Words that rhyme with flips

n 1: a cosmic cataclysm in which God destroys the ruling powers of evil 2: the last book of the New Testament; contains visionary descriptions of heaven and of conflicts between good and evil and of the end of the world; attributed to Saint John the Apostle [syn: Revelation, Revelation of Saint John the Divine, Apocalypse, Book of Revelation]

n 1: strips of potato fried in deep fat [syn: french fries, french-fried potatoes, fries, chips]

n 1: one celestial body obscures another [syn: eclipse, occultation] v 1: be greater in significance than; "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness" [syn: overshadow, dominate, eclipse] 2: cause an eclipse of (a celestial body) by intervention; "The Sun eclipses the moon today"; "Planets and stars often are occulted by other celestial bodies" [syn: eclipse, occult]

n 1: a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; "the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant" [syn: ellipse, oval]

n 1: (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal [syn: snips, tinsnips]

n 1: (computer science) a unit for measuring the execution speed of a computer's CPU (but not the whole system); "4 MIPS is 4,000,000 instructions per second" [syn: MIPS, million instructions per second]

n 1: any of various small to minute sucking insects with narrow feathery wings if any; they feed on plant sap and many are destructive [syn: thrips, thrip, thripid]