Rhymes with abolition
ab·o·li·tion
A a Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- dietician — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- dietitian — a person who is an expert in nutrition or dietetics.
- disposition — the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude: a girl with a pleasant disposition.
- field emission — the removal of electrons from a metallic conductor by a strong electric field.
- foreign mission — mission (def 10).
- imposition — the laying on of something as a burden or obligation.
- in addition — also, as well
- in commission — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- in condition — (of a person) Fit, healthy.
- inhibition — the act of inhibiting.
- inquisition — an official investigation, especially one of a political or religious nature, characterized by lack of regard for individual rights, prejudice on the part of the examiners, and recklessly cruel punishments.
- intermission — a short interval between the acts of a play or parts of a public performance, usually a period of approximately 10 or 15 minutes, allowing the performers and audience a rest.
- intuition — direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.
- malnutrition — lack of proper nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced nutrition.
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- obstetrician — a physician who specializes in obstetrics. Abbreviation: OB, ob.
- opposition — the action of opposing, resisting, or combating.
- politician — a person who is active in party politics.
- precondition — something that must come before or is necessary to a subsequent result; condition: a precondition for a promotion.
- preignition — ignition of the charge in an internal-combustion engine earlier in the cycle than is compatible with proper operation.
- premonition — a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment: He had a vague premonition of danger.
- prohibition — the act of prohibiting.
- proposition — the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
- recognition — an act of recognizing or the state of being recognized.
- recondition — to restore to a good or satisfactory condition; repair; make over.
- repetition — the act of repeating, or doing, saying, or writing something again; repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
- reposition — the act of depositing or storing.
- requisition — the act of requiring or demanding.
- retransmission — the act or process of transmitting.
- rhetorician — an expert in the art of rhetoric.
- statistician — an expert in or compiler of statistics.
- superstition — a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge, in or of the ominous significance of a particular thing, circumstance, occurrence, proceeding, or the like.
- supposition — the act of supposing.
- trade edition — an edition of a book for distribution through general bookstores.
- acquisition — If a company or business person makes an acquisition, they buy another company or part of a company.
- admonition — An admonition is a warning or criticism about someone's behaviour.
- ammunition — Ammunition is bullets and rockets that are made to be fired from guns.
- apparition — An apparition is someone you see or think you see but who is not really there as a physical being.
- coalition — A coalition is a government consisting of people from two or more political parties.
- competition — Competition is a situation in which two or more people or groups are trying to get something which not everyone can have.
- composition — When you talk about the composition of something, you are referring to the way in which its various parts are put together and arranged.
- decommission — When something such as a nuclear reactor or a large machine is decommissioned, it is taken to pieces because it is no longer going to be used.
- definition — A definition is a statement giving the meaning of a word or expression, especially in a dictionary.
- demolition — The demolition of a building is the act of deliberately destroying it, often in order to build something else in its place.
- deposition — A deposition is a formal written statement, made for example by a witness to a crime, which can be used in a court of law if the witness cannot be present.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- academician — An academician is a member of an academy, usually one which has been formed to improve or maintain standards in a particular field.
- decomposition — Decomposition is the process of decay that takes place when a living thing changes chemically after dying.
- dental technician — a person who constructs and repairs artificial teeth
- face recognition — the ability of a computer to scan, store, and recognize human faces for use in identifying people
- geriatrician — the branch of medicine dealing with the diseases, debilities, and care of aged persons.
- juxtaposition — an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast.
- lotus position — a standard seated posture for yoga, with legs intertwined, left foot over right thigh, and right foot over left thigh.
- mathematician — an expert or specialist in mathematics.
- out of commission — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- out of condition — If someone is out of condition, they are unhealthy and unfit, because they do not do enough exercise.
- pediatrician — a physician who specializes in pediatrics.
- predisposition — the fact or condition of being predisposed: a predisposition to think optimistically.
- presupposition — to suppose or assume beforehand; take for granted in advance.
