Words that rhyme with spiro

n 1: a pen that has a small metal ball as the point of transfer of ink to paper [syn: ballpoint, ballpoint pen, ballpen, Biro]

n 1: a man distinguished by exceptional courage and nobility and strength; "RAF pilots were the heroes of the Battle of Britain" 2: the principal character in a play or movie or novel or poem 3: someone who fights for a cause [syn: champion, fighter, hero, paladin] 4: Greek mathematician and inventor who devised a way to determine the area of a triangle and who described various mechanical devices (first century) [syn: Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria] 5: (classical mythology) a being of great strength and courage celebrated for bold exploits; often the offspring of a mortal and a god 6: (Greek mythology) priestess of Aphrodite who killed herself when her lover Leander drowned while trying to swim the Hellespont to see her 7: a large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States [syn: bomber, grinder, hero, hero sandwich, hoagie, hoagy, Cuban sandwich, Italian sandwich, poor boy, sub, submarine, submarine sandwich, torpedo, wedge, zep]

adj 1: indicating the absence of any or all units under consideration; "a zero score" [syn: zero, 0] 2: having no measurable or otherwise determinable value; "the goal is zero population growth" 3: indicating an initial point or origin 4: of or relating to the null set (a set with no members) n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo] 2: a mathematical element that when added to another number yields the same number [syn: zero, 0, nought, cipher, cypher] 3: the point on a scale from which positive or negative numerical quantities can be measured [syn: zero, zero point] 4: the sight setting that will cause a projectile to hit the center of the target with no wind blowing v 1: adjust (an instrument or device) to zero value 2: adjust (as by firing under test conditions) the zero of (a gun); "He zeroed in his rifle at 200 yards" [syn: zero, zero in]

n 1: a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element; occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits; does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia [syn: gold, Au, atomic number 79] 2: a unit of length used for distances within the solar system; equal to the mean distance between the Earth and the Sun (approximately 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers) [syn: Astronomical Unit, AU]

n 1: New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry [syn: miro, black pine, Prumnopitys ferruginea, Podocarpus ferruginea] 2: Spanish surrealist painter (1893-1983) [syn: Miro, Joan Miro]

n 1: Roman Emperor notorious for his monstrous vice and fantastic luxury (was said to have started a fire that destroyed much of Rome in 64) but the Roman Empire remained prosperous during his rule (37-68) [syn: Nero, Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus]