Words that rhyme with ellipse

  • amidships
    adv 1: at or near or toward the center of a ship; "in the late 19th century, engines were placed in front, amidships, and at the rear" [syn: amidships, amidship, midships]
  • apocalypse
    n 1: a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil 2: the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle [syn: Revelation, Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Apocalypse, Book of Revelation]
  • chips
    n 1: strips of potato fried in deep fat [syn: french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries, chips]
  • eclipse
    n 1: one celestial body obscures another [syn: eclipse, occultation] v 1: be greater in significance than; "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness" [syn: overshadow, dominate, eclipse] 2: cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today"; "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies" [syn: eclipse, occult]
  • midships
    adv 1: at or near or toward the center of a ship; "in the late 19th century, engines were placed in front, amidships, and at the rear" [syn: amidships, amidship, midships]
  • snips
    n 1: (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal [syn: snips, tinsnips]
  • mips
    n 1: (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system); "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second" [syn: MIPS, million instructions per second]
  • thrips
    n 1: any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive [syn: thrips, thrip, thripid]
  • blips
  • chip's
  • clips
  • dips
  • drips
  • flips
  • grips
  • hips
  • lips
  • microchips
  • nips
  • rips
  • scripts
  • ship's
  • ships
  • sips
  • skips
  • slips
  • strip's
  • strips
  • tips
  • trip's
  • trips
  • whips
  • chipps
  • phipps
  • pips
  • cripps
  • crips
  • dripps

See also ellipse definition and ellipse synonyms