Words that rhyme with tessitura

n 1: the bitter bark of a South American tree; used in medicines and liqueurs and bitters [syn: angostura bark, angostura]

n 1: brilliant and showy technical skill; "in a final bravura the ballerina appeared to be floating in water"; "the music ends with a display of bravura"

n 1: a lyric soprano who specializes in coloratura vocal music [syn: coloratura, coloratura soprano] 2: singing with florid ornamentation

n 1: someone who eats greedily or voraciously

n 1: sorghums of dry regions of Asia and North Africa [syn: durra, doura, dourah, Egyptian corn, Indian millet, Guinea corn]

n 1: the male ruler of an empire 2: red table grape of California 3: large moth of temperate forests of Eurasia having heavily scaled transparent wings [syn: emperor, emperor moth, Saturnia pavonia] 4: large richly colored butterfly [syn: emperor butterfly, emperor]

n 1: someone who asks a question [syn: inquirer, enquirer, questioner, querier, asker]

n 1: a financial institution that sells insurance [syn: insurance company, insurance firm, insurer, insurance underwriter, underwriter]

n 1: someone who serves (or waits to be called to serve) on a jury [syn: juror, juryman, jurywoman]

n 1: a drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludes 2: a commercial browser 3: a building where musical dramas are performed [syn: opera, opera house]

n 1: the thin serous membrane around the lungs and inner walls of the chest

n 1: someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) [syn: pimp, procurer, panderer, pander, pandar, fancy man, ponce] 2: someone who obtains or acquires; "the procurer of opera tickets" [syn: procurer, securer]

n 1: pigment mixed with water-soluble glutinous materials such as size and egg yolk [syn: tempera, poster paint, poster color, poster colour]

n 1: vegetables and seafood dipped in batter and deep-fried

n 1: one who speaks in a whisper

n 1: someone who cleanses by scouring 2: someone who travels widely and energetically; "he was a scourer of the seven seas"

n 1: one of the sections (or chapters) in the Koran; "the Quran is divided in 114 suras" 2: the muscular back part of the shank [syn: calf, sura]

n 1: a person who acquires something (usually permanently) 2: a corporation gaining financial control over another corporation or financial institution through a payment in cash or an exchange of stock 3: the financial institution that dispenses cash in automated teller machines and collects a fee from the bank that issued the credit card 4: a credit card processing bank; merchants receive credit for credit card receipts less a processing fee [syn: merchant bank, acquirer]

n 1: the outermost (and toughest) of the 3 meninges [syn: dura mater, dura]

n 1: the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies

n 1: thorn apple [syn: Datura, genus Datura]

n 1: the capital and largest city of Burundi; "Usumbura was renamed Bujumbura when Burundi became independent in 1962" [syn: Bujumbura, Usumbura, capital of Burundi]

n 1: the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party

n 1: a leading German painter and engraver of the Renaissance (1471-1528) [syn: Durer, Albrecht Durer]

n 1: one whose occupation is decorating walls with wallpaper [syn: paperhanger, paperer]

n 1: someone who travels for pleasure [syn: tourist, tourer, holidaymaker] 2: large open car seating four with folding top [syn: touring car, phaeton, tourer]