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Rhymes with ord

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Two-syllable rhymes

  • regard — to look upon or think of with a particular feeling: to regard a person with favor.
  • renard — Reynard.
  • repaired — to restore to a good or sound condition after decay or damage; mend: to repair a motor.
  • required — to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
  • retard — to make slow; delay the development or progress of (an action, process, etc.); hinder or impede.
  • retired — withdrawn from or no longer occupied with one's business or profession: a retired banker.
  • revered — to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate: The child revered her mother.
  • reward — a sum of money offered for the detection or capture of a criminal, the recovery of lost or stolen property, etc.
  • reword — to put into other words: to reword a contract.
  • sash cord — a cord for connecting a vertically sliding window sash with a counterweight.
  • school board — a local board or committee in charge of public education.
  • sea bird — a bird frequenting the sea or coast.
  • secured — free from or not exposed to danger or harm; safe.
  • sour gourd — the acid fruit of any of several African or Australian trees belonging to the genus Adansonia, of the bombax family, as the baobab, A. digitata.
  • square yard — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one yard on each side; 0.8361 square meters. 2 , sq. yd. Abbreviation: yd.
  • staffordJean, 1915–79, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
  • steward — a person who manages another's property or financial affairs; one who administers anything as the agent of another or others.
  • swiss chard — chard.
  • toward — in the direction of: to walk toward the river.
  • trafford — a unitary authority in NW England, in Greater Manchester. Pop: 211 800 (2003 est). Area: 106 sq km (41 sq miles)
  • transferred — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • trump card — Cards. trump1 (def 1a).
  • unheard — not heard; not perceived by the ear.
  • verwoerd — Hendrik Frensch [hen-drik frens] /ˈhɛn drɪk frɛns/ (Show IPA), 1901–66, South African political leader, born in the Netherlands: prime minister 1958–66.
  • warden — any of several pears having a crisp, firm flesh, used in cookery.
  • watford — a city in Hertfordshire, SE England, N of London.
  • abhorred — to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest utterly; loathe; abominate.
  • aboard — If you are aboard a ship or plane, you are on it or in it.
  • absurd — If you say that something is absurd, you are criticizing it because you think that it is ridiculous or that it does not make sense.
  • accord — An accord between countries or groups of people is a formal agreement, for example to end a war.
  • adored — to regard with the utmost esteem, love, and respect; honor.
  • afford — If you cannot afford something, you do not have enough money to pay for it.
  • appeared — to come into sight; become visible: A man suddenly appeared in the doorway.
  • assured — Someone who is assured is very confident and relaxed.
  • attired — If you describe how someone is attired, you are describing how they are dressed.
  • award — An award is a prize or certificate that a person is given for doing something well.
  • awkward — An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
  • bank card — A bank card is a plastic card which your bank gives you so you can get money from your bank account using a cash machine. It is also called an ATM card in American English. In Britain, you also use bank cards to prove who you are when you pay for something by cheque.
  • barnard — Christiaan (Neethling). 1923–2001, South African surgeon, who performed the first human heart transplant (1967)
  • bernard — Claude (klod). 1813–78, French physiologist, noted for his research on the action of secretions of the alimentary canal and the glycogenic function of the liver
  • big board — the quotation board in the New York Stock Exchange
  • bombard — If you bombard someone with something, you make them face a great deal of it. For example, if you bombard them with questions or criticism, you keep asking them a lot of questions or you keep criticizing them.
  • bottle gourd — an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria, having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits
  • canard — A canard is an idea or a piece of information that is false, especially one that is spread deliberately in order to harm someone or their work.
  • charge card — A charge card is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit from a particular store or group of stores. Compare credit card.
  • compared — to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people, etc.) in order to note similarities and differences: to compare two pieces of cloth; to compare the governments of two nations.
  • conferred — to consult together; compare opinions; carry on a discussion or deliberation.
