Words that rhyme with insomnia

  • anaemia
    n 1: a lack of vitality [syn: anemia, anaemia] 2: a deficiency of red blood cells [syn: anemia, anaemia]
  • lithuania
    n 1: a republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea [syn: Lithuania, Republic of Lithuania, Lietuva]
  • lasagna
    n 1: baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables [syn: lasagna, lasagne] 2: very wide flat strips of pasta [syn: lasagna, lasagne]
  • uvea
    n 1: the part of the eye that contains the iris and ciliary body and choroid
  • latvia
    n 1: a republic in northeastern Europe on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea [syn: Latvia, Republic of Latvia]
  • giardia
    n 1: a suspected cause of diarrhea in humans
  • ambrosia
    n 1: a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae [syn: beebread, ambrosia] 2: any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma [syn: ragweed, ambrosia, bitterweed] 3: fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut 4: (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal [syn: ambrosia, nectar]
  • genre
    n 1: a kind of literary or artistic work 2: a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style, literary genre, genre] 3: an expressive style of music [syn: music genre, musical genre, genre, musical style] 4: a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
  • insignia
    n 1: a badge worn to show official position
  • mesopotamia
    n 1: the land between the Tigris and Euphrates; site of several ancient civilizations; part of what is now known as Iraq
  • austria
    n 1: a mountainous republic in central Europe; under the Habsburgs (1278-1918) Austria maintained control of the Holy Roman Empire and was a leader in European politics until the 19th century [syn: Austria, Republic of Austria, Oesterreich]
  • bosnia
    n 1: the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina 2: a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims [syn: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosna i Hercegovina, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bosnia]
  • regalia
    n 1: paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office) 2: especially fine or decorative clothing [syn: array, raiment, regalia]
  • area
    n 1: a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country" [syn: area, country] 2: a subject of study; "it was his area of specialization"; "areas of interest include..." 3: a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region" [syn: area, region] 4: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" [syn: sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena] 5: a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants" 6: the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area" [syn: area, expanse, surface area]
  • hypothermia
    n 1: subnormal body temperature [ant: hyperthermia, hyperthermy]
  • moldavia
    n 1: a landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet but achieved independence in 1991 [syn: Moldova, Republic of Moldova, Moldavia]
  • saturnalia
    n 1: an orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn 2: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
  • agromania
    n 1: an intense desire to be alone or out in the open
  • aria
    n 1: an elaborate song for solo voice
  • drama
    n 1: a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage; "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway" [syn: play, drama, dramatic play] 2: an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional [syn: drama, dramatic event] 3: the literary genre of works intended for the theater 4: the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
  • genitalia
    n 1: external sex organ [syn: genitalia, genital organ, genitals, private parts, privates, crotch]
  • insomniac
    adj 1: experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare [syn: insomniac, sleepless, watchful] n 1: someone who cannot sleep [syn: insomniac, sleepless person]
  • trivia
    n 1: something of small importance [syn: triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer]
  • zombie
    n 1: a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force [syn: zombi, zombie, living dead] 2: (voodooism) a spirit or supernatural force that reanimates a dead body [syn: zombi, zombie, zombi spirit, zombie spirit] 3: a god of voodoo cults of African origin worshipped especially in West Indies [syn: zombi, zombie, snake god] 4: someone who acts or responds in a mechanical or apathetic way; "only an automaton wouldn't have noticed" [syn: automaton, zombi, zombie] 5: several kinds of rum with fruit juice and usually apricot liqueur [syn: zombie, zombi]
  • rickettsia
    n 1: any of a group of very small rod-shaped bacteria that live in biting arthropods (as ticks and mites) and cause disease in vertebrate hosts; they cause typhus and other febrile diseases in human beings
  • cardia
    n 1: the opening into the stomach and that part of the stomach connected to the esophagus
  • synovia
    n 1: viscid lubricating fluid secreted by the membrane lining joints and tendon sheaths etc. [syn: synovia, synovial fluid]
  • mauritania
    n 1: a country in northwestern Africa with a provisional military government; achieved independence from France in 1960; largely western Sahara Desert [syn: Mauritania, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Mauritanie, Muritaniya]
