300+ Words That Rhyme With DEFENSATIVES

• aspect with regard to the beginning of the action of the verb

• in an initial stage

• serving as or indicating the subject of a verb and words identified with the subject of a copular verb

• the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb

• named; bearing the name of a specific person

• appointed by nomination

• a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels

• strongly laxative

• actually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing

• exerting force or containing energy

• possessing life

• not recorded

• highly reverberant

• charged with an explosive

• elastic; rebounds readily

• abounding with life and energy

• in current use or ready for use

• of current relevance

• charged or energized with electricity

• capable of erupting

• be an inhabitant of or reside in

• lead a certain kind of life; live in a certain style

• continue to live and avoid dying

• support oneself

• have life, be alive

• have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations

• pursue a positive and satisfying existence

• edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle

• a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point

• any long thin projection that is transient

• use a knife on

• take (someone) as a wife

• marry a woman, take a wife

• provide with a wife; marry (someone) to a wife

• collection of records especially about an institution

• a game resembling handball; played on a court with a front wall and two side walls

• an itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs

• a cheap disreputable nightclub or dance hall

• a headlong plunge into water

• a steep nose-down descent by an aircraft

• drop steeply

• plunge into water

• swim under water

• small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil

• evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits

• hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork

• one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish

• a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation

• of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

• tending to become more severe or wider in scope

• disposed to take action or effectuate change

• characterized by energetic activity

• exerting influence or producing a change or effect

• full of activity or engaged in continuous activity

• (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions

• expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor:

• (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

• (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting

• (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt

• engaged in full-time work

• chemical agent capable of activity

• the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb

• a person who is a participating member of an organization

• engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

• taking part in an activity

• in operation

• clearly defined or formulated

• of recognized authority or excellence

• supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement

• someone who flees from an uncongenial situation

• someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice

• lasting for a markedly brief time

• (in Latin grammar) a verbal adjective that describes obligation or necessity, equivalent in form to the future passive participle.

• (less commonly, in English grammar) a verbal adjective ending in -ing , also called a "present participle".

• having abnormally low blood pressure

• a person who has abnormally low blood pressure

• the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb

• A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein.

• a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition

• tending or having the power to preserve

• concerned with or related to the past

• an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work

• jump from an airplane and perform various maneuvers before opening one's parachute

• perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning

• cylindrical leaves used fresh as a mild onion-flavored seasoning

• relating to the ablative case

• the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb

• tending to ablate; i.e. to be removed or vaporized at very high temperature

• a substance that abrades or wears down

• causing abrasion

• sharply disagreeable; rigorous

• serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes

• the case of nouns serving as the direct object of a verb

• containing or expressing accusation

• designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree

• characterized or produced by addition

• something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine

• tending to adhere

• a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together

• of or relating to or functioning as an adjective

• relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law

• a word that expresses an attribute of something

• the word class that qualifies nouns

• affirming or giving assent

• a reply of affirmation

• expecting the best

• expressing or manifesting praise or approval

• a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy')

• A woman who keeps an alehouse.

• A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.

• Any of several species similar in appearance.

• one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

• serving or used in place of another

• necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities

• pertaining to unconventional choices

• any medicine used to suppress or relieve coughing

• pertaining to or dealing with or used as a common noun

• identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others

• inclined to or serving for the giving of names

• (grammar) a word or phrase that is in apposition

• reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

• succeed in a big way; get to the top

• of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify