Words that rhyme with acoustician

• dialectician 5
  n 1: a logician skilled in dialectic
• addition 0
  n 1: a component that is added to something to improve it; "the addition of a bathroom was a major improvement"; "the addition of cinnamon improved the flavor" [syn: addition, add-on, improver] 2: the act of adding one thing to another; "the addition of flowers created a pleasing effect"; "the addition of a leap day every four years" [ant: deduction, subtraction] 3: a quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks" [syn: addition, increase, gain] 4: something added to what you already have; "the librarian shelved the new accessions"; "he was a new addition to the staff" [syn: accession, addition] 5: a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area 6: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven" [syn: summation, addition, plus]
• admission 0
  n 1: the act of admitting someone to enter; "the surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic" [syn: admission, admittance] 2: an acknowledgment of the truth of something 3: the fee charged for admission [syn: entrance fee, admission, admission charge, admission fee, admission price, price of admission, entrance money] 4: the right to enter [syn: entree, access, accession, admission, admittance]
• ambition 0
  n 1: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" [syn: ambition, aspiration, dream] 2: a strong drive for success [syn: ambition, ambitiousness] v 1: have as one's ambition
• ammunition 0
  n 1: projectiles to be fired from a gun [syn: ammunition, ammo] 2: any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction 3: information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint; "his admission provided ammunition for his critics"
• attrition 0
  n 1: erosion by friction [syn: abrasion, attrition, corrasion, detrition] 2: the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice [syn: grinding, abrasion, attrition, detrition] 3: sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation [syn: attrition, contrition, contriteness] 4: a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition" 5: the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
• audition 0
  n 1: the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired" [syn: hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality] 2: a test of the suitability of a performer [syn: audition, tryout] v 1: perform in order to get a role; "She auditioned for a role on Broadway" [syn: audition, try out]
• competition 0
  n 1: a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times" 2: an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants [syn: contest, competition] 3: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place" [syn: competition, contention, rivalry] [ant: cooperation] 4: the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" [syn: rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender]
• cosmetician 0
  n 1: someone who sells or applies cosmetics 2: someone who works in a beauty parlor [syn: beautician, cosmetician]
• dentition 0
  n 1: the eruption through the gums of baby teeth [syn: teething, dentition, odontiasis] 2: the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal [syn: dentition, teeth]
• diagnostician 0
  n 1: a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis [syn: diagnostician, pathologist]
• dietician 0
  n 1: a specialist in the study of nutrition [syn: dietician, dietitian, nutritionist]
• edition 0
  n 1: the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published 2: all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time; "the first edition appeared in 1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings" 3: an issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times" 4: something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father" [syn: version, variant, variation, edition]
• emission 0
  n 1: the act of emitting; causing to flow forth [syn: emission, emanation] 2: a substance that is emitted or released [syn: discharge, emission] 3: the release of electrons from parent atoms 4: any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body; "the discharge of pus" [syn: discharge, emission, expelling] 5: the occurrence of a flow of water (as from a pipe)
• exhibition 0
  n 1: the act of exhibiting; "a remarkable exhibition of musicianship" 2: a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display [syn: exhibition, exposition, expo]
• expedition 0
  n 1: a military campaign designed to achieve a specific objective in a foreign country [syn: expedition, military expedition, hostile expedition] 2: an organized group of people undertaking a journey for a particular purpose; "an expedition was sent to explore Mars" 3: a journey organized for a particular purpose 4: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay] 5: the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" [syn: dispatch, despatch, expedition, expeditiousness]
• fission 0
  n 1: reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts 2: a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy [syn: fission, nuclear fission]
• ignition 0
  n 1: the process of initiating combustion or catching fire 2: the mechanism that ignites the fuel in an internal-combustion engine [syn: ignition, ignition system] 3: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]
• intuition 0
  n 1: instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes) 2: an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" [syn: intuition, hunch, suspicion]
• mathematician 0
  n 1: a person skilled in mathematics
• mission 0
  n 1: an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work [syn: mission, missionary post, missionary station, foreign mission] 2: an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters; "the planes were on a bombing mission" [syn: mission, military mission] 3: a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: mission, charge, commission] 4: the organized work of a religious missionary [syn: mission, missionary work] 5: a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy, mission]
• opposition 0
