Words that rhyme with myriad
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afeard
adj 1: a pronunciation of afraid [syn: afeard(p), afeared(p)] -
beard
n 1: the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face [syn: beard, face fungus, whiskers] 2: a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses 3: a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) 4: hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals 5: tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface [syn: byssus, beard] v 1: go along the rim, like a beard around the chin; "Houses bearded the top of the heights" -
bluebeard
n 1: (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience -
chiliad
n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard] -
eared
adj 1: worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down; "a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down"-Clifton Fadiman; "an old book with dog-eared pages" [syn: dog-eared, eared] 2: having ears (or appendages resembling ears) or having ears of a specified kind; often used in combination [ant: earless] -
greybeard
n 1: a man who is very old [syn: old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah] 2: a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) [syn: bellarmine, longbeard, long-beard, greybeard] -
period
n 1: an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" [syn: time period, period of time, period] 2: the interval taken to complete one cycle of a regularly repeating phenomenon 3: (ice hockey) one of three divisions into which play is divided in hockey games 4: a unit of geological time during which a system of rocks formed; "ganoid fishes swarmed during the earlier geological periods" [syn: period, geological period] 5: the end or completion of something; "death put a period to his endeavors"; "a change soon put a period to my tranquility" 6: the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause; "the women were sickly and subject to excessive menstruation"; "a woman does not take the gout unless her menses be stopped"--Hippocrates; "the semen begins to appear in males and to be emitted at the same time of life that the catamenia begin to flow in females"-- Aristotle [syn: menstruation, menses, menstruum, catamenia, period, flow] 7: a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations; "in England they call a period a stop" [syn: period, point, full stop, stop, full point] -
weird
adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly] 2: strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker n 1: fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters [syn: Wyrd, Weird] -
olympiad
n 1: one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC 2: the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country [syn: Olympic Games, Olympics, Olympiad] -
iliad
n 1: a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy -
goatsbeard
n 1: weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States [syn: meadow salsify, goatsbeard, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis] -
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hilliard
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