Words that rhyme with literature

• amateur 0
  adj 1: engaged in as a pastime; "an amateur painter"; "gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals"; "recreational golfers"; "reading matter that is both recreational and mentally stimulating"; "unpaid extras in the documentary" [syn: amateur, recreational, unpaid] 2: lacking professional skill or expertise; "a very amateurish job"; "inexpert but conscientious efforts"; "an unskilled painting" [syn: amateurish, amateur, inexpert, unskilled] n 1: someone who pursues a study or sport as a pastime 2: an athlete who does not play for pay [ant: pro, professional]
• aperture 0
  n 1: a device that controls amount of light admitted 2: a natural opening in something 3: an man-made opening; usually small
• armature 0
  n 1: coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field
• candidature 0
  n 1: the campaign of a candidate to be elected [syn: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign]
• countersignature 0
  n 1: a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed [syn: countersignature, countersign]
• curvature 0
  n 1: (medicine) a curving or bending; often abnormal; "curvature of the spine" 2: the rate of change (at a point) of the angle between a curve and a tangent to the curve 3: the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface [syn: curvature, curve]
• discomfiture 0
  n 1: anxious embarrassment [syn: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion, disconcertment]
• divestiture 0
  n 1: an order to an offending party to rid itself of property; it has the purpose of depriving the defendant of the gains of wrongful behavior; "the court found divestiture to be necessary in preventing a monopoly" 2: the sale by a company of a product line or a subsidiary or a division
• entablature 0
  n 1: (architecture) the structure consisting of the part of a classical temple above the columns between a capital and the roof
• expenditure 0
  n 1: money paid out; an amount spent [syn: outgo, spending, expenditure, outlay] [ant: income] 2: the act of spending money for goods or services [syn: expending, expenditure] 3: the act of consuming something [syn: consumption, using up, expenditure]
• filature 0
  n 1: a bobbin used in spinning silk into thread
• forfeiture 0
  n 1: something that is lost or surrendered as a penalty; [syn: forfeit, forfeiture] 2: a penalty for a fault or mistake that involves losing or giving up something; "the contract specified forfeits if the work was not completed on time" [syn: forfeit, forfeiture] 3: the act of losing or surrendering something as a penalty for a mistake or fault or failure to perform etc. [syn: forfeit, forfeiture, sacrifice]
• furniture 0
  n 1: furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy; "they had too much furniture for the small apartment"; "there was only one piece of furniture in the room" [syn: furniture, piece of furniture, article of furniture]
• investiture 0
  n 1: the ceremony of installing a new monarch [syn: coronation, enthronement, enthronization, enthronisation, investiture] 2: the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank [syn: investment, investiture]
• judicature 0
  n 1: an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business [syn: court, tribunal, judicature] 2: the system of law courts that administer justice and constitute the judicial branch of government [syn: judiciary, judicature, judicatory, judicial system] 3: the act of meting out justice according to the law [syn: administration, judicature] 4: the position of judge [syn: judgeship, judicature]
• legislature 0
  n 1: persons who make or amend or repeal laws [syn: legislature, legislative assembly, legislative body, general assembly, law-makers]
• ligature 0
  n 1: (music) a group of notes connected by a slur 2: character consisting of two or more letters combined into one 3: a metal band used to attach a reed to the mouthpiece of a clarinet or saxophone 4: thread used by surgeons to bind a vessel (as to constrict the flow of blood) 5: something used to tie or bind [syn: binder, ligature] 6: the act of tying or binding things together [syn: tying, ligature]
• miniature 0
  adj 1: being on a very small scale; "a miniature camera" n 1: painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) [syn: miniature, illumination] 2: a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size [syn: miniature, toy]
• musculature 0
  n 1: the muscular system of an organism [syn: muscular structure, musculature, muscle system]
• nomenclature 0
  n 1: a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline; "legal terminology"; "biological nomenclature"; "the language of sociology" [syn: terminology, nomenclature, language]
• overture 0
  n 1: orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio 2: something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows; "training is a necessary preliminary to employment"; "drinks were the overture to dinner" [syn: preliminary, overture, prelude] 3: a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances" [syn: overture, advance, approach, feeler]
• portraiture 0
  n 1: a word picture of a person's appearance and character [syn: portrayal, portraiture, portrait] 2: the activity of making portraits
• prelature 0
  n 1: prelates collectively [syn: prelacy, prelature] 2: the office or station of a prelate [syn: prelacy, prelature]
• premature 0
  adj 1: born after a gestation period of less than the normal time; "a premature infant" [ant: full-term] 2: too soon or too hasty; "our condemnation of him was a bit previous"; "a premature judgment" [syn: previous(p), premature] 3: uncommonly early or before the expected time; "illness led to his premature death"; "alcohol brought him to an untimely end" [syn: premature, untimely]
• primogeniture 0
  n 1: right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son
• signature 0
  n 1: your name written in your own handwriting 2: a distinguishing style; "this room needs a woman's touch" [syn: touch, signature] 3: a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program [syn: signature, signature tune, theme song] 4: the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key [syn: key signature, signature] 5: a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book
• tablature 0
  n 1: a musical notation indicating the fingering to be used
• temperature 0
  n 1: the degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment (corresponding to its molecular activity) 2: the somatic sensation of cold or heat
• confiture 0
  n 1: preserved or candied fruit
• chirr 0
  v 1: make a vibrant noise, of grasshoppers or cicadas
• magistrature 0
  n 1: the position of magistrate [syn: magistracy, magistrature]
• churr 0
  v 1: make a vibrant sound, as of some birds [syn: churr, whirr]
• crenature 0
  n 1: one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) [syn: scallop, crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle]
• quadrature 0
  n 1: the construction of a square having the same area as some other figure
• garniture 0
• chirre 0
• coverture 0
• subminiature 0

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