Words that rhyme with continent

• abstinent 0
  adj 1: self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious" [syn: abstinent, abstentious] n 1: a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages [syn: abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker] [ant: drinker, imbiber, juicer, toper]
• ailment 0
  n 1: an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining [syn: ailment, complaint, ill]
• annulment 0
  n 1: the state of being cancelled or annulled [syn: revocation, annulment] 2: (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) [syn: annulment, invalidation] 3: the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation [syn: abrogation, repeal, annulment]
• bafflement 0
  n 1: confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement]
• bailment 0
  n 1: the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee
• bedevilment 0
  n 1: the act of harassing someone [syn: badgering, worrying, torment, bedevilment]
• befuddlement 0
  n 1: confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement]
• beguilement 0
  n 1: magnetic personal charm [syn: bewitchery, beguilement, animal magnetism] 2: an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations [syn: beguilement, distraction]
• complainant 0
  n 1: a person who brings an action in a court of law [syn: plaintiff, complainant] [ant: defendant, suspect]
• curtailment 0
  n 1: the temporal property of being cut short 2: the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" [syn: suppression, curtailment] 3: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable [syn: retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing]
• defilement 0
  n 1: the state of being polluted [syn: befoulment, defilement, pollution]
• derailment 0
  n 1: an accident in which a train runs off its track
• despoilment 0
  n 1: the act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation]
• devilment 0
  n 1: reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others [syn: mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan]
• disentanglement 0
  n 1: the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition [syn: unsnarling, untangling, disentanglement, extrication]
• disgruntlement 0
  n 1: a feeling of sulky discontent
• dismantlement 0
  n 1: the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery); "Russia and the United States discussed the dismantling of their nuclear weapons" [syn: dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly] [ant: assemblage, assembly, fabrication, gathering]
• embezzlement 0
  n 1: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation]
• embroilment 0
  n 1: an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation [syn: imbroglio, embroilment]
• encirclement 0
  n 1: a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy [syn: blockade, encirclement]
• enfeeblement 0
  n 1: serious weakening and loss of energy [syn: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion]
• entailment 0
  n 1: something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications" [syn: deduction, entailment, implication]
• entanglement 0
  n 1: an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim [syn: web, entanglement]
• entitlement 0
  n 1: right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits); "entitlements make up the major part of the federal budget"
• fulfilment 0
  n 1: a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires [syn: fulfillment, fulfilment] 2: the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) [syn: fulfillment, fulfilment]
• impalement 0
  n 1: the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture
• incontinent 0
  adj 1: not having control over urination and defecation [ant: continent]
• instalment 0
  n 1: a part of a broadcast serial [syn: episode, installment, instalment] 2: a part of a published serial [syn: installment, instalment] 3: the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn: installation, installing, installment, instalment]
• lieutenant 0
  n 1: a commissioned military officer 2: an officer in a police force [syn: lieutenant, police lieutenant] 3: an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent [syn: deputy, lieutenant] 4: an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
• manservant 0
  n 1: a man servant
• opponent 0
  adj 1: characterized by active hostility; "opponent (or opposing) armies" [syn: opponent, opposing] n 1: a contestant that you are matched against [syn: opposition, opponent, opposite] 2: someone who offers opposition [syn: adversary, antagonist, opponent, opposer, resister] [ant: agonist]
• pennant 0
  n 1: the award given to the champion [syn: pennant, crown] 2: a flag longer than it is wide (and often tapering) 3: a long flag; often tapering [syn: pennant, pennon, streamer, waft]
• permanent 0
  adj 1: continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place; "permanent secretary to the president"; "permanent address"; "literature of permanent value" [syn: permanent, lasting] [ant: impermanent, temporary] 2: not capable of being reversed or returned to the original condition; "permanent brain damage" n 1: a series of waves in the hair made by applying heat and chemicals [syn: permanent wave, permanent, perm]
• pertinent 0
  adj 1: having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand; "a list of articles pertinent to the discussion"; "remarks that were to the point" 2: being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" [syn: apposite, apt, pertinent]
• predominant 0
  adj 1: most frequent or common; "prevailing winds" [syn: prevailing, prevalent, predominant, dominant, rife] 2: having superior power and influence; "the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism" [syn: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating]
• prominent 0
