Words that rhyme with decimus

n 1: a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility [syn: animosity, animus, bad blood]

adj 1: having no known name or identity or known source; "anonymous authors"; "anonymous donors"; "an anonymous gift" [syn: anonymous, anon.] [ant: onymous] 2: not known or lacking marked individuality; "brown anonymous houses"; "anonymous bureaucrats in the Civil Service"

adj 1: of words: having opposite meanings [ant: synonymous]

adj 1: (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state" [syn: autonomous, independent, self-governing, sovereign] 2: existing as an independent entity; "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies" 3: (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment [syn: autonomous, self-directed, self-reliant]

adj 1: of illegal marriage to a second person while legally married to a first

adj 1: grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred; "blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath"; "profane utterances against the Church"; "it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on" [syn: blasphemous, profane, sacrilegious] 2: characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn: blasphemous, blue, profane]

n 1: inversion in the second of two parallel phrases

adj 1: divided or dividing into two sharply distinguished parts or classifications

adj 1: extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise" [syn: enormous, tremendous]

adj 1: being or relating to or bearing the name of an eponym [syn: eponymous, eponymic]

adj 1: characterized by or fit for fertilization by a flower that is not closely related [syn: exogamous, exogamic] [ant: autogamic, autogamous, endogamic, endogamous] 2: pertaining to or characterized by the custom of marrying only outside the limits of a clan or tribe [syn: exogamous, exogamic] [ant: endogamic, endogamous]

adj 1: widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter" [syn: celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned]

n 1: a contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the prospect" [syn: grimace, face] v 1: contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do" [syn: grimace, make a face, pull a face]

n 1: massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa [syn: hippopotamus, hippo, river horse, Hippopotamus amphibius]

adj 1: of or related to or being homonyms [syn: homonymic, homonymous]

n 1: partially decomposed organic matter; the organic component of soil 2: a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East [syn: hummus, humus, hommos, hoummos, humous]

n 1: a basal part of the diencephalon governing autonomic nervous system

n 1: an ignorant person [syn: ignoramus, know nothing, uneducated person]

adj 1: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold"; [syn: ill-famed, infamous, notorious]

n 1: a relatively narrow strip of land (with water on both sides) connecting two larger land areas 2: a cord-like tissue connecting two larger parts of an anatomical structure [syn: isthmus, band]

adj 1: noble and generous in spirit; "a greathearted general"; "a magnanimous conqueror" [syn: greathearted, magnanimous] 2: generous and understanding and tolerant; "a heart big enough to hold no grudges"; "that's very big of you to be so forgiving"; "a large and generous spirit"; "a large heart"; "magnanimous toward his enemies" [syn: big, large, magnanimous]

n 1: an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail [syn: mandamus, writ of mandamus]

adj 1: (used of relationships and of individuals) having one mate; "monogamous marriage"; "monogamous for life" [ant: polygamous]

adj 1: having more than one mate at a time; used of relationships and individuals [ant: monogamous] 2: having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant [syn: heteroicous, polyoicous, polygamous]

adj 1: occurring or coming into existence after a person's death; "a posthumous award"; "a posthumous book"; "a posthumous daughter"

n 1: the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland 2: a portable paraffin cooking stove; used by campers [syn: Primus stove, Primus]

adj 1: bearing or identified by an assumed (often pen) name; "the writings of Mark Twain are pseudonymous"

adj 1: lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution; contemptibly fearful [syn: pusillanimous, poor- spirited, unmanly]

n 1: someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information [syn: private detective, PI, private eye, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlock]

n 1: abnormal alignment of one or both eyes [syn: strabismus, squint]

adj 1: (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same [ant: antonymous]

n 1: large egg-shaped structures of grey matter that form the dorsal subdivision of the diencephalon

n 1: large genus of Old World mints: thyme [syn: Thymus, genus Thymus] 2: a ductless glandular organ at the base of the neck that produces lymphocytes and aids in producing immunity; atrophies with age [syn: thymus gland, thymus]

