Words that rhyme with hoxsey

n 1: a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain [syn: stroke, apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident, CVA]

adj 1: resembling a box in rectangularity [syn: boxlike, boxy, box-shaped]

n 1: a woman who cohabits with an important man [syn: concubine, courtesan, doxy, paramour]

n 1: a thermosetting resin; used chiefly in strong adhesives and coatings and laminates [syn: epoxy, epoxy resin, epoxy glue] v 1: glue with epoxy; "epoxy the shards"

adj 1: characteristic of country life; "cracker-barrel philosophy"; "folksy humor"; "the air of homespun country boys" [syn: cracker-barrel, folksy, homespun] 2: very informal and familiar; "a folksy radio commentator"; "a folksy style"

adj 1: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily]

n 1: a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people) 2: tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall [syn: galax, galaxy, wandflower, beetleweed, coltsfoot, Galax urceolata] 3: (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust; "`extragalactic nebula' is a former name for `galaxy'" [syn: galaxy, extragalactic nebula]

n 1: any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position [syn: unorthodoxy, heterodoxy, heresy] [ant: orthodoxy] 2: the quality of being unorthodox [syn: unorthodoxy, heterodoxy] [ant: orthodoxy]

adj 1: used of women's clothing having a hemline at the ankle; "wanted a maxi-length coat"; "a maxidress" [ant: midi, mini] n 1: a long skirt ending below the calf

n 1: fortitude and determination; "he didn't have the guts to try it" [syn: backbone, grit, guts, moxie, sand, gumption]

n 1: a person authorized to act for another [syn: proxy, placeholder, procurator] 2: a power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting

n 1: the southern states that seceded from the United States in 1861 [syn: Confederacy, Confederate States, Confederate States of America, South, Dixie, Dixieland] 2: a large metal pot (12 gallon camp kettle) for cooking; used in military camps

adj 1: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily]

adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one hundred, 100, c] n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn: degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C] 2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn: speed of light, light speed, c] 3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C, ascorbic acid] 4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C] 5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C] 6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C, atomic number 6] 7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C] 8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn: coulomb, C, ampere-second] 9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system 10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major 11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c] 12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C]

adj 1: being or containing a hydroxyl group

n 1: a member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi 2: an old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico 3: the Siouan language spoken by the Biloxi

n 1: inability to coordinate voluntary muscle movements; unsteady movements and staggering gait [syn: ataxia, ataxy, dyssynergia, motor ataxia]

n 1: the world's largest active volcano; located in the Andes in north central Ecuador

n 1: growing a crystal layer of one mineral on the crystal base of another mineral in such a manner that its crystalline orientation is the same as that of the substrate

n 1: any abnormal position of the organs of the body [syn: transposition, heterotaxy]