Words that rhyme with period

• afeard 0
  adj 1: a pronunciation of afraid [syn: afeard(p), afeared(p)]
• beard 0
  n 1: the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face [syn: beard, face fungus, whiskers] 2: a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses 3: a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) 4: hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals 5: tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface [syn: byssus, beard] v 1: go along the rim, like a beard around the chin; "Houses bearded the top of the heights"
• bluebeard 0
  n 1: (fairytale) a monstrous villain who marries seven women; he kills the first six for disobedience
• chiliad 0
  n 1: the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 [syn: thousand, one thousand, 1000, M, K, chiliad, G, grand, thou, yard]
• eared 0
  adj 1: worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down; "a somewhat dog-eared duke...a bit run down"-Clifton Fadiman; "an old book with dog-eared pages" [syn: dog-eared, eared] 2: having ears (or appendages resembling ears) or having ears of a specified kind; often used in combination [ant: earless]
• greybeard 0
  n 1: a man who is very old [syn: old man, greybeard, graybeard, Methuselah] 2: a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century) [syn: bellarmine, longbeard, long-beard, greybeard]
• myriad 0
  adj 1: too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable] n 1: a large indefinite number; "he faced a myriad of details" 2: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and one thousand [syn: ten thousand, 10000, myriad]
• weird 0
  adj 1: suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; "an eldritch screech"; "the three weird sisters"; "stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures"- John Galsworthy; "an unearthly light"; "he could hear the unearthly scream of some curlew piercing the din"- Henry Kingsley [syn: eldritch, weird, uncanny, unearthly] 2: strikingly odd or unusual; "some trick of the moonlight; some weird effect of shadow"- Bram Stoker n 1: fate personified; any one of the three Weird Sisters [syn: Wyrd, Weird]
• olympiad 0
  n 1: one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC 2: the modern revival of the ancient games held once every 4 years in a selected country [syn: Olympic Games, Olympics, Olympiad]
• iliad 0
  n 1: a Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the siege of Troy
• goatsbeard 0
  n 1: weedy European annual with yellow flowers; naturalized in United States [syn: meadow salsify, goatsbeard, shepherd's clock, Tragopogon pratensis]
• photoperiod 0
• hilliard 0

See also period definition and period synonyms