Words that rhyme with parnassus

• amphioxus 0
  n 1: small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates [syn: lancelet, amphioxus]
• census 0
  n 1: a periodic count of the population [syn: census, nose count, nosecount] v 1: conduct a census; "They censused the deer in the forest"
• colossus 0
  n 1: someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful [syn: giant, goliath, behemoth, monster, colossus] 2: a person of exceptional importance and reputation [syn: colossus, behemoth, giant, heavyweight, titan]
• consensus 0
  n 1: agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole; "the lack of consensus reflected differences in theoretical positions"; "those rights and obligations are based on an unstated consensus"
• cuss 0
  n 1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly] 2: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke] 3: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss] v 1: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate]
• excursus 0
  n 1: a message that departs from the main subject [syn: digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis]
• metatarsus 0
  n 1: the skeleton of the human foot between the toes and the tarsus; the corresponding part of the foot in birds or of the hind foot in quadrupeds
• narcissus 0
  n 1: bulbous plant having erect linear leaves and showy yellow or white flowers either solitary or in clusters 2: (Greek mythology) a beautiful young man who fell in love with his own reflection
• nexus 0
  n 1: the means of connection between things linked in series [syn: link, nexus] 2: a connected series or group
• plexus 0
  n 1: a network of intersecting blood vessels or intersecting nerves or intersecting lymph vessels [syn: plexus, rete]
• princess 0
  n 1: a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)
• rhesus 0
  n 1: of southern Asia; used in medical research [syn: rhesus, rhesus monkey, Macaca mulatta]
• texas 0
  n 1: the second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico [syn: Texas, Lone-Star State, TX]
• byssus 0
  n 1: tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface [syn: byssus, beard]
• dryopithecus 0
  n 1: genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene [syn: Dryopithecus, genus Dryopithecus]
• croesus 0
  n 1: last king of Lydia (died in 546 BC) 2: a very wealthy man
• coccus 0
  n 1: any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria [syn: coccus, cocci]
• diplococcus 0
  n 1: Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs
• pneumococcus 0
  n 1: bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans [syn: pneumococcus, Diplococcus pneumoniae]
• ascus 0
  n 1: saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes
• damascus 0
  n 1: an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul) underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus [syn: Dimash, Damascus, capital of Syria]
• orcus 0
  n 1: god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto [syn: Dis, Orcus]
• autofocus 0
  n 1: an optical device for focussing a camera or other instrument automatically
• copernicus 0
  n 1: Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543) [syn: Copernicus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Mikolaj Kopernik] 2: a conspicuous crater on the Moon
• hipparchus 0
  n 1: Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)
• dionysus 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) god of wine and fertility and drama; the Greek name of Bacchus
• archilochus 0
  n 1: a genus of Trochilidae [syn: Archilochus, genus Archilochus]
• pegasus 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the immortal winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa; was tamed by Bellerophon with the help of a bridle given him by Athena; as the flying horse of the Muses it is a symbol of highflying imagination 2: a constellation in the northern hemisphere near Andromeda and Pisces
• thyrsus 0
  n 1: a dense flower cluster (as of the lilac or horse chestnut) in which the main axis is racemose and the branches are cymose [syn: thyrse, thyrsus]
• diplodocus 0
  n 1: a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America
• leviticus 0
  n 1: the third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents [syn: Leviticus, Book of Leviticus]
• versus 0
• frances 0
• cus 0
• hattusas 0
• molossus 0
• talcous 0
• marcus 0
• cercus 0
• dorcas 0
• trochus 0
• caicos 0
• verrucous 0
• oxus 0
• molluscous 0
• spartacus 0
• tibiotarsus 0
• telemachus 0
• autolycus 0
• distichous 0
• antiochus 0
• callimachus 0
• monostichous 0

See also parnassus definition and parnassus synonyms