94 Words That Rhyme With SMIRCH

• the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

• an investigation seeking answers

• an operation that determines whether one or more of a set of items has a specified property

• the examination of alternative hypotheses

• boarding and inspecting a ship on the high seas

• try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

• search or seek

• inquire into

• subject to a search

• hard close-grained wood of any of various birch trees; used especially in furniture and interior finishes and plywood

• any betulaceous tree or shrub of the genus Betula having a thin peeling bark

• a switch consisting of a twig or a bundle of twigs from a birch tree; used to hit people as punishment

• consisting of or made of wood of the birch tree

• whip with a birch twig

• the act of marching; walking with regular steps (especially in a procession of some kind)

• a degree granted for the successful completion of advanced study of architecture

• the month following February and preceding April

• a steady advance

• a procession of people walking together

• district consisting of the area on either side of a border or boundary of a country or an area

• genre of music written for marching

• march in a procession

• force to march

• walk fast, with regular or measured steps; walk with a stride

• march in protest; take part in a demonstration

• walk ostentatiously

• cause to march or go at a marching pace

• lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

• an unsteady uneven gait

• a decisive defeat in a game (especially in cribbage)

• abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance)

• the act of moving forward suddenly

• walk as if unable to control one's movements

• move abruptly

• move slowly and unsteadily

• loiter about, with no apparent aim

• defeat by a lurch

• support consisting of a branch or rod that serves as a resting place (especially for a bird)

• a linear measure of 16.5 feet

• a square rod of land

• an elevated place serving as a seat

• any of numerous fishes of America and Europe

• spiny-finned freshwater food and game fishes

• any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of various families of the order Perciformes

• sit, as on a branch

• to come to rest, settle

• cause to perch or sit

• a complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice; an important foodstuff and used otherwise especially in adhesives and as fillers and stiffeners for paper and textiles

• a commercial preparation of starch that is used to stiffen textile fabrics in laundering

• stiffen with starch

• systematic investigation to establish facts

• a search for knowledge

• attempt to find out in a systematically and scientific manner

• inquire into

• charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone

• smear so as to make dirty or stained

• occurring between or among or common to different churches or denominations

• small to medium-sized shallow-water fishes of the Pacific coast of North America

• exclude from a church or a religious community

• Not of or pertaining to a church.

• Any of the five species of fish in the genus Sander of the family Percidae (perches and darters).

• industrial city at the center of a rich agricultural region

• common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture

• European birch with silvery white peeling bark and markedly drooping branches

• medium-sized birch of eastern North America having white or pale grey bark and valueless wood; occurs often as a second-growth forest tree

• small American birch with peeling white bark often worked into e.g. baskets or toy canoes

• birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark

• birch of western United States resembling the paper birch but having brownish bark

• tree of eastern North America with thin lustrous yellow or grey bark

• any of several pike-like fishes of the perch family