Words that rhyme with mistress

• actress 0
  n 1: a female actor
• adulteress 0
  n 1: a woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop]
• adulterous 0
  adj 1: characterized by adultery; "an adulterous relationship"; "extramarital affairs"; "the extracurricular activities of a philandering husband" [syn: adulterous, extramarital, extracurricular] 2: not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend" [syn: adulterous, cheating(a), two-timing(a)]
• adventuress 0
  n 1: a woman adventurer
• adventurous 0
  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]
• agribusiness 0
  n 1: a large-scale farming enterprise [syn: agribusiness, agriculture, factory farm]
• ambassadress 0
  n 1: a woman ambassador
• ambidextrous 0
  adj 1: equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon" [syn: ambidextrous, two-handed] [ant: left- handed, right-handed] 2: marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]
• amorous 0
  adj 1: inclined toward or displaying love; "feeling amorous" [syn: amative, amorous] 2: expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" [syn: amatory, amorous, romantic]
• ancestress 0
  n 1: a woman ancestor
• anhydrous 0
  adj 1: without water; especially without water of crystallization [ant: hydrated, hydrous]
• arras 0
  n 1: a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs [syn: tapestry, arras]
• auriferous 0
  adj 1: containing gold; "auriferous quartz veins" [syn: auriferous, gold-bearing]
• authoress 0
  n 1: a woman author
• barbarous 0
  adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious] 2: primitive in customs and culture
• benefactress 0
  n 1: a woman benefactor
• blusterous 0
  adj 1: blowing in violent and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day"; "a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind" [syn: blustering(a), blusterous, blustery]
• boisterous 0
  adj 1: noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class" [syn: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly] 2: full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy" [syn: boisterous, knockabout] 3: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: boisterous, fierce, rough]
• brontosaurus 0
  n 1: huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic [syn: apatosaur, apatosaurus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard, Apatosaurus excelsus]
• business 0
  n 1: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" [syn: business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation] 2: the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" [syn: commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business] 3: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, job, line of work, line] 4: a rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business" 5: an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening" 6: the volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today" 7: business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree" [syn: business, business sector] 8: customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele" [syn: clientele, patronage, business] 9: incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious" [syn: business, stage business, byplay]
• buttress 0
  n 1: a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building [syn: buttress, buttressing] v 1: reinforce with a buttress; "Buttress the church" 2: make stronger or defensible; "buttress your thesis"
• cadaverous 0
  adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] 2: of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end" [syn: cadaverous, cadaveric]
• cancerous 0
  adj 1: relating to or affected with cancer; "a cancerous growth" 2: like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads; "remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"
• cankerous 0
  adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous]
• canorous 0
  adj 1: richly melodious [syn: canorous, songful]
• cantankerous 0
  adj 1: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator [syn: bloody-minded, cantankerous] 2: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]
• carboniferous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era; "carboniferous rock system" 2: relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon [syn: carbonaceous, carbonous, carbonic, carboniferous] n 1: from 345 million to 280 million years ago [syn: Carboniferous, Carboniferous period]
• carnivorous 0
  adj 1: relating to or characteristic of carnivores; "the lion and other carnivorous animals" 2: (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects" [ant: herbivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous]
• chivalrous 0
  adj 1: being attentive to women like an ideal knight [syn: chivalrous, gallant, knightly]
• chorus 0
  n 1: any utterance produced simultaneously by a group; "a chorus of boos" 2: a group of people assembled to sing together 3: the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers [syn: refrain, chorus] 4: a body of dancers or singers who perform together [syn: chorus, chorus line] 5: a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play [syn: chorus, Greek chorus] v 1: utter in unison; "`yes,' the children chorused" 2: sing in a choir [syn: choir, chorus]
• cirrus 0
  n 1: usually coiled [syn: cirrus, cirrhus] 2: a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles) [syn: cirrus, cirrus cloud] 3: a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile
