Words that rhyme with compas

n 1: a field on which the buildings of a university are situated

n 1: navigational instrument for finding directions 2: an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "a piano has a greater range than the human voice"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power" [syn: scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit] 3: the limit of capability; "within the compass of education" [syn: compass, range, reach, grasp] 4: drafting instrument used for drawing circles v 1: bring about; accomplish; "This writer attempts more than his talents can compass" 2: travel around, either by plane or ship; "We compassed the earth" [syn: circumnavigate, compass] 3: get the meaning of something; "Do you comprehend the meaning of this letter?" [syn: grok, get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend]

n 1: capital as contrasted with the income derived from it [syn: principal, corpus, principal sum] 2: a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus" 3: the main part of an organ or other bodily structure

v 1: include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory; "This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"; "this should cover everyone in the group" [syn: embrace, encompass, comprehend, cover]

n 1: earliest horse; extinct primitive dog-sized four-toed Eocene animal [syn: eohippus, dawn horse]

n 1: predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin; common in cold seas [syn: killer whale, killer, orca, grampus, sea wolf, Orcinus orca] 2: slaty-grey blunt-nosed dolphin common in northern seas [syn: grampus, Grampus griseus]

n 1: a compass that does not depend on magnetism but uses a gyroscope instead

n 1: a complex neural structure (shaped like a sea horse) consisting of grey matter and located on the floor of each lateral ventricle; intimately involved in motivation and emotion as part of the limbic system; has a central role in the formation of memories 2: seahorses [syn: Hippocampus, genus Hippocampus]

n 1: any of several forms of ulcerative skin disease 2: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Centaurus

n 1: the part of the hand between the carpus and phalanges

adj 1: puffed up with vanity; "a grandiloquent and boastful manner"; "overblown oratory"; "a pompous speech"; "pseudo-scientific gobbledygook and pontifical hooey"- Newsweek [syn: grandiloquent, overblown, pompous, pontifical, portentous] 2: characterized by pomp and ceremony and stately display [syn: pompous, ceremonious]

n 1: calyx composed of scales or bristles or featherlike hairs in plants of the Compositae such as thistles and dandelions

n 1: the Greek goddess of fate who cuts the thread of life

n 1: (classical mythology) god of male procreative power and guardian of gardens and vineyards

n 1: a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Orion and Columba 2: type genus of the Leporidae: hares [syn: Lepus, genus Lepus]

n 1: (Greek mythology) a tragic king of Thebes who unknowingly killed his father Laius and married his mother Jocasta; the subject of the drama `Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles [syn: Oedipus, King Oedipus, Oedipus Rex]

n 1: Greek sculptor (4th century BC)

n 1: supergiant star 650 light years from Earth; second brightest star in the sky

n 1: a mountain peak in northeast Greece near the Aegean coast; believed by ancient Greeks to be the dwelling place of the gods (9,570 feet high) [syn: Olympus, Mount Olympus, Mt. Olympus, Olimbos]

n 1: a joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones [syn: wrist, carpus, wrist joint, radiocarpal joint, articulatio radiocarpea]

adj 1: producing no fruit

adj 1: (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of united carpels [ant: apocarpous]

adj 1: (of ovaries of flowering plants) consisting of carpels that are free from one another as in buttercups or roses [ant: syncarpous]