3K+ Words That Rhyme With RETENTIONS

• the act of preventing

• grant of financial aid as from a government to an educational institution

• the act or process of providing aid or help of any sort

• guarantee financial support of

• 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 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)

• 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

• 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

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

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

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

• grant a pension to

• 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.

• (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 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

• 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 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 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

• 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

• 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

• the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line

• 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

• one of the self-governing nations in the British Commonwealth

• dominance or power through legal authority

• a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

• a man who is the senior member of a group

• the cardinal number that is the sum of ten and one

• a team that plays football

• being one more than ten

• divisible by two

• being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with)

• the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)

• used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected

• in spite of; notwithstanding

• to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons

• to the full extent

• equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced

• symmetrically arranged

• occurring at fixed intervals

• of the score in a contest

• make level or straight

• become even or more even

• make even or more even

• the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means

• properties attributable to your ancestry

• the action of taking out something (especially using effort or force)

• the act of evading by going around

• coming into conflict with