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Two-syllable rhymes

  • caption — A caption is the words printed underneath a picture or cartoon which explain what it is about.
  • memphis — a group of international designers and architects, formed in the 1980s and based in Milan, whose work is characterized by the use of bold colors, geometric shapes, and unconventional, often playful, designs.
  • passion — any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
  • sentence — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.

Three-syllable rhymes

  • benefits — The benefits of a life or medical insurance policy are the money that it pays out.
  • benelux — The Benelux countries are Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
  • blessedness — consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.
  • clematis — A clematis is a type of flowering shrub which can be grown to climb up walls or fences. There are many different varieties of clematis.
  • credulous — If you describe someone as credulous, you have a low opinion of them because they are too ready to believe what people tell them and are easily deceived.
  • daedalus — an Athenian architect and inventor who built the labyrinth for Minos on Crete and fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus to flee the island
  • decadence — deterioration, esp of morality or culture; decay; degeneration
  • detritus — Detritus is the small pieces of rubbish that remain after an event has finished or when something has been used.
  • edifice — a building, especially one of large size or imposing appearance.
  • elegance — The quality of being graceful and stylish in appearance or manner; style.
  • elements — Plural form of element.
  • elephants — Plural form of elephant.
  • eloquence — Fluent or persuasive speaking or writing.
  • eminence — Fame or recognized superiority, esp. within a particular sphere or profession.
  • emphases — Plural form of emphasis.
  • fremitus — palpable vibration, as of the walls of the chest.
  • genesis — an origin, creation, or beginning.
  • gentleness — kindly; amiable: a gentle manner.
  • helplessness — unable to help oneself; weak or dependent: a helpless invalid.
  • images — a physical likeness or representation of a person, animal, or thing, photographed, painted, sculptured, or otherwise made visible.
  • megabucks — one million dollars.
  • membranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
  • nebulous — hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused: a nebulous recollection of the meeting; a nebulous distinction between pride and conceit.
  • negligence — the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities.
  • nemesis — something that a person cannot conquer, achieve, etc.: The performance test proved to be my nemesis.
  • pegasus — 1.   (networking, product)   A product to support Internet searches, electronic mail, and Usenet news. 2.   (project)   An open source project run by The Open Group which implements a Common Information Model (CIM) Object Manager.
  • pendulous — hanging down loosely: pendulous blossoms.
  • pestilence — a deadly or virulent epidemic disease.
  • precedence — act or fact of preceding.
  • precipice — a cliff with a vertical, nearly vertical, or overhanging face.
  • prejudice — an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
  • prevalence — the condition of being prevalent, or widespread: the prevalence of AIDS in developing countries.
  • recklessness — utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless (usually followed by of): to be reckless of danger.
  • relevance — the condition of being relevant, or connected with the matter at hand: Some traditional institutions of the media lack relevance in this digital age.
  • remedy — something that cures or relieves a disease or bodily disorder; a healing medicine, application, or treatment.
  • resonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
  • restlessness — characterized by or showing inability to remain at rest: a restless mood.
  • selflessness — having little or no concern for oneself, especially with regard to fame, position, money, etc.; unselfish.
  • sensitive — endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
  • sensuous — perceived by or affecting the senses: the sensuous qualities of music.
  • sentences — Grammar. a grammatical unit of one or more words that expresses an independent statement, question, request, command, exclamation, etc., and that typically has a subject as well as a predicate, as in John is here. or Is John here? In print or writing, a sentence typically begins with a capital letter and ends with appropriate punctuation; in speech it displays recognizable, communicative intonation patterns and is often marked by preceding and following pauses.
  • synthesis — the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis, ) the separating of any material or abstract entity into its constituent elements.
  • tenebrous — dark; gloomy; obscure.
  • tenuous — lacking a sound basis, as reasoning; unsubstantiated; weak: a tenuous argument.
  • tetanus — Pathology. an infectious, often fatal disease caused by a specific bacterium that enters the body through wounds and characterized by respiratory paralysis and tonic spasms and rigidity of the voluntary muscles, especially those of the neck and lower jaw. Compare lockjaw.
  • tremulous — (of persons, the body, etc.) characterized by trembling, as from fear, nervousness, or weakness.
  • venomous — (of an animal) having a gland or glands for secreting venom; able to inflict a poisoned bite, sting, or wound: a venomous snake.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • beneficence — the act of doing good; kindness
  • benevolence — inclination or tendency to help or do good to others; charity
  • contentiousness — The state of being contentious.
  • directionless — the act or an instance of directing.
  • incredulous — not credulous; disinclined or indisposed to believe; skeptical.
  • intelligence — capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc.
  • irrelevance — the quality or condition of being irrelevant.
  • parenthesis — either or both of a pair of signs () used in writing to mark off an interjected explanatory or qualifying remark, to indicate separate groupings of symbols in mathematics and symbolic logic, etc.
  • persepolis — an ancient capital of Persia: its imposing ruins are in S Iran, about 30 miles (48 km) NE of Shiraz.
  • pink elephants — a facetious name applied to hallucinations caused by drunkenness
  • preeminence — the state or character of being preeminent.
  • unpleasantness — the quality or state of being unpleasant.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • direct evidence — evidence of a witness who testifies to the truth of the fact to be proved (contrasted with circumstantial evidence).
  • hearsay evidence — testimony based on what a witness has heard from another person rather than on direct personal knowledge or experience.
  • metamorphosis — Biology. a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism, as from the caterpillar to the pupa and from the pupa to the adult butterfly. Compare complete metamorphosis.
  • morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
  • photosynthesis — the complex process by which carbon dioxide, water, and certain inorganic salts are converted into carbohydrates by green plants, algae, and certain bacteria, using energy from the sun and chlorophyll.
  • state's evidence — evidence given by an accomplice in a crime who becomes a voluntary witness against the other defendants: The defendants' case was lost when one of them turned state's evidence.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • indirect evidence — circumstantial evidence.
  • magnetic resonance — the response by atoms, molecules, or nuclei subjected to a magnetic field to radio waves or other forms of energy: used in medicine for scanning
  • organogenesis — Biology. the origin and development of an organ.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

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