  • crawford — Joan, real name Lucille le Sueur. 1908–77, US film actress, who portrayed ambitious women in such films as Mildred Pierce (1945)
  • crossword — A crossword or crossword puzzle is a word game in which you work out the answers and write them in the white squares of a pattern of small black and white squares.
  • curse word — a profane or obscene word, especially as used in anger or for emphasis.
  • declared — stated openly, officially, or formally
  • deferred — withheld over a certain period; postponed
  • demurred — to make objection, especially on the grounds of scruples; take exception; object: They wanted to make him the treasurer, but he demurred.
  • deplored — to regret deeply or strongly; lament: to deplore the present state of morality.
  • die hard — If you say that habits or attitudes die hard, you mean that they take a very long time to disappear or change, so that it may not be possible to get rid of them completely.
  • discard — to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of: to discard an old hat.
  • draft board — a board of civilians charged with registering, classifying, and selecting persons for U.S. military service.
  • endured — Suffer (something painful or difficult) patiently.
  • expired — Simple past tense and past participle of expire.
  • explored — Simple past tense and past participle of explore.
  • face card — the king, queen, or jack of playing cards.
  • flash card — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
  • foreword — a short introductory statement in a published work, as a book, especially when written by someone other than the author.
  • forward — toward or at a place, point, or time in advance; onward; ahead: to move forward; from this day forward; to look forward.
  • game bird — any bird hunted chiefly for sport, as a quail or pheasant, especially such a bird that is protected by game laws.
  • ghost word — a word that has come into existence by error rather than by normal linguistic transmission, as through the mistaken reading of a manuscript, a scribal error, or a misprint.
  • good word — Used other than as an idiom: see good,‎ word.
  • green card — an official card, originally green, issued by the U.S. government to foreign nationals permitting them to work in the U.S.
  • hole card — Stud Poker. the card dealt face down in the first round of a deal.
  • ignored — to refrain from noticing or recognizing: to ignore insulting remarks.
  • impaired — weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.
  • implored — Simple past tense and past participle of implore.
  • incurred — to come into or acquire (some consequence, usually undesirable or injurious): to incur a huge number of debts.
  • inferred — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
  • insured — the person, group, or organization whose life or property is covered by an insurance policy.
  • interred — to place (a dead body) in a grave or tomb; bury.
  • inured — to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold.
  • keyboard — the row or set of keys on a piano, organ, or the like.
  • leaf lard — lard prepared from the leaf fat of the hog.
  • main yard — a yard for a square mainsail.
  • matured — complete in natural growth or development, as plant and animal forms: a mature rose bush.
  • morgue — a place in which bodies are kept, especially the bodies of victims of violence or accidents, pending identification or burial.
  • off guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • offshored — Simple past tense and past participle of offshore.
  • old guard — the imperial guard created in 1804 by Napoleon: it made the last French charge at Waterloo.
  • order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
  • ordered — neatly or conveniently arranged; well-organized: an ordered office.
  • picard — Charles Émile [sharl ey-meel] /ʃarl eɪˈmil/ (Show IPA), 1856–1941, French mathematician.
  • preferred — to set or hold before or above other persons or things in estimation; like better; choose rather than: to prefer beef to chicken.
  • prepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
  • press lord — press baron.
  • punch card — punched card
  • punched card — a card having holes punched in specific positions and patterns so as to represent data to be stored or processed mechanically, electrically, or photoelectrically.
  • rag gourd — loofah (def 1).
  • rare bird — If you say that someone or something is a rare bird, you mean that they are very unusual.
  • reboard — a piece of wood sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth compared with the thickness.
  • record — to cause to be set down or registered: to record one's vote.
  • referred — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.

Three-syllable rhymes

  • avant-garde — Avant-garde art, music, theatre, and literature is very modern and experimental.
  • bedford cord — a heavy corded cloth, similar to corduroy
  • bungee cord — a type of stretchy rope consisting of elastic strands often in a fabric casing. Bungee cords may be used in parachuting, bungee jumping or to secure loads. Ones used for securing loads often have hooks on either end.
