Rhymes with deficit
def·i·cit
D d Two-syllable rhymes
- budget — Your budget is the amount of money that you have available to spend. The budget for something is the amount of money that a person, organization, or country has available to spend on it.
- credit — If you are allowed credit, you are allowed to pay for goods or services several weeks or months after you have received them.
- crisis — A crisis is a situation in which something or someone is affected by one or more very serious problems.
- legit — legitimate.
- taxes — a plural of taxi.
Three-syllable rhymes
- amendment — An amendment is a section that is added to a law or rule in order to change it.
- attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
- benefit — The benefit of something is the help that you get from it or the advantage that results from it.
- celebrant — A celebrant is a person who performs or takes part in a religious ceremony.
- decadent — If you say that a person or society is decadent, you think that they have low moral standards and are interested mainly in pleasure.
- deficient — If someone or something is deficient in a particular thing, they do not have the full amount of it that they need in order to function normally or work properly.
- deficits — the amount by which a sum of money falls short of the required amount.
- definite — If something such as a decision or an arrangement is definite, it is firm and clear, and unlikely to be changed.
- delegate — A delegate is a person who is chosen to vote or make decisions on behalf of a group of other people, especially at a conference or a meeting.
- delicate — Something that is delicate is small and beautifully shaped.
- desolate — A desolate place is empty of people and lacking in comfort.
- detriment — If something happens to the detriment of something or to a person's detriment, it causes harm or damage to them.
- effortless — requiring or involving no effort; displaying no signs of effort; easy: an effortless writing style.
- geminate — Also, geminated. combined or arranged in pairs; twin; coupled.
- medicine — a specialized dictionary covering terms used in the health professions by doctors, nurses, and others involved in allied health care services. A dictionary with authoritative spellings and definitions is a particularly crucial resource in medicine, where a misspelling or misunderstanding can have unfortunate consequences for people under care. Print dictionaries in this field may be sorted alphabetically or may be categorized according to medical specializations or by the various systems in the body, as the immune system and the respiratory system. The online Medical Dictionary on Dictionary.com allows alphabetical browsing in the combined electronic versions of more than one authoritative medical reference, insuring access to correct spellings, as well as immediate, direct access to a known search term typed into the search box on the site: A medical dictionary reveals that large numbers of medical terms are formed from the same Latin and Greek parts combined and recombined.
- methodist — a member of the largest Christian denomination that grew out of the revival of religion led by John Wesley: stresses both personal and social morality and has an Arminian doctrine and, in the U.S., a modified episcopal polity.
- negligent — guilty of or characterized by neglect, as of duty: negligent officials.
- netiquette — the rules of etiquette that apply when communicating over computer networks, especially the Internet.
- opposite — situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing: opposite ends of a room.
- pessimist — a person who habitually sees or anticipates the worst or is disposed to be gloomy.
- predicate — to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
- prejudiced — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
- president — (often initial capital letter) the highest executive officer of a modern republic, as the Chief Executive of the United States.
- prevalent — widespread; of wide extent or occurrence; in general use or acceptance.
- redolent — having a pleasant odor; fragrant.
- regiment — Military. a unit of ground forces, consisting of two or more battalions or battle groups, a headquarters unit, and certain supporting units.
- registrant — a person who registers or is registered.
- relevant — bearing upon or connected with the matter in hand; pertinent: a relevant remark.
- requisite — required or necessary for a particular purpose, position, etc.; indispensable: the requisite skills of an engineer.
- resonant — resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.
- sediment — the matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs.
- sentiment — an attitude toward something; regard; opinion.
- settlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
- tenement — Also called tenement house. a run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.
- testament — Law. a will, especially one that relates to the disposition of one's personal property. will2 (def 8).
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- affectionate — If you are affectionate, you show your love or fondness for another person in the way that you behave towards them.
- anesthetist — An anesthetist is a nurse or other person who gives an anaesthetic to a patient.
- antecedent — An antecedent of something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way.
- benevolent — If you describe a person in authority as benevolent, you mean that they are kind and fair.
- connecticut — a state of the northeastern US, in New England. Capital: Hartford. Pop: 3 483 372 (2003 est). Area: 12 973 sq km (5009 sq miles)
- development — Development is the gradual growth or formation of something.
- federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- geneticist — a specialist or expert in genetics.
- impediment — obstruction; hindrance; obstacle.
- impressionist — a person who follows or adheres to the theories, methods, and practices of impressionism, especially in the fields of painting, music, or literature.
- indefinite — not definite; without fixed or specified limit; unlimited: an indefinite number.
- integument — a natural covering, as a skin, shell, or rind.
- intelligent — having good understanding or a high mental capacity; quick to comprehend, as persons or animals: an intelligent student.
- irrelevant — not relevant; not applicable or pertinent: His lectures often stray to interesting but irrelevant subjects.
- malevolent — wishing evil or harm to another or others; showing ill will; ill-disposed; malicious: His failures made him malevolent toward those who were successful.
- new testament — the collection of the books of the Bible that were produced by the early Christian church, comprising the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Epistles, and the Revelation of St. John the Divine.
- nonresident — not resident in a particular place.
- old testament — the first of the two main divisions of the Christian Bible, comprising the Law, the Prophets, and the Hagiographa. In the Vulgate translation all but two books of the Apocrypha are included in the Old Testament.
- perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- polemicist — a person who is engaged or versed in polemics.
- preeminent — eminent above or before others; superior; surpassing: He is preeminent in his profession.
- prerequisite — required beforehand: a prerequisite fund of knowledge.
- resettlement — the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.
- sea elephant — elephant seal.
- temperament — the combination of mental, physical, and emotional traits of a person; natural predisposition.
- trace element — any element that is required in minute quantities for physiological functioning.
- white elephant — a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of: Our Victorian bric-a-brac and furniture were white elephants.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- redevelopment — the act or process of redeveloping.
- underestimate — to estimate at too low a value, rate, or the like.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- african elephant — a type of elephant that is native to Africa
- chemical element — chemistry: substance
- housing development — a group of houses or apartments, usually of the same size and design, often erected on a tract of land by one builder and controlled by one management.
- ribbon development — housing or commercial buildings built along a stretch of road.
- underdevelop — to develop (something) short of the required amount: to underdevelop film.
- viatical settlement — the purchase by a charity of a life assurance policy owned by a person with only a short time to live, to enable that person to use the proceeds during his or her lifetime
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- identity element — the state or fact of remaining the same one or ones, as under varying aspects or conditions: The identity of the fingerprints on the gun with those on file provided evidence that he was the killer.