17K+ Words That Rhyme With OVERTURE

• (music) a group of notes connected by a slur

• character consisting of two or more letters combined into one

• a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone

• thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood)

• something used to tie or bind

• the act of tying or binding things together

• someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime

• an athlete who does not play for pay

• engaged in as a pastime

• lacking professional skill or expertise

• a device that controls amount of light admitted

• a natural opening in something

• an man-made opening; usually small

• a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• put at risk

• the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property

• a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field

• any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle

• the act of taking of a person by force

• the removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board

• succeed in representing or expressing something intangible

• attract; cause to be enamored

• succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase

• bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit

• take possession of by force, as after an invasion

• capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping

• a particular society at a particular time and place

• the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group

• all the knowledge and values shared by a society

• (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar)

• a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality

• the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization

• the raising of plants or animals

• grow in a special preparation

• the act of departing

• a variation that deviates from the standard or norm

• euphemistic expressions for death

• an expert who gives advice

• a scientist who devotes himself to doing research

• something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty

• a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something

• the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc.

• prelates collectively

• the office or station of a prelate

• any person in the armed services who holds a position of authority or command

• someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust

• a member of a police force

• a person authorized to serve in a position of authority on a vessel

• direct or command as an officer

• someone who is a member of the faculty at a college or university

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized

• a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe

• the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc.

• the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions

• a particular type of thing

• a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface

• graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface

• a clear and telling mental image

• a situation treated as an observable object

• illustrations used to decorate or explain a text

• a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement

• the visible part of a television transmission

• a graphic or vivid verbal description

• a typical example of some state or quality

• a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format

• imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind

• show in, or as in, a picture

• state of being torn or burst open

• a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)

• the act of making a sudden noisy break

• separate or cause to separate abruptly

• an expert who gives advice

• a piece of armor plate (with eye slits) fixed or hinged to a medieval helmet to protect the face

• a brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes

• a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts

• the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts

• the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations

• a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement

• the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships

• give a structure to

• a person whose occupation is teaching

• a personified abstraction that teaches

• (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal

• the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve

• the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface

• someone whose occupation is catching fish

• large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal

• one who supervises or has charge and direction of

• a program that controls the execution of other programs

• a person who closes something

• (baseball) a relief pitcher who can protect a lead in the last inning or two of the game

• (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance

• a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

• a living being

• a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

• (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding)

• any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients

• a collection containing a variety of sorts of things

• an event that combines things in a mixture

• the act of mixing together

• the arrangement of the body and its limbs

• characteristic way of bearing one's body

• a rationalized mental attitude

• capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war

• behave affectedly or unnaturally in order to impress others

• assume a posture as for artistic purposes

• any venturesome undertaking especially one with an uncertain outcome

• an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits

• a commercial undertaking that risks a loss but promises a profit

• proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers

• put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation

• put at risk

• someone who vouches for another or for the correctness of a statement

• a document that serves as evidence of some expenditure

• a negotiable certificate that can be detached and redeemed as needed

• breaking of hard tissue such as bone

• (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other

• the act of cracking something

• violate or abuse

• interrupt, break, or destroy

• break into pieces

• become fractured

• break (a bone)

• fracture a bone of

• yet to be or coming

• a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened

• the time yet to come

• a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future

• bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date

• effective in or looking toward the future

• (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving

• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• help develop, help grow

• look after a child until it is an adult

• provide with nourishment

• an immovable joint (especially between the bones of the skull)

• a seam used in surgery

• thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together

• join with a suture

• a musical notation indicating the fingering to be used

• the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity)

• the somatic sensation of cold or heat

• a vaguely specified concern

• some situation or event that is thought about

• that which has mass and occupies space

• a problem

• (used with negation) having consequence

• written works (especially in books or magazines)

• have weight; have import, carry weight

• someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel

• one who lives through affliction

• one who outlives another

• an animal that survives in spite of adversity

• in contact with each other or in proximity

• assembled in one place

• in each other's company

• at the same time

• with cooperation and interchange

• with a common plan

• mentally and emotionally stable

• a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience

• something or someone that provides a source of happiness

• a formal expression

• an activity that affords enjoyment

• sexual gratification

• the force applied to a unit area of surface; measured in pascals (SI unit) or in dynes (cgs unit)

• a force that compels

• the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure

• the state of demanding notice or attention

• the somatic sensation that results from applying force to an area of skin

• an oppressive condition of physical or mental or social or economic distress

• the pressure exerted by the atmosphere

• to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means

• exert pressure on someone through threats

• any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism

• someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild

• an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation; an optical device that produces an intense monochromatic beam of coherent light

• edge tool used in shaving

• shave with a razor

• pleasant or pleasing or agreeable in nature or appearance

• a city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; the leading resort on the French Riviera

• socially or conventionally correct; refined or virtuous

• done with delicacy and skill

• excessively fastidious and easily disgusted

• exhibiting courtesy and politeness

• an object firmly fixed in place (especially in a household)

• a regular patron

• the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment

• the act of putting something in working order again

• wetness caused by water

• a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

• bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle

• let feed in a field or pasture or meadow

• feed as in a meadow or pasture