500+ Words That Rhyme With OCTAVE

• tending to become more severe or wider in scope

• disposed to take action or effectuate change

• characterized by energetic activity

• exerting influence or producing a change or effect

• full of activity or engaged in continuous activity

• (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions

• expressing that the subject of the sentence has the semantic function of actor:

• (used of verbs (e.g. `to run') and participial adjectives (e.g. `running' in `running water')) expressing action rather than a state of being

• (of e.g. volcanoes) capable of erupting

• (of e.g. volcanoes) erupting or liable to erupt

• engaged in full-time work

• chemical agent capable of activity

• the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the verb

• a person who is a participating member of an organization

• engaged in or ready for military or naval operations

• taking part in an activity

• in operation

• high in price or charging high prices

• possessing or displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching

• a North American Indian warrior

• people who are brave

• invulnerable to fear or intimidation

• brightly colored and showy

• face and withstand with courage

• (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring

• save from ruin, destruction, or harm

• to keep up and reserve for personal or special use

• bring into safety

• spend less; buy at a reduced price

• accumulate money for future use

• make unnecessary an expenditure or effort

• save from sins

• refrain from harming

• spend sparingly, avoid the waste of

• retain rights to

• record data on a computer

• pleasing to the eye or mind especially through beauty or charm

• having the properties of a magnet; the ability to draw or pull

• having power to arouse interest

• forming a whole or aggregate

• members of a cooperative enterprise

• done by or characteristic of individuals acting together

• set up on the principle of collectivism or ownership and production by the workers involved usually under the supervision of a government

• causing destruction or much damage

• producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect

• able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively

• works well as a means or remedy

• exerting force or influence

• existing in fact; not theoretical; real

• ready for service

• the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

• a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music

• a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration

• causing or able to cause motion

• impelling to action

• characteristic of or existing by virtue of geographic origin

• belonging to one by birth

• characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning

• an indigenous person who was born in a particular place

• a person born in a particular place or country

• indigenous plants and animals

• as found in nature in the elemental form

• undistorted by emotion or personal bias; based on observable phenomena

• serving as or indicating the object of a verb or of certain prepositions and used for certain other purposes

• the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable)

• the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed

• emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings or interpretation

• belonging to immediate experience of actual things or events

• a way of regarding situations or topics etc.

• the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

• intended or adapted to afford protection of some kind

• showing care

• (usually followed by `of') solicitously caring or mindful

• affirming or giving assent

• a reply of affirmation

• expecting the best

• expressing or manifesting praise or approval

• one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen

• serving or used in place of another

• necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities

• pertaining to unconventional choices

• involving competition or competitiveness

• subscribing to capitalistic competition

• showing a fighting disposition

• resistant to change, particularly in relation to politics or religion

• a person who is reluctant to accept changes and new ideas

• a member of a Conservative Party

• having social or political views favoring conservatism

• avoiding excess

• unimaginatively conventional

• conforming to the standards and conventions of the middle class

• having the ability or power to create

• promoting construction or creation

• having the function of carrying out plans or orders etc.

• a person responsible for the administration of a business

• persons who administer the law

• someone who manages a government agency or department

• someone who flees from an uncongenial situation

• someone who is sought by law officers; someone trying to elude justice

• lasting for a markedly brief time

• readiness to embark on bold new ventures

• the first of a series of actions

• serving to set in motion

• imposing in size or bulk or solidity

• being the same substance throughout

• imposing in scale or scope or degree or power

• consisting of great mass; containing a great quantity of matter

• characterized by or displaying negation or denial or opposition or resistance; having no positive features

• expressing or consisting of a negation or refusal or denial

• not indicating the presence of microorganisms or disease or a specific condition

• reckoned in a direction opposite to that regarded as positive

• a reply of denial

• a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed

• having the quality of something harmful or unpleasant

• less than zero

• designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions

• having a negative charge

• involving disadvantage or harm

• vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent

• small ovoid fruit of the European olive tree; important food and source of oil

• evergreen tree cultivated in the Mediterranean region since antiquity and now elsewhere; has edible shiny black fruits

• hard yellow often variegated wood of an olive tree; used in cabinetwork

• one-seeded fruit of the European olive tree usually pickled and used as a relish

• a yellow-green color of low brightness and saturation

• of a yellow-green color similar to that of an unripe olive

• characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc.

• indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen

• of or relating to positivism

• reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion

• the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution

• a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject

• persuaded of; very sure

• involving advantage or good

• formally laid down or imposed

• impossible to deny or disprove

• greater than zero

• having a positive charge

• marked by excessive confidence

• a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization

• a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived

• a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms

• belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness

• little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type

• used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies

• of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style

• estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete

• a person related by blood or marriage

• an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus)

• properly related in size or degree or other measurable characteristics; usually followed by `to'

• responsive to physical stimuli

• being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others

• able to feel or perceive

• someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead

• hurting

• of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security

• having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends

• tending to spread quickly

• characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight

• intended or appropriate for defending against or deterring aggression or attack

• an attitude of defensiveness

• attempting to justify or defend in speech or writing

• beyond normal limits

• unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings

• excluding much or all; especially all but a particular group or minority

• a news report that is reported first by one news organization

• not divided or shared with others

• not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective

• serving to explode or characterized by explosion or sudden outburst

• a chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck

• liable to lead to sudden change or violence

• sudden and loud

• making a strong or vivid impression

• producing a strong effect

• for the purpose of attack rather than defense

• causing anger or annoyance

• morally offensive

• unpleasant or disgusting especially to the senses

• the action of attacking an enemy

• violating or tending to violate or offend against

• causing or able to cause nausea

• behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself

• behave in a certain manner

• behave well or properly

• death of a person

• a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)

• a mark (`) placed above a vowel to indicate pronunciation

• dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought

• shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it

• carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

• one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water)

• a member of the women's reserve of the United States Navy; originally organized during World War II but now no longer a separate branch

• a movement like that of a sudden occurrence or increase in a specified phenomenon

• (physics) a movement up and down or back and forth

• something that rises rapidly

• the act of signaling by a movement of the hand

• a hairdo that creates undulations in the hair

• an undulating curve

• a persistent and widespread unusual weather condition (especially of unusual temperatures)

• signal with the hands or nod

• move or swing back and forth

• move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion

• twist or roll into coils or ringlets

• set waves in

• causing or characterized by addiction

• of or relating to or functioning as an adjective

• relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law

• a word that expresses an attribute of something

• the word class that qualifies nouns

• a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war

• an animal that is confined

• a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion

• being in captivity

• giving or marked by complete attention to

• constructing or tending to construct or improve or promote development

• emphasizing what is laudable or hopeful or to the good

• having a defect

• markedly subnormal in structure or function or intelligence or behavior

• not working properly

• a pronouncement encouraging or banning some activity

• showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on

• of a feature that helps to distinguish a person or thing

• capable of being classified

• subject to popular election

• a course that the student can select from among alternatives

• optional

• offering fun and gaiety

• more active than normal