  • calling card — A calling card is a small card with personal information about you on it, such as your name and address, which you can give to people when you go to visit them.
  • christmas card — Christmas cards are cards with greetings, which people send to their friends and family at Christmas.
  • circuit board — A circuit board is the same as a printed circuit board.
  • color guard — the persons carrying and escorting the colors (flag) in a parade, ceremony, etc.
  • common chord — a chord consisting of the keynote, a major or minor third, and a perfect fifth
  • compass card — a compass in the form of a card that rotates so that "0°" or "North" points to magnetic north
  • content word — a word to which an independent meaning can be given by reference to a world outside any sentence in which the word may occur
  • control board — a panel containing switches, dials, and other equipment for regulating electrical devices, lights, etc.
  • credit card — A credit card is a plastic card that you use to buy goods on credit. Compare charge card.
  • cribbage board — a board, with pegs and holes, used for scoring at cribbage
  • cutting board — A cutting board is a wooden or plastic board that you chop meat and vegetables on.
  • disappeared — to cease to be seen; vanish from sight.
  • disregard — to pay no attention to; leave out of consideration; ignore: Disregard the footnotes.
  • diving board — a springboard.
  • drafting board — drawing board.
  • draining board — The draining board is the place on a sink unit where things such as cups, plates, and cutlery are put to drain after they have been washed.
  • drawing board — a rectangular board on which paper is placed or mounted for drawing or drafting.
  • drawing card — a person who or thing that attracts attention or patrons.
  • frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
  • function word — a word, as a preposition, article, auxiliary, or pronoun, that chiefly expresses grammatical relationships, has little semantic content of its own, and belongs to a small, closed class of words whose membership is relatively fixed (distinguished from content word).
  • gallows bird — a person who deserves to be hanged.
  • golden horde — the army of Mongol Tartars that overran eastern Europe in the 13th century, established a khanate in Russia, and maintained suzerainty there until the 15th century.
  • greeting card — card1 (def 4).
  • gypsum board — wallboard composed primarily of gypsum and often used as sheathing.
  • henry fordElizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918–2011, U.S. First Lady 1974–77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
  • honor guard — guard of honor.
  • ledger board — a horizontal board, as in a fence.
  • navy yard — a government dockyard where naval ships are built, repaired, and fitted out, and naval supplies and munitions are laid up.
  • notice board — bulletin board for displaying public messages
  • overheard — to hear (speech or a speaker) without the speaker's intention or knowledge: I accidentally overheard what they were saying.
  • particle board — any of various composition boards formed from small particles of wood, as flakes or shavings, tightly compressed and bonded together with a resin.
  • playing card — one of the conventional set of 52 cards in four suits, as diamonds, hearts, spades, and clubs, used in playing various games of chance and skill.
  • postal card — a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.
  • prerecord — to record beforehand or in advance.
  • provost guard — a detachment of soldiers assigned to police duties under the provost marshal.
  • report card — a written report containing an evaluation of a pupil's scholarship and behavior, sent periodically to the pupil's parents or guardian, usually on a card containing marks and comments together with a record of attendance.
  • running board — a small ledge, step, or footboard, formerly beneath the doors of an automobile, to assist passengers entering or leaving the car.
  • saint bernardGreat, a mountain pass between SW Switzerland and NW Italy, in the Pennine Alps: Napoleon led his army through it in 1800; location of a hospice. 8108 feet (2470 meters) high.
  • sandwich board — two connected posters or signboards that hang in front of and behind a person and usually bear some advertisement, notice, exhortation, or the like.
  • scotland yard — a short street in central London, England: formerly the site of the London police headquarters, which were removed 1890 to a Thames embankment (New Scotland Yard, ).
  • seventh chord — a chord formed by the superposition of three thirds.
  • shoulder board — one of a pair of narrow, stiff, cloth patches bearing an insignia of rank and worn on the shoulders by a commissioned officer.
