Words that rhyme with tapetum

v 1: make psychologically or physically used (to something); "She became habituated to the background music" [syn: habituate, accustom]

n 1: a facility where trees and shrubs are cultivated for exhibition [syn: arboretum, botanical garden]

n 1: (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element 2: (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything [syn: atom, molecule, particle, corpuscle, mote, speck]

n 1: the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973" [syn: fall, autumn]

adj 1: very small; "diminutive in stature"; "a lilliputian chest of drawers"; "her petite figure"; "tiny feet"; "the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy" [syn: bantam, diminutive, lilliputian, midget, petite, tiny, flyspeck] n 1: any of various small breeds of fowl

adj 1: situated at the bottom or lowest position; "the bottom drawer" [ant: side(a), top(a)] 2: the lowest rank; "bottom member of the class" n 1: the lower side of anything [syn: bottom, underside, undersurface] 2: the lowest part of anything; "they started at the bottom of the hill" 3: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 4: the second half of an inning; while the home team is at bat [syn: bottom, bottom of the inning] [ant: top, top of the inning] 5: a depression forming the ground under a body of water; "he searched for treasure on the ocean bed" [syn: bed, bottom] 6: low-lying alluvial land near a river [syn: bottomland, bottom] 7: a cargo ship; "they did much of their overseas trade in foreign bottoms" [syn: bottom, freighter, merchantman, merchant ship] v 1: provide with a bottom or a seat; "bottom the chairs" 2: strike the ground, as with a ship's bottom 3: come to understand [syn: penetrate, fathom, bottom]

adj 1: made according to the specifications of an individual [syn: custom-made, custom] [ant: ready-made] n 1: accepted or habitual practice [syn: custom, usage, usance] 2: a specific practice of long standing [syn: custom, tradition] 3: money collected under a tariff [syn: customs, customs duty, custom, impost] 4: habitual patronage; "I have given this tailor my custom for many years"

n 1: an item of factual information derived from measurement or research [syn: datum, data point]

n 1: something desired as a necessity; "the desiderata for a vacation are time and money"

n 1: microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica

n 1: an authoritative declaration [syn: pronouncement, dictum, say-so] 2: an opinion voiced by a judge on a point of law not directly bearing on the case in question and therefore not binding [syn: obiter dictum, dictum]

n 1: a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment

n 1: a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind [syn: misprint, erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal]

n 1: a servant employed to do a variety of jobs

n 1: a truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed

adv 1: (used when listing or enumerating items) also; "a length of chain, item a hook"-Philip Guedalla n 1: a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list; "he noticed an item in the New York Times"; "she had several items on her shopping list"; "the main point on the agenda was taken up first" [syn: item, point] 2: a small part that can be considered separately from the whole; "it was perfect in all details" [syn: detail, particular, item] 3: a whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection; "they reduced the price on many items" 4: an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole; "several of the details are similar"; "a point of information" [syn: detail, item, point] 5: an individual instance of a type of symbol; "the word`error' contains three tokens of `r'" [syn: token, item]

n 1: an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried it off the road" [syn: momentum, impulse] 2: the product of a body's mass and its velocity; "the momentum of the particles was deduced from meteoritic velocities"

n 1: a semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication [syn: petrolatum, petroleum jelly, mineral jelly]

adj 1: something apparently sensed but having no physical reality; "seemed to hear faint phantom bells"; "the amputee's illusion of a phantom limb" n 1: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre] 2: something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow]

n 1: a discrete amount of something that is analogous to the quantities in quantum theory 2: (physics) the smallest discrete quantity of some physical property that a system can possess (according to quantum theory)

n 1: the terminal section of the alimentary canal; from the sigmoid flexure to the anus

n 1: a place of inviolable privacy; "he withdrew to his sanctum sanctorum, where the children could never go" [syn: sanctum, sanctum sanctorum] 2: a sacred place of pilgrimage [syn: holy place, sanctum, holy]

n 1: the external pouch that contains the testes

n 1: (anatomy) a dividing partition between two tissues or cavities 2: a partition or wall especially in an ovary

