11K+ Words That Rhyme With VELA

• United States minimalist painter (born in 1936)

• a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy

• a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets

• having the function of uniting a group of similar things

• covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups

• the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin

• rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon

• a short novel

• type genus of the family Patellidae: common European limpets

• a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint

• The lower central petal of a flower (especially an orchid), usually developed to be showy and attract pollinators.

• Part of the mouth of an insect, especially the sucking mouthparts of a fly.

• Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.

• Into the wind.

• Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.

• Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.

• Used to indicate result of action.

• Used to indicate a resulting feeling or emotion.

• Used after an adjective to indicate its application.

• Denotes the end of a range.

• As a.

• Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.

• Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.

• (time) Preceding.

• Used to describe what something consists of or contains.

• At.

• small genus of perennial mostly Eurasian having terminal spikes of small purplish or white flowers

• type genus of the Prunellidae

• Television.

• A television set.

• A hotel or motel.

• the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about

• your intention; what you intend to do

• a personal view

• an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth

• (music) melodic subject of a musical composition

• To or towards the inside of.

• To or towards the region of.

• Against, especially with force or violence.

• Indicates transition into another form or substance.

• After the start of.

• Interested in or attracted to.

• Expressing the operation of multiplication.

• Expressing the operation of division, with the denominator given first. Usually with "goes".

• Investigating the subject (of).

• South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918)

• a woman whose merits were not been recognized but who then achieves sudden success and recognition

• a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince

• the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504)

• In protists, a long, whiplike membrane-enclosed organelle used for locomotion or feeding.

• In bacteria, a long, whiplike proteinaceous appendage, used for locomotion.

• A whip

• The central, enclosed part of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticos.

• a former copper coin of Pakistan and India

• high quality porcelain originally made only in China

• a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world

• dishware made of high quality porcelain

• a government on the island of Taiwan established in 1949 by Chiang Kai-shek after the conquest of mainland China by the Communists led by Mao Zedong

• a minor actor in crowd scenes

• an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)

• something additional of the same kind

• unusually or exceptionally

• more than is needed, desired, or required

• added to a regular schedule

• further or added

• informal terms for a mother

• a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped, meaning 'Mother'

• a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester

• A tropical Asian grass, Cymbopogon nardus, that has citrus-scented leaves.

• An essential oil obtained from this plant, often used as an insect repellent.

• a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)

• a subject of study

• a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve

• a particular environment or walk of life

• a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function

• the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary

• equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)

• television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

• a dark region of considerable extent on the surface of the moon

• valuable timber tree of Panama

• carbonated drink flavored with extract from kola nuts

• large genus of African trees bearing kola nuts

• (baseball) a measure of a pitcher's effectiveness; calculated as the average number of earned runs allowed by the pitcher for every nine innings pitched

• a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event

• a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periods

• detached or semidetached suburban house

• Mexican revolutionary leader (1878-1923)

• country house in ancient Rome consisting of residential quarters and farm buildings around a courtyard

• pretentious and luxurious country residence with extensive grounds

• A woman.

• A shayla, a headscarf worn by Muslim women.

• the 1st letter of the Greek alphabet

• the beginning of a series or sequence

• first in order of importance

• early testing stage of a software or hardware product

• a collection of anecdotes about a person or place

• mother of the ancient Irish gods; sometimes identified with Danu

• an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals

• sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ

• one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste

• respiratory disorder characterized by wheezing; usually of allergic origin

• the 2nd letter of the Greek alphabet

• beets

• second in order of importance

• preliminary or testing stage of a software or hardware product

• founder of Buddhism (c 563-483 BC)

• one who has achieved a state of perfect enlightenment

• venomous Asiatic and African elapid snakes that can expand the skin of the neck into a hood

• United States comedienne who starred in early television shows with Sid Caesar (1908-2001)

• a South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes; a source of cocaine

• dried leaves of the coca plant (and related plants that also contain cocaine); chewed by Andean people for their stimulating effect

• a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury

• (botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

• (astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet; forms as the comet approaches the sun and is warmed

• a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn

• a low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger body of water

• an object shaped like an equilateral triangle

• the 4th letter of the Greek alphabet

• an Italian woman of rank

• a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

• an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

• the literary genre of works intended for the theater

• the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

• a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement

• directions for making something

• a conventionalized statement expressing some fundamental principle

• a representation of a substance using symbols for its constituent elements

• something regarded as a normative example

• a liquid food for infants

• (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems

• the 3rd letter of the Greek alphabet

• Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1460-1524)

• a unit of magnetic field strength equal to one-hundred-thousandth of an oersted

• a state of southwestern India; a former Portuguese colony

• largest anthropoid ape; terrestrial and vegetarian; of forests of central west Africa

• (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation

• rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanoes; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface