Words that rhyme with portcullis

• airless 0
  adj 1: lacking fresh air; "a dusty airless attic"; "the dreadfully close atmosphere"; "hot and stuffy and the air was blue with smoke" [syn: airless, close, stuffy, unaired]
• alveolus 0
  n 1: a tiny sac for holding air in the lungs; formed by the terminal dilation of tiny air passageways [syn: alveolus, air sac, air cell] 2: a bony socket in the alveolar ridge that holds a tooth [syn: tooth socket, alveolus]
• bacillus 0
  n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil [syn: bacillus, B]
• bodiless 0
  adj 1: not having a material body; "bodiless ghosts" [syn: discorporate, unembodied, bodiless, unbodied, disembodied] 2: having no trunk or main part; "a bodiless head" [syn: bodiless, bodyless]
• callous 0
  adj 1: emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: callous, indurate, pachydermatous] 2: having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear; "calloused skin"; "with a workman's callous hands" [syn: calloused, callous, thickened] v 1: make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals [syn: callous, cauterize, cauterise]
• callus 0
  n 1: an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) [syn: callosity, callus] 2: bony tissue formed during the healing of a fractured bone 3: (botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid v 1: cause a callus to form on; "The long march had callused his feet" 2: form a callus or calluses; "His foot callused"
• careless 0
  adj 1: marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful; "careless about her clothes"; "forgotten by some careless person"; "a careless housekeeper"; "careless proofreading"; "it was a careless mistake"; "hurt by a careless remark" [ant: careful] 2: effortless and unstudied; "an impression of careless elegance"; "danced with careless grace" 3: (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration; "careless of the consequences"; "crushing the blooms with regardless tread" [syn: careless(p), regardless]
• chalice 0
  n 1: a bowl-shaped drinking vessel; especially the Eucharistic cup [syn: chalice, goblet]
• cheerless 0
  adj 1: causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" [syn: depressing, cheerless, uncheerful] [ant: cheerful]
• clueless 0
  adj 1: totally uninformed about what is going on; not having even a clue from which to infer what is occurring
• earless 0
  adj 1: lacking external ears; "earless seals" [ant: eared]
• eyeless 0
  adj 1: lacking eyes or eyelike features; "eyeless fish that evolved in dark caves"; "an eyeless needle" [ant: eyed] 2: lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar" [syn: eyeless, sightless, unseeing]
• fearless 0
  adj 1: oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them [syn: unafraid(p), fearless] [ant: afraid(p)] 2: invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers" [syn: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing]
• flawless 0
  adj 1: without a flaw; "a flawless gemstone" [syn: flawless, unflawed]
• hairless 0
  adj 1: having no hair or fur; "a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail" [ant: haired, hairy, hirsute]
• jealous 0
  adj 1: showing extreme cupidity; painfully desirous of another's advantages; "he was never covetous before he met her"; "jealous of his success and covetous of his possessions"; "envious of their art collection" [syn: covetous, envious, jealous] 2: suspicious or unduly suspicious or fearful of being displaced by a rival; "a jealous lover" [syn: jealous, green-eyed, overjealous]
• joyless 0
  adj 1: not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings" [ant: joyous]
• keyless 0
  adj 1: lacking or not requiring a key; "a keyless lock operated by a series of pushbuttons" [ant: keyed]
• lawless 0
  adj 1: without law or control; "the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic" [syn: anarchic, anarchical, lawless] 2: lax in enforcing laws; "a wide-open town" [syn: wide-open, lawless] 3: disobedient to or defiant of law; "lawless bands roaming the plains" [syn: lawless, outlaw(a)]
• merciless 0
  adj 1: having or showing no mercy; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating" [syn: merciless, unmerciful] [ant: merciful]
• moneyless 0
  adj 1: not based on the possession of money; "a moneyless economy" [ant: moneyed, monied] 2: having no money; "virtually moneyless rural regions"
• nucleolus 0
  n 1: a small round body of protein in a cell nucleus; such organelles contain RNA and are involved in protein synthesis [syn: nucleolus, nucleole]
• overzealous 0
  adj 1: marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist" [syn: fanatic, fanatical, overzealous, rabid]
• palace 0
  n 1: a large and stately mansion [syn: palace, castle] 2: the governing group of a kingdom; "the palace issued an order binding on all subjects" 3: a large ornate exhibition hall 4: official residence of an exalted person (as a sovereign)
• parlous 0
  adj 1: fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch- and-go recovery" [syn: parlous, perilous, precarious, touch-and-go]
• peerless 0
