Rhymes for MERRIMAC

• (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons)

• an offensive move in a sport or game

• intense adverse criticism

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

• the act of attacking

• a decisive manner of beginning a musical tone or phrase

• a sudden occurrence of an uncontrollable condition

• the onset of a corrosive or destructive process (as by a chemical agent)

• strong criticism

• launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with

• attack in speech or writing

• take the initiative and go on the offensive

• attack someone physically or emotionally

• set to work upon; turn one's energies vigorously to a task

• begin to injure

• a man who serves as a sailor

• a small worthless amount

• someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor

• immense East Indian fruit resembling breadfruit; it contains an edible pulp and nutritious seeds that are commonly roasted

• a small ball at which players aim in lawn bowling

• an electrical device consisting of a connector socket designed for the insertion of a plug

• game equipment consisting of one of several small six-pointed metal pieces that are picked up while bouncing a ball in the game of jacks

• small flag indicating a ship's nationality

• one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince

• tool for exerting pressure or lifting

• any of several fast-swimming predacious fishes of tropical to warm temperate seas

• male donkey

• lift with a special device

• hunt with a jacklight

• a small canoe consisting of a light frame made watertight with animal skins; used by Eskimos

• travel in a small canoe

• an annual publication including weather forecasts and other miscellaneous information arranged according to the calendar of a given year

• an annual publication containing tabular information in a particular field or fields arranged according to the calendar of a given year

• resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects; used in e.g. varnishes and sealing wax

• stimulating sexual desire

• a drug or other agent that stimulates sexual desire

• an abnormally egotistical person

• a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments

• suffering from hypochondria

• temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers

• a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent

• live in or as if in a tent

• a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric

• retrace one's course

• of or relating to the heart

• a slick spokesperson who can turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer

• intense adverse criticism

• artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes

• an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column

• a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine

• a special way of doing something

• someone who has hemophilia and is subject to uncontrollable bleeding

• someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive

• a medicinal drug used to evoke vomiting (especially in cases of drug overdose or poisoning)

• having the wind against the forward side of the sails

• by surprise

• the quality of being a hindrance

• a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story

• an unexpected but vivid recurrence of a past experience (especially a recurrence of the effects of an hallucinogenic drug taken much earlier)

• (football) the running back who plays the fullback position on the offensive team

• (American football) the position of a back on a football team, generally larger in size than halfbacks

• play the fullback

• a stack of hay

• a commercial bribe paid by a seller to a purchasing agent in order to induce the agent to enter into the transaction

• a bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder

• the act of carrying something piggyback

• on a railroad flatcar

• on the back or shoulder or astraddle on the hip

• ride on someone's shoulders or back

• haul truck trailers loaded with commodities on railroad cars

• haul by railroad car

• support on the back and shoulders

• bring into alignment with

• high quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France

• any of various plants of the genus Syringa having large panicles of usually fragrant flowers

• of a pale purple color

• the evacuation of persons (usually by air transportation) to a place where they can receive medical care

• committee formed by a special-interest group to raise money for their favorite political candidates

• a member of the Algonquian people formerly living in Wisconsin in the Fox River valley and on the shores of Green Bay

• an enclosed space

• a case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule

• a structure resembling a bag in an animal

• a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and shaped during paving

• a paved surface having compressed layers of broken rocks held together with tar

• surface with macadam

• informal term for vacation

• related to or located at the back

• the posterior part of a human (or animal) body from the neck to the end of the spine

• the side that goes last or is not normally seen

• the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer

• (football) a person who plays in the backfield

• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

• the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book

• the part of a garment that covers the back of your body

• a support that you can lean against while sitting

• (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed behind the line of scrimmage

• in or to or toward a former location

• at or to or toward the back or rear

• in or to or toward an original condition

• in or to or toward a past time

• in reply

• in repayment or retaliation

• located at or near the back of an animal

• of an earlier date

• be behind; approve of

• travel backward

• give support or one's approval to

• cause to travel backward

• support financial backing for

• be in back of

• place a bet on

• shift to a counterclockwise direction

• establish as valid or genuine

• strengthen by providing with a back or backing

• Russian writer whose best known novel was banned by Soviet authorities but translated and published abroad (1890-1960)

• small Asian deer with small antlers and a cry like a bark

• the face veil worn by Muslim women

• any of several amber to coppery fork-tailed warm-water carangid fishes

• the act of purchasing back something previously sold

• a car having a hatchback door

• a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open

• seizure of a vehicle in transit either to rob it or divert it to an alternate destination

• take arbitrarily or by force

• an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column

• a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine

• large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives

• oceanic schooling tuna of considerable value in Pacific but less in Atlantic; reaches 75 pounds; very similar to if not the same as oceanic bonito

• medium-sized tuna-like food fish of warm Atlantic and Pacific waters; less valued than tuna

• able to right itself when on its back by flipping into the air with a clicking sound

• a shoe that has a strap that wraps around the heel

• an organism that has the characteristics of a more primitive type of that organism

• a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

• characteristic of an atavist

• A type of pancake, or flapjack.

• A simple card game similar to snap.