Words that rhyme with meerschaum

  • adventuresome
    adj 1: willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy" [syn: adventurous, adventuresome] [ant: unadventurous]
  • awesome
    adj 1: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent" [syn: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing]
  • balsam
    n 1: any seed plant yielding balsam 2: any of various fragrant oleoresins used in medicines and perfumes 3: an ointment containing a fragrant resin
  • blithesome
    adj 1: carefree and happy and lighthearted; "was loved for her blithe spirit"; "a merry blithesome nature"; "her lighthearted nature"; "trilling songs with a lightsome heart" [syn: blithe, blithesome, lighthearted, lightsome, light-hearted]
  • blossom
    n 1: reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts [syn: flower, bloom, blossom] 2: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush] v 1: produce or yield flowers; "The cherry tree bloomed" [syn: bloom, blossom, flower] 2: develop or come to a promising stage; "Youth blossomed into maturity" [syn: blossom, blossom out, blossom forth, unfold]
  • bothersome
    adj 1: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing]
  • burdensome
    adj 1: not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule" [syn: burdensome, onerous, taxing]
  • buxom
    adj 1: (of a woman's body) having a large bosom and pleasing curves; "Hollywood seems full of curvaceous blondes"; "a curvy young woman in a tight dress" [syn: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, voluptuous, well- endowed] 2: (of a female body) healthily plump and vigorous ; "a generation ago...buxom actresses were popular"- Robt.A.Hamilton; [syn: buxom, zaftig, zoftig]
  • cuddlesome
    adj 1: inviting cuddling or hugging; "a cuddlesome baby"; "a cuddly teddybear" [syn: cuddlesome, cuddly]
  • cumbersome
    adj 1: difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing" [syn: cumbersome, cumbrous] 2: not elegant or graceful in expression; "an awkward prose style"; "a clumsy apology"; "his cumbersome writing style"; "if the rumor is true, can anything be more inept than to repeat it now?" [syn: awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, inapt, inept, ill-chosen]
  • dorsum
    n 1: the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine; "his back was nicely tanned" [syn: back, dorsum] 2: the back of the body of a vertebrate or any analogous surface (as the upper or outer surface of an organ or appendage or part); "the dorsum of the foot"
  • fearsome
    adj 1: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible]
  • nasturtium
    n 1: any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers 2: aquatic herbs [syn: Nasturtium, genus Nasturtium] 3: flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings
  • strontium
    n 1: a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in celestite and strontianite [syn: strontium, Sr, atomic number 38]
  • technetium
    n 1: a crystalline metallic element not found in nature; occurs as one of the fission products of uranium [syn: technetium, Tc, atomic number 43]
  • threesome
    n 1: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one [syn: three, 3, III, trio, threesome, tierce, leash, troika, triad, trine, trinity, ternary, ternion, triplet, tercet, terzetto, trey, deuce- ace] 2: three people considered as a unit [syn: trio, threesome, triad, trinity]
  • tiresome
    adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]
  • toilsome
    adj 1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
  • toothsome
    adj 1: acceptable to the taste or mind; "palatable food"; "a palatable solution to the problem" [syn: palatable, toothsome] [ant: unpalatable] 2: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy] 3: having strong sexual appeal; "juicy barmaids"; "a red-hot mama"; "a voluptuous woman"; "a toothsome blonde in a tight dress" [syn: juicy, luscious, red-hot, toothsome, voluptuous]
  • transom
    n 1: a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door [syn: transom, transom window, fanlight] 2: a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it [syn: transom, traverse]
  • troublesome
    adj 1: difficult to deal with; "a troublesome infection"; "a troublesome situation"
  • twosome
    n 1: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad] 2: a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" [syn: couple, twosome, duo, duet]
  • unwholesome
    adj 1: detrimental to physical or moral well-being; "unwholesome food"; "unwholesome habits like smoking" [ant: wholesome]
  • venturesome
    adj 1: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit" [syn: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous]
  • wearisome
    adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome]
  • wholesome
    adj 1: conducive to or characteristic of physical or moral well- being; "wholesome attitude"; "wholesome appearance"; "wholesome food" [ant: unwholesome] 2: sound or exhibiting soundness in body or mind; "exercise develops wholesome appetites"; "a grin on his ugly wholesome face"
  • latium
    n 1: an ancient region of west central Italy (southeast of Rome) on the Tyrrhenian Sea [syn: Latium, Lazio]
  • eightsome
    n 1: eight people considered as a unit [syn: octet, octette, eightsome] 2: a Scottish reel for eight dancers
  • gresham
    n 1: English financier (1519-1579) [syn: Gresham, Sir Thomas Gresham]
  • helichrysum
    n 1: large genus of mostly African and Australian herbs and shrubs: everlasting flowers; in some classifications includes genus Ozothamnus [syn: Helichrysum, genus Helichrysum]
  • lutecium
    n 1: a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; usually occurs in association with yttrium [syn: lutetium, lutecium, Lu, atomic number 71]
  • darksome
  • unhandsome
  • solatium
  • sansom
  • amersham
  • sensum
  • pashm
  • folsom
  • sestertium

See also meerschaum definition and meerschaum synonyms