1,000+ Rhymes For REASONS

• a period of the year marked by special events or activities in some field

• one of the natural periods into which the year is divided by the equinoxes and solstices or atmospheric conditions

• a recurrent time marked by major holidays

• lend flavor to

• make healthy

• make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else

• a large number or amount

• (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary

• the prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process

• the set of circumstances that affect someone's welfare

• the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation

• a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it

• something you have to do

• mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

• any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part

• an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin)

• a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

• a general inclusive concept

• an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

• (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items

• a feeling of intense dislike

• the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away

• the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders

• the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole

• United States composer who promoted 20th century music (1896-1985)

• a line leading to a place or point

• the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves

• a general course along which something has a tendency to develop

• something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action

• the act of managing something

• a message describing how something is to be done

• the act of setting and holding a course

• a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something

• the concentration of attention or energy on something

• financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records

• United States sociologist (1902-1979)

• the act of examining resemblances

• relation based on similarities and differences

• qualities that are comparable

• any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism

• anything that harms or destroys

• spoil as if by poison

• kill with poison

• add poison to

• kill by its poison

• administer poison to

• a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

• a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

• the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

• properties attributable to your ancestry

• the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)

• the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel)

• a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity)

• restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war

• distribute in rations, as in the army

• malicious burning to destroy property

• United States illustrator remembered for his creation of the `Gibson girl' (1867-1944)

• Australian actor (born in the United States in 1956)

• United States tennis player who was the first Black woman player to win all the major world singles titles (1927-2003)

• the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet

• the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated

• a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land

• the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth

• lock up or confine, in or as in a jail

• confine as if in a prison

• English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)

• 36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)

• 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)

• a unit of instruction

• punishment intended as a warning to others

• the significance of a story or event

• a task assigned for individual study

• any of several wrestling holds in which an arm is passed under the opponent's arm from behind and the hand exerts pressure on the back of the neck

• English admiral who defeated the French fleets of Napoleon but was mortally wounded at Trafalgar (1758-1805)

• a special group delegated to consider some matter

• a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary)

• the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions

• the state of being in good working order and ready for operation

• a group of representatives or delegates

• a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something

• an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces

• the act of committing a crime

• a special assignment that is given to a person or group

• put into commission; equip for service; of ships

• place an order for

• charge with a task

• an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

• (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal

• an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out

• the act of vibrating

• a shaky motion

• (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

• a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively

• a stock or supply of foods

• a written account of what transpired at a meeting

• a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities

• a coordinated sequence of chess moves

• a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock

• a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose

• an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)

• the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order

• the act of combining things to form a new whole

• weapons considered collectively

• military supplies

• defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it

• supply with weapons

• an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose

• a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft

• any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases

• (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome

• the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

• the act of deleting something written or printed

• act at high speed

• move hurridly

• speed up the progress of; facilitate

• cause to occur rapidly

• a room equipped for preparing meals

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

• wear off or die down

• hear with intention

• listen and pay attention

• pay close attention to; give heed to

• make loose or looser

• make less severe or strict

• become less severe or strict

• disentangle and raise the fibers of

• cause to become loose

• make less dense

• become loose or looser or less tight

• devoted to a cause or party

• a fervent and even militant proponent of something

• an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity

• a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries

• a medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage

• the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance

• a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell

• grow worse

• make worse

• the criminal act of capturing and carrying away by force a family member; if a man's wife is abducted it is a crime against the family relationship and against the wife

• (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body