  • skirting board — fabric for making skirts.
  • sounding board — a thin, resonant plate of wood forming part of a musical instrument, and so placed as to enhance the power and quality of the tone.
  • spinal cord — the cord of nerve tissue extending through the spinal canal of the spinal column.
  • trading card — one of a set of small cards, as one depicting professional athletes, either sold separately or included as a premium with packages of bubblegum or the like, collected and traded, especially by children.
  • tropic bird — any of several web-footed seabirds of the family Phaethontidae, chiefly of tropical seas, having white plumage with black markings and a pair of greatly elongated central tail feathers.
  • undeclared — publicly avowed or professed; self-confessed: a declared liberal.
  • underscored — to mark with a line or lines underneath; underline, as for emphasis.
  • undeterred — to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding: The large dog deterred trespassers.
  • unexplored — to traverse or range over (a region, area, etc.) for the purpose of discovery: to explore the island.
  • unimpaired — weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing; to rebuild an impaired bridge.
  • uninsured — the person, group, or organization whose life or property is covered by an insurance policy.
  • unprepared — properly expectant, organized, or equipped; ready: prepared for a hurricane.
  • unsecured — not secured, especially not insured against loss, as by a bond or pledge: an unsecured loan.
  • untoward — unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
  • vocal cord — (anatomy) Either of two pairs of folds of mucous membrane stretched horizontally across the human larynx whose vibrations help to produce the voice.
  • volunteered — a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
  • wading bird — wader (def 2).
  • water bird — an aquatic bird; a swimming or wading bird.
  • waterford — a county in Munster province, in the S Republic of Ireland. 710 sq. mi. (1840 sq. km).
  • weasel word — a word used to temper the forthrightness of a statement; a word that makes one's views equivocal, misleading, or confusing.
  • widow bird — whydah.
  • word for word — in exactly the same words; verbatim.

One-syllable rhymes

  • aired — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
  • ard — A simple plough consisting of a spike dragged through the soil.
  • bard — People sometimes refer to William Shakespeare as the Bard.
  • bared — without covering or clothing; naked; nude: bare legs.
  • barred — having bars or stripes
  • beard — A man's beard is the hair that grows on his chin and cheeks.
  • bird — A bird is a creature with feathers and wings. Female birds lay eggs. Most birds can fly.
  • blurred — to obscure or sully (something) by smearing or with a smeary substance: The windows were blurred with soot.
  • board — A board is a flat, thin, rectangular piece of wood or plastic which is used for a particular purpose.
  • bored — If you are bored, you feel tired and impatient because you have lost interest in something or because you have nothing to do.
  • byrd — Richard Evelyn. 1888–1957, US rear admiral, aviator, and polar explorer
  • card — A card is a piece of stiff paper or thin cardboard on which something is written or printed.
  • cared — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
  • chaired — a seat, especially for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms.
  • chard — Chard is a plant with a round root, large leaves, and a thick stalk.
  • charred — Charred plants, buildings, or vehicles have been badly burnt and have become black because of fire.
  • chord — A chord is a number of musical notes played or sung at the same time with a pleasing effect.
  • cleared — Simple past tense and past participle of clear.
  • cord — Cord is strong, thick string.
  • cords — trousers, esp jeans, made of corduroy
  • curd — The thick white substance which is formed when milk turns sour can be referred to as curds.
  • cured — (of food) treated by salting, smoking, or drying in order to preserve it
  • dared — an act of daring or defiance; challenge.
  • eared — having ears or earlike appendages.
  • feared — afraid; afeard.
  • fjord — a long, narrow arm of the sea bordered by steep cliffs: usually formed by glacial erosion.
  • flared — to burn with an unsteady, swaying flame, as a torch or candle in the wind.
  • floor — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
  • floored — that part of a room, hallway, or the like, that forms its lower enclosing surface and upon which one walks.
