Rhymes for NATIONALS

• official routes of communication

• a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions

• all the weapons and equipment that a country has

• a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms

• a place where arms are manufactured

• a proper fraction whose denominator is a power of 10

• a number in the decimal system

• numbered or proceeding by tens; based on ten

• the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament

• an examination administered at the end of an academic term

• occurring at or forming an end or termination

• conclusive in a process or progression

• not to be altered or undone

• a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

• a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

• a large distance

• a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)

• a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile

• an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards

• a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km

• a footrace extending one mile

• motivation based on ideas of right and wrong

• informal terms for money

• not subject to death

• a person (such as an author) of enduring fame

• any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

• of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route

• relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time

• being or situated at an end

• station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods

• a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

• either extremity of something that has length

• electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display

• occurring at or forming an end or termination

• causing or ending in or approaching death

• a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event

• reports of the work of a society or learned body etc

• a chronological account of events in successive years

• involving the body as distinguished from the mind or spirit

• relating to the sciences dealing with matter and energy; especially physics

• having substance or material existence; perceptible to the senses

• according with material things or natural laws (other than those peculiar to living matter)

• characterized by energetic bodily activity

• impelled by physical force especially against resistance

• concerned with material things

• characteristic of a region

• related or limited to a particular region

• a small bone; especially one in the middle ear

• the act of mixing cards haphazardly

• walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet

• walk by dragging one's feet

• move about, move back and forth

• mix so as to make a random order or arrangement

• badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

• public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points

• bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads

• travel back and forth between two points

• make unable to perform a certain action

• injure permanently

• free or available for use or disposition

• designed to be disposed of after use

• an item that can be disposed of after it has been used

• hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth

• a colored glassy compound (opaque or partially opaque) that is fused to the surface of metal or glass or pottery for decoration or protection

• a paint that dries to a hard glossy finish

• any smooth glossy coating that resembles ceramic glaze

• coat, inlay, or surface with enamel

• of or relating to neurons

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• marked by the appetites and passions of the body

• someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

• bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

• guilty of crime or serious offense

• involving or being or having the nature of a crime

• (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent

• a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric

• an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard

• (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry

• a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information

• connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face

• having an oblique or slanted direction

• badminton played with two players on each side

• tennis played with two players on each side

• A type of cycle that has only one wheel and is powered by pedals; it is most often used by acrobats.

• the federal government of the United States

• assets available for use in the production of further assets

• a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories

• wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value

• a seat of government

• one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis

• a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product

• the upper part of a column that supports the entablature

• first-rate

• of principal importance

• uppercase

• being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order

• (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes

• the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order

• a variable color averaging a vivid red

• crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male

• serving as an essential component

• a songbook containing a collection of hymns

• a daily written record of (usually personal) experiences and observations

• a periodical dedicated to a particular subject

• a ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred

• a record book as a physical object

• the part of the axle contained by a bearing

• being or productive of something fresh and unusual; or being as first made or thought of

• an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made

• something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies

• preceding all others in time or being as first made or performed

• (of e.g. information) not secondhand or by way of something intermediary

• not derived or copied or translated from something else

• the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated

• the educator who has executive authority for a school

• an actor who plays a principal role

• capital as contrasted with the income derived from it

• (criminal law) any person involved in a criminal offense, regardless of whether the person profits from such involvement

• the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account

• most important element

• any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message

• any incitement to action

• an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes

• notably out of the ordinary

• communicate silently and non-verbally by signals or signs

• be a signal for or a symptom of

• an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

• the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group

• fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

• native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

• A colourless solid hydrocarbon, C12H10, consisting of two benzene rings linked together by a single bond

• Any substituted or otherwise altered version of biphenyl, such as PCBs

• marked by blithe unconcern

• without or seeming to be without plan or method; offhand

• appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough

• occurring on a temporary or irregular basis

• characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility

• natural and unstudied

• not showing effort or strain

• of or relating to or characteristic of or appropriate for children or young people

• a young person, not fully developed

• displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity

• the leaf of a conifer

• a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument

• a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)

• a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

• annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism

• prick with a needle

• an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

• a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction

• original and of a kind not seen before

• pleasantly new or different

• the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)

• cry or whine with snuffling

• inhale audibly through the nose

• the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos

• of the south or coming from the south

• far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree

• surpassing what is common or usual or expected

• deviating widely from a norm of physical or mental ability; used especially of children below normal in intelligence

• any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk

• characterized by or capable of producing music

• talented in or devoted to music

• characteristic of or resembling or accompanied by music

• containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody

• a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing