Words that rhyme with kouri

n 1: a unit of radioactivity equal to the amount of a radioactive isotope that decays at the rate of 37,000,000,000 disintegrations per second [syn: curie, Ci] 2: French physicist; husband of Marie Curie (1859-1906) [syn: Curie, Pierre Curie] 3: French chemist (born in Poland) who won two Nobel prizes; one (with her husband and Henri Becquerel) for research on radioactivity and another for her discovery of radium and polonium (1867-1934) [syn: Curie, Marie Curie, Madame Curie, Marya Sklodowska]

n 1: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness] 2: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria] 3: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness] 4: (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals [syn: Fury, Eumenides, Erinyes]

n 1: a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law 2: a committee appointed to judge a competition [syn: jury, panel]

n 1: offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: popery, papism]

n 1: United States architect (born in 1925) [syn: Venturi, Robert Venturi, Robert Charles Venturi] 2: a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor)

n 1: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells [syn: cowrie, cowry]

n 1: Jews collectively

n 1: a voluptuously beautiful young woman [syn: nymph, houri] 2: (Islam) one of the dark-eyed virgins of perfect beauty believed to live with the blessed in Paradise

n 1: a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union [syn: Missouri, Show Me State, MO] 2: the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis; "The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together form the third longest river in the world" [syn: Missouri, Missouri River] 3: a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri 4: a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri