5K+ Words That Rhyme With IRRETENTION

• 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

• 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

• 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

• the act of preventing

• the act of retaining something

• the power of retaining and recalling past experience

• the power of retaining liquid

• 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

• 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)

• 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 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

• of or relating to or characteristic of Egypt or its people or their language

• a native or inhabitant of Egypt

• the ancient and now extinct language of Egypt under the Pharaohs; written records date back to 3000 BC

• English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)

• 36th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Kennedy when Kennedy was assassinated (1908-1973)

• 17th President of the United States; was elected vice president and succeeded Lincoln when Lincoln was assassinated; was impeached but acquitted by one vote (1808-1875)

• a cocktail made with whiskey and sweet vermouth with a dash of bitters

• one of the five boroughs of New York City

• a child who has lost both parents

• someone or something who lacks support or care or supervision

• the first line of a paragraph that is set as the last line of a page or column

• a young animal without a mother

• deprive of parents

• a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds

• a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds

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

• the relation of comprising something

• the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number

• a single person or thing

• used of a single unit or thing; not two or more

• having the indivisible character of a unit

• of the same kind or quality

• (informal) very; used informally as an intensifier

• indefinite in time or position

• being a single entity made by combining separate components

• eminent beyond or above comparison

• 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 person employed to represent a business and to sell its merchandise (as to customers in a store or to customers who are visited)

• in societies practicing shamanism: one acting as a medium between the visible and spirit worlds; practices sorcery for healing or divination

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

• the analysis of a vector field

• in a decomposed state

• (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance

• (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action

• the organic phenomenon of rotting

• a journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media

• Every person.

• the act of evading by going around

• a following on in addition

• large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage

• a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite

• a person who owns or sails a yacht

• something done (usually as opposed to something said)

• the state of being active

• a military engagement

• a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)

• the series of events that form a plot

• the trait of being active and energetic and forceful

• the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism

• a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

• an act by a government body or supranational organization

• the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field

• In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).

• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against

• put in effect

• physically and forcibly separated into pieces or cracked or split

• not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly

• (especially of promises or contracts) having been violated or disregarded

• subdued or brought low in condition or status

• tamed or trained to obey

• topographically very uneven

• imperfectly spoken or written

• thrown into a state of disarray or confusion

• weakened and infirm

• destroyed financially

• out of working order (`busted' is an informal substitute for `broken')

• discontinuous

• lacking a part or parts

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

• a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere

• anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume

• 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 act of excusing a mistake or offense

• a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense

• the formal act of liberating someone

• accept an excuse for

• grant a pardon to

• approval to do something

• the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization

• a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment

• a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

• 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

• 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

• an act of renewed introduction