Words that rhyme with essa

n 1: flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water" [syn: mesa, table] 2: a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix

n 1: a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn: mess, messiness, muss, mussiness] 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] 3: soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge" 4: a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel 5: a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax [syn: mess, mess hall] 6: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad] v 1: eat in a mess hall 2: make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room" [syn: mess, mess up]

n 1: someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university [syn: professor, prof]

n 1: Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose novels and poems express his interests in eastern spiritual values (1877-1962) [syn: Hesse, Hermann Hesse]

n 1: a strip of land projecting into a body of water [syn: cape, ness]

n 1: a genus of Old World mints of the family Labiatae [syn: Melissa, genus Melissa]

n 1: a European river; flows into the Baltic Sea [syn: Oder, Oder River]

n 1: a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea [syn: Odessa, Odesa] 2: a city in western Texas

n 1: painted beauty and red admiral [syn: Vanessa, genus Vanessa]

n 1: Polish labor leader and statesman (born in 1943) [syn: Walesa, Lech Walesa]