Rhymes with devour
de·vour
D d Three-syllable rhymes
- happy hour — a cocktail hour or longer period at a bar, during which drinks are served at reduced prices or with free snacks: happy hour from 5 to 7 p.m.
- rain shower — a brief rainfall, usually of variable intensity.
- ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- sea power — naval strength.
- shot tower — a tower from the top of which finely divided streams of molten lead are dropped down a central well, breaking up into spherical drops during their fall to be quenched and hardened in a tank of water at the bottom.
- stock power — a power of attorney permitting a person other than the owner of stock in a corporation to transfer the title of ownership to a third party.
- whiskey sour — a cocktail made with whiskey, lemon juice, and sugar.
- wild flower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
- wind power — power derived from wind: used to generate electricity or mechanical power.
- world power — a nation, organization, or institution so powerful that it is capable of influencing or changing the course of world events.
- zero hour — the time set for the beginning of a military attack or operation.
- air power — A nation's air power is the strength of its air force.
- auer — Karl (karl), Baron von Welsbach. 1858–1929, Austrian chemist who discovered the alloy of cerium and iron used for flints in cigarette lighters and invented the incandescent gas mantle
- bauer — Georg [gey-awrk] /geɪˈɔrk/ (Show IPA), Agricola, Georgius.
- dauer — (nematology) A developmental stage of certain nematode larvae in which they exhibit increased durability.
- fire tower — a tower, as on a mountain, from which a watch for fires is kept.
- graham flour — unbolted wheat flour, containing all of the wheat grain; whole-wheat flour.
- great power — a nation that has exceptional military and economic strength, and consequently plays a major, often decisive, role in international affairs.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- basket flower — a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.
- carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
- conning tower — a superstructure of a submarine, used as the bridge when the vessel is on the surface
- control tower — A control tower is a building at an airport from which instructions are given to aircraft when they are taking off or landing. You can also refer to the people who work in a control tower as the control tower.
- cooling tower — A cooling tower is a very large, round, high building which is used to cool water from factories or power stations.
- corkscrew flower — snailflower.
- flower power — Flower power is an old-fashioned way of referring to hippies and the culture associated with hippies in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- meteor shower — the profusion of meteors observed when the earth passes through a meteor swarm.
- motive power — any power used to impart motion; any source of mechanical energy.
- nuclear power — power derived from nuclear energy.
- overpower — to overcome, master, or subdue by superior force: to overpower a maniac.
- semester hour — a unit of academic credit fulfilled by completing one hour of class instruction each week for one semester.
- solar power — energy generated by the sun
- starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
- staying power — ability or strength to last or endure; endurance; stamina.
- superpower — an extremely powerful nation, especially one capable of influencing international events and the acts and policies of less powerful nations.
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- trumpet flower — any of various plants with pendent flowers shaped like a trumpet.
- water tower — a vertical pipe or tower into which water is pumped to a height sufficient to maintain a desired pressure for firefighting, distribution to customers, etc.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- atomic power — nuclear power.
- balance of power — The balance of power is the way in which power is distributed between rival groups or countries.
- butterfly flower — Also called Jerusalem date. a shrub or small tree, Bauhinia monandra, of French Guiana, having clusters of pink, purple-streaked flowers.
- cardinal flower — a campanulaceous plant, Lobelia cardinalis of E North America, that has brilliant scarlet, pink, or white flowers
- ivory tower — a place or situation remote from worldly or practical affairs: the university as an ivory tower.
- martello tower — a circular, towerlike fort with guns on the top.
- moccasin flower — the lady's-slipper.
- paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
- resolving power — Optics. the ability of an optical device to produce separate images of close objects.
One-syllable rhymes
- dour — sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- flour — the finely ground meal of grain, especially the finer meal separated by bolting.
- hour — a period of time equal to one twenty-fourth of a mean solar or civil day and equivalent to 60 minutes: He slept for an hour.
- mph — Miles per hour.
- our — (used to denote the narrator of a literary work written in the first person singular).
- scour — to range over, as in a search: They scoured the countryside for the lost child.
- sour — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
Two-syllable rhymes
- bower — A bower is a shady, leafy shelter in a garden or wood.
- cower — If you cower, you bend forward and downwards because you are very frightened.
- flower — the blossom of a plant.
- glower — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- gower — John, 1325?–1408, English poet.
- hower — a hole.
- power — a heavy blow or a loud, explosive noise.
- rush hour — a time of day in which large numbers of people are in transit, as going to or returning from work, and that is characterized by particularly heavy traffic.
- shower — a person or thing that shows.
- soy flour — finely ground soybeans, most commonly used as an additive to other flours, processed meats, cereals, etc.
- tower — the fiber of flax, hemp, or jute prepared for spinning by scutching.