Words that rhyme with pennant

  • abstinent
    adj 1: self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink; "not totally abstinent but abstemious" [syn: abstinent, abstentious] n 1: a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages [syn: abstainer, abstinent, nondrinker] [ant: drinker, imbiber, juicer, toper]
  • ailment
    n 1: an often persistent bodily disorder or disease; a cause for complaining [syn: ailment, complaint, ill]
  • annulment
    n 1: the state of being cancelled or annulled [syn: revocation, annulment] 2: (law) a formal termination (of a relationship or a judicial proceeding etc) [syn: annulment, invalidation] 3: the act of abrogating; an official or legal cancellation [syn: abrogation, repeal, annulment]
  • bafflement
    n 1: confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement]
  • bailment
    n 1: the delivery of personal property in trust by the bailor to the bailee
  • bedevilment
    n 1: the act of harassing someone [syn: badgering, worrying, torment, bedevilment]
  • befuddlement
    n 1: confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement]
  • beguilement
    n 1: magnetic personal charm [syn: bewitchery, beguilement, animal magnetism] 2: an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations [syn: beguilement, distraction]
  • clement
    adj 1: (of weather or climate) physically mild; "clement weather" [ant: inclement] 2: (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy; "a more clement judge reduced the sentence" [ant: inclement]
  • complainant
    n 1: a person who brings an action in a court of law [syn: plaintiff, complainant] [ant: defendant, suspect]
  • continent
    adj 1: having control over urination and defecation [ant: incontinent] 2: abstaining from sexual intercourse; "celibate priests" [syn: celibate, continent] n 1: one of the large landmasses of the earth; "there are seven continents"; "pioneers had to cross the continent on foot" 2: the European mainland; "Englishmen like to visit the Continent but they wouldn't like to live there"
  • curtailment
    n 1: the temporal property of being cut short 2: the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation; "a suppression of the newspaper" [syn: suppression, curtailment] 3: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable [syn: retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing]
  • defilement
    n 1: the state of being polluted [syn: befoulment, defilement, pollution]
  • derailment
    n 1: an accident in which a train runs off its track
  • despoilment
    n 1: the act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation]
  • devilment
    n 1: reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others [syn: mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan]
  • disentanglement
    n 1: the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition [syn: unsnarling, untangling, disentanglement, extrication]
  • disgruntlement
    n 1: a feeling of sulky discontent
  • dismantlement
    n 1: the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery); "Russia and the United States discussed the dismantling of their nuclear weapons" [syn: dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly] [ant: assemblage, assembly, fabrication, gathering]
  • embezzlement
    n 1: the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else [syn: embezzlement, peculation, defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation]
  • embroilment
    n 1: an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation [syn: imbroglio, embroilment]
  • encirclement
    n 1: a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy [syn: blockade, encirclement]
  • enfeeblement
    n 1: serious weakening and loss of energy [syn: debilitation, enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion]
  • entailment
    n 1: something that is inferred (deduced or entailed or implied); "his resignation had political implications" [syn: deduction, entailment, implication]
  • entanglement
    n 1: an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim [syn: web, entanglement]
  • entitlement
    n 1: right granted by law or contract (especially a right to benefits); "entitlements make up the major part of the federal budget"
  • fulfilment
    n 1: a feeling of satisfaction at having achieved your desires [syn: fulfillment, fulfilment] 2: the act of consummating something (a desire or promise etc) [syn: fulfillment, fulfilment]
  • impalement
    n 1: the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture
  • instalment
    n 1: a part of a broadcast serial [syn: episode, installment, instalment] 2: a part of a published serial [syn: installment, instalment] 3: the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn: installation, installing, installment, instalment]
  • lieutenant
    n 1: a commissioned military officer 2: an officer in a police force [syn: lieutenant, police lieutenant] 3: an assistant with power to act when his superior is absent [syn: deputy, lieutenant] 4: an officer holding a commissioned rank in the United States Navy or the United States Coast Guard; below lieutenant commander and above lieutenant junior grade
  • pertinent
    adj 1: having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand; "a list of articles pertinent to the discussion"; "remarks that were to the point" 2: being of striking appropriateness and pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" [syn: apposite, apt, pertinent]
  • puzzlement
    n 1: confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement]
  • recombinant
    adj 1: of or relating to recombinant DNA n 1: a cell or organism in which genetic recombination has occurred
  • resettlement
    n 1: the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind) [syn: resettlement, relocation]
  • settlement
    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 community of people smaller than a town [syn: village, small town, settlement] 3: a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it 4: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America" [syn: colonization, colonisation, settlement] 5: something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making; "they finally reached a settlement with the union"; "they never did achieve a final resolution of their differences"; "he needed to grieve before he could achieve a sense of closure" [syn: settlement, resolution, closure] 6: an area where a group of families live together 7: termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities [syn: liquidation, settlement]
  • tenant
    n 1: someone who pays rent to use land or a building or a car that is owned by someone else; "the landlord can evict a tenant who doesn't pay the rent" [syn: tenant, renter] 2: a holder of buildings or lands by any kind of title (as ownership or lease) 3: any occupant who dwells in a place v 1: occupy as a tenant
  • bamboozlement
  • bedazzlement
  • embranglement
  • enthralment
  • inveiglement
  • misdemeanant
  • unsettlement
  • undertenant
  • babblement
  • tracklement
  • entablement

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