Words that rhyme with iris

• avarice 0
  n 1: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia] 2: extreme greed for material wealth [syn: avarice, avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity]
• buttress 0
  n 1: a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building [syn: buttress, buttressing] v 1: reinforce with a buttress; "Buttress the church" 2: make stronger or defensible; "buttress your thesis"
• citrus 0
  n 1: any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions [syn: citrus, citrus fruit, citrous fruit] 2: any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds [syn: citrus, citrus tree]
• clitoris 0
  n 1: a female sexual organ homologous to the penis [syn: clitoris, clit, button]
• dentifrice 0
  n 1: a substance for cleaning the teeth; applied with a toothbrush
• desirous 0
  adj 1: having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem" [syn: desirous, wishful] [ant: undesiring, undesirous]
• empress 0
  n 1: a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
• ephemeris 0
  n 1: an annual publication containing astronomical tables that give the positions of the celestial bodies throughout the year; "today computers calculate the ephemerides"
• ex 0
  adj 1: out of fashion; "a suit of rather antique appearance"; "demode (or outmoded) attire"; "outmoded ideas" [syn: antique, demode, ex, old-fashioned, old-hat(p), outmoded, passe, passee] n 1: a man who was formerly a certain woman's husband [syn: ex- husband, ex] 2: a woman who was formerly a particular man's wife; "all his exes live in Texas" [syn: ex-wife, ex] 3: the 24th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: X, x, ex]
• ferrous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or containing iron [syn: ferric, ferrous]
• fibrous 0
  adj 1: having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute [syn: hempen, fibrous] 2: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable]
• fortress 0
  n 1: a fortified defensive structure [syn: fortress, fort]
• harass 0
  v 1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke] 2: exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy"
• heiress 0
  n 1: a female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix]
• hubris 0
  n 1: overbearing pride or presumption
• humorous 0
  adj 1: full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" [syn: humorous, humourous] [ant: humorless, humourless, unhumorous]
• huntress 0
  n 1: a woman hunter
• hydrous 0
  adj 1: containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate) [syn: hydrous, hydrated] [ant: anhydrous]
• laundress 0
  n 1: a working woman who takes in washing [syn: washwoman, washerwoman, laundrywoman, laundress]
• leprous 0
  adj 1: relating to or resembling or having leprosy
• liquorice 0
  n 1: deep-rooted coarse-textured plant native to the Mediterranean region having blue flowers and pinnately compound leaves; widely cultivated in Europe for its long thick sweet roots [syn: licorice, liquorice, Glycyrrhiza glabra] 2: a black candy flavored with the dried root of the licorice plant [syn: licorice, liquorice]
• lustrous 0
  adj 1: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents" [syn: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny] 2: brilliant; "set a lustrous example for others to follow"; "lustrous actors of the time" 3: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining]
• mattress 0
  n 1: a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
• mistress 0
  n 1: an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man [syn: mistress, kept woman, fancy woman] 2: a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) [syn: schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistress] 3: a woman master who directs the work of others
• monstrous 0
  adj 1: abnormally large 2: 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] 3: distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" [syn: grotesque, monstrous]
• nitrous 0
  adj 1: of or containing nitrogen; "nitric acid" [syn: azotic, nitric, nitrous]
• ogress 0
  n 1: (folklore) a female ogre
• scabrous 0
  adj 1: rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf [syn: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy] 2: dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel"
• serous 0
  adj 1: of or producing or containing serum; "a serous exudate"
• virus 0
  n 1: (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein 2: a harmful or corrupting agency; "bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread"; "the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone" 3: a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer; "a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance" [syn: virus, computer virus]
• walrus 0
  n 1: either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber [syn: walrus, seahorse, sea horse]
• derris 0
  n 1: any of various usually woody vines of the genus Derris of tropical Asia whose roots yield the insecticide rotenone; several are sources of native fish and arrow poisons
• foundress 0
  n 1: a woman founder
• morris 0
  n 1: United States suffragist in Wyoming (1814-1902) [syn: Morris, Esther Morris, Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris] 2: English poet and craftsman (1834-1896) [syn: Morris, William Morris] 3: leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806) [syn: Morris, Robert Morris] 4: United States statesman who led the committee that produced the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816) [syn: Morris, Gouverneur Morris]
• norris 0
  n 1: United States writer (1870-1902) [syn: Norris, Frank Norris, Benjamin Franklin Norris Jr.]
• orris 0
  n 1: German iris having large white flowers with lavender-tinged falls and a fragrant rhizome [syn: Florentine iris, orris, Iris germanica florentina, Iris florentina] 2: fragrant rootstock of various irises especially Florentine iris; used in perfumes and medicines [syn: orrisroot, orris]
• paris 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce [syn: Paris, City of Light, French capital, capital of France] 2: sometimes placed in subfamily Trilliaceae [syn: Paris, genus Paris] 3: (Greek mythology) the prince of Troy who abducted Helen from her husband Menelaus and provoked the Trojan War 4: a town in northeastern Texas
• tigris 0
  n 1: an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River [syn: Tigris, Tigris River]
• traitress 0
  n 1: female traitor
• siris 0
  n 1: large spreading Old World tree having large leaves and globose clusters of greenish-yellow flowers and long seed pods that clatter in the wind [syn: siris, siris tree, Albizia lebbeck, Albizzia lebbeck]
• polaris 0
  n 1: the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it [syn: Polaris, North Star, pole star, polar star, polestar]
• cyrus 0
  n 1: Persian prince who was defeated in battle by his brother Artaxerxes II (424-401 BC) [syn: Cyrus, Cyrus the Younger]
• gyrus 0
  n 1: a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain [syn: gyrus, convolution]
• retrovirus 0
  n 1: any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell
• harris 0
  n 1: United States author who wrote the stories about Uncle Remus (1848-1908) [syn: Harris, Joel Harris, Joel Chandler Harris] 2: United States linguist (born in Ukraine) who developed mathematical linguistics and interpreted speech and writing in a social context (1909-1992) [syn: Harris, Zellig Harris, Zellig Sabbatai Harris] 3: United States diplomat who was instrumental in opening Japan to foreign trade (1804-1878) [syn: Harris, Townsend Harris] 4: Irish writer noted for his sexually explicit but unreliable autobiography (1856-1931) [syn: Harris, Frank Harris, James Thomas Harris] 5: British marshal of the Royal Air Force; during World War II he directed mass bombing raids against German cities that resulted in heavy civilian casualties (1892-1984) [syn: Harris, Bomber Harris, Sir Arthur Travers Harris] 6: publisher of the first newspaper printed in America (1673-1713) [syn: Harris, Benjamin Harris]
• eris 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of discord; sister of Ares
• osiris 0
  n 1: Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead; husband and brother of Isis; father of Horus
• finest 0
• boris 0
• ferris 0
• loris 0
• harries 0
• clarice 0
• maurice 0
• torrez 0
• flores 0
• torres 0
• arris 0
• apollinaris 0
• farris 0
• cantoris 0

See also iris definition and iris synonyms