Rhymes with convention
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- gentian — any of several plants of the genera Gentiana, Gentianella, and Gentianopsis, having usually blue, or sometimes yellow, white, or red, flowers, as the fringed gentian of North America, or Gentiana lutea, of Europe. Compare gentian family.
- mention — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- pension — a fixed amount, other than wages, paid at regular intervals to a person or to the person's surviving dependents in consideration of past services, age, merit, poverty, injury or loss sustained, etc.: a retirement pension.
- tension — the act of stretching or straining.
Three-syllable rhymes
- ascension — In some religions, when someone goes to heaven, you can refer to their ascension to heaven.
- attention — If you give someone or something your attention, you look at it, listen to it, or think about it carefully.
- bottle gentian — closed gentian.
- closed gentian — any of several North American plants (genus Gentiana) with dark-blue, closed, tubular flowers
- contention — Someone's contention is the idea or opinion that they are expressing in an argument or discussion.
- detention — Detention is when someone is arrested or put into prison, especially for political reasons.
- dimension — Mathematics. a property of space; extension in a given direction: A straight line has one dimension, a parallelogram has two dimensions, and a parallelepiped has three dimensions. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers. extension in time: Space-time has three dimensions of space and one of time.
- dissension — strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
- green gentian — a plant, Frasera speciosa, of the gentian family, native to the northwestern U.S., having open clusters of purple-spotted, greenish-white flowers that blend in with its leaves.
- horse gentian — any weedy North American plant of the genus Triosteum, of the honeysuckle family, especially T. perfoliatum, having stalkless leaves and purplish-brown flowers and bearing orange fruits.
- invention — the act of inventing.
- laurentian — of or relating to the St. Lawrence River.
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- prevention — the act of preventing; effectual hindrance.
- retention — the act of retaining.
- suspension — the act of suspending.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- apprehension — Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
- comprehension — Comprehension is the ability to understand something.
- condescension — Condescension is condescending behaviour.
- fourth dimension — Physics, Mathematics. a dimension in addition to length, width, and depth, used so as to be able to employ geometrical language in discussing phenomena that depend on four variables: Time is considered a fourth dimension for locating points in space-time.
- hypertension — Pathology. elevation of the blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure. an arterial disease characterized by this condition.
- hypotension — decreased or lowered blood pressure.
- not to mention — to refer briefly to; name, specify, or speak of: Don't forget to mention her contribution to the project.
- pay attention — be attentive
- reinvention — to invent again or anew, especially without knowing that the invention already exists.
- right ascension — the arc of the celestial equator measured eastward from the vernal equinox to the foot of the great circle passing through the celestial poles and a given point on the celestial sphere, expressed in degrees or hours.
- surface tension — the elasticlike force existing in the surface of a body, especially a liquid, tending to minimize the area of the surface, caused by asymmetries in the intermolecular forces between surface molecules.
- third dimension — the additional dimension by which a solid object is distinguished from a planar projection of itself or from any planar object.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- honorable mention — a citation conferred on a contestant, exhibit, etc., having exceptional merit though not winning a top honor or prize.
- misapprehension — misunderstanding.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- colloidal suspension — a mixture having particles of one component, with diameters between 10 −7 and 10 −9 metres, suspended in a continuous phase of another component. The mixture has properties between those of a solution and a fine suspension
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
- university extension — a system by which an institution provides educational programs, as evening classes, for students otherwise unable to attend.