Rhymes for COME-SHORT

• someone who escorts and protects a prominent person

• the act of accompanying someone or something in order to protect them

• an attendant who is employed to accompany someone

• a participant in a date

• accompany as an escort

• conduct someone someplace

• a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country

• sweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal

• an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through

• the left side of a ship or aircraft to someone who is aboard and facing the bow or nose

• (computer science) computer circuit consisting of the hardware and associated circuitry that links one device with another (especially a computer and a hard disk drive or other peripherals)

• located on the left side of a ship or aircraft

• put or turn on the left side, of a ship

• bring to port

• land at or reach a port

• turn or go to the port or left side, of a ship

• carry, bear, convey, or bring

• carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons

• drink port

• modify (software) for use on a different machine or platform

• an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

• the occupation of athletes who compete for pay

• (Maine colloquial) a temporary summer resident of Maine

• a person known for the way she (or he) behaves when teased or defeated or subjected to trying circumstances

• someone who engages in sports

• (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

• verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously)

• wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner

• play boisterously

• a written document describing the findings of some individual or group

• the act of informing by verbal report

• a short account of the news

• a sharp explosive sound (especially the sound of a gun firing)

• a written evaluation of a student's scholarship and deportment

• an essay (especially one written as an assignment)

• the general estimation that the public has for a person

• to give an account or representation of in words

• announce as the result of an investigation or experience or finding

• announce one's presence

• make known to the authorities

• be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism

• complain about; make a charge against

• the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities

• aiding the cause or policy or interests of

• something providing immaterial assistance to a person or cause or interest

• a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission

• documentary validation

• the financial means whereby one lives

• supporting structure that holds up or provides a foundation

• the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

• a musical part (vocal or instrumental) that supports or provides background for other musical parts

• any device that bears the weight of another thing

• financial resources provided to make some project possible

• give moral or psychological support, aid, or courage to

• support materially or financially

• be behind; approve of

• be the physical support of; carry the weight of

• establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

• adopt as a belief

• support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm

• argue or speak in defense of

• play a subordinate role to (another performer)

• be a regular customer or client of

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant

• an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

• Australian woman tennis player who won many major championships (born in 1947)

• a room in which a law court sits

• the sovereign and his advisers who are the governing power of a state

• a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played

• the family and retinue of a sovereign or prince

• a hotel for motorists; provides direct access from rooms to parking area

• the residence of a sovereign or nobleman

• an area wholly or partly surrounded by walls or buildings

• respectful deference

• make amorous advances towards

• seek someone's favor

• engage in social activities leading to marriage

• the husband or wife of a reigning monarch

• a family of similar musical instrument playing together

• keep company with; hang out with

• go together

• keep company

• primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration

• (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length

• low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal

• (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range

• not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices

• of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration

• the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

• accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

• the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base

• clean across

• without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold

• at some point or distance before a goal is reached

• so as to interrupt

• at a disadvantage

• in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner

• quickly and without warning

• of insufficient quantity to meet a need

• less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so

• lacking foresight or scope

• tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening

• marked by rude or peremptory shortness

• cheat someone by not returning him enough money

• create a short circuit in

• a disrespectful laugh

• a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

• indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose

• make a snorting sound by exhaling hard

• inhale recreational drugs

• inhale through the nose

• Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.

• A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.

• The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.

• A variety of dummy whist for three players.

• The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.

• A great quantity or number.

• A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.

• A three-year-old salmon.

• A woman; a female.

• the act of terminating a project or procedure before it is completed

• terminate before completion

• cease development, die, and be aborted

• terminate a pregnancy by undergoing an abortion

• a fortified military post where troops are stationed

• a fortified defensive structure

• gather in, or as if in, a fort, as for protection or defense

• enclose by or as if by a fortification

• station (troops) in a fort

• commodities (goods or services) bought from a foreign country

• an imported person brought from a foreign country

• the message that is intended or expressed or signified

• a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred

• having important effects or influence

• bring in from abroad

• transfer (electronic data) into a database or document

• indicate or signify

• a hotel located in a resort area

• a frequently visited place

• something or someone turned to for assistance or security

• act of turning to for assistance

• have recourse to

• move, travel, or proceed toward some place

• something that serves as a means of transportation

• an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

• the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

• a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

• a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

• the act of moving something from one location to another

• move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

• move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body

• hold spellbound

• transport commercially

• send from one person or place to another

• a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat

• hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of

• an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo

• play boisterously

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• force or impel in an indicated direction

• (usually in plural) A fragment; a scrap of leftover food; any remainder; a piece of refuse.

• To turn away from with disgust; refuse.

• behave in a certain manner

• hand over to the authorities of another country

• expel from a country

• make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story

• form into a spiral shape

• twist and press out of shape

• affect as in thought or feeling

• alter the shape of (something) by stress

• obtain through intimidation

• obtain by coercion or intimidation

• get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner

• transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another

• rich cake usually covered with cream and fruit or nuts; originated in Austria

• any authorization to pass or go somewhere

• a document issued by a country to a citizen allowing that person to travel abroad and re-enter the home country

• any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission

• a United States liquid unit equal to 32 fluid ounces; four quarts equal one gallon

• a British imperial capacity measure (liquid or dry) equal to 2 pints or 1.136 liters

• a United States dry unit equal to 2 pints or 67.2 cubic inches

• any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals)

• an imperfection in someone or something that is suggestive of a wart (especially in smallness or unattractiveness)

• (pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus

• keep company with; hang out with

• arrange or order by classes or categories

• behave well or properly

• behave in a certain manner

• twist and press out of shape

• (law) any wrongdoing for which an action for damages may be brought

• Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond.

• a small decorative writing desk

• a city in eastern Iowa on the Mississippi River across from Moline and Rock Island

• a large sofa usually convertible into a bed

• the intended meaning of a communication

• the pervading meaning or tenor

• have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming

• propose or intend

• a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)

• a vessel where substances are distilled or decomposed by heat

• answer back

• at right angles to the center line of a ship

• at an oblique angle

• naturally having skin of a dark color

• Poor-quality diamond, used for industrial cutting or abrasion; a poorly crystallized diamond.

• To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of.

• A false report.

• garage for one or two cars consisting of a flat roof supported on poles

• a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo

• A site for launching spacecraft.

• To report a number falsely, making it smaller than it ought to be, especially to do so intentionally

• As a group, to report something less frequently than it actually occurs

• (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) indicating that said piece or segment should be played loudly

• an asset of special worth or utility

• a musical composition or musical passage to be performed loudly

• the stronger part of a sword blade between the hilt and the foible

• used as a direction in music; to be played relatively loudly

• Export of a (recently) imported good (often not or hardly reworked)

• To export again; to export something that has been imported

• a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain

• a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment

• the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction

• a freedom from financial difficulty that promotes a comfortable state

• satisfaction or physical well-being provided by a person or thing

• bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

• assistance, such as that provided to an enemy or to a known criminal

• give moral or emotional strength to

• lessen pain or discomfort; alleviate

• earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

• use of physical or mental energy; hard work

• a notable achievement

• a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end