  • scandinavia
    n 1: the peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden [syn: Scandinavia, Scandinavian Peninsula] 2: a group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian
  • olympia
    n 1: capital of the state of Washington; located in western Washington on Puget Sound [syn: Olympia, capital of Washington] 2: a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese; the chief sanctuary of Zeus and the site of the original Olympian Games
  • academia
    n 1: the academic world [syn: academia, academe]
  • acrophobia
    n 1: a morbid fear of great heights
  • anorexia
    n 1: a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite
  • bacteria
    n 1: (microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants [syn: bacteria, bacterium]
  • cornucopia
    n 1: a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity [syn: horn of plenty, cornucopia] 2: the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English" [syn: profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia]
  • dyslexia
    n 1: impaired ability to learn to read
  • euphoria
    n 1: a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation [syn: euphoria, euphory] [ant: dysphoria]
  • sepia
    n 1: a shade of brown with a tinge of red [syn: reddish brown, sepia, burnt sienna, Venetian red, mahogany] 2: rich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishes 3: type genus of the Sepiidae [syn: Sepia, genus Sepia]
  • macadamia
    n 1: any tree of the genus Macadamia [syn: macadamia, macadamia tree]
  • kinesthesia
    n 1: the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc [syn: kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement] 2: the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body [syn: kinesthesis, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement] [ant: kinanesthesia]
  • forsythia
    n 1: any of various early blooming oleaceous shrubs of the genus Forsythia; native to eastern Asia and southern Europe but widely cultivated for their branches of bright yellow bell- shaped flowers
  • california
    n 1: a state in the western United States on the Pacific; the 3rd largest state; known for earthquakes [syn: California, Golden State, CA, Calif.]
  • mongolia
    n 1: a landlocked socialist republic in central Asia [syn: Mongolia, Mongolian People's Republic, Outer Mongolia] 2: a vast region in Asia including the Mongolian People's Republic and China's Inner Mongolia
  • yugoslavia
    n 1: a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro [syn: Serbia and Montenegro, Union of Serbia and Montenegro, Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Jugoslavija] 2: a former country of southeastern Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea; formed in 1918 and named Yugoslavia in 1929; controlled by Marshal Tito as a communist state until his death in 1980; "Tito's Yugoslavia included Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro"
  • serbia
    n 1: a historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia; Serbs settled the region in the 6th and 7th centuries [syn: Serbia, Srbija]
  • bacchanalia
    n 1: an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus) [syn: Dionysia, Bacchanalia] 2: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
  • egomania
    n 1: an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs
  • tibia
    n 1: the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle [syn: tibia, shinbone, shin bone, shin]
  • india
    n 1: a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947 [syn: India, Republic of India, Bharat]
  • bolivia
    n 1: a landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain [syn: Bolivia, Republic of Bolivia] 2: a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded
  • camellia
    n 1: any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers [syn: camellia, camelia]
  • synesthesia
    n 1: a sensation that normally occurs in one sense modality occurs when another modality is stimulated [syn: synesthesia, synaesthesia]
  • colombia
    n 1: a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language [syn: Colombia, Republic of Colombia]
  • acacia
    n 1: any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia
  • aphasia
    n 1: inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion
  • asphyxia
    n 1: a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas
  • azalea
    n 1: any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors
  • bibliomania
    n 1: preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books
  • bulimia
    n 1: a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self- condemnation [syn: bulimia, binge-eating syndrome] 2: pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions)
  • cafeteria
    n 1: a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier
  • cochlea
    n 1: the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti
  • cornea
    n 1: the transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera
  • diphtheria
    n 1: acute contagious infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae; marked by the formation of a false membrane in the throat and other air passages causing difficulty in breathing
  • dyspepsia
    n 1: a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea [syn: indigestion, dyspepsia, stomach upset, upset stomach]
  • dysphasia
    n 1: an impairment of language (especially speech production) that is usually due to brain damage
