9K+ Words That Rhyme With DESCENSION

• a mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt

• act of expanding in scope; making more widely available

• the spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions

• an educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who are not enrolled as regular students

• act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb

• a string of characters beginning with a period and followed by one or more letters; the optional second part of a PC computer filename

• the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; the class of objects that an expression refers to

• the ability to raise the working leg high in the air

• amount or degree or range to which something extends

• an additional telephone set that is connected to the same telephone line

• an addition to the length of something

• an addition that extends a main building

• a movement upward; rise above the ground

• (Christianity) celebration of the Ascension of Christ into heaven; observed on the 40th day after Easter

• (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon

• (New Testament) the rising of the body of Jesus into heaven on the 40th day after his Resurrection

• the act of changing location in an upward direction

• an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)

• the relation of comprising something

• the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others

• the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something

• a general interest that leads people to want to know more

• a courteous act indicating affection

• the faculty or power of mental concentration

• a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review

• a regular payment to a person that is intended to allow them to subsist without working

• grant a pension to

• a mixture in which fine particles are suspended in a fluid where they are supported by buoyancy

• a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something

• temporary cessation or suspension

• an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

• a mechanical system of springs or shock absorbers connecting the wheels and axles to the chassis of a wheeled vehicle

• the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)

• a temporary debarment (from a privilege or position etc)

• (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense

• the physical condition of being stretched or strained

• a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)

• (physics) a stress that produces an elongation of an elastic physical body

• feelings of hostility that are not manifest

• the action of stretching something tight

• a large formal assembly

• something regarded as a normative example

• (diplomacy) an international agreement

• orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

• the act of convening

• a state of being confined (usually for a short time)

• a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home

• an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions

• (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal

• an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out

• the creation of something in the mind

• a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation

• the act of inventing

• a common disorder in which blood pressure remains abnormally high (a reading of 140/90 mm Hg or greater)

• a remark that calls attention to something or someone

• a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

• an official recognition of merit

• make reference to

• make mention of

• commend

• the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages

• process of changing to an inferior state

• a downward slope or bend

• a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms

• abnormally low blood pressure

• what you must know in order to determine the reference of an expression

• a false or unsupportable quality

• the advancing of a claim

• the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

• an inability to understand

• an understanding of something that is not correct

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

• a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

• the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

• (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings

• care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

• an act or expression of criticism and censure

• A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.

• A critical revision of a text.

• A text established by critical revision.

• A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.

• greater than normal extension

• The state or quality of being overextended; extension beyond normal, correct, or appropriate bounds or limits.

• Application of a term to too many referents, as for example when a child uses cat to refer to all animals.

• the act of preventing

• the act of retaining something

• the power of retaining and recalling past experience

• the power of retaining liquid

• the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)

• coming into conflict with

• the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions

• the act of expanding by pressure from within

• lack of attention

• a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes

• the act of evading by going around

• a following on in addition

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

• a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries

• the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others

• (law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings

• care provided to improve a situation (especially medical procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury)

• equality of extension or duration

• the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior

• a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient

• affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank

• subjected to or capable of operating under relatively high voltage

• subjected to or capable of operating under relative low voltage

• a renewed suspension of insoluble particles after they have been precipitated