Words that rhyme with incense

• cense 0
  v 1: perfume especially with a censer [syn: cense, incense, thurify]
• commence 0
  v 1: take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" [syn: get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence] [ant: end, terminate] 2: set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life" [syn: begin, lead off, start, commence] [ant: end, terminate] 3: get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack" [syn: start, start up, embark on, commence]
• commonsense 0
  adj 1: exhibiting native good judgment; "arrive home at a reasonable hour"; "commonsense scholarship on the foibles of a genius"; "unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated" [syn: commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensical]
• condense 0
  v 1: undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature" [syn: condense, distill, distil] 2: make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" [syn: digest, condense, concentrate] 3: remove water from; "condense the milk" 4: cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid; "The cold air condensed the steam" 5: become more compact or concentrated; "Her feelings condensed" 6: develop due to condensation; "All our planets condensed out of the same material" 7: compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan" [syn: condense, concentrate, contract]
• contents 0
  n 1: a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start [syn: contents, table of contents]
• defence 0
  n 1: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires [syn: defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence] 2: (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring; "his teams are always good on defense" [syn: defense, defence, defending team] [ant: offence, offense] 3: the defendant and his legal advisors collectively; "the defense called for a mistrial" [syn: defense, defence, defense team, defense lawyers] [ant: prosecution] 4: an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack; "he joined the defense against invasion" [syn: defense, defence, defense force, defence force] 5: the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he said the other man started it" [syn: refutation, defense, defence] 6: the justification for some act or belief; "he offered a persuasive defense of the theory" [syn: defense, defence, vindication] 7: a structure used to defend against attack; "the artillery battered down the defenses" [syn: defensive structure, defense, defence] 8: a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; "he gave evidence for the defense" [syn: defense, defence, denial, demurrer] [ant: criminal prosecution, prosecution] 9: (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies; "they died in the defense of Stalingrad"; "they were developed for the defense program" [syn: defense, defence, defensive measure] 10: protection from harm; "sanitation is the best defense against disease" [syn: defense, defence] 11: the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury; "a good boxer needs a good defense"; "defense against hurricanes is an urgent problem" [syn: defense, defence]
• dense 0
  adj 1: permitting little if any light to pass through because of denseness of matter; "dense smoke"; "heavy fog"; "impenetrable gloom" [syn: dense, heavy, impenetrable] 2: hard to pass through because of dense growth; "dense vegetation"; "thick woods" [syn: dense, thick] 3: having high relative density or specific gravity; "dense as lead" 4: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow]
• dispense 0
  v 1: administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks" [syn: distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out] 2: grant a dispensation; grant an exemption; "I was dispensed from this terrible task" 3: give or apply (medications) [syn: administer, dispense]
• expense 0
  n 1: amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) [syn: expense, disbursal, disbursement] 2: a detriment or sacrifice; "at the expense of" 3: money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer; "he kept a careful record of his expenses at the meeting" v 1: reduce the estimated value of something; "For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer" [syn: expense, write off, write down]
• fence 0
  n 1: a barrier that serves to enclose an area [syn: fence, fencing] 2: a dealer in stolen property v 1: enclose with a fence; "we fenced in our yard" [syn: fence, fence in] 2: receive stolen goods 3: fight with fencing swords 4: surround with a wall in order to fortify [syn: wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround] 5: have an argument about something [syn: argue, contend, debate, fence]
• flense 0
  v 1: strip the blubber or skin from (a whale or seal)
• frankincense 0
  n 1: an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation [syn: frankincense, olibanum, gum olibanum, thus]
• hence 0
  adv 1: (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted" [syn: therefore, hence, thence, thus, so] 2: from this place; "get thee hence!" 3: from this time; "a year hence it will be forgotten"
• immense 0
  adj 1: unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space"; "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: huge, immense, vast, Brobdingnagian]
• intense 0
  adj 1: possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree; "intense heat"; "intense anxiety"; "intense desire"; "intense emotion"; "the skunk's intense acrid odor"; "intense pain"; "enemy fire was intense" [ant: mild] 2: extremely sharp or intense; "acute pain"; "felt acute annoyance"; "intense itching and burning" [syn: acute, intense] 3: (of color) having the highest saturation; "vivid green"; "intense blue" [syn: intense, vivid]
• offence 0
  n 1: the action of attacking an enemy [syn: offense, offence, offensive] 2: the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score [syn: offense, offence] [ant: defence, defending team, defense] 3: a feeling of anger caused by being offended; "he took offence at my question" [syn: umbrage, offense, offence] 4: a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others [syn: discourtesy, offense, offence, offensive activity] 5: (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes" [syn: crime, offense, criminal offense, criminal offence, offence, law-breaking]
• pretence 0
  n 1: a false or unsupportable quality [syn: pretension, pretense, pretence] 2: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" [syn: guise, pretense, pretence, pretext] 3: pretending with intention to deceive [syn: pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling] 4: imaginative intellectual play [syn: pretense, pretence, make-believe] 5: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" [syn: pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning]
• recommence 0
  v 1: cause to start anew; "The enemy recommenced hostilities after a few days of quiet" 2: begin again; "we recommenced his reading after a short nap"
• recompense 0
