Words that rhyme with oris

n 1: huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic [syn: apatosaur, apatosaurus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard, Apatosaurus excelsus]

adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] 2: of or relating to a cadaver or corpse; "we had long anticipated his cadaverous end" [syn: cadaverous, cadaveric]

adj 1: richly melodious [syn: canorous, songful]

n 1: any utterance produced simultaneously by a group; "a chorus of boos" 2: a group of people assembled to sing together 3: the part of a song where a soloist is joined by a group of singers [syn: refrain, chorus] 4: a body of dancers or singers who perform together [syn: chorus, chorus line] 5: a company of actors who comment (by speaking or singing in unison) on the action in a classical Greek play [syn: chorus, Greek chorus] v 1: utter in unison; "`yes,' the children chorused" 2: sing in a choir [syn: choir, chorus]

n 1: usually coiled [syn: cirrus, cirrhus] 2: a wispy white cloud (usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude (4 to 8 miles) [syn: cirrus, cirrus cloud] 3: a slender flexible animal appendage as on barnacles or crinoids or many insects; often tactile

adj 1: involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions" [syn: dangerous, unsafe] [ant: safe] 2: causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm; "a dangerous operation"; "a grave situation"; "a grave illness"; "grievous bodily harm"; "a serious wound"; "a serious turn of events"; "a severe case of pneumonia"; "a life-threatening disease" [syn: dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, severe, life-threatening]

adj 1: of or relating to or containing iron [syn: ferric, ferrous]

v 1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke] 2: exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy"

n 1: a female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix]

n 1: a woman of the peerage in Britain [syn: Lady, noblewoman, peeress] [ant: Lord, noble, nobleman]

n 1: a multivalent nonmetallic element of the nitrogen family that occurs commonly in inorganic phosphate rocks and as organic phosphates in all living cells; is highly reactive and occurs in several allotropic forms [syn: phosphorus, P, atomic number 15] 2: a planet (usually Venus) seen just before sunrise in the eastern sky [syn: morning star, daystar, Phosphorus, Lucifer]

adj 1: able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous" 2: full of pores or vessels or holes [syn: porous, poriferous] [ant: nonporous] 3: allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" [syn: holey, porous]

n 1: a small circular opening between the stomach and the duodenum

adj 1: of or producing or containing serum; "a serous exudate"

adj 1: full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice" [syn: heavy, sonorous]

n 1: herbivorous ornithischian dinosaur with a row of bony plates along its back and a spiked tail probably used as a weapon [syn: stegosaur, stegosaurus, Stegosaur stenops]

n 1: usually paved outdoor area adjoining a residence [syn: patio, terrace] 2: a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep slopes above and below) [syn: terrace, bench] 3: a row of houses built in a similar style and having common dividing walls (or the street on which they face); "Grosvenor Terrace" v 1: provide (a house) with a terrace; "We terrassed the country house" [syn: terrace, terrasse] 2: make into terraces as for cultivation; "The Incas terraced their mountainous land"

n 1: a book containing a classified list of synonyms [syn: thesaurus, synonym finder]

n 1: a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle [syn: torus, toroid] 2: commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column [syn: torus, tore]

n 1: large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations; may have been a scavenger rather than an active predator; later Cretaceous period in North America [syn: tyrannosaur, tyrannosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex]

n 1: (Greek mythology) wife of Nereus and mother of the Nereids 2: a small region of ancient Greece where the Doric dialect was spoken

n 1: Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)

n 1: United States suffragist in Wyoming (1814-1902) [syn: Morris, Esther Morris, Esther Hobart McQuigg Slack Morris] 2: English poet and craftsman (1834-1896) [syn: Morris, William Morris] 3: leader of the American Revolution who signed the Declaration of Independence and raised money for the Continental Army (1734-1806) [syn: Morris, Robert Morris] 4: United States statesman who led the committee that produced the final draft of the United States Constitution (1752-1816) [syn: Morris, Gouverneur Morris]

n 1: Venezuelan master terrorist raised by a Marxist-Leninist father; trained and worked with many terrorist groups (born in 1949) [syn: Sanchez, Ilich Sanchez, Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, Carlos, Carlos the Jackal, Salim, Andres Martinez, Taurus, Glen Gebhard, Hector Hevodidbon, Michael Assat] 2: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Taurus [syn: Taurus, Bull] 3: a zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere near Orion; between Aries and Gemini 4: the second sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about April 20 to May 20 [syn: Taurus, Taurus the Bull, Bull]

n 1: Egyptian solar god with the head of a falcon; the son of Osiris and Isis

n 1: a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi 2: cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond

n 1: a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross [syn: Centaurus, Centaur]

n 1: gigantic carnivorous bipedal dinosaur of the Jurassic or early Cretaceous in Europe [syn: megalosaur, megalosaurus]