Words that rhyme with drainage

• advantage 0
  n 1: the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me" [syn: advantage, vantage] [ant: disadvantage] 2: (tennis) first point scored after deuce 3: benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity" [syn: advantage, reward] [ant: penalty] v 1: give an advantage to; "This system advantages the rich" [ant: disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour]
• average 0
  adj 1: approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall" [syn: average, mean(a)] 2: lacking special distinction, rank, or status; commonly encountered; "average people"; "the ordinary (or common) man in the street" [syn: average, ordinary] 3: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling] 4: around the middle of a scale of evaluation; "an orange of average size"; "intermediate capacity"; "medium bombers" [syn: average, intermediate, medium] 5: relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30" [syn: modal(a), average] 6: relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn: median(a), average] n 1: a statistic describing the location of a distribution; "it set the norm for American homes" [syn: average, norm] 2: (sports) the ratio of successful performances to opportunities 3: an intermediate scale value regarded as normal or usual; "he is about average in height"; "the snowfall this month is below average" v 1: amount to or come to an average, without loss or gain; "The number of hours I work per work averages out to 40" [syn: average, average out] 2: achieve or reach on average; "He averaged a C" 3: compute the average of [syn: average, average out]
• baronage 0
  n 1: the peers of a kingdom considered as a group [syn: peerage, baronage]
• beige 0
  adj 1: of a light greyish-brown color n 1: a very light brown [syn: beige, ecru]
• cabbage 0
  n 1: any of various types of cabbage [syn: cabbage, chou] 2: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] 3: any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers [syn: cabbage, cultivated cabbage, Brassica oleracea] v 1: make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift]
• carnage 0
  n 1: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery]
• coinage 0
  n 1: coins collectively [syn: coinage, mintage, specie, metal money] 2: a newly invented word or phrase [syn: neologism, neology, coinage] 3: the act of inventing a word or phrase [syn: neologism, neology, coinage]
• commonage 0
  n 1: property held in common
• cortege 0
  n 1: a funeral procession 2: the group following and attending to some important person [syn: cortege, retinue, suite, entourage]
• damage 0
  n 1: the occurrence of a change for the worse [syn: damage, harm, impairment] 2: loss of military equipment [syn: damage, equipment casualty] 3: the act of damaging something or someone [syn: damage, harm, hurt, scathe] 4: the amount of money needed to purchase something; "the price of gasoline"; "he got his new car on excellent terms"; "how much is the damage?" [syn: price, terms, damage] 5: any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right [syn: wrong, legal injury, damage] v 1: inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree" 2: suffer or be susceptible to damage; "These fine china cups damage easily"
• disadvantage 0
  n 1: the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position [ant: advantage, vantage] v 1: put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm; "This rule clearly disadvantages me" [syn: disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour] [ant: advantage]
• empennage 0
  n 1: the rear part of an aircraft [syn: tail, tail assembly, empennage]
• linage 0
  n 1: the number of lines in a piece of printed material [syn: linage, lineage] 2: a rate of payment for written material that is measured according to the number of lines submitted [syn: linage, lineage]
• manage 0
  v 1: be successful; achieve a goal; "She succeeded in persuading us all"; "I managed to carry the box upstairs"; "She pulled it off, even though we never thought her capable of it"; "The pianist negociated the difficult runs" [syn: pull off, negociate, bring off, carry off, manage] [ant: fail] 2: be in charge of, act on, or dispose of; "I can deal with this crew of workers"; "This blender can't handle nuts"; "She managed her parents' affairs after they got too old" [syn: manage, deal, care, handle] 3: come to terms with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day" [syn: cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage] 4: watch and direct; "Who is overseeing this project?" [syn: oversee, supervise, superintend, manage] 5: achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods [syn: wangle, finagle, manage] 6: carry on or function; "We could do with a little more help around here" [syn: do, manage] 7: handle effectively; "The burglar wielded an axe"; "The young violinist didn't manage her bow very well" [syn: wield, handle, manage]
• mismanage 0
  v 1: manage badly or incompetently; "The funds were mismanaged" [syn: mismanage, mishandle, misconduct]
• orphanage 0
  n 1: the condition of being a child without living parents; "his early orphanage shaped his character as an adult" [syn: orphanage, orphanhood] 2: a public institution for the care of orphans [syn: orphanage, orphans' asylum]
• parsonage 0
  n 1: an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector [syn: parsonage, vicarage, rectory]
• patronage 0
  n 1: the act of providing approval and support; "his vigorous backing of the conservatives got him in trouble with progressives" [syn: backing, backup, championship, patronage] 2: customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele" [syn: clientele, patronage, business] 3: a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient [syn: condescension, disdain, patronage] 4: (politics) granting favors or giving contracts or making appointments to office in return for political support 5: the business given to a commercial establishment by its customers; "even before noon there was a considerable patronage" [syn: trade, patronage] v 1: support by being a patron of 2: be a regular customer or client of; "We patronize this store"; "Our sponsor kept our art studio going for as long as he could" [syn: patronize, patronise, patronage, support, keep going]
• peonage 0
  n 1: the condition of a peon 2: the practice of making a debtor work for his creditor until the debt is discharged
• personage 0
  n 1: another word for person; a person not meriting identification; "a strange personage appeared at the door" 2: a person whose actions and opinions strongly influence the course of events [syn: important person, influential person, personage]
• saxifrage 0
  n 1: any of various plants of the genus Saxifraga [syn: saxifrage, breakstone, rockfoil]
• spinach 0
  n 1: southwestern Asian plant widely cultivated for its succulent edible dark green leaves [syn: spinach, spinach plant, prickly-seeded spinach, Spinacia oleracea] 2: dark green leaves; eaten cooked or raw in salads
• tonnage 0
  n 1: a tax imposed on ships that enter the US; based on the tonnage of the ship [syn: tonnage, tunnage, tonnage duty]
• greenwich 0
  n 1: a borough of Greater London on the Thames; zero degrees of longitude runs through Greenwich; time is measured relative to Greenwich Mean Time
• concubinage 0
  n 1: cohabitation without being legally married
• nonage 0
  n 1: any age prior to the legal age [syn: minority, nonage] [ant: legal age, majority]
• chaperonage 0
• libertinage 0
• vicinage 0
• pannage 0
• micromanage 0
• dunnage 0
• tannage 0
• cranage 0
• thanage 0

See also drainage definition and drainage synonyms