Name Report For First Name ALICE:

ALICE

First name ALICE's origin is English. ALICE means "of the nobility. variant of the old french adeliz which is a form of adelaide". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with ALICE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of alice.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with ALICE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with ALICE - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming ALICE

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES ALÝCE AS A WHOLE:

galice aliceson

NAMES RHYMING WITH ALÝCE (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (lice) - Names That Ends with lice:

helice delice ellice felice arlice baldlice caflice

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ice) - Names That Ends with ice:

fenice alarice dice eunice eurydice kalonice prentice anstice maurice anice annice berenice bernice brandice candice caprice catrice cherice clarice danice darice denice derorice ganice gurice janice jeanice jenice kandice kaprice katrice lanice morice pazice ranice urice brice canice curtice justice norice rice beatrice dorice mertice avice patrice

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ce) - Names That Ends with ce:

canace candance circe dirce glauce yohance benoyce lance eustace aleece aleyece allyce alyce ance aviance bernyce brandyce caidance candace candyce caydence clemence deniece dulce ellyce elyce essence florence france grace jahnisce janiece jayce jeniece jeyce joyce kadence kadience kaedence kaidance kandace kandyce kayce kaydance kaydence kaydience

NAMES RHYMING WITH ALÝCE (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (alic) - Names That Begins with alic:

alicia alicyn

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ali) - Names That Begins with ali:

ali alia alida alieah aliikai alijha alim alima alin alina aline alinn alis alisa alisanne alise alisha alison alissa alisse alistair alistaire alister alisz alita alitash alitza alivia alix alixandra alixandre aliya aliyana aliyn aliyy aliz aliza alizah alize

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (al) - Names That Begins with al:

al-ahmar al-asfan al-ashab al-fadee al-fahl al-hadiye al-sham ala' alacoque aladdin alafin alahhaois alai alaia alain alaina alaine alair alala alalim alamea alameda alan alana alandra alane alani alanna alannah alano alanson alanza alanzo alaqua alard alaric alarica alarick alarico alarik alasda alasdair alastair alaster alastor alastrina alastrine alastriona alaula alawa alayla alayna alayne alaysha alayziah alba albaric albe alberga

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ALÝCE:

First Names which starts with 'al' and ends with 'ce':

allaryce

First Names which starts with 'a' and ends with 'e':

aase abame abarrane abbie abbigale abebe abegayle abeque able ace aceline adalene adalie adalwine adare addaneye addergoole addie ade adelaide adele adelheide adeline adelise adelle adelyte adene adenne adette adibe adilene adine adne adorlee adriane adrianne adrie adriene adrienne aeccestane aedre aefre aegelmaere aelfdane aelfdene aelfwine aelle aerlene aescwine aesoburne aethe aethelhere aethelmaere aethelwine aethelwyne afrodille agate agathe agaue agave age aggie aghamore aglarale agnese agurtzane agustine ahane ahave ahelie aherne ahote aibne aife aiglentine ailbe ailbhe aileene ailise ailse ailsie aimee aine ainmire ainslee ainslie aintzane airdsgainne aithne ajanae akibe akintunde akinwole akule albertine albertyne alcippe alcmene alcyone

English Words Rhyming ALICE

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES ALÝCE AS A WHOLE:

calicenoun (n.) See Chalice.

chalicenoun (n.) A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

chalicedadjective (a.) Having a calyx or cup; cup-shaped.

fortalicenoun (n.) A small outwork of a fortification; a fortilage; -- called also fortelace.

malicenoun (n.) Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.
 noun (n.) Any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness.
 verb (v. t.) To regard with extreme ill will.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ALÝCE (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (lice) - English Words That Ends with lice:


accomplicenoun (n.) A cooperator.
 noun (n.) An associate in the commission of a crime; a participator in an offense, whether a principal or an accessory.

allicenoun (n.) Alt. of Allis

cilicenoun (n.) A kind of haircloth undergarment.

complicenoun (n.) An accomplice.

licenoun (n.) pl. of Louse.
  (pl. ) of Louse

milicenoun (n.) Militia.

policenoun (n.) A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.
 noun (n.) That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.
 noun (n.) The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.
 noun (n.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.
 noun (n.) The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state / a camp as to cleanliness.
 verb (v. t.) To keep in order by police.
 verb (v. t.) To make clean; as, to police a camp.

splicenoun (n.) A junction or joining made by splicing.
 verb (v. t.) To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope.
 verb (v. t.) To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast.
 verb (v. t.) To unite in marrige.

surplicenoun (n.) A white garment worn over another dress by the clergy of the Roman Catholic, Episcopal, and certain other churches, in some of their ministrations.


