Words that rhyme with papyrus

  • desirous
    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]
  • iris
    n 1: plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals [syn: iris, flag, fleur-de-lis, sword lily] 2: muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye 3: diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening [syn: iris, iris diaphragm]
  • virus
    n 1: (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein 2: a harmful or corrupting agency; "bigotry is a virus that must not be allowed to spread"; "the virus of jealousy is latent in everyone" 3: a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer; "a true virus cannot spread to another computer without human assistance" [syn: virus, computer virus]
  • vociferous
    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]
  • waitress
    n 1: a woman waiter v 1: serve as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant; "I'm waiting on tables at Maxim's" [syn: wait, waitress]
  • walrus
    n 1: either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber [syn: walrus, seahorse, sea horse]
  • wardress
    n 1: a woman warder
  • wondrous
    adv 1: (used as an intensifier) extremely well; "her voice is superbly disciplined"; "the colors changed wondrously slowly" [syn: wonderfully, wondrous, wondrously, superbly, toppingly, marvellously, terrifically, marvelously] adj 1: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous]
  • cyprus
    n 1: a country on the island of Cyprus; 80% of the people are of Greek origin and 20% or Turkish origin [syn: Cyprus, Republic of Cyprus] 2: an island in the eastern Mediterranean
  • foundress
    n 1: a woman founder
  • glabrous
    adj 1: having no hair or similar growth; smooth; "glabrous stems"; "glabrous leaves"; "a glabrous scalp"
  • horace
    n 1: Roman lyric poet said to have influenced English poetry (65-8 BC)
  • traitress
    n 1: female traitor
  • tetramerous
    adj 1: having or consisting of four similar parts; tetramerous flowers
  • arcturus
    n 1: the 4th brightest star and the brightest star in the constellation Bootes; 36 light-years from Earth
  • honduras
    n 1: a republic in Central America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; an early center of Mayan culture [syn: Honduras, Republic of Honduras]
  • mercurous
    adj 1: of or containing mercury [syn: mercuric, mercurous]
  • epicurus
    n 1: Greek philosopher who believed that the world is a random combination of atoms and that pleasure is the highest good (341-270 BC)
  • varus
    n 1: a deformity in which part of a limb is turned inward to an abnormal degree [ant: valgus]
  • cyrus
    n 1: Persian prince who was defeated in battle by his brother Artaxerxes II (424-401 BC) [syn: Cyrus, Cyrus the Younger]
  • gyrus
    n 1: a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain [syn: gyrus, convolution]
  • retrovirus
    n 1: any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell
  • jointress
  • nacrous
  • scirrhous
  • scirrhus
  • matrass
  • dolores
  • scarus
  • shiras

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