adj 1: in complete agreement; "a unanimous decision" [syn: consentaneous, consentient, unanimous] 2: acting together as a single undiversified whole; "a solid voting bloc" [syn: solid, unanimous, whole]

adj 1: extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; "venomous snakes"; "a virulent insect bite" [syn: deadly, venomous, virulent] 2: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn: poisonous, venomous, vicious]

n 1: period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 [syn: Christmas, Christmastide, Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide, Noel] 2: a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland [syn: Christmas, Christmas Day, Xmas, Dec 25]

n 1: United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859) [syn: Thomas, Seth Thomas] 2: United States socialist who was a candidate for president six times (1884-1968) [syn: Thomas, Norman Thomas, Norman Mattoon Thomas] 3: a radio broadcast journalist during World War I and World War II noted for his nightly new broadcast (1892-1981) [syn: Thomas, Lowell Thomas, Lowell Jackson Thomas] 4: Welsh poet (1914-1953) [syn: Thomas, Dylan Thomas, Dylan Marlais Thomas] 5: the Apostle who would not believe the resurrection of Jesus until he saw Jesus with his own eyes [syn: Thomas, Saint Thomas, St. Thomas, doubting Thomas, Thomas the doubting Apostle]

n 1: prolonged spasm of the jaw muscles

n 1: (Roman mythology) the twin brother of Romulus

n 1: the posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical

adj 1: filled or abounding with fog or mist; "a brumous October morning" [syn: brumous, foggy, hazy, misty]

adj 1: transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass; "coagulated blood"; "curdled milk"; "grumous blood" [syn: coagulate, coagulated, curdled, grumous, grumose]

n 1: god of blame and mockery [syn: Momus, Momos]

n 1: commemorates Saint Peter's miraculous deliverance from prison; a quarter day in Scotland; a harvest festival in England [syn: Lammas, Lammas Day, August 1]

n 1: French astrologer who wrote cryptic predictions whose interpretations are still being debated (1503-1566) [syn: Nostradamus, Michel de Notredame]

n 1: (Greek mythology) the brother of Europa and traditional founder of Thebes in Boeotia

adj 1: migrating from the sea to fresh water to spawn [ant: catadromous, diadromous]

adj 1: migrating from fresh water to the sea to spawn [ant: anadromous, diadromous]

adj 1: in full control of your faculties; "the witness remained collected throughout the cross-examination"; "perfectly poised and sure of himself"; "more self-contained and more dependable than many of the early frontiersmen"; "strong and self-possessed in the face of trouble" [syn: collected, equanimous, poised, self-collected, self-contained, self-possessed]

n 1: widely distributed chiefly evergreen shrubs or small trees or vines [syn: Euonymus, genus Euonymus]

adj 1: (of reproduction) not involving the fusion of male and female gametes in reproduction [syn: agamic, agamous, agamogenetic, apomictic, parthenogenetic]

n 1: a thick spread made from mashed chickpeas, tahini, lemon juice and garlic; used especially as a dip for pita; originated in the Middle East [syn: hummus, humus, hommos, hoummos, humous]

n 1: Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536) [syn: Erasmus, Desiderius Erasmus, Gerhard Gerhards, Geert Geerts]

n 1: extreme malnutrition and emaciation (especially in children); can result from inadequate intake of food or from malabsorption or metabolic disorders

n 1: any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes 2: the aromatic root of the sweet flag used medicinally 3: perennial marsh plant having swordlike leaves and aromatic roots [syn: sweet flag, calamus, sweet calamus, myrtle flag, flagroot, Acorus calamus] 4: a genus of Sparidae [syn: Calamus, genus Calamus] 5: the hollow spine of a feather [syn: quill, calamus, shaft]

n 1: muscular contraction that causes the vagina to close; usually an anxiety reaction before coitus or pelvic examination