Words that rhyme with ovoviviparous

• actress 0
  n 1: a female actor
• adulteress 0
  n 1: a woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop]
• adulterous 0
  adj 1: characterized by adultery; "an adulterous relationship"; "extramarital affairs"; "the extracurricular activities of a philandering husband" [syn: adulterous, extramarital, extracurricular] 2: not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend" [syn: adulterous, cheating(a), two-timing(a)]
• adventuress 0
  n 1: a woman adventurer
• adventurous 0
  adj 1: willing to undertake or seeking out new and daring enterprises; "adventurous pioneers"; "the risks and gains of an adventuresome economy" [syn: adventurous, adventuresome] [ant: unadventurous]
• ambassadress 0
  n 1: a woman ambassador
• ambidextrous 0
  adj 1: equally skillful with each hand; "an ambidextrous surgeon" [syn: ambidextrous, two-handed] [ant: left- handed, right-handed] 2: marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray [syn: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, duplicitous, Janus-faced, two-faced, double-faced, double-tongued]
• amorous 0
  adj 1: inclined toward or displaying love; "feeling amorous" [syn: amative, amorous] 2: expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance; "her amatory affairs"; "amorous glances"; "a romantic adventure"; "a romantic moonlight ride" [syn: amatory, amorous, romantic]
• ancestress 0
  n 1: a woman ancestor
• anhydrous 0
  adj 1: without water; especially without water of crystallization [ant: hydrated, hydrous]
• arras 0
  n 1: a wall hanging of heavy handwoven fabric with pictorial designs [syn: tapestry, arras]
• auriferous 0
  adj 1: containing gold; "auriferous quartz veins" [syn: auriferous, gold-bearing]
• authoress 0
  n 1: a woman author
• barbarous 0
  adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious] 2: primitive in customs and culture
• benefactress 0
  n 1: a woman benefactor
• blusterous 0
  adj 1: blowing in violent and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day"; "a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind" [syn: blustering(a), blusterous, blustery]
• boisterous 0
  adj 1: noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class" [syn: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly] 2: full of rough and exuberant animal spirits; "boisterous practical jokes"; "knockabout comedy" [syn: boisterous, knockabout] 3: violently agitated and turbulent; "boisterous winds and waves"; "the fierce thunders roar me their music"- Ezra Pound; "rough weather"; "rough seas" [syn: boisterous, fierce, rough]
• brontosaurus 0
  n 1: huge quadrupedal herbivorous dinosaur common in North America in the late Jurassic [syn: apatosaur, apatosaurus, brontosaur, brontosaurus, thunder lizard, Apatosaurus excelsus]
• buttress 0
  n 1: a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building [syn: buttress, buttressing] v 1: reinforce with a buttress; "Buttress the church" 2: make stronger or defensible; "buttress your thesis"
• cadaverous 0
  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]
• cancerous 0
  adj 1: relating to or affected with cancer; "a cancerous growth" 2: like a cancer; an evil that grows and spreads; "remorse was cancerous within him"; "pornography is cancerous to the moral development of our children"
• cankerous 0
  adj 1: having an ulcer or canker [syn: cankerous, ulcerated, ulcerous]
• canorous 0
  adj 1: richly melodious [syn: canorous, songful]
• cantankerous 0
  adj 1: stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate; "unions...have never been as bloody-minded about demarcation as the shipbuilders"- Spectator [syn: bloody-minded, cantankerous] 2: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy Sayers [syn: cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]
• carboniferous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the Carboniferous geologic era; "carboniferous rock system" 2: relating to or consisting of or yielding carbon [syn: carbonaceous, carbonous, carbonic, carboniferous] n 1: from 345 million to 280 million years ago [syn: Carboniferous, Carboniferous period]
• carnivorous 0
  adj 1: relating to or characteristic of carnivores; "the lion and other carnivorous animals" 2: (used of plants as well as animals) feeding on animals; "carnivorous plants are capable of trapping and digesting small animals especially insects" [ant: herbivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous]
• chivalrous 0
  adj 1: being attentive to women like an ideal knight [syn: chivalrous, gallant, knightly]
• chorus 0
  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]
• cirrus 0
  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
• citrus 0
  n 1: any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions [syn: citrus, citrus fruit, citrous fruit] 2: any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds [syn: citrus, citrus tree]
• clamorous 0
  adj 1: conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry; "blatant radios"; "a clamorous uproar"; "strident demands"; "a vociferous mob" [syn: blatant, clamant, clamorous, strident, vociferous]
