10K+ Words That Rhyme With OPERCULA

• The reticular formation.

• A network.

• A pattern of interconnected objects.

• The second compartment of the stomach of a cow or other ruminant.

• erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender

• a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere; associated with a strong magnetic field

• a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision

• a patch of skin that is discolored but not usually elevated; caused by various diseases

• either of two flat triangular bones one on each side of the shoulder in human beings

• rod-shaped structures of fibrous tissue that divide an organ into parts (as in the penis) or stabilize the structure of an organ (as in the spleen)

• a small pendant fleshy lobe at the back of the soft palate

• (anatomy) any furrow or channel on a bodily structure or part

• a low flat-bottomed freight car with fixed sides but no roof

• long narrow flat-bottomed boat propelled by sculling; traditionally used on canals of Venice

• the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant

• a Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque

• yellow-flowered primrose native to Alps; commonly cultivated

• a pouch projecting from the top front of each atrium of the heart

• the outer body wall of an insect

• double-walled stage of the embryo resulting from invagination of the blastula; the outer layer of cells is the ectoderm and the inner layer differentiates into the mesoderm and endoderm

• the flat ciliated free-swimming larva of hydrozoan coelenterates

• a cyst on the underside of the tongue

• small beltlike zone

• A bone found in the penis of some mammals

• A small rod-like structure found in spores and pollen

• A ferule.

• A stroke from a cane.

• The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire.

• The active material used in an inoculation; an inoculant

• A dense tuft of hair, as on the legs of certain insects.

• a mirror (especially one made of polished metal) for use in an optical instrument

• a medical instrument for dilating a bodily passage or cavity in order to examine the interior

• A container used by botanists to keep samples viable by maintaining a cool, humid environment.

• A long, whiplike, modified zooid on the surface of certain colonies of bryozoa

• an almond-shaped neural structure in the anterior part of the temporal lobe of the cerebrum; intimately connected with the hypothalamus and the hippocampus and the cingulate gyrus; as part of the limbic system it plays an important role in motivation and emotional behavior

• (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid

• the round leaden seal affixed to a papal bull

• a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting

• a roof in the form of a dome

• any of various geometric designs (usually circular) symbolizing the universe; used chiefly in Hinduism and Buddhism as an aid to meditation

• a framework that supports climbing plants

• any red eruption of the skin

• a highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever and weakness and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs that slough off leaving scars

• The bony cup of the pelvis which receives the head of the femur.

• The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.

• A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.

• The large posterior sucker of the leeches.

• One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.

• (Roman Antiquities) A vinegar cup.

• (Roman Antiquities) The socket of the hipbone.

• (Roman Antiquities) A measure of about one eighth of a pint.

• the dilated portion of a canal or duct especially of the semicircular canals of the ear

• a flask that has two handles; used by Romans for wines or oils

• Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather

• an open curve formed by a plane that cuts the base of a right circular cone

• a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections

• A coarse or farcical gag; a joke provoking hearty laughter.