2K+ Words That Rhyme With NELSONS

• (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 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

• (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense

• the physical condition of being stretched or strained

• a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)

• (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body

• feelings of hostility that are not manifest

• the action of stretching something tight

• 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

• 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

• 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

• United States sociologist (1902-1979)

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

• malicious burning to destroy property

• United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the `Gibson girl' (1867-1944)

• Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956)

• United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003)

• English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)

• 36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)

• 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)

• a unit of instruction

• punishment intended as a warning to others

• the significance of a story or event

• a task assigned for individual study

• 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)

• 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

• any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism

• anything that harms or destroys

• spoil as if by poison

• kill with poison

• add poison to

• kill by its poison

• administer poison to

• a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

• a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

• a rational motive for a belief or action

• an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• the state of having good sense and sound judgment

• a justification for something existing or happening

• a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion

• decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion

• present reasons and arguments

• think logically

• a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field

• one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions

• a recurrent time marked by major holidays

• lend flavor to

• make healthy

• make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else

• an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose

• act at high speed

• move hurridly

• speed up the progress of; facilitate

• cause to occur rapidly

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

• wear off or die down

• hear with intention

• listen and pay attention

• pay close attention to; give heed to

• make loose or looser

• make less severe or strict

• become less severe or strict

• disentangle and raise the fibers of

• cause to become loose

• make less dense

• become loose or looser or less tight

• grow worse

• make worse

• a stock or supply of foods

• 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

• the act of vibrating

• a shaky motion

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

• a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively

• the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet

• the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated

• a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land

• the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth

• lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

• confine as if in a prison

• a positive feeling of liking

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

• process of changing to an inferior state

• a downward slope or bend

• a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms

• withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility

• the state of having rejected your religious beliefs for your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)

• a state of being confined (usually for a short time)

• a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home

• cutting so as to separate into pieces

• a minute and critical analysis

• detailed critical analysis or examination one part at a time (as of a literary work)

• a vote to select the winner of a position or political office

• the act of selecting someone or something; the exercise of deliberate choice

• the status or fact of being elected

• the predestination of some individuals as objects of divine mercy (especially as conceived by Calvinists)

• an erect penis

• a structure that has been erected

• the act of building or putting up

• a deliberate act of omission

• an instance that does not conform to a rule or generalization

• grounds for adverse criticism

• a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt

• act of expanding in scope; making more widely available

• the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

• an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students

• act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb

• a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename

• the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to

• the ability to raise the working leg high in the air

• amount or degree or range to which something extends

• an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line

• an addition to the length of something

• an addition that extends a main building

• a formal or official examination