Words that rhyme with portage
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advantage
n 1: the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "the experience gave him the advantage over me" [syn: advantage, vantage] [ant: disadvantage] 2: (tennis) first point scored after deuce 3: benefit resulting from some event or action; "it turned out to my advantage"; "reaping the rewards of generosity" [syn: advantage, reward] [ant: penalty] v 1: give an advantage to; "This system advantages the rich" [ant: disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour] -
cordage
n 1: the amount of wood in an area as measured in cords 2: the ropes in the rigging of a ship -
disadvantage
n 1: the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position [ant: advantage, vantage] v 1: put at a disadvantage; hinder, harm; "This rule clearly disadvantages me" [syn: disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour] [ant: advantage] -
dotage
n 1: mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations [syn: dotage, second childhood, senility] -
driftage
n 1: the deviation (by a vessel or aircraft) from its intended course due to drifting -
footage
n 1: film that has been shot; "they had stock footage of lightning, tornados, and hurricanes"; "he edited the news footage" 2: a rate of charging by the linear foot of work done -
frontage
n 1: the extent of land abutting on a street or water 2: the direction in which something (such as a building) faces 3: the face or front of a building [syn: facade, frontage, frontal] -
frottage
n 1: masturbation by rubbing against another person (as in a crowd) -
fruitage
n 1: the yield of fruit; "a tree highly recommended for its fruitage" -
garbage
n 1: food that is discarded (as from a kitchen) [syn: garbage, refuse, food waste, scraps] 2: a worthless message [syn: drivel, garbage] 3: a receptacle where waste can be discarded; "she tossed the moldy bread into the garbage" -
heritage
n 1: practices that are handed down from the past by tradition; "a heritage of freedom" 2: any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors; "my only inheritance was my mother's blessing"; "the world's heritage of knowledge" [syn: inheritance, heritage] 3: that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner [syn: inheritance, heritage] 4: hereditary succession to a title or an office or property [syn: inheritance, heritage] -
hostage
n 1: a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms [syn: hostage, surety] -
mintage
n 1: coins collectively [syn: coinage, mintage, specie, metal money] 2: fee paid to a mint by the government for minting a coin 3: act or process of minting coins -
parentage
n 1: the state of being a parent; "to everyone's surprise, parenthood reformed the man" [syn: parenthood, parentage] 2: the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents [syn: parentage, birth] 3: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock] -
percentage
n 1: a proportion in relation to a whole (which is usually the amount per hundred) [syn: percentage, percent, per centum, pct] 2: assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group; "he wanted his share in cash" [syn: share, portion, part, percentage] -
pilotage
n 1: the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place [syn: navigation, pilotage, piloting] 2: the occupation of a pilot [syn: piloting, pilotage] -
postage
n 1: the charge for mailing something 2: a small adhesive token stuck on a letter or package to indicate that that postal fees have been paid [syn: postage, postage stamp, stamp] -
potage
n 1: thick (often creamy) soup [syn: potage, pottage] -
recharge
v 1: load anew; "She reloaded the gun carefully" [syn: recharge, reload] 2: charge anew; "recharge a battery" -
reportage
n 1: the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television; "they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations" [syn: coverage, reporting, reportage] -
sabotage
n 1: a deliberate act of destruction or disruption in which equipment is damaged v 1: destroy property or hinder normal operations; "The Resistance sabotaged railroad operations during the war" [syn: sabotage, undermine, countermine, counteract, subvert, weaken] -
shortage
n 1: the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" [syn: deficit, shortage, shortfall] 2: an acute insufficiency [syn: dearth, famine, shortage] -
supercharge
v 1: increase or raise; "boost the voltage in an electrical circuit" [syn: boost, advance, supercharge] 2: increase the pressure on a gas or liquid [syn: supercharge, pressurize, pressurise] -
surcharge
n 1: an additional charge (as for items previously omitted or as a penalty for failure to exercise common caution or common skill) v 1: charge an extra fee, as for a special service 2: rip off; ask an unreasonable price [syn: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob, hook] [ant: undercharge] 3: fill to capacity with people; "The air raids had surcharged the emergency wards" 4: print a new denomination on a stamp or a banknote 5: fill to an excessive degree; "The air was surcharged with tension" 6: place too much a load on; "don't overload the car" [syn: overload, surcharge, overcharge] 7: show an omission in (an account) for which credit ought to have been given -
undercharge
n 1: a price that is too low 2: an insufficient charge v 1: charge (someone) too little money [ant: fleece, gazump, hook, overcharge, pluck, plume, rob, soak, surcharge] -
vestige
n 1: an indication that something has been present; "there wasn't a trace of evidence for the claim"; "a tincture of condescension" [syn: trace, vestige, tincture, shadow] -
vintage
n 1: a season's yield of wine from a vineyard 2: the oldness of wines [syn: vintage, time of origin] -
voltage
n 1: the rate at which energy is drawn from a source that produces a flow of electricity in a circuit; expressed in volts [syn: voltage, electromotive force, emf] 2: the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts [syn: electric potential, potential, potential difference, potential drop, voltage] -
wastage
n 1: the process of wasting 2: anything lost by wear or waste -
wattage
n 1: the product of voltage and current [syn: electrical power, electric power, wattage] -
raj
n 1: British dominion over India (1757-1947) -
decolletage
n 1: a low-cut neckline on a woman's dress -
sparge
n 1: the act of sprinkling or splashing water; "baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over the malt" [syn: sprinkle, sprinkling, sparge] v 1: agitate by introducing air or compressed gas; "sparge the water" 2: scatter with liquid; wet lightly; "Sprinkle the lawn" [syn: sprinkle, sparge, besprinkle] -
marge
n 1: a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter [syn: margarine, margarin, oleo, oleomargarine, marge] -
cabotage
n 1: the exclusive right of a country to control the air traffic within its borders 2: navigation in coastal waters -
overlarge
adj 1: excessively large [syn: overlarge, too large] -
rootage
n 1: fixedness by or as if by roots; "strengthened by rootage in the firm soil of faith" 2: a developed system of roots [syn: rootage, root system] 3: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source] -
anecdotage
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taj
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paysage
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floatage
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sarge
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swaraj
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tentage
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ventage
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turbocharge
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sacerdotage
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scutage
See also portage definition
