Words that rhyme with perseus

• caduceus 0
  n 1: an insignia used by the medical profession; modeled after the staff of Hermes
• gaseous 0
  adj 1: existing as or having characteristics of a gas; "steam is water is the gaseous state" [ant: liquid, solid]
• nauseous 0
  adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile] 2: feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit [syn: nauseated, nauseous, queasy, sick, sickish]
• athanasius 0
  n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373) [syn: Athanasius, Saint Athanasius, St. Athanasius, Athanasius the Great]
• odysseus 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) a famous mythical Greek hero; his return to Ithaca after the siege of Troy was described in the Odyssey
• dionysius 0
  n 1: the tyrant of Syracuse who fought the Carthaginians (430-367 BC) [syn: Dionysius, Dionysius the Elder]
• alcaeus 0
  n 1: Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; reputed inventor of Alcaic verse (611-580 BC)
• theseus 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) a hero and king of Athens who was noted for his many great deeds: killed Procrustes and the Minotaur and defeated the Amazons and united Attica
• tiresias 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the blind prophet of Thebes who revealed to Oedipus that Oedipus had murdered his father and married his mother
• caseous 0
  adj 1: of damaged or necrotic tissue; cheeselike
• celsius 0
  n 1: Swedish astronomer who devised the centigrade thermometer (1701-1744) [syn: Celsius, Anders Celsius]
• photius 0
  n 1: Patriarch of Constantinople and saint of the Greek Orthodox Church; was condemned by the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 869 but was reinstated by a later pope
• theodosius 0
  n 1: the last emperor of a united Roman Empire, he took control of the eastern empire and ended the war with the Visigoths; he became a Christian and in 391 banned all forms of pagan worship (346-395) [syn: Theodosius, Theodosius I, Theodosius the Great, Flavius Theodosius]
• laurentius 0
  n 1: Roman martyr; supposedly Lawrence was ordered by the police to give up the church's treasure and when he responded by presenting the poor people of Rome he was roasted to death on a gridiron (died in 258) [syn: Lawrence, Saint Lawrence, St. Lawrence, Laurentius]
• coeus 0
• lucius 0
• loxias 0
• toxeus 0
• tertius 0
• gypseous 0
• hypseus 0
• phyxius 0
• accius 0
• masius 0
• yglesias 0
• manutius 0
• asius 0
• statius 0
• gelasius 0
• galimatias 0
• barocius 0
• ancius 0
• briseus 0
• hyrtius 0
• marsyas 0
• acesius 0
• arcesius 0
• catharsius 0
• frumentius 0
• hortensius 0
• propertius 0

See also perseus definition