Words that rhyme with durie

n 1: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician, actuary]

n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry] 2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]

adj 1: indistinct or hazy in outline; "a landscape of blurred outlines"; "the trees were just blurry shapes" [syn: bleary, blurred, blurry, foggy, fuzzy, hazy, muzzy]

adj 1: like a bower; leafy and shady; "a bowery lane" n 1: a street in Manhattan noted for cheap hotels frequented by homeless derelicts

n 1: a plant where beer is brewed by fermentation

adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]

adj 1: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments" [syn: buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous] 2: resembling or containing or spread with butter; "a rich buttery cake" n 1: a small storeroom for storing foods or wines [syn: pantry, larder, buttery] 2: a teashop where students in British universities can purchase light meals

adj 1: characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine" [syn: contemporary, modern-day] 2: belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn: contemporary, present-day(a)] 3: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart" [syn: contemporaneous, contemporary] n 1: a person of nearly the same age as another [syn: contemporary, coeval]

adj 1: of something having the color of copper [syn: coppery, copper colored]

n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie, Ci] 2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: Curie, Pierre Curie] 3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska]

n 1: (East Indian cookery) a pungent dish of vegetables or meats flavored with curry powder and usually eaten with rice v 1: season with a mixture of spices; typical of Indian cooking 2: treat by incorporating fat; "curry tanned leather" 3: give a neat appearance to; "groom the dogs"; "dress the horses" [syn: dress, groom, curry]

n 1: a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations [syn: diary, journal] 2: a personal journal (as a physical object)

n 1: money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage [syn: dowry, dowery, dower, portion]

n 1: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall] 2: cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds

n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness] 2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria] 3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness] 4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals [syn: Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes]

n 1: a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law 2: a committee appointed to judge a competition [syn: jury, panel]

n 1: United States architect (born in 1925) [syn: Venturi, Robert Venturi, Robert Charles Venturi] 2: a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor)

adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]

n 1: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells [syn: cowrie, cowry]

n 1: Italian educator who developed a method of teaching mentally handicapped children and advocated a child- centered approach (1870-1952) [syn: Montessori, Maria Montesorri]

n 1: a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union [syn: Missouri, Show Me State, MO] 2: the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis; "The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together form the third longest river in the world" [syn: Missouri, Missouri River] 3: a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri 4: a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri