Rhymes for PRECISIANS

• omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)

• a deliberate act of omission

• Criminal neglect of duty or wrongful execution of official duties.

• The failure to give information about a crime that one knows to be taking place.

• Misinterpretation or misunderstanding.

• the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance

• shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant

• the act of cutting something off

• the quality of lacking precision

• doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action

• the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose

• (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made

• a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)

• large but transportable armament

• a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)

• a professional killer who uses a gun

• a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine

• a pedal that controls the throttle valve

• the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies

• shoot with a gun

• someone who works in a beauty parlor

• a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision

• a licensed medical practitioner

• someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process

• someone known for high skill in some intellectual or artistic technique

• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

• 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 large number or amount

• all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

• a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it

• something you have to do

• edible viscera of a butchered animal

• mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

• a New Testament book containing an exposition of the doctrines of Saint Paul; written in AD 58

• (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 bulb of an onion plant

• bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb

• an aromatic flavorful vegetable

• a leader engaged in civil administration

• a person active in party politics

• a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways

• a mathematician who specializes in statistics

• someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums)

• the common people

• a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

• a pasture subject to common use

• a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank

• a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards

• a request to be present

• an order to appear in person at a given place and time

• a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant

• call in an official matter, such as to attend court

• smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies

• English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)

• 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

• 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

• East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks

• a loose fitting jacket; originally worn in India

• of or relating to Cyprus or its people or culture

• a native or inhabitant of Cyprus

• a woman who engages in sexual intercourse for money

• resembling the ancient orgiastic worship of Aphrodite on Cyprus

• of or relating to Dalmatia or its inhabitants

• a large breed having a smooth white coat with black or brown spots; originated in Dalmatia

• a native or inhabitant of Dalmatia

• of or relating to or characteristic of Egypt or its people or their language

• a native or inhabitant of Egypt

• the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC

• pompous or pretentious talk or writing

• a strong cotton and linen fabric with a slight nap

• any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis

• a person who cares for persons or property

• an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water

• a person skilled at logic

• the number midway between the two middle numbers in a series containing an even or odd number of items

• relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values)

• dividing an animal into right and left halves

• relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle

• one whose business is the management of funerals