Words that rhyme with verrucous

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

n 1: a short musket of wide bore with a flared muzzle

n 1: either of the two main branches of the trachea [syn: bronchus, bronchial tube]

n 1: a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport; "he always rode the bus to work" [syn: bus, autobus, coach, charabanc, double-decker, jitney, motorbus, motorcoach, omnibus, passenger vehicle] 2: the topology of a network whose components are connected by a busbar [syn: bus topology, bus] 3: an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits; "the busbar in this computer can transmit data either way between any two components of the system" [syn: busbar, bus] 4: a car that is old and unreliable; "the fenders had fallen off that old bus" [syn: bus, jalopy, heap] v 1: send or move around by bus; "The children were bussed to school" 2: ride in a bus 3: remove used dishes from the table in restaurants

n 1: the act of caressing with the lips (or an instance thereof) [syn: kiss, buss, osculation] v 1: touch with the lips or press the lips (against someone's mouth or other body part) as an expression of love, greeting, etc.; "The newly married couple kissed"; "She kissed her grandfather on the forehead when she entered the room" [syn: snog, kiss, buss, osculate]

n 1: the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food [syn: carcase, carcass]

n 1: a closed political meeting v 1: meet to select a candidate or promote a policy

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]

v 1: shake violently 2: injure the brain; sustain a concussion

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

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]

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]

v 1: to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The author talks about the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'" [syn: discourse, talk about, discuss] 2: speak with others about (something); talk (something) over in detail; have a discussion; "We discussed our household budget" [syn: hash out, discuss, talk over]

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]

n 1: noisy quarrel [syn: affray, altercation, fracas]

adj 1: of something having a dusky brownish grey color [syn: fuscous, taupe]

n 1: an excited state of agitation; "he was in a dither"; "there was a terrible flap about the theft" [syn: dither, pother, fuss, tizzy, flap] 2: an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss, trouble, bother, hassle] 3: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss] 4: a rapid active commotion [syn: bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir] v 1: worry unnecessarily or excessively; "don't fuss too much over the grandchildren--they are quite big now" [syn: fuss, niggle, fret] 2: care for like a mother; "She fusses over her husband" [syn: mother, fuss, overprotect]

n 1: the pus-producing bacterium that causes gonorrhea [syn: gonococcus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae]

n 1: any plant of the genus Hibiscus

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"

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

adj 1: of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus; "mucous tissue"; "mucous glands of the intestine" [syn: mucous, mucose]

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]

n 1: a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn: mess, messiness, muss, mussiness] v 1: make messy or untidy; "the child mussed up my hair" [syn: muss, tussle]

v 1: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me-- I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me" [syn: perplex, vex, stick, get, puzzle, mystify, baffle, beat, pose, bewilder, flummox, stupefy, nonplus, gravel, amaze, dumbfound]

adj 1: on the positive side or higher end of a scale; "a plus value"; "temperature of plus 5 degrees"; "a grade of C plus" [ant: minus] 2: involving advantage or good; "a plus (or positive) factor" [syn: plus, positive] n 1: a useful or valuable quality [syn: asset, plus] [ant: liability] 2: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven" [syn: summation, addition, plus]

n 1: the tenth month of the Hindu calendar [syn: Pus, Pansa] 2: a fluid product of inflammation [syn: pus, purulence, suppuration, ichor, sanies, festering]

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]

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"

n 1: spherical Gram-positive parasitic bacteria that tend to form irregular colonies; some cause boils or septicemia or infections [syn: staphylococcus, staphylococci, staph]

n 1: spherical Gram-positive bacteria occurring in pairs or chains; cause e.g. scarlet fever and tonsillitis [syn: streptococcus, streptococci, strep]

adv 1: (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted" [syn: therefore, hence, thence, thus, so] 2: in the way indicated; "hold the brush so"; "set up the pieces thus"; (`thusly' is a nonstandard variant) [syn: thus, thusly, so] n 1: an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation [syn: frankincense, olibanum, gum olibanum, thus]

n 1: (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure 2: a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure 3: (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent) [syn: corbel, truss] v 1: tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it 2: secure with or as if with ropes; "tie down the prisoners"; "tie up the old newspapers and bring them to the recycling shed" [syn: tie down, tie up, bind, truss] 3: support structurally; "truss the roofs"; "trussed bridges"

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]

n 1: North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 [syn: United States, United States of America, America, the States, US, U.S., USA, U.S.A.]

adj 1: abnormally swollen or knotty; "varicose veins"

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]

v 1: strike or tap firmly; "the doctor percussed his chest and back"

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

n 1: a main organ that is situated inside the body [syn: internal organ, viscus]

n 1: (classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus

n 1: Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415) [syn: Huss, John Huss, Hus, Jan Hus]

n 1: type genus of the Suidae [syn: Sus, genus Sus]

n 1: a tributary of the Rio Grande that flows southeastward from New Mexico through western Texas [syn: Pecos, Pecos River]

adj 1: having a frosted look from a powdery coating, as on plants; "glaucous stems"; "glaucous plums"; "glaucous grapes"

n 1: the capital and largest city of Venezuela [syn: Caracas, capital of Venezuela]

n 1: genus of Old World hominoids; Miocene and Pliocene [syn: Dryopithecus, genus Dryopithecus]

n 1: any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria [syn: coccus, cocci]

n 1: Gram-positive bacteria usually occurring in pairs

n 1: bacterium causing pneumonia in mice and humans [syn: pneumococcus, Diplococcus pneumoniae]

n 1: saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes

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]

n 1: god of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto [syn: Dis, Orcus]

n 1: an optical device for focussing a camera or other instrument automatically

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

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)

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

n 1: any member of the genus Fucus

n 1: United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944) [syn: Lucas, George Lucas]

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]

n 1: a genus of Trochilidae [syn: Archilochus, genus Archilochus]

n 1: a huge quadrupedal herbivore with long neck and tail; of late Jurassic in western North America

n 1: the third book of the Old Testament; contains Levitical law and ritual precedents [syn: Leviticus, Book of Leviticus]