Words that rhyme with erythrocytic

adj 1: of or relating to the Arctic; "the Arctic summer" [syn: north-polar, Arctic] 2: extremely cold; "an arctic climate"; "a frigid day"; "gelid waters of the North Atlantic"; "glacial winds"; "icy hands"; "polar weather" [syn: arctic, frigid, gelid, glacial, icy, polar] n 1: the regions to the north of the Arctic Circle centered on the North Pole [syn: Arctic, Arctic Zone, North Frigid Zone] 2: a waterproof overshoe that protects shoes from water or snow [syn: arctic, galosh, golosh, rubber, gumshoe]

adj 1: of or pertaining to aeronautics [syn: aeronautical, aeronautic]

adj 1: of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion; "amniotic membrane" [syn: amniotic, amnionic, amnic]

adj 1: stimulating the central nervous system; "an analeptic drug stimulates the central nervous system" n 1: a medication used as a stimulant to the central nervous system

adj 1: characterized by or given to telling anecdotes; "anecdotal conversation"; "an anecdotal history of jazz"; "he was at his anecdotic best" [syn: anecdotic, anecdotal, anecdotical]

adj 1: suffering from anorexia nervosa; pathologically thin [syn: anorexic, anorectic] 2: causing loss of appetite; "an anorectic (or anorexigenic) drug" [syn: anorectic, anorexigenic] n 1: a person suffering from anorexia nervosa [syn: anorexic, anorectic]

adj 1: of or relating to antibiotic drugs n 1: a chemical substance derivable from a mold or bacterium that can kill microorganisms and cure bacterial infections; "when antibiotics were first discovered they were called wonder drugs" [syn: antibiotic, antibiotic drug]

adj 1: ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" [syn: antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque] n 1: a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement [syn: antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on] v 1: act as or like a clown [syn: clown, clown around, antic]

adj 1: of or relating to a sudden change from an impressive to a ludicrous style [syn: anticlimactic, anticlimactical] 2: coming after the climax especially of a dramatic or narrative plot; "everything after the discovery of the murderer was anticlimactic" [ant: climactic]

adj 1: thoroughly clean and free of or destructive to disease- causing organisms; "doctors in antiseptic green coats"; "the antiseptic effect of alcohol"; "it is said that marjoram has antiseptic qualities" [ant: infected, septic] 2: clean and honest; "antiseptic financial practices" 3: freeing from error or corruption; "the antiseptic effect of sturdy criticism" 4: devoid of objectionable language; "lyrics as antiseptic as Sunday School" n 1: a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues

adj 1: of or relating to the aorta [syn: aortal, aortic]

adj 1: prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom [syn: apocalyptic, apocalyptical, revelatory] 2: of or relating to an apocalypse

adj 1: pertaining to or characteristic of apoplexy; "apoplectic seizure"

adj 1: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes" [syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician]

adj 1: of or pertaining to arthritis; "my creaky old joints"; "rheumy with age and grief" [syn: arthritic, creaky, rheumatic, rheumatoid, rheumy] n 1: a person afflicted with arthritis; "the hands of an elderly arthritic"

adj 1: free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms; "a sterile operating area"; "aseptic surgical instruments"; "aseptic surgical techniques" [syn: aseptic, sterile]

adj 1: relating to or of the nature of an asymptote; "an asymptotic function"

adj 1: tending to soothe or tranquilize; "valium has a tranquilizing effect"; "took a hot drink with sedative properties before going to bed" [syn: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilizing, tranquillizing, tranquilising, tranquillising] n 1: a drug used to reduce stress or tension without reducing mental clarity [syn: tranquilizer, tranquillizer, tranquilliser, antianxiety agent, ataractic drug, ataractic agent, ataractic]

adj 1: conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief; "an authentic account by an eyewitness"; "reliable information" [syn: authentic, reliable] 2: not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable]

adj 1: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner" [syn: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and-mighty, magisterial, peremptory] 2: characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government" [syn: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical]

adj 1: relating to or having the characteristics of an autodidact

adj 1: of or relating to or resembling a bacchanalian reveler

adj 1: of or relating to living organisms

adj 1: of or relating to or resembling a bureaucrat or bureaucracy; "his bureaucratic behavior annoyed his colleagues"; "a bureaucratic nightmare"

adj 1: (verse) metrically incomplete; especially lacking one or more syllables in the final metrical foot [ant: acatalectic, hypercatalectic] n 1: (prosody) a line of verse that lacks a syllable in the last metrical foot

adj 1: of or having characteristics of or affected with catalepsy; "cataleptic persons"; "cataleptic state" n 1: a person suffering from catalepsy