  n 1: payment or reward (as for service rendered) 2: the act of compensating for service or loss or injury [syn: recompense, compensation] v 1: make amends for; pay compensation for; "One can never fully repair the suffering and losses of the Jews in the Third Reich"; "She was compensated for the loss of her arm in the accident" [syn: compensate, recompense, repair, indemnify] 2: make payment to; compensate; "My efforts were not remunerated" [syn: compensate, recompense, remunerate]
• sense 0
  n 1: a general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self" 2: the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted; "the dictionary gave several senses for the word"; "in the best sense charity is really a duty"; "the signifier is linked to the signified" [syn: sense, signified] 3: the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; "in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing" [syn: sense, sensation, sentience, sentiency, sensory faculty] 4: sound practical judgment; "Common sense is not so common"; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"; "fortunately she had the good sense to run away" [syn: common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit] 5: a natural appreciation or ability; "a keen musical sense"; "a good sense of timing" v 1: perceive by a physical sensation, e.g., coming from the skin or muscles; "He felt the wind"; "She felt an object brushing her arm"; "He felt his flesh crawl"; "She felt the heat when she got out of the car" [syn: feel, sense] 2: detect some circumstance or entity automatically; "This robot can sense the presence of people in the room"; "particle detectors sense ionization" 3: become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption" [syn: smell, smell out, sense] 4: comprehend; "I sensed the real meaning of his letter"
• suspense 0
  n 1: apprehension about what is going to happen 2: an uncertain cognitive state; "the matter remained in suspense for several years" 3: excited anticipation of an approaching climax; "the play kept the audience in suspense"
• tense 0
  adj 1: in or of a state of physical or nervous tension [ant: relaxed] 2: pronounced with relatively tense tongue muscles (e.g., the vowel sound in `beat') [ant: lax] 3: taut or rigid; stretched tight; "tense piano strings" [ant: lax] n 1: a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time v 1: become stretched or tense or taut; "the bodybuilder's neck muscles tensed;" "the rope strained when the weight was attached" [syn: strain, tense] 2: increase the tension on; "alternately relax and tense your calf muscle"; "tense the rope manually before tensing the spring" 3: become tense, nervous, or uneasy; "He tensed up when he saw his opponent enter the room" [syn: tense, tense up] [ant: decompress, loosen up, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind] 4: cause to be tense and uneasy or nervous or anxious; "he got a phone call from his lawyer that tensed him up" [syn: tense, strain, tense up] [ant: loosen up, make relaxed, relax, unlax, unstrain, unwind]
• thence 0
  adv 1: from that place or from there; "proceeded thence directly to college"; "flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow"; "roads that lead therefrom" [syn: thence, therefrom] 2: from that circumstance or source; "atomic formulas and all compounds thence constructible"- W.V.Quine; "a natural conclusion follows thence"; "public interest and a policy deriving therefrom"; "typhus fever results therefrom" [syn: thence, therefrom, thereof] 3: (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result; "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and so cannot be trusted" [syn: therefore, hence, thence, thus, so]
• whence 0
  adv 1: from what place, source, or cause
• defense 0
  n 1: (military) military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies; "they died in the defense of Stalingrad"; "they were developed for the defense program" [syn: defense, defence, defensive measure] 2: protection from harm; "sanitation is the best defense against disease" [syn: defense, defence] 3: (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring; "his teams are always good on defense" [syn: defense, defence, defending team] [ant: offence, offense] 4: the justification for some act or belief; "he offered a persuasive defense of the theory" [syn: defense, defence, vindication] 5: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires [syn: defense mechanism, defense reaction, defence mechanism, defence reaction, defense, defence] 6: the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947 [syn: Department of Defense, Defense Department, United States Department of Defense, Defense, DoD] 7: the defendant and his legal advisors collectively; "the defense called for a mistrial" [syn: defense, defence, defense team, defense lawyers] [ant: prosecution] 8: the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; "his refutation of the charges was short and persuasive"; "in defense he said the other man started it" [syn: refutation, defense, defence] 9: an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack; "he joined the defense against invasion" [syn: defense, defence, defense force, defence force] 10: a structure used to defend against attack; "the artillery battered down the defenses" [syn: defensive structure, defense, defence] 11: a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; "he gave evidence for the defense" [syn: defense, defence, denial, demurrer] [ant: criminal prosecution, prosecution] 12: the act of defending someone or something against attack or injury; "a good boxer needs a good defense"; "defense against hurricanes is an urgent problem" [syn: defense, defence]
• offense 0
  n 1: a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings or others [syn: discourtesy, offense, offence, offensive activity] 2: a feeling of anger caused by being offended; "he took offence at my question" [syn: umbrage, offense, offence] 3: (criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act; "a long record of crimes" [syn: crime, offense, criminal offense, criminal offence, offence, law-breaking] 4: the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score [syn: offense, offence] [ant: defence, defending team, defense] 5: the action of attacking an enemy [syn: offense, offence, offensive]
• pretense 0
  n 1: the act of giving a false appearance; "his conformity was only pretending" [syn: pretense, pretence, pretending, simulation, feigning] 2: pretending with intention to deceive [syn: pretense, pretence, feigning, dissembling] 3: imaginative intellectual play [syn: pretense, pretence, make-believe] 4: a false or unsupportable quality [syn: pretension, pretense, pretence] 5: an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them" [syn: guise, pretense, pretence, pretext]
• self-defense 0
  n 1: the act of defending yourself [syn: self-defense, self- defence, self-protection]
• self-defence 0
  n 1: the act of defending yourself [syn: self-defense, self- defence, self-protection]
• bents 0
• cents 0
• descents 0
• events 0
• misrepresents 0
• pence 0
• percents 0
• presents 0
• scents 0
• segments 0
• bence 0
• brents 0
• hense 0
• spence 0
• ferenc 0
• prepense 0
• hortense 0

See also incense definition and incense synonyms