Words that rhyme with consortium

  • axiom
    n 1: a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits [syn: maxim, axiom] 2: (logic) a proposition that is not susceptible of proof or disproof; its truth is assumed to be self-evident
  • calcium
    n 1: a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals [syn: calcium, Ca, atomic number 20]
  • francium
    n 1: a radioactive element of the alkali-metal group discovered as a disintegration product of actinium [syn: francium, Fr, atomic number 87]
  • lutetium
    n 1: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; usually occurs in association with yttrium [syn: lutetium, lutecium, Lu, atomic number 71]
  • paramecium
    n 1: any member of the genus Paramecium [syn: paramecium, paramecia]
  • potassium
    n 1: a light soft silver-white metallic element of the alkali metal group; oxidizes rapidly in air and reacts violently with water; is abundant in nature in combined forms occurring in sea water and in carnallite and kainite and sylvite [syn: potassium, K, atomic number 19]
  • strontium
    n 1: a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite [syn: strontium, Sr, atomic number 38]
  • technetium
    n 1: a crystalline metallic element not found in nature; occurs as one of the fission products of uranium [syn: technetium, Tc, atomic number 43]
  • tritium
    n 1: a radioactive isotope of hydrogen; atoms of tritium have three times the mass of ordinary hydrogen atoms
  • latium
    n 1: an ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea [syn: Latium, Lazio]
  • byzantium
    n 1: an ancient city on the Bosporus founded by the Greeks; site of modern Istanbul; in 330 Constantine I rebuilt the city and called it Constantinople and made it his capital 2: a continuation of the Roman Empire in the Middle East after its division in 395 [syn: Byzantine Empire, Byzantium, Eastern Roman Empire]
  • protium
    n 1: genus of chiefly tropical American trees having fragrant wood and yielding gum elemi [syn: Protium, genus Protium]
  • syncytium
    n 1: a mass of cytoplasm containing several nuclei and enclosed in a membrane but no internal cell boundaries (as in muscle fibers)
  • androecium
    n 1: a male gametoecium
  • lutecium
    n 1: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; usually occurs in association with yttrium [syn: lutetium, lutecium, Lu, atomic number 71]
  • cerastium
    n 1: mouse-eared chickweed [syn: Cerastium, genus Cerastium]
  • solatium
  • indicium
  • sestertium

See also consortium definition and consortium synonyms