Words that rhyme with merriam

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

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: 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 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 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]