Words that rhyme with isom

  • atheism
    n 1: the doctrine or belief that there is no God [syn: atheism, godlessness] [ant: theism] 2: a lack of belief in the existence of God or gods
  • chrism
    n 1: a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam [syn: chrism, chrisom, sacramental oil, holy oil]
  • chrisom
    n 1: a consecrated ointment consisting of a mixture of oil and balsam [syn: chrism, chrisom, sacramental oil, holy oil]
  • deism
    n 1: the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation [syn: deism, free thought]
  • prism
    n 1: a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms 2: optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image [syn: prism, optical prism]
  • truism
    n 1: an obvious truth
  • castroism
    n 1: a form of communism developed in Cuba by Fidel Castro
  • dichroism
    n 1: pleochroism of a crystal so that it exhibits two different colors when viewed from two different directions
  • grundyism
    n 1: excessive or affected modesty [syn: primness, prudishness, prudery, Grundyism]
  • hebraism
    n 1: Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud [syn: Judaism, Hebraism, Jewish religion]
  • hinduism
    n 1: the religion of most people in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal [syn: Hinduism, Hindooism] 2: a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils [syn: Hinduism, Hindooism]
  • judaism
    n 1: Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud [syn: Judaism, Hebraism, Jewish religion] 2: the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud
  • lamaism
    n 1: a Buddhist doctrine that includes elements from India that are not Buddhist and elements of preexisting shamanism [syn: Lamaism, Tibetan Buddhism]
  • mazdaism
    n 1: system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster; set forth in the Zend-Avesta; based on concept of struggle between light (good) and dark (evil) [syn: Zoroastrianism, Mazdaism]
  • rowdyism
    n 1: rowdy behavior [syn: rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderliness]
  • tritheism
    n 1: (Christianity) the heretical belief that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods
  • trotskyism
    n 1: the form of communism advocated by Leon Trotsky; calls for immediate worldwide revolution by the proletariat
  • mccarthyism
    n 1: unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists)
  • pleochroism
    n 1: the phenomenon of different colors appearing when certain crystals are viewed from different directions
  • misoneism
    n 1: hatred of change or innovation
  • taoism
    n 1: a Chinese sect claiming to follow the teaching of Lao-tzu but incorporating pantheism and sorcery in addition to Taoism 2: religion adhering to the teaching of Lao-tzu 3: popular Chinese philosophical system based in teachings of Lao-tzu but characterized by a pantheism of many gods and the practices of alchemy and divination and magic [syn: Taoism, Hsuan Chiao] 4: philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events [syn: Taoism, Daoism]
  • ditheism
  • echoism
  • toadyism
  • entryism
  • titoism
  • toryism
  • ultraism
  • voluntaryism
  • hylotheism