Words that rhyme with litany

• aborigine 0
  n 1: an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" [syn: native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal] 2: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Aborigine, Abo, Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine]
• accompany 0
  v 1: be present or associated with an event or entity; "French fries come with the hamburger"; "heart attacks are accompanied by distruction of heart tissue"; "fish usually goes with white wine"; "this kind of vein accompanies certain arteries" [syn: attach to, accompany, come with, go with] 2: go or travel along with; "The nurse accompanied the old lady everywhere" 3: perform an accompaniment to; "The orchestra could barely follow the frequent pitch changes of the soprano" [syn: play along, accompany, follow] 4: be a companion to somebody [syn: company, companion, accompany, keep company]
• acrimony 0
  n 1: a rough and bitter manner [syn: bitterness, acrimony, acerbity, jaundice, tartness, thorniness]
• agony 0
  n 1: intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain; "an agony of doubt"; "the torments of the damned" [syn: agony, torment, torture] 2: a state of acute pain [syn: agony, suffering, excruciation]
• alimony 0
  n 1: court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated [syn: alimony, maintenance]
• androgyny 0
  n 1: showing characteristics of both sexes [syn: androgyny, hermaphroditism, bisexuality]
• anemone 0
  n 1: any woodland plant of the genus Anemone grown for its beautiful flowers and whorls of dissected leaves [syn: anemone, windflower] 2: marine polyps that resemble flowers but have oral rings of tentacles; differ from corals in forming no hard skeleton [syn: sea anemone, anemone]
• antiphony 0
  n 1: alternate (responsive) singing by a choir in two parts 2: a verse or song to be chanted or sung in response [syn: antiphon, antiphony]
• balcony 0
  n 1: an upper floor projecting from the rear over the main floor in an auditorium 2: a platform projecting from the wall of a building and surrounded by a balustrade or railing or parapet
• barony 0
  n 1: the estate of a baron 2: the rank or dignity or position of a baronet or baroness [syn: baronetcy, barony] 3: the domain of a baron
• botany 0
  n 1: all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China" [syn: vegetation, flora, botany] [ant: fauna, zoology] 2: the branch of biology that studies plants [syn: botany, phytology]
• cacophony 0
  n 1: a loud harsh or strident noise [syn: blare, blaring, cacophony, clamor, din] 2: loud confusing disagreeable sounds
• ceremony 0
  n 1: a formal event performed on a special occasion; "a ceremony commemorating Pearl Harbor" [syn: ceremony, ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, observance] 2: any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way; "the ceremony of smelling the cork and tasting the wine"; "he makes a ceremony of addressing his golf ball"; "he disposed of it without ceremony" 3: the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion; "an inaugural ceremony"
• chalcedony 0
  n 1: a milky or greyish translucent to transparent quartz [syn: chalcedony, calcedony]
• colony 0
  n 1: a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government; "the American colony in Paris" [syn: colony, settlement] 2: a group of organisms of the same type living or growing together 3: one of the 13 British colonies that formed the original states of the United States 4: a place where a group of people with the same interest or occupation are concentrated; "a nudist colony"; "an artists' colony" 5: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country [syn: colony, dependency] 6: (microbiology) a group of organisms grown from a single parent cell
• colophony 0
  n 1: translucent brittle substance produced from pine oleoresin; used especially in varnishes and inks and on the bows of stringed instruments
• company 0
  n 1: an institution created to conduct business; "he only invests in large well-established companies"; "he started the company in his garage" 2: small military unit; usually two or three platoons 3: the state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends" [syn: company, companionship, fellowship, society] 4: organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical); "the traveling company all stayed at the same hotel" [syn: company, troupe] 5: a social or business visitor; "the room was a mess because he hadn't expected company" [syn: caller, company] 6: a social gathering of guests or companions; "the house was filled with company when I arrived" 7: a band of people associated temporarily in some activity; "they organized a party to search for food"; "the company of cooks walked into the kitchen" [syn: party, company] 8: crew of a ship including the officers; the whole force or personnel of a ship [syn: ship's company, company] 9: a unit of firefighters including their equipment; "a hook- and-ladder company" v 1: be a companion to somebody [syn: company, companion, accompany, keep company]
