Words that rhyme with hilliard

adj 1: a pronunciation of afraid [syn: afeard(p), afeared(p)]

n 1: the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face [syn: beard, face fungus, whiskers] 2: a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses 3: a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) 4: hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals 5: tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface [syn: byssus, beard] v 1: go along the rim, like a beard around the chin; "Houses bearded the top of the heights"

n 1: (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience

n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard]

adj 1: worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down; "a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down"-Clifton Fadiman; "an old book with dog-eared pages" [syn: dog-eared, eared] 2: having ears (or appendages resembling ears) or having ears of a specified kind; often used in combination [ant: earless]

n 1: a man who is very old [syn: old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah] 2: a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) [syn: bellarmine, longbeard, long-beard, greybeard]

n 1: a billion; "in England they call one thousand million a milliard"

adj 1: too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable] n 1: a large indefinite number; "he faced a myriad of details" 2: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand [syn: ten thousand, 10000, myriad]

n 1: an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" [syn: time period, period of time, period] 2: the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon 3: (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games 4: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" [syn: period, geological period] 5: the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility" 6: 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] 7: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" [syn: period, point, full stop, stop, full point]

n 1: (usually preceded by `in') a detail or point; "it differs in that respect" [syn: respect, regard] 2: paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people); "his attentiveness to her wishes"; "he spends without heed to the consequences" [syn: attentiveness, heed, regard, paying attention] [ant: heedlessness, inattentiveness] 3: (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare; "give him my kind regards"; "my best wishes" [syn: regard, wish, compliments] 4: a long fixed look; "he fixed his paternal gaze on me" [syn: gaze, regard] 5: the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded); "it is held in esteem"; "a man who has earned high regard" [syn: esteem, regard, respect] [ant: disesteem] 6: a feeling of friendship and esteem; "she mistook his manly regard for love"; "he inspires respect" [syn: regard, respect] 7: an attitude of admiration or esteem; "she lost all respect for him" [syn: respect, esteem, regard] [ant: disrespect] v 1: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard] 2: look at attentively [syn: regard, consider] 3: connect closely and often incriminatingly; "This new ruling affects your business" [syn: involve, affect, regard]

n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard] v 1: cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate; "This drug will retard your heart rate" 2: be delayed 3: slow the growth or development of; "The brain damage will retard the child's language development" [syn: check, retard, delay] 4: lose velocity; move more slowly; "The car decelerated" [syn: decelerate, slow, slow down, slow up, retard] [ant: accelerate, quicken, speed, speed up]

adj 1: deeply affected or marked by mental or physical pain or injury; "Could her scarred mind ever be free of fear?"; "a face scarred by anxiety"; "the fire left her arm badly scarred" 2: blemished by injury or rough wear; "the scarred piano bench"; "walls marred by graffiti" [syn: marred, scarred]

adj 1: marked with an asterisk; "the starred items" [syn: asterisked, starred]

adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly] 2: strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker n 1: fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters [syn: Wyrd, Weird]

n 1: one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC 2: the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country [syn: Olympic Games, Olympics, Olympiad]

n 1: a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy

n 1: weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States [syn: meadow salsify, goatsbeard, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis]