Words that rhyme with copetas

n 1: a state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms [syn: armistice, cease-fire, truce]

n 1: a partition (often temporary) of planks or cloth that is used to control ventilation in a mine v 1: supply with a brattice, to ventilate mines

n 1: a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch; "your skin is the largest organ of your body" [syn: skin, tegument, cutis]

n 1: a polygenic disease characterized by abnormally high glucose levels in the blood; any of several metabolic disorders marked by excessive urination and persistent thirst

n 1: a flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing

n 1: a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus [syn: fart, farting, flatus, wind, breaking wind]

n 1: an interruption in the intensity or amount of something [syn: suspension, respite, reprieve, hiatus, abatement] 2: a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript) 3: a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure [syn: foramen, hiatus]

n 1: an unjust act [syn: injustice, unfairness, iniquity, shabbiness] 2: the practice of being unjust or unfair [syn: injustice, unjustness] [ant: justice, justness]

n 1: the quality of being just or fair [syn: justice, justness] [ant: injustice, unjustness] 2: judgment involved in the determination of rights and the assignment of rewards and punishments 3: a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice [syn: judge, justice, jurist] 4: the United States federal department responsible for enforcing federal laws (including the enforcement of all civil rights legislation); created in 1870 [syn: Department of Justice, Justice Department, Justice, DoJ]

n 1: professional wrongdoing that results in injury or damage; "the widow sued his surgeon for malpractice" 2: a wrongful act that the actor had no right to do; improper professional conduct; "he charged them with electoral malpractices"

n 1: predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer [syn: mantis, mantid]

n 1: a square hole made to receive a tenon and so to form a joint [syn: mortise, mortice] v 1: cut a hole for a tenon in [syn: mortise, mortice] 2: join by a tenon and mortise [syn: mortice, mortise]

n 1: euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep" [syn: rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus]

n 1: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" [syn: status, position] 2: a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" [syn: condition, status]

n 1: a formal exposition

n 1: an unborn or unhatched vertebrate in the later stages of development showing the main recognizable features of the mature animal [syn: fetus, foetus]

n 1: (Greek mythology) one of the 50 Nereids; mother of Achilles by Peleus

n 1: any of various ornamental climbing plants of the genus Clematis usually having showy flowers

n 1: English botanical writer and publisher (1746-1799) [syn: Curtis, William Curtis]

n 1: according to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake

n 1: a large constellation on the equator near Pisces and Aquarius

n 1: works for an expert to learn a trade [syn: apprentice, learner, prentice]

n 1: United States inventor who manufactured the first elevator with a safety device (1811-1861) [syn: Otis, Elisha Graves Otis] 2: type genus of the Otididae: European bustard [syn: Otis, genus Otis]

n 1: type genus of the family Haliotidae [syn: Haliotis, genus Haliotis]

n 1: forget-me-nots; scorpion grass [syn: Myosotis, genus Myosotis]