Words that rhyme with hazardous

  • bodice
    n 1: part of a dress above the waist
  • canvas
    n 1: a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents) [syn: canvas, canvass] 2: an oil painting on canvas fabric [syn: canvas, canvass] 3: the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; "the crowded canvas of history"; "the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound" [syn: canvas, canvass] 4: a tent made of canvas fabric [syn: canvas tent, canvas, canvass] 5: a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel [syn: sail, canvas, canvass, sheet] 6: the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete; "the boxer picked himself up off the canvas" [syn: canvas, canvass] v 1: solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign [syn: canvass, canvas] 2: get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions [syn: poll, canvass, canvas] 3: cover with canvas; "She canvassed the walls of her living room so as to conceal the ugly cracks" 4: consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives" [syn: analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas]
  • canvass
    n 1: the setting for a narrative or fictional or dramatic account; "the crowded canvas of history"; "the movie demanded a dramatic canvas of sound" [syn: canvas, canvass] 2: an inquiry into public opinion conducted by interviewing a random sample of people [syn: poll, opinion poll, public opinion poll, canvass] 3: a large piece of fabric (usually canvas fabric) by means of which wind is used to propel a sailing vessel [syn: sail, canvas, canvass, sheet] 4: a tent made of canvas fabric [syn: canvas tent, canvas, canvass] 5: an oil painting on canvas fabric [syn: canvas, canvass] 6: the mat that forms the floor of the ring in which boxers or professional wrestlers compete; "the boxer picked himself up off the canvas" [syn: canvas, canvass] 7: a heavy, closely woven fabric (used for clothing or chairs or sails or tents) [syn: canvas, canvass] v 1: get the opinions (of people) by asking specific questions [syn: poll, canvass, canvas] 2: solicit votes from potential voters in an electoral campaign [syn: canvass, canvas] 3: consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "analyze the evidence in a criminal trial"; "analyze your real motives" [syn: analyze, analyse, study, examine, canvass, canvas]
  • disservice
    n 1: an act intended to help that turns out badly; "he did them a disservice" [syn: disservice, ill service, ill turn] [ant: service]
  • exodus
    n 1: a journey by a large group to escape from a hostile environment [syn: exodus, hegira, hejira] 2: the second book of the Old Testament: tells of the departure of the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt led by Moses; God gave them the Ten Commandments and the rest of Mosaic law on Mount Sinai during the Exodus [syn: Exodus, Book of Exodus]
  • fabulous
    adj 1: extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation" [syn: fabulous, fab] 2: based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn" [syn: fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological] 3: barely credible; "the fabulous endurance of a marathon runner"
  • goddess
    n 1: a female deity
  • grievous
    adj 1: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening] 2: causing or marked by grief or anguish; "a grievous loss"; "a grievous cry"; "her sigh was heartbreaking"; "the heartrending words of Rabin's granddaughter" [syn: grievous, heartbreaking, heartrending] 3: of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" [syn: grave, grievous, heavy, weighty] 4: shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" [syn: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous]
  • horrendous
    adj 1: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]
  • mischievous
    adj 1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" [syn: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked] 2: deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods"
  • nervous
    adj 1: easily agitated; "a nervous addict"; "a nervous thoroughbred" 2: causing or fraught with or showing anxiety; "spent an anxious night waiting for the test results"; "cast anxious glances behind her"; "those nervous moments before takeoff"; "an unquiet mind" [syn: anxious, nervous, queasy, uneasy, unquiet] 3: of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder" [syn: nervous, neural] 4: excited in anticipation [syn: aflutter, nervous] 5: unpredictably excitable (especially of horses) [syn: skittish, flighty, spooky, nervous]
  • novice
    n 1: someone who has entered a religious order but has not taken final vows [syn: novitiate, novice] 2: someone new to a field or activity [syn: novice, beginner, tyro, tiro, initiate]
  • shepherdess
    n 1: a woman shepherd
  • stupendous
    adj 1: so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand" [syn: colossal, prodigious, stupendous]
  • traverse
    n 1: a horizontal beam that extends across something [syn: trave, traverse, crossbeam, crosspiece] 2: a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it [syn: transom, traverse] 3: taking a zigzag path on skis [syn: traversal, traverse] 4: travel across [syn: traversal, traverse] 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: 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] 3: deny formally (an allegation of fact by the opposing party) in a legal suit [syn: traverse, deny]
  • tremendous
    adj 1: extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree; "an enormous boulder"; "enormous expenses"; "tremendous sweeping plains"; "a tremendous fact in human experience; that a whole civilization should be dependent on technology"- Walter Lippman; "a plane took off with a tremendous noise" [syn: enormous, tremendous] 2: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous] 3: extreme in degree or extent or amount or impact; "in a frightful hurry"; "spent a frightful amount of money" [syn: frightful, terrible, awful, tremendous]
  • judas
    n 1: (New Testament) supposed brother of St. James; one of the Apostles who is invoked in prayer when a situation seems hopeless [syn: Jude, Saint Jude, St. Jude, Judas, Thaddaeus] 2: (New Testament) the Apostle who betrayed Jesus to his enemies for 30 pieces of silver [syn: Judas, Judas Iscariot] 3: someone who betrays under the guise of friendship 4: a one-way peephole in a door
  • midas
    n 1: (Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold
  • barbados
    n 1: a parliamentary democracy on the island of Barbados; former British colony; a popular resort area 2: easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles to the north of Venezuela
  • gustavus
    n 1: the last king of Sweden to have any real political power (1882-1973) [syn: Gustavus, Gustavus VI] 2: king of Sweden who kept Sweden neutral during both World War I and II (1858-1950) [syn: Gustavus, Gustavus V] 3: king of Sweden whose losses to Napoleon I led to his being deposed in 1809 (1778-1837) [syn: Gustavus, Gustavus IV] 4: king of Sweden who increased the royal power and waged an unpopular war against Russia (1746-1792) [syn: Gustavus, Gustavus III] 5: king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632) [syn: Gustavus, Gustavus II, Gustavus Adolphus] 6: king of Sweden who established Lutheranism as the state religion (1496-1560) [syn: Gustavus, Gustavus I]
  • nidus
    n 1: a central point or locus of an infection in an organism; "the focus of infection" [syn: focus, focal point, nidus] 2: a nest in which spiders or insects deposit their eggs
  • indus
    n 1: a faint constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Tucana 2: an Asian river that rises in Tibet and flows through northern India and then southwest through Kashmir and Pakistan to the Arabian Sea; "the valley of the Indus was the site of an early civilization" [syn: Indus, Indus River]
  • fundus
    n 1: (anatomy) the base of a hollow organ or that part of the organ farthest from its opening; "the uterine fundus"; "the fundus of the stomach"
  • demigoddess
  • fulvous
  • tetrapodous
  • chivas
  • naevus
  • candace
  • aldous
  • nodus
  • candice
  • pindus
  • enceladus
  • vendace
  • dundas
  • vanadous
  • redivivus

See also hazardous definition and hazardous synonyms