Words that rhyme with leprosarium

n 1: a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals [syn: aquarium, fish tank, marine museum]

n 1: the collection of equipment and methods used in the practice of medicine

n 1: any chamber that is connected to other chambers or passageways (especially one of the two upper chambers of the heart) 2: the central area in a building; open to the sky

n 1: the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits

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]

n 1: a soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group; found in barite [syn: barium, Ba, atomic number 56]

n 1: a ductile grey metallic element of the lanthanide series; used in lighter flints; the most abundant of the rare-earth group [syn: cerium, Ce, atomic number 58]

n 1: a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead [syn: columbarium, cinerarium]

n 1: a birdhouse for pigeons [syn: dovecote, columbarium, columbary] 2: a niche for a funeral urn containing the ashes of the cremated dead [syn: columbarium, cinerarium] 3: a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns

n 1: the deep vascular inner layer of the skin [syn: dermis, corium, derma]

n 1: a mortuary where corpses are cremated [syn: crematory, crematorium] 2: a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes [syn: crematory, crematorium, cremation chamber]

n 1: a radioactive transuranic metallic element; produced by bombarding plutonium with helium nuclei [syn: curium, Cm, atomic number 96]

n 1: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria] 2: a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations

n 1: an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen) [syn: deuterium, heavy hydrogen]

n 1: loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others [ant: equilibrium]

n 1: a large retail store organized into departments offering a variety of merchandise; commonly part of a retail chain [syn: department store, emporium]

n 1: a stable situation in which forces cancel one another [ant: disequilibrium] 2: a chemical reaction and its reverse proceed at equal rates [syn: chemical equilibrium, equilibrium] 3: equality of distribution [syn: balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance] 4: a sensory system located in structures of the inner ear that registers the orientation of the head [syn: equilibrium, labyrinthine sense, vestibular sense, sense of balance, sense of equilibrium]

n 1: a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study

n 1: a fee paid for a nominally free service

n 1: a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged 2: suspension of an ongoing activity

n 1: state of disgrace resulting from public abuse [syn: obloquy, opprobrium] 2: a state of extreme dishonor; "a date which will live in infamy"- F.D.Roosevelt; "the name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city" [syn: infamy, opprobrium] [ant: celebrity, fame, renown]

n 1: a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling 2: an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome 3: an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems

n 1: a grey lustrous metallic element of the rare earth group; is used in special alloys; occurs in monazite and bastnasite [syn: samarium, Sm, atomic number 62]

n 1: a room in a monastery that is set aside for writing or copying manuscripts

n 1: a room enclosed largely with glass and affording exposure to the sun [syn: sun parlor, sun parlour, sun porch, sunporch, sunroom, sun lounge, solarium]

n 1: a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold [syn: tellurium, Te, atomic number 52]

n 1: a vivarium in which selected living plants are kept and observed

n 1: a soft silvery-white tetravalent radioactive metallic element; isotope 232 is used as a power source in nuclear reactors; occurs in thorite and in monazite sands [syn: thorium, Th, atomic number 90]

n 1: a silvery metallic element that is common in rare-earth minerals; used in magnesium and aluminum alloys [syn: yttrium, Y, atomic number 39]

n 1: an indoor enclosure for keeping and raising living animals and plants and observing them under natural conditions

n 1: a hospital for recuperation or for the treatment of chronic diseases [syn: sanatorium, sanatarium, sanitarium]

n 1: lotion consisting of a solution used as a cleanser for the eyes [syn: eye-lotion, eyewash, collyrium]

n 1: the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised [syn: empire, imperium] 2: supreme authority; absolute dominion

n 1: the third compartment of the stomach of a ruminant [syn: psalterium, omasum, third stomach]

n 1: a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella [syn: eubacteria, eubacterium, true bacteria]

n 1: the basin or other vessel that holds holy water in Roman Catholic Churches 2: a short-handled device with a globe containing a sponge; used for sprinkling holy water [syn: aspergill, aspersorium]

n 1: a bathhouse for hot air baths or steam baths [syn: sudatorium, sudatory]