Words that rhyme with orphans

n 1: termination of pregnancy 2: failure of a plan [syn: miscarriage, abortion]

n 1: box in which a corpse is buried or cremated [syn: coffin, casket] v 1: place into a coffin; "her body was coffined"

n 1: large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) [syn: dolphinfish, dolphin, mahimahi] 2: any of various small toothed whales with a beaklike snout; larger than porpoises

n 1: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" [syn: luck, fortune, chance, hazard] 2: a large amount of wealth or prosperity 3: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand" [syn: luck, fortune] 4: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]

adj 1: of the color between red and yellow; similar to the color of a ripe orange [syn: orange, orangish] n 1: round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees 2: orange color or pigment; any of a range of colors between red and yellow [syn: orange, orangeness] 3: any citrus tree bearing oranges [syn: orange, orange tree] 4: any pigment producing the orange color 5: a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean [syn: Orange, Orange River]

n 1: a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function 2: a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function; "The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department" 3: (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ [syn: electric organ, electronic organ, Hammond organ, organ] 4: a periodical that is published by a special interest group; "the organ of the communist party" 5: wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard [syn: organ, pipe organ] 6: a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows [syn: harmonium, organ, reed organ]

n 1: the condition of being a child without living parents; "his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult" [syn: orphanage, orphanhood] 2: a public institution for the care of orphans [syn: orphanage, orphans' asylum]

n 1: United States sociologist (1902-1979) [syn: Parsons, Talcott Parsons]

n 1: a neurochemical occurring naturally in the brain and having analgesic properties