Words that rhyme with irradiance

n 1: a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement" [syn: atmosphere, ambiance, ambience] 2: the atmosphere of an environment [syn: ambiance, ambience]

n 1: a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement" [syn: atmosphere, ambiance, ambience] 2: the atmosphere of an environment [syn: ambiance, ambience]

n 1: a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance; "the audience applauded"; "someone in the audience began to cough" 2: the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment; "every artist needs an audience"; "the broadcast reached an audience of millions" 3: an opportunity to state your case and be heard; "they condemned him without a hearing"; "he saw that he had lost his audience" [syn: hearing, audience] 4: a conference (usually with someone important); "he had a consultation with the judge"; "he requested an audience with the king" [syn: consultation, audience, interview]

n 1: a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted; "a glare of sunlight" [syn: glare, blaze, brilliance] 2: the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products" [syn: magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness] 3: unusual mental ability [syn: brilliance, genius]

n 1: the state of being suitable or opportune; "chairs arranged for his own convenience" 2: the quality of being useful and convenient; "they offered the convenience of an installment plan" [ant: inconvenience] 3: a toilet that is available to the public [syn: public toilet, comfort station, public convenience, convenience, public lavatory, restroom, toilet facility, wash room] 4: a device or control that is very useful for a particular job [syn: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget]

n 1: (statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means

n 1: the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working [syn: dalliance, dawdling, trifling] 2: playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest [syn: flirt, flirting, flirtation, coquetry, dalliance, toying]

n 1: a state or condition markedly different from the norm [syn: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, deviance] 2: deviate behavior [syn: deviation, deviance]

n 1: the failure to obey [syn: disobedience, noncompliance] [ant: abidance, compliance, conformation, conformity, obedience, obeisance] 2: the trait of being unwilling to obey [ant: obedience]

n 1: overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval [syn: exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience]

v 1: fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair" [syn: ensconce, settle]

n 1: excessive desire to eat [syn: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voracity, voraciousness] 2: extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness]

n 1: the quality of being suited to the end in view [syn: expedience, expediency] [ant: inexpedience, inexpediency] 2: taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others [syn: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking, expedience]

n 1: the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities; "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher" [ant: inexperience, rawness] 2: the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly" 3: an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention" v 1: go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" [syn: experience, see, go through] 2: have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" [syn: know, experience, live] 3: go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: experience, receive, have, get] 4: undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" [syn: feel, experience] 5: undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up" [syn: have, experience]

n 1: beginning to exist or to be apparent; "he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850"; "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency" [syn: incipiency, incipience]

n 1: an inconvenient discomfort [syn: inconvenience, incommodiousness] 2: a difficulty that causes anxiety [syn: troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment] 3: the quality of not being useful or convenient [ant: convenience] v 1: to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..." [syn: trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother]

n 1: the quality of being unsuited to the end in view [syn: inexpedience, inexpediency] [ant: expedience, expediency]

n 1: lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience; "procedural inexperience created difficulties"; "their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops" [syn: inexperience, rawness] [ant: experience]

n 1: the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you [syn: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness]

n 1: the quality of being resistant to variation [syn: invariability, invariableness, invariance] [ant: variability, variableness, variance] 2: the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it; "the invariance of the configuration under translation"

n 1: mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant [syn: lenience, leniency, mildness, lenity] 2: a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child" [syn: indulgence, lenience, leniency] 3: lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers [syn: lenience, leniency]

n 1: the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses [syn: luxuriance, lushness, voluptuousness]

n 1: the present occasion; "for the nonce" [syn: time being, nonce]

n 1: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person [syn: obedience, obeisance] [ant: disobedience, noncompliance] 2: the trait of being willing to obey [ant: disobedience] 3: behavior intended to please your parents; "their children were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes" [syn: obedience, respect]

n 1: the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge

n 1: the power to foresee the future [syn: prescience, prevision]

n 1: where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" [syn: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience]

n 1: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness [syn: prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity]

n 1: power to influence or coerce; "the puissance of the labor vote"

n 1: the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface [syn: radiance, glow, glowing] 2: the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light [syn: radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency] 3: an attractive combination of good health and happiness; "the radiance of her countenance"

n 1: the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit [syn: resilience, resiliency] 2: an occurrence of rebounding or springing back [syn: resilience, resiliency]

n 1: a result; "this situation developed in response to events in Africa" 2: a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age" [syn: reaction, response] 3: a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation; "I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to several of his critics" [syn: answer, reply, response] 4: the manner in which something is greeted; "she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors" [syn: reception, response] 5: a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister 6: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange; "he growled his reply" [syn: reply, response] 7: the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals

n 1: the state of being salient [syn: salience, saliency, strikingness]

n 1: ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight [syn: wisdom, sapience]

n 1: a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather 2: a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate 3: a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce 4: a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light

n 1: the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan; "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan" 2: in a subservient state [syn: subservience, subservientness] 3: abject or cringing submissiveness [syn: obsequiousness, servility, subservience]

n 1: an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying [syn: transience, transiency, transitoriness] 2: the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity, briefness, transience]

n 1: an event that departs from expectations [syn: discrepancy, variance, variant] 2: discord that splits a group [syn: division, variance] 3: the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value 4: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance] 5: the quality of being subject to variation [syn: variability, variableness, variance] [ant: invariability, invariableness, invariance] 6: an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation); "a zoning variance" 7: an activity that varies from a norm or standard; "any variation in his routine was immediately reported" [syn: variation, variance]

n 1: a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses 2: someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) [syn: pimp, procurer, panderer, pander, pandar, fancy man, ponce]

n 1: a former province of southeastern France; now administered with Cote d'Azur

n 1: ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn: ignorantness, nescience, unknowing, unknowingness]

n 1: a meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor" [syn: seance, sitting, session]

n 1: a marriage with a person of inferior social status