suspense

/səspˈɛns/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. apprehension about what is going to happen
2. an uncertain cognitive state
   “the matter remained in suspense for several years”
3. excited anticipation of an approaching climax
   “the play kept the audience in suspense”

Words that rhyme with suspense

• defense
• defence
• sense
• tense
• condense
• fence
• offense
• pretense
• dense
• expense
• incense
• recompense
• commence
• dispense
• hence
• intense
• thence
• commonsense
• frankincense
• immense
• whence
• antisense
• bence
• ferenc
• hense
• nondefense
• nunsense
• pence
• pense
• spence