Rhymes with contends
con·tend
C c One-syllable rhymes
- bends — the severe pain in the limbs, joints, and abdomen during decompression sickness
- benz — Karl (Friedrich) (karl). 1844–1929, German engineer; designed and built the first car to be driven by an internal-combustion engine (1885)
- cleanse — To cleanse a place, person, or organization of something dirty, unpleasant, or evil means to make them free from it.
- dens — a tooth or toothlike part.
- gens — a group of families in ancient Rome claiming descent from a common ancestor and united by a common name and common ancestral religious rites.
- hens — the female of the domestic fowl.
- henze — Hans Werner [hahns ver-nuh r] /hɑns ˈvɛr nər/ (Show IPA), 1926–2012, German composer.
- lens — a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
- mens — a range of sizes in even and odd numbers for garments made for men.
- men's — a range of sizes in even and odd numbers for garments made for men.
- sends — to cause, permit, or enable to go: to send a messenger; They sent their son to college.
- spends — to pay out, disburse, or expend; dispose of (money, wealth, resources, etc.): resisting the temptation to spend one's money.
- tens — a cardinal number, nine plus one.
- trends — the general course or prevailing tendency; drift: trends in the teaching of foreign languages; the trend of events.
- wends — to pursue or direct (one's way).
- when's — at what time or period? how long ago? how soon?: When are they to arrive? When did the Roman Empire exist?
Two-syllable rhymes
- amends — recompense or compensation given or gained for some injury, insult, etc
- ascends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ascend.
- attends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of attend.
- backends — Plural form of backend.
- commends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of commend.
- crown lens — a lens made of optical crown, esp the optical-crown part of a compound achromatic lens
- depends — to rely; place trust (usually followed by on or upon): You may depend on the accuracy of the report.
- intends — to have in mind as something to be done or brought about; plan: We intend to leave in a month.
- zoom lens — (in a camera or motion-picture projector) a lens assembly whose focal length can be continuously adjusted to provide various degrees of magnification without any loss of focus, thus combining the features of wide-angle, normal, and telephoto lenses.
Three-syllable rhymes
- compound lens — a lens consisting of more than one component lens
- comprehends — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of comprehend.
- contact lens — Contact lenses are small plastic lenses that you put on the surface of your eyes to help you see better, instead of wearing glasses.
- convex lens — optical glass
- odds and ends — miscellaneous items, matters, etc.
- portrait lens — a lens of moderately long focal length that is used, especially in portrait photography, to produce soft-focus images.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- converging lens — a lens that converts parallel rays of light to convergent rays and produces a real image.
- crystalline lens — a biconvex transparent elastic structure in the eye situated behind the iris, serving to focus images on the retina
- diverging lens — a lens that causes a beam of parallel rays to diverge after refraction, as from a virtual image; a lens that has a negative focal length.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- intraocular lens — a plastic lens implanted surgically to replace the eye's natural crystalline lens, usually because the natural lens has developed a cataract.
- telephoto lens — a lens constructed so as to produce a relatively large image with a focal length shorter than that required by an ordinary lens producing an image of the same size: used to photograph small or distant objects.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- religious society of friends — a sect founded by George Fox in England about 1650, opposed to oath-taking and war.