11K+ Words That Rhyme With REGRESSION

• 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

• a series with a definite pattern of advance

• a movement forward

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

• 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

• freedom to act or judge on one's own

• knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress

• refined taste; tact

• the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies

• the trait of judging wisely and objectively

• a disposition to behave aggressively

• a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack

• violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked

• the act of initiating hostilities

• deliberately unfriendly behavior

• 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)

• a policy of not initiating hostilities

• a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

• a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

• a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

• a sunken or depressed geological formation

• sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

• a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

• angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

• pushing down

• (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)

• the act of subjugating by cruelty

• the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:

• a feeling of being oppressed

• an increase in the density of something

• the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together

• encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required

• applying pressure

• a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business

• the act of conceding or yielding

• a point conceded or yielded

• 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 act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle

• the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata

• the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit

• 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

• 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)

• an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will

• an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• the action of regaining possession (especially the seizure of collateral securing a loan that is in default)

• make (to feel) fresh

• become or make oneself fresh again

• make fresh again

• restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display

• relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure)

• the trait of being injudicious

• a petty misdeed

• a meeting for execution of a group's functions

• the time during which a school holds classes

• a meeting devoted to a particular activity

• a meeting of spiritualists

• a rational motive for a belief or action

• an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• the state of having good sense and sound judgment

• a justification for something existing or happening

• a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion

• decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion

• present reasons and arguments

• think logically

• 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)

• an instance of questioning

• the subject matter at issue

• a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply

• uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something

• a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote

• an informal reference to a marriage proposal

• challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of

• pose a series of questions to

• pose a question

• conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting

• place in doubt or express doubtful speculation

• 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

• turned into ice; affected by freezing or by long and severe cold

• absolutely still

• devoid of warmth and cordiality; expressive of unfriendliness or disdain

• not thawed

• (used of foods) preserved by freezing sufficiently rapidly to retain flavor and nutritional value

• not convertible to cash

• incapable of being changed or moved or undone; e.g. "frozen prices"

• a crime that undermines the offender's government

• disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior

• an act of deliberate betrayal

• the act of examining resemblances

• relation based on similarities and differences

• qualities that are comparable

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

• a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement

• (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot

• a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

• the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events

• (rhetoric) the second section of an oration in which the facts are set forth

• (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance

• a source of materials to nourish the body

• the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans)

• migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there)

• the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval

• made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)

• unrestrained by convention or propriety

• face with defiance or impudence

• dryness resulting from the removal of water

• depletion of bodily fluids

• the process of extracting moisture

• a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines

• a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods

• (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon

• a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event

• any joyous diversion

• the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual

• a prayer to God on behalf of another person

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

• hear with intention

• listen and pay attention

• pay close attention to; give heed to

• an adult female person (as opposed to a man)

• a female person who plays a significant role (wife or mistress or girlfriend) in the life of a particular man

• a human female employed to do housework

• women as a class

• grow worse

• make worse