Words that rhyme with nyeri

n 1: a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations [syn: diary, journal] 2: a personal journal (as a physical object)

n 1: a coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his driver's license" [syn: termination, expiration, expiry] 2: the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren" [syn: death, decease, expiry] [ant: birth, nascence, nascency, nativity]

adj 1: characterized by intense emotion; "ardent love"; "an ardent lover"; "a fervent desire to change society"; "a fervent admirer"; "fiery oratory"; "an impassioned appeal"; "a torrid love affair" [syn: ardent, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, perfervid, torrid] 2: like or suggestive of fire; "a fiery desert wind"; "an igneous desert atmosphere" [syn: fiery, igneous] 3: very intense; "a fiery temper"; "flaming passions" [syn: fiery, flaming]

n 1: a monastery of friars

n 1: a search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more research than it has received" [syn: inquiry, enquiry, research] 2: an instance of questioning; "there was a question about my training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present" [syn: question, inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation] [ant: answer] 3: a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest [syn: inquiry, enquiry]

n 1: religious residence in a monastery governed by a prior or a convent governed by a prioress

adj 1: of or relating to or suitable for statues n 1: statues collectively

adj 1: regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior; "sumptuary laws discouraging construction of large houses on small plots"; "sumptuary laws forbidding gambling"

adj 1: not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing" [syn: impermanent, temporary] [ant: lasting, permanent] 2: lacking continuity or regularity; "an irregular worker"; "employed on a temporary basis" [syn: irregular, temporary] n 1: a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis [syn: temp, temporary, temporary worker]

n 1: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop] 2: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery]

n 1: United States architect (born in 1925) [syn: Venturi, Robert Venturi, Robert Charles Venturi] 2: a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor)

adj 1: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness" [syn: epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous] n 1: a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses [syn: voluptuary, sybarite]

adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: stringy, wiry] 2: of or relating to wire 3: of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"

adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]

n 1: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells [syn: cowrie, cowry]

n 1: Jews collectively

n 1: an ethnic minority of Polynesian and Melanesian descent who speak Maori and live in New Zealand 2: the Oceanic language spoken by the Maori in New Zealand

n 1: United States chemist who discovered deuterium (1893-1981) [syn: Urey, Harold Urey, Harold Clayton Urey]

n 1: English painter (1887-1976) [syn: Lowry, L. S. Lowry, Laurence Stephen Lowry] 2: English novelist (1909-1957) [syn: Lowry, Malcolm Lowry, Clarence Malcolm Lowry]