  n 1: the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"; "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead" [syn: resistance, opposition] 2: the relation between opposed entities [syn: opposition, oppositeness] 3: the act of hostile groups opposing each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition" [syn: confrontation, opposition] 4: a contestant that you are matched against [syn: opposition, opponent, opposite] 5: a body of people united in opposing something 6: a direction opposite to another 7: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition] 8: the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected; "Her Majesty's loyal opposition"
• optician 0
  n 1: a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision [syn: optician, lens maker]
• petition 0
  n 1: a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority [syn: request, petition, postulation] 2: reverent petition to a deity [syn: prayer, petition, orison] v 1: write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing
• phonetician 0
  n 1: a specialist in phonetics
• politician 0
  n 1: a leader engaged in civil administration 2: a person active in party politics [syn: politician, politico, pol, political leader] 3: a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways
• position 0
  n 1: the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place" [syn: position, place] 2: a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons [syn: military position, position] 3: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" [syn: position, view, perspective] 4: the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" [syn: position, posture, attitude] 5: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" [syn: status, position] 6: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation] 7: the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage" [syn: position, spatial relation] 8: the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in position" 9: (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?" 10: the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement] 11: a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation" [syn: situation, position] 12: a rationalized mental attitude [syn: position, stance, posture] 13: an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question" [syn: side, position] 14: an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position" [syn: place, position] 15: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place, lieu] 16: the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom v 1: cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation 2: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay]
• recognition 0
  n 1: the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; "the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work"; "she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own" [syn: recognition, acknowledgment, acknowledgement] 2: the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer" [syn: recognition, identification] 3: approval; "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying" [syn: recognition, credit] 4: coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases" [syn: realization, realisation, recognition] 5: (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape; "molecular recognition drives all of biology, for instance, hormone and receptor or antibody-antigen interactions or the organization of molecules into larger biologically active entities" 6: the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country; "territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991" 7: an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid; "the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States" 8: designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body; "he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman"
• repetition 0
  n 1: an event that repeats; "the events today were a repeat of yesterday's" [syn: repeat, repetition] 2: the act of doing or performing again [syn: repetition, repeating] 3: the repeated use of the same word or word pattern as a rhetorical device
• statistician 0
  n 1: a mathematician who specializes in statistics [syn: statistician, mathematical statistician] 2: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician, actuary]
• submission 0
  n 1: something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition); "several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was the date of submission of your proposal?" [syn: submission, entry] 2: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another [syn: submission, compliance] 3: the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else; "the union was brought into submission"; "his submission to the will of God" 4: the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness [syn: meekness, submission] 5: a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter 6: an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter 7: (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing
• superstition 0
  n 1: an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear [syn: superstition, superstitious notion]
• tactician 0
  n 1: a person who is skilled at planning tactics
• theoretician 0
  n 1: someone who theorizes (especially in science or art) [syn: theorist, theoretician, theorizer, theoriser, idealogue]
• tradition 0
  n 1: an inherited pattern of thought or action 2: a specific practice of long standing [syn: custom, tradition]
• transition 0
  n 1: the act of passing from one state or place to the next [syn: passage, transition] 2: an event that results in a transformation [syn: conversion, transition, changeover] 3: a change from one place or state or subject or stage to another 4: a musical passage moving from one key to another [syn: transition, modulation] 5: a passage that connects a topic to one that follows v 1: cause to convert or undergo a transition; "the company had to transition the old practices to modern technology" 2: make or undergo a transition (from one state or system to another); "The airline transitioned to more fuel-efficient jets"; "The adagio transitioned into an allegro"
• repartition 0
• britian 0
• semantician 0
• tripartition 0

See also acoustician definition