3K+ Words That Rhyme With EXPLANTATIONS

• (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

• artwork that helps make something clear or attractive

• showing by example

• an item of information that is typical of a class or group

• a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used to make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand

• the act of making and recording a measurement

• the act of observing; taking a patient look

• a remark expressing careful consideration

• facts learned by observing

• the act of noticing or paying attention

• surgical removal of a body part or tissue

• the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers

• a formal charge of wrongdoing brought against a person; the act of imputing blame or guilt

• an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence

• a feeling of profound love and admiration

• the act of admiring strongly

• the worship given to God alone

• the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand

• a sketchy or imperfect or faint representation

• a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

• the result of adding an affix to a root word

• formation of a word by means of an affix

• the act of attaching or affixing something

• an exasperated feeling of annoyance

• unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment

• action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse

• line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family

• an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another

• the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)

• the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)

• the condition of living or the state of being alive

• the property of being able to survive and grow

• quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous

• the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something

• the making of animated cartoons

• general activity and motion

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

• a geographical indication used to identify where the grapes for a wine are grown

• (law) the hearing and determination of a dispute by an impartial referee agreed to by both parties (often used to settle disputes between labor and management)

• the act of deciding as an arbiter; giving authoritative judgment

• an auxiliary activity

• the act of damning

• the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell

• a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

• a downward slope or bend

• (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere

• a polite refusal of an invitation

• a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions

• an abusive attack on a person's character or good name

• a change for the worse

• alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it

• the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)

• taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality

• a group of representatives or delegates

• authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions

• the act of indicating or pointing out by name

• the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to

• an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding

• (usually plural) a destructive action

• the state of being decayed or destroyed

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere

• sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned

• an event that results in total destruction

• a state in which all hope is lost or absent

• desperate recklessness

• loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales

• the state of being decayed or destroyed

• the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed

• an event that results in total destruction

• plundering with excessive damage and destruction

• the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists

• a lengthy discussion (spoken or written) on a particular topic

• the act of expanding an aperture

• the formal presentation of a stated proposition and the opposition to it (usually followed by a vote)

• a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement

• successful conjecture by unusual insight or good luck

• a prediction uttered under divine inspiration

• the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means

• the period of time during which something continues

• the property of enduring or continuing in time

• continuance in time

• the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

• the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979

• knowledge acquired by learning and instruction

• the gradual process of acquiring knowledge

• the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)

• the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

• the event of something being raised upward

• the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development

• angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

• a raised or elevated geological formation

• distance of something above a reference point (such as sea level)

• (ballet) the height of a dancer's leap or jump

• drawing of an exterior of a structure

• the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something

• the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft

• ambition to equal or excel

• (computer science) technique of one machine obtaining the same results as another

• effort to equal or surpass another

• loss of hair; the result of removing hair

• the act of removing hair (as from an animal skin)

• the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements

• an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy

• (zoology) cessation or slowing of activity during the summer; especially slowing of metabolism in some animals during a hot or dry period

• (botany) the arrangement of sepals and petals in a flower bud before it opens

• a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

• the location of a planet in the zodiac at which it is believed to exert its maximum influence

• a flock of larks (especially a flock of larks in flight overhead)

• the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god)

• a defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.

• the act of freeing from guilt or blame

• the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc.

• a detailed explanation of the meaning of something

• commodities (goods or services) sold to a foreign country

• the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country