1K+ Words That Rhyme With DEFENDANTS

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

• a person who is present and participates in a meeting

• an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another

• being present (at a meeting or event, etc.)

• occurring with or following as a consequence

• relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed

• (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence

• a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)

• contingent on something else

• held from above and hanging down

• being under the power or sovereignty of another or others

• addicted to a drug

• a person considered as descended from some ancestor

• going or coming down

• proceeding by descent from an ancestor

• free from external control and constraint

• (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

• a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

• not controlled by a party or interest group

• a person who directs and manages an organization

• a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector

• the official who holds an office

• lying or leaning on something else

• necessary (for someone) as a duty or responsibility; morally binding

• currently holding an office

• the codefendant (especially in a divorce proceeding) who is accused of adultery with the corespondent

• someone who responds

• replying

• a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality

• the result of improving something

• the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.)

• a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

• the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste

• someone who communicates by means of letters

• a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media

• similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar

• the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

• the act of governing; exercising authority

• (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed

• the study of government of states and other political units

• people who lived in times long past (especially during the historical period before the fall of the Roman Empire in western Europe)

• an executive officer of a firm or corporation

• the person who holds the office of head of state of the United States government

• the office of the United States head of state

• the chief executive of a republic

• the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

• the head administrative officer of a college or university

• living in a particular place

• used of animals that do not migrate

• someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

• a physician (especially an intern) who lives in a hospital and cares for hospitalized patients under the supervision of the medical staff of the hospital

• preceding in time or order

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• a preceding occurrence or cause or event

• anything that precedes something similar in time

• the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun

• someone who maintains and audits business accounts

• A band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants.

• A morpheme occurring as an affix to a root or stem, forming an extended root or stem.

• a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

• a person who supplies information

• someone who sees an event and reports what happened

• a substance that oxidizes another substance

• a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists

• a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

• someone who lives at a particular place for a prolonged period or who was born there

• a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

• continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another

• an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

• the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines

• (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac

• the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other

• a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment

• a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)

• the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another

• the act of distributing something to designated places or persons

• (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

• an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

• the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

• a chemical that is sprayed on plants and causes their leaves to fall off

• an event that departs from expectations

• (biology) a group of organisms within a species that differ in trivial ways from similar groups

• a variable quantity that is random

• something a little different from others of the same type

• differing from a norm or standard

• exhibiting variation and change

• position or state of being dominant or in control

• someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

• tending or directed upward

• most powerful or important or influential

• the act of giving something up

• withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility

• the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away

• the totality of surrounding conditions

• the area in which something exists or lives

• temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration

• being or existing in a specified place

• the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech

• something presented as a gift

• a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking

• give an exhibition of to an interested audience

• bring forward and present to the mind

• perform (a play), especially on a stage

• hand over formally

• offer for others to consider

• give, especially as an honor or reward

• give as a present; make a gift of

• deliver (a speech, oration, or idea)

• cause to come to know personally

• represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture

• present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize

• formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc.

• recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position

• limbless scaly elongate reptile; some are venomous

• a firework that moves in serpentine manner when ignited

• an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake

• an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease

• preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms

• a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

• substance that inhibits oxidation or inhibits reactions promoted by oxygen or peroxides

• Anything, such as a drug, that causes convulsions

• large voracious dark-colored long-necked seabird with a distensible pouch for holding fish; used in Asia to catch fish

• a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

• a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water

• a chemical substance that repels animals

• the power to repel

• serving or tending to repel

• highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust

• incapable of absorbing or mixing with

• an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury

• anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause

• tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue

• a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals

• sour or bitter in taste

• a person who has fallen into a decadent state (morally or artistically)

• luxuriously self-indulgent

• marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay

• someone who is no longer alive

• a person who dissents from some established policy

• characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards

• disagreeing, especially with a majority

• falling or striking of light rays on something

• (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence

• a single distinct event

• a public disturbance

• time during which some action is awaited

• act of putting off to a future time

• assignment to a different duty

• relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

• a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution

• someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs