Words that rhyme with virus

• buttress 0
  n 1: a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building [syn: buttress, buttressing] v 1: reinforce with a buttress; "Buttress the church" 2: make stronger or defensible; "buttress your thesis"
• citrus 0
  n 1: any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions [syn: citrus, citrus fruit, citrous fruit] 2: any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds [syn: citrus, citrus tree]
• desirous 0
  adj 1: having or expressing desire for something; "desirous of high office"; "desirous of finding a quick solution to the problem" [syn: desirous, wishful] [ant: undesiring, undesirous]
• empress 0
  n 1: a woman emperor or the wife of an emperor
• ferrous 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or containing iron [syn: ferric, ferrous]
• fibrous 0
  adj 1: having or resembling fibers especially fibers used in making cordage such as those of jute [syn: hempen, fibrous] 2: (of meat) full of sinews; especially impossible to chew [syn: fibrous, sinewy, stringy, unchewable]
• fortress 0
  n 1: a fortified defensive structure [syn: fortress, fort]
• harass 0
  v 1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke] 2: exhaust by attacking repeatedly; "harass the enemy"
• heiress 0
  n 1: a female heir [syn: heiress, inheritress, inheritrix]
• humorous 0
  adj 1: full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein" [syn: humorous, humourous] [ant: humorless, humourless, unhumorous]
• huntress 0
  n 1: a woman hunter
• hydrous 0
  adj 1: containing combined water (especially water of crystallization as in a hydrate) [syn: hydrous, hydrated] [ant: anhydrous]
• iris 0
  n 1: plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals [syn: iris, flag, fleur-de-lis, sword lily] 2: muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye 3: diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening [syn: iris, iris diaphragm]
• laundress 0
  n 1: a working woman who takes in washing [syn: washwoman, washerwoman, laundrywoman, laundress]
• leprous 0
  adj 1: relating to or resembling or having leprosy
• lustrous 0
  adj 1: made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow; "bright silver candlesticks"; "a burnished brass knocker"; "she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves"; "rows of shining glasses"; "shiny black patents" [syn: bright, burnished, lustrous, shining, shiny] 2: brilliant; "set a lustrous example for others to follow"; "lustrous actors of the time" 3: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining]
• mattress 0
  n 1: a large thick pad filled with resilient material and often incorporating coiled springs, used as a bed or part of a bed
• mistress 0
  n 1: an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man [syn: mistress, kept woman, fancy woman] 2: a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) [syn: schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistress] 3: a woman master who directs the work of others
• monstrous 0
  adj 1: abnormally large 2: shockingly brutal or cruel; "murder is an atrocious crime"; "a grievous offense against morality"; "a grievous crime"; "no excess was too monstrous for them to commit" [syn: atrocious, flagitious, grievous, monstrous] 3: distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous; "tales of grotesque serpents eight fathoms long that churned the seas"; "twisted into monstrous shapes" [syn: grotesque, monstrous]
• nitrous 0
  adj 1: of or containing nitrogen; "nitric acid" [syn: azotic, nitric, nitrous]
• ogress 0
  n 1: (folklore) a female ogre
• scabrous 0
  adj 1: rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf [syn: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy] 2: dealing with salacious or indecent material; "a scabrous novel"
• serous 0
  adj 1: of or producing or containing serum; "a serous exudate"
• walrus 0
  n 1: either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber [syn: walrus, seahorse, sea horse]
• foundress 0
  n 1: a woman founder
• tigris 0
  n 1: an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River [syn: Tigris, Tigris River]
• traitress 0
  n 1: female traitor
• cyrus 0
  n 1: Persian prince who was defeated in battle by his brother Artaxerxes II (424-401 BC) [syn: Cyrus, Cyrus the Younger]
• gyrus 0
  n 1: a convex fold or elevation in the surface of the brain [syn: gyrus, convolution]
• retrovirus 0
  n 1: any of a group of viruses that contain two single-strand linear RNA molecules per virion and reverse transcriptase (RNA to DNA); the virus transcribes its RNA into a cDNA provirus that is then incorporated into the host cell
• finest 0

See also virus definition