3K+ Words That Rhyme With APPROBATIONS

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future

• anticipating with confidence of fulfillment

• the feeling that something is about to happen

• the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values

• to travel for the purpose of discovery

• a careful systematic search

• a systematic consideration

• a principle that limits the extent of something

• the quality of being limited or restricted

• the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed

• (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought

• an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation)

• a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

• a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)

• an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits

• continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature

• the act of vibrating

• a shaky motion

• (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean

• a distinctive emotional aura experienced instinctively

• mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

• (Roman Catholic Church) a devotion consisting of fourteen prayers said before a series of fourteen pictures or carvings representing successive incidents during Jesus' passage from Pilate's house to his crucifixion at Calvary

• a collection of things that have been combined; an assemblage of separate parts or qualities

• a coordinated sequence of chess moves

• a sequence of numbers or letters that opens a combination lock

• a group of people (often temporary) having a common purpose

• an alliance of people or corporations or countries for a special purpose (formerly to achieve some antisocial end but now for general political or economic purposes)

• the act of arranging elements into specified groups without regard to order

• the act of combining things to form a new whole

• artwork that helps make something clear or attractive

• showing by example

• an item of information that is typical of a class or group

• a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used to make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand

• something that serves to indicate or suggest

• the act of indicating or pointing out by name

• (medicine) a reason to prescribe a drug or perform a procedure

• something (as a course of action) that is indicated as expedient or necessary

• a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument

• the apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected

• United States composer who promoted 20th century music (1896-1985)

• a large number or amount

• a line leading to a place or point

• the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves

• a general course along which something has a tendency to develop

• something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action

• the act of managing something

• a message describing how something is to be done

• the act of setting and holding a course

• a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something

• the concentration of attention or energy on something

• large gregarious predatory feline of Africa and India having a tawny coat with a shaggy mane in the male

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Leo

• the fifth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about July 23 to August 22

• a celebrity who is lionized (much sought after)

• a formal resignation and renunciation of powers

• the act of abdicating

• a disavowal or taking back of a previous assertion

• acceptance as true or valid

• the accepted meaning of a word

• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception

• a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form

• the process of adapting to something (such as environmental conditions)

• (physiology) the responsive adjustment of a sense organ (as the eye) to varying conditions (as of light)

• a feeling of delighted approval and liking

• the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising

• a favorable judgment

• a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance

• a state of agitation or turbulent change or development

• the feeling of being agitated; not calm

• disturbance usually in protest

• the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously)

• walking about

• a condition of disability resulting from the loss of one or more limbs

• a surgical removal of all or part of a limb

• a secret rendezvous (especially between lovers)

• the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan

• sound of rapid vibration

• a decoration using cusps

• breaking up a military unit (by transfers or discharges)

• the act of deactivating or making ineffective (as a bomb)

• the act of gently pouring off a clear liquor (as from its original bottle) without disturbing the lees

• destroying or killing a large part of the population

• a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written)

• (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction

• a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties

• (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make

• a formal public statement

• a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote

• an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X

• the sum of money that is misappropriated

• the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

• (geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind

• a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices

• the act of letting the air out of something

• an act that despoils the innocence or beauty of something

• the act of depriving a woman of her virginity (especially by rupturing the hymen through sexual intercourse)

• dryness resulting from the removal of water

• depletion of bodily fluids

• the process of extracting moisture

• a feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction

• act of receiving pleasure from something

• a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view

• a show of military force or preparedness

• a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature)

• proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion

• a visual presentation showing how something works

• the removal of covering

• the condition of being void of hair

• the act of removing hair (as from an animal skin)

• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

• a prayer to avert or remove some evil or disaster

• the act of expressing disapproval (especially of yourself)

• a group of representatives or delegates

• authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions