Words that rhyme with impatiens

v 1: clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner" [syn: cleanse, clean] 2: purge of an ideology, bad thoughts, or sins; "Purgatory is supposed to cleanse you from your sins"

n 1: the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); "communications is his major field of study" [syn: communications, communication theory]

n 1: an expression of approval and commendation; "he always appreciated praise for his work" [syn: praise, congratulations, kudos, extolment]

n 1: state of violent mental agitation [syn: craze, delirium, frenzy, fury, hysteria] 2: a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations

n 1: a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images [syn: lens, lense, lens system] 2: genus of small erect or climbing herbs with pinnate leaves and small inconspicuous white flowers and small flattened pods: lentils [syn: Lens, genus Lens] 3: (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood; "the writer is the lens through which history can be seen" 4: biconvex transparent body situated behind the iris in the eye; its role (along with the cornea) is to focuses light on the retina [syn: lens, crystalline lens, lens of the eye] 5: electronic equipment that uses a magnetic or electric field in order to focus a beam of electrons [syn: lens, electron lens]

n 1: financial transactions at a brokerage; having to do with the execution of trades and keeping customer records [syn: operations, trading operations]

n 1: mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups [syn: relations, dealings]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Homo sapiens

n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary [syn: Stations, Stations of the Cross]

n 1: a mountain range in the eastern United States extending from Quebec to the Gulf of Mexico; a historic barrier to early westward expansion of the United States [syn: Appalachians, Appalachian Mountains]

n 1: family based on male descent; "he had no sons and there was no one to carry on his name" [syn: name, gens]