Words that rhyme with uterine

  • adulterine
    adj 1: conceived in adultery
  • alexandrine
    n 1: (prosody) a line of verse that has six iambic feet
  • anserine
    adj 1: of or resembling a goose 2: having or revealing stupidity; "ridiculous anserine behavior"; "a dopey answer"; "a dopey kid"; "some fool idea about rewriting authors' books" [syn: anserine, dopy, dopey, foolish, goosey, goosy, gooselike, jerky]
  • endocrine
    adj 1: of or belonging to endocrine glands or their secretions; "endocrine system" [syn: endocrine, endocrinal] [ant: exocrine] n 1: the secretion of an endocrine gland that is transmitted by the blood to the tissue on which it has a specific effect [syn: hormone, endocrine, internal secretion] 2: any of the glands of the endocrine system that secrete hormones directly into the bloodstream [syn: endocrine gland, endocrine, ductless gland]
  • enshrine
    v 1: enclose in a shrine; "the saint's bones were enshrined in the cathedral" [syn: enshrine, shrine] 2: hold sacred [syn: enshrine, saint]
  • estuarine
    adj 1: of or relating to or found in estuaries [syn: estuarine, estuarial]
  • exocrine
    adj 1: of or relating to exocrine glands or their secretions [ant: endocrinal, endocrine] n 1: a gland that secretes externally through a duct [syn: exocrine gland, exocrine, duct gland]
  • intrauterine
    adj 1: within the womb
  • passerine
    adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the passeriform birds [ant: nonpasserine] n 1: perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless [syn: passerine, passeriform bird]
  • murine
    adj 1: of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice); "a murine plague" n 1: a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae
  • helleborine
    n 1: any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish- white flowers in a twisted raceme [syn: rattlesnake plantain, helleborine] 2: any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis 3: any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera
  • taurine
    adj 1: of or relating to or resembling a bull n 1: a colorless crystalline substance obtained from the bile of mammals
  • apocrine
    adj 1: (of exocrine glands) producing a secretion in which part of the secreting cell is released with the secretion; "mother's milk is one apocrine secretion" [ant: eccrine]
  • catarrhine
    adj 1: of or related to Old World monkeys that have nostrils together and opening downward [syn: catarrhine, catarrhinian] [ant: broadnosed, leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrrhinic] n 1: of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together [syn: Old World monkey, catarrhine]
  • platyrrhine
    adj 1: of or related to New World monkeys having nostrils far apart or to people with broad noses [syn: platyrrhine, platyrrhinian, platyrhine, platyrhinian, platyrrhinic, broadnosed] [ant: catarrhine, catarrhinian, leptorhine, leptorrhine, leptorrhinian, leptorrhinic] n 1: hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails [syn: New World monkey, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian]
  • vulturine
    adj 1: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous]
  • alabastrine
    adj 1: of or resembling alabaster; "alabaster statue" [syn: alabaster, alabastrine]
  • aventurine
    n 1: a translucent quartz spangled with bits of mica or other minerals [syn: sunstone, aventurine]
  • colubrine
  • leporine
  • riverine
  • sciurine
  • zollverein
  • meandrine
  • viperine
  • zebrine

See also uterine definition