  • echolalia
    n 1: an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others 2: (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)
  • fascia
    n 1: a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc [syn: fascia, facia] 2: instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls [syn: dashboard, fascia]
  • gonorrhoea
    n 1: a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra [syn: gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, clap]
  • harmonica
    n 1: a small rectangular free-reed instrument having a row of free reeds set back in air holes and played by blowing into the desired hole [syn: harmonica, mouth organ, harp, mouth harp]
  • hernia
    n 1: rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes [syn: hernia, herniation]
  • hydrophobia
    n 1: a symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids 2: a morbid fear of water 3: an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain [syn: rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness]
  • hypochondria
    n 1: chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments [syn: hypochondria, hypochondriasis]
  • hypoxia
    n 1: oxygen deficiency causing a very strong drive to correct the deficiency
  • hysteria
    n 1: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria] 2: excessive or uncontrollable fear 3: neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions [syn: hysteria, hysterical neurosis]
  • idea
    n 1: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind" [syn: idea, thought] 2: your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces" [syn: mind, idea] 3: a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him" 4: an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take" [syn: estimate, estimation, approximation, idea] 5: (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it" [syn: theme, melodic theme, musical theme, idea]
  • kinaesthesia
    n 1: the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc [syn: kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement] 2: the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body [syn: kinesthesis, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement] [ant: kinanesthesia]
  • kleptomania
    n 1: an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive
  • lobelia
    n 1: any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia
  • loggia
    n 1: a roofed arcade or gallery with open sides stretching along the front or side of a building; often at an upper level
  • mafia
    n 1: a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia [syn: Mafia, Maffia, Cosa Nostra] 2: a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century [syn: Mafia, Maffia, Sicilian Mafia] 3: any tightly knit group of trusted associates [syn: mafia, maffia]
  • malaria
    n 1: an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever
  • mania
    n 1: an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action [syn: mania, passion, cacoethes] 2: a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently [syn: mania, manic disorder]
  • marginalia
    n 1: notes written in the margin
  • melancholia
    n 1: extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears
  • memorabilia
    n 1: a record of things worth remembering
  • minutia
    n 1: a small or minor detail; "he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code"
  • mommy
    n 1: informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy]
  • monomania
    n 1: a mania restricted to one thing or idea [syn: monomania, possession]
  • multimedia
    n 1: transmission that combine media of communication (text and graphics and sound etc.) [syn: multimedia, multimedia system]
  • myalgia
    n 1: pain in a muscle or group of muscles [syn: myalgia, myodynia]
  • myasthenia
    n 1: a chronic progressive disease characterized by chronic fatigue and muscular weakness (especially in the face and neck); caused by a deficiency of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions [syn: myasthenia gravis, myasthenia] 2: any muscular weakness
  • myopia
    n 1: (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred [syn: myopia, nearsightedness, shortsightedness] [ant: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness]
  • nausea
    n 1: the state that precedes vomiting [syn: nausea, sickness] 2: disgust so strong it makes you feel sick
  • necrophilia
    n 1: an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies [syn: necrophilia, necrophilism, necromania]
  • nutria
    n 1: aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur [syn: coypu, nutria, Myocastor coypus]
  • nymphomania
    n 1: abnormally intense sexual desire in women
  • orthodontia
    n 1: the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention or correction of irregularities of the teeth [syn: orthodontics, orthodontia, orthodonture, dental orthopedics, dental orthopaedics]
  • panacea
    n 1: (Greek mythology) the goddess of healing; daughter of Aesculapius and sister of Hygeia 2: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists [syn: panacea, nostrum, catholicon, cure-all]
  • paraplegia
    n 1: paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma)
  • phobia
    n 1: an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general term for all phobias" [syn: phobia, phobic disorder, phobic neurosis]

See also insomnia definition