200+ Words That Rhyme With FORMATIVES

• the category of nouns serving as the indirect object of a verb

• the aspect of a verb that expresses its duration

• (grammar) a word or phrase that expresses an inference (such as for or therefore)

• An illation

• (grammar) the illative case, or a word in that case

• (grammar) A construct asserting that a subject has a particular property.

• a verb form that serves to express frequent repetition of an action

• relating to a legislature or composed of members of a legislature

• of or relating to or created by legislation

• a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech

• 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

• a positive motivational influence

• an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output

• a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

• consisting of or characterized by the telling of a story

• 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

• estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete

• a person related by blood or marriage

• an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

• properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'

• a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person

• tending to soothe or tranquilize

• 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

• requiring attention or action

• relating to verbs in the imperative mood

• a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior

• some duty that is essential and urgent

• a verb in the imperative mood.

• being in force or having or exerting force

• relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine

• a person secretly employed in espionage for a government

• someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations

• effective; producing a desired effect

• (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

• 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

• 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

• 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

• having a defect

• markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior

• not working properly

• intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack

• an attitude of defensiveness

• attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing

• someone suffering psychological depression

• a police officer who investigates crimes

• an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public

• relating to or having the power to cause or promote digestion

• any substance that promotes digestion

• a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity

• showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on

• A disjunction.

• (grammar) A disjunct.

• A gift; a largess; a gratuity.

• (ecclesiastical law) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders.

• A soldier fit for duty

• A nonpulmonic consonant formed by squeezing air trapped between the glottis and an articulator further forward, and releasing it suddenly.

• subject to popular election

• a course that the student can select from among alternatives

• optional

• The ergative case.

• An ergative verb or other expression.

• producing or characterized by eruptions

• produced by the action of fire or intense heat

• actively spewing out lava