Words that rhyme with strains

n 1: metal shackles; for hands or legs [syn: irons, chains]

n 1: a Persian prophet who founded Manichaeism (216-276)

n 1: an effortful attempt to attain a goal [syn: striving, nisus, pains, strain]

n 1: any object that is left unused or still extant; "I threw out the remains of my dinner" 2: the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay" [syn: cadaver, corpse, stiff, clay, remains]

n 1: English economist who advocated the use of government monetary and fiscal policy to maintain full employment without inflation (1883-1946) [syn: Keynes, John Maynard Keynes]