Words that rhyme with lourdes

adj 1: marked by assurance; exhibiting confidence; "she paints with an assured hand" 2: characterized by certainty or security; "a tiny but assured income"; "we can never have completely assured lives"

adv 1: at or to or toward the back or rear; "he moved back"; "tripped when he stepped backward"; "she looked rearward out the window of the car" [syn: back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards] [ant: forrad, forrard, forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards] 2: in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward" [syn: backward, backwards]

n 1: the stage of a theater; "most actors love to stride the boards" 2: the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink

n 1: cotton trousers made of corduroy cloth [syn: cords, corduroys]

adj 1: freed from illness or injury; "the patient appears cured"; "the incision is healed"; "appears to be entirely recovered"; "when the recovered patient tries to remember what occurred during his delirium"- Normon Cameron [syn: cured, healed, recovered] 2: (used of rubber) treated by a chemical or physical process to improve its properties (hardness and strength and odor and elasticity) [syn: cured, vulcanized, vulcanised] 3: (used of concrete or mortar) kept moist to assist the hardening 4: (used of hay e.g.) allowed to dry 5: (used especially of meat) cured in brine [syn: corned, cured] 6: (used of tobacco) aging as a preservative process (`aged' is pronounced as one syllable) [syn: aged, cured]

adv 1: spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position; "don't fall down"; "rode the lift up and skied down"; "prices plunged downward" [syn: down, downwards, downward, downwardly] [ant: up, upward, upwardly, upwards]

adv 1: at or to or toward the front; "he faced forward"; "step forward"; "she practiced sewing backward as well as frontward on her new sewing machine"; (`forrad' and `forrard' are dialectal variations) [syn: forward, forwards, frontward, frontwards, forrad, forrard] [ant: back, backward, backwards, rearward, rearwards] 2: in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud" [syn: ahead, onward, onwards, forward, forwards, forrader]

n 1: bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd [syn: gourd, calabash] 2: any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds 3: any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds [syn: gourd, gourd vine]

n 1: internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity); "`viscera' is the plural form of `viscus'" [syn: viscera, entrails, innards]

adj 1: covered by insurance; "an insured risk"; "all members of the film cast and crew are insured" [ant: uninsured] n 1: a person whose interests are protected by an insurance policy; a person who contracts for an insurance policy that indemnifies him against loss of property or life or health etc. [syn: insured, insured person]

adj 1: fully ripe; at the height of bloom; "a full-blown rose" [syn: full-blown, matured] 2: fully considered and perfected; "mature plans" [syn: mature, matured]

n 1: American theologian whose sermons and writings stimulated a period of renewed interest in religion in America (1703-1758) [syn: Edwards, Jonathan Edwards]

n 1: English literary critic who collaborated with C. K. Ogden and contributed to the development of Basic English (1893-1979) [syn: Richards, I. A. Richards, Ivor Armstrong Richards]