• cosmogony 0
  n 1: the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe [syn: cosmology, cosmogony, cosmogeny]
• cottony 0
  adj 1: resembling cotton; as soft as cotton
• cushiony 0
  adj 1: softened by the addition of cushions or padding [syn: cushioned, cushiony, padded]
• destiny 0
  n 1: an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future [syn: destiny, fate] 2: the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of destiny" [syn: destiny, fate] 3: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" [syn: fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portion]
• disharmony 0
  n 1: a lack of harmony [syn: disharmony, inharmoniousness]
• dittany 0
  n 1: Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather [syn: fraxinella, dittany, burning bush, gas plant, Dictamnus alba]
• dominie 0
  n 1: a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson [syn: dominus, dominie, domine, dominee]
• ebony 0
  adj 1: of a very dark black [syn: ebon, ebony] n 1: a very dark black [syn: coal black, ebony, jet black, pitch black, sable, soot black] 2: hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys 3: tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork [syn: ebony, ebony tree, Diospyros ebenum]
• epiphany 0
  n 1: a divine manifestation 2: twelve days after Christmas; celebrates the visit of the three wise men to the infant Jesus [syn: Epiphany, Epiphany of Our Lord, Twelfth day, Three Kings' Day, January 6]
• euphony 0
  n 1: any agreeable (pleasing and harmonious) sounds; "he fell asleep to the music of the wind chimes" [syn: music, euphony]
• felony 0
  n 1: a serious crime (such as murder or arson)
• fourpenny 0
  adj 1: used of nail size; 1 3/8 in or 3.8 cm long
• gluttony 0
  n 1: habitual eating to excess 2: eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: gluttony, overeating, gula]
• harmony 0
  n 1: compatibility in opinion and action [syn: harmony, harmoniousness] 2: the structure of music with respect to the composition and progression of chords [syn: harmony, musical harmony] 3: a harmonious state of things in general and of their properties (as of colors and sounds); congruity of parts with one another and with the whole [syn: harmony, concord, concordance] 4: agreement of opinions [syn: harmony, concord, concordance] 5: an agreeable sound property [ant: dissonance]
• hegemony 0
  n 1: the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others; "the hegemony of a single member state is not incompatible with a genuine confederation"; "to say they have priority is not to say they have complete hegemony"; "the consolidation of the United States' hegemony over a new international economic system"
• hominy 0
  n 1: hulled corn with the bran and germ removed
• homogeny 0
  n 1: (biology) similarity because of common evolution
• homophony 0
  n 1: the same pronunciation for words of different origins 2: part music with one dominant voice (in a homophonic style)
• ignominy 0
  n 1: a state of dishonor; "one mistake brought shame to all his family"; "suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison" [syn: shame, disgrace, ignominy]
• irony 0
  n 1: witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"-- Jonathan Swift [syn: sarcasm, irony, satire, caustic remark] 2: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" 3: a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs
• larceny 0
  n 1: the act of taking something from someone unlawfully; "the thieving is awful at Kennedy International" [syn: larceny, theft, thievery, thieving, stealing]
• lemony 0
  adj 1: tasting sour like a lemon [syn: lemony, lemonlike, sourish, tangy, tart]
• mahogany 0
  n 1: wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture 2: any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish [syn: mahogany, mahogany tree] 3: a shade of brown with a tinge of red [syn: reddish brown, sepia, burnt sienna, Venetian red, mahogany]
• matrimony 0
