Words that rhyme with proboscidean

  • aeon
    n 1: (Gnosticism) a divine power or nature emanating from the Supreme Being and playing various roles in the operation of the universe [syn: eon, aeon] 2: the longest division of geological time [syn: eon, aeon] 3: an immeasurably long period of time; "oh, that happened eons ago" [syn: eon, aeon]
  • circadian
    adj 1: of or relating to biological processes occurring at 24-hour intervals; "circadian rhythms"
  • comedian
    n 1: a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts [syn: comedian, comic] 2: an actor in a comedy
  • enchiridion
    n 1: a concise reference book providing specific information about a subject or location [syn: handbook, enchiridion, vade mecum]
  • guardian
    n 1: a person who cares for persons or property [syn: defender, guardian, protector, shielder]
  • median
    adj 1: relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn: median(a), average] 2: dividing an animal into right and left halves [syn: medial, median] 3: relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle [syn: median, medial] n 1: the value below which 50% of the cases fall [syn: median, median value]
  • meridian
    adj 1: of or happening at noon; "meridian hour" 2: being at the best stage of development; "our manhood's prime vigor"- Robert Browning [syn: prime, meridian] n 1: the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development; "his landscapes were deemed the acme of beauty"; "the artist's gifts are at their acme"; "at the height of her career"; "the peak of perfection"; "summer was at its peak"; "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame"; "the summit of his ambition"; "so many highest superlatives achieved by man"; "at the top of his profession" [syn: acme, height, elevation, peak, pinnacle, summit, superlative, meridian, tiptop, top] 2: a town in eastern Mississippi 3: an imaginary great circle on the surface of the earth passing through the north and south poles at right angles to the equator; "all points on the same meridian have the same longitude" [syn: meridian, line of longitude]
  • obsidian
    n 1: acid or granitic glass formed by the rapid cooling of lava without crystallization; usually dark, but transparent in thin pieces
  • ophidian
    n 1: limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous [syn: snake, serpent, ophidian]
  • quotidian
    adj 1: found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday, mundane, quotidian, routine, unremarkable, workaday]
  • steradian
    n 1: the unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: steradian, sr]
  • tragedian
    n 1: a writer (especially a playwright) who writes tragedies 2: an actor who specializes in tragic roles
  • floridian
    n 1: a native or resident of Florida
  • akkadian
    n 1: an ancient branch of the Semitic languages
  • chadian
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Republic of Chad or its people or language; "the Chadian desert"; "Chad soldiers"; "Chadian folktales" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Chad
  • acadian
    n 1: an early French settler in the Maritimes
  • arcadian
    adj 1: (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian, bucolic, pastoral] n 1: an inhabitant of Arcadia
  • canadian
    adj 1: of or relating to Canada or its people n 1: a native or inhabitant of Canada 2: a river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma [syn: Canadian, Canadian River]
  • grenadian
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Grenada or its inhabitants; "the Grenadian capital" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Grenada
  • palladian
    adj 1: referring to or relating to or having the style of architecture created by Andrea Palladio; "the much imitated arch and column compositions known as the Palladian motif"
  • hadean
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Hades or Tartarus [syn: Hadean, Plutonian, Tartarean] n 1: the earliest eon in the history of the Earth from the first accretion of planetary material (around 4,600 million years ago) until the date of the oldest known rocks (about 3,800 million years ago); no evidence of life [syn: Hadean, Hadean time, Hadean eon, Hadean aeon, Priscoan, Priscoan eon, Priscoan aeon]
  • antipodean
    adj 1: relating to the antipodes or situated at opposite sides of the earth; "antipodean latitudes"; "antipodal regions of the earth"; "antipodal points on a sphere" [syn: antipodal, antipodean]
  • lydian
    n 1: an Anatolian language
  • ascidian
    n 1: minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves
  • dravidian
    n 1: a member of one of the aboriginal races of India (pushed south by Caucasians and now mixed with them) 2: a large family of languages spoken in south and central India and Sri Lanka [syn: Dravidian, Dravidic, Dravidian language]
  • euclidean
    adj 1: relating to geometry as developed by Euclid; "Euclidian geometry" [syn: euclidian, euclidean]
  • gammadion
  • viridian
  • gideon
  • orcadian
  • judaean
  • midian
  • pisidian
  • stasidion
  • archimedean
  • nullifidian
  • solifidian

See also proboscidean definition and proboscidean synonyms