Term: bodice ripper: a romantic novel containing scenes in which the heroine is sexually violated
Broader: romance: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | Unrelated: keratoscope: medical instrument to examine the cornea in order to detect irregularities in its anterior surface
Broader: romance: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | Unrelated: rhine wine: any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)
Broader: romance: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | Unrelated: low latin: any dialect of Latin other than the classical
Broader: romance: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | Unrelated: tachometer: measuring instrument for indicating speed of rotation
Broader: romance: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | Unrelated: shoulder girdle: the bony arch formed by the collarbones and shoulder blades in humans
Broader: romance: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | Unrelated: gathered skirt: a skirt whose fabric is drawn together around the waist
Broader: romance: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | Unrelated: reservoir: anything (a person or animal or plant or substance) in which an infectious agent normally lives and multiplies
Broader: romance: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | Unrelated: kaki: blackish stilt of New Zealand sometimes considered a color phase of the white-headed stilt
Broader: romance: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | Unrelated: south american sea lion: of the southern coast of South America
Broader: romance: a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | Unrelated: graves' disease: exophthalmos occurring in association with goiter; hyperthyroidism with protrusion of the eyeballs