Words that rhyme with cystectomy

n 1: a secondary school (usually private) 2: an institution for the advancement of art or science or literature [syn: academy, honorary society] 3: a school for special training 4: a learned establishment for the advancement of knowledge

n 1: the application of soil and plant sciences to land management and crop production [syn: agronomy, scientific agriculture]

n 1: the way two individuals relate to each other; "their chemistry was wrong from the beginning -- they hated each other"; "a mysterious alchemy brought them together" [syn: chemistry, interpersonal chemistry, alchemy] 2: a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times

n 1: personal state of isolation and anxiety resulting from a lack of social control and regulation [syn: anomie, anomy] 2: lack of moral standards in a society [syn: anomie, anomy]

n 1: a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable

n 1: surgical removal of the vermiform appendix [syn: appendectomy, appendicectomy]

n 1: the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole [syn: astronomy, uranology]

n 1: immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence [syn: autonomy, liberty] 2: personal independence [syn: autonomy, self-direction, self-reliance, self-sufficiency]

n 1: having two spouses at the same time 2: the offense of marrying someone while you have a living spouse from whom no valid divorce has occurred

n 1: blasphemous language (expressing disrespect for God or for something sacred) 2: blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character; "desecration of the Holy Sabbath" [syn: profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege]

adj 1: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well- endowed]

n 1: a surgical operation that creates an opening from the colon to the surface of the body to function as an anus

n 1: the system of production and distribution and consumption [syn: economy, economic system] 2: the efficient use of resources; "economy of effort" 3: frugality in the expenditure of money or resources; "the Scots are famous for their economy" [syn: economy, thriftiness] 4: an act of economizing; reduction in cost; "it was a small economy to walk to work every day"; "there was a saving of 50 cents" [syn: economy, saving]

n 1: fragrant resin obtain from trees of the family Burseraceae and used as incense [syn: elemi, gum elemi]

n 1: marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law [syn: endogamy, intermarriage, inmarriage] [ant: exogamy, intermarriage]

n 1: an opposing military force; "the enemy attacked at dawn" 2: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition] 3: any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real enemy" 4: a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years" [syn: foe, enemy] [ant: ally, friend]

n 1: marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law [syn: exogamy, intermarriage] [ant: endogamy, inmarriage, intermarriage]

n 1: the relation between two words that are spelled the same way but differ in meaning or the relation between two words that are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning

n 1: surgical removal of the uterus

n 1: a state of extreme dishonor; "a date which will live in infamy"- F.D.Roosevelt; "the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city" [syn: infamy, opprobrium] [ant: celebrity, fame, renown] 2: evil fame or public reputation [ant: fame]

n 1: surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor

n 1: substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads')

n 1: hatred of marriage

n 1: having only one spouse at a time [syn: monogamy, monogamousness]

n 1: the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) [syn: countenance, physiognomy, phiz, visage, kisser, smiler, mug]

n 1: having more than one spouse at a time

n 1: very thinly sliced raw fish

n 1: East Indian annual erect herb; source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil [syn: sesame, benne, benni, benny, Sesamum indicum]

n 1: intercourse via the anus, committed by a man with a man or woman [syn: sodomy, buggery, anal sex, anal intercourse]

n 1: the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning [syn: synonymy, synonymity, synonymousness]

n 1: the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance

n 1: a classification of organisms into groups based on similarities of structure or origin etc 2: (biology) study of the general principles of scientific classification 3: practice of classifying plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships

n 1: surgical removal of the palatine tonsils; commonly performed along with adenoidectomy

n 1: surgical procedure that removes all or part of the vas deferens (usually as a means of sterilization); is sometimes reversible

n 1: surgical removal of a tumor without removing much of the surrounding tissue or lymph nodes; performed in some cases of breast cancer

n 1: surgical removal of all or part of the stomach

n 1: surgical removal of a lobe from any organ of the body (as the lung or brain)

n 1: surgical removal of a kidney

n 1: surgical removal of the spleen

n 1: surgical removal of one of both ovaries [syn: oophorectomy, ovariectomy]

n 1: the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings [syn: polysemy, lexical ambiguity] [ant: monosemy]

n 1: the nomenclature of regional anatomy [syn: toponymy, toponomy] 2: the branch of lexicology that studies the place names of a region or a language [syn: toponymy, toponomy]

n 1: a university town in southeast Wyoming

n 1: cross-fertilization in plants [ant: autogamy]

n 1: self-fertilization in plants [ant: allogamy]

n 1: the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers

n 1: (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size)

n 1: Alexandrian astronomer (of the 2nd century) who proposed a geocentric system of astronomy that was undisputed until the late Renaissance [syn: Ptolemy, Claudius Ptolemaeus] 2: an ancient dynasty of Macedonian kings who ruled Egypt from 323 BC to 30 BC; founded by Ptolemy I and ended with Cleopatra [syn: Ptolemy, Ptolemaic dynasty]

n 1: surgical operation that creates a permanent opening through the abdominal wall into the intestine [syn: enterostomy, enterotomy]

n 1: surgical procedure that creates an opening from the ileum through the abdominal wall to function as an anus; performed in cases of cancer of the colon or ulcerative colitis

n 1: a surgical operation that creates an opening into the trachea with a tube inserted to provide a passage for air; performed when the pharynx is obstructed by edema or cancer or other causes [syn: tracheostomy, tracheotomy]