Words that rhyme with lamus

adj 1: widely known and esteemed; "a famous actor"; "a celebrated musician"; "a famed scientist"; "an illustrious judge"; "a notable historian"; "a renowned painter" [syn: celebrated, famed, far-famed, famous, illustrious, notable, noted, renowned]

n 1: an ignorant person [syn: ignoramus, know nothing, uneducated person]

n 1: an extraordinary writ commanding an official to perform a ministerial act that the law recognizes as an absolute duty and not a matter for the official's discretion; used only when all other judicial remedies fail [syn: mandamus, writ of mandamus]

n 1: someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information [syn: private detective, PI, private eye, private investigator, operative, shamus, sherlock]

n 1: a Hebrew shepherd and minor prophet 2: an Old Testament book telling Amos's prophecies [syn: Amos, Book of Amos]

n 1: the outer of two small satellites of Mars

n 1: the posterior part of the mandible that is more or less vertical

adj 1: resembling a fork; divided or separated into two branches; "the biramous appendages of an arthropod"; "long branched hairs on its legson which pollen collects"; "a forked river"; "a forked tail"; "forked lightning"; "horseradish grown in poor soil may develop prongy roots" [syn: bifurcate, biramous, branched, forked, fork-like, forficate, pronged, prongy]

n 1: French astrologer who wrote cryptic predictions whose interpretations are still being debated (1503-1566) [syn: Nostradamus, Michel de Notredame]

n 1: protrusion of the eyeball from the socket