First Names Rhyming TANTALUS
English Words Rhyming TANTALUS
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES TANTALUS AS A WHOLE:
| 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. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH TANTALUS (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (antalus) - English Words That Ends with antalus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (ntalus) - English Words That Ends with ntalus:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (talus) - English Words That Ends with talus:
| crotalus | noun (n.) A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes. |
| 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. |
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. |
| 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. |
| monomphalus | noun (n.) A form of double monster, in which two individuals are united by a common umbilicus. |
| palus | noun (n.) One of several upright slender calcareous processes which surround the central part of the calicle of certain corals. |
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 TANTALUS (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 7 Letters (tantalu) - Words That Begins with tantalu:
| tantalum | noun (n.) A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium. |
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (tantal) - Words That Begins with tantal:
| tantalate | noun (n.) A salt of tantalic acid. |
| tantalic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to tantalum; derived from, or containing, tantalum; specifically, designating any one of a series of acids analogous to nitric acid and the polyacid compounds of phosphorus. |
| tantalism | noun (n.) A punishment like that of Tantalus; a teasing or tormenting by the hope or near approach of good which is not attainable; tantalization. |
| tantalite | noun (n.) A heavy mineral of an iron-black color and submetallic luster. It is essentially a tantalate of iron. |
| tantalization | noun (n.) The act of tantalizing, or state of being tantalized. |
| tantalizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tantalize |
| tantalizer | noun (n.) One who tantalizes. |
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (tanta) - Words That Begins with tanta:
| tantamount | adjective (a.) Equivalent in value, signification, or effect. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be tantamount or equivalent; to amount. |
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (tant) - Words That Begins with tant:
| tant | noun (n.) A small scarlet arachnid. |
| tantivy | noun (n.) A rapid, violent gallop; an impetuous rush. |
| | adverb (adv.) Swiftly; speedily; rapidly; -- a fox-hunting term; as, to ride tantivy. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go away in haste. |
| tantrum | noun (n.) A whim, or burst of ill-humor; an affected air. |
| tantra | noun (n.) A ceremonial treatise related to Puranic and magic literature; esp., one of the sacred works of the worshipers of Sakti. |
| tantrism | noun (n.) The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (tan) - Words That Begins with tan:
| tan | noun (n.) See Picul. |
| | noun (n.) The bark of the oak, and some other trees, bruised and broken by a mill, for tanning hides; -- so called both before and after it has been used. Called also tan bark. |
| | noun (n.) A yellowish-brown color, like that of tan. |
| | noun (n.) A brown color imparted to the skin by exposure to the sun; as, hands covered with tan. |
| | noun (n.) To convert (the skin of an animal) into leather, as by usual process of steeping it in an infusion of oak or some other bark, whereby it is impregnated with tannin, or tannic acid (which exists in several species of bark), and is thus rendered firm, durable, and in some degree impervious to water. |
| | noun (n.) To make brown; to imbrown, as by exposure to the rays of the sun; as, to tan the skin. |
| | adjective (a.) Of the color of tan; yellowish-brown. |
| | verb (v. i.) To get or become tanned. |
| | verb (v. t.) To thrash or beat; to flog; to switch. |
| tanning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tan |
| | noun (n.) The art or process of converting skins into leather. See Tan, v. t., 1. |
| tana | noun (n.) Same as Banxring. |
| tanager | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of bright-colored singing birds belonging to Tanagra, Piranga, and allied genera. The scarlet tanager (Piranga erythromelas) and the summer redbird (Piranga rubra) are common species of the United States. |
| tanagrine | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the tanagers. |
| tanagroid | adjective (a.) Tanagrine. |
| tanate | noun (n.) An Asiatic wild dog (Canis procyonoides), native of Japan and adjacent countries. It has a short, bushy tail. Called also raccoon dog. |
| tandem | noun (n.) A team of horses harnessed one before the other. |
| | noun (n.) A tandem bicycle or other vehicle. |
| | adverb (adv. & a.) One after another; -- said especially of horses harnessed and driven one before another, instead of abreast. |
| tang | noun (n.) A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus). |
| | noun (n.) A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself; as, wine or cider has a tang of the cask. |
| | noun (n.) Fig.: A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. Cf. Tang a twang. |
| | noun (n.) A projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to a handle, or to some other part; anything resembling a tongue in form or position. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a knife, fork, file, or other small instrument, which is inserted into the handle. |
| | noun (n.) The projecting part of the breech of a musket barrel, by which the barrel is secured to the stock. |
| | noun (n.) The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened. |
| | noun (n.) The tongue of a buckle. |
| | noun (n.) A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang. |
| | noun (n.) A dynasty in Chinese history, from a. d. 618 to 905, distinguished by the founding of the Imperial Academy (the Hanlin), by the invention of printing, and as marking a golden age of literature. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cause to ring or sound loudly; to ring. |
| | verb (v. i.) To make a ringing sound; to ring. |
| tanging | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tang |
| tangalung | noun (n.) An East Indian civet (Viverra tangalunga). |
| tangence | noun (n.) Tangency. |
| tangency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tangent; a contact or touching. |
| tangent | adjective (a.) Touching; touching at a single point |
| | adjective (a.) meeting a curve or surface at a point and having at that point the same direction as the curve or surface; -- said of a straight line, curve, or surface; as, a line tangent to a curve; a curve tangent to a surface; tangent surfaces. |
