2K+ Words That Rhyme With COMPRESSIONS

• a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group)

• (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement

• something added to what you already have

• agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly)

• the right to enter

• the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne)

• make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library

• The transfer of risk from one reinsurer to another.

• The return of land, rights, etc. previously ceded.

• Metastasis of an eruption or tumour from the surface to the interior of the body.

• The act of retroceding; a going back.

• the feelings expressed on a person's face

• expression without words

• the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions

• a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations

• the style of expressing yourself

• a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement

• (genetics) the process of expressing a gene

• a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit

• the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing

• a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

• an outward appearance

• a clear and telling mental image

• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

• a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving

• all the copies of a work printed at one time

• (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster

• an impressionistic portrayal of a person

• the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another

• the act of having and controlling property

• anything owned or possessed

• being controlled by passion or the supernatural

• a mania restricted to one thing or idea

• a territory that is controlled by a ruling state

• the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior

• (sport) the act of controlling the ball (or puck)

• the body of people in a learned occupation

• an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)

• an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion

• affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith

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

• a weapon that discharges a missile at high velocity (especially from a metal tube or barrel)

• large but transportable armament

• a person who shoots a gun (as regards their ability)

• a professional killer who uses a gun

• a hand-operated pump that resembles a pistol; forces grease into parts of a machine

• a pedal that controls the throttle valve

• the discharge of a firearm as signal or as a salute in military ceremonies

• shoot with a gun

• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

• the prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process

• the set of circumstances that affect someone's welfare

• the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation

• a large number or amount

• all of the living human inhabitants of the earth

• a manual usually accompanying a technical device and explaining how to install or operate it

• something you have to do

• edible viscera of a butchered animal

• mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups

• a New Testament book containing an exposition of the doctrines of Saint Paul; written in AD 58

• (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

• the bulb of an onion plant

• bulbous plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb

• an aromatic flavorful vegetable

• a message that departs from the main subject

• a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

• wandering from the main path of a journey

• (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

• the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation

• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

• a series with a definite pattern of advance

• a movement forward

• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

• a state of forcible subjugation

• (psychiatry) the classical defense mechanism that protects you from impulses or ideas that would cause anxiety by preventing them from becoming conscious

• the act of repressing; control by holding down

• a following of one thing after another in time

• a group of people or things arranged or following in order

• the action of following in order

• (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established

• acquisition of property by descent or by will

• the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law

• freeing from evil spirits

• a prayer to God on behalf of another person

• the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.)

• passing from a more complex to a simpler biological form

• returning to a former state

• the common people

• a piece of open land for recreational use in an urban area

• a pasture subject to common use

• a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank

• the department of local government that is responsible for managing the treatment of convicted offenders

• the social control of offenders through a system of imprisonment and rehabilitation and probation and parole

• a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards

• a request to be present

• an order to appear in person at a given place and time

• a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant

• call in an official matter, such as to attend court

• smallest and most perfectly anthropoid arboreal ape having long arms and no tail; of southern Asia and East Indies

• English historian best known for his history of the Roman Empire (1737-1794)

• a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

• a general inclusive concept

• an odd or fanciful or capricious idea

• (usually plural) small personal articles or clothing or sewing items

• the act of ceding

• an admission of misdeeds or faults

• a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party

• (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution

• a public declaration of your faith

• the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)

• the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent

• the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone

• the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)

• the state of the economy declines; a widespread decline in the GDP and employment and trade lasting from six months to a year

• a small concavity

• the withdrawal of the clergy and choir from the chancel to the vestry at the end of a church service

• the act of ceding back

• the act of becoming more distant

• an abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which you flee from reality by assuming a more infantile state

• the relation between selected values of x and observed values of y (from which the most probable value of y can be predicted for any value of x)

• returning to a former state

• the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War

• an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s

• formal separation from an alliance or federation

• the failure to develop some part or organ

• the act of withholding or withdrawing some book or writing from publication or circulation

• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

• (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

• an Old Testament book lamenting the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC; traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah

• engineer who was a brother of Ernst Werner von Siemens and who moved to England (1823-1883)

• a unit of conductance equal to the reciprocal of an ohm

• German electrical engineer (1816-1892)

• informal terms for money