Words that rhyme with epicedium

n 1: a publication containing a variety of works [syn: collection, compendium] 2: a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work

n 1: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language [syn: parlance, idiom] 2: the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy" [syn: dialect, idiom, accent] 3: the style of a particular artist or school or movement; "an imaginative orchestral idiom" [syn: artistic style, idiom] 4: an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up [syn: idiom, idiomatic expression, phrasal idiom, set phrase, phrase]

n 1: a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite [syn: indium, In, atomic number 49]

n 1: a heavy brittle metallic element of the platinum group; used in alloys; occurs in natural alloys with platinum or osmium [syn: iridium, Ir, atomic number 77]

adj 1: around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers" [syn: average, intermediate, medium] 2: (meat) cooked until there is just a little pink meat inside n 1: a means or instrumentality for storing or communicating information 2: the surrounding environment; "fish require an aqueous medium" 3: an intervening substance through which signals can travel as a means for communication 4: (bacteriology) a nutrient substance (solid or liquid) that is used to cultivate micro-organisms [syn: culture medium, medium] 5: a liquid with which pigment is mixed by a painter 6: (biology) a substance in which specimens are preserved or displayed 7: an intervening substance through which something is achieved; "the dissolving medium is called a solvent" 8: a state that is intermediate between extremes; a middle position; "a happy medium" 9: someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; "he consulted several mediums" [syn: medium, spiritualist, sensitive] 10: (usually plural) transmissions that are disseminated widely to the public [syn: medium, mass medium] 11: an occupation for which you are especially well suited; "in law he found his true metier" [syn: metier, medium]

n 1: the middle muscular layer of the heart wall

n 1: state of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior 2: hate coupled with disgust [syn: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium]

n 1: a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry [syn: palladium, Pd, atomic number 46]

n 1: a serous membrane with two layers that surrounds the heart

n 1: multinucleate sheet of cytoplasm characteristic of some stages of such organisms as slime molds 2: parasitic protozoan of the genus Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans [syn: plasmodium, Plasmodium vivax, malaria parasite]

n 1: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it [syn: dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapbox]

n 1: a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session [syn: presidium, praesidium]

n 1: temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion [syn: pseudopod, pseudopodium]

n 1: an intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores [syn: radium, Ra, atomic number 88]

n 1: a white hard metallic element that is one of the platinum group and is found in platinum ores; used in alloys with platinum [syn: rhodium, Rh, atomic number 45]

n 1: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali metal group; burns in air and reacts violently in water; occurs in carnallite and lepidolite and pollucite [syn: rubidium, Rb, atomic number 37]

n 1: a white trivalent metallic element; sometimes classified in the rare earth group; occurs in the Scandinavian mineral thortveitite [syn: scandium, Sc, atomic number 21]

n 1: a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt) [syn: sodium, Na, atomic number 11]

n 1: a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments [syn: stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium]

n 1: the feeling of being bored by something tedious [syn: boredom, ennui, tedium] 2: dullness owing to length or slowness [syn: tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness]

n 1: a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite [syn: vanadium, V, atomic number 23]

n 1: type and sole genus of the Lycopodiaceae; erect or creeping evergreen plants often used for Christmas decorations [syn: Lycopodium, genus Lycopodium]

n 1: a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes

n 1: spindle-shaped bacterial cell especially one swollen at the center by an endospore [syn: clostridium, clostridia]

n 1: an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore [syn: conidium, conidiospore]

n 1: any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers [syn: cymbid, cymbidium]

n 1: fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released [syn: pyxidium, pyxis]

n 1: the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowers

n 1: any of the numerous small cone-shaped eyes that make up the compound eyes of some arthropods

n 1: genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum [syn: Cypripedium, genus Cypripedium]

n 1: the membrane that lines the cavities of the heart and forms part of the heart valves