• citrus 0
  n 1: any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions [syn: citrus, citrus fruit, citrous fruit] 2: any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds [syn: citrus, citrus tree]
• clamorous 0
  adj 1: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous]
• closeness 0
  n 1: a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on" [syn: closeness, intimacy] 2: the quality of being close and poorly ventilated [syn: stuffiness, closeness] 3: the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action" [syn: nearness, closeness] [ant: farawayness, farness, remoteness] 4: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness] 5: characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) [syn: closeness, secretiveness] [ant: nakedness, openness] 6: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: familiarity, intimacy, closeness]
• cockatrice 0
  n 1: monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance
• conductress 0
  n 1: a woman conductor
• congress 0
  n 1: the legislature of the United States government [syn: Congress, United States Congress, U.S. Congress, US Congress] 2: a meeting of elected or appointed representatives 3: a national legislative assembly 4: the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge]
• coniferous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves [syn: coniferous, cone- bearing]
• cruciferous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae
• cumbrous 0
  adj 1: difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing" [syn: cumbersome, cumbrous]
• cuprous 0
  adj 1: of or containing divalent copper [syn: cupric, cuprous]
• cypress 0
  n 1: wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus 2: any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones [syn: cypress, cypress tree]
• dangerous 0
  adj 1: involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions" [syn: dangerous, unsafe] [ant: safe] 2: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening]
• darkness 0
  n 1: absence of light or illumination [syn: dark, darkness] [ant: light, lighting] 2: an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness" [syn: darkness, dark, shadow] 3: absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" [syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark] 4: an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" [syn: dark, darkness] 5: having a dark or somber color [ant: lightness] 6: a swarthy complexion [syn: darkness, duskiness, swarthiness]
• decorous 0
  adj 1: characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme" [ant: indecorous, indelicate] 2: according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior" [syn: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly]
• denseness 0
  n 1: the quality of being mentally slow and limited [syn: denseness, dumbness, slow-wittedness] 2: the spatial property of being crowded together [syn: concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness] [ant: dispersion, distribution] 3: the amount per unit size [syn: density, denseness]
• desirous 0
  adj 1: having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem" [syn: desirous, wishful] [ant: undesiring, undesirous]
• dexterous 0
  adj 1: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind" [syn: deft, dexterous, dextrous]
• dextrous 0
  adj 1: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind" [syn: deft, dexterous, dextrous]
• dipterous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera
• disastrous 0
  adj 1: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]
• disembarrass 0
  v 1: relieve from; "Rid the house of pests" [syn: rid, free, disembarrass]
• dizziness 0
  n 1: a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall [syn: dizziness, giddiness, lightheadedness, vertigo]
• dolorous 0
  adj 1: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping]
• echovirus 0
  n 1: any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants
• electrophorus 0
  n 1: a simple electrostatic generator that generates repeated charges of static electricity 2: type genus of the family Electrophoridae; electric eels [syn: Electrophorus, genus Electrophorus]
• embarrass 0
  v 1: cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious [syn: embarrass, abash] 2: hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn" [syn: obstruct, blockade, block, hinder, stymie, stymy, embarrass]
• empress 0
  n 1: a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
• enchantress 0
  n 1: a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive [syn: enchantress, temptress, siren, Delilah, femme fatale] 2: a female sorcerer or magician [syn: enchantress, witch]
• falseness 0
  n 1: the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" [syn: falsity, falseness] [ant: the true, trueness, truth, verity] 2: unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous [syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy] 3: the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical [syn: insincerity, falseness, hollowness] [ant: sincerity]
• ferrous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or containing iron [syn: ferric, ferrous]
• feverous 0
  adj 1: having or affected by a fever [syn: feverish, feverous]
• fibrous 0
  adj 1: having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute [syn: hempen, fibrous] 2: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable]
• fissiparous 0
  adj 1: reproducing by fission 2: having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction" [syn: breakaway, fissiparous, separatist]