adj 1: emotionally purging [syn: cathartic, psychotherapeutic] 2: emotionally purging (of e.g. art) [syn: cathartic, releasing] 3: strongly laxative [syn: cathartic, evacuant, purgative] n 1: a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels [syn: purgative, cathartic, physic, aperient]

adj 1: lacking a visible order or organization [syn: chaotic, helter-skelter] 2: completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing [syn: chaotic, disorderly] 3: of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions

n 1: a method of treatment that manipulates body structures (especially the spine) to relieve low back pain or even headache or high blood pressure

adj 1: consisting of or causing a climax; "a climactic development" [ant: anticlimactic]

n 1: a person who is professionally engaged in the analysis and interpretation of works of art 2: anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something 3: someone who frequently finds fault or makes harsh and unfair judgments

adj 1: of an obscure nature; "the new insurance policy is written without cryptic or mysterious terms"; "a deep dark secret"; "the inscrutable workings of Providence"; "in its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life"- Rachel Carson; "rituals totally mystifying to visitors from other lands" [syn: cryptic, cryptical, deep, inscrutable, mysterious, mystifying] 2: having a secret or hidden meaning; "cabalistic symbols engraved in stone"; "cryptic writings"; "thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements"- John Gunther [syn: cabalistic, kabbalistic, qabalistic, cryptic, cryptical, sibylline] 3: having a puzzling terseness; "a cryptic note"

adj 1: relating to or characteristic of a word whose reference depends on the circumstances of its use; "deictic pronouns" n 1: a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs; "words that introduce particulars of the speaker's and hearer's shared cognitive field into the message"- R.Rommetveit [syn: deictic, deictic word]

adj 1: characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality; "democratic government"; "a democratic country"; "a democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords"- George du Maurier [ant: undemocratic] 2: belong to or relating to the Democratic Party; "Democratic senator" 3: representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large; "democratic art forms"; "a democratic or popular movement"; "popular thought"; "popular science"; "popular fiction" [syn: democratic, popular]

adj 1: of or written in or belonging to the form of modern Greek based on colloquial use 2: of or for the common people; "demotic entertainments"; "demotic speech"; "a poet with a keen ear for demotic rhythms" n 1: a simplified cursive form of the ancient hieratic script; "Demotic script was eventually replaced by Greek" [syn: Demotic, Demotic script] 2: the modern Greek vernacular [syn: Romaic, Demotic]

adj 1: belonging to or having the characteristics of a despot [syn: despotic, despotical] 2: ruled by or characteristic of a despot; "moved from a feudal to a despotic order"; "his administration was arrogant and despotic" 3: characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government" [syn: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical]

adj 1: of or relating to or employing dialectic; "the dialectical method" [syn: dialectic, dialectical] n 1: any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments 2: a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction; "this situation created the inner dialectic of American history"

adj 1: instructive (especially excessively) [syn: didactic, didactical]

n 1: a painting or carving (especially an altarpiece) on two panels (usually hinged like a book)

adj 1: suffering from dyspepsia 2: irritable as if suffering from indigestion [syn: atrabilious, bilious, dyspeptic, liverish] n 1: a person suffering from indigestion

adj 1: selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas n 1: someone who selects according to the eclectic method [syn: eclectic, eclecticist]

n 1: the great circle representing the apparent annual path of the sun; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the sun; makes an angle of about 23 degrees with the equator; "all of the planets rotate the sun in approximately the same ecliptic"

adj 1: of or concerned with or produced by electrolysis 2: of or relating to or containing an electrolyte n 1: a fixed capacitor consisting of two electrodes separated by an electrolyte [syn: electrolytic, electrolytic capacitor, electrolytic condenser]

adj 1: (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse 2: rounded like an egg [syn: egg-shaped, elliptic, elliptical, oval, oval-shaped, ovate, oviform, ovoid, prolate] 3: characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; "the dialogue is elliptic and full of dark hints"; "the explanation was concise, even elliptical to the verge of obscurity"- H.O.Taylor [syn: elliptic, elliptical]

adj 1: of a disease that is constantly present in an animal community but only occurs in a small number of cases

adj 1: designed primarily for rhetorical display; "epideictic orations" [syn: epideictic, epideictical]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of epilepsy; "epileptic seizure" n 1: a person who has epilepsy

adj 1: (of animals) epidemic among animals of a single kind within a particular region; "an epizootic disease"

adj 1: giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing [syn: erotic, titillating] n 1: an erotic person

