Rhymes for WOADWAXES

• large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of desert regions of northern Africa

• (originally Ireland) To ruin or destroy.

• a yellow to brown wax secreted by honeybees to build honeycombs

• cover with beeswax

• an ore of boron consisting of hydrated sodium borate; used as a flux or cleansing agent

• a large ax with a broad cutting blade

• the highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding

• the decisive moment in a novel or play

• the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse

• the most severe stage of a disease

• arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness

• end, especially to reach a final or climactic stage

• To remove wax from a material or from a surface.

• a soft yellow wax secreted by glands in the ear canal

• duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio

• send something via a facsimile machine

• fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric

• plant of the genus Linum that is cultivated for its seeds and for the fibers of its stem

• tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall

• any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes

• (Roman Catholic Church) a greeting signifying Christian love for those assisting at the Eucharist

• a French marshal who distinguished himself in the War of the Austrian Succession (1696-1750)

• an area in Germany around the upper Elbe river; the original home of the Saxons

• sometimes placed in Smilacaceae

• fragile twining plant of South Africa with bright green flattened stems and glossy foliage popular as a floral decoration

• a vanilla-scented resin from various trees of the genus Styrax

• any shrub or small tree of the genus Styrax having fragrant bell-shaped flowers that hang below the dark green foliage

• an additional tax on certain kinds of income that has already been taxed

• levy an extra tax on

• the grammatical arrangement of words in sentences

• a systematic orderly arrangement

• studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences

• the middle region of the body of an arthropod between the head and the abdomen

• the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates

• part of an insect's body that bears the wings and legs

• common European perennial having showy yellow and orange flowers; a naturalized weed in North America

• A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.

• hypersensitivity reaction to the ingestion or injection of a substance (a protein or drug) resulting from prior contact with a substance

• a disappointing decline after a previous rise

• a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

• The fused head and thorax of spiders and crustaceans

• movement by a cell or organism in reaction to a chemical stimulus

• bleeding from the nose

• accumulation of fluid in the pleural cavity (the space between the lungs and the walls of the chest) often resulting from disease of the heart or kidneys

• The middle of the three segments of the thorax of an insect, carrying the second pair of legs, and the forewings when present.

• The hindmost of the three sections of the thorax of an insect, carrying the posterior pair of legs and the hindwings when present.

• In decision theory, game theory, etc. a decision rule used for minimizing the maximum possible loss, or maximizing the minimum gain.

• To find the optimum play, or decision, to achieve minimizing the maximum loss.