Rhymes for DAY-OF-RECKONING

• the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance

• the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill

• an event that happens

• the act of hearing attentively

• first or beginning

• an open or empty space in or between things

• a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise

• becoming open or being made open

• the first performance (as of a theatrical production)

• the act of opening something

• opportunity especially for employment or promotion

• the initial part of the introduction

• a possible alternative

• an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity

• a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made

• an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

• a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess

• the first of a series of actions

• signal with the hands or nod

• appear inviting

• summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture

• (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream

• of advancing the ball by running

• executed or initiated by running

• (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team

• the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace

• the state of being in operation

• the act of administering or being in charge of something

• the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track

• continually repeated over a period of time

• measured lengthwise

• (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• darkened by clouds

• thinking that is coherent and logical

• endowed with the capacity to reason

• something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts

• the act of adding a seasoning to food

• calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells and incantations

• a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

• attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

• marked by skill in deception

• showing inventiveness and skill

• the act of inspiring with fear

• causing fear or dread or terror

• a request for information

• perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)

• marked by or given to doubt

• showing curiosity

• the official symbols of a family, state, etc.

• decorate with heraldic arms

• For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.

• (animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth.

• To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.

• To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.

• decorate with colors

• decorate with heraldic arms

• extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle

• To cure bacon by salting.

• To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).

• To lash with ropes (on a ship).

• To deceive; to lie plausibly to.

• Rope lashings on the bowsprit of a boat.

• a fortified military post where troops are stationed

• United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (1805-1879)

• the troops who maintain and guard a fortified place

• station (troops) in a fort or garrison

• a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves)

• a colorless (or pale yellow or smoky) variety of zircon

• specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject

• To give a lesson to; to teach.

• Instruction; tuition

• (normally with a preposition) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons

• any long object resembling a thin line

• an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

• a long strip of inked material for making characters on paper with a typewriter

• notion consisting of a narrow strip of fine material used for trimming

• a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube

• a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled

• convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon

• a projection at the end of a piece of wood that is shaped to fit into a mortise and form a mortise joint

• undo the buttons of

• any of various kinds of wheeled vehicles drawn by an animal or a tractor

• a car that has a long body and rear door with space behind rear seat

• lewd or lascivious woman

• occurring without motivation or provocation

• casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior

• waste time; spend one's time idly or inefficiently

• indulge in a carefree or voluptuous way of life

• spend wastefully

• become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously

• engage in amorous play

• behave extremely cruelly and brutally

• commanding attention

• causing great astonishment and consternation

• causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility

• strikingly beautiful or attractive

• the act of waking

• changing to a darker color

• becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over

• loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss

• causing or able to cause nausea

• the act of drawing spatially closer to something

• arrival that has been awaited (especially of something momentous)

• the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

• the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

• of the relatively near future

• subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter

• performing or able to perform its regular function

• process or manner of functioning or operating