3K+ Words That Rhyme With SHORTENS

• agile slender-bodied arboreal mustelids somewhat larger than weasels

• United States sociologist (1902-1979)

• listen; used mostly in the imperative

• 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

• 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 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

• malicious burning to destroy property

• a person who is an authority on history and who studies it and writes about it

• the quotient obtained when the magnitude of a part is divided by the magnitude of the whole

• magnitude or extent

• balance among the parts of something

• the relation between things (or parts of things) with respect to their comparative quantity, magnitude, or degree

• harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design)

• give pleasant proportions to

• adjust in size relative to other things

• a member of an uncivilized people

• a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement

• without civilizing influences

• a halocarbon in which some hydrogen atoms have been replaced by fluorine; used in refrigerators and aerosols

• of or relating to or characteristic of humanitarianism

• someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms

• an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans

• marked by humanistic values and devotion to human welfare

• an organic compound containing only carbon and hydrogen

• a person who travels by foot

• lacking wit or imagination

• a student at a seminary (especially a Roman Catholic seminary)

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

• the chief official in charge of a prison

• a plot of ground where plants are cultivated

• the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden

• a yard or lawn adjoining a house

• the usual or familiar type

• work in the garden

• 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

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

• church founded by Joseph Smith in 1830 with headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah

• the quantity contained in a carton

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

• 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)

• (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

• 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

• a large number or amount

• 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

• 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

• the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)

• a tortuous and twisted shape or position

• a change for the worse

• a shape resulting from distortion

• an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

• a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)

• the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

• the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

• the main good female character in a work of fiction

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

• a narcotic that is considered a hard drug; a highly addictive morphine derivative; intravenous injection provides the fastest and most intense rush

• 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

• of or relating to the planet Mars (or its fictional inhabitants)

• imaginary people who live on the planet Mars

• unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event

• an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

• 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

• 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

• Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits

• 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

• all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

• 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

• someone who is at least 100 years old

• being at least 100 years old

• an investor who deliberately decides to go against the prevailing wisdom of other investors