Words that rhyme with nikos

n 1: pecuniary reimbursement to the winning party for the expenses of litigation

n 1: a soft loosely twisted thread used in embroidery 2: a soft thread for cleaning the spaces between the teeth [syn: dental floss, floss] v 1: use dental floss to clean; "floss your teeth after every meal"

n 1: ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right- angled triangle [syn: cosine, cos] 2: lettuce with long dark-green leaves in a loosely packed elongated head [syn: cos, cos lettuce, romaine, romaine lettuce]

n 1: (in India) a unit of length having different values in different localities [syn: kos, coss]

n 1: a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse

n 1: Scottish explorer who led Arctic expeditions that yielded geographic discoveries while searching for the Northwest Passage (1777-1856) [syn: Ross, John Ross, Sir John Ross] 2: British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862) [syn: Ross, James Clark Ross, Sir James Clark Ross] 3: British physician who discovered that mosquitos transmit malaria (1857-1932) [syn: Ross, Sir Ronald Ross] 4: a politician in Wyoming who was the first woman governor in the United States (1876-1977) [syn: Ross, Nellie Ross, Nellie Tayloe Ross] 5: American seamstress said to have made the first American flag at the request of George Washington (1752-1836) [syn: Ross, Betsy Ross, Betsy Griscom Ross]

n 1: a kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa with a largely Muslim population; achieved independence from France in 1956 [syn: Morocco, Kingdom of Morocco, Maroc, Marruecos, Al-Magrib]