Words that rhyme with sandpapery

• apery 0
  n 1: the act of mimicking; imitative behavior [syn: apery, mimicry]
• drapery 0
  n 1: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall] 2: cloth gracefully draped and arranged in loose folds
• napery 0
  n 1: linens for the dining table [syn: table linen, napery]
• papery 0
  adj 1: thin and paperlike; "papery leaves"; "wasps that make nests of papery material" 2: of or like paper [syn: chartaceous, papery, paperlike]
• showery 0
  adj 1: (of weather) wet by periods of rain; "showery weather"; "rainy days" [syn: showery, rainy]
• slippery 0
  adj 1: causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain" [syn: slippery, slippy] [ant: nonslippery] 2: not to be trusted; "how extraordinarily slippery a liar the camera is"- James Agee [syn: slippery, tricky]
• statuary 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or suitable for statues n 1: statues collectively
• sumptuary 0
  adj 1: regulating or controlling expenditure or personal behavior; "sumptuary laws discouraging construction of large houses on small plots"; "sumptuary laws forbidding gambling"
• temporary 0
  adj 1: not permanent; not lasting; "politics is an impermanent factor of life"- James Thurber; "impermanent palm cottages"; "a temperary arrangement"; "temporary housing" [syn: impermanent, temporary] [ant: lasting, permanent] 2: lacking continuity or regularity; "an irregular worker"; "employed on a temporary basis" [syn: irregular, temporary] n 1: a worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis [syn: temp, temporary, temporary worker]
• trumpery 0
  n 1: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop] 2: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery]
• venturi 0
  n 1: United States architect (born in 1925) [syn: Venturi, Robert Venturi, Robert Charles Venturi] 2: a tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor)
• voluptuary 0
  adj 1: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness" [syn: epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous] n 1: a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses [syn: voluptuary, sybarite]
• wiry 0
  adj 1: lean and sinewy [syn: stringy, wiry] 2: of or relating to wire 3: of hair that resembles wire in stiffness; "wiry red hair"
• briery 0
  adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]
• cowrie 0
  n 1: any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells [syn: cowrie, cowry]
• jewry 0
  n 1: Jews collectively
• maori 0
  n 1: an ethnic minority of Polynesian and Melanesian descent who speak Maori and live in New Zealand 2: the Oceanic language spoken by the Maori in New Zealand
• usufructuary 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the nature of a usufruct n 1: someone who holds property by usufruct
• missouri 0
  n 1: a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union [syn: Missouri, Show Me State, MO] 2: the longest river in the United States; arises in Montana and flows southeastward to become a tributary of the Mississippi at Saint Louis; "The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers together form the third longest river in the world" [syn: Missouri, Missouri River] 3: a member of the Siouan people formerly inhabiting the valley of the Missouri river in Missouri 4: a dialect of the Chiwere language spoken by the Missouri
• zedoary 0
• polypary 0
• fleury 0
• transire 0
• dioscuri 0
• lowery 0
• drury 0
• loury 0
• grapery 0
• vapory 0
• vapoury 0

See also sandpapery definition and sandpapery synonyms