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ice) - English Words That Ends with ice:


addicenoun (n.) See Adze.

advicenoun (n.) An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
 noun (n.) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
 noun (n.) Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; -- commonly in the plural.
 noun (n.) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.

allspicenoun (n.) The berry of the pimento (Eugenia pimenta), a tree of the West Indies; a spice of a mildly pungent taste, and agreeably aromatic; Jamaica pepper; pimento. It has been supposed to combine the flavor of cinnamon, nutmegs, and cloves; and hence the name. The name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.

amicenoun (n.) A square of white linen worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.
 noun (n.) A hood, or cape with a hood, made of lined with gray fur, formerly worn by the clergy; -- written also amess, amyss, and almuce.

apprenticenoun (n.) One who is bound by indentures or by legal agreement to serve a mechanic, or other person, for a certain time, with a view to learn the art, or trade, in which his master is bound to instruct him.
 noun (n.) One not well versed in a subject; a tyro.
 noun (n.) A barrister, considered a learner of law till of sixteen years' standing, when he might be called to the rank of serjeant.
 verb (v. t.) To bind to, or put under the care of, a master, for the purpose of instruction in a trade or business.

armisticenoun (n.) A cessation of arms for a short time, by convention; a temporary suspension of hostilities by agreement; a truce.

artificenoun (n.) A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
 noun (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
 noun (n.) Artful or skillful contrivance.
 noun (n.) Crafty device; an artful, ingenious, or elaborate trick. [Now the usual meaning.]

aruspicenoun (n.) A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex.

auspiceadjective (a.) A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.
 adjective (a.) Protection; patronage and care; guidance.

avaricenoun (n.) An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
 noun (n.) An inordinate desire for some supposed good.

beneficenoun (n.) A favor or benefit.
 noun (n.) An estate in lands; a fief.
 noun (n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.
 verb (v. t.) To endow with a benefice.

bicenoun (n.) Alt. of Bise

boddicenoun (n.) See Bodick.

bodicenoun (n.) A kind of under waist stiffened with whalebone, etc., worn esp. by women; a corset; stays.
 noun (n.) A close-fitting outer waist or vest forming the upper part of a woman's dress, or a portion of it.

bratticenoun (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.
 noun (n.) Planking to support a roof or wall.

bretticenoun (n.) The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

bullficenoun (n.) A kind of fungus. See Puffball.

caddicenoun (n.) Alt. of Caddis

cantatricenoun (n.) A female professional singer.

choicenoun (n.) Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
 noun (n.) The power or opportunity of choosing; option.
 noun (n.) Care in selecting; judgment or skill in distinguishing what is to be preferred, and in giving a preference; discrimination.
 noun (n.) A sufficient number to choose among.
 noun (n.) The thing or person chosen; that which is approved and selected in preference to others; selection.
 noun (n.) The best part; that which is preferable.
 superlative (superl.) Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable.
 superlative (superl.) Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money.
 superlative (superl.) Selected with care, and due attention to preference; deliberately chosen.

cicatricenoun (n.) A cicatrix.

cockatricenoun (n.) A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk.
 noun (n.) A representation of this serpent. It has the head, wings, and legs of a bird, and tail of a serpent.
 noun (n.) A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified.
 noun (n.) Any venomous or deadly thing.

coppicenoun (n.) A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.

cornicenoun (n.) Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.

cowardicenoun (n.) Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity; pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.

crevicenoun (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
 verb (v. t.) To crack; to flaw.

dentifricenoun (n.) A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.

desertricenoun (n.) A feminine deserter.

