Words that rhyme with monuments

n 1: the citadel in ancient Greek towns

adj 1: having no known name or identity or known source; "anonymous authors"; "anonymous donors"; "an anonymous gift" [syn: anonymous, anon.] [ant: onymous] 2: not known or lacking marked individuality; "brown anonymous houses"; "anonymous bureaucrats in the Civil Service"

adj 1: (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces; "an autonomous judiciary"; "a sovereign state" [syn: autonomous, independent, self-governing, sovereign] 2: existing as an independent entity; "the partitioning of India created two separate and autonomous jute economies" 3: (of persons) free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment [syn: autonomous, self-directed, self-reliant]

adj 1: extremely deep; "a bottomless pit"; "a bottomless lake" 2: having no bottom; "bottomless pajamas consisting simply of a long top opening down the front" [ant: bottomed] 3: having no apparent limits or bounds; "a bottomless supply of money"; "bottomless pockets" 4: unclothed especially below the waist or featuring such nudeness; "bottomless dancers"; "a bottomless bar"

adj 1: relating to or marked by communism; "Communist Party"; "communist governments"; "communistic propaganda" [syn: communist, communistic] n 1: a member of the communist party 2: a socialist who advocates communism [syn: communist, commie]

n 1: (usually plural) a polite expression of desire for someone's welfare; "give him my kind regards"; "my best wishes" [syn: regard, wish, compliments]

n 1: freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority" [syn: assurance, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority, sureness] 2: a feeling of trust (in someone or something); "I have confidence in our team"; "confidence is always borrowed, never owned" [ant: diffidence, self-distrust, self- doubt] 3: a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable; "public confidence in the economy" 4: a trustful relationship; "he took me into his confidence"; "he betrayed their trust" [syn: confidence, trust] 5: a secret that is confided or entrusted to another; "everyone trusted him with their confidences"; "the priest could not reveal her confidences"

n 1: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" [syn: consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot] 2: the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual [syn: consequence, aftermath] 3: having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment than security"; "that result is of no consequence" [syn: consequence, import, moment] [ant: inconsequence]

n 1: superior development of one side of the body [syn: laterality, dominance] 2: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" [syn: dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control] 3: the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not 4: the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so]

n 1: (chemistry) a chemical decomposition reaction produced by passing an electric current through a solution containing ions 2: removing superfluous or unwanted hair by passing an electric current through the hair root

n 1: violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements); "they felt the full fury of the elements"

n 1: massive thick-skinned herbivorous animal living in or around rivers of tropical Africa [syn: hippopotamus, hippo, river horse, Hippopotamus amphibius]

adj 1: having the same evolutionary origin but not necessarily the same function; "the wing of a bat and the arm of a man are homologous" [ant: analogous, heterologic, heterological, heterologous] 2: corresponding or similar in position or structure or function or characteristics; especially derived from an organism of the same species; "a homologous tissue graft" [ant: autologous, heterologous]

n 1: a chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds; involves the splitting of a bond and the addition of the hydrogen cation and the hydroxide anion from the water

n 1: a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations 2: a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena; "a scientific hypothesis that survives experimental testing becomes a scientific theory"; "he proposed a fresh theory of alkalis that later was accepted in chemical practices" [syn: hypothesis, possibility, theory] 3: a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence [syn: guess, conjecture, supposition, surmise, surmisal, speculation, hypothesis]

n 1: lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications [syn: incompetence, incompetency] [ant: competence, competency] 2: inability of a part or organ to function properly

n 1: involuntary urination or defecation [syn: incontinence, incontinency] 2: indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures [syn: dissoluteness, incontinence, self-gratification]

n 1: a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)

n 1: a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city" [syn: city, metropolis, urban center] 2: people living in a large densely populated municipality; "the city voted for Republicans in 1994" [syn: city, metropolis]

adj 1: (used of relationships and of individuals) having one mate; "monogamous marriage"; "monogamous for life" [ant: polygamous]

adj 1: tediously repetitious or lacking in variety; "a humdrum existence; all work and no play"; "nothing is so monotonous as the sea" [syn: humdrum, monotonous] 2: sounded or spoken in a tone unvarying in pitch; "the owl's faint monotonous hooting" [syn: flat, monotone, monotonic, monotonous]

n 1: a structure erected to commemorate persons or events [syn: memorial, monument] 2: an important site that is marked and preserved as public property 3: a burial vault (usually for some famous person) [syn: repository, monument]

n 1: a tract of land used for burials [syn: cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, burying ground, memorial park, necropolis]

adj 1: of or relating to or containing nitrogen [syn: nitrogenous, nitrogen-bearing]

adj 1: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening] 2: presaging ill fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions"; "my words with inauspicious thunderings shook heaven"- P.B.Shelley; "a dead and ominous silence prevailed"; "a by- election at a time highly unpropitious for the Government" [syn: ill, inauspicious, ominous]

adj 1: providing for many things at once; "an omnibus law" n 1: an anthology of articles on a related subject or an anthology of the works of a single author 2: a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work" [syn: bus, autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle]

n 1: wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living [syn: luxury, luxuriousness, opulence, sumptuousness]

n 1: any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis [syn: oxalis, sorrel, wood sorrel]

n 1: lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation]

n 1: people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public" [syn: populace, public, world]

adj 1: densely populated [syn: populous, thickly settled]

n 1: the state of being predominant over others [syn: predominance, predomination, prepotency] 2: the quality of being more noticeable than anything else; "the predomination of blues gave the painting a quiet tone" [syn: predomination, predominance]

n 1: the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent [ant: obscurity] 2: relative importance 3: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]

n 1: a woman prophet

n 1: where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" [syn: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience]

n 1: the capital and largest city of Rhode Island; located in northeastern Rhode Island on Narragansett Bay; site of Brown University [syn: Providence, capital of Rhode Island] 2: the guardianship and control exercised by a deity; "divine providence" 3: a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures 4: the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources [ant: improvidence, shortsightedness]

n 1: a statement of fundamental facts or principles [syn: basics, rudiments]

n 1: a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions)

n 1: a very sleepy state; "sleepiness causes many driving accidents" [syn: sleepiness, drowsiness, somnolence] [ant: sleeplessness, wakefulness]

adj 1: (of words) meaning the same or nearly the same [ant: antonymous]

n 1: the passage between the pharynx and the stomach [syn: esophagus, oesophagus, gorge, gullet]

n 1: having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes"; "his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive" [syn: awareness, consciousness, cognizance, cognisance, knowingness] [ant: incognizance] 2: range of what one can know or understand; "beyond my ken" [syn: cognizance, ken] 3: range or scope of what is perceived

n 1: (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited [syn: recognizance, recognisance]

n 1: (Roman mythology) founder of Rome; suckled with his twin brother Remus by a wolf after their parents (Mars and Rhea Silvia) abandoned them; Romulus killed Remus in an argument over the building of Rome