Rhymes for FINNAN-HADDOCK

• lean white flesh of fish similar to but smaller than cod; usually baked or poached or as fillets sauteed or fried

• important food fish on both sides of the Atlantic; related to cod but usually smaller

• southeastern Asian tree producing large fruits resembling grapefruits

• large pear-shaped fruit similar to grapefruit but with coarse dry pulp

• a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

• a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch

• an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion

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

• an inclination or liking for things involving conflict or difficulty or unpleasantness

• an appetite for food

• bear to eat

• put up with something or somebody unpleasant

• a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

• (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded

• a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages

• communicating without apparent physical signals

• a small natural hill

• a hanging bed of canvas or rope netting (usually suspended between two trees); swings easily

• 100 kopecks equal 1 ruble in Russia

• young bull

• castrated bull

• either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump

• marine bivalve that bores into rock or clay or wood by means of saw-like shells

• appearing in a biblical canon

• of or relating to or required by canon law

• reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality

• conforming to orthodox or recognized rules

• a family of Afroasiatic tonal languages (mostly two tones) spoken in the regions west and south of Lake Chad in north central Africa

• of or relating to the practice of homeopathy

• (of diseases) arising from an unknown cause

• not nomadic or wandering

• not recurring at regular intervals

• of or relating to osmosis

• a building or group of buildings used to house military personnel

• lodge in barracks

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• laugh at with contempt and derision

• violent and needless disturbance

• ludicrously odd

• extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers

• fanciful and unrealistic; foolish

• existing in fancy only

• extravagantly fanciful in design, construction, appearance

• any art that invokes supernatural powers

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• possessing or using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers

• an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner

• any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds

• musical activity (singing or whistling etc.)

• (music) the sounds produced by singers or musical instruments (or reproductions of such sounds)

• punishment for one's actions

• an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)

• (British slang) a prison

• a small cut

• cut slightly, with a razor

• cut a nick into

• divide or reset the tail muscles of

• mate successfully; of livestock

• the person or thing chosen or selected

• the quantity of a crop that is harvested

• the best people or things in a group

• the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving

• a small thin device (of metal or plastic or ivory) used to pluck a stringed instrument

• a thin sharp implement used for removing unwanted material

• a heavy iron tool with a wooden handle and a curved head that is pointed on both ends

• a basketball maneuver; obstructing an opponent with one's body

• the act of choosing or selecting

• select carefully from a group

• look for and gather

• harass with constant criticism

• provoke

• remove in small bits

• remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits

• pilfer or rob

• pay for something

• pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion

• attack with or as if with a pickaxe of ice or rocky ground, for example

• hit lightly with a picking motion

• eat intermittently; take small bites of

• not private; open to or concerning the people as a whole

• people in general considered as a whole

• a body of people sharing some common interest

• affecting the people or community as a whole

• any area of the body that is highly sensitive to pain (as the flesh underneath the skin or a fingernail or toenail)

• with little or no delay

• accomplished rapidly and without delay

• hurried and brief

• moving quickly and lightly

• apprehending and responding with speed and sensitivity

• performed with little or no delay

• easily aroused or excited

• affected by an impairment of normal physical or mental function

• people who are sick

• feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit

• affected with madness or insanity

• having a strong distaste from surfeit

• (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble

• deeply affected by a strong feeling

• shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

• eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth

• an implement consisting of a length of wood

• a small thin branch of a tree

• a lever used by a pilot to control the ailerons and elevators of an airplane

• a rectangular quarter pound block of butter or margarine

• informal terms for the leg

• a long implement (usually made of wood) that is shaped so that hockey or polo players can hit a puck or ball

• a long thin implement resembling a length of wood

• marijuana leaves rolled into a cigarette for smoking

• threat of a penalty

• put, fix, force, or implant

• stay put (in a certain place)

• stick to firmly

• be or become fixed

• endure

• be a devoted follower or supporter

• be loyal to

• cover and decorate with objects that pierce the surface

• fasten with an adhesive material like glue

• fasten with or as with pins or nails

• fasten into place by fixing an end or point into something

• pierce with a thrust using a pointed instrument

• pierce or penetrate or puncture with something pointed

• come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation

• saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• a cunning or deceitful action or device

• a period of work or duty

• an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent

• a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• a prostitute's customer

• (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner

• deceive somebody

• Of, pertaining to or using biometrics.

• a member of a Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia

• lean white flesh of North Atlantic fish; similar to codfish

• United States filmmaker (born in 1934)

• important food and game fish of northern seas (especially the northern Atlantic); related to cod

• a solid piece of something (usually having flat rectangular sides)

• a rectangular area in a city surrounded by streets and usually containing several buildings

• a three-dimensional shape with six square or rectangular sides

• a number or quantity of related things dealt with as a unit

• housing in a large building that is divided into separate units

• (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted

• an inability to remember or think of something you normally can do; often caused by emotional tension

• a simple machine consisting of a wheel with a groove in which a rope can run to change the direction or point of application of a force applied to the rope

• a metal casting containing the cylinders and cooling ducts of an engine

• an obstruction in a pipe or tube

• a platform from which an auctioneer sells

• the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements

• render unsuitable for passage

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• stop from happening or developing

• interfere with or prevent the reception of signals

• run on a block system

• interrupt the normal function of by means of anesthesia

• shut out from view or get in the way so as to hide from sight

• stamp or emboss a title or design on a book with a block

• obstruct

• block passage through

• support, secure, or raise with a block

• impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball)

• be unable to remember

• shape by using a block

• shape into a block or blocks

• prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)

• a black garment reaching down to the ankles; worn by priests or choristers

• a timepiece that shows the time of day

• measure the time or duration of an event or action or the person who performs an action in a certain period of time

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

• negative criticism

• a vigorous blow

• a bad experience

• the act of hitting vigorously

• deliver a sharp blow or push

• rap with the knuckles

• knock against with force or violence

• make light, repeated taps on a surface

• sound like a car engine that is firing too early

• find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws

• a fastener fitted to a door or drawer to keep it firmly closed

• a strand or cluster of hair

• a mechanism that detonates the charge of a gun

• enclosure consisting of a section of canal that can be closed to control the water level; used to raise or lower vessels that pass through it

• a restraint incorporated into the ignition switch to prevent the use of a vehicle by persons who do not have the key

• any wrestling hold in which some part of the opponent's body is twisted or pressured

• fasten with a lock

• keep engaged

• become rigid or immoveable

• hold in a locking position

• become engaged or intermeshed with one another

• hold fast (in a certain state)

• place in a place where something cannot be removed or someone cannot escape

• pass by means through a lock in a waterway

• build locks in order to facilitate the navigation of vessels

• 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

• A small two-masted, and later three-masted, Mediterranean transport ship with an overhanging bow and stern.

• a small natural hill