Rhymes for WILLIAM-DEAN-HOWELLS

• a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something

• denial of any connection with or knowledge of

• To enclose or bury.

• To remove the bowels; disembowel.

• The small spiked wheel on the end of a spur.

• A little flat ring or wheel on a horse's bit.

• A roll of hair, silk, etc., passed through the flesh of a horse in the manner of a seton in human surgery.

• a vowellike sound that serves as a consonant

• official routes of communication

• the human beings of a particular nation or community or ethnic group

• the final match between the winners of all previous matches in an elimination tournament

• an examination administered at the end of an academic term

• occurring at or forming an end or termination

• conclusive in a process or progression

• not to be altered or undone

• an extended fictional work in prose; usually in the form of a story

• a printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction

• original and of a kind not seen before

• pleasantly new or different

• the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)

• cry or whine with snuffling

• inhale audibly through the nose

• a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together

• a speech sound made with the vocal tract open

• a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel

• United States writer and editor (1837-1920)

• a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters

• a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude

• a large distance

• a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters)

• a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile

• an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards

• a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km

• a footrace extending one mile

• the amount that many barrels might hold

• (plural) tight-fitting spectacles worn to protect the eyes

• the four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) that tell the story of Christ's life and teachings

• (used in the plural) a small metal weapon; worn over the knuckles on the back of the hand

• a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction

• the state of being honored

• the United States' oldest federal law enforcement agency is responsible today for protecting the Federal Judiciary and transporting federal prisoners and protecting federal witnesses and managing assets seized from criminals and generally ensuring the effective operation of the federal judicial system

• an acute and highly contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots followed by a rash; occurs primarily in children

• the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed

• motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions

• a condition of great disorder

• a building where animals are butchered

• informal terms for money

• badminton played with one person on each side

• tennis played with one person on each side

• a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins

• a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons

• the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians

• a biased way of looking at or presenting something

• move or proceed at an angle

• to incline or bend from a vertical position

• seek indirectly

• fish with a hook

• present with a bias

• not subject to death

• a person (such as an author) of enduring fame

• any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force

• motivation based on ideas of right and wrong

• fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh

• native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits

• derived from or composed of matter

• directly relevant to a matter especially a law case

• having material or physical form or substance

• having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary

• the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object

• information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form

• artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers

• things needed for doing or making something

• a person judged suitable for admission or employment

• concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests

• concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being

• the leaf of a conifer

• a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument

• a sharp pointed implement (usually steel)

• a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record

• annoy or provoke, as by constant criticism

• prick with a needle

• reports of the work of a society or learned body etc

• a chronological account of events in successive years

• a feeling of anger and animosity

• money that you currently expect to receive from notes or accounts

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• a short moral story (often with animal characters)

• a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events

• (19th-mid 20th century) An employee in industry.

• An enterprise producing tangible goods or providing certain services to industrial companies.

• A bond or stock issued by such a company.

• A film made for use within an industry, not for a movie-going audience.

• Industrial music.

• An industrial piercing.

• a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts

• badminton played with two players on each side

• tennis played with two players on each side

• internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity)

• principles from which other truths can be derived

• a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles

• a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)

• the basic human power of intelligent thought and perception

• eruptions along a nerve path often accompanied by severe neuralgia

• (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision

• bits of sweet chocolate used as a topping on e.g. ice cream

• a record or narrative description of past events

• record in chronological order; make a historical record