  adj 1: having a quality that thrusts itself into attention; "an outstanding fact of our time is that nations poisoned by anti semitism proved less fortunate in regard to their own freedom"; "a new theory is the most prominent feature of the book"; "salient traits"; "a spectacular rise in prices"; "a striking thing about Picadilly Circus is the statue of Eros in the center"; "a striking resemblance between parent and child" [syn: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular, striking] 2: conspicuous in position or importance; "a big figure in the movement"; "big man on campus"; "he's very large in financial circles"; "a prominent citizen" [syn: big, large, prominent]
• proponent 0
  n 1: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea [syn: advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent]
• puzzlement 0
  n 1: confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement]
• recombinant 0
  adj 1: of or relating to recombinant DNA n 1: a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred
• regnant 0
  adj 1: exercising power or authority [syn: regnant, reigning, ruling]
• relevant 0
  adj 1: having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue; "the scientist corresponds with colleagues in order to learn about matters relevant to her own research" [ant: irrelevant]
• remnant 0
  n 1: a small part or portion that remains after the main part no longer exists [syn: leftover, remnant] 2: a piece of cloth that is left over after the rest has been used or sold [syn: end, remainder, remnant, oddment]
• repugnant 0
  adj 1: offensive to the mind; "an abhorrent deed"; "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee"; "morally repugnant customs"; "repulsive behavior"; "the most repulsive character in recent novels" [syn: abhorrent, detestable, obscene, repugnant, repulsive]
• resettlement 0
  n 1: the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) [syn: resettlement, relocation]
• resonant 0
  adj 1: characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder" [syn: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative] 2: serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics" [syn: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant]
• revenant 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or typical of a revenant; "revenant shrieks and groans" 2: coming back; "a revenant ghost" [syn: recurring, revenant] n 1: a person who returns after a lengthy absence 2: someone who has returned from the dead
• ruminant 0
  adj 1: related to or characteristic of animals of the suborder Ruminantia or any other animal that chews a cud; "ruminant mammals" [ant: nonruminant] n 1: any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments
• servant 0
  n 1: a person working in the service of another (especially in the household) [syn: servant, retainer] 2: in a subordinate position; "theology should be the handmaiden of ethics"; "the state cannot be a servant of the church" [syn: handmaid, handmaiden, servant]
• settlement 0
  n 1: a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris" [syn: colony, settlement] 2: a community of people smaller than a town [syn: village, small town, settlement] 3: a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it 4: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America" [syn: colonization, colonisation, settlement] 5: something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure" [syn: settlement, resolution, closure] 6: an area where a group of families live together 7: termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities [syn: liquidation, settlement]
• solvent 0
  adj 1: capable of meeting financial obligations [ant: insolvent] n 1: a liquid substance capable of dissolving other substances; "the solvent does not change its state in forming a solution" [syn: solvent, dissolvent, dissolver, dissolving agent, resolvent] 2: a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem; "they were trying to find a peaceful solution"; "the answers were in the back of the book"; "he computed the result to four decimal places" [syn: solution, answer, result, resolution, solvent]
• sonant 0
  adj 1: produced with vibration of the vocal cords; "a frequently voiced opinion"; "voiced consonants such as `b' and `g' and `z'"; [syn: voiced, sonant, soft] [ant: hard, surd, unvoiced, voiceless] n 1: a speech sound accompanied by sound from the vocal cords [syn: sonant, voiced sound]
• subcontinent 0
  n 1: a large and distinctive landmass (as India or Greenland) that is a distinct part of some continent
• subdominant 0
  n 1: (music) the fourth note of the diatonic scale
• sycophant 0
  n 1: a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage [syn: sycophant, toady, crawler, lackey, ass-kisser]
• tenant 0
  n 1: someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; "the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent" [syn: tenant, renter] 2: a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease) 3: any occupant who dwells in a place v 1: occupy as a tenant
• triumphant 0
  adj 1: joyful and proud especially because of triumph or success; "rejoicing crowds filled the streets on VJ Day"; "a triumphal success"; "a triumphant shout" [syn: exultant, exulting, jubilant, prideful, rejoicing, triumphal, triumphant] 2: experiencing triumph [syn: triumphant, victorious]
• preeminent 0
  adj 1: greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement; "our greatest statesmen"; "the country's leading poet"; "a preeminent archeologist" [syn: leading(a), preeminent]
• illuminant 0
  n 1: something that can serve as a source of light
• fulminant 0
  adj 1: sudden and severe; "fulminant pain"; "fulminant fever"
• bamboozlement 0
• bedazzlement 0
• embranglement 0
• enthralment 0
• inconsonant 0
• inveiglement 0
• misdemeanant 0
• pursuivant 0
• unsettlement 0
• imponent 0
• undertenant 0
• oppugnant 0
• babblement 0
• tracklement 0
• entablement 0
• discriminant 0
• unisonant 0

See also continent definition and continent synonyms