Words that rhyme with sanctimony

• abalone 0
  n 1: any of various large edible marine gastropods of the genus Haliotis having an ear-shaped shell with pearly interior [syn: abalone, ear-shell]
• 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
• baloney 0
  n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
• 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
• boloney 0
  n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle]
• bony 0
  adj 1: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted] 2: composed of or containing bone; "osseous tissue" [syn: osseous, osteal, bony] 3: having bones especially many or prominent bones; "a bony shad fillet"; "her bony wrist"; "bony fish" [syn: bony, boney] [ant: boneless]
• 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
• cannelloni 0
  n 1: tubular pasta filled with meat or cheese
• 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]
• cicerone 0
  n 1: a guide who conducts and informs sightseers
• 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
• crony 0
  n 1: a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick]
• 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]
• litany 0
  n 1: any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures" 2: a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
• macaroni 0
  n 1: a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms; "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" 2: pasta in the form of slender tubes
• 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
• minestrone 0
  n 1: soup made with a variety of vegetables [syn: petite marmite, minestrone, vegetable soup]
• 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]
• pepperoni 0
  n 1: a pork and beef sausage (or a thin slice of this sausage)
• phoney 0
  adj 1: fraudulent; having a misleading appearance [syn: bogus, fake, phony, phoney, bastard] n 1: a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives [syn: hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender]
• 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]
• pony 0
  n 1: a range horse of the western United States 2: an informal term for a racehorse; "he liked to bet on the ponies" 3: a literal translation used in studying a foreign language (often used illicitly) [syn: pony, trot, crib] 4: a small glass adequate to hold a single swallow of whiskey [syn: shot glass, jigger, pony] 5: any of various breeds of small gentle horses usually less than five feet high at the shoulder
• 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]
• rigatoni 0
  n 1: tubular pasta in short ribbed pieces
• 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]
• stony 0
  adj 1: abounding in rocks or stones; "rocky fields"; "stony ground"; "bouldery beaches" [syn: rocky, bouldery, bouldered, stony] 2: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart" [syn: flinty, flint, granitic, obdurate, stony] 3: hard as granite; "a granitic fist" [syn: granitic, granitelike, rocklike, stony]
• 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
• zabaglione 0
  n 1: light foamy custard-like dessert served hot or chilled [syn: zabaglione, sabayon]
• coney 0
  n 1: black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins [syn: coney, Epinephelus fulvus] 2: any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes [syn: hyrax, coney, cony, dassie, das] 3: small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America [syn: pika, mouse hare, rock rabbit, coney, cony] 4: any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food [syn: rabbit, coney, cony]
• 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
• marconi 0
  n 1: Italian electrical engineer who invented wireless telegraphy and in 1901 transmitted radio signals across the Atlantic Ocean (1874-1937) [syn: Marconi, Guglielmo Marconi]
• shoshone 0
  n 1: a member of the North American Indian people (related to the Aztecs) of the southwestern United States [syn: Shoshone, Shoshoni] 2: the language spoken by the Shoshone (belonging to the Uto- Aztecan family)
• polygyny 0
  n 1: having more than one wife at a time
• bologna 0
  n 1: the capital of Emilia-Romagna; located in northern Italy to the east of the Apennines 2: large smooth-textured smoked sausage of beef and veal and pork [syn: bologna, Bologna sausage]
• bodoni 0
  n 1: Italian printer who designed the Bodoni font (1740-1813) [syn: Bodoni, Gianbattista Bodoni] 2: a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes [syn: modern, modern font, Bodoni, Bodoni font] [ant: old style, old style font]
• polony 0
  n 1: another name for Bologna sausage
• 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

See also sanctimony definition and sanctimony synonyms