  • for — for loop
  • fordElizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918–2011, U.S. First Lady 1974–77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
  • forde — Frank, full name Francis Michael Forde. 1890–1983, Australian politician; prime minister of Australia for eight days (1945)
  • form — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
  • gard — a department in S France. 2271 sq. mi. (5882 sq. km). Capital: Nîmes.
  • geared — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
  • gerd — gastroesophageal reflux disease.
  • gird — to gibe or jeer at; taunt.
  • glared — Stare in an angry or fierce way.
  • god — the one Supreme Being, the creator and ruler of the universe.
  • gored — to make or furnish with a gore or gores.
  • gourd — the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria (white-flowered gourd or bottle gourd) whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo (yellow-flowered gourd) used ornamentally. Compare gourd family.
  • guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • haired — having hair of a specified kind (usually used in combination): dark-haired; long-haired.
  • hard — not soft; solid and firm to the touch; unyielding to pressure and impenetrable or almost impenetrable.
  • heard — to perceive by the ear: Didn't you hear the doorbell?
  • herd — a herdsman (usually used in combination): a cowherd; a goatherd; a shepherd.
  • hoard — a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
  • horde — a large group, multitude, number, etc.; a mass or crowd: a horde of tourists.
  • jarred — to have a harshly unpleasant or perturbing effect on one's nerves, feelings, thoughts, etc.: The sound of the alarm jarred.
  • kurd — a member of an Islamic people speaking Kurdish and dwelling chiefly in Kurdistan.
  • laird — a landed proprietor.
  • lard — the rendered fat of hogs, especially the internal fat of the abdomen.
  • lord — a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
  • lords — a person who has authority, control, or power over others; a master, chief, or ruler.
  • lured — anything that attracts, entices, or allures.
  • marred — to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
  • mired — a tract or area of wet, swampy ground; bog; marsh.
  • nard — an aromatic Himalayan plant, believed to be the spikenard, Nardostachys jatamansi, the source of an ointment used by the ancients.
  • nerd — a person considered to be socially awkward, boring, unstylish, etc.
  • nord — a department in N France. 2229 sq. mi. (5770 sq. km). Capital: Lille.
  • norm — a standard, model, or pattern.
  • oared — furnished with oars.
  • or — a Boolean operator that returns a positive result when either or both operands are positive.
  • orb — Object Request Broker
  • ore — a metal-bearing mineral or rock, or a native metal, that can be mined at a profit.
  • orf — (obsolete) Cattle.
  • org — Organization (in Internet addresses).
  • ort — Usually, orts. a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
  • pared — to cut off the outer coating, layer, or part of.
  • pored — to read or study with steady attention or application: a scholar poring over a rare old manuscript.
  • pork — the flesh of hogs used as food.
  • poured — to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant.
  • roared — to utter a loud, deep cry or howl, as in excitement, distress, or anger.
  • rod — a male given name, form of Roderick or Rodney.
  • scared — to fill, especially suddenly, with fear or terror; frighten; alarm.
  • scarred — a mark left by a healed wound, sore, or burn.
  • seared — to burn or char the surface of: She seared the steak to seal in the juices.
  • shard — a fragment, especially of broken earthenware.
  • sheared — shaped or completed by or as if by shearing.
  • short — having little length; not long.
  • slurred — to pass over lightly or without due mention or consideration (often followed by over): The report slurred over her contribution to the enterprise.
  • smeared — to spread or daub (an oily, greasy, viscous, or wet substance) on or over something: to smear butter on bread.
  • snared — a device, often consisting of a noose, for capturing small game.
  • soared — to fly upward, as a bird.
  • sore — suffering bodily pain from wounds, bruises, etc., as a person: He is sore because of all that exercise.
  • spared — to refrain from harming or destroying; leave uninjured; forbear to punish, hurt, or destroy: to spare one's enemy.
  • spurred — having a spur or spurs.
  • stared — to gaze fixedly and intently, especially with the eyes wide open.
  • starred — celebrated, prominent, or distinguished; preeminent: a star basketball player; a star reporter.
  • steered — to guide the course of (something in motion) by a rudder, helm, wheel, etc.: to steer a bicycle.
  • stirred — to move one's hand or an implement continuously or repeatedly through (a liquid or other substance) in order to cool, mix, agitate, dissolve, etc., any or all of the component parts: to stir one's coffee with a spoon.
  • stored — an establishment where merchandise is sold, usually on a retail basis.
  • storm — Theodore Woldsen [tey-aw-dawr vawlt-suh n] /ˈteɪ ɔˌdɔr ˈvɔlt sən/ (Show IPA), 1817–88, German poet and novelist.
  • sward — the grassy surface of land; turf.
  • sword — a weapon having various forms but consisting typically of a long, straight or slightly curved blade, sharp-edged on one or both sides, with one end pointed and the other fixed in a hilt or handle.
  • tarred — any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
  • third — next after the second; being the ordinal number for three.
  • tiered — being or arranged in tiers or layers (usually used in combination): a two-tiered box of chocolates.
  • ward — (Aaron) Montgomery, 1843–1913, U.S. merchant and mail-order retailer.
  • weird — involving or suggesting the supernatural; unearthly or uncanny: a weird sound; weird lights.
  • wired — made of wire; consisting of or constructed with wires.
  • word — Microsoft Word
  • worn — past participle of wear.
  • yard — the ground that immediately adjoins or surrounds a house, public building, or other structure.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • bulletin board — A bulletin board is a board which is usually attached to a wall in order to display notices giving information about something.
  • business card — A person's business card or their card is a small card which they give to other people, and which has their name and details of their job and company printed on it.
  • crocodile bird — an African courser, Pluvianus aegyptius, that lives close to rivers and is thought to feed on insects parasitic on crocodiles
  • ironing board — a flat, cloth-covered board or other surface, often foldable and having legs, on which clothing, linens, or similar articles are ironed.
  • national guard — state military forces, in part equipped, trained, and quartered by the U.S. government, and paid by the U.S. government, that become an active component of the army when called into federal service by the president in civil emergencies. Compare militia (def 2).
  • praetorian guard — the bodyguard of a military commander, especially the imperial guard stationed in Rome.
  • umbrella bird — any of several large trogons of the genus Cephalopterus, of Central and South America, as C. ornatus, having an umbrellalike crest above the head.
  • visiting card — calling card (def 1).

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • identity card — a card for identifying the bearer, giving name, address, and other personal data.
  • medical record — Details about a patient's previous medical experiences, such as operations and medications taken.
  • secretary bird — a large, long-legged, raptorial bird, Sagittarius serpentarius, of Africa, that feeds on reptiles.
  • security guard — a uniformed guard employed by a bank, airport, office building, etc., to maintain security.
  • umbilical cord — Anatomy. a cord or funicle connecting the embryo or fetus with the placenta of the mother and transporting nourishment from the mother and wastes from the fetus.
  • visually impaired — (of a person) having reduced vision so severe as to constitute a handicap.
  • yeoman of the guard — a member of the bodyguard of the English sovereign, instituted in 1485, which now consists of 100 men, including officers, having purely ceremonial duties.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • congressional record — (in the US) the government journal that publishes all proceedings of Congress
  • federal reserve board — a U.S. federal banking system that is under the control of a central board of governors (Federal Reserve Board) with a central bank (Federal Reserve Bank) in each of 12 districts and that has wide powers in controlling credit and the flow of money as well as in performing other functions, as regulating and supervising its member banks.
  • stockholder of record — a stockholder or his or her agent whose name is registered on the books of the issuing corporation at the close of a business day set for determining that stockholders shall receive dividends or vote on an issue.
  • theater of the absurd — theater in which standard or naturalistic conventions of plot, characterization, and thematic structure are ignored or distorted in order to convey the irrational or fictive nature of reality and the essential isolation of humanity in a meaningless world.
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