Words that rhyme with raggedy

n 1: the branch of medicine concerned with the feet [syn: podiatry, chiropody]

n 1: light and humorous drama with a happy ending [ant: tragedy] 2: a comic incident or series of incidents [syn: drollery, clowning, comedy, funniness]

n 1: a state of being confined (usually for a short time); "his detention was politically motivated"; "the prisoner is on hold"; "he is in the custody of police" [syn: detention, detainment, hold, custody] 2: holding by the police; "the suspect is in custody" 3: (with `in') guardianship over; in divorce cases it is the right to house and care for and discipline a child; "my fate is in your hands"; "too much power in the president's hands"; "your guests are now in my custody"; "the mother was awarded custody of the children" [syn: hands, custody]

n 1: a Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Delaware, Diamond State, First State, DE]

n 1: leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure; "we get two weeks of vacation every summer"; "we took a short holiday in Puerto Rico" [syn: vacation, holiday] 2: a day on which work is suspended by law or custom; "no mail is delivered on federal holidays"; "it's a good thing that New Year's was a holiday because everyone had a hangover" v 1: spend or take a vacation [syn: vacation, holiday]

n 1: the act of singing psalms or hymns [syn: psalmody, hymnody]

n 1: a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" [syn: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, endangerment]

n 1: any unwholesome or desperate condition; "what maladies afflict our nation?" 2: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness, malady, sickness] [ant: health, wellness]

n 1: a succession of notes forming a distinctive sequence; "she was humming an air from Beethoven" [syn: tune, melody, air, strain, melodic line, line, melodic phrase] 2: the perception of pleasant arrangements of musical notes [syn: melody, tonal pattern]

n 1: music consisting of a single vocal part (usually with accompaniment) [syn: monophony, monophonic music, monody] [ant: concerted music, polyphonic music, polyphony]

n 1: a person of no influence [syn: cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity]

n 1: a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way [syn: parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on] 2: humorous or satirical mimicry [syn: parody, mockery, takeoff] v 1: make a spoof of or make fun of 2: make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers" [syn: spoof, burlesque, parody]

n 1: betrayal of a trust [syn: perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery] 2: an act of deliberate betrayal [syn: treachery, betrayal, treason, perfidy]

n 1: the patterns of stress and intonation in a language [syn: prosody, inflection] 2: (prosody) a system of versification [syn: poetic rhythm, rhythmic pattern, prosody] 3: the study of poetic meter and the art of versification [syn: prosody, metrics]

n 1: the act of singing psalms or hymns [syn: psalmody, hymnody]

n 1: act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil [syn: redress, remedy, remediation] 2: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain [syn: remedy, curative, cure, therapeutic] v 1: set straight or right; "remedy these deficiencies"; "rectify the inequities in salaries"; "repair an oversight" [syn: rectify, remediate, remedy, repair, amend] 2: provide relief for; "remedy his illness" [syn: remedy, relieve]

n 1: an epic poem adapted for recitation

n 1: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul]

n 1: a grant paid by a government to an enterprise that benefits the public; "a subsidy for research in artificial intelligence"

n 1: a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person [syn: dirge, coronach, lament, requiem, threnody]

n 1: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm] 2: drama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity [ant: comedy]

n 1: a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating 2: a comedy with serious elements or overtones [syn: seriocomedy, tragicomedy]

adv 1: on the day preceding today; "yesterday the weather was beautiful" 2: in the recent past; only a short time ago; "I was not born yesterday!" n 1: the day immediately before today; "it was in yesterday's newspapers" 2: the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"

adj 1: denoting a quantity consisting of 500 items or units [syn: five hundred, 500, d] n 1: a fat-soluble vitamin that prevents rickets [syn: vitamin D, calciferol, viosterol, ergocalciferol, cholecalciferol, D] 2: the cardinal number that is the product of one hundred and five [syn: five hundred, 500, D] 3: the 4th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: D, d]

n 1: federal agency responsible for enforcing laws and regulations governing narcotics and controlled substances; goal is to immobilize drug trafficking organizations [syn: Drug Enforcement Administration, Drug Enforcement Agency, DEA]

n 1: the seventh and last day of the week; observed as the Sabbath by Jews and some Christians [syn: Saturday, Sabbatum, Sat]

n 1: educator who founded the first kindergarten in the United States (1804-1894) [syn: Peabody, Elizabeth Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer Peabody]

n 1: 35th President of the United States; established the Peace Corps; assassinated in Dallas (1917-1963) [syn: Kennedy, Jack Kennedy, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, JFK, President Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy] 2: a large airport on Long Island to the east of New York City [syn: Kennedy, Kennedy Interrnational, Kennedy International Airport]

n 1: a city of eastern New York on the Mohawk river; it prospered after the opening of the Erie Canal

n 1: a region of north central Italy bordering Switzerland [syn: Lombardy, Lombardia]

n 1: the status of being born to parents who were not married [syn: bastardy, illegitimacy, bar sinister]