Words that rhyme with millennia

n 1: any of several shrubs or small evergreen trees having solitary white or pink or reddish flowers [syn: camellia, camelia]

n 1: any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia

n 1: the academic world [syn: academia, academe]

n 1: a morbid fear of great heights

n 1: inability to perceive written words [syn: visual aphasia, alexia, word blindness]

n 1: a mixture of nectar and pollen prepared by worker bees and fed to larvae [syn: beebread, ambrosia] 2: any of numerous chiefly North American weedy plants constituting the genus Ambrosia that produce highly allergenic pollen responsible for much hay fever and asthma [syn: ragweed, ambrosia, bitterweed] 3: fruit dessert made of oranges and bananas with shredded coconut 4: (classical mythology) the food and drink of the gods; mortals who ate it became immortal [syn: ambrosia, nectar]

n 1: a lack of vitality [syn: anemia, anaemia] 2: a deficiency of red blood cells [syn: anemia, anaemia]

n 1: a prolonged disorder of eating due to loss of appetite

n 1: inability to use or understand language (spoken or written) because of a brain lesion

n 1: a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country" [syn: area, country] 2: a subject of study; "it was his area of specialization"; "areas of interest include..." 3: a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region" [syn: area, region] 4: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" [syn: sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena] 5: a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants" 6: the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area" [syn: area, expanse, surface area]

n 1: an elaborate song for solo voice

n 1: a condition in which insufficient or no oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged on a ventilatory basis; caused by choking or drowning or electric shock or poison gas

n 1: any of numerous ornamental shrubs grown for their showy flowers of various colors

n 1: an orgiastic festival in ancient Greece in honor of Dionysus (= Bacchus) [syn: Dionysia, Bacchanalia] 2: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]

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: preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books

n 1: a disorder of eating seen among young women who go on eating binges and then feel guilt and depression and self- condemnation [syn: bulimia, binge-eating syndrome] 2: pathologically insatiable hunger (especially when caused by brain lesions)

n 1: a restaurant where you serve yourself and pay a cashier

n 1: the snail-shaped tube (in the inner ear coiled around the modiolus) where sound vibrations are converted into nerve impulses by the organ of Corti

n 1: the transparent dome-shaped anterior portion of the outer covering of the eye; it covers the iris and pupil and is continuous with the sclera

n 1: a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity [syn: horn of plenty, cornucopia] 2: the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English" [syn: profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia]

n 1: mental deterioration of organic or functional origin [syn: dementia, dementedness]

n 1: acute contagious infection caused by the bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheriae; marked by the formation of a false membrane in the throat and other air passages causing difficulty in breathing

n 1: impaired ability to learn to read

n 1: a disorder of digestive function characterized by discomfort or heartburn or nausea [syn: indigestion, dyspepsia, stomach upset, upset stomach]

n 1: an impairment of language (especially speech production) that is usually due to brain damage

n 1: an infant's repetition of sounds uttered by others 2: (psychiatry) mechanical and meaningless repetition of the words of another person (as in schizophrenia)

n 1: an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs

n 1: a feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation [syn: euphoria, euphory] [ant: dysphoria]

n 1: a sheet or band of fibrous connective tissue separating or binding together muscles and organs etc [syn: fascia, facia] 2: instrument panel on an automobile or airplane containing dials and controls [syn: dashboard, fascia]

n 1: external sex organ [syn: genitalia, genital organ, genitals, private parts, privates, crotch]

n 1: a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra [syn: gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, clap]

n 1: rupture in smooth muscle tissue through which a bodily structure protrudes [syn: hernia, herniation]

n 1: a symptom of rabies in humans consisting of an aversion to swallowing liquids 2: a morbid fear of water 3: an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain [syn: rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness]

n 1: chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments [syn: hypochondria, hypochondriasis]

n 1: subnormal body temperature [ant: hyperthermia, hyperthermy]

n 1: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria] 2: excessive or uncontrollable fear 3: neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions [syn: hysteria, hysterical neurosis]

