Words that rhyme with varioloid

n 1: natural bases containing nitrogen found in plants

adj 1: aroused to impatience or anger; "made an irritated gesture"; "feeling nettled from the constant teasing"; "peeved about being left out"; "felt really pissed at her snootiness"; "riled no end by his lies"; "roiled by the delay" [syn: annoyed, irritated, miffed, nettled, peeved, pissed, pissed off, riled, roiled, steamed, stung] 2: troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances; "harassed working mothers"; "a harried expression"; "her poor pestered father had to endure her constant interruptions"; "the vexed parents of an unruly teenager" [syn: annoyed, harassed, harried, pestered, vexed]

v 1: stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her" [ant: confront, face, face up] 2: prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" [syn: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward off] 3: refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories" 4: refrain from certain foods or beverages; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day" [syn: keep off, avoid] 5: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea" [syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate]

adj 1: artificial as if portrayed in a film; "a novel with flat celluloid characters" [syn: celluloid, synthetic] n 1: highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics 2: a medium that disseminates moving pictures; "theater pieces transferred to celluloid"; "this story would be good cinema"; "film coverage of sporting events" [syn: film, cinema, celluloid]

n 1: a mixture with properties between those of a solution and fine suspension

adj 1: resembling a circle [syn: cycloid, cycloidal] n 1: a line generated by a point on a circle rolling along a straight line

adj 1: of a cell or organism having two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number; "diploid somatic cells" [ant: haploid, haploidic, monoploid, polyploid] n 1: (genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number

adj 1: of a cell or organism having a single set of chromosomes [syn: haploid, haploidic, monoploid] [ant: diploid, polyploid] n 1: (genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes

n 1: a quadric surface generated by rotating a hyperbola around its main axis

n 1: a line generated by a point on a circle that rolls around inside another circle

adj 1: of or being a nonmetallic element that has some of the properties of metal; "arsenic is a metalloid element"

adj 1: characteristic of or resembling a Mongol; "the mongoloid epicanthic fold" 2: of or pertaining to or characteristic of one of the traditional racial division of humankind including especially peoples of central and eastern Asia 3: of or relating to or suffering from Down syndrome; n 1: a member of the Mongoloid race 2: a person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense)

adj 1: of or relating to bone marrow 2: of or relating to the spinal cord

n 1: sensationalist journalism [syn: yellow journalism, tabloid, tab] 2: newspaper with half-size pages [syn: tabloid, rag, sheet]

adj 1: of a cell or organism having three complete sets of chromosomes; "human triploid fetuses are usually spontaneously aborted"

adj 1: free from admixture; "unalloyed metal"; "unalloyed pleasure"

adj 1: employed only part-time when one needs full-time employment or not making full use of your skills; "migrants are likely to be poor and underemployed"; "able people are kept underemployed"

adj 1: not engaged in a gainful occupation; "unemployed workers marched on the capital" [ant: employed] n 1: people who are involuntarily out of work (considered as a group); "the long-term unemployed need assistance" [syn: unemployed people, unemployed]

adj 1: of or relating to or resembling or consisting of a thallus

n 1: raised pinkish scar tissue at the site of an injury; results from excessive tissue repair [syn: keloid, cheloid]

adj 1: resembling starch [syn: starchlike, amylaceous, amyloid, amyloidal, farinaceous] n 1: a non-nitrogenous food substance consisting chiefly of starch; any substance resembling starch 2: (pathology) a waxy translucent complex protein resembling starch that results from degeneration of tissue

adj 1: resembling a flower petal

adj 1: characterized by bungalows; "the bungaloid suburbs"

adj 1: resembling glass in transparency or translucency; "the morning is as clear as diamond or as hyaline"-Sacheverell Sitwell [syn: hyaline, hyaloid] n 1: the transparent membrane enveloping the vitreous humor of the eye and separating it from the retina [syn: hyaloid membrane, hyaloid]

adj 1: of a cell or organism having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes; "a polyploid cell"; "a polyploid species" [ant: diploid, haploid, haploidic, monoploid] n 1: (genetics) an organism or cell having more than twice the haploid number of chromosomes

adj 1: shaped like an almond [syn: almond-shaped, amygdaliform, amygdaloid, amygdaloidal] n 1: volcanic rock in which rounded cavities formed by expanding gas have subsequently become filled with mineral deposits

n 1: (genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that species

n 1: a surface having parabolic sections parallel to a single coordinate axis and elliptic sections perpendicular to that axis

n 1: a line generated by a point on a circle rolling around another circle