Words that rhyme with streptococcus

• abacus 0
  n 1: a tablet placed horizontally on top of the capital of a column as an aid in supporting the architrave 2: a calculator that performs arithmetic functions by manually sliding counters on rods or in grooves
• bronchus 0
  n 1: either of the two main branches of the trachea [syn: bronchus, bronchial tube]
• carcass 0
  n 1: the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food [syn: carcase, carcass]
• caucus 0
  n 1: a closed political meeting v 1: meet to select a candidate or promote a policy
• circus 0
  n 1: a travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals; "he ran away from home to join the circus" 2: a performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals; "the children always love to go to the circus" 3: a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment; "it was so funny it was a circus"; "the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere" [syn: circus, carnival] 4: (antiquity) an open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games 5: an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent; "they used the elephants to help put up the circus" 6: a genus of haws comprising the harriers [syn: Circus, genus Circus]
• crocus 0
  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
• cuss 0
  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]
• discus 0
  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]
• focus 0
  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]
• fuscous 0
  adj 1: of something having a dusky brownish grey color [syn: fuscous, taupe]
• gonococcus 0
  n 1: the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea [syn: gonococcus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae]
• hibiscus 0
  n 1: any plant of the genus Hibiscus
• locus 0
  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"
• meniscus 0
  n 1: (anatomy) a disk of cartilage that serves as a cushion between the ends of bones that meet at a joint [syn: meniscus, semilunar cartilage] 2: (optics) a lens that is concave on one side and convex on the other 3: (physics) the curved upper surface of a nonturbulent liquid in a vertical tube
• mucous 0
  adj 1: of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus; "mucous tissue"; "mucous glands of the intestine" [syn: mucous, mucose]
• mucus 0
  n 1: protective secretion of the mucus membranes; in the gut it lubricates the passage of food and protects the epithelial cells; in the nose and throat and lungs it can make it difficult for bacteria to penetrate the body through the epithelium [syn: mucus, mucous secretion]
• raucous 0
  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]
• refocus 0
  v 1: focus once again; The physicist refocused the light beam" 2: focus anew; "The group needs to refocus its goals" 3: put again into focus or focus more sharply; "refocus the image until it is very sharp"
• staphylococcus 0
  n 1: spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections [syn: staphylococcus, staphylococci, staph]
• umbilicus 0
  n 1: a scar where the umbilical cord was attached; "you were not supposed to show your navel on television"; "they argued whether or not Adam had a navel"; "she had a tattoo just above her bellybutton" [syn: navel, umbilicus, bellybutton, belly button, omphalos, omphalus]
• varicose 0
  adj 1: abnormally swollen or knotty; "varicose veins"
• viscous 0
  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]
• sulcus 0
  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
• viscus 0
  n 1: a main organ that is situated inside the body [syn: internal organ, viscus]
• bacchus 0
  n 1: (classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus
• pecos 0
  n 1: a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas [syn: Pecos, Pecos River]
• glaucous 0
  adj 1: having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants; "glaucous stems"; "glaucous plums"; "glaucous grapes"
• caracas 0
  n 1: the capital and largest city of Venezuela [syn: Caracas, capital of Venezuela]
• dryopithecus 0
  n 1: genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene [syn: Dryopithecus, genus Dryopithecus]
• coccus 0
  n 1: any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria [syn: coccus, cocci]
• diplococcus 0
  n 1: Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs
• pneumococcus 0
  n 1: bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans [syn: pneumococcus, Diplococcus pneumoniae]
• ascus 0
  n 1: saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes
• damascus 0
  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]
• orcus 0
  n 1: god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto [syn: Dis, Orcus]
• autofocus 0
  n 1: an optical device for focussing a camera or other instrument automatically
• copernicus 0
  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
• hipparchus 0
  n 1: Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the precession of the equinoxes and made the first known star chart and is said to have invented trigonometry (second century BC)
• aristarchus 0
  n 1: an ancient Greek grammarian remembered for his commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey (circa 217-145 BC) 2: a bright crater on the Moon
• fucus 0
  n 1: any member of the genus Fucus
• lucas 0
  n 1: United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) [syn: Lucas, George Lucas]
• caducous 0
  adj 1: shed at an early stage of development; "most amphibians have caducous gills"; "the caducous calyx of a poppy" [syn: caducous, shed] [ant: lasting, persistent]
• archilochus 0
  n 1: a genus of Trochilidae [syn: Archilochus, genus Archilochus]
• diplodocus 0
  n 1: a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America
• leviticus 0
  n 1: the third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents [syn: Leviticus, Book of Leviticus]
• defocus 0
• elenchus 0
• floccus 0
• hocus 0
• cus 0
• zacatecas 0
• baucus 0
• gracchus 0
• georgakis 0
• digalakis 0
• enterococcus 0
• talcous 0
• marcus 0
• cercus 0
• dorcas 0
• trochus 0
• caicos 0
• verrucous 0
• molluscous 0
• spartacus 0
• telemachus 0
• autolycus 0
• distichous 0
• antiochus 0
• callimachus 0
• monostichous 0
• ulotrichous 0

See also streptococcus definition and streptococcus synonyms