  adj 1: eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art" [syn: matchless, nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled]
• phallus 0
  n 1: genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem [syn: Phallus, genus Phallus] 2: the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism) [syn: penis, phallus, member]
• pitiless 0
  adj 1: without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty" [syn: pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unpitying] 2: deficient in humane and kindly feelings [syn: pitiless, unkind]
• recoilless 0
  adj 1: of or being a weapon that is designed to minimize recoil
• scoreless 0
  adj 1: having no points scores; "a scoreless inning" [syn: scoreless, goalless, hitless]
• solace 0
  n 1: the comfort you feel when consoled in times of disappointment; "second place was no consolation to him" [syn: consolation, solace, solacement] 2: comfort in disappointment or misery [syn: solace, solacement] 3: the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction; "his presence was a consolation to her" [syn: consolation, comfort, solace] v 1: give moral or emotional strength to [syn: comfort, soothe, console, solace]
• starless 0
  adj 1: not starry; having no stars or starlike objects; "dark starless nights" [ant: starry]
• talus 0
  n 1: a sloping mass of loose rocks at the base of a cliff [syn: talus, scree] 2: the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint [syn: anklebone, astragal, astragalus, talus]
• tearless 0
  adj 1: free from tears [syn: tearless, dry-eyed] [ant: tearful]
• treeless 0
  adj 1: not wooded [syn: unwooded, treeless] [ant: wooded]
• viewless 0
  adj 1: not having or expressing opinions or views
• zealous 0
  adj 1: marked by active interest and enthusiasm; "an avid sports fan" [syn: avid, zealous]
• aweless 0
  adj 1: devoid of any feeling of awe or reverence [syn: aweless, awless] 2: neither feeling nor showing respect [syn: aweless, awless, disrespectful]
• braless 0
  adj 1: having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity; "topless waitresses"; "a topless cabaret" [syn: bare- breasted, braless, topless]
• dallas 0
  n 1: a large commercial and industrial city in northeastern Texas located in the heart of the northern Texas oil fields
• shoeless 0
  adj 1: without shoes; "the barefoot boy"; "shoeless Joe Jackson" [syn: barefoot, barefooted, shoeless]
• thallus 0
  n 1: a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system; characteristic of the thallophytes
• callas 0
  n 1: Greek coloratura soprano (born in the United States) known for her dramatic intensity in operatic roles (1923-1977) [syn: Callas, Maria Callas, Maria Meneghini Callas]
• pallas 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) goddess of wisdom and useful arts and prudent warfare; guardian of Athens; identified with Roman Minerva [syn: Athena, Athene, Pallas, Pallas Athena, Pallas Athene] 2: a large asteroid; the second asteroid to be discovered
• ocellus 0
  n 1: an eye having a single lens [syn: simple eye, stemma, ocellus] 2: an eyelike marking (as on the wings of some butterflies); usually a spot of color inside a ring of another color [syn: eyespot, ocellus]
• vitellus 0
  n 1: nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg) [syn: yolk, vitellus]
• dulles 0
  n 1: United States diplomat who (as Secretary of State) pursued a policy of opposition to the USSR by providing aid to American allies (1888-1959) [syn: Dulles, John Foster Dulles]
• catullus 0
  n 1: Roman lyric poet remembered for his love poems to an aristocratic Roman woman (84-54 BC) [syn: Catullus, Gaius Valerius Catullus]
• wallace 0
  n 1: Scottish insurgent who led the resistance to Edward I; in 1297 he gained control of Scotland briefly until Edward invaded Scotland again and defeated Wallace and subsequently executed him (1270-1305) [syn: Wallace, Sir William Wallace] 2: English writer noted for his crime novels (1875-1932) [syn: Wallace, Edgar Wallace, Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace] 3: English naturalist who formulated a concept of evolution that resembled Charles Darwin's (1823-1913) [syn: Wallace, Alfred Russel Wallace]
• villus 0
  n 1: a minute hairlike projection on mucous membrane
• aphyllous 0
  adj 1: having no leaves
• nicholas 0
  n 1: a bishop in Asia Minor who is associated with Santa Claus (4th century) [syn: Nicholas, Saint Nicholas, St. Nicholas]
• rayless 0
  adj 1: having no parts resembling rays; not having ray flowers
• chylous 0
  adj 1: consisting of chyle or having the properties of chyle [syn: chylaceous, chylous]
• pilous 0
  adj 1: covered with hairs especially fine soft ones [syn: pilous, pilose, pilary]
• fantabulous 0
  adj 1: very good;of the highest quality; "made an excellent speech"; "the school has excellent teachers"; "a first- class mind" [syn: excellent, first-class, fantabulous, splendid]
• heirless 0
• idealess 0
• issueless 0
• remediless 0
• villous 0
• ruleless 0
• scarless 0
• shoreless 0
• marcellus 0
• agulhas 0
• symphyllous 0
• triphyllous 0
• silas 0
• tristylous 0

See also portcullis definition