🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Porpoise"
5 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "porpoise" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| habeas corpus | 5 | noun | (law) A writ ordering that a person be brought before a court or a judge, most frequently used to ensure that a person's imprisonment, detention, or commitment is legal. |
| writ of habeas corpus | 7 | noun | Synonym of habeas corpus. |
| porpus | 2 | noun | Obsolete spelling of porpoise. [Any small cetacean of the family Phocoenidae, related to dolphins and whales.] |
| corpus | 2 | noun | A collection of written or spoken texts. |
| pour piss | 2 | — |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Porpoise"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| raucous | 2 | Disorderly and boisterous. | |
| purpose | 2 | noun | The end for which something is done, is made or exists. |
| foreign | 2 | noun | Located outside a country or place, especially one's own. |
| chorus | 2 | noun | A group of singers performing together; a choir; specifically, such a group singing together in a musical, an opera, etc., as distinct from the soloists; an ensemble. |
| caucus | 2 | noun | A usually preliminary meeting of party members to nominate candidates for public office or delegates to be sent to a nominating convention, or to confer regarding policy. |
| argus | 2 | noun | (Greek mythology) A mythical being, also called Argos or Argus Panoptes, with many eyes, a watchman who served Hera; his eyes were later transplanted to the peacock's tail. |
| forfeit | 2 | verb | To suffer the loss of something by wrongdoing or non-compliance |
| amorphous | 3 | Lacking a definite form or clear shape. | |
| mourning | 2 | noun | Feeling or expressing sorrow over someone's death. |
| gorgeous | 2 | (of a person or place, sometimes endearing) Very beautiful. | |
| forest | 2 | noun | A dense uncultivated tract of trees and undergrowth, larger than woods. |
| enormous | 3 | Extremely large; greatly exceeding the common size, extent, etc. | |
| portrait | 2 | noun | (countable) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders. |
| circus | 2 | noun | A traveling company of performers that may include acrobats, clowns, trained animals, and other novelty acts, that gives shows usually in a circular tent. |
| fortress | 2 | noun | A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; for example a fort, a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security. |
| orbit | 2 | noun | The curved path of one object around a point or another body. |
| forces | 2 | noun | (military, only plural) Troops. |
| dormant | 2 | noun | Inactive, sleeping, asleep, suspended. |
| orphan | 2 | noun | A person, especially a minor, both or (rarely) one of whose parents have died. |
| solstice | 2 | noun | One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest. |
| shortage | 2 | noun | A lack or deficiency; an insufficient amount. |
| doris | 2 | noun | A female given name from Ancient Greek, taken to regular use at the end of the 19th century. |
| organ | 2 | noun | The larger part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions. |
| arcus | 2 | noun | (medicine) A white band of cholesterol that forms at the edge of the cornea |
| carcass | 2 | noun | The body of a dead animal, especially a vertebrate or other animal having flesh. |
| formless | 2 | Without form; shapeless. | |
| porous | 2 | Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through. | |
| thomas | 2 | noun | A male given name from Aramaic of biblical origin, popular since the 13th century. |
| boredom | 2 | noun | (uncountable) The state of being bored. |
| sorus | 2 | noun | (botany) A cluster of sporangia on the edge or underside of a fern frond. |
| courses | 2 | noun | (obsolete, euphemistic) Menses. |
| tortoise | 2 | noun | Any of various land-dwelling reptiles, of the family Testudinidae (chiefly Canada, US) or the order Testudines (chiefly UK, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, South Africa, India), whose body is enclosed in a shell (carapace plus plastron). The animal can withdraw its head and four legs partially into the shell, providing some protection from predators. |
| walrus | 2 | noun | A large Arctic marine mammal related to seals and having long tusks, tough, wrinkled skin, and four flippers, Odobenus rosmarus. |
| orca | 2 | noun | A sea mammal (Orcinus orca) related to dolphins and porpoises, commonly called the killer whale. |
| nora | 2 | noun | A female given name. |
| orbits | 2 | noun | The curved path of one object around a point or another body. |
| morris | 2 | noun | A morris dance. |
| horses | 2 | noun | (slang) Horsepower. |
| all-purpose | 3 | For all purposes; general-purpose. | |
| multipurpose | 4 | Designed or intended to fit more than one type of function or application; having multiple uses. | |
| on purpose | 3 | the twelfth studio album by American country music artist Clint Black. | |
| targets | 2 | a 1968 American crime thriller film directed by Peter Bogdanovich in his theatrical directorial debut, and starring Tim O'Kelly, Boris Karloff, Nancy Hsueh, Bogdanovich, James Brown, Arthur Peterson and Sandy Baron. | |
| dorcas | 2 | noun | A female given name from Ancient Greek of biblical origin. |
| chlorous | 2 | (chemistry) Of a compound, containing chlorine with a lower oxidation number than equivalent chloric compounds; especially having an oxidation number of 3. | |
| gopher tortoise | 4 | noun | Any of the species of the taxonomic genus Gopherus, which are burrowing tortoises of southern North America. |
| corpses | 2 | noun | A dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal. |
| torches | 2 | noun | A stick of wood or plant fibres twisted together, with one end soaked in a flammable substance such as resin or tallow and set on fire, which is held in the hand, put into a wall bracket, or stuck into the ground, and used chiefly as a light source. |
| orcas | 2 | a musical collaboration between Pacific Northwest minimalist composer Rafael Anton Irisarri and multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Benoit Pioulard. | |
| airbus | 2 | noun | A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one. |
| curtis | 2 | noun | A male given name transferred from the surname. |
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