Words that rhyme with fasces

  • diocese
    n 1: the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop [syn: diocese, bishopric, episcopate]
  • faeces
    n 1: solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection]
  • glasses
    n 1: optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision [syn: spectacles, specs, eyeglasses, glasses]
  • heartsease
    n 1: a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived [syn: wild pansy, Johnny-jump-up, heartsease, love-in-idleness, pink of my John, Viola tricolor] 2: violet of Pacific coast of North America having white petals tinged with yellow and deep violet [syn: two-eyed violet, heartsease, Viola ocellata] 3: common Old World viola with creamy often violet-tinged flowers [syn: field pansy, heartsease, Viola arvensis] 4: the absence of mental stress or anxiety [syn: peace, peacefulness, peace of mind, repose, serenity, heartsease, ataraxis]
  • masses
    n 1: the common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed]
  • menses
    n 1: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped" --Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"--Aristotle [syn: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow]
  • molasses
    n 1: thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining
  • species
    n 1: (biology) taxonomic group whose members can interbreed 2: a specific kind of something; "a species of molecule"; "a species of villainy"
  • subspecies
    n 1: (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species [syn: subspecies, race]
  • sunglasses
    n 1: spectacles that are darkened or polarized to protect the eyes from the glare of the sun; "he was wearing a pair of mirrored shades" [syn: sunglasses, dark glasses, shades]
  • pisces
    n 1: the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20 [syn: Pisces, Pisces the Fishes, Fish] 2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces [syn: Pisces, Fish] 3: a large faint zodiacal constellation; between Aquarius and Aries 4: a group of vertebrates comprising both cartilaginous and bony fishes and sometimes including the jawless vertebrates; not used technically
  • rameses
    n 1: any of 12 kings of ancient Egypt between 1315 and 1090 BC [syn: Rameses, Ramesses, Ramses]
  • agassiz
    n 1: United States naturalist (born in Switzerland) who studied fossil fish; recognized geological evidence that ice ages had occurred in North America (1807-1873) [syn: Agassiz, Louis Agassiz, Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz]
  • fauces
    n 1: the passage between the back of the mouth and the pharynx
  • ulysses
    n 1: (Roman mythology) Roman spelling for Odysseus
  • waldenses
    n 1: a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century [syn: Waldenses, Vaudois]
  • albigenses
    n 1: a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism [syn: Albigenses, Cathars, Cathari]
  • artaxerxes
    n 1: king of Persia who subdued numerous revolutions and made peace with Sparta (?-359 BC) [syn: Artaxerxes II, Artaxerxes] 2: king of Persia who sanctioned the practice of Judaism in Jerusalem (?-424 BC) [syn: Artaxerxes I, Artaxerxes]
  • amanuenses
  • amasses
  • analyses
  • apices
  • apotheoses
  • appendices
  • asses
  • axes
  • bases
  • basses
  • bass's
  • bypasses
  • calyces
  • cervices
  • classes
  • codices
  • cortices
  • crises
  • degasses
  • diagnoses
  • dialyses
  • ellipses
  • emphases
  • erases
  • executrices
  • gases
  • gas's
  • gasses
  • grasses
  • helices
  • hypnoses
  • hypotheses
  • indices
  • lasses
  • matrices
  • morasses
  • nemeses
  • neuroses
  • oases
  • paces
  • paralyses
  • parentheses
  • passes
  • phases
  • phrases
  • places
  • praxes
  • prognoses
  • psychoses
  • radices
  • reanalyses
  • sepses
  • smashes
  • stases
  • surpasses
  • synapses
  • synopses
  • syntheses
  • taxes
  • theses
  • thoraces
  • thromboses
  • trashes
  • vertices
  • vortices
  • sasses
  • wrasses
  • cees
  • disseise
  • disseize
  • halluces
  • latices
  • scolices
  • varices
  • directrices
  • haruspices
  • pontifices
  • misdiagnoses
  • epicleses
  • calces
  • xerxes
  • cambyses

See also fasces definition