Rhymes with chips
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C c One-syllable rhymes
- cripps — Sir (Richard) Stafford. 1889–1952, British Labour statesman; Chancellor of the Exchequer (1947–50)
- mips — 1. (unit, benchmark) Million instructions per second. The unit commonly used to give the rate at which a processor executes instructions. Often rendered by hackers as "Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed" or in other unflattering ways. This expresses a nearly universal attitude about the value of most benchmark claims, said attitude being one of the great cultural divides between hackers and marketroids. The etymologically incorrect singular "1 MIP" is sometimes heard. See also KIPS and GIPS. 2. VAX MIPS. 3. (processor) Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages. 4. (company) MIPS Technologies, Inc.
- nips — to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- quips — a clever or witty remark or comment.
- scripps — Edward Wyllis [wil-is] /ˈwɪl ɪs/ (Show IPA), 1854–1926, U.S. newspaper publisher.
- scripts — the letters or characters used in writing by hand; handwriting, especially cursive writing.
- sips — to drink (a liquid) a little at a time; take small tastes of: He sipped the hot tea noisily.
- snips — to cut with a small, quick stroke, or a succession of such strokes, with scissors or the like.
- thrips — any of several minute insects of the order Thysanoptera, that have long, narrow wings fringed with hairs and that infest and feed on a wide variety of weeds and crop plants.
- whips — to beat with a strap, lash, rod, or the like, especially by way of punishment or chastisement; flog; thrash: Criminals used to be whipped for minor offenses.
Two-syllable rhymes
- eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- lunar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- partial eclipse — astronomy
- solar eclipse — Astronomy. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun (lunar eclipse) or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth (solar eclipse) a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun. the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other.
- total eclipse — an eclipse in which the surface of the eclipsed body is completely obscured.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- annular eclipse — an eclipse of the sun in which the moon does not cover the entire disc of the sun, so that a ring of sunlight surrounds the shadow of the moon