9K+ Words That Rhyme With GROSSES

• any competition

• a contest of speed

• people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock

• (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species

• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

• a canal for a current of water

• move hurridly

• compete in a race

• to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others

• cause to move fast or to rush or race

• something lost (especially money lost at gambling)

• (Greek mythology) one of three sisters who were the givers of beauty and charm; a favorite subject for sculptors

• (Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who is under such divine influence

• elegance and beauty of movement or expression

• a sense of propriety and consideration for others

• a disposition to kindness and compassion

• a period of time past the deadline for fulfilling an obligation during which a penalty that would be imposed for being late is waived, especially an extended period granted as a special favor

• a short prayer of thanks before a meal

• (Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God

• make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

• be beautiful to look at

• a roll of hair brushed back from the forehead

• the butt of a marijuana cigarette

• street names for flunitrazepam

• any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

• European freshwater food fish having a greenish back

• comb (hair) into a roach

• cut the mane off (a horse)

• an appliance that corrects dental irregularities

• a meeting of elected or appointed representatives

• the legislature of the United States government

• a national legislative assembly

• the social act of assembling for some common purpose

• an abundance of material possessions and resources

• an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off

• a depression scratched or carved into a surface

• informal terms for money

• a competitor who has withdrawn from competition

• a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game

• dry mash for poultry

• a harsh noise made by scraping

• poor handwriting

• (golf) a handicap of zero strokes

• an indication of damage

• cause friction

• cut the surface of; wear away the surface of

• scrape or rub as if to relieve itching

• postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled

• remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line

• gather (money or other resources) together over time

• carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

• (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

• a harmful or corrupting agency

• a software program capable of reproducing itself and usually capable of causing great harm to files or other programs on the same computer

• flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil

• popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet

• hunt grouse

• complain

• (figurative) something that hinders or handicaps

• large web-footed birds of the Southern Hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight

• plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals

• muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye

• diaphragm consisting of thin overlapping plates that can be adjusted to change the diameter of a central opening

• either of two large northern marine mammals having ivory tusks and tough hide over thick blubber

• (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision

• An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.

• A competition in the answering of questions.

• A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

• To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

• To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

• To question closely, to interrogate.

• To instruct by means of a quiz.

• To play with a quiz.

• ideas or actions intended to deal with a problem or situation

• the act of drawing spatially closer to something

• a way of entering or leaving

• the final path followed by an aircraft as it is landing

• the event of one object coming closer to another

• a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others

• the temporal property of becoming nearer in time

• a close approximation

• a relatively short golf shot intended to put the ball onto the putting green

• move towards

• come near or verge on, resemble, come nearer in quality, or character

• begin to deal with

• come near in time

• make advances to someone, usually with a proposal or suggestion

• an alloy of copper and zinc

• a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece

• the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something

• impudent aggressiveness

• an ornament or utensil made of brass

• the section of a band or orchestra that plays brass instruments

• a memorial made of brass

• a decorative pin worn by women

• bring up a topic for discussion

• advance beyond the usual limit

• impinge or infringe upon

• a small outbuilding with a bench having holes through which a user can defecate

• grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished

• English lyricist who frequently worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber (born in 1944)

• United States playwright (1892-1967)

• annual or perennial rhizomatous marsh grasses; seed used for food; straw used for paper

• sieve so that it becomes the consistency of rice

• any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

• pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began

• a dusty pink color

• of something having a dusty purplish pink color

• (medicine) a bandage consisting of a pad and belt; worn to hold a hernia in place by pressure

• a framework of beams (rafters, posts, struts) forming a rigid structure that supports a roof or bridge or other structure

• (architecture) a triangular bracket of brick or stone (usually of slight extent)

• tie the wings and legs of a bird before cooking it

• secure with or as if with ropes

• support structurally

• a person who exercises control over workers

• a person responsible for hiring workers

• a person who exercises control and makes decisions

• a leader in a political party who controls votes and dictates appointments

• a circular rounded projection or protuberance

• exceptionally good

• raise in a relief

• a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse

• informal term of address for someone's wife

• a female actor

• (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored

• the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with

• the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience

• the manner of speaking to another individual

• a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described

• written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location

• the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball

• the ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion

• speak to

• give a speech to

• put an address on (an envelope)