| | verb (v. t.) A tangent line curve, or surface; specifically, that portion of the straight line tangent to a curve that is between the point of tangency and a given line, the given line being, for example, the axis of abscissas, or a radius of a circle produced. See Trigonometrical function, under Function. |
| tangental | adjective (a.) Tangential. |
| tangential | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent. |
| tangerine | noun (n.) A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin. |
| tangfish | noun (n.) The common harbor seal. |
| tanghinia | noun (n.) The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal. |
| tangibility | noun (n.) The quality or state of being tangible. |
| tangible | adjective (a.) Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable. |
| | adjective (a.) Capable of being possessed or realized; readily apprehensible by the mind; real; substantial; evident. |
| tangling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Tangle |
| tangle | noun (n.) To unite or knit together confusedly; to interweave or interlock, as threads, so as to make it difficult to unravel the knot; to entangle; to ravel. |
| | noun (n.) To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. |
| | noun (n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be entangled or united confusedly; to get in a tangle. |
| | verb (v.) A knot of threads, or other thing, united confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be easily disengaged; a snarl; as, hair or yarn in tangles; a tangle of vines and briers. Used also figuratively. |
| | verb (v.) An instrument consisting essentially of an iron bar to which are attached swabs, or bundles of frayed rope, or other similar substances, -- used to capture starfishes, sea urchins, and other similar creatures living at the bottom of the sea. |
| tanglefish | noun (n.) The sea adder, or great pipefish of Europe. |
| tangly | adjective (a.) Entangled; intricate. |
| | adjective (a.) Covered with tangle, or seaweed. |
| tangram | noun (n.) A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction. |
| tangue | noun (n.) The tenrec. |
| tangun | noun (n.) A piebald variety of the horse, native of Thibet. |
| tangwhaup | noun (n.) The whimbrel. |
| tanier | noun (n.) An aroid plant (Caladium sagittaefolium), the leaves of which are boiled and eaten in the West Indies. |
| tanist | noun (n.) In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of a castle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry. |
| tanistry | noun (n.) In Ireland, a tenure of family lands by which the proprietor had only a life estate, to which he was admitted by election. |
| tanite | noun (n.) A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc. |
| tank | noun (n.) A small Indian dry measure, averaging 240 grains in weight; also, a Bombay weight of 72 grains, for pearls. |
| | noun (n.) A large basin or cistern; an artificial receptacle for liquids. |
| | noun (n.) A pond, pool, or small lake, natural or artificial. |
| tanka | noun (n.) A kind of boat used in Canton. It is about 25 feet long and is often rowed by women. Called also tankia. |
| tankard | noun (n.) A large drinking vessel, especially one with a cover. |
| tankia | noun (n.) See Tanka. |
| tankling | noun (n.) A tinkling. |
| tanling | noun (n.) One tanned by the sun. |
| tannable | adjective (a.) That may be tanned. |
| tannage | noun (n.) A tanning; the act, operation, or result of tanning. |
| tannate | noun (n.) A salt of tannic acid. |
| tanner | noun (n.) One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan. |
| | noun (n.) A sixpence. |
| tannery | noun (n.) A place where the work of tanning is carried on. |
| | noun (n.) The art or process of tanning. |
| tannic | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid. |
| tannier | noun (n.) See Tanier. |
| tannin | noun (n.) Same as Tannic acid, under Tannic. |
| tanrec | noun (n.) Same as Tenrec. |
| tansy | noun (n.) Any plant of the composite genus Tanacetum. The common tansy (T. vulgare) has finely divided leaves, a strong aromatic odor, and a very bitter taste. It is used for medicinal and culinary purposes. |
| | noun (n.) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs, baked with butter in a shallow dish. |
| tanyard | noun (n.) An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH TANTALUS:
English Words which starts with 'tan' and ends with 'lus':
English Words which starts with 'ta' and ends with 'us':
| tabanus | noun (n.) A genus of blood sucking flies, including the horseflies. |
| talcous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to talc; composed of, or resembling, talc. |
| tardigradous | adjective (a.) Moving slowly; slow-paced. |
| tarsius | noun (n.) A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyes and ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; -- called also malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier. |
| tarsometatarsus | noun (n.) The large bone next the foot in the leg of a bird. It is formed by the union of the distal part of the tarsus with the metatarsus. |
| tarsus | noun (n.) The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones. |
| | noun (n.) A plate of dense connective tissue or cartilage in the eyelid of man and many animals; -- called also tarsal cartilage, and tarsal plate. |
| | noun (n.) The foot of an insect or a crustacean. It usually consists of form two to five joints. |
| tartareous | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Tartarus; hellish. |
| | adjective (a.) Consisting of tartar; of the nature of tartar. |
| | adjective (a.) Having the surface rough and crumbling; as, many lichens are tartareous. |
| tartarous | adjective (a.) Containing tartar; consisting of tartar, or partaking of its qualities; tartareous. |
| | adjective (a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, a Tartar; ill-natured; irritable. |
| tartarus | noun (n.) The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general. |
| tauricornous | adjective (a.) Having horns like those of a bull. |
| taurus | noun (n.) The Bull; the second in order of the twelve signs of the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of April; -- marked thus [/] in almanacs. |
| | noun (n.) A zodiacal constellation, containing the well-known clusters called the Pleiades and the Hyades, in the latter of which is situated the remarkably bright Aldebaran. |
| | noun (n.) A genus of ruminants comprising the common domestic cattle. |
| tautochronous | adjective (a.) Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone. |
| tautologous | adjective (a.) Repeating the same thing in different words; tautological. |
| tautoousious | adjective (a.) Having the same essence; being identically of the same nature. |
