Words that rhyme with nicholas

• acropolis 0
  n 1: the citadel in ancient Greek towns
• ambivalence 0
  n 1: mixed feelings or emotions [syn: ambivalence, ambivalency]
• anomalous 0
  adj 1: deviating from the general or common order or type; "advanced forms of life may be anomalous in the universe"
• antithesis 0
  n 1: exact opposite; "his theory is the antithesis of mine" 2: the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
• asynchronous 0
  adj 1: (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that does not require a common clock between the communicating devices; timing signals are derived from special characters in the data stream itself [ant: synchronous] 2: not synchronous; not occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase [ant: synchronal, synchronic, synchronous]
• calculus 0
  n 1: a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body; "renal calculi can be very painful" [syn: calculus, concretion] 2: an incrustation that forms on the teeth and gums [syn: tartar, calculus, tophus] 3: the branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions [syn: calculus, infinitesimal calculus]
• chrysalis 0
  n 1: pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon
• cirrocumulus 0
  n 1: a cloud at a high altitude consisting of a series of regularly arranged small clouds resembling ripples [syn: cirrocumulus, cirrocumulus cloud]
• 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]
• conspicuous 0
  adj 1: obvious to the eye or mind; "a tower conspicuous at a great distance"; "wore conspicuous neckties"; "made herself conspicuous by her exhibitionistic preening" [ant: inconspicuous, invisible] 2: without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious; "blatant disregard of the law"; "a blatant appeal to vanity"; "a blazing indiscretion" [syn: blatant, blazing, conspicuous]
• crapulous 0
  adj 1: suffering from excessive eating or drinking; "crapulent sleep"; "a crapulous stomach" [syn: crapulent, crapulous] 2: given to gross intemperance in eating or drinking; "a crapulous old reprobate"
• credulous 0
  adj 1: disposed to believe on little evidence; "the gimmick would convince none but the most credulous" [ant: incredulous] 2: showing a lack of judgment or experience; "so credulous he believes everything he reads"
• cumulus 0
  n 1: a globular cloud [syn: cumulus, cumulus cloud] 2: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus]
• delicious 0
  adj 1: greatly pleasing or entertaining; "a delightful surprise"; "the comedy was delightful"; "a delicious joke" [syn: delightful, delicious] 2: extremely pleasing to the sense of taste [syn: delectable, delicious, luscious, pleasant-tasting, scrumptious, toothsome, yummy] n 1: variety of sweet eating apples
• diligence 0
  n 1: conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation 2: persevering determination to perform a task; "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues" [syn: diligence, industriousness, industry] 3: a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious application" [syn: application, diligence]
• dissonance 0
  n 1: a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters [syn: disagreement, dissension, dissonance] [ant: accord, agreement] 2: the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me" [syn: noise, dissonance, racket] 3: disagreeable sounds [ant: harmony]
• equivalence 0
  n 1: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality, equivalence, equation, par] 2: essential equality and interchangeability [ant: nonequivalence] 3: qualities that are comparable; "no comparison between the two books"; "beyond compare" [syn: comparison, compare, equivalence, comparability]
• fabulous 0
  adj 1: extremely pleasing; "a fabulous vacation" [syn: fabulous, fab] 2: based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity; "mythical centaurs"; "the fabulous unicorn" [syn: fabulous, mythic, mythical, mythologic, mythological] 3: barely credible; "the fabulous endurance of a marathon runner"
• felicitous 0
  adj 1: exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style; "a felicitous speaker" [ant: infelicitous] 2: marked by good fortune; "a felicitous life"; "a happy outcome" [syn: felicitous, happy]
• fickleness 0
  n 1: unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous [syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy]
• frictionless 0
  adj 1: lacking all friction; "a perpetual motion machine would have to be frictionless"
• frivolous 0
  adj 1: not serious in content or attitude or behavior; "a frivolous novel"; "a frivolous remark"; "a frivolous young woman" [ant: serious]
• garrulous 0
  adj 1: full of trivial conversation; "kept from her housework by gabby neighbors" [syn: chatty, gabby, garrulous, loquacious, talkative, talky]
• immanence 0
  n 1: the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain [syn: immanence, immanency]
• imminence 0
  n 1: the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon [syn: imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency, forthcomingness]
• impetus 0
  n 1: a force that moves something along [syn: drift, impetus, impulsion] 2: the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over" [syn: impulse, impulsion, impetus]
• impotence 0
  n 1: the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble [syn: powerlessness, impotence, impotency] [ant: power, powerfulness] 2: an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate [syn: impotence, impotency] [ant: potence, potency]
• incidence 0
  n 1: the relative frequency of occurrence of something [syn: incidence, relative incidence] 2: the striking of a light beam on a surface; "he measured the angle of incidence of the reflected light"
• incredulous 0
  adj 1: not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving [ant: credulous]
• indigenous 0
