I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with "picture"

Am I supposed to start this with a clue of my own? Well, it's a word that rhymes with "picture"!

I'll need this to decorate my coat of arms.

Will you put some sort of constraint on our guesses?

#3 It's not a suture..

#2 That's difficult! Tressure isn't quite the full rhyme, nor is saltire . All I can come up with is the French word peinture , or armature which would be oblique in the extreme! Unless you mean garniture ? (As you can see, I am very ignorant about heraldry).

Not: peinture, armature, garniture, suture
Alpha not: armature, garniture, peinture, suture

#4 I had more in mind the colouring, also an extract in alcohol.

5

Ah, tincture ! No..

Not: peinture, armature, garniture, suture, tincture
Alpha not: armature, garniture, peinture, suture, tincture

3

I feel very very silly. You clearly meant stricture ! But it's not that either.

Not: peinture, armature, garniture, suture, tincture, stricture
Alpha not: armature, garniture, peinture, stricture, suture, tincture

//Don't feel too silly. I figured if you didn't guess it, it wasn't the word.//
If I can just put together these incomplete clues, I might be able to come up with a theory of the word.

It's all just a jumble!

9

I'm not sure whether you're going for admixture , commixture , or intermixture - but it's not any of those!

Clue: Crambo! is only looking for a last-syllable rhyme.

Not: peinture, armature, garniture, suture, tincture, stricture, admixture, commixture, intermixture
Alpha not: admixture, armature, commixture, garniture, intermixture, peinture, stricture, suture, tincture

#10 I was happy with just mixture.

This is just mental agony!

11

Not torture (evil grin).

Not: peinture, armature, garniture, suture, tincture, stricture, admixture, commixture, intermixture, mixture, torture
Alpha not: admixture, armature, commixture, garniture, intermixture, mixture, peinture, stricture, suture, tincture, torture

With its two rhyming words, it's a phrase
For a lover of paintings and plays.
Yet the second's a word
For a carrion bird;
Are the arts in their terminal days?

Wish I could guarantee I would guess the right word!

13

Neither culture nor vulture !

14

Conjecture? (Can't fathom the 'guarantee' part).

//Clue: this is a three syllable word with multiple meanings//

Not: peinture, armature, garniture, suture, tincture, stricture, admixture, commixture, intermixture, mixture, torture, culture, vulture, conjecture
Alpha not: admixture, armature, commixture, conjecture, culture, garniture, intermixture, mixture, peinture, stricture, suture, tincture, torture, vulture

I have to get a new lighting device in my living room. It's too dark to read in the corner.

16

I'm pretty sure you don't mean either furniture or curvature (corner). But I'm struggling with what you are getting at!

Not: peinture, armature, garniture, suture, tincture, stricture, admixture, commixture, intermixture, mixture, torture, culture, vulture, conjecture, furniture, curvature
Alpha not: admixture, armature, commixture, conjecture, culture, curvature, furniture, garniture, intermixture, mixture, peinture, stricture, suture, tincture, torture, vulture

". . .and you'll find that you're
in the __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __, ...OOOH,
I could write a sonnet
About your Easter bonnet. . ."

18

I had to Google that! Nice try, and thank you Judy Garland.. Unfortunately, my word ends in -ture, like "picture", so not rotogravure!

//Think alphabetically//

Not: peinture, armature, garniture, suture, tincture, stricture, admixture, commixture, intermixture, mixture, torture, culture, vulture, conjecture, furniture, curvature, rotogravure
Alpha not: admixture, armature, commixture, conjecture, culture, curvature, furniture, garniture, intermixture, mixture, peinture, rotogravure, stricture, suture, tincture, torture, vulture

In 1946 I co-starred* with Orson Bean in " __ __ __ __ as the Driven Snow" by Paul Loomis.

*well, a supporting role any way; I was the leadʻs (that is the villainʻs, played by Dallas Burrows, (later known as Orson Bean)ʻs accomplice.

Have you ever tried growing plants without soil? I've done it only for avocado seeds.

Recognition can be "de facto", Iʻm
Told, or de __ __ __ __; this time,
We might be talking law-
-yer language, and itʻs ok to toy
with how to "pronouns" it, and make
It the merest monosyll-
-able -- not fake,
But authentic "lawyer talk": Iʻve
Heard a Speaker of the House
(no jive!)
Come out with "sine die" as two,
Not four syllables! What think you?
-- Just impure Latinity?
Strict anglicizing, or just being witty?

21

Not hydroculture

20

I've tried for more than 20 minutes to trace that movie, but not even IMDb has it in their database. I have to give up on that one, but I'm pretty certain it isn't correct?

22

Nice poem! But not 'de jure' (which is two words, doesn't end in -ture, and can only rhyme with picture by making it two, not three, syllables!)

//You're not picking up on my "think alphabetic" clue. Was Julius Caesar a "New Roman"? Was Brutus the Courier? Ah no, he stabbed Caesar to death - he didn't use a..//

Not: peinture, armature, garniture, suture, tincture, stricture, admixture, commixture, intermixture, mixture, torture, culture, vulture, conjecture, furniture, curvature, rotogravure, hydroculture, de jure
Alpha not: admixture, armature, commixture, conjecture, culture, curvature, de jure, furniture, garniture, hydroculture, intermixture, mixture, peinture, rotogravure, stricture, suture, tincture, torture, vulture

The Latin of "jure" (as in "de jure" would begin with an i,
not a j. Itʻs pronounced someting like "Yoor-ehh" (short e). Anglicized, I suppose it CAN be one syllable, and rhyme with ʻLure".

You're not thinking of a fine wire beloved by Mafiosos in the back seat are you?

Now I have joined perhaps I can add a permanent hook.

25

You got it! The word is ligature though I prefer the alphabetic definition (two letters joined together as with "a" and "e", or "o" and "e" in a font) to the Mafioso one :-)

Over to you , CitizenJ.

Hm, I got it and hadn't realized the alphabetic connection, in fact I thought ligature was so far without an alphabetic connection that it wouldn't be the word.

Let me think a minute.

New game, no strangling involved: http://www.librarything.com/topic/144650