Rhymes for MARTIANS

• a change for the worse

• a shape resulting from distortion

• an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

• a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

• something determined in relation to something that includes it

• something less than the whole of a human artifact

• the allotment of some amount by dividing something

• assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

• money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

• an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal

• give out

• malicious burning to destroy property

• the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole

• magnitude or extent

• balance among the parts of something

• the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree

• harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)

• give pleasant proportions to

• adjust in size relative to other things

• termination of pregnancy

• failure of a plan

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

• a tortuous and twisted shape or position

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• a large amount of wealth or prosperity

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

• (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs)

• a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs

• unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event

• an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

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

• 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 act of excusing a mistake or offense

• a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense

• the formal act of liberating someone

• accept an excuse for

• grant a pardon to

• edible viscera of a butchered animal

• (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 act of vibrating

• a shaky motion

• (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

• a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively

• 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 large number or amount

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

• mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

• 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

• an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds

• a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper

• a copy made with carbon paper

• the quantity contained in a carton

• a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top

• a plot of ground where plants are cultivated

• the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden

• a yard or lawn adjoining a house

• the usual or familiar type

• work in the garden

• something you have to do

• 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

• the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel)

• a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)

• restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war

• distribute in rations, as in the army

• 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

• listen; used mostly in the imperative

• a written account of what transpired at a meeting

• a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities

• a coordinated sequence of chess moves

• a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock

• a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose

• an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)

• the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order

• the act of combining things to form a new whole

• weapons considered collectively

• military supplies

• defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it

• supply with weapons

• devoted to a cause or party

• a fervent and even militant proponent of something

• an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

• a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries

• large brown aquatic larva of the dobsonfly; used as fishing bait

• large soft-bodied insect having long slender mandibles in the male; aquatic larvae often used as bait

• make (to feel) fresh

• become or make oneself fresh again

• make fresh again

• any of various cosmetic preparations that are applied to the skin

• liquid preparation having a soothing or antiseptic or medicinal action when applied to the skin

• a politically organized body of people under a single government

• United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911)

• the people who live in a nation or country

• a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes)

• a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere

• anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume

• Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits

• a stock or supply of foods

• an increase by natural growth or addition

• several things grouped together or considered as a whole

• the act of accumulating

• (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation

• the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something

• something acquired

• the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

• an ability that has been acquired by training

• something done (usually as opposed to something said)

• the state of being active

• a military engagement

• a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)

• the series of events that form a plot

• the trait of being active and energetic and forceful

• the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism

• a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

• an act by a government body or supranational organization

• the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field

• In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).

• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

• put in effect

• a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form

• the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)

• (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)

• a feeling of delighted approval and liking

• the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising

• a favorable judgment

• cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness)

• a firm rebuke