Words that rhyme with diocese

• archdiocese 0
  n 1: the diocese of an archbishop
• cease 0
  n 1: (`cease' is a noun only in the phrase `without cease') end v 1: put an end to a state or an activity; "Quit teasing your little brother" [syn: discontinue, stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off] [ant: bear on, carry on, continue, preserve, uphold] 2: have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical; "the bronchioles terminate in a capillary bed"; "Your rights stop where you infringe upon the rights of other"; "My property ends by the bushes"; "The symphony ends in a pianissimo" [syn: end, stop, finish, terminate, cease] [ant: begin, start]
• decease 0
  n 1: the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren" [syn: death, decease, expiry] [ant: birth, nascence, nascency, nativity] v 1: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born]
• elephantiasis 0
  n 1: hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis
• faeces 0
  n 1: solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection]
• fasces 0
  n 1: bundle of rods containing an axe with the blade protruding; in ancient Rome it was a symbol of a magistrate's power; in modern Italy it is a symbol of fascism
• heartsease 0
  n 1: a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived [syn: wild pansy, Johnny-jump-up, heartsease, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor] 2: violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet [syn: two-eyed violet, heartsease, Viola ocellata] 3: common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers [syn: field pansy, heartsease, Viola arvensis] 4: the absence of mental stress or anxiety [syn: peace, peacefulness, peace of mind, repose, serenity, heartsease, ataraxis]
• menses 0
  n 1: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped" --Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle [syn: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow]
• psoriasis 0
  n 1: a chronic skin disease characterized by dry red patches covered with scales; occurs especially on the scalp and ears and genitalia and the skin over bony prominences
• satyriasis 0
  n 1: abnormally intense sexual desire in men
• species 0
  n 1: (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed 2: a specific kind of something; "a species of molecule"; "a species of villainy"
• subspecies 0
  n 1: (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species [syn: subspecies, race]
• pisces 0
  n 1: the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20 [syn: Pisces, Pisces the Fishes, Fish] 2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces [syn: Pisces, Fish] 3: a large faint zodiacal constellation; between Aquarius and Aries 4: a group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates; not used technically
• rameses 0
  n 1: any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC [syn: Rameses, Ramesses, Ramses]
• fauces 0
  n 1: the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx
• ulysses 0
  n 1: (Roman mythology) Roman spelling for Odysseus
• bilharziasis 0
  n 1: an infestation with or a resulting infection caused by a parasite of the genus Schistosoma; common in the tropics and Far East; symptoms depend on the part of the body infected [syn: schistosomiasis, bilharzia, bilharziasis]
• pityriasis 0
  n 1: any of several skin disorders characterized by shedding dry flakes of skin
• waldenses 0
  n 1: a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century [syn: Waldenses, Vaudois]
• albigenses 0
  n 1: a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism [syn: Albigenses, Cathars, Cathari]
• artaxerxes 0
  n 1: king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?-359 BC) [syn: Artaxerxes II, Artaxerxes] 2: king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?-424 BC) [syn: Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes]
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• bases 0
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• crises 0
• diagnoses 0
• dialyses 0
• ellipses 0
• emphases 0
• erases 0
• executrices 0
• helices 0
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• hypotheses 0
• indices 0
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• nemeses 0
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• oases 0
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• taxes 0
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• vertices 0
• vortices 0
• cees 0
• cece 0
• disseise 0
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• epicleses 0
• calces 0
• babesiasis 0
• xerxes 0
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See also diocese definition and diocese synonyms