  adj 1: originating where it is found; "the autochthonal fauna of Australia includes the kangaroo"; "autochthonous rocks and people and folktales"; "endemic folkways"; "the Ainu are indigenous to the northernmost islands of Japan" [syn: autochthonal, autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous]
• infamous 0
  adj 1: known widely and usually unfavorably; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice"; "the infamous Benedict Arnold"; [syn: ill-famed, infamous, notorious]
• innocence 0
  n 1: the quality of innocent naivete [syn: artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, naturalness] 2: the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil [syn: purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness] 3: a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense; "the trial established his innocence" [ant: guilt, guiltiness]
• insolence 0
  n 1: the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties [syn: crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshness] 2: an offensive disrespectful impudent act
• limitless 0
  adj 1: without limits in extent or size or quantity; "limitless vastness of our solar system" [syn: illimitable, limitless, measureless] 2: having no limits in range or scope; "to start with a theory of unlimited freedom is to end up with unlimited despotism"- Philip Rahv; "the limitless reaches of outer space" [syn: unlimited, limitless] [ant: limited] 3: seemingly boundless in amount, number, degree, or especially extent; "unbounded enthusiasm"; "children with boundless energy"; "a limitless supply of money" [syn: boundless, unbounded, limitless]
• megalopolis 0
  n 1: a very large urban complex (usually involving several cities and towns)
• meticulous 0
  adj 1: marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: meticulous, punctilious] 2: marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities"
• metropolis 0
  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]
• miraculous 0
  adj 1: being or having the character of a miracle [syn: marvelous, marvellous, miraculous] 2: peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention; "a heaven-sent rain saved the crops"; "a providential recovery" [syn: heaven-sent, providential, miraculous]
• mischievous 0
  adj 1: naughtily or annoyingly playful; "teasing and worrying with impish laughter"; "a wicked prank" [syn: arch, impish, implike, mischievous, pixilated, prankish, puckish, wicked] 2: deliberately causing harm or damage; "mischievous rumors and falsehoods"
• nautilus 0
  n 1: a submarine that is propelled by nuclear power [syn: nautilus, nuclear submarine, nuclear-powered submarine] 2: cephalopod mollusk of warm seas whose females have delicate papery spiral shells [syn: paper nautilus, nautilus, Argonaut, Argonauta argo] 3: cephalopod of the Indian and Pacific oceans having a spiral shell with pale pearly partitions [syn: chambered nautilus, pearly nautilus, nautilus]
• nebulous 0
  adj 1: lacking definite form or limits; "gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion"- H.T.Moore; "nebulous distinction between pride and conceit" [syn: cloudy, nebulose, nebulous] 2: of or relating to or resembling a nebula; "the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system" [syn: nebular, nebulous] 3: lacking definition or definite content; "nebulous reasons"; "unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be"- Jane Austen [syn: nebulous, unfixed]
• necklace 0
  n 1: jewelry consisting of a cord or chain (often bearing gems) worn about the neck as an ornament (especially by women)
• necropolis 0
  n 1: a tract of land used for burials [syn: cemetery, graveyard, burial site, burial ground, burying ground, memorial park, necropolis]
• nickel 0
  n 1: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn: nickel, Ni, atomic number 28] 2: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar 3: five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin" [syn: nickel, nickel note] v 1: plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"
• omnipotence 0
  n 1: the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power
• pendulous 0
  adj 1: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn: cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping]
• pickle 0
  n 1: vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar 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] v 1: preserve in a pickling liquid
• polygamous 0
  adj 1: having more than one mate at a time; used of relationships and individuals [ant: monogamous] 2: having several forms of gametoecia on the same plant [syn: heteroicous, polyoicous, polygamous]
• populace 0
  n 1: people in general considered as a whole; "he is a hero in the eyes of the public" [syn: populace, public, world]
• populous 0
  adj 1: densely populated [syn: populous, thickly settled]
• portcullis 0
  n 1: gate consisting of an iron or wooden grating that hangs in the entry to a castle or fortified town; can be lowered to prevent passage
• querulous 0
  adj 1: habitually complaining; "a whiny child" [syn: fretful, querulous, whiney, whiny]
• ridiculous 0
  adj 1: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett [syn: pathetic, ridiculous, silly] 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] 3: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair" [syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous]
• scandalous 0
  adj 1: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most shocking book of its time" [syn: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful, shocking]
• scurrilous 0
  adj 1: expressing offensive reproach [syn: abusive, opprobrious, scurrilous]
• sedulous 0
  adj 1: marked by care and persistent effort; "her assiduous attempts to learn French"; "assiduous research"; "sedulous pursuit of legal and moral principles" [syn: assiduous, sedulous]
