Words that rhyme with handglass

adv 1: by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay" [syn: unfortunately, unluckily, regrettably, alas] [ant: as luck would have it, fortuitously, fortunately, luckily]

n 1: lens for correcting defective vision in one eye; held in place by facial muscles [syn: monocle, eyeglass]

n 1: a covering material made of glass fibers in resins [syn: fiberglass, fibreglass]

n 1: a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes

n 1: any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity [syn: mica, isinglass]

v 1: cause to appear in a lower class; "The Yankees outclassed Cincinnati"

n 1: timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage

n 1: a small refracting telescope [syn: field glass, glass, spyglass]

n 1: (biology) a taxonomic category below a class and above an order

adj 1: belonging to the lowest and least privileged social stratum; "underclass mothers and children" n 1: the social class lowest in the social hierarchy [syn: lower class, underclass]

n 1: a simple barometer for indicating changes in atmospheric pressure

n 1: a glass that has a stem and in which wine is served

n 1: wild and domestic cattle; in some classifications placed in the subfamily Bovinae or tribe Bovini [syn: Bos, genus Bos]

n 1: a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse

n 1: a region of northeastern France famous for its wines [syn: Alsace, Alsatia, Elsass]

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]

n 1: French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827) [syn: Laplace, Marquis de Laplace, Pierre Simon de Laplace]

n 1: (biology) a taxonomic class below a phylum and above a class

adj 1: occupying the highest socioeconomic position in a society [ant: low-class, lower-class, middle-class]