Words that rhyme with curtice

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: 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: an inflammation of the kidney [syn: nephritis, Bright's disease]

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

n 1: a line of defense consisting of a barrier of felled or live trees with branches (sharpened or with barbed wire entwined) pointed toward the enemy [syn: abattis, abatis]

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: United States industrialist and aviation pioneer (1878-1930) [syn: Curtiss, Glenn Curtiss, Glenn Hammond Curtiss]

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

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]