Rhymes with ambition
am·bi·tion
A a Three-syllable rhymes
- ambitious — Someone who is ambitious has a strong desire to be successful, rich, or powerful.
- arisen — to get up from sitting, lying, or kneeling; rise: He arose from his chair when she entered the room.
- 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.
- collision — A collision occurs when a moving object crashes into something.
- 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.
- conditions — external or existing circumstances
- contrition — deeply felt remorse; penitence
- conviction — a fixed or firmly held belief, opinion, etc
- decision — When you make a decision, you choose what should be done or which is the best of various possible actions.
- delicious — very enjoyable; delightful
- 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
- depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
- derision — If you treat someone or something with derision, you express contempt for them.
- description — You can say that something is beyond description, or that it defies description, to emphasize that it is very unusual, impressive, terrible, or extreme.
- discussion — an act or instance of discussing; consideration or examination by argument, comment, etc., especially to explore solutions; informal debate.
- division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- 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).
- fictitious — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- forgiven — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- 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.
- imprison — to confine in or as if in a prison.
- incision — a cut, gash, or notch.
- 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.
- malicious — full of, characterized by, or showing malice; intentionally harmful; spiteful: malicious gossip.
- misprision — contempt or scorn.
- 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.
- night vision — ability to see at night or in a dim light.
- nutrition — the act or process of nourishing or of being nourished.
- obsession — the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc.
- 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.
- parisian — a native or inhabitant of Paris, France.
- 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.
- possession — the act or fact of possessing.
- precision — the state or quality of being precise.
- prescription — Medicine/Medical. a direction, usually written, by the physician to the pharmacist for the preparation and use of a medicine or remedy. the medicine prescribed: Take this prescription three times a day.
- provision — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- recession — a return of ownership to a former possessor.
- recision — an act of canceling or voiding; cancellation.
- religion — a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.
- remission — the act of remitting.
- rendition — the act of rendering.
- rescission — the act of rescinding.
- revision — the act or work of revising.
- sedition — incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.
- submission — an act or instance of submitting.
- sufficient — adequate for the purpose; enough: sufficient proof; sufficient protection.
- suspicion — act of suspecting.
- suspicious — tending to cause or excite suspicion; questionable: suspicious behavior.
- 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.
- addiction — Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
- 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.
- ambitions — an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment: Too much ambition caused him to be disliked by his colleagues.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- abolition — The abolition of something such as a system or practice is its formal ending.
- 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.
- aspiration — Someone's aspirations are their desire to achieve things.
- brussels griffon — one of a Belgian breed of toy dogs having a thick, wiry, reddish-brown coat.
- cell division — the division of a cell into two new cells during growth or reproduction
- circumcision — surgical removal of the foreskin of males
- 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.
- contradiction — If you describe an aspect of a situation as a contradiction, you mean that it is completely different from other aspects, and so makes the situation confused or difficult to understand.
- 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.
- 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.
- indecision — inability to decide.
- 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.
- long division — division, usually by a number of two or more digits, in which each step of the process is written down.
- malnutrition — lack of proper nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced nutrition.
- motivation — the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way: I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job. Synonyms: motive, inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
- 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.
- short division — division, especially by a one-digit divisor, in which the steps of the process are performed mentally and are not written down.
- split decision — a decision of a bout on whose outcome the referee and judges did not unanimously agree.
- 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.
- superstitious — of the nature of, characterized by, or proceeding from superstition: superstitious fears.
- supervision — the act or function of supervising; superintendence.
- supposition — the act of supposing.
- trade edition — an edition of a book for distribution through general bookstores.
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.
- reduction division — the first division of meiosis in which the number of chromosomes is reduced to half the original number.
- 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
- christen — When a baby is christened, he or she is given a name during the Christian ceremony of baptism. Compare baptize.
- cushion — A cushion is a fabric case filled with soft material, which you put on a seat to make it more comfortable.
- diction — Someone's diction is how clearly they speak or sing.
- driven — past participle of drive.
- fishing — the act of catching fish.
- fission — the act of cleaving or splitting into parts.
- friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- given — past participle of give.
- glisten — to reflect a sparkling light or a faint intermittent glow; shine lustrously.
- griffon — griffin1 .
- kitchen — a room or place equipped for cooking.
- listen — to give attention with the ear; attend closely for the purpose of hearing; give ear.
- mission — a city in S Texas.
- nation — Carry or Carrie (Amelia Moore) 1846–1911, U.S. temperance leader.
- passion — any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.
- pigeon — (not in technical use) pidgin; pidgin English.
- prison — a building for the confinement of persons held while awaiting trial, persons sentenced after conviction, etc.
- risen — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
- riven — a past participle of rive.
- stiffen — to make stiff.
- striven — to exert oneself vigorously; try hard: He strove to make himself understood.
- titian — (Tiziano Vecellio) c1477–1576, Italian painter.
- vicious — addicted to or characterized by vice; grossly immoral; depraved; profligate: a vicious life.
- vision — the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.
- wishes — to want; desire; long for (usually followed by an infinitive or a clause): I wish to travel. I wish that it were morning.