n 1: the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about; "it was not a good idea"; "the thought never entered my mind" [syn: idea, thought] 2: your intention; what you intend to do; "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces" [syn: mind, idea] 3: a personal view; "he has an idea that we don't like him" 4: an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take" [syn: estimate, estimation, approximation, idea] 5: (music) melodic subject of a musical composition; "the theme is announced in the first measures"; "the accompanist picked up the idea and elaborated it" [syn: theme, melodic theme, musical theme, idea]

n 1: a badge worn to show official position

n 1: an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness [ant: hypersomnia]

n 1: the perception of body position and movement and muscular tensions etc [syn: kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, feeling of movement] 2: the ability to feel movements of the limbs and body [syn: kinesthesis, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, kinesthetics, muscle sense, sense of movement] [ant: kinanesthesia]

n 1: an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive

n 1: any plant or flower of the genus Lobelia

n 1: a crime syndicate in the United States; organized in families; believed to have important relations to the Sicilian Mafia [syn: Mafia, Maffia, Cosa Nostra] 2: a secret terrorist group in Sicily; originally opposed tyranny but evolved into a criminal organization in the middle of the 19th century [syn: Mafia, Maffia, Sicilian Mafia] 3: any tightly knit group of trusted associates [syn: mafia, maffia]

n 1: an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever

n 1: an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action [syn: mania, passion, cacoethes] 2: a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently [syn: mania, manic disorder]

n 1: notes written in the margin

n 1: extreme depression characterized by tearful sadness and irrational fears

n 1: a record of things worth remembering

adj 1: relating to a millennium or span of a thousand years [syn: millennial, millennian]

n 1: a small or minor detail; "he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code"

n 1: a mania restricted to one thing or idea [syn: monomania, possession]

n 1: transmission that combine media of communication (text and graphics and sound etc.) [syn: multimedia, multimedia system]

n 1: pain in a muscle or group of muscles [syn: myalgia, myodynia]

n 1: a chronic progressive disease characterized by chronic fatigue and muscular weakness (especially in the face and neck); caused by a deficiency of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junctions [syn: myasthenia gravis, myasthenia] 2: any muscular weakness

n 1: (ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred [syn: myopia, nearsightedness, shortsightedness] [ant: farsightedness, hypermetropia, hypermetropy, hyperopia, longsightedness]

n 1: the state that precedes vomiting [syn: nausea, sickness] 2: disgust so strong it makes you feel sick

n 1: an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies [syn: necrophilia, necrophilism, necromania]

n 1: aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur [syn: coypu, nutria, Myocastor coypus]

n 1: abnormally intense sexual desire in women

n 1: the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention or correction of irregularities of the teeth [syn: orthodontics, orthodontia, orthodonture, dental orthopedics, dental orthopaedics]

n 1: (Greek mythology) the goddess of healing; daughter of Aesculapius and sister of Hygeia 2: hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists [syn: panacea, nostrum, catholicon, cure-all]

n 1: paralysis of the lower half of the body (most often as a result of trauma)

n 1: an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; "phobic disorder is a general term for all phobias" [syn: phobia, phobic disorder, phobic neurosis]

n 1: a morbid fear of light 2: pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism) [syn: photalgia, photophobia]

n 1: a shop where pizzas are made and sold [syn: pizzeria, pizza shop, pizza parlor]

n 1: tropical American plant having poisonous milk and showy tapering usually scarlet petallike leaves surrounding small yellow flowers [syn: poinsettia, Christmas star, Christmas flower, lobster plant, Mexican flameleaf, painted leaf, Euphorbia pulcherrima]

n 1: an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things

n 1: leaf fibers of the raffia palm tree; used to make baskets and mats etc. [syn: raffia, raphia] 2: fiber of a raffia palm used as light cordage and in making hats and baskets 3: feather palm of tropical Africa and Madagascar and Central and South America widely grown for commercial purposes [syn: Raffia, genus Raffia, Raphia, genus Raphia]

n 1: paraphernalia indicative of royalty (or other high office) 2: especially fine or decorative clothing [syn: array, raiment, regalia]

