17K+ Words That Rhyme With DEFROCKING

• the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes

• the act of locking something up to protect it

• hosiery consisting of a cloth covering for the foot; worn inside the shoe; reaches to between the ankle and the knee

• a truncated cloth cone mounted on a mast; used (e.g., at airports) to show the direction of the wind

• hit hard

• open the lock of

• set free or release

• become unlocked

• any of several white wines from the Rhine River valley in Germany (`hock' is British usage)

• tarsal joint of the hind leg of hoofed mammals; corresponds to the human ankle

• leave as a guarantee in return for money

• disable by cutting the hock

• contact by fitting together

• the act of interlocking or meshing

• linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing

• embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches

• To remove from status as a member of a clergy; to unfrock.

• European butterfly having reddish-brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot

• male peafowl; having a crested head and very large fanlike tail marked with iridescent eyes or spots

• To lock again.

• a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter

• United States gynecologist and devout Catholic who conducted the first clinical trials of the oral contraceptive pill (1890-1984)

• material consisting of the aggregate of minerals like those making up the Earth's crust

• (figurative) someone who is strong and stable and dependable

• hard bright-colored stick candy (typically flavored with peppermint)

• a genre of popular music originating in the 1950s; a blend of black rhythm-and-blues with white country-and-western

• pitching dangerously to one side

• move back and forth or sideways

• cause to move back and forth

• clear or remove an obstruction from

• play the cards of (a suit) so that the last trick on which a hand can follow suit will be taken by a higher card in the hand of a partner who has the remaining cards of a combined holding

• make (assets) available

• move out of a dock

• take (a ship) out of a dock

• divest of the frock; of church officials

• To understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually.

• To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies.

• the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements

• the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing)

• abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule

• playfully vexing (especially by ridicule)

• glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism

• giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation

• a very strong lager traditionally brewed in the fall and aged through the winter for consumption in the spring

• weathervane with a vane in the form of a rooster

• close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural)

• the activity of supplying a stock of something

• suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines

• locking automatically when closed

• the state or fact of existing

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

• take something or somebody with oneself somewhere

• cause to come into a particular state or condition

• cause to happen or to occur as a consequence

• go or come after and bring or take back

• bring into a different state

• be accompanied by

• advance or set forth in court

• bestow a quality on

• be sold for a certain price

• attract the attention of

• induce or persuade

• 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

• the act of acquiring something