Rhymes for CONSORTIUMS

• the act of inducing hypnosis

• newspapers and magazines collectively

• the profession of reporting or photographing or editing news stories for one of the media

• division of a group into opposing factions

• the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences

• a painful and involuntary muscular contraction

• (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood vessel)

• a feeling of excitement

• overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval

• a lively interest

• the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element

• a tank or pool or bowl filled with water for keeping live fish and underwater animals

• the area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits

• athletic facility equipped for sports or physical training

• a school for students intermediate between elementary school and college; usually grades 9 to 12

• a meeting or conference for the public discussion of some topic especially one in which the participants form an audience and make presentations

• a formal expression of praise

• A central room or space in ancient Roman homes, open to the sky in the middle; a similar space in other buildings.

• A square hall lit by daylight from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels.

• A cavity, entrance, or passage.

• Any enclosed sexine and nexine layers, widening toward the interior of the grain.

• a collection of dried plants that are mounted and systematically classified for study

• a legally authorized postponement before some obligation must be discharged

• suspension of an ongoing activity

• an economic system based on private ownership of capital

• a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment

• hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists

• patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable

• the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects)

• strictness and austerity in conduct and religion

• a system that is part of some larger system

• instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity

• a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

• (physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium

• a complex of methods or rules governing behavior

• an organized structure for arranging or classifying

• a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts

• a procedure or process for obtaining an objective

• the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole

• an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized

• something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred

• an artifact that belongs to another time

• a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age

• a state of deep-seated ill-will

• the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors

• an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility

• (biochemistry) interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure

• a short pithy instructive saying

• a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth

• reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts

• the period of greatest prosperity or productivity

• produce or yield flowers

• develop or come to a promising stage

• a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership

• a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society

• disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings

• a serious examination and judgment of something

• a written evaluation of a work of literature

• the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

• an insertion into a calendar

• occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle)

• an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh

• freeing from evil spirits

• a common white or colorless mineral (hydrated calcium sulphate) used to make cements and plasters (especially plaster of Paris)

• a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

• a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution

• an economic theory advocating free competition and a self-regulating market

• a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual

• an art style in late 16th century Europe characterized by spatial incongruity and excessive elongation of the human figures.

• a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

• a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits

• English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)

• the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction

• the technical aspects of doing something

• a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes

• device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function

• a written proposal or reminder

• the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals

• the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life

• the religious beliefs and practices of Methodists characterized by concern with social welfare and public morals

• The lowest limit.

• The smallest amount.

• A period of minimum brightness or energy intensity (of a star).

• A lower bound of a set which is also an element of that set.

• The smallest member of a batch or sample or the lower bound of a probability distribution.

• a depository for collecting and displaying objects having scientific or historical or artistic value

• a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently

• a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body

• nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America

• small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails

• a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms

• optical device having a triangular shape and made of glass or quartz; used to deviate a beam or invert an image

• money demanded for the return of a captured person

• payment for the release of someone

• the act of freeing from captivity or punishment

• exchange or buy back for money; under threat

• the domain ruled by a sheik

• a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams

• a window above a door that is usually hinged to a horizontal crosspiece over the door

• a horizontal crosspiece across a window or separating a door from a window over it