Phrase Hound found 7 phrases and 67 compound words that contain rites. The most common are listed below. Open rites in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 7
- rites of passageplural of rite of passage: A ceremony or series of ceremonies, often very ritualized, to celebrate a passage or transition from one stage of a person's life to another.
- last ritesFinal treatment of a dead man.
- funeral ritesplural of funeral rite: A custom or ceremony pertaining to the recently dead, such as a funeral, public burial, or the Greek custom of breaking clayen vessels on the grave or in front of the deceased's house.
- Latin ritesplural of Latin rite: A liturgy of any Christian church, spoken in Latin.
- rites de passageplural of rite de passage: A ceremony or series of ceremonies, often very ritualized, to celebrate a passage or transition from one stage of a person's life to another.
- Malabar ritesCertain customs or practices of the natives of South India, which the Jesuit missionaries allowed their Indian neophytes to retain after conversion but which were afterwards prohibited by Rome.
- water ritesplural of water rite: A rite or ceremony that uses water as a central feature
Compound words 67
- rewritesplural of rewrite: The act of writing again or anew.
- nitritesplural of nitrite: Any salt or ester of nitrous acid.
- ferritesplural of ferrite: The interstitial solid solution of carbon in body-centered cubic iron.
- Amoritesplural of Amorite: A member of an ancient Semitic people who lived to the west of the Euphrates.
- neuritesplural of neurite: Any projection from the body of a neuron; either a dendrite or an axon
- CharitesThe goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, and fertility, and the patronesses of amusement and festivities; the retinue of Aphrodite.
- pipritesAny of the tropical birds in the genus Piprites, found in Central and South America.
- Airdritesplural of Airdrite: A native or inhabitant of Airdrie.
- akeritesplural of akerite: Various varieties of calcialkalic microsyenite and micromonzonite.
- allocritesplural of allocrite: Any of various solutes that are transported across lipid bilayers by membrane proteins