adj 1: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [syn: erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)] 2: having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn: erratic, planetary, wandering] 3: likely to perform unpredictably; "erratic winds are the bane of a sailor"; "a temperamental motor; sometimes it would start and sometimes it wouldn't"; "that beautiful but temperamental instrument the flute"- Osbert Lancaster [syn: erratic, temperamental]

adj 1: having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei [syn: eukaryotic, eucaryotic] [ant: procaryotic, prokaryotic]

n 1: a mixture of substances having a minimum melting point

adj 1: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine" [syn: alien, exotic] 2: strikingly strange or unusual; "an exotic hair style"; "protons, neutrons, electrons and all their exotic variants"; "the exotic landscape of a dead planet"

adj 1: outside or beyond a galaxy; "extragalactic nebula"

adj 1: excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion; "frantic with anger and frustration"; "frenetic screams followed the accident"; "a frenzied look in his eye" [syn: frantic, frenetic, phrenetic, frenzied] 2: marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion; "a crowd of delirious baseball fans"; "something frantic in their gaiety"; "a mad whirl of pleasure" [syn: delirious, excited, frantic, mad, unrestrained]

adj 1: of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way); "the galactic plane" 2: inconceivably large [syn: astronomic, astronomical, galactic]

adj 1: so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth; "a gigantic redwood"; "gigantic disappointment"; "a mammoth ship"; "a mammoth multinational corporation" [syn: gigantic, mammoth]

adj 1: marked by intense agitation or emotion; "worked at a feverish pace" [syn: feverish, hectic]

n 1: a person who holds religious beliefs in conflict with the dogma of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: heretic, misbeliever, religious outcast] 2: a person who holds unorthodox opinions in any field (not merely religion)

adj 1: interpretive or explanatory

adj 1: associated with the priesthood or priests; "priestly (or sacerdotal) vestments"; "hieratic gestures" [syn: priestly, hieratic, hieratical, sacerdotal] 2: written or belonging to a cursive form of ancient Egyptian writing; "hieratic Egyptian script" 3: adhering to fixed types or methods; highly restrained and formal; "the more hieratic sculptures leave the viewer curiously unmoved" n 1: a cursive form of Egyptian hieroglyphics; used especially by the priests [syn: hieratic, hieratic script]

adj 1: of or concerning homosexual love

adj 1: of or relating to hypnosis 2: attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome" [syn: hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing, spellbinding] n 1: a drug that induces sleep [syn: soporific, hypnotic]

adj 1: peculiar to the individual; "we all have our own idiosyncratic gestures"; "Michelangelo's highly idiosyncratic style of painting"

adj 1: insanely irresponsible; "an idiotic idea" [syn: crackbrained, idiotic] 2: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous] 3: having a mental age of three to seven years [syn: imbecile, imbecilic, idiotic]

adj 1: not politic; "an impolitic approach to a sensitive issue" [ant: politic]

adj 1: intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art" [syn: inauthentic, unauthentic, spurious]

adj 1: between or among galaxies; "intergalactic space"

adj 1: of or relating to or obtained from milk (especially sour milk or whey); "lactic acid"; "lactic fermentation"

adj 1: insane and believed to be affected by the phases of the moon [syn: lunatic, moonstruck] n 1: an insane person [syn: lunatic, madman, maniac] 2: a reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn: daredevil, madcap, hothead, swashbuckler, lunatic, harum- scarum]

adj 1: of or relating to the theory or practice of macrobiotics; "macrobiotic diet"

adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy; "the high priest's divinatory pronouncement"; "mantic powers"; "a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions" [syn: divinatory, mantic, sibylline, sibyllic, vatic, vatical]

adj 1: of or relating to meiosis

adj 1: of or relating to or undergoing mitosis

adj 1: of or relating to narcolepsy n 1: a person who has narcolepsy 2: a soporific drug that produces an uncontrollable desire to sleep

adj 1: of or relating to or designating narcotics; "narcotic addicts"; "narcotic stupor" 2: inducing stupor or narcosis; "narcotic drugs" [syn: narcotic, narcotizing, narcotising] 3: inducing mental lethargy; "a narcotic speech" [syn: narcotic, soporiferous, soporific] n 1: a drug that produces numbness or stupor; often taken for pleasure or to reduce pain; extensive use can lead to addiction

adj 1: relating to or associated with necromancy; "mysterious necromantic rites" [syn: necromantic, necromantical] 2: given to or produced by or used in the art of conjuring up the dead; "a necromantic sorcerer"; "necromantic delusions"; "necromantic powders and other weird objects"

adj 1: relating to or affected by necrosis; "necrotic tissue"

