Rhymes for ALSATIAN

• the use of speech for informal exchange of views or ideas or information etc.

• a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose

• proper or designated social situation

• (nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty

• the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand

• the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station

• assign to a station

• something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury)

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors

• the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

• a society in an advanced state of social development (e.g., with complex legal and political and religious organizations)

• the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization

• a particular society at a particular time and place

• the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste

• an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

• an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

• the activity of fastening something firmly in position

• (histology) the preservation and hardening of a tissue sample to retain as nearly as possible the same relations they had in the living body

• charge against a citizen's person or property or activity for the support of government

• government income due to taxation

• the imposition of taxes; the practice of the government in levying taxes on the subjects of a state

• the human act of creating

• (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence

• an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone

• the event that occurred at the beginning of something

• the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

• everything that exists anywhere

• the basis on which something is grounded

• an institution supported by an endowment

• lowest support of a structure

• education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge

• the fundamental assumptions from which something is begun or developed or calculated or explained

• a woman's undergarment worn to give shape to the contours of the body

• the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new

• (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams

• the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state

• atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold

• the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together

• a shortened version of a written work

• the act of increasing the density of something

• (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

• (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance

• a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry

• an occurrence of control or strength weakening

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount

• the act of making less strict

• the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill

• the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979

• knowledge acquired by learning and instruction

• the gradual process of acquiring knowledge

• the profession of teaching (especially at a school or college or university)

• the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)

• the people who inhabit a territory or state

• a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area

• (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn

• the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.)

• the act of populating (causing to live in a place)

• creation by the physical union of male and female gametes; of sperm and ova in an animal or pollen and ovule in a plant

• making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure

• a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)

• an unplanned expedient

• a performance given extempore without planning or preparation

• act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency:

• act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action

• the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)

• the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means)

• a stopping

• incorporation by joining or uniting

• the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation

• the act of causing something to happen

• an exemption from some rule or obligation

• a share that has been dispensed or distributed

• the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)

• indecision in speech or action

• a certain degree of unwillingness

• the act of pausing uncertainly

• the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing

• the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities

• act of changing from a war basis to a peace basis including disbanding or discharging troops

• destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy

• a state of disorder and confusion

• depression resulting from an undermining of your morale

• the removal of salt (especially from sea water)

• conversion into dramatic form

• a dramatic representation

• reasoning from detailed facts to general principles

• an idea or conclusion having general application

• the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances

• (psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus

• the act of making immune (especially by inoculation)

• an inquiry into unfamiliar or questionable activities

• the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically

• the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge)

• the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas

• the act of making less strict

• a determination of the place where something is

• (physiology) the principle that specific functions have relatively circumscribed locations in some particular part or organ of the body

• the mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function

• the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position

• making modern in appearance or behavior

• a modernized version (as of a play)

• action intended to keep a country politically neutral or exclude it from a possible war

• a chemical reaction in which an acid and a base interact with the formation of a salt; with strong acids and bases the essential reaction is the combination of hydrogen ions with hydroxyl ions to form water

• (euphemism) the removal of a threat by killing or destroying it (especially in a covert operation or military operation)

• action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action

• the state of being in effect or being operative

• a business especially one run on a large scale

• a planned activity involving many people performing various actions

• (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)

• activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)

• a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body

• a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work

• process or manner of functioning or operating

• (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents

• (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods

• the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)

• the phenomenon in which waves of light or other radiation are restricted in direction of vibration

• the condition of having or giving polarity

• a chemical process that combines several monomers to form a polymer or polymeric compound

• the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes)

• an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government

• the general state of things; the combination of circumstances at a given time

• a condition or position in which you find yourself

• a complex or critical or unusual difficulty

• physical position in relation to the surroundings

• a job in an organization

• the act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose

• the special line of work you have adopted as your career

• (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function

• annihilation by vaporizing something

• the process of becoming a vapor

• adversity resulting from being made a victim

• an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)

• assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western civilization