necklace — a piece of jewelry consisting of a string of stones, beads, jewels, or the like, or a chain of gold, silver, or other metal, for wearing around the neck.
Three-syllable rhymes
benelux — The Benelux countries are Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
blessedness — consecrated; sacred; holy; sanctified: the Blessed Sacrament.
catalyst — You can describe a person or thing that causes a change or event to happen as a catalyst.
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
depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
detritus — Detritus is the small pieces of rubbish that remain after an event has finished or when something has been used.
membranous — consisting of, of the nature of, or resembling membrane.
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.
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.
oedipus — a king of Thebes, the son of Laius and Jocasta, and the father by Jocasta of Eteocles, Polynices, Antigone, and Ismeme: as was prophesied at his birth, he unwittingly killed his father and married his mother and, in penance, blinded himself and went into exile.
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.
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.
redemption — an act of redeeming or atoning for a fault or mistake, or the state of being redeemed.
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.
resonance — the state or quality of being resonant.
restlessness — characterized by or showing inability to remain at rest: a restless mood.
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.
specialist — a person who devotes himself or herself to one subject or to one particular branch of a subject or pursuit.
tenuous — lacking a sound basis, as reasoning; unsubstantiated; weak: a tenuous argument.
testament — Law. a will, especially one that relates to the disposition of one's personal property. will2 (def 8).
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.
treacherous — characterized by faithlessness or readiness to betray trust; traitorous.
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.
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.
leviticus — the third book of the Bible, containing laws relating to the priests and Levites and to the forms of Jewish ceremonial observance. Abbreviation: Lev.
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.
morphogenesis — the development of structural features of an organism or part.
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.
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
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
circumstantial evidence — indirect evidence that tends to establish a conclusion by inference