• cockatrice 0
  n 1: monster hatched by a reptile from a cock's egg; able to kill with a glance
• conductress 0
  n 1: a woman conductor
• congress 0
  n 1: the legislature of the United States government [syn: Congress, United States Congress, U.S. Congress, US Congress] 2: a meeting of elected or appointed representatives 3: a national legislative assembly 4: the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge]
• coniferous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves [syn: coniferous, cone- bearing]
• cruciferous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae
• cumbrous 0
  adj 1: difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight; "a cumbersome piece of machinery"; "cumbrous protective clothing" [syn: cumbersome, cumbrous]
• cuprous 0
  adj 1: of or containing divalent copper [syn: cupric, cuprous]
• cypress 0
  n 1: wood of any of various cypress trees especially of the genus Cupressus 2: any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones [syn: cypress, cypress tree]
• dangerous 0
  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]
• decorous 0
  adj 1: characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct; "the tete-a-tete was decorous in the extreme" [ant: indecorous, indelicate] 2: according with custom or propriety; "her becoming modesty"; "comely behavior"; "it is not comme il faut for a gentleman to be constantly asking for money"; "a decent burial"; "seemly behavior" [syn: becoming, comely, comme il faut, decent, decorous, seemly]
• desirous 0
  adj 1: having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem" [syn: desirous, wishful] [ant: undesiring, undesirous]
• dexterous 0
  adj 1: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind" [syn: deft, dexterous, dextrous]
• dextrous 0
  adj 1: skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind" [syn: deft, dexterous, dextrous]
• dipterous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or belonging to the Diptera
• disastrous 0
  adj 1: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful]
• disembarrass 0
  v 1: relieve from; "Rid the house of pests" [syn: rid, free, disembarrass]
• dolorous 0
  adj 1: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping]
• echovirus 0
  n 1: any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants
• electrophorus 0
  n 1: a simple electrostatic generator that generates repeated charges of static electricity 2: type genus of the family Electrophoridae; electric eels [syn: Electrophorus, genus Electrophorus]
• embarrass 0
  v 1: cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious [syn: embarrass, abash] 2: hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of; "His brother blocked him at every turn" [syn: obstruct, blockade, block, hinder, stymie, stymy, embarrass]
• empress 0
  n 1: a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
• enchantress 0
  n 1: a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive [syn: enchantress, temptress, siren, Delilah, femme fatale] 2: a female sorcerer or magician [syn: enchantress, witch]
• ferrous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or containing iron [syn: ferric, ferrous]
• feverous 0
  adj 1: having or affected by a fever [syn: feverish, feverous]
• fibrous 0
  adj 1: having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute [syn: hempen, fibrous] 2: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable]
• fissiparous 0
  adj 1: reproducing by fission 2: having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; "a breakaway faction" [syn: breakaway, fissiparous, separatist]
• fortress 0
  n 1: a fortified defensive structure [syn: fortress, fort]
• generous 0
  adj 1: willing to give and share unstintingly; "a generous donation" [ant: stingy, ungenerous] 2: not petty in character and mind; "unusually generous in his judgment of people" [ant: meanspirited, ungenerous] 3: more than adequate; "a generous portion"
• glamorous 0
  adj 1: having an air of allure, romance and excitement; "glamorous movie stars" [syn: glamorous, glamourous]
• harass 0
  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"
• headmistress 0
  n 1: a woman headmaster
• heiress 0
  n 1: a female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix]
• herbivorous 0
  adj 1: feeding only on plants [ant: carnivorous, insectivorous, omnivorous]
• humorous 0
  adj 1: full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" [syn: humorous, humourous] [ant: humorless, humourless, unhumorous]
• huntress 0
  n 1: a woman hunter
• hydrous 0
  adj 1: containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate) [syn: hydrous, hydrated] [ant: anhydrous]
• idolatrous 0
  adj 1: relating to or practicing idolatry; "idolatrous worship" 2: blindly or excessively devoted or adoring
• indecorous 0
  adj 1: lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct; "indecorous behavior" [syn: indecorous, indelicate] [ant: decorous] 2: not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society; "was buried with indecent haste"; "indecorous behavior"; "language unbecoming to a lady"; "unseemly to use profanity"; "moved to curb their untoward ribaldry" [syn: indecent, indecorous, unbecoming, uncomely, unseemly, untoward]