• fitness 0
  n 1: the quality of being suitable; "they had to prove their fitness for the position" [syn: fitness, fittingness] [ant: unfitness] 2: good physical condition; being in shape or in condition [syn: fitness, physical fitness] [ant: softness, unfitness] 3: fitness to traverse the seas [syn: seaworthiness, fitness] 4: the quality of being qualified
• forgiveness 0
  n 1: compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive 2: the act of excusing a mistake or offense [syn: forgiveness, pardon]
• fortress 0
  n 1: a fortified defensive structure [syn: fortress, fort]
• generous 0
  adj 1: willing to give and share unstintingly; "a generous donation" [ant: stingy, ungenerous] 2: not petty in character and mind; "unusually generous in his judgment of people" [ant: meanspirited, ungenerous] 3: more than adequate; "a generous portion"
• glamorous 0
  adj 1: having an air of allure, romance and excitement; "glamorous movie stars" [syn: glamorous, glamourous]
• goodness 0
  n 1: that which is pleasing or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization" [syn: good, goodness] [ant: bad, badness] 2: moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people" [syn: good, goodness] [ant: evil, evilness]
• grossness 0
  n 1: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch]
• harass 0
  v 1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke] 2: exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy"
• headmistress 0
  n 1: a woman headmaster
• heiress 0
  n 1: a female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix]
• herbivorous 0
  adj 1: feeding only on plants [ant: carnivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous]
• humorous 0
  adj 1: full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" [syn: humorous, humourous] [ant: humorless, humourless, unhumorous]
• huntress 0
  n 1: a woman hunter
• hydrous 0
  adj 1: containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate) [syn: hydrous, hydrated] [ant: anhydrous]
• idolatrous 0
  adj 1: relating to or practicing idolatry; "idolatrous worship" 2: blindly or excessively devoted or adoring
• immenseness 0
  n 1: unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness]
• indecorous 0
  adj 1: lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct; "indecorous behavior" [syn: indecorous, indelicate] [ant: decorous] 2: not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry" [syn: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward]
• inheritress 0
  n 1: a female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix]
• inodorous 0
  adj 1: having no odor; "odorless gas"; "odorless flowers" [syn: odorless, odourless, inodorous] [ant: odorous]
• insectivorous 0
  adj 1: (of animals and plants) feeding on insects [ant: carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous]
• instructress 0
  n 1: a woman instructor
• jocoseness 0
  n 1: the trait of merry joking [syn: jocoseness, jocosity, merriness, humorousness]
• languorous 0
  adj 1: lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous]
• laundress 0
  n 1: a working woman who takes in washing [syn: washwoman, washerwoman, laundrywoman, laundress]
• laxness 0
  n 1: the quality of being lax and neglectful [syn: laxness, laxity, remissness, slackness] 2: the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels" [syn: laxness, laxity]
• lecherous 0
  adj 1: given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity; "a lecherous gleam in his eye"; "a lecherous good-for- nothing"
• leprous 0
  adj 1: relating to or resembling or having leprosy
• ludicrous 0
  adj 1: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair" [syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous] 2: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous]
• lustrous 0
  adj 1: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents" [syn: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny] 2: brilliant; "set a lustrous example for others to follow"; "lustrous actors of the time" 3: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining]
• malodorous 0
  adj 1: having an unpleasant smell [syn: malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling, ill-smelling, stinky] [ant: fragrant]
• mattress 0
  n 1: a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
• mayoress 0
  n 1: the wife of a mayor 2: a woman mayor
• mess 0
  n 1: a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn: mess, messiness, muss, mussiness] 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] 3: soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge" 4: a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel 5: a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax [syn: mess, mess hall] 6: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad] v 1: eat in a mess hall 2: make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room" [syn: mess, mess up]
• millionairess 0
  n 1: a woman millionaire
• monstrous 0
  adj 1: abnormally large 2: shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" [syn: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous] 3: distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" [syn: grotesque, monstrous]
• moroseness 0
  n 1: a gloomy ill-tempered feeling [syn: moroseness, glumness, sullenness] 2: a sullen moody resentful disposition [syn: sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness, sourness]

See also mistress definition and mistress synonyms