11K+ Words That Rhyme With PRETENSION

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

• the relation of comprising something

• the act of preventing

• an understanding of something that is not correct

• 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

• (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

• 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 magnitude of something in a particular direction (especially length or width or height)

• a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished

• one of three Cartesian coordinates that determine a position in space

• magnitude or extent

• indicate the dimensions on

• shape or form to required dimensions

• 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)

• 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

• the creation of something in the mind

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

• the act of inventing

• fearful expectation or anticipation

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• painful expectation

• the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

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

• grant a pension to

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• coming into conflict with

• 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

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

• a point asserted as part of an argument

• a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement

• the act of competing as for profit or a prize

• disagreement among those expected to cooperate

• a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

• the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)

• lack of attention

• A reinventing of something.

• The condition of being reinvented.

• English chemist noted for his studies of molecular structures in plants (1886-1975)

• United States prizefighter who won the world middleweight championship five times and the world welterweight championship once (1921-1989)

• Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958)

• United States historian who stressed the importance of intellectual and social events for the course of history (1863-1936)

• United States baseball player; first Black to play in the major leagues (1919-1972)

• United States poet; author of narrative verse (1869-1935)

• United States film actor noted for playing gangster roles (1893-1973)

• limiting the number of children born

• holding urine in the urinary bladder

• any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis

• (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

• a large and imposing house

• the activity of protecting someone or something

• a covering that is intend to protect from damage or injury

• defense against financial failure; financial independence

• the condition of being protected

• kindly endorsement and guidance

• the imposition of duties or quotas on imports in order to protect domestic industry against foreign competition

• payment extorted by gangsters on threat of violence

• the act of evading by going around

• the act of passing from one state or place to the next

• an event that results in a transformation

• a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another

• a musical passage moving from one key to another

• a passage that connects a topic to one that follows

• cause to convert or undergo a transition

• make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another)

• understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something

• delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values)

• an expression of gratitude

• a favorable judgment

• an increase in price or value

• (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence

• the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume

• the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning

• the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer

• the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope

• a function expressed as a sum or product of terms

• a discussion that provides additional information

• adding information or detail

• the successful completion of a program of study

• an academic exercise in which diplomas are conferred

• a line (as on a vessel or ruler) that marks a measurement

• the act of arranging in grades

• the act of beginning something new

• the first section of a communication

• formally making a person known to another or to the public

• a basic or elementary instructional text

• a new proposal

• the act of putting one thing into another

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

• the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose

• a substance prepared according to a formula

• the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening

• the state of having been made ready or prepared for use or action (especially military action)

• (music) a note that produces a dissonant chord is first heard in a consonant chord

• activity leading to skilled behavior

• preparatory school work done outside school (especially at home)

• the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat

• energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or waves or particles

• the act of spreading outward from a central source

• syndrome resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation (e.g., exposure to radioactive chemicals or to nuclear explosions); low doses cause diarrhea and nausea and vomiting and sometimes loss of hair; greater exposure can cause sterility and cataracts and some forms of cancer and other diseases; severe exposure can cause death within hours

• the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay

• the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats

• a radial arrangement of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain

• (medicine) the treatment of disease (especially cancer) by exposure to a radioactive substance

• a midday meal

• the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)

• a statement made about the future

• a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

• the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

• a planned undertaking

• any structure that branches out from a central support

• any solid convex shape that juts out from something

• (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

• the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality

• the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

• the act of projecting out from something

• the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

• the act of rejecting something

• the state of being rejected

• (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

• the speech act of rejecting