Words that rhyme with effigy

• allergy 0
  n 1: hypersensitivity reaction to a particular allergen; symptoms can vary greatly in intensity [syn: allergy, allergic reaction]
• analogy 0
  n 1: an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others 2: drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up" 3: the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate [syn: doctrine of analogy, analogy] [ant: apophatism, cataphatism]
• clergy 0
  n 1: in Christianity, clergymen collectively (as distinguished from the laity) [ant: laity, temporalty]
• elegy 0
  n 1: a mournful poem; a lament for the dead [syn: elegy, lament]
• energy 0
  n 1: (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; "energy can take a wide variety of forms" [syn: energy, free energy] 2: forceful exertion; "he plays tennis with great energy"; "he's full of zip" [syn: energy, vigor, vigour, zip] 3: enterprising or ambitious drive; "Europeans often laugh at American energy" [syn: energy, push, get-up-and-go] 4: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim] 5: a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn: energy, vim, vitality] 6: any source of usable power; "the DOE is responsible for maintaining the energy policy" 7: the federal department responsible for maintaining a national energy policy of the United States; created in 1977 [syn: Department of Energy, Energy Department, Energy, DOE]
• genealogy 0
  n 1: successive generations of kin [syn: genealogy, family tree] 2: the study or investigation of ancestry and family history
• lethargy 0
  n 1: a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) [syn: lethargy, lassitude, sluggishness] 2: weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy [syn: inanition, lassitude, lethargy, slackness] 3: inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy; "the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends" [syn: languor, lethargy, sluggishness, phlegm, flatness]
• liturgy 0
  n 1: a Christian sacrament commemorating the Last Supper by consecrating bread and wine [syn: Holy Eucharist, Eucharist, sacrament of the Eucharist, Holy Sacrament, Liturgy, Eucharistic liturgy, Lord's Supper] 2: a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship
• metallurgy 0
  n 1: the science and technology of metals
• prodigy 0
  n 1: an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration; "she is a chess prodigy" 2: a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" [syn: omen, portent, presage, prognostic, prognostication, prodigy] 3: an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality; "the Marines are expected to perform prodigies of valor"
• strategy 0
  n 1: an elaborate and systematic plan of action [syn: scheme, strategy] 2: the branch of military science dealing with military command and the planning and conduct of a war
• synergy 0
  n 1: the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects [syn: synergy, synergism]
• trilogy 0
  n 1: a set of three literary or dramatic works related in subject or theme
• ge 0
  n 1: a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite [syn: germanium, Ge, atomic number 32] 2: (Greek mythology) goddess of the earth and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient mythology [syn: Gaea, Gaia, Ge]
• geophagy 0
  n 1: eating earth, clay, chalk; occurs in some primitive tribes, sometimes in cases of nutritional deficiency or obsessive behavior [syn: geophagy, geophagia]
• hypallage 0
  n 1: reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
• mammalogy 0
  n 1: the branch of zoology that studies mammals
• tetralogy 0
  n 1: a series of four related works (plays or operas or novels)
• brachylogy 0
• romaji 0
• antilogy 0
• hippophagy 0
• ichthyophagy 0
• koradji 0

See also effigy definition and effigy synonyms