16K+ Words That Rhyme With SHORTEN

• any of various swallows with squarish or slightly forked tail and long pointed wings; migrate around Martinmas

• French bishop who is a patron saint of France (died in 397)

• United States actor and comedian (born in 1945)

• United States actress (1913-1990)

• United States singer (1917-1995)

• the act of excusing a mistake or offense

• a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense

• the formal act of liberating someone

• accept an excuse for

• grant a pardon to

• a river in Palestine that empties into the Dead Sea; John the Baptist baptized Jesus in the Jordan

• an Arab kingdom in southwestern Asia on the Red Sea

• an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds

• a thin paper coated on one side with a dark waxy substance (often containing carbon); used to transfer characters from the original to an under sheet of paper

• a copy made with carbon paper

• a series of sentinels or of military posts enclosing or guarding some place or thing

• cord or ribbon worn as an insignia of honor or rank

• adornment consisting of an ornamental ribbon or cord

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• a large amount of wealth or prosperity

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

• agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels

• the chief official in charge of a prison

• a preschool for children age 4 to 6 to prepare them for primary school

• A person who transported goods, usually with a horse and cart.

• a person who exercises control over workers

• a man who is foreperson of a jury

• United States anthropologist who studied the Seneca (1818-1881)

• United States biologist who formulated the chromosome theory of heredity (1866-1945)

• a Welsh buccaneer who raided Spanish colonies in the West Indies for the English (1635-1688)

• soldier in the American Revolution who defeated the British in the battle of Cowpens, South Carolina (1736-1802)

• United States financier and philanthropist (1837-1913)

• an American breed of small compact saddle horses

• a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function

• a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function

• (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ

• a periodical that is published by a special interest group

• wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard

• a free-reeded instrument with a piano keyboard in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows

• United States novelist (1862-1937)

• something determined in relation to something that includes it

• something less than the whole of a human artifact

• the allotment of some amount by dividing something

• assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

• money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

• an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal

• give out

• United States jazz musician who moved from ragtime to New Orleans jazz (1885-1941)

• a child who has lost both parents

• someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision

• the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column

• a young animal without a mother

• deprive of parents

• airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc.

• the quantity contained in a can

• a buoy with a round bottom and conical top

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

• a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

• a room or building equipped with one or more toilets

• preserve in a can or tin

• terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position

• play in which children pretend to put out a fire

• a laborer who tends fires (as on a coal-fired train or steamship)

• a pitcher who does not start the game

• a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires

• an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction

• a ruined building

• the process of becoming dilapidated

• an event that results in destruction

• failure that results in a loss of position or reputation

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• destroy or cause to fail

• reduce to bankruptcy

• reduce to ruins

• deprive of virginity

• fall into ruin

• termination of pregnancy

• failure of a plan

• an agreement between parties (usually arrived at after discussion) fixing obligations of each

• an advantageous purchase

• negotiate the terms of an exchange

• come to terms; arrive at an agreement

• the officer who presides at the meetings of an organization

• act or preside as chair, as of an academic department in a university

• unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event

• an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

• an onerous or difficult concern

• weight to be borne or conveyed

• the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work

• the central idea that is expanded in a document or discourse

• weight down with a load

• impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to

• a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary

• a sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo

• hear with intention

• listen and pay attention

• pay close attention to; give heed to

• affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed

• affording free passage or access

• used of mouth or eyes

• (set theory) of an interval that contains neither of its endpoints

• ready or willing to receive favorably

• open and observable; not secret or hidden

• a clear or unobstructed space or expanse of land or water

• where the air is unconfined

• a tournament in which both professionals and amateurs may play

• information that has become public

• with no protection or shield

• open to or in view of all

• not having been filled

• accessible to all

• not defended or capable of being defended

• (of textures) full of small openings or gaps

• having no protecting cover or enclosure

• not brought to a conclusion; subject to further thought

• not sealed or having been unsealed

• without undue constriction as from e.g. tenseness or inhibition

• not requiring union membership

• possibly accepting or permitting

• affording free passage or view

• openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness

• ready for business

• cause to open or to become open

• start to operate or function or cause to start operating or functioning

• become open

• begin or set in action, of meetings, speeches, recitals, etc.

• spread out or open from a closed or folded state

• make available

• become available

• have an opening or passage or outlet

• make the opening move

• afford access to

• display the contents of a file or start an application as on a computer

• made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood

• lacking ease or grace

• To make smarter in appearance; to refurbish or spruce up.

• To increase the speed of (one's travel on foot, etc.).

• To augment with computer technology.

• the main good female character in a work of fiction

• a woman possessing heroic qualities or a woman who has performed heroic deeds

• eater of fruits and grains and nuts; someone who eats no meat or fish or (often) any animal products

• become dark or darker

• tarnish or stain

• make dark or darker

• become hard or harder

• make hard or harder

• harden by reheating and cooling in oil

• make healthy

• cause to accept or become hardened to; habituate

• listen; used mostly in the imperative

• many times at short intervals

• frequently or in great quantities

• in many cases or instances

• make sharp or sharper

• make crisp or more crisp and precise

• become sharp or sharper

• put (an image) into focus

• make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper

• raise the pitch of (musical notes)

• give a point to

• make (one's senses) more acute

• (Greek mythology) any of three winged sister monsters and the mortal Medusa who had live snakes for hair; a glance at Medusa turned the beholder to stone

• of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people

• a resident of Sparta

• resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity

• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

• practicing great self-denial

• an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

• a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man

• a human female employed to do housework

• women as a class

• the quantity contained in a carton

• a box made of cardboard; opens by flaps on top

• set down in writing in any of various ways

• systematically collected and written down

• written as for a film or play or broadcast

• a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent

• come into the possession of something concrete or abstract

• enter or assume a certain state or condition

• cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition

• receive a specified treatment (abstract)

• reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress

• go or come after and bring or take back

• go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

• take vengeance on or get even

• achieve a point or goal

• cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner

• succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase

• come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)

• be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness

• communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone

• give certain properties to something

• move into a desired direction of discourse

• grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of

• attract and fix

• reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot

• reach by calculation

• acquire as a result of some effort or action

• purchase

• perceive by hearing

• suffer from the receipt of

• receive as a retribution or punishment

• leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form

• reach and board

• irritate

• evoke an emotional response

• apprehend and reproduce accurately

• earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher

• overcome or destroy

• be a mystery or bewildering to

• take the first step or steps in carrying out an action

• undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• the student with the best grades who usually delivers the valedictory address at commencement

• At that time; then.

• Introduces a comparison, and is associated with comparatives, and with words such as more, less, and fewer. Typically, it seeks to measure the force of an adjective or similar description between two predicates.

• Used in comparisons, to introduce the basis of comparison.

• (obsolete outside dialectal, usually used with for) Because; for.

• the boundary line or the area immediately inside the boundary

• an amount beyond the minimum necessary

• the amount of collateral a customer deposits with a broker when borrowing from the broker to buy securities

• (finance) the net sales minus the cost of goods and services sold

• the blank space that surrounds the text on a page

• a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits

• large long-jawed oceanic sport fishes; related to sailfishes and spearfishes; not completely cold-blooded i.e. able to warm their brains and eyes