First Names Rhyming CEPHALUS
English Words Rhyming CEPHALUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CEPHALUS AS A WHOLE:
| bucephalus | noun (n.) The celebrated war horse of Alexander the Great. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, any riding horse. |
| hydrocephalus | noun (n.) An accumulation of liquid within the cavity of the cranium, especially within the ventricles of the brain; dropsy of the brain. It is due usually to tubercular meningitis. When it occurs in infancy, it often enlarges the head enormously. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CEPHALUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (ephalus) - English Words That Ends with ephalus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (phalus) - English Words That Ends with phalus:
| monomphalus | noun (n.) A form of double monster, in which two individuals are united by a common umbilicus. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (halus) - English Words That Ends with halus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (alus) - English Words That Ends with alus:
| astragalus | noun (n.) The ankle bone, or hock bone; the bone of the tarsus which articulates with the tibia at the ankle. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of papilionaceous plants, of the tribe Galegeae, containing numerous species, two of which are called, in English, milk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the A. gummifer and A. verus. |
| | noun (n.) See Astragal, 1. |
| crotalus | noun (n.) A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes. |
| palus | noun (n.) One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals. |
| talus | noun (n.) The astragalus. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of clubfoot (Talipes calcaneus). See the Note under Talipes. |
| | noun (n.) A slope; the inclination of the face of a work. |
| | noun (n.) A sloping heap of fragments of rock lying at the foot of a precipice. |
| tantalus | noun (n.) A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (lus) - English Words That Ends with lus:
| abaculus | noun (n.) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. |
| aeolus | noun (n.) The god of the winds. |
| alveolus | noun (n.) A cell in a honeycomb. |
| | noun (n.) A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil |
| | noun (n.) A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc. |
| angelus | noun (n.) A form of devotion in which three Ave Marias are repeated. It is said at morning, noon, and evening, at the sound of a bell. |
| | noun (n.) The Angelus bell. |
| annulus | noun (n.) A ring; a ringlike part or space. |
| | noun (n.) A space contained between the circumferences of two circles, one within the other. |
| | noun (n.) The solid formed by a circle revolving around a line which is the plane of the circle but does not cut it. |
| | noun (n.) Ring-shaped structures or markings, found in, or upon, various animals. |
| argulus | noun (n.) A genus of copepod Crustacea, parasitic of fishes; a fish louse. See Branchiura. |
| arillus | noun (n.) A exterior covering, forming a false coat or appendage to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. |
| articulus | noun (n.) A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea; a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage. |
| asilus | noun (n.) A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly. |
| bacillus | noun (n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism. |
| bolus | noun (n.) A rounded mass of anything, esp. a large pill. |
| baetulus | noun (n.) A meteorite, or similar rude stone artificially shaped, held sacred or worshiped as of divine origin. |
| calculus | noun (n.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation. |
| callus | noun (n.) Same as Callosity |
| | noun (n.) The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece. |
| | noun (n.) The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets. |
| canaliculus | noun (n.) A minute canal. |
| carolus | noun (n.) An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. |
| cauliculus | noun (n.) In the Corinthian capital, one of the eight stalks rising out of the lower leafage and terminating in leaves which seem to support the volutes. See Illust. of Corinthian order, under Corinthian. |
| clitellus | noun (n.) A thickened glandular portion of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes. |
| convolvulus | noun (n.) A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomaea. |
| cumulus | noun (n.) One of the four principal forms of clouds. SeeCloud. |
| cucullus | noun (n.) A hood-shaped organ, resembling a cowl or monk's hood, as certain concave and arched sepals or petals. |
| | noun (n.) A color marking or structure on the head somewhat resembling a hood. |
| discobolus | noun (n.) A thrower of the discus. |
| | noun (n.) A statue of an athlete holding the discus, or about to throw it. |
| dolus | noun (n.) Evil intent, embracing both malice and fraud. See Culpa. |
| dracunculus | noun (n.) A fish; the dragonet. |
| | noun (n.) The Guinea worm (Filaria medinensis). |
| embolus | noun (n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe. |
| | noun (n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism. |
| entellus | noun (n.) An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor. |
