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Rhymes with dereliction

der·e·lic·tion
D d

Two-syllable rhymes

  • diction — Someone's diction is how clearly they speak or sing.
  • fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
  • friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.

Three-syllable rhymes

  • addiction — Addiction is the condition of taking harmful drugs and being unable to stop taking them.
  • affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
  • constriction — Constrictions are rules or factors which limit what you can do and prevent you from doing what you want to do.
  • conviction — a fixed or firmly held belief, opinion, etc
  • depiction — A depiction of something is a picture or a written description of it.
  • infliction — the act of inflicting.
  • nonfiction — the branch of literature comprising works of narrative prose dealing with or offering opinions or conjectures upon facts and reality, including biography, history, and the essay (opposed to fiction and distinguished from poetry and drama).
  • prediction — an act of predicting.
  • restriction — something that restricts; a restrictive condition or regulation; limitation.
  • science fiction — a form of fiction that draws imaginatively on scientific knowledge and speculation in its plot, setting, theme, etc.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • benediction — A benediction is a kind of Christian prayer.
  • 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.
  • crucifixion — Crucifixion is a way of killing people which was common in the Roman Empire, in which they were tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
  • interdiction — an act or instance of interdicting.
  • jurisdiction — the right, power, or authority to administer justice by hearing and determining controversies.

Four-or-more syllable rhymes

  • coefficient of friction — the force required to move two sliding surfaces over each other, divided by the force holding them together. It is reduced once the motion has started
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