Words that rhyme with optics

  • hostage
    n 1: a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms [syn: hostage, surety]
  • hypnotic
    adj 1: of or relating to hypnosis 2: attracting and holding interest as if by a spell; "read the bedtime story in a hypnotic voice"; "she had a warm mesmeric charm"; "the sheer force of his presence was mesmerizing"; "a spellbinding description of life in ancient Rome" [syn: hypnotic, mesmeric, mesmerizing, spellbinding] n 1: a drug that induces sleep [syn: soporific, hypnotic]
  • logic
    n 1: the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference 2: reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic" 3: the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation; "economic logic requires it"; "by the logic of war" 4: the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations 5: a system of reasoning [syn: logic, logical system, system of logic]
  • mechanics
    n 1: the branch of physics concerned with the motion of bodies in a frame of reference 2: the technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose style" [syn: mechanism, mechanics]
  • microscopic
    adj 1: of or relating to or used in microscopy; "microscopic analysis"; "microscopical examination" [syn: microscopic, microscopical] 2: visible under a microscope; using a microscope [syn: microscopic, microscopical] 3: extremely precise with great attention to details; "examined it with microscopic care" 4: so small as to be invisible without a microscope; "differences were microscopic" [syn: microscopic, microscopical]
  • myopic
    adj 1: unable to see distant objects clearly [syn: nearsighted, shortsighted, myopic] [ant: farsighted, presbyopic] 2: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking" [syn: short, shortsighted, unforesightful, myopic]
  • onyx
    n 1: a chalcedony with alternating black and white bands; used in making cameos
  • optical
    adj 1: of or relating to or involving light or optics; "optical supplies" 2: relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation" [syn: ocular, optic, optical, visual] 3: of or relating to or resembling the eye; "ocular muscles"; "an ocular organ"; "ocular diseases"; "the optic (or optical) axis of the eye"; "an ocular spot is a pigmented organ or part believed to be sensitive to light" [syn: ocular, optic, optical, opthalmic]
  • phonics
    n 1: teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values
  • synopsis
    n 1: a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument or theory [syn: outline, synopsis, abstract, precis]
  • topic
    n 1: the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love" [syn: subject, topic, theme] 2: some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police" [syn: topic, subject, issue, matter]
  • toxic
    adj 1: of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poison; "suffering from exposure to toxic substances" [ant: atoxic, nontoxic]
  • tropic
    adj 1: relating to or situated in or characteristic of the tropics (the region on either side of the equator); "tropical islands"; "tropical fruit" [syn: tropical, tropic] 2: of weather or climate; hot and humid as in the tropics; "tropical weather" [syn: tropical, tropic] n 1: either of two parallels of latitude about 23.5 degrees to the north and south of the equator representing the points farthest north and south at which the sun can shine directly overhead and constituting the boundaries of the Torrid Zone or tropics
  • tropics
    n 1: the part of the Earth's surface between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn; characterized by a hot climate [syn: Torrid Zone, tropical zone, tropics]
  • orthoptics
    n 1: treatment of defects of binocular vision (such as strabismus and amblyopia) by nonsurgical measures (especially by exercises to strengthen the eye muscles)
  • synoptics
    n 1: the first three Gospels which describe events in Christ's life from a similar point of view [syn: Synoptic Gospels, Synoptics]
  • narcotics
  • topics
  • heteroptics

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