• solicitous 0
  adj 1: full of anxiety and concern; "solicitous parents"; "solicitous about the future" 2: showing hovering attentiveness; "solicitous about her health"; "made solicitous inquiries about our family"
• stimulus 0
  n 1: any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action [syn: stimulation, stimulus, stimulant, input]
• syllabus 0
  n 1: an integrated course of academic studies; "he was admitted to a new program at the university" [syn: course of study, program, programme, curriculum, syllabus]
• synthesis 0
  n 1: the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds) 2: the combination of ideas into a complex whole [syn: synthesis, synthetic thinking] [ant: analysis, analytic thinking] 3: reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) [syn: deduction, deductive reasoning, synthesis]
• syphilis 0
  n 1: a common venereal disease caused by the treponema pallidum spirochete; symptoms change through progressive stages; can be congenital (transmitted through the placenta) [syn: syphilis, syph, pox, lues venerea, lues]
• tickle 0
  n 1: a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking 2: the act of tickling [syn: tickle, tickling, titillation] v 1: touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements [syn: tickle, titillate, vellicate] 2: feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine" [syn: thrill, tickle, vibrate] 3: touch or stroke lightly; "The grass tickled her calves"
• ticklish 0
  adj 1: difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" [syn: delicate, ticklish, touchy]
• tremulous 0
  adj 1: (of the voice) quivering as from weakness or fear; "the old lady's quavering voice"; "spoke timidly in a tremulous voice" [syn: quavering, tremulous]
• unambiguous 0
  adj 1: having or exhibiting a single clearly defined meaning; "As a horror, apartheid...is absolutely unambiguous"- Mario Vargas Llosa [ant: ambiguous] 2: admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning or interpretation and leading to only one conclusion; "unequivocal evidence"; "took an unequivocal position"; "an unequivocal success"; "an unequivocal promise"; "an unequivocal (or univocal) statement" [syn: unequivocal, univocal, unambiguous] [ant: ambiguous, equivocal]
• unscrupulous 0
  adj 1: without scruples or principles; "unscrupulous politicos who would be happy to sell...their country in order to gain power" [ant: scrupulous]
• vigilance 0
  n 1: the process of paying close and continuous attention; "wakefulness, watchfulness, and bellicosity make a good hunter"; "vigilance is especially susceptible to fatigue" [syn: watchfulness, wakefulness, vigilance, alertness] 2: vigilant attentiveness; "he keeps a weather eye open for trouble" [syn: watchfulness, vigilance, weather eye]
• villainous 0
  adj 1: extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: nefarious, villainous]
• vividness 0
  n 1: interest and variety and intensity; "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"; "the characters were delineated with exceptional vividness" [syn: color, colour, vividness] 2: chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue [syn: saturation, chroma, intensity, vividness]
• wickedness 0
  n 1: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity] 2: absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" [syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark] 3: the quality of being wicked [syn: nefariousness, wickedness, vileness, ugliness] 4: estrangement from god [syn: sin, sinfulness, wickedness] 5: the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions; "the vileness of his language surprised us" [syn: loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, lousiness, wickedness]
• wistfulness 0
  n 1: a sadly pensive longing
• witless 0
  adj 1: (of especially persons) lacking sense or understanding or judgment [syn: nitwitted, senseless, soft-witted, witless]
• troublous 0
  adj 1: full of trouble; "these are troublous times"
• elizabeth 0
  n 1: daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-); "Elizabeth II is the head of state in Great Britain" [syn: Elizabeth, Elizabeth II] 2: Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603) [syn: Elizabeth, Elizabeth I]
• arenicolous 0
  adj 1: growing or living or burrowing in sand; "arenicolous worms"
• polygynous 0
  adj 1: having more than one wife at a time
• indianapolis 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of Indiana; a major commercial center in the country's heartland; site of an annual 500-mile automobile race [syn: Indianapolis, capital of Indiana]
• minneapolis 0
  n 1: largest city in Minnesota; located in southeastern Minnesota on the Mississippi river; noted for flour mills; one of the Twin Cities
• marvelous 0
  adj 1: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous] 2: too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story" [syn: improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall(a)] 3: being or having the character of a miracle [syn: marvelous, marvellous, miraculous]
• nicklaus 0
  n 1: United States golfer considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time (born in 1940) [syn: Nicklaus, Jack Nicklaus, Jack William Nicklaus]
• loculus 0
  n 1: a small cavity or space within an organ or in a plant or animal [syn: locule, loculus]
• fantabulous 0
  adj 1: very good;of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first- class mind" [syn: excellent, first-class, fantabulous, splendid]
• leviticus 0
  n 1: the third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents [syn: Leviticus, Book of Leviticus]
• immigrants 0
• instruments 0
• patulous 0
• nicolas 0
• stridulous 0
• cosmopolis 0
• angeles 0
• nickelous 0
• lignicolous 0
• stagnicolous 0
• nickless 0

See also nicholas definition