First Names Rhyming CRONUS
English Words Rhyming CRONUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES CRONUS AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CRONUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (ronus) - English Words That Ends with ronus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (onus) - English Words That Ends with onus:
| anelectrotonus | noun (n.) The condition of decreased irritability of a nerve in the region of the positive electrode or anode on the passage of a current of electricity through it. |
| bonus | noun (n.) A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter. |
| | noun (n.) An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits. |
| | noun (n.) Money paid in addition to a stated compensation. |
| catelectrotonus | noun (n.) The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it. |
| clarisonus | adjective (a.) Having a clear sound. |
| conus | noun (n.) A cone. |
| | noun (n.) A Linnean genus of mollusks having a conical shell. See Cone, n., 4. |
| clonus | noun (n.) A series of muscular contractions due to sudden stretching of the muscle, -- a sign of certain neuropathies. |
| electrotonus | noun (n.) The modified condition of a nerve, when a constant current of electricity passes through any part of it. See Anelectrotonus, and Catelectrotonus. |
| galvanotonus | noun (n.) Same as Electrotonus. |
| hemionus | noun (n.) A wild ass found in Thibet; the kiang. |
| onus | noun (n.) A burden; an obligation. |
| phototonus | noun (n.) A motile condition in plants resulting from exposure to light. |
| | noun (n.) An irritable condition of protoplasm, resulting in movement, due to a certain intensity of light. |
| pleurothotonus | noun (n.) A species of tetanus, in which the body is curved laterally. |
| syconus | noun (n.) A collective fleshy fruit, in which the ovaries are hidden within a hollow receptacle, as in the fig. |
| tonus | noun (n.) Tonicity, or tone; as, muscular tonus. |
| thermotonus | noun (n.) A condition of tonicity with respect to temperature. |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (nus) - English Words That Ends with nus:
| acinus | noun (n.) One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A grapestone. |
| | noun (n.) One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. |
| agnus | noun (n.) Agnus Dei. |
| alaternus | noun (n.) An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns. |
| alumnus | noun (n.) A pupil; especially, a graduate of a college or other seminary of learning. |
| anthrenus | noun (n.) A genus of small beetles, several of which, in the larval state, are very destructive to woolen goods, fur, etc. The common "museum pest" is A. varius; the carpet beetle is A. scrophulariae. The larvae are commonly confounded with moths. |
| anus | noun (n.) The posterior opening of the alimentary canal, through which the excrements are expelled. |
| cothurnus | noun (n.) Same as Cothurn. |
| cygnus | noun (n.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan. |
| cincinnus | noun (n.) A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arise alternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called also scorpioid cyme. |
| delphinus | noun (n.) A genus of Cetacea, including the dolphin. See Dolphin, 1. |
| | noun (n.) The Dolphin, a constellation near the equator and east of Aquila. |
| dictamnus | noun (n.) A suffrutescent, D. Fraxinella (the only species), with strong perfume and showy flowers. The volatile oil of the leaves is highly inflammable. |
| dominus | noun (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of respect formerly applied to a knight or a clergyman, and sometimes to the lord of a manor. |
| echinus | noun (n.) A hedgehog. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of echinoderms, including the common edible sea urchin of Europe. |
| | noun (n.) The rounded molding forming the bell of the capital of the Grecian Doric style, which is of a peculiar elastic curve. See Entablature. |
| | noun (n.) The quarter-round molding (ovolo) of the Roman Doric style. See Illust. of Column |
| | noun (n.) A name sometimes given to the egg and anchor or egg and dart molding, because that ornament is often identified with Roman Doric capital. The name probably alludes to the shape of the shell of the sea urchin. |
| elaeagnus | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster. |
| encrinus | noun (n.) A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks. |
| eridanus | noun (n.) A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar. |
| faunus | noun (n.) See Faun. |
| fraxinus | noun (n.) A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees. |
| genus | noun (n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sorts of terms. |
| | noun (n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus; if its definition can not be made clear, it is more or less an artificial genus. |
| janus | noun (n.) A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace. |
| manus | noun (n.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand. |
| | (pl. ) of Manus |
| marbrinus | noun (n.) A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries. |
| minus | adjective (a.) Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. |
| oceanus | noun (n.) The god of the great outer sea, or the river which was believed to flow around the whole earth. |
| pandanus | noun (n.) A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine. |
| pannus | noun (n.) A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids. |
| pentacrinus | noun (n.) A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several species occur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere. |
| pignus | noun (n.) A pledge or pawn. |
| pinus | noun (n.) A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See Pine. |
| platanus | noun (n.) A genus of trees; the plane tree. |
| prunus | noun (n.) A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening. |
| rhamnus | noun (n.) A genus of shrubs and small trees; buckthorn. The California Rhamnus Purshianus and the European R. catharticus are used in medicine. The latter is used for hedges. |
| ricinus | noun (n.) A genus of plants of the Spurge family, containing but one species (R. communis), the castor-oil plant. The fruit is three-celled, and contains three large seeds from which castor oil iss expressed. See Palma Christi. |
| silenus | noun (n.) See Wanderoo. |