n 1: an orgiastic festival in ancient Rome in honor of Saturn 2: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]

n 1: a shade of brown with a tinge of red [syn: reddish brown, sepia, burnt sienna, Venetian red, mahogany] 2: rich brown pigment prepared from the ink of cuttlefishes 3: type genus of the Sepiidae [syn: Sepia, genus Sepia]

n 1: invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a focus of infection [syn: blood poisoning, septicemia, septicaemia]

n 1: a residential district located on the outskirts of a city [syn: suburb, suburbia, suburban area] 2: suburbanites considered as a cultural class or subculture

n 1: the inner and thicker of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle [syn: tibia, shinbone, shin bone, shin]

n 1: thin unleavened pancake made from cornmeal or wheat flour

n 1: an abnormal condition of pregnancy characterized by hypertension and edema and protein in the urine [syn: toxemia of pregnancy, toxaemia of pregnancy, toxemia, toxaemia] 2: blood poisoning caused by bacterial toxic substances in the blood [syn: toxemia, toxaemia]

n 1: membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi [syn: trachea, windpipe] 2: one of the tubules forming the respiratory system of most insects and many arachnids

n 1: something of small importance [syn: triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer]

n 1: a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island 2: ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects [ant: dystopia] 3: a work of fiction describing a utopia 4: an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal [syn: Utopia, Zion, Sion]

n 1: any flowering vine of the genus Wisteria [syn: wisteria, wistaria]

n 1: a fear of foreigners or strangers

n 1: any of various plants of the genus Zinnia cultivated for their variously and brightly colored flower heads [syn: zinnia, old maid, old maid flower]

n 1: a deficiency of red blood cells [syn: anemia, anaemia] 2: a lack of vitality [syn: anemia, anaemia] 3: genus of terrestrial or lithophytic ferns having pinnatifid fronds; chiefly of tropical America [syn: Anemia, genus Anemia]

n 1: a historical area and former kingdom in the Czech Republic 2: a group of artists and writers with real or pretended artistic or intellectual aspirations and usually an unconventional life style

n 1: malignant neoplasm of blood-forming tissues; characterized by abnormal proliferation of leukocytes; one of the four major types of cancer [syn: leukemia, leukaemia, leucaemia, cancer of the blood]

n 1: abnormally low blood sugar usually resulting from excessive insulin or a poor diet [syn: hypoglycemia, hypoglycaemia] [ant: hyperglycaemia, hyperglycemia]

n 1: (West Indies) followers of a religious system involving witchcraft and sorcery [syn: obeah, obi] 2: a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas [syn: obeah, obi]

n 1: a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov

n 1: an Asian peninsula (off Manchuria) separating the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan; the Korean name is Dae-Han-Min- Gook or Han-Gook [syn: Korea, Korean Peninsula, Dae- Han-Min-Gook, Han-Gook]

n 1: capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria [syn: Sofia, Serdica, Bulgarian capital]

n 1: frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor [syn: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels, looseness]

n 1: a common venereal disease caused by the bacterium Neisseria gonorrhoeae; symptoms are painful urination and pain around the urethra [syn: gonorrhea, gonorrhoea, clap]

n 1: a republic in eastern Africa [syn: Tanzania, United Republic of Tanzania]

n 1: a landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980 [syn: Zimbabwe, Republic of Zimbabwe, Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesia]

n 1: a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe [syn: Bulgaria, Republic of Bulgaria]

n 1: the largest city in Pennsylvania; located in the southeastern part of the state on the Delaware river; site of Independence Hall where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed; site of the University of Pennsylvania [syn: Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love]

n 1: a Japanese shrub that resembles members of the genus Spiraea; widely cultivated in many varieties for its dense panicles of flowers in many colors; often forced by florists for Easter blooming [syn: spirea, spiraea, Astilbe japonica] 2: any rosaceous plant of the genus Spiraea; has sprays of small white or pink flowers [syn: spirea, spiraea]

n 1: an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization [syn: Syria, Syrian Arab Republic]

n 1: a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s [syn: Algeria, Algerie, Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria]