Rhymes for EROSIONS

• a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

• a general inclusive concept

• an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

• (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items

• a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)

• large but transportable armament

• a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)

• a professional killer who uses a gun

• a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine

• a pedal that controls the throttle valve

• the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies

• shoot with a gun

• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

• the prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process

• the set of circumstances that affect someone's welfare

• the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation

• a large number or amount

• all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

• a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it

• something you have to do

• edible viscera of a butchered animal

• mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

• a New Testament book containing an exposition of the doctrines of Saint Paul; written in AD 58

• (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary

• the bulb of an onion plant

• bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb

• an aromatic flavorful vegetable

• the act of vibrating

• a shaky motion

• (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

• a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively

• a medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage

• an instance of questioning

• the subject matter at issue

• a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply

• uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something

• a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote

• an informal reference to a marriage proposal

• challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of

• pose a series of questions to

• pose a question

• conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting

• place in doubt or express doubtful speculation

• the common people

• a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

• a pasture subject to common use

• a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank

• a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards

• a request to be present

• an order to appear in person at a given place and time

• a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant

• call in an official matter, such as to attend court

• smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies

• English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)

• the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders

• the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole

• a state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action

• erosion by chemical action

• a sudden inward collapse

• the initial occluded phase of a stop consonant

• the terminal forced release of pressure built up during the occlusive phase of a stop consonant

• engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883)

• a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm

• German electrical engineer (1816-1892)

• one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth

• dominance or power through legal authority

• a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

• a man who is the senior member of a group

• the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one

• a team that plays football

• being one more than ten

• divisible by two

• being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)

• the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

• used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected

• in spite of; notwithstanding

• to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons

• to the full extent

• equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced

• symmetrically arranged

• occurring at fixed intervals

• of the score in a contest

• make level or straight

• become even or more even

• make even or more even

• the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

• properties attributable to your ancestry

• the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)

• something done (usually as opposed to something said)

• the state of being active

• a military engagement

• a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)

• the series of events that form a plot

• the trait of being active and energetic and forceful

• the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism

• a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

• an act by a government body or supranational organization

• the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field

• In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).

• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

• put in effect

• a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere

• anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume

• an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah

• informal terms for money

• the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

• United States composer who promoted 20th century music (1896-1985)

• a large number or amount

• a line leading to a place or point

• the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves

• a general course along which something has a tendency to develop

• something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action

• the act of managing something

• a message describing how something is to be done

• the act of setting and holding a course

• a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something

• the concentration of attention or energy on something

• large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Leo

• the fifth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about July 23 to August 22

• a celebrity who is lionized (much sought after)

• any of various perennials of the genus Geum having usually pinnate basal leaves and variously colored flowers

• a dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland

• pungent Old World weedy plant

• the trait of lacking restraint or control; reckless freedom from inhibition or worry

• a feeling of extreme emotional intensity

• forsake, leave behind

• give up with the intent of never claiming again

• leave behind empty; move out of

• stop maintaining or insisting on; of ideas or claims

• leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch

• the region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis

• the cavity containing the major viscera; in mammals it is separated from the thorax by the diaphragm

• surgical removal of a body part or tissue

• the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers