Words that rhyme with compendia

n 1: any of various plants of the genus Althaea; similar to but having smaller flowers than genus Alcea [syn: althea, althaea, hollyhock]

n 1: (in India) a native nursemaid who looks after children

n 1: an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness [ant: hypersomnia]

n 1: any expected deliverer [syn: messiah, christ] 2: Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer 3: the awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people 4: an oratorio composed by Handel in 1742

n 1: tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit [syn: papaya, papaia, pawpaw, papaya tree, melon tree, Carica papaya] 2: large oval melon-like tropical fruit with yellowish flesh

n 1: a person who is rejected (from society or home) [syn: outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael]

n 1: Arctic deer with large antlers in both sexes; called `reindeer' in Eurasia and `caribou' in North America [syn: caribou, reindeer, Greenland caribou, Rangifer tarandus]

adv 1: in the direction of the sea; "the sailor looked seaward" [syn: seaward, seawards, asea]

n 1: any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue [syn: stria, striation] 2: a stripe or stripes of contrasting color; "chromosomes exhibit characteristic bands"; "the black and yellow banding of bees and wasps" [syn: band, banding, stria, striation]

n 1: a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov

n 1: frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor [syn: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels, looseness]

n 1: the basic unit of money in Indonesia; equal to 100 sen

n 1: a mountain range extending 1500 miles on the border between India and Tibet; this range contains the world's highest mountain [syn: Himalayas, Himalaya Mountains, Himalaya]

n 1: (Old Testament) an Israelite prophet who is remembered for his angry lamentations (jeremiads) about the wickedness of his people (circa 626-587 BC) 2: a book in the Old Testament containing the oracles of the prophet Jeremiah [syn: Jeremiah, Book of Jeremiah]

n 1: an Old Testament book telling how a Jewish official at the court of Artaxerxes I in 444 BC became a leader in rebuilding Jerusalem after the Babylonian Captivity [syn: Nehemiah, Book of Nehemiah]

n 1: a Hebrew minor prophet [syn: Obadiah, Abdias] 2: an Old Testament book telling Obadiah's prophecies; the shortest book in the Christian Bible [syn: Obadiah, Abdias, Book of Obadiah]

n 1: a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947 [syn: India, Republic of India, Bharat]