• inheritress 0
  n 1: a female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix]
• inodorous 0
  adj 1: having no odor; "odorless gas"; "odorless flowers" [syn: odorless, odourless, inodorous] [ant: odorous]
• insectivorous 0
  adj 1: (of animals and plants) feeding on insects [ant: carnivorous, herbivorous, omnivorous]
• instructress 0
  n 1: a woman instructor
• languorous 0
  adj 1: lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous]
• laundress 0
  n 1: a working woman who takes in washing [syn: washwoman, washerwoman, laundrywoman, laundress]
• lecherous 0
  adj 1: given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity; "a lecherous gleam in his eye"; "a lecherous good-for- nothing"
• leprous 0
  adj 1: relating to or resembling or having leprosy
• ludicrous 0
  adj 1: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair" [syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous] 2: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous]
• lustrous 0
  adj 1: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents" [syn: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny] 2: brilliant; "set a lustrous example for others to follow"; "lustrous actors of the time" 3: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining]
• malodorous 0
  adj 1: having an unpleasant smell [syn: malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling, ill-smelling, stinky] [ant: fragrant]
• mattress 0
  n 1: a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
• mayoress 0
  n 1: the wife of a mayor 2: a woman mayor
• millionairess 0
  n 1: a woman millionaire
• mistress 0
  n 1: an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man [syn: mistress, kept woman, fancy woman] 2: a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) [syn: schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistress] 3: a woman master who directs the work of others
• monstrous 0
  adj 1: abnormally large 2: shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" [syn: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous] 3: distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" [syn: grotesque, monstrous]
• murderess 0
  n 1: a woman murderer
• murderous 0
  adj 1: characteristic of or capable of or having a tendency toward killing another human being ; "a homicidal rage"; "murderous thugs" [syn: homicidal, murderous]
• nitrous 0
  adj 1: of or containing nitrogen; "nitric acid" [syn: azotic, nitric, nitrous]
• numerous 0
  adj 1: amounting to a large indefinite number; "numerous times"; "the family was numerous"; "Palomar's fans are legion" [syn: numerous, legion(p)]
• obstreperous 0
  adj 1: noisily and stubbornly defiant; "obstreperous boys" 2: boisterously and noisily aggressive; "kept up an obstreperous clamor"
• odoriferous 0
  adj 1: morally offensive; "odoriferous legislation" 2: emitting an odor; "odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack" [syn: odoriferous, odorous] 3: having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers" [syn: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling]
• odorous 0
  adj 1: having odor or a characteristic odor; "odorous jasmine flowers"; "odorous garbage"; "fresh odorous bread" [ant: inodorous, odorless, odourless] 2: emitting an odor; "odorous salt pork and weevily hardtack" [syn: odoriferous, odorous] 3: having a natural fragrance; "odoriferous spices"; "the odorous air of the orchard"; "the perfumed air of June"; "scented flowers" [syn: odoriferous, odorous, perfumed, scented, sweet, sweet-scented, sweet-smelling]
• oestrus 0
  n 1: applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity [syn: estrus, oestrus, heat, rut] [ant: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus] 2: type genus of the Oestridae: sheep botflies [syn: Oestrus, genus Oestrus]
• ogress 0
  n 1: (folklore) a female ogre
• omnivorous 0
  adj 1: feeding on both plants and animals [ant: carnivorous, herbivorous, insectivorous]
• onerous 0
  adj 1: not easily borne; wearing; "the burdensome task of preparing the income tax return"; "my duties weren't onerous; I only had to greet the guests"; "a taxing schedule" [syn: burdensome, onerous, taxing]
• overgenerous 0
  adj 1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain" [syn: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting]
• oviparous 0
  adj 1: egg-laying [ant: live-bearing, ovoviviparous, viviparous]
• peeress 0
  n 1: a woman of the peerage in Britain [syn: Lady, noblewoman, peeress] [ant: Lord, noble, nobleman]
• pestiferous 0
  adj 1: contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen [syn: dirty, pestiferous] 2: likely to spread and cause an epidemic disease; "a pestilential malignancy in the air"- Jonathan Swift; "plaguey fevers" [syn: pestilent, pestilential, pestiferous, plaguey] 3: tending to corrupt or pervert [syn: corruptive, perversive, pestiferous] 4: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing]

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