| fasciculus | noun (n.) A little bundle; a fascicle. |
| | noun (n.) A division of a book. |
| flocculus | noun (n.) A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe. |
| funambulus | noun (n.) A ropewalker or ropedancer. |
| funiculus | noun (n.) A cord, baud, or bundle of fibers; esp., one of the small bundles of fibers, of which large nerves are made up; applied also to different bands of white matter in the brain and spinal cord. |
| | noun (n.) A short cord which connects the embryo of some myriapods with the amnion. |
| | noun (n.) In Bryozoa, an organ extending back from the stomach. See Bryozoa, and Phylactolema. |
| gladiolus | noun (n.) A genus of plants having bulbous roots and gladiate leaves, and including many species, some of which are cultivated and valued for the beauty of their flowers; the corn flag; the sword lily. |
| | noun (n.) The middle portion of the sternum in some animals; the mesosternum. |
| glomerulus | noun (n.) The bunch of looped capillary blood vessels in a Malpighian capsule of the kidney. |
| gryllus | noun (n.) A genus of insects including the common crickets. |
| hamulus | noun (n.) A hook, or hooklike process. |
| | noun (n.) A hooked barbicel of a feather. |
| hectocotylus | noun (n.) One of the arms of the male of most kinds of cephalopods, which is specially modified in various ways to effect the fertilization of the eggs. In a special sense, the greatly modified arm of Argonauta and allied genera, which, after receiving the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes. |
| hilus | noun (n.) Same as Hilum, 2. |
| homunculus | noun (n.) A little man; a dwarf; a manikin. |
| hydrocaulus | noun (n.) The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea. |
| iulus | noun (n.) A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round, consisting of numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bears two pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. See Chilognatha. |
| julus | noun (n.) A catkin or ament. See Ament. |
| lienculus | noun (n.) One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen. |
| limulus | noun (n.) The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a few species from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from the Atlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab, horseshoe crab, and horsefoot. |
| loculus | noun (n.) One of the spaces between the septa in the Anthozoa. |
| | noun (n.) One of the compartments of a several-celled ovary; loculament. |
| malleolus | noun (n.) A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external. |
| | noun (n.) " A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through. |
| merithallus | noun (n.) Same as Internode. |
| modiolus | noun (n.) The central column in the osseous cochlea of the ear. |
| modulus | noun (n.) A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter. |
| mytilus | noun (n.) A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus. |
| nautilus | noun (n.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata. |
| | noun (n.) The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper. |
| | noun (n.) A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants. |
| nonplus | noun (n.) A state or condition which daffles reason or confounds judgment; insuperable difficalty; inability to proceed or decide; puzzle; quandary. |
| | verb (v. t.) To puzzle; to confound; to perplex; to cause to stop by embarrassment. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CEPHALUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (cephalu) - Words That Begins with cephalu:
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (cephal) - Words That Begins with cephal:
| cephalalgia | noun (n.) Alt. of Cephalalgy |
| | noun (n.) Headache. |
| cephalalgy | noun (n.) Pain in the head; headache. |
| cephalalgic | noun (n.) A remedy for the headache. |
| | noun (n.) A remedy for the headache. |
| | adjective (a.) Relating to, or affected with, headache. |
| | adjective (a.) Relating to, or affected with, headache. |
| cephalanthium | noun (n.) Same as Anthodium. |
| cephalaspis | noun (n.) A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points. |
| cephalata | noun (n. pl.) A large division of Mollusca, including all except the bivalves; -- so called because the head is distinctly developed. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| cephalate | adjective (a.) Having a head. |
| cephalic | noun (n.) A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior. |
| cephalitis | noun (n.) Same as Phrenitis. |
| cephalization | noun (n.) Domination of the head in animal life as expressed in the physical structure; localization of important organs or parts in or near the head, in animal development. |
| cephalocercal | adjective (a.) Relating to the long axis of the body. |
| cephaloid | adjective (a.) Shaped like the head. |
| cephalology | noun (n.) The science which treats of the head. |
| cephalomere | noun (n.) One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods. |
| cephalometer | noun (n.) An instrument measuring the dimensions of the head of a fetus during delivery. |
| cephalon | noun (n.) The head. |
| cephalophora | noun (n. pl.) The cephalata. |
| cephalopod | noun (n.) Alt. of Cephalopode |
| cephalopode | noun (n.) One of the Cephalopoda. |
