Big Huge Thesaurus

respite

noun

• reprieve
• recess
• break
• time out
• suspension
• hiatus
• abatement
• rest
• relief
• rest period
• clemency
• ease
• intermission
• interruption
• mercifulness
• mercy
• pause

verb

• reprieve
• defer
• hold over
• postpone
• prorogue
• put off
• put over
• remit
• set back
• shelve
• table

sounds kind of like

• raceabout
• rajpoot
• rajput
• receipt
• received
• resift
• rhizopod
• rhizopoda
• rhus ovata
• rice paddy
• rig-veda
• rock beauty
• rock bit
• rose bed
• rosebud
• rug pad

rhymes with

• anklet
• appellate
• audit
• babbitt
• bartlett
• basset
• beckett
• benefit
• bennet
• booklet
• bracket
• budget
• capitulate
• cohabit
• collegiate
• collet
• corbett
• crockett
• cubit
• culprit
• debit
• decrepit
• deposit
• desperate
• disproportionate
• elicit
• emasculate
• emmet
• exhibit
• exit
• fidget
• forfeit
• gambit
• garret
• genet
• guesstimate
• hammett
• hornet
• hypermarket
• illegitimate
• illuminate
• indeterminate
• inordinate
• inviolate
• junket
• kismet
• linnet
• mallet
• megabit
• nantucket
• nugget
• perquisite
• pickett
• piglet
• plaudit
• prelate
• pulpit
• racket
• racquet
• recommit
• revisit
• ringgit
• russet
• sanskrit
• sennett
• sextuplet
• signet
• solicit
• sonnet
• starlit
• supermarket
• tacit
• templet
• thicket
• tlingit
• tourniquet
• ultraviolet
• violet
• whodunit
• widget
• willet