n 1: expectorated matter; saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages; in ancient and medieval physiology it was believed to cause sluggishness [syn: phlegm, sputum]

n 1: one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock) 2: people having the same social, economic, or educational status; "the working class"; "an emerging professional class" [syn: class, stratum, social class, socio-economic class] 3: an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously" [syn: level, layer, stratum]

n 1: a surface on which an organism grows or is attached; "the gardener talked about the proper substrate for acid-loving plants" [syn: substrate, substratum] 2: any stratum or layer lying underneath another [syn: substrate, substratum] 3: an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population; "the Celtic languages of Britain are a substrate for English" [syn: substrate, substratum]

n 1: a system that is part of some larger system

n 1: (medicine) any sensation or change in bodily function that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease 2: anything that accompanies X and is regarded as an indication of X's existence

n 1: instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity; "he bought a new stereo system"; "the system consists of a motor and a small computer" 2: a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole; "a vast system of production and distribution and consumption keep the country going" [syn: system, scheme] 3: (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium; "in a static system oil cannot be replaced by water on a surface"; "a system generating hydrogen peroxide" 4: a complex of methods or rules governing behavior; "they have to operate under a system they oppose"; "that language has a complex system for indicating gender" [syn: system, system of rules] 5: an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification" [syn: arrangement, organization, organisation, system] 6: a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts; "the body has a system of organs for digestion" 7: a procedure or process for obtaining an objective; "they had to devise a system that did not depend on cooperation" 8: the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole; "exercise helped him get the alcohol out of his system" 9: an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized; "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality"; "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here" [syn: organization, organisation, system]

n 1: a clan or tribe identified by their kinship to a common totemic object 2: emblem consisting of an object such as an animal or plant; serves as the symbol of a family or clan (especially among American Indians)

n 1: a final peremptory demand

n 1: cosmopolitan genus of ferns: maidenhair ferns; in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae or Adiantaceae [syn: Adiantum, genus Adiantum]

adj 1: occurring or done after death; "postmortem changes"; "a postmortem examination to determine cause of death"; "postmortal wounds" [syn: postmortem, postmortal] [ant: antemortem] 2: after death or after an event; "a postmortem examination to determine the cause of death"; "the postmortem discussion of the President's TV address" n 1: discussion of an event after it has occurred [syn: postmortem, post-mortem] 2: an examination and dissection of a dead body to determine cause of death or the changes produced by disease [syn: autopsy, necropsy, postmortem, post-mortem, PM, postmortem examination, post-mortem examination]

n 1: a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth [syn: cementum, cement]

n 1: a fold of peritoneum supporting the viscera

n 1: filamentous hairlike growth on a plant; "peach fuzz" [syn: hair, fuzz, tomentum] 2: a network of tiny blood vessels between the cerebral surface of the pia mater and the cerebral cortex [syn: tomentum, tomentum cerebri]

n 1: a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect [syn: indumentum, indument]

n 1: rhizomatous plant of central and southeastern United States and West Indies having large showy heads of clear blue flowers; sometimes placed in genus Eupatorium [syn: mistflower, mist-flower, ageratum, Conoclinium coelestinum, Eupatorium coelestinum] 2: any plant of the genus Ageratum having opposite leaves and small heads of blue or white flowers

n 1: United States biochemist who discovered how genes act by regulating definite chemical events (1909-1975) [syn: Tatum, Edward Lawrie Tatum] 2: United States jazz pianist who was almost completely blind; his innovations influenced many other jazz musicians (1910-1956) [syn: Tatum, Art Tatum, Arthur Tatum]

n 1: hairdressing consisting of a perfumed oil or ointment [syn: pomade, pomatum]

n 1: a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin; "he got a bright red top and string for his birthday" [syn: top, whirligig, teetotum, spinning top]

n 1: any stratum or layer superimposed on another [syn: superstrate, superstratum] 2: the language of a later invading people that is imposed on an indigenous population and contributes features to their language [syn: superstrate, superstratum]