3K+ Words That Rhyme With VANDALISM

• a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams

• a system of symbols and symbolic representations

• the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning

• an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use of images

• the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money

• an insertion into a calendar

• occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus (a loose clot or air bubble or other particle)

• belief in a single God

• (chemistry) the property of certain substances that enables them to exist in two distinct crystalline forms

• (biology) the existence of two forms of individual within the same animal species (independent of sex differences)

• exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal

• 17th and 18th-century German movement in the Lutheran Church stressing personal piety and devotion

• the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war

• (biology) similarity or identity of form or shape or structure

• acceptance of the inevitability of defeat

• genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres

• the quality of being current or of the present

• practices typical of contemporary life or thought

• a perversion in which a person receives sexual gratification from seeing the genitalia of others or witnessing others' sexual behavior

• a Christian sacrament signifying spiritual cleansing and rebirth

• a form of socialism that abolishes private ownership

• a political theory favoring collectivism in a classless society

• the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications

• the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms

• discriminatory or abusive behavior towards members of the opposite sex

• a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha

• the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth

• the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind

• an economic system based on private ownership of capital

• attraction for iron; associated with electric currents as well as magnets; characterized by fields of force

• the branch of science that studies magnetism

• fighting with the fists

• habitual absence from work

• a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

• exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country

• the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

• sexual pleasure obtained from receiving punishment (physical or psychological)

• impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

• a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization

• an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

• food poisoning from ingesting botulin; not infectious; affects the CNS; can be fatal if not treated promptly

• an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes

• a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature

• any political theory favoring immoderate uncompromising policies

• a form of Protestantism that takes the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth

• the strict adherence to the basic principles or doctrines of a religion, ideology, etc.

• the doctrine that irredenta should be controlled by the country to which they are ethnically or historically related

• a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual

• an art style in late 16th century Europe characterized by spatial incongruity and excessive elongation of the human figures.

• a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display

• the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction

• the technical aspects of doing something

• a natural object resembling a machine in structure or function

• (philosophy) the philosophical theory that all phenomena can be explained in terms of physical or biological causes

• device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function

• an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests

• transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services)

• the marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals

• the organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life

• habitual relapse into crime

• the form of theological rationalism that believes in God on the basis of reason without reference to revelation

• a cardiovascular disease characterized by a saclike widening of an artery resulting from weakening of the artery wall

• disapproval expressed by pointing out faults or shortcomings

• a serious examination and judgment of something

• a written evaluation of a work of literature

• zealous preaching and advocacy of the gospel

• a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake

• the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal

• complete denial of all established authority and institutions

• (philosophy) the doctrine that practical consequences are the criteria of knowledge and meaning and value

• the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth

• the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws

• the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle)

• an obvious truth