Words that rhyme with peria

n 1: a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country" [syn: area, country] 2: a subject of study; "it was his area of specialization"; "areas of interest include..." 3: a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region" [syn: area, region] 4: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" [syn: sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena] 5: a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants" 6: the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area" [syn: area, expanse, surface area]

n 1: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria] 2: excessive or uncontrollable fear 3: neurotic disorder characterized by violent emotional outbreaks and disturbances of sensory and motor functions [syn: hysteria, hysterical neurosis]

n 1: baked dish of layers of lasagna pasta with sauce and cheese and meat or vegetables [syn: lasagna, lasagne] 2: very wide flat strips of pasta [syn: lasagna, lasagne]

n 1: an infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever

n 1: an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action [syn: mania, passion, cacoethes] 2: a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently [syn: mania, manic disorder]

n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) an ecclesiastical title of honor bestowed on some priests

n 1: a man of rank in the ancient regime [syn: feudal lord, seigneur, seignior]

n 1: the term during which some position is held [syn: tenure, term of office, incumbency] 2: the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands [syn: tenure, land tenure] v 1: give life-time employment to; "She was tenured after she published her book"

n 1: the wool of the vicuna 2: a soft wool fabric made from the fleece of the vicuna 3: small wild cud-chewing Andean animal similar to the guanaco but smaller; valued for its fleecy undercoat [syn: vicuna, Vicugna vicugna]

n 1: the capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy to the east of the Apennines 2: large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork [syn: bologna, Bologna sausage]

n 1: an ancient city in central Palestine founded in the 9th century BC as the capital of the northern Hebrew kingdom of Israel; the site is in present-day northwestern Jordan

n 1: a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory

n 1: a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe [syn: Bulgaria, Republic of Bulgaria]

n 1: the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed; "sharia is only applicable to Muslims"; "under Islamic law there is no separation of church and state" [syn: shariah, shariah law, sharia, sharia law, Islamic law]

n 1: Soviet chief of secret police under Joseph Stalin; was executed by his associates in the power struggle following Stalin's death (1899-1953) [syn: Beria, Lavrenti Pavlovich Beria]

n 1: a weekday on which no festival or holiday is celebrated; "in the middle ages feria was used with a prefixed ordinal number to designate the day of the week, so `secunda feria' meant Monday, but Sunday and Saturday were always called by their names, Dominicus and Sabbatum, and so feria came to mean an ordinary weekday" 2: (in Spanish speaking regions) a local festival or fair, usually in honor of some patron saint

n 1: a Spanish courtesy title or form of address for a woman; "Dona Marguerita"

n 1: tadpole-shaped parasitic larva of a trematode worm; tail disappears in adult stage

n 1: European weed naturalized in southwestern United States and Mexico having reddish decumbent stems with small fernlike leaves and small deep reddish-lavender flowers followed by slender fruits that stick straight up; often grown for forage [syn: redstem storksbill, alfilaria, alfileria, filaree, filaria, clocks, pin grass, pin clover, Erodium cicutarium] 2: slender threadlike roundworms living in the blood and tissues of vertebrates; transmitted as larvae by biting insects

n 1: a winged sandal (as worn by Hermes in Graeco-Roman art)

n 1: any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds

n 1: herb of Canary Islands widely cultivated for its blue or purple or red or variegated daisylike flowers [syn: cineraria, Pericallis cruenta, Senecio cruentus]

n 1: an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs [syn: urtication, urticaria, hives, nettle rash]

n 1: any garden plant of the genus Calceolaria having flowers with large inflated slipper-shaped lower lip [syn: calceolaria, slipperwort]

n 1: California evergreen shrub having glossy opposite leaves and terminal clusters of a few fragrant white flowers [syn: carpenteria, Carpenteria californica]

n 1: Italian painter and engraver noted for his frescoes (1431-1506) [syn: Mantegna, Andrea Mantegna]

n 1: a republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1963; major archeological discoveries have been made in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya [syn: Kenya, Republic of Kenya]