Words that rhyme with cowry

• actuary 0
  n 1: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician, actuary]
• aerie 0
  n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry] 2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
• bowery 0
  adj 1: like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane" n 1: a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts
• brewery 0
  n 1: a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation
• contemporary 0
  adj 1: characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine" [syn: contemporary, modern-day] 2: belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn: contemporary, present-day(a)] 3: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart" [syn: contemporaneous, contemporary] n 1: a person of nearly the same age as another [syn: contemporary, coeval]
• coppery 0
  adj 1: of something having the color of copper [syn: coppery, copper colored]
• curie 0
  n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie, Ci] 2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: Curie, Pierre Curie] 3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska]
• diary 0
  n 1: a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations [syn: diary, journal] 2: a personal journal (as a physical object)
• dowry 0
  n 1: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion]
• drapery 0
  n 1: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall] 2: cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
• fiery 0
  adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid] 2: like or suggestive of fire; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere" [syn: fiery, igneous] 3: very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn: fiery, flaming]
• floury 0
  adj 1: resembling flour in fine powdery texture; "a floury clay"
• flowery 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or suggestive of flowers; "a flowery hat"; "flowery wine" 2: marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton [syn: flowery, ornate]
• fury 0
  n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness] 2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria] 3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness] 4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals [syn: Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes]
• jury 0
  n 1: a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law 2: a committee appointed to judge a competition [syn: jury, panel]
• kauri 0
  n 1: resin of the kauri trees of New Zealand; found usually as a fossil; also collected for making varnishes and linoleum [syn: kauri, kauri copal, kauri resin, kauri gum] 2: tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight-grained wood [syn: kauri, kaury, Agathis australis] 3: white close-grained wood of a tree of the genus Agathis especially Agathis australis
• slippery 0
  adj 1: causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain" [syn: slippery, slippy] [ant: nonslippery] 2: not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee [syn: slippery, tricky]
• wiry 0
  adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: stringy, wiry] 2: of or relating to wire 3: of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"
• briery 0
  adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]
• cowrie 0
  n 1: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells [syn: cowrie, cowry]
• jewry 0
  n 1: Jews collectively
• maori 0
  n 1: an ethnic minority of Polynesian and Melanesian descent who speak Maori and live in New Zealand 2: the Oceanic language spoken by the Maori in New Zealand
• lowry 0
  n 1: English painter (1887-1976) [syn: Lowry, L. S. Lowry, Laurence Stephen Lowry] 2: English novelist (1909-1957) [syn: Lowry, Malcolm Lowry, Clarence Malcolm Lowry]
• kaury 0
  n 1: tall timber tree of New Zealand having white straight- grained wood [syn: kauri, kaury, Agathis australis]
• spiry 0
• loury 0
• khouri 0
• khoury 0
• koury 0

See also cowry definition and cowry synonyms