfuze, K'ung Futzu, Kong the Master]

n 1: (Greek mythology) a hero and king of Athens who was noted for his many great deeds: killed Procrustes and the Minotaur and defeated the Amazons and united Attica

n 1: (Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother

adj 1: of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike

adj 1: having no adverse effect

n 1: Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744) [syn: Celsius, Anders Celsius]

adj 1: anxious or nervous to an excessive degree

n 1: (Greek mythology) the son of Zeus who slew Medusa (with the help of Athena and Hermes) and rescued Andromeda from a sea monster 2: a conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Auriga and Cassiopeia and crossed by the Milky Way

n 1: Dutch jurist and diplomat whose writings established the basis of modern international law (1583-1645) [syn: Grotius, Hugo Grotius, Huig de Groot]

n 1: Patriarch of Constantinople and saint of the Greek Orthodox Church; was condemned by the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 869 but was reinstated by a later pope

n 1: the last emperor of a united Roman Empire, he took control of the eastern empire and ended the war with the Visigoths; he became a Christian and in 391 banned all forms of pagan worship (346-395) [syn: Theodosius, Theodosius I, Theodosius the Great, Flavius Theodosius]

n 1: Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258) [syn: Lawrence, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence, Laurentius]