Words that rhyme with colonus

n 1: anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip" [syn: bonus, fillip] 2: an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output [syn: bonus, incentive]

n 1: a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or fortune or estimation [syn: low status, lowness, lowliness] [ant: high status] 2: a feeling of low spirits; "he felt responsible for her lowness of spirits" [syn: downheartedness, dejectedness, low-spiritedness, lowness, dispiritedness] 3: the quality of being low; lacking height; "he was suddenly aware of the lowness of the ceiling" [ant: highness, loftiness] 4: a low or small degree of any quality (amount or force or temperature etc.); "he took advantage of the lowness of interest rates"

n 1: an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus]

n 1: being disposed to do something; "accident proneness"

n 1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness] 2: a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry [syn: slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness] 3: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities [syn: retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality]

n 1: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my tonicity" [syn: tonicity, tonus, tone] [ant: amyotonia, atonia, atonicity, atony]

n 1: convulsion characterized by alternating contractions and relaxations

n 1: (Greek mythology) the supreme god until Zeus dethroned him; son of Uranus and Gaea in ancient Greek mythology; identified with Roman Saturn

n 1: abnormal cone-shaped protrusion of the cornea of the eye; can be treated by epikeratophakia