Words that rhyme with hyster

n 1: a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters [syn: are, ar]

v 1: become active; "He finally bestirred himself" [syn: bestir, rouse]

n 1: a water-soluble brownish-yellow pigment made by boiling wood soot [syn: bister, bistre]

n 1: a flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint) 2: (botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin 3: (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid [syn: blister, bulla, bleb] v 1: get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike" [syn: blister, vesicate] 2: subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community" [syn: blister, scald, whip] 3: cause blisters to form on; "the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet"

n 1: a form of address for a man [syn: Mister, Mr, Mr.]

n 1: a female person who has the same parents as another person; "my sister married a musician" [syn: sister, sis] [ant: blood brother, brother] 2: (Roman Catholic Church) a title given to a nun (and used as a form of address); "the Sisters taught her to love God" 3: a female person who is a fellow member of a sorority or labor union or other group; "none of her sisters would betray her" 4: (slang) sometimes used as a term of address for attractive young women [syn: baby, babe, sister]

n 1: a semiconductor device capable of amplification [syn: transistor, junction transistor, electronic transistor]

n 1: a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground [syn: tornado, twister] 2: small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried; richer than doughnuts [syn: cruller, twister]

n 1: English surgeon who was the first to use antiseptics (1827-1912) [syn: Lister, Joseph Lister, Baron Lister] 2: assessor who makes out the tax lists 3: moldboard plow with a double moldboard designed to move dirt to either side of a central furrow [syn: lister, lister plow, lister plough, middlebreaker, middle buster]

n 1: a form of address for a man [syn: Mister, Mr, Mr.]

n 1: protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants [syn: testa, episperm, seed coat]

n 1: (Roman mythology) goddess of the hearth and its fire whose flame was tended by vestal virgins; counterpart of Greek Hestia 2: the brightest asteroid but the fourth to be discovered

n 1: a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite [syn: strontium, Sr, atomic number 38] 2: the unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: steradian, sr]

n 1: (Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim) 2: an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre [syn: Esther, Book of Esther]

n 1: a largely agricultural county in central England [syn: Leicestershire, Leicester] 2: an industrial city in Leicestershire in central England; built on the site of a Roman settlement

n 1: (Greek mythology) a wise old counselor to the Greeks at Troy 2: a genus of Psittacidae [syn: Nestor, genus Nestor]

n 1: a blouse with buttons down the front; "in Britain they call a shirtwaist a shirtwaister" [syn: shirtwaist, shirtwaister]

n 1: an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes [syn: enema, clyster]