Rhymes for STRINGENT

• the totality of surrounding conditions

• the area in which something exists or lives

• of surpassing excellence

• having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence

• characterized by grandeur

• having strong or striking color

• full of light; shining intensely

• clear and sharp and ringing

• of a mental act; causing effects outside the mind

• one who stays for only a short time

• (physics) a short-lived oscillation in a system caused by a sudden change of voltage or current or load

• lasting a very short time

• unrestrained and violent

• rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile

• (of a plant) having a lush and unchecked growth

• a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists

• a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold

• a straight line or plane that touches a curve or curved surface at a point but does not intersect it at that point

• ratio of the opposite to the adjacent side of a right-angled triangle

• a person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused

• having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect

• characterized by or full of force and vigor

• clearly or sharply defined to the mind

• relying on or requiring a person or thing for support, supply, or what is needed

• (of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence

• a person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support)

• contingent on something else

• held from above and hanging down

• being under the power or sovereignty of another or others

• addicted to a drug

• the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit

• the act of governing; exercising authority

• (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed

• the study of government of states and other political units

• a very old person

• a person who lived in ancient times

• belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire

• very old

• carrying developing offspring within the body or being about to produce new life

• rich in significance or implication

• filled with or attended with

• care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

• the management of someone or something

• a manner of dealing with something artistically

• (medicine) the act of caring for someone (as by medication or remedial training etc.)

• an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic

• a religious residence especially for nuns

• a community of people in a religious order (especially nuns) living together

• a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk

• a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces)

• the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another

• the act of distributing something to designated places or persons

• (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance

• an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor)

• the act of putting a person into a non-elective position

• the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public

• the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy)

• some event that causes someone to be embarrassed

• extreme excess

• an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention

• an instrumentality needed for an undertaking or to perform a service

• a change for the better; progress in development

• the act of improving something

• a condition superior to an earlier condition

• free from external control and constraint

• (of a clause) capable of standing syntactically alone as a complete sentence

• a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

• a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them

• (of political bodies) not controlled by outside forces

• not controlled by a party or interest group

• a person who directs and manages an organization

• a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector

• a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner

• a series of jousts between knights contesting for a prize

• compelling immediate action

• occurring in or belonging to the present time

• a flow of electricity through a conductor

• a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes)

• dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas

• strong and sharp

• capable of wounding

• someone who maintains and audits business accounts

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

• a person who is present and participates in a meeting

• an event or situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another

• being present (at a meeting or event, etc.)

• occurring with or following as a consequence

• suited to your comfort or purpose or needs

• large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense)

• uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication

• uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field

• unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge

• a defense that claims the defendant would not have broken the law if not tricked into doing it by law enforcement officials

• a piece broken off or cut off of something else

• a broken piece of a brittle artifact

• an incomplete piece

• break or cause to break into pieces

• time during which some action is awaited

• act of putting off to a future time

• a person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

• of or relating to a person who is subordinate to another

• the act of giving something up

• withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility

• the voluntary surrender of property (or a right to property) without attempting to reclaim it or give it away

• an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect

• a representative who acts on behalf of other persons or organizations

• a substance that exerts some force or effect

• a businessman who buys or sells for another in exchange for a commission

• any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau

• the semantic role of the animate entity that instigates or causes the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

• an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty

• the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines

• (astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac

• the act of adjusting or aligning the parts of a device in relation to each other

• weaponry used by military or naval force

• the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war

• a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment

• compensation for a wrong

• the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity)

• concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child

• the act of restraining of a person's liberty by confining them

• the state of being confined

• the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary)

• goods carried by a large vehicle

• the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)

• the delivery of goods for sale or disposal

• a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully

• (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor

• the act of containing; keeping something from spreading

• the codefendant charged with adultery with the estranged spouse in a divorce proceeding

• someone who communicates by means of letters

• a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media

• similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar

• a person considered as descended from some ancestor

• going or coming down

• proceeding by descent from an ancestor

• act of reducing or depriving of arms

• education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge

• a movement in Europe from about 1650 until 1800 that advocated the use of reason and individualism instead of tradition and established doctrine

• (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness

• the act of enrolling

• the body of people (such as students) who register or enroll at the same time