  n 1: the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union" [syn: marriage, matrimony, union, spousal relationship, wedlock] 2: the ceremony or sacrament of marriage
• miscellany 0
  n 1: a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" [syn: assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley] 2: an anthology of short literary pieces and poems and ballads etc. [syn: florilegium, garland, miscellany]
• misogyny 0
  n 1: hatred of women [syn: misogyny, misogynism] [ant: philogyny]
• monogyny 0
  n 1: having only one wife at a time
• monotony 0
  n 1: the quality of wearisome constancy, routine, and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he was sick of the humdrum of his fellow prisoners"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served" [syn: monotony, humdrum, sameness] 2: constancy of tone or pitch or inflection
• mutiny 0
  n 1: open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers) v 1: engage in a mutiny against an authority
• ontogeny 0
  n 1: (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children" [syn: growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis] [ant: nondevelopment]
• parsimony 0
  n 1: extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money unnecessarily [syn: parsimony, parsimoniousness, thrift, penny-pinching] 2: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness]
• patrimony 0
  n 1: a church endowment 2: an inheritance coming by right of birth (especially by primogeniture) [syn: birthright, patrimony]
• peony 0
  n 1: any of numerous plants widely cultivated for their showy single or double red or pink or white flowers [syn: peony, paeony]
• phylogeny 0
  n 1: (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms [syn: evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis]
• polyphony 0
  n 1: music arranged in parts for several voices or instruments [syn: polyphony, polyphonic music, concerted music] [ant: monody, monophonic music, monophony]
• progeny 0
  n 1: the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue" [syn: offspring, progeny, issue]
• sanctimony 0
  n 1: the quality of being hypocritically devout [syn: sanctimoniousness, sanctimony]
• satiny 0
  adj 1: having a smooth, gleaming surface reflecting light; "glossy auburn hair"; "satiny gardenia petals"; "sleek black fur"; "silken eyelashes"; "silky skin"; "a silklike fabric"; "slick seals and otters" [syn: satiny, sleek, silken, silky, silklike, slick]
• scrutiny 0
  n 1: the act of examining something closely (as for mistakes) [syn: examination, scrutiny] 2: a prolonged intense look
• simony 0
  n 1: traffic in ecclesiastical offices or preferments [syn: simony, barratry]
• sixpenny 0
  adj 1: of trifling worth [syn: sixpenny, threepenny, twopenny, tuppeny, two-a-penny, twopenny- halfpenny]
• stereophony 0
  n 1: reproducer in which two microphones feed two or more loudspeakers to give a three-dimensional effect to the sound [syn: stereo, stereophony, stereo system, stereophonic system]
• symphony 0
  n 1: a long and complex sonata for symphony orchestra [syn: symphony, symphonic music] 2: a large orchestra; can perform symphonies; "we heard the Vienna symphony" [syn: symphony orchestra, symphony, philharmonic]
• synchrony 0
  n 1: the relation that exists when things occur at the same time; "the drug produces an increased synchrony of the brain waves" [syn: synchronism, synchrony, synchronicity, synchroneity, synchronization, synchronisation, synchronizing] [ant: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization, desynchronizing]
• telephony 0
  n 1: transmitting speech at a distance [syn: telephone, telephony]
• testimony 0
  n 1: a solemn statement made under oath 2: an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact; "according to his own testimony he can't do it" 3: something that serves as evidence; "his effort was testimony to his devotion" [syn: testimony, testimonial]
• tiffany 0
  n 1: United States artist who developed Tiffany glass (1848-1933) [syn: Tiffany, Louis Comfort Tiffany]
• timpani 0
  n 1: a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it [syn: kettle, kettledrum, tympanum, tympani, timpani]
• tourney 0
  n 1: a sporting competition in which contestants play a series of games to decide the winner [syn: tournament, tourney] v 1: engage in a tourney
• tyranny 0
  n 1: a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) [syn: dictatorship, absolutism, authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny] 2: dominance through threat of punishment and violence [syn: absolutism, tyranny, despotism]
