Words that rhyme with contents

  • incense
    n 1: a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned 2: the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned; "incense filled the room" v 1: perfume especially with a censer [syn: cense, incense, thurify] 2: make furious [syn: infuriate, exasperate, incense]
  • pretence
    n 1: a false or unsupportable quality [syn: pretension, pretense, pretence] 2: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" [syn: guise, pretense, pretence, pretext] 3: pretending with intention to deceive [syn: pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling] 4: imaginative intellectual play [syn: pretense, pretence, make-believe] 5: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" [syn: pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning]
  • sense
    n 1: a general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self" 2: the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted; "the dictionary gave several senses for the word"; "in the best sense charity is really a duty"; "the signifier is linked to the signified" [syn: sense, signified] 3: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing" [syn: sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty] 4: sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away" [syn: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit] 5: a natural appreciation or ability; "a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing" v 1: perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles; "He felt the wind"; "She felt an object brushing her arm"; "He felt his flesh crawl"; "She felt the heat when she got out of the car" [syn: feel, sense] 2: detect some circumstance or entity automatically; "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization" 3: become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption" [syn: smell, smell out, sense] 4: comprehend; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter"
  • suspense
    n 1: apprehension about what is going to happen 2: an uncertain cognitive state; "the matter remained in suspense for several years" 3: excited anticipation of an approaching climax; "the play kept the audience in suspense"
  • tense
    adj 1: in or of a state of physical or nervous tension [ant: relaxed] 2: pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') [ant: lax] 3: taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings" [ant: lax] n 1: a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time v 1: become stretched or tense or taut; "the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed;" "the rope strained when the weight was attached" [syn: strain, tense] 2: increase the tension on; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring" 3: become tense, nervous, or uneasy; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room" [syn: tense, tense up] [ant: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind] 4: cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up" [syn: tense, strain, tense up] [ant: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unstrain, unwind]
  • whence
    adv 1: from what place, source, or cause
  • lorenz
    n 1: Austrian zoologist who studied the behavior of birds and emphasized the importance of innate as opposed to learned behaviors (1903-1989) [syn: Lorenz, Konrad Lorenz, Konrad Zacharias Lorenz]
  • cents
  • circumvents
  • comments
  • consents
  • dents
  • descents
  • dissents
  • events
  • event's
  • ferments
  • intents
  • invents
  • laments
  • malcontents
  • misrepresents
  • pence
  • percents
  • portents
  • presents
  • prevents
  • rents
  • represents
  • resents
  • scents
  • segments
  • supplements
  • tents
  • torments
  • vents
  • bentz
  • brents
  • entz
  • frentz
  • gentz
  • hentz
  • jentz
  • krentz
  • lents
  • lentz
  • lentzsch
  • mentz
  • pense
  • pentz
  • rentz
  • sentz
  • slentz
  • stentz
  • wentz
  • zentz
  • ciments
  • discontents

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