- redefinition — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- theoretician — a person who deals with or is expert in the theoretical side of a subject: a military theoretician.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- boundary condition — a stated restriction, usually in the form of an equation, that limits the possible solutions to a differential equation.
- double decomposition — a reaction whose result is the interchange of two parts of two substances to form two new substances, as AgNO 3 + NaCl → AgCl + NaNO 3 .
- limited edition — an edition, as of a book or lithograph, limited to a specified small number of copies.
- polar opposition — the relation between a pair of antonyms that denote relatively higher and lower degrees of a quality with respect to an explicit or implicit norm rather than absolute values, as the relation between tall and short or light and dark, but not between true and false.
- writ of prohibition — a command by a higher court that a lower court shall not exercise jurisdiction in a particular case.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- missionary position — a position for sexual intercourse in which the couple lies face to face with the male on top.
- secondary emission — the emission of electrons (secondary electrons) from a material that is bombarded with electrons or ions.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- dictionary definition — the meaning of a word as given in a dictionary or dictionaries
- reciprocal inhibition — the theory that the pairing of an anxiety-provoking stimulus with anxiety-reducing reactions will weaken the association between the stimulus and the anxiety.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- atomic energy commission — (in the US) a federal board established in 1946 to administer and develop domestic atomic energy programmes
Two-syllable rhymes
Three-syllable rhymes
- addition — An addition to something is a thing which is added to it.
- admission — Admission is permission given to a person to enter a place, or permission given to a country to enter an organization. Admission is also the act of entering a place.
- ambition — If you have an ambition to do or achieve something, you want very much to do it or achieve it.
- attrition — Attrition is a process in which you steadily reduce the strength of an enemy by continually attacking them.
- audition — An audition is a short performance given by an actor, dancer, or musician so that a director or conductor can decide if they are good enough to be in a play, film, or orchestra.
- clinician — A clinician is a doctor who specializes in clinical work.
- cognition — Cognition is the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things.
- commission — If you commission something or commission someone to do something, you formally arrange for someone to do a piece of work for you.
- condition — If you talk about the condition of a person or thing, you are talking about the state that they are in, especially how good or bad their physical state is.
- contrition — deeply felt remorse; penitence
- dentition — the arrangement, type, and number of the teeth in a particular species. Man has a primary dentition of deciduous teeth and a secondary dentition of permanent teeth
- edition — one of a series of printings of the same book, newspaper, etc., each issued at a different time and differing from another by alterations, additions, etc. (distinguished from impression).
- fruition — attainment of anything desired; realization; accomplishment: After years of hard work she finally brought her idea to full fruition.
- ignition — the act or fact of igniting; state of being ignited.
- logician — a person who is skilled in logic.
- magician — an entertainer who is skilled in producing illusion by sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; conjurer.
- mortician — funeral director.
- munition — Usually, munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
- musician — a person who makes music a profession, especially as a performer of music.
- nutrition — the act or process of nourishing or of being nourished.
- omission — the act of omitting.
- optician — a person who makes or sells eyeglasses and, usually, contact lenses, for remedying defects of vision in accordance with the prescriptions of ophthalmologists and optometrists.
- partition — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- patrician — a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat.
- permission — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- petition — a formally drawn request, often bearing the names of a number of those making the request, that is addressed to a person or group of persons in authority or power, soliciting some favor, right, mercy, or other benefit: a petition for clemency; a petition for the repeal of an unfair law.
- physician — a person who is legally qualified to practice medicine; doctor of medicine.
- position — condition with reference to place; location; situation.
- remission — the act of remitting.
- rendition — the act of rendering.
- sedition — incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
- submission — an act or instance of submitting.
- suspicion — act of suspecting.
- tactician — a person who is adept in planning tactics.
- technician — a person who is trained or skilled in the technicalities of a subject.
- tradition — the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, especially by word of mouth or by practice: a story that has come down to us by popular tradition.
- transition — movement, passage, or change from one position, state, stage, subject, concept, etc., to another; change: the transition from adolescence to adulthood.
- transmission — the act or process of transmitting.
- tuition — the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
- volition — the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.