Words that rhyme with floriculture

• apiculture 3
  n 1: the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey [syn: beekeeping, apiculture]
• agriculture 0
  n 1: a large-scale farming enterprise [syn: agribusiness, agriculture, factory farm] 2: the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock [syn: farming, agriculture, husbandry] 3: the federal department that administers programs that provide services to farmers (including research and soil conservation and efforts to stabilize the farming economy); created in 1862 [syn: Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Department, Agriculture, USDA] 4: the class of people engaged in growing food
• aquaculture 0
  n 1: rearing aquatic animals or cultivating aquatic plants for food
• aquiculture 0
  n 1: a technique of growing plants (without soil) in water containing dissolved nutrients [syn: hydroponics, aquiculture, tank farming]
• arboriculture 0
  n 1: the cultivation of tree for the production of timber [syn: arboriculture, tree farming]
• counterculture 0
  n 1: a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture
• culture 0
  n 1: a particular society at a particular time and place; "early Mayan civilization" [syn: culture, civilization, civilisation] 2: the tastes in art and manners that are favored by a social group 3: all the knowledge and values shared by a society [syn: acculturation, culture] 4: (biology) the growing of microorganisms in a nutrient medium (such as gelatin or agar); "the culture of cells in a Petri dish" 5: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph Conrad [syn: polish, refinement, culture, cultivation, finish] 6: the attitudes and behavior that are characteristic of a particular social group or organization; "the developing drug culture"; "the reason that the agency is doomed to inaction has something to do with the FBI culture" 7: the raising of plants or animals; "the culture of oysters" v 1: grow in a special preparation; "the biologist grows microorganisms"
• future 0
  adj 1: yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him" [ant: past, present(a)] 2: effective in or looking toward the future; "he was preparing for future employment opportunities" 3: (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next president" [syn: future(a), next, succeeding(a)] 4: a verb tense or other formation referring to events or states that have not yet happened; "future auxiliary" n 1: the time yet to come [syn: future, hereafter, futurity, time to come] [ant: past, past times, yesteryear] 2: a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the future [syn: future, future tense] 3: bulk commodities bought or sold at an agreed price for delivery at a specified future date
• horticulture 0
  n 1: the cultivation of plants [syn: gardening, horticulture]
• monoculture 0
  n 1: the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country)
• sculpture 0
  n 1: a three-dimensional work of plastic art 2: creating figures or designs in three dimensions [syn: sculpture, carving] v 1: create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material; "sculpt a swan out of a block of ice" [syn: sculpt, sculpture] 2: shape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it; "She is sculpting the block of marble into an image of her husband" [syn: sculpt, sculpture, grave]
• sericulture 0
  n 1: raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk 2: the production of raw silk by raising silkworms
• squelcher 0
  n 1: a crushing remark [syn: put-down, squelch, squelcher, takedown] 2: an electric circuit that cuts off a receiver when the signal becomes weaker than the noise [syn: squelch circuit, squelch, squelcher]
• structure 0
  n 1: a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons" [syn: structure, construction] 2: the manner of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts; "artists must study the structure of the human body"; "the structure of the benzene molecule" 3: the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations; "his lectures have no structure" 4: a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing; "he has good bone structure" [syn: structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure] 5: the people in a society considered as a system organized by a characteristic pattern of relationships; "the social organization of England and America is very different"; "sociologists have studied the changing structure of the family" [syn: social organization, social organisation, social structure, social system, structure] v 1: give a structure to; "I need to structure my days"
• subculture 0
  n 1: a social group within a national culture that has distinctive patterns of behavior and beliefs
• torture 0
  n 1: extreme mental distress [syn: anguish, torment, torture] 2: unbearable physical pain [syn: torture, torment] 3: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn: agony, torment, torture] 4: the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean [syn: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting] 5: the deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason; "it required unnatural torturing to extract a confession" [syn: torture, torturing] v 1: torment emotionally or mentally [syn: torment, torture, excruciate, rack] 2: subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible" [syn: torture, excruciate, torment]
• viniculture 0
  n 1: the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing [syn: viticulture, viniculture]
• viticulture 0
  n 1: the cultivation of grapes and grape vines; grape growing [syn: viticulture, viniculture]
• vulture 0
  n 1: any of various large diurnal birds of prey having naked heads and weak claws and feeding chiefly on carrion 2: someone who attacks in search of booty [syn: marauder, predator, vulture, piranha]
• chirr 0
  v 1: make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas
• churr 0
  v 1: make a vibrant sound, as of some birds [syn: churr, whirr]
• silviculture 0
  n 1: the branch of forestry dealing with the development and care of forests
• sepulture 0
  n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture] 2: a chamber that is used as a grave [syn: burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre, sepulture]
• aviculture 0
• multure 0
• chirre 0
• belcher 0
• sandculture 0
• unculture 0
• chemiculture 0
• citriculture 0
• pisciculture 0
• sylviculture 0
• urbiculture 0
• olericulture 0

See also floriculture definition and floriculture synonyms