| sinus | noun (n.) An opening; a hollow; a bending. |
| | noun (n.) A bay of the sea; a recess in the shore. |
| | noun (n.) A cavity; a depression. |
| | noun (n.) A cavity in a bone or other part, either closed or with a narrow opening. |
| | noun (n.) A dilated vessel or canal. |
| | noun (n.) A narrow, elongated cavity, in which pus is collected; an elongated abscess with only a small orifice. |
| | noun (n.) A depression between adjoining lobes. |
| | (pl. ) of Sinus |
| subgenus | noun (n.) A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron. |
| tabanus | noun (n.) A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies. |
| terminus | noun (n.) Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit. |
| | noun (n.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line. |
| | noun (n.) Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8. |
| | noun (n.) Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place. |
| tetanus | noun (n.) A painful and usually fatal disease, resulting generally from a wound, and having as its principal symptom persistent spasm of the voluntary muscles. When the muscles of the lower jaw are affected, it is called locked-jaw, or lickjaw, and it takes various names from the various incurvations of the body resulting from the spasm. |
| | noun (n.) That condition of a muscle in which it is in a state of continued vibratory contraction, as when stimulated by a series of induction shocks. |
| turnus | noun (n.) A common, large, handsome, American swallowtail butterfly, now regarded as one of the forms of Papilio, / Jasoniades, glaucus. The wings are yellow, margined and barred with black, and with an orange-red spot near the posterior angle of the hind wings. Called also tiger swallowtail. See Illust. under Swallowtail. |
| uncinus | noun (n.) One of the peculiar minute chitinous hooks found in large numbers in the tori of tubicolous annelids belonging to the Uncinata. |
| uranus | noun (n.) The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos (Time) and the Titans. |
| | noun (n.) One of the primary planets. It is about 1,800,000,000 miles from the sun, about 36,000 miles in diameter, and its period of revolution round the sun is nearly 84 of our years. |
| varanus | noun (n.) A genus of very large lizards native of Asia and Africa. It includes the monitors. See Monitor, 3. |
| venus | noun (n.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified. |
| | noun (n.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67,000,000 miles. Its diameter is 7,700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus. |
| | noun (n.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus. |
| | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH CRONUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (cronu) - Words That Begins with cronu:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (cron) - Words That Begins with cron:
| crone | noun (n.) An old ewe. |
| | noun (n.) An old woman; -- usually in contempt. |
| | noun (n.) An old man; especially, a man who talks and acts like an old woman. |
| cronel | noun (n.) The iron head of a tilting spear. |
| cronet | noun (n.) The coronet of a horse. |
| cronian | adjective (a.) Saturnian; -- applied to the North Polar Sea. |
| cronstedtite | noun (n.) A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron, and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage; -- so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt. |
| crony | noun (n.) A crone. |
| | noun (n.) An intimate companion; a familiar frend |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (cro) - Words That Begins with cro:
| croaking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Croak |
| croak | noun (n.) The coarse, harsh sound uttered by a frog or a raven, or a like sound. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. |
| | verb (v. i.) To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to utter complaints or forebodings habitually. |
| | verb (v. t.) To utter in a low, hoarse voice; to announce by croaking; to forebode; as, to croak disaster. |
| croaker | noun (n.) One who croaks, murmurs, grumbles, or complains unreasonably; one who habitually forebodes evil. |
| | noun (n.) A small American fish (Micropogon undulatus), of the Atlantic coast. |
| | noun (n.) An American fresh-water fish (Aplodinotus grunniens); -- called also drum. |
| | noun (n.) The surf fish of California. |
| croat | noun (n.) A native of Croatia, in Austria; esp., one of the native Slavic race. |
| | noun (n.) An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia. |
| croatian | noun (n.) A Croat. |
| | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Croatia. |
| crocein | noun (n.) A name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure. In general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol. |
| croceous | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow. |
| crocetin | noun (n.) A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese crocin, which produces a brilliant yellow. |
| croche | noun (n.) A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler. |
| crochet | noun (n.) A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. |
| | verb (v. t. & i.) To knit with a crochet needle or hook; as, to crochet a shawl. |
| crocheting | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crochet |
| crociary | noun (n.) One who carries the cross before an archbishop. |
| crocidolite | noun (n.) A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers. |
| crocin | noun (n.) The coloring matter of Chinese yellow pods, the fruit of Gardenia grandiflora. |
| | noun (n.) A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite. |
| crock | noun (n.) The loose black particles collected from combustion, as on pots and kettles, or in a chimney; soot; smut; also, coloring matter which rubs off from cloth. |
| | noun (n.) A low stool. |
| | noun (n.) Any piece of crockery, especially of coarse earthenware; an earthen pot or pitcher. |
| | verb (v. t.) To soil by contact, as with soot, or with the coloring matter of badly dyed cloth. |
| | verb (v. i.) To give off crock or smut. |
| | verb (v. t.) To lay up in a crock; as, to crock butter. |
| crocking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crock |
| crocker | noun (n.) A potter. |
| crockery | noun (n.) Earthenware; vessels formed of baked clay, especially the coarser kinds. |