• villainy 0
  n 1: the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior [syn: villainy, villainousness] 2: a criminal or vicious act
• guarani 0
  n 1: the basic unit of money in Paraguay; equal to 100 centimos 2: a member of the South American people living in Paraguay and Bolivia 3: the language spoken by the Guarani of Paraguay and Bolivia
• polygyny 0
  n 1: having more than one wife at a time
• agrimony 0
  n 1: a plant of the genus Agrimonia having spikelike clusters of small yellow flowers [syn: agrimonia, agrimony]
• antimony 0
  n 1: a metallic element having four allotropic forms; used in a wide variety of alloys; found in stibnite [syn: antimony, Sb, atomic number 51]
• palimony 0
  n 1: support paid by one half of an unmarried partnership after the relationship ends
• antigone 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the daughter of King Oedipus who disobeyed her father and was condemned to death
• melpomene 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) the Muse of tragedy
• yemeni 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Yemen or its inhabitants; "Yemeni mountains" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Yemen
• atony 0
  n 1: lack of normal muscular tension or tonus [syn: atonicity, atony, atonia, amyotonia] [ant: tone, tonicity, tonus]
• albany 0
  n 1: state capital of New York; located in eastern New York State on the west bank of the Hudson river [syn: Albany, capital of New York] 2: a town in southwest Georgia; processing center for peanuts and pecans
• neoteny 0
  n 1: an evolutionary trend to be born earlier so that development is cut off at an earlier stage and juvenile characteristics are retained in adults of the species
• paleobotany 0
  n 1: the study of fossil plants [syn: paleobotany, palaeobotany]
• anthony 0
  n 1: Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC) [syn: Antony, Anthony, Mark Antony, Mark Anthony, Antonius, Marcus Antonius] 2: United States suffragist (1820-1906) [syn: Anthony, Susan Anthony, Susan B. Anthony, Susan Brownell Anthony]
• antony 0
  n 1: Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC) [syn: Antony, Anthony, Mark Antony, Mark Anthony, Antonius, Marcus Antonius]
• romany 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture; "Romani nomads"; "Romany folk songs"; "a Gypsy fortune-teller" [syn: Romany, Romani] n 1: a member of a people with dark skin and hair who speak Romany and who traditionally live by seasonal work and fortunetelling; they are believed to have originated in northern India but now are living on all continents (but mostly in Europe, North Africa, and North America) [syn: Gypsy, Gipsy, Romany, Rommany, Romani, Roma, Bohemian] 2: the Indic language of the Gypsies [syn: Romany, Gypsy]
• brittany 0
  n 1: a former province of northwestern France on a peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay [syn: Bretagne, Brittany, Breiz]
• buttony 0
  adj 1: small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button; "bright beady eyes"; "black buttony eyes" [syn: beady, beadlike, buttony, buttonlike] 2: ornamented with many buttons
• anthropogeny 0
  n 1: the evolution or genesis of the human race [syn: anthropogenesis, anthropogeny]
• scammony 0
  n 1: tropical American morning glory [syn: scammony, Ipomoea orizabensis] 2: resin from the root of Convolvulus scammonia 3: twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin [syn: scammony, Convolvulus scammonia]
• tammany 0
  n 1: a political organization within the Democratic Party in New York City (late 1800's and early 1900's) seeking political control by corruption and bossism [syn: Tammany Hall, Tammany Society, Tammany]
• theogony 0
  n 1: the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods
• germany 0
  n 1: a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990 [syn: Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Deutschland, FRG]
• persephone 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) daughter of Zeus and Demeter; made queen of the underworld by Pluto in ancient mythology; identified with Roman Proserpina [syn: Persephone, Despoina, Kore, Cora]
• saxony 0
  n 1: an area in Germany around the upper Elbe river; the original home of the Saxons [syn: Saxony, Sachsen, Saxe]
• tuscany 0
  n 1: a region in central Italy [syn: Tuscany, Toscana]
• astrobotany 0
• betony 0
• heterophony 0
• mahoney 0
• hermione 0
• leonie 0
• rhatany 0

See also litany definition