Words that rhyme with floss

• across 0
  adv 1: to the opposite side; "the football field was 300 feet across" 2: transversely; "the marble slabs were cut across" [syn: across, crosswise, crossways]
• adios 0
  n 1: a farewell remark; "they said their good-byes" [syn: adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen, au revoir, bye, bye-bye, cheerio, good-by, goodby, good-bye, goodbye, good day, sayonara, so long]
• boss 0
  adj 1: exceptionally good; "a boss hand at carpentry"; "his brag cornfield" [syn: boss, brag] n 1: a person who exercises control over workers; "if you want to leave early you have to ask the foreman" [syn: foreman, chief, gaffer, honcho, boss] 2: a person responsible for hiring workers; "the boss hired three more men for the new job" [syn: boss, hirer] 3: a person who exercises control and makes decisions; "he is his own boss now" 4: a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments; "party bosses have a reputation for corruption" [syn: party boss, political boss, boss] 5: a circular rounded projection or protuberance [syn: knob, boss] v 1: raise in a relief; "embossed stationery" [syn: emboss, boss, stamp]
• costs 0
  n 1: pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation
• cross 0
  adj 1: extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis; "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon" [syn: cross(a), transverse, transversal, thwartwise] 2: annoyed and irritable [syn: crabbed, crabby, cross, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered] n 1: a wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece 2: a marking that consists of lines that cross each other [syn: crisscross, cross, mark] 3: a representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry 4: any affliction that causes great suffering; "that is his cross to bear"; "he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns" [syn: cross, crown of thorns] 5: (genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species; "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey" [syn: hybrid, crossbreed, cross] 6: (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids [syn: hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, cross, interbreeding, hybridizing] v 1: travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day" [syn: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across] 2: meet at a point [syn: intersect, cross] 3: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk] 4: fold so as to resemble a cross; "she crossed her legs" [ant: uncross] 5: to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries" [syn: cross, traverse, span, sweep] 6: meet and pass; "the trains crossed" 7: trace a line through or across; "cross your `t'" 8: breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties; "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed" [syn: crossbreed, cross, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed]
• doss 0
  v 1: sleep in a convenient place; "You can crash here, though it's not very comfortable" [syn: doss, doss down, crash]
• dross 0
  n 1: worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water" [syn: impurity, dross] 2: the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals [syn: slag, scoria, dross]
• emboss 0
  v 1: raise in a relief; "embossed stationery" [syn: emboss, boss, stamp]
• fosse 0
  n 1: ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water [syn: moat, fosse]
• gloss 0
  n 1: an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text [syn: gloss, rubric] 2: an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field [syn: glossary, gloss] 3: the property of being smooth and shiny [syn: polish, gloss, glossiness, burnish] 4: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color" [syn: semblance, gloss, color, colour] v 1: give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing 2: provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases; "He annotated on what his teacher had written" [syn: gloss, comment, annotate] 3: provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase 4: give a deceptive explanation or excuse for; "color a lie" [syn: color, colour, gloss]
• hawse 0
  n 1: the hole that an anchor rope passes through [syn: hawse, hawsehole, hawsepipe]
• joss 0
  n 1: a Chinese god worshipped in the form of an idol
• lacrosse 0
  n 1: a game invented by American Indians; now played by two teams who use long-handled rackets to catch and carry and throw the ball toward the opponents' goal
• loss 0
  n 1: something that is lost; "the car was a total loss"; "loss of livestock left the rancher bankrupt" 2: gradual decline in amount or activity; "weight loss"; "a serious loss of business" 3: the act of losing someone or something; "everyone expected him to win so his loss was a shock" 4: the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation"; "losing him is no great deprivation" [syn: loss, deprivation] 5: the experience of losing a loved one; "he sympathized on the loss of their grandfather" 6: the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; "the company operated at a loss last year"; "the company operated in the red last year" [syn: loss, red ink, red] [ant: gain] 7: military personnel lost by death or capture [syn: personnel casualty, loss] 8: euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing" [syn: passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release]
• moss 0
  n 1: tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
• sauce 0
  n 1: flavorful relish or dressing or topping served as an accompaniment to food v 1: behave saucily or impudently towards 2: dress (food) with a relish 3: add zest or flavor to, make more interesting; "sauce the roast"
• toss 0
  n 1: the act of flipping a coin [syn: flip, toss] 2: (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled" [syn: pass, toss, flip] 3: an abrupt movement; "a toss of his head" v 1: throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper" [syn: flip, toss, sky, pitch] 2: lightly throw to see which side comes up; "I don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!" [syn: flip, toss] 3: throw carelessly; "chuck the ball" [syn: chuck, toss] 4: move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate] 5: throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: discard, fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away] 6: agitate; "toss the salad"
• bos 0
  n 1: wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini [syn: Bos, genus Bos]
• cos 0
  n 1: ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right- angled triangle [syn: cosine, cos] 2: lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head [syn: cos, cos lettuce, romaine, romaine lettuce]
• coss 0
  n 1: (in India) a unit of length having different values in different localities [syn: kos, coss]
• crosse 0
  n 1: a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse
• das 0
  n 1: any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes [syn: hyrax, coney, cony, dassie, das]
• dos 0
  n 1: the federal department in the United States that sets and maintains foreign policies; "the Department of State was created in 1789" [syn: Department of State, United States Department of State, State Department, State, DoS] 2: an operating system that is on a disk [syn: DOS, disk operating system]
• kos 0
  n 1: (in India) a unit of length having different values in different localities [syn: kos, coss]
• os 0
  n 1: a mouth or mouthlike opening 2: a hard brittle blue-grey or blue-black metallic element that is one of the platinum metals; the heaviest metal known [syn: osmium, Os, atomic number 76] 3: (computer science) software that controls the execution of computer programs and may provide various services [syn: operating system, OS] 4: the left eye [syn: oculus sinister, OS] 5: rigid connective tissue that makes up the skeleton of vertebrates [syn: bone, os]
• ross 0
  n 1: Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856) [syn: Ross, John Ross, Sir John Ross] 2: British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862) [syn: Ross, James Clark Ross, Sir James Clark Ross] 3: British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932) [syn: Ross, Sir Ronald Ross] 4: a politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977) [syn: Ross, Nellie Ross, Nellie Tayloe Ross] 5: American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836) [syn: Ross, Betsy Ross, Betsy Griscom Ross]
• alsace 0
  n 1: a region of northeastern France famous for its wines [syn: Alsace, Alsatia, Elsass]
• hamas 0
  n 1: a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing [syn: Hamas, Islamic Resistance Movement]
• semigloss 0
  n 1: a paint that dries with a finish between glossy and flat
• bras 0
• pos 0
• aase 0
• blas 0
• bloss 0
• bosse 0
• bross 0
• clauss 0
• clos 0
• closs 0
• daas 0
• dazs 0
• fauss 0
• foss 0
• goss 0
• gosse 0
• hoss 0
• los 0
• oss 0
• poss 0
• ros 0
• soss 0
• vos 0
• voss 0
• abbas 0
• amoss 0
• chandross 0
• chavous 0
• demoss 0
• devoss 0
• cros 0
• kross 0
• bros 0

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