Words that rhyme with enterococcus

n 1: a tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave 2: a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves

n 1: the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food [syn: carcase, carcass]

n 1: a closed political meeting v 1: meet to select a candidate or promote a policy

n 1: a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals; "he ran away from home to join the circus" 2: a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals; "the children always love to go to the circus" 3: a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment; "it was so funny it was a circus"; "the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere" [syn: circus, carnival] 4: (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games 5: an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent; "they used the elephants to help put up the circus" 6: a genus of haws comprising the harriers [syn: Circus, genus Circus]

n 1: any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated

n 1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly] 2: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke] 3: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss] v 1: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate]

n 1: an athletic competition in which a disk-shaped object is thrown as far as possible 2: a disk used in throwing competitions [syn: discus, saucer]

adj 1: unpleasantly loud and harsh [syn: raucous, strident] 2: disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers" [syn: raucous, rowdy]

n 1: spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections [syn: staphylococcus, staphylococci, staph]

n 1: spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis [syn: streptococcus, streptococci, strep]

n 1: (classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus

adj 1: having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants; "glaucous stems"; "glaucous plums"; "glaucous grapes"

n 1: the capital and largest city of Venezuela [syn: Caracas, capital of Venezuela]

n 1: any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria [syn: coccus, cocci]

n 1: an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul) underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus [syn: Dimash, Damascus, capital of Syria]

n 1: god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto [syn: Dis, Orcus]

n 1: Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543) [syn: Copernicus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Mikolaj Kopernik] 2: a conspicuous crater on the Moon

n 1: United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) [syn: Lucas, George Lucas]

n 1: a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America

n 1: the third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents [syn: Leviticus, Book of Leviticus]