Words that rhyme with witnesses

n 1: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" [syn: business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation] 2: the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" [syn: commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business] 3: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, job, line of work, line] 4: a rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business" 5: an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening" 6: the volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today" 7: business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree" [syn: business, business sector] 8: customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele" [syn: clientele, patronage, business] 9: incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious" [syn: business, stage business, byplay]

n 1: the quality of being suitable; "they had to prove their fitness for the position" [syn: fitness, fittingness] [ant: unfitness] 2: good physical condition; being in shape or in condition [syn: fitness, physical fitness] [ant: softness, unfitness] 3: fitness to traverse the seas [syn: seaworthiness, fitness] 4: the quality of being qualified

n 1: a coming into being [syn: genesis, generation] 2: the first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers [syn: Genesis, Book of Genesis]

adj 1: free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" [syn: innocent, guiltless, clean-handed] [ant: guilty] 2: lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank" [syn: innocent, innocuous] 3: free from sin [syn: impeccant, innocent, sinless] 4: lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it" [syn: innocent, ingenuous] 5: not knowledgeable about something specified; "American tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted with our customs" [syn: innocent(p), unacquainted(p)] 6: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn: barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent] 7: (used of things) lacking sense or awareness; "fine innocent weather" n 1: a person who lacks knowledge of evil [syn: innocent, inexperienced person]

adj 1: having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate; "intricate lacework"

n 1: land and the buildings on it; "bread is baked on the premises"; "the were evicted from the premises"

adj 1: inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett [syn: pathetic, ridiculous, silly] 2: incongruous;inviting ridicule; "the absurd excuse that the dog ate his homework"; "that's a cockeyed idea"; "ask a nonsensical question and get a nonsensical answer"; "a contribution so small as to be laughable"; "it is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion"; "a preposterous attempt to turn back the pages of history"; "her conceited assumption of universal interest in her rather dull children was ridiculous" [syn: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, nonsensical, preposterous, ridiculous] 3: broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce; "the wild farcical exuberance of a clown"; "ludicrous green hair" [syn: farcical, ludicrous, ridiculous]

n 1: the process of producing a chemical compound (usually by the union of simpler chemical compounds) 2: the combination of ideas into a complex whole [syn: synthesis, synthetic thinking] [ant: analysis, analytic thinking] 3: reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) [syn: deduction, deductive reasoning, synthesis]

n 1: someone who sees an event and reports what happened [syn: witness, witnesser, informant] 2: a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star" [syn: spectator, witness, viewer, watcher, looker] 3: testimony by word or deed to your religious faith 4: (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature [syn: witness, attestant, attestor, attestator] 5: (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law v 1: be a witness to; "She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court" 2: perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" [syn: witness, find, see]