• direct a question at someone

• address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question

• greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name

• access or locate by address

• act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression

• speak to someone

• adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting

• a failure to perform some promised act or obligation

• an opening (especially a gap in a dike or fortification)

• a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises

• make an opening or gap in

• a slight wind (usually refreshing)

• any undertaking that is easy to do

• blow gently and lightly

• to proceed quickly and easily

• lose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention or course of argument in writing, thinking, or speaking

• wander from a direct or straight course

• psychological suffering

• a state of adversity (danger or affliction or need)

• extreme physical pain

• the seizure and holding of property as security for payment of a debt or satisfaction of a claim

• bring into difficulties or distress, especially financial hardship

• cause mental pain to

• a one-piece garment for a woman; has skirt and bodice

• clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion

• clothing in general

• suitable for formal occasions

• (of an occasion) requiring formal clothes

• put on clothes

• provide with clothes or put clothes on

• put a finish on

• dress in a certain manner

• dress or groom with elaborate care

• kill and prepare for market or consumption

• arrange in ranks

• decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods

• provide with decoration

• put a dressing on

• cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

• cut down rough-hewn (lumber) to standard thickness and width

• convert into leather

• apply a bandage or medication to

• give a neat appearance to

• arrange attractively

• cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious

• hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of

• the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)

• the state of taking in or encircling

• a close affectionate and protective acceptance

• include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory

• hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness

• take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

• make better or improve in quality

• make wealthy or richer

• remove from memory or existence

• remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing

• wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information

• a powerful effect or influence

• (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity

• physical energy or intensity

• group of people willing to obey orders

• a unit that is part of some military service

• an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists)

• one possessing or exercising power or influence or authority

• a group of people having the power of effective action

• (of a law) having legal validity

• a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• urge or force (a person) to an action; constrain or motivate

• move with force

• impose urgently, importunately, or inexorably

• squeeze like a wedge into a tight space

• force into or from an action or state, either physically or metaphorically

• do forcibly; exert force

• take by force

• a fortified defensive structure

• the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid

• weather cold enough to cause freezing

• an interruption or temporary suspension of progress or movement

• fixing (of prices or wages etc) at a particular level

• stop moving or become immobilized

• change to ice

• be cold

• cause to freeze

• stop a process or a habit by imposing a freeze on it

• be very cold, below the freezing point

• change from a liquid to a solid when cold

• prohibit the conversion or use of (assets)

• anesthetize by cold

• suddenly behave coldly and formally

• an architectural ornament consisting of a horizontal sculptured band between the architrave and the cornice

• a heavy woolen fabric with a long nap

• German writer of novels and poetry and plays (born 1927)

• narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns; used as pasture for grazing animals; cut and dried as hay

• a police informer who implicates many people

• bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

• street names for marijuana

• shoot down, of birds

• cover with grass

• spread out clothes on the grass to let it dry and bleach

• feed with grass

• give away information about somebody

• solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

• a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

• troops trained to fight on horseback

• a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

• a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

• provide with a horse or horses

• a dwelling that serves as living quarters for one or more families

• the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments

• the members of a religious community living together

• the audience gathered together in a theatre or cinema

• an official assembly having legislative powers

• aristocratic family line

• play in which children take the roles of father or mother or children and pretend to interact like adults

• (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

• the management of a gambling house or casino

• a social unit living together

• a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented

• a building in which something is sheltered or located

• contain or cover

• provide someone with accomodation

• the act of coercing someone into government service

• have an emotional or cognitive impact upon

• impress positively

• produce or try to produce a vivid impression of

• mark or stamp with or as if with pressure

• reproduce by printing

• take (someone) against his will for compulsory service, especially on board a ship

• dye (fabric) before it is spun

• a quantity that is added

• a change resulting in an increase

• a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important

• the amount by which something increases

• the act of increasing something

• become bigger or greater in amount

• make bigger or more

• informal term of address for someone's wife

• come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority

• cause to suffer