Words that rhyme with roccas

n 1: a closed political meeting v 1: meet to select a candidate or promote a policy

n 1: any of numerous low-growing plants of the genus Crocus having slender grasslike leaves and white or yellow or purple flowers; native chiefly to the Mediterranean region but widely cultivated

n 1: a persistently annoying person [syn: pest, blighter, cuss, pesterer, gadfly] 2: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke] 3: profane or obscene expression usually of surprise or anger; "expletives were deleted" [syn: curse, curse word, expletive, oath, swearing, swearword, cuss] v 1: utter obscenities or profanities; "The drunken men were cursing loudly in the street" [syn: curse, cuss, blaspheme, swear, imprecate]

n 1: an athletic competition in which a disk-shaped object is thrown as far as possible 2: a disk used in throwing competitions [syn: discus, saucer]

n 1: the concentration of attention or energy on something; "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"; "he had no direction in his life" [syn: focus, focusing, focussing, focal point, direction, centering] 2: maximum clarity or distinctness of an image rendered by an optical system; "in focus"; "out of focus" 3: maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea; "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion" 4: a central point or locus of an infection in an organism; "the focus of infection" [syn: focus, focal point, nidus] 5: special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed" [syn: stress, focus] 6: a point of convergence of light (or other radiation) or a point from which it diverges [syn: focus, focal point] 7: a fixed reference point on the concave side of a conic section v 1: direct one's attention on something; "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies" [syn: concentrate, focus, center, centre, pore, rivet] 2: cause to converge on or toward a central point; "Focus the light on this image" [ant: blur] 3: bring into focus or alignment; to converge or cause to converge; of ideas or emotions [syn: concenter, concentre, focalize, focalise, focus] 4: become focussed or come into focus; "The light focused" [syn: focus, focalize, focalise] [ant: blur, dim, slur] 5: put (an image) into focus; "Please focus the image; we cannot enjoy the movie" [syn: focus, focalize, focalise, sharpen] [ant: blear, blur]

n 1: the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea [syn: gonococcus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae]

n 1: the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) [syn: venue, locale, locus] 2: the specific site of a particular gene on its chromosome 3: the set of all points or lines that satisfy or are determined by specific conditions; "the locus of points equidistant from a given point is a circle"

adj 1: unpleasantly loud and harsh [syn: raucous, strident] 2: disturbing the public peace; loud and rough; "a raucous party"; "rowdy teenagers" [syn: raucous, rowdy]

n 1: spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections [syn: staphylococcus, staphylococci, staph]

n 1: spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis [syn: streptococcus, streptococci, strep]

adj 1: having a relatively high resistance to flow [syn: syrupy, viscous] 2: having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous]

n 1: (anatomy) any of the narrow grooves in an organ or tissue especially those that mark the convolutions on the surface of the brain

n 1: a main organ that is situated inside the body [syn: internal organ, viscus]

n 1: (classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus

adj 1: having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants; "glaucous stems"; "glaucous plums"; "glaucous grapes"

n 1: the capital and largest city of Venezuela [syn: Caracas, capital of Venezuela]

n 1: any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria [syn: coccus, cocci]

n 1: Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs

n 1: type genus of the family Micrococcaceae [syn: Micrococcus, genus Micrococcus]

n 1: bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans [syn: pneumococcus, Diplococcus pneumoniae]

n 1: an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul) underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus [syn: Dimash, Damascus, capital of Syria]

n 1: Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543) [syn: Copernicus, Nicolaus Copernicus, Mikolaj Kopernik] 2: a conspicuous crater on the Moon