| cephalopoda | noun (n. pl.) The highest class of Mollusca. |
| cephalopodic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Cephalopodous |
| cephalopodous | adjective (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the cephalopods. |
| cephaloptera | noun (n.) One of the generic names of the gigantic ray (Manta birostris), known as devilfish and sea devil. It is common on the coasts of South Carolina, Florida, and farther south. Some of them grow to enormous size, becoming twenty feet of more across the body, and weighing more than a ton. |
| cephalosome | noun (n.) The anterior region or head of insects and other arthropods. |
| cephalostyle | noun (n.) The anterior end of the notochord and its bony sheath in the base of cartilaginous crania. |
| cephalothorax | noun (n.) The anterior portion of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax. |
| cephalotome | noun (n.) An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitate delivery. |
| cephalotomy | noun (n.) Dissection or opening of the head. |
| | noun (n.) Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw. |
| cephalotribe | noun (n.) An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy. |
| cephalotripsy | noun (n.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery. |
| cephalotrocha | noun (n.) A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head. |
| cephalous | adjective (a.) Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks. |
| cephalism | noun (n.) Form or development of the skull; as, the races of man differ greatly in cephalism. |
| cephalometry | noun (n.) The measurement of the heads of living persons. |
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (cepha) - Words That Begins with cepha:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (ceph) - Words That Begins with ceph:
| cepheus | noun (n.) A northern constellation near the pole. Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cep) - Words That Begins with cep:
| cepevorous | adjective (a.) Feeding upon onions. |
| cepaceous | adjective (a.) Of the nature of an onion, as in odor; alliaceous. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CEPHALUS:
English Words which starts with 'cep' and ends with 'lus':
English Words which starts with 'ce' and ends with 'us':
| ceduous | adjective (a.) Fit to be felled. |
| celebrious | adjective (a.) Famous. |
| celliferous | adjective (a.) Bearing or producing cells. |
| celluliferous | adjective (a.) Bearing or producing little cells. |
| celsius | noun (n.) The Celsius thermometer or scale, so called from Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, who invented it. It is the same as the centigrade thermometer or scale. |
| cementitious | noun (n.) Of the nature of cement. |
| censorious | adjective (a.) Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners. |
| | adjective (a.) Implying or expressing censure; as, censorious remarks. |
| census | noun (n.) A numbering of the people, and valuation of their estate, for the purpose of imposing taxes, etc.; -- usually made once in five years. |
| | noun (n.) An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country. |
| centicipitous | adjective (a.) Hundred-headed. |
| centifidous | adjective (a.) Divided into a hundred parts. |
| centifolious | adjective (a.) Having a hundred leaves. |
| ceraceous | adjective (a.) Having the texture and color of new wax; like wax; waxy. |
| cerasinous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin. |
| | adjective (a.) Of a cherry color. |
| ceratodus | noun (n.) A genus of ganoid fishes, of the order Dipnoi, first known as Mesozoic fossil fishes; but recently two living species have been discovered in Australian rivers. They have lungs so well developed that they can leave the water and breathe in air. In Australia they are called salmon and baramunda. See Dipnoi, and Archipterygium. |
| ceratosaurus | noun (n.) A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix. |
| cerberus | noun (n.) A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of East Indian serpents, allied to the pythons; the bokadam. |
| cercus | noun (n.) See Cercopod. |
| cerebellous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to the cerebellum. |
| ceremonious | adjective (a.) Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. [In this sense ceremonial is now preferred.] |
| | adjective (a.) According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious. |
| cereous | adjective (a.) Waxen; like wax. |
| cereus | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Cactus family. They are natives of America, from California to Chili. |
| ceriferous | adjective (a.) Producing wax. |
| cernuous | adjective (a.) Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss. |
| ceruleous | adjective (a.) Cerulean. |
| ceruminous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands. |
| cervus | noun (n.) A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species. |
| cespititious | adjective (a.) Same as Cespitious. |
| cespitous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, consisting, of resembling, turf; turfy. |
| cestus | noun (n.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form. |
| | noun (n.) A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron. |
| cetaceous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the Cetacea. |
