Words that rhyme with discobolus

adj 1: lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting; "women dressed in nondescript clothes"; "a nondescript novel" [syn: characterless, nondescript]

n 1: an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood

n 1: an acute streptococcal infection characterized by deep-red inflammation of the skin and mucous membranes

adj 1: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]

adj 1: lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance" [syn: lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless] 2: lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair" [syn: lackluster, lacklustre, lusterless, lustreless]

n 1: a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power [syn: nautilus, nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine] 2: cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells [syn: paper nautilus, nautilus, Argonaut, Argonauta argo] 3: cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions [syn: chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus, nautilus]

adj 1: too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable]

adj 1: having no odor; "odorless gas"; "odorless flowers" [syn: odorless, odourless, inodorous] [ant: odorous]

adj 1: aimlessly drifting [syn: adrift(p), afloat(p), aimless, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected]

adj 1: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time" [syn: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking]

adj 1: lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross" [syn: arid, waterless]

n 1: (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus [syn: Daedalus, Daedal]

n 1: a Greek unit of weight equal to one tenth of a gram

adj 1: growing on or living among rocks [syn: saxicolous, saxatile, saxicoline]

n 1: (Greek mythology) a wicked king and son of Zeus; condemned in Hades to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink and beneath fruit that receded when he reached for it

n 1: cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts [syn: cone, strobilus, strobile]

adj 1: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]

adj 1: having no odor; "odorless gas"; "odorless flowers" [syn: odorless, odourless, inodorous] [ant: odorous]

adj 1: (of flowers) having no petals [syn: apetalous, petalless] [ant: petaled, petalled, petalous]

adj 1: having a corolla composed of partially or wholly fused petals forming a corolla shaped like a tube or funnel [syn: gamopetalous, sympetalous]

adj 1: undergoing metamorphosis [syn: metabolic, metabolous] [ant: ametabolic, ametabolous]

adj 1: undergoing slight or no metamorphosis [syn: ametabolic, ametabolous] [ant: metabolic, metabolous]

n 1: large genus of annual or perennial herbs or shrubs of north temperate regions; largest genus in the family Leguminosae [syn: Astragalus, genus Astragalus] 2: the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint [syn: anklebone, astragal, astragalus, talus]