adj 1: characteristic of or affected by neurosis; "neurotic disorder"; "neurotic symptoms" 2: affected with emotional disorder [syn: neurotic, psychoneurotic] [ant: unneurotic] n 1: a person suffering from neurosis [syn: neurotic, psychoneurotic, mental case]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of opera

adj 1: of or relating to or resembling the eye; "ocular muscles"; "an ocular organ"; "ocular diseases"; "the optic (or optical) axis of the eye"; "an ocular spot is a pigmented organ or part believed to be sensitive to light" [syn: ocular, optic, optical, opthalmic] 2: relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation" [syn: ocular, optic, optical, visual] n 1: the organ of sight [syn: eye, oculus, optic]

adj 1: of or relating to osmosis; "osmotic pressure"

adj 1: including everything visible in one view; "a panoptic aerial photograph of the missile base"; "a panoptic stain used in microscopy" [syn: panoptic, panoptical] 2: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the- board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide]

adj 1: relating to or of the nature of paralysis; "paralytic symptoms" [syn: paralytic, paralytical] 2: affected with paralysis [syn: paralytic, paralyzed] n 1: a person suffering from paralysis

adj 1: relating to or caused by parasites; "parasitic infection" [syn: parasitic, parasitical] 2: of or pertaining to epenthesis [syn: epenthetic, parasitic] 3: of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his indolent leechlike existence" [syn: parasitic, parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking]

adj 1: marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects [syn: academic, donnish, pedantic]

adj 1: relating to or promoting digestion; "peptic juices"

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of a plutocrat [syn: plutocratic, plutocratical]

adj 1: marked by artful prudence, expedience, and shrewdness; "it is neither polite nor politic to get into other people's quarrels"; "a politic decision"; "a politic manager"; "a politic old scoundrel"; "a shrewd and politic reply" [ant: impolitic] 2: smoothly agreeable and courteous with a degree of sophistication; "he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage"; "the manager pacified the customer with a smooth apology for the error" [syn: politic, smooth, suave, bland]

adj 1: having cells that lack membrane-bound nuclei [syn: prokaryotic, procaryotic] [ant: eucaryotic, eukaryotic]

adj 1: capable of preventing conception or impregnation; "contraceptive devices and medications" [syn: contraceptive, prophylactic, antifertility] 2: warding off; "the swastika...a very ancient prophylactic symbol occurring among all peoples"- Victor Schultze [syn: cautionary, prophylactic] 3: preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease; "preventive medicine"; "vaccines are prophylactic"; "a prophylactic drug" [syn: preventive, preventative, prophylactic] n 1: remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease; "the doctor recommended several preventatives" [syn: preventive, preventative, prophylactic] 2: contraceptive device consisting of a sheath of thin rubber or latex that is worn over the penis during intercourse [syn: condom, rubber, safety, safe, prophylactic]

adj 1: affected with emotional disorder [syn: neurotic, psychoneurotic] [ant: unneurotic] n 1: a person suffering from neurosis [syn: neurotic, psychoneurotic, mental case]

adj 1: of or relating to or practicing psychotherapy; "psychotherapeutic sessions" 2: emotionally purging [syn: cathartic, psychotherapeutic]

adj 1: characteristic of or suffering from psychosis n 1: a person afflicted with psychosis [syn: psychotic, psychotic person, psycho]

adj 1: of or relating to or resembling a square; "quadratic shapes" 2: of or relating to the second power; "quadratic equation" n 1: an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square [syn: quadratic equation, quadratic] 2: a polynomial of the second degree [syn: quadratic, quadratic polynomial]

adj 1: not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild- eyed dream of a world state" [syn: quixotic, romantic, wild-eyed]

adj 1: of or relating to mechanical robots; "among our robotic devices is a vacuum cleaner" 2: resembling the unthinking functioning of a machine; "an automatic `thank you'"; "machinelike efficiency" [syn: automatic, automatonlike, machinelike, robotlike, robotic]

adj 1: belonging to or characteristic of Romanticism or the Romantic Movement in the arts; "romantic poetry" [syn: romantic, romanticist, romanticistic] 2: expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" [syn: amatory, amorous, romantic] 3: not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic; "as quixotic as a restoration of medieval knighthood"; "a romantic disregard for money"; "a wild-eyed dream of a world state" [syn: quixotic, romantic, wild- eyed] n 1: a soulful or amorous idealist 2: an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism [syn: romanticist, romantic] [ant: classicist]

n 1: someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs [syn: skeptic, sceptic, doubter]

adj 1: relating to or having sclerosis; hardened; "a sclerotic patient" [syn: sclerotic, sclerosed] 2: of or relating to the sclera of the eyeball; "sclerotic tissue"