3K+ Words That Rhyme With LIGHTENS

• make tight or tighter

• become tight or tighter

• severely restrict in scope or extent

• narrow or limit

• cause fear in

• become more extreme

• make more extreme; raise in quantity, degree, or intensity

• increase the level of

• increase the height of

• make (one's senses) more acute

• make more intense, stronger, or more marked

• tropical marine gastropods having beautifully colored spiral shells

• (Greek mythology) a sea god; son of Poseidon

• small usually bright-colored semiaquatic salamanders of North America and Europe and northern Asia

• the largest moon of Neptune

• a large number or amount

• (Greek mythology) any of the primordial giant gods who ruled the Earth until overthrown by Zeus; the Titans were offspring of Uranus (Heaven) and Gaea (Earth)

• a person of exceptional importance and reputation

• the largest of the satellites of Saturn; has a hazy nitrogen atmosphere

• all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

• edible viscera of a butchered animal

• 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

• make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• make short or shorter

• become short or shorter

• edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

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

• something you have to do

• mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

• 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

• make longer

• become long or longer

• make sharp or sharper

• make crisp or more crisp and precise

• become sharp or sharper

• put (an image) into focus

• make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper

• raise the pitch of (musical notes)

• give a point to

• make (one's senses) more acute

• make strong or stronger

• gain strength

• give a healthy elasticity to

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

• 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 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

• 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 round fastener sewn to shirts and coats etc to fit through buttonholes

• an electrical switch operated by pressing

• any of various plant parts that resemble buttons

• a round flat badge displaying information and suitable for pinning onto a garment

• a female sexual organ homologous to the penis

• a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism

• any artifact that resembles a button

• a specific area or icon in graphical user interface systems that is clicked or pressed in order to select a command or perform an action

• provide with buttons

• fasten with buttons

• hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)

• any barrier to communication or vision

• provide with drapery

• a land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill

• (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent

• 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

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• the discipline that studies the principles of transmitting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.)

• financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records

• a word used in exclamations of confusion

• English writer whose novels depicted and criticized social injustice (1812-1870)

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

• a team that plays football

• being one more than ten

• consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous

• agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels

• glove that encases the thumb separately and the other four fingers together

• footwear usually with wooden soles

• a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive

• a sea nymph (part woman and part bird) supposed to lure sailors to destruction on the rocks where the nymphs lived

• a warning signal that is a loud wailing sound

• an acoustic device producing a loud often wailing sound as a signal or warning

• eellike aquatic North American salamander with small forelimbs and no hind limbs; have permanent external gills

• straighten up or out; make straight

• make straight

• get up from a sitting or slouching position

• put (things or places) in order

• straighten by unrolling

• make straight or straighter

• make sweeter in taste

• make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable

• pose a threat to; present a danger to

• to utter intentions of injury or punishment against

• to be a menacing indication of something

• 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

• 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)