sepulchers
Burial vaults underground
Sepulchers are tombs or burial vaults, especially ones cut into rock or built as monuments.
The word carries literary and biblical weight, evoking ancient or sacred burial sites: whitewashed sepulchers, the sepulchers of kings.
To sepulcher is to place in such a tomb.
The spelling sepulchre is British.
Underground chamber for remains
- cryptSubterranean burial vault
- vaultSecure storage chamber
- graveSerious and worrying
- intermentPutting a body underground
sarcophagus · catacomb · burial chamber · ossuary · necropolis · charnel house · resting place · entombment
Relating to the pharaohs' land
- pharaohAncient Egyptian ruler
- pyramidPointed polyhedral solid
- rock-cutCarved into bedrock
- EtruscanAncient central Italian people
Roman · Hebrew · burial goods · stelae · anthropoid · funerary · archaeological · excavation
Solid earth fragment
- marbleRecrystallized limestone rock
- carvedCut to create form
- ornateElaborately decorated
- vaultedCurved overhead, or leaped
chamber · monument · edifice · limestone · granite · pillars · arched · alcove
Occupied by ghosts
- macabreDisturbing, death-obsessed
- eerieDisturbingly strange
- shadowyObscured by darkness
- moss-coveredClothed in bryophytes
crumbling · forgotten · spectral · moonlit · cobwebbed · desolate · foreboding · ancient
Made to appear pale
- PhariseesSecond Temple legal interpreters
- hypocrisyPretense of virtue
- uncleannessState of being soiled
- MatthewFirst gospel writer
righteous · wickedness · scribes · Jesus · parable · corruption · pretense · sanctimony
tomb
Underground chamber for remains
interment · sarcophagus · catacomb · burial chamber · ossuary · necropolis · charnel house · resting place · entombment · remains
Egyptian
Relating to the pharaohs' land
Etruscan · Roman · Hebrew · burial goods · stelae · anthropoid · funerary · archaeological · excavation · antiquity
stone
Solid earth fragment
vaulted · chamber · monument · edifice · limestone · granite · pillars · arched · alcove · niche
haunted
Occupied by ghosts
moss-covered · crumbling · forgotten · spectral · moonlit · cobwebbed · desolate · foreboding · ancient · atmospheric
whited
Made to appear pale
- PhariseesSecond Temple legal interpreters
- hypocrisyPretense of virtue
- uncleannessState of being soiled
Matthew · righteous · wickedness · scribes · Jesus · parable · corruption · pretense · sanctimony · whitewashed
- burial archaeologyburials, graves, tombs, burial sites, burial mounds
sepulcherscradles
Rocking infant beds
nurseries · maternity wards · wombs · delivery rooms · cribs