devicenoun (n.) That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.
 noun (n.) Power of devising; invention; contrivance.
 noun (n.) An emblematic design, generally consisting of one or more figures with a motto, used apart from heraldic bearings to denote the historical situation, the ambition, or the desire of the person adopting it. See Cognizance.
 noun (n.) Improperly, an heraldic bearing.
 noun (n.) Anything fancifully conceived.
 noun (n.) A spectacle or show.
 noun (n.) Opinion; decision.

dicenoun (n.) Small cubes used in gaming or in determining by chance; also, the game played with dice. See Die, n.
 verb (v. i.) To play games with dice.
 verb (v. i.) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.
  (pl. ) of Die

disservicenoun (n.) Injury; mischief.

edificenoun (n.) A building; a structure; an architectural fabric; -- chiefly applied to elegant houses, and other large buildings; as, a palace, a church, a statehouse.

empericenoun (n.) An empress.

eyeservicenoun (n.) Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer.

ficenoun (n.) A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc.

forenoticenoun (n.) Notice or information of an event before it happens; forewarning.

fricatricenoun (n.) A lewd woman; a harlot.

gricenoun (n.) A little pig.
 noun (n.) See Gree, a step.
  (pl. ) of Gree

haruspicenoun (n.) A diviner of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspice.

hospicenoun (n.) A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.

icenoun (n.) Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4ˇ C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
 noun (n.) Concreted sugar.
 noun (n.) Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.
 noun (n.) Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.
 verb (v. t.) To cover with ice; to convert into ice, or into something resembling ice.
 verb (v. t.) To cover with icing, or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.

improvisatricenoun (n.) See Improvvisatrice.

improvvisatricenoun (n.) A female improvvisatore.

indicenoun (n.) Index; indication.

injusticenoun (n.) Want of justice and equity; violation of the rights of another or others; iniquity; wrong; unfairness; imposition.
 noun (n.) An unjust act or deed; a sin; a crime; a wrong.

interlocutricenoun (n.) A female interlocutor.

intersticenoun (n.) That which intervenes between one thing and another; especially, a space between things closely set, or between the parts which compose a body; a narrow chink; a crack; a crevice; a hole; an interval; as, the interstices of a wall.
 noun (n.) An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders.

invoicenoun (n.) A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed.
 noun (n.) The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods.
 verb (v. t.) To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice.

jaundicenoun (n.) A morbid condition, characterized by yellowness of the eyes, skin, and urine, whiteness of the faeces, constipation, uneasiness in the region of the stomach, loss of appetite, and general languor and lassitude. It is caused usually by obstruction of the biliary passages and consequent damming up, in the liver, of the bile, which is then absorbed into the blood.
 verb (v. t.) To affect with jaundice; to color by prejudice or envy; to prejudice.

juicenoun (n.) The characteristic fluid of any vegetable or animal substance; the sap or part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking.
 verb (v. t.) To moisten; to wet.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH ALÝCE (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (alic) - Words That Begins with alic:


alicantnoun (n.) A kind of wine, formerly much esteemed; -- said to have been made near Alicant, in Spain.


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ali) - Words That Begins with ali:


alilonghinoun (n.) The tunny. See Albicore.

alisandersnoun (n.) A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

aliasnoun (n.) A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.
 noun (n.) Another name; an assumed name.
 adverb (adv.) Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.
 adverb (adv.) At another time.

alibinoun (n.) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed; as, to set up an alibi; to prove an alibi.

alibilitynoun (n.) Quality of being alible.

alibleadjective (a.) Nutritive; nourishing.

alidadenoun (n.) The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument

aliennoun (n.) A foreigner; one owing allegiance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not possess the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.
 noun (n.) One excluded from certain privileges; one alienated or estranged; as, aliens from God's mercies.
 adjective (a.) Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
 adjective (a.) Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
 verb (v. t.) To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership.

alienabilitynoun (n.) Capability of being alienated.

alienableadjective (a.) Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.

alienagenoun (n.) The state or legal condition of being an alien.
 noun (n.) The state of being alienated or transferred to another.

alienatenoun (n.) A stranger; an alien.
 adjective (a.) Estranged; withdrawn in affection; foreign; -- with from.
 verb (v. t.) To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.
 verb (v. t.) To withdraw, as the affections; to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from.

alienatingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alienate

alienationnoun (n.) The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
 noun (n.) A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.
 noun (n.) A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections.
 noun (n.) Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.

alienatornoun (n.) One who alienates.

alieneenoun (n.) One to whom the title of property is transferred; -- opposed to alienor.

alienismnoun (n.) The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.
 noun (n.) The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.

alienistnoun (n.) One who treats diseases of the mind.

alienornoun (n.) One who alienates or transfers property to another.

aliethmoidadjective (a.) Alt. of Aliethmoidal

aliethmoidaladjective (a.) Pertaining to expansions of the ethmoid bone or cartilage.

aliferousadjective (a.) Having wings, winged; aligerous.

aliformadjective (a.) Wing-shaped; winglike.

aligerousadjective (a.) Having wings; winged.

alightingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Alight

alightadjective (a.) Lighted; lighted up; in a flame.
 verb (v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.
 verb (v. i.) To descend and settle, lodge, rest, or stop; as, a flying bird alights on a tree; snow alights on a roof.
 verb (v. i.) To come or chance (upon).

alignmentnoun (n.) The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.
 noun (n.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

alikeadjective (a.) Having resemblance or similitude; similar; without difference.
 adverb (adv.) In the same manner, form, or degree; in common; equally; as, we are all alike concerned in religion.

alimentnoun (n.) That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support.
 noun (n.) An allowance for maintenance.
 verb (v. t.) To nourish; to support.
 verb (v. t.) To provide for the maintenance of.

alimentaladjective (a.) Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

alimentarinessnoun (n.) The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality.

alimentaryadjective (a.) Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances.

alimentationnoun (n.) The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.
 noun (n.) State or mode of being nourished.

alimentivenessnoun (n.) The instinct or faculty of appetite for food.

alimoniousadjective (a.) Affording food; nourishing.

alimonynoun (n.) Maintenance; means of living.
 noun (n.) An allowance made to a wife out of her husband's estate or income for her support, upon her divorce or legal separation from him, or during a suit for the same.

alinasaladjective (a.) Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

alineationnoun (n.) See Allineation.
 noun (n.) Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun.

alinementnoun (n.) Same as Alignment.

alinernoun (n.) One who adjusts things to a line or lines or brings them into line.

aliothnoun (n.) A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.

alipednoun (n.) An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.
 adjective (a.) Wing-footed, as the bat.

aliquantadjective (a.) An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of 16. Opposed to aliquot.

aliquotadjective (a.) An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which will divide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15. Opposed to aliquant.

aliseptaladjective (a.) Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.

alishadjective (a.) Like ale; as, an alish taste.

alisphenoidnoun (n.) The alisphenoid bone.
 adjective (a.) Alt. of Alisphenoidal

alisphenoidaladjective (a.) Pertaining to or forming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

alitrunknoun (n.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.

aliturgicaladjective (a.) Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH ALÝCE:

English Words which starts with 'al' and ends with 'ce':

albescencenoun (n.) The act of becoming white; whitishness.

alkalescencenoun (n.) Alt. of Alkalescency

allegeancenoun (n.) Allegation.

allegiancenoun (n.) The tie or obligation, implied or expressed, which a subject owes to his sovereign or government; the duty of fidelity to one's king, government, or state.
 noun (n.) Devotion; loyalty; as, allegiance to science.

alliancenoun (n.) The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc., especially between families by marriage and states by compact, treaty, or league; as, matrimonial alliances; an alliance between church and state; an alliance between France and England.
 noun (n.) Any union resembling that of families or states; union by relationship in qualities; affinity.
 noun (n.) The persons or parties allied.
 verb (v. t.) To connect by alliance; to ally.

allowancenoun (n.) Approval; approbation.
 noun (n.) The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance.
 noun (n.) Acknowledgment.
 noun (n.) License; indulgence.
 noun (n.) That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short.
 noun (n.) Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth.
 noun (n.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.
 noun (n.) To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced.

allurancenoun (n.) Allurement.

almucenoun (n.) Same as Amice, a hood or cape.

altarpiecenoun (n.) The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

altiloquencenoun (n.) Lofty speech; pompous language.