| crocket | noun (n.) An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage, projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc. |
| | noun (n.) A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler. |
| crocketed | adjective (a.) Ornamented with crockets. |
| crocketing | noun (n.) Ornamentation with crockets. |
| crocky | adjective (a.) Smutty. |
| crocodile | noun (n.) A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator. |
| | noun (n.) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile. |
| crocodilia | noun (n. pl.) An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds. |
| crocodilian | noun (n.) One of the Crocodilia. |
| | adjective (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile. |
| crocodility | noun (n.) A caption or sophistical mode of arguing. |
| crocoisite | noun (n.) Same as Crocoite. |
| crocoite | noun (n.) Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore. |
| croconate | noun (n.) A salt formed by the union of croconic acid with a base. |
| croconic | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid. |
| | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid. |
| crocose | noun (n.) A white crystalline sugar, metameric with glucose, obtained from the coloring matter of saffron. |
| crocus | noun (n.) A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn. |
| | noun (n.) A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colcothar) thus produced from salts of iron, and used as a polishing powder. |
| croesus | noun (n.) A king of Lydia who flourished in the 6th century b. c., and was renowned for his vast wealth; hence, a common appellation for a very rich man; as, he is a veritable Croesus. |
| croft | noun (n.) A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm. |
| crofter | noun (n.) One who rents and tills a small farm or helding; as, the crofters of Scotland. |
| croftland | noun (n.) Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. |
| crois | noun (n.) See Cross, n. |
| croisade | noun (n.) Alt. of Croisado |
| croisado | noun (n.) A holy war; a crusade. |
| croise | noun (n.) A pilgrim bearing or wearing a cross. |
| | noun (n.) A crusader. |
| croissante | adjective (a.) Terminated with crescent; -- said of a cross the ends of which are so terminated. |
| croker | noun (n.) A cultivator of saffron; a dealer in saffron. |
| cromlech | noun (n.) A monument of rough stones composed of one or more large ones supported in a horizontal position upon others. They are found chiefly in countries inhabited by the ancient Celts, and are of a period anterior to the introduction of Christianity into these countries. |
| cromorna | noun (n.) A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe. |
| crook | noun (n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure. |
| | noun (n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end. |
| | noun (n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep. |
| | noun (n.) A bishop's staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff. |
| | noun (n.) A pothook. |
| | noun (n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge. |
| | noun (n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. |
| | noun (n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. |
| | noun (n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. |
| | noun (n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. |
| | verb (v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. |
| crooking | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crook |
| crookback | noun (n.) A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback. |
| crookack | adjective (a.) Hunched. |
| crookbill | noun (n.) A New Zealand plover (Anarhynchus frontalis), remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH CRONUS:
English Words which starts with 'cr' and ends with 'us':
| crapulous | adjective (a.) Surcharged with liquor; sick from excessive indulgence in liquor; drunk; given to excesses. |
| crataegus | noun (n.) A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes. |
| craterous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. |
| crebrous | adjective (a.) Frequent; numerous. |
| credulous | adjective (a.) Apt to believe on slight evidence; easily imposed upon; unsuspecting. |
| | adjective (a.) Believed too readily. |
| crepitus | noun (n.) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels. |
| | noun (n.) Same as Crepitation, 2. |
| crepusculous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous. |
| | adjective (a.) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise; -- said certain birds and insects. |
| cretaceous | adjective (a.) Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk. |
| | () Alt. of Cretacic |
| cretinous | adjective (a.) Having the characteristics of a cretin. |
| criminous | adjective (a.) Criminal; involving great crime or grave charges; very wicked; heinous. |
| crinigerous | adjective (a.) Bearing hair; hairy. |
| crotalus | noun (n.) A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes. |
| croupous | adjective (a.) Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis. |
| cruciferous | adjective (a.) Bearing a cross. |
| | adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants which have four petals arranged like the arms of a cross, as the mustard, radish, turnip, etc. |
| crucigerous | adjective (a.) Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross. |
| cruentous | adjective (a.) Bloody; cruentate. |
| crus | noun (n.) That part of the hind limb between the femur, or thigh, and the ankle, or tarsus; the shank. |
| | noun (n.) Often applied, especially in the plural, to parts which are supposed to resemble a pair of legs; as, the crura of the diaphragm, a pair of muscles attached to it; crura cerebri, two bundles of nerve fibers in the base of the brain, connecting the medulla and the forebrain. |
| crustaceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell. |
| | adjective (a.) Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean. |
| cryophorus | noun (n.) An instrument used to illustrate the freezing of water by its own evaporation. The ordinary form consists of two glass bulbs, connected by a tube of the same material, and containing only a quantity of water and its vapor, devoid of air. The water is in one of the bulbs, and freezes when the other is cooled below 32¡ Fahr. |
| cryptogamous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series. |
