Words that rhyme with arrondissement

n 1: a low or downcast state; "each confession brought her into an attitude of abasement"- H.L.Menchken [syn: abasement, degradation, abjection] 2: depriving one of self-esteem [syn: humiliation, abasement]

n 1: the action of accomplishing something [syn: accomplishment, achievement]

n 1: a public promotion of some product or service [syn: ad, advertisement, advertizement, advertising, advertizing, advert]

n 1: the classification of someone or something with respect to its worth [syn: appraisal, assessment] 2: an amount determined as payable; "the assessment for repairs outraged the club's membership" 3: the market value set on assets 4: the act of judging or assessing a person or situation or event; "they criticized my judgment of the contestants" [syn: judgment, judgement, assessment]

n 1: the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage [syn: basement, cellar] 2: the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture

n 1: state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one [syn: mourning, bereavement]

n 1: being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating [syn: adulteration, debasement] 2: changing to a lower state (a less respected state) [syn: degradation, debasement]

n 1: the outcome of a complex sequence of events 2: the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work

n 1: act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics [syn: supplanting, displacement] 2: an event in which something is displaced without rotation [syn: shift, displacement] 3: the act of uniform movement [syn: translation, displacement] 4: (chemistry) a reaction in which an elementary substance displaces and sets free a constituent element from a compound [syn: displacement, displacement reaction] 5: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that transfers affect or reaction from the original object to some more acceptable one 6: to move something from its natural environment [syn: displacement, deracination] 7: act of removing from office or employment

n 1: the legal dissolution of a marriage [syn: divorce, divorcement]

n 1: the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public 2: the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy); "he is currently suffering financial embarrassments" 3: some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; "the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals" [ant: disembarrassment] 4: extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" [syn: overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment]

n 1: an impression produced by pressure or printing [syn: imprint, embossment] 2: sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background [syn: relief, relievo, rilievo, embossment, sculptural relief]

n 1: the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) [syn: embrace, embracing, embracement]

n 1: military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon 2: the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement]

n 1: the act of enclosing something in a case [syn: encasement, incasement]

n 1: including entirely

n 1: a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books); "the author got all his friends to write blurbs for his book" [syn: endorsement, indorsement, blurb] 2: a speech seconding a motion; "do I hear a second?" [syn: second, secondment, endorsement, indorsement] 3: formal and explicit approval; "a Democrat usually gets the union's endorsement" [syn: sanction, countenance, endorsement, indorsement, warrant, imprimatur] 4: a signature that validates something; "the cashier would not cash the check without an endorsement" [syn: endorsement, indorsement] 5: the act of endorsing; "a star athlete can make a lot of money from endorsements" [syn: endorsement, indorsement]

n 1: the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to

n 1: the state of being a slave; "So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity"--Shakespeare [syn: enslavement, captivity] 2: the act of making slaves of your captives

n 1: something that seduces or has the quality to seduce [syn: temptation, enticement] 2: qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward [syn: lure, enticement, come-on] 3: the act of influencing by exciting hope or desire; "his enticements were shameless" [syn: enticement, temptation]

n 1: a feeling of intense annoyance caused by being tormented; "so great was his harassment that he wanted to destroy his tormentors" [syn: harassment, torment] 2: the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism [syn: harassment, molestation]

n 1: a change for the better; progress in development [syn: improvement, betterment, advance] 2: the act of improving something; "their improvements increased the value of the property" 3: a condition superior to an earlier condition; "the new school represents a great improvement" [syn: improvement, melioration] [ant: declination, decline]

n 1: a positive motivational influence [syn: incentive, inducement, motivator] [ant: deterrence, disincentive] 2: act of bringing about a desired result; "inducement of sleep" [syn: inducement, inducing]

n 1: the act of sharing in the activities of a group; "the teacher tried to increase his students' engagement in class activities" [syn: engagement, participation, involvement, involution] [ant: non-engagement, non- involvement, nonparticipation] 2: a connection of inclusion or containment; "he escaped involvement in the accident"; "there was additional involvement of the liver and spleen" 3: a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something; "an interest in music" [syn: interest, involvement] 4: a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship [syn: affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour] 5: the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) [syn: participation, involvement]

n 1: faulty position [syn: malposition, misplacement]

n 1: a change of position that does not entail a change of location; "the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise"; "movement is a sign of life"; "an impatient move of his hand"; "gastrointestinal motility" [syn: motion, movement, move, motility] 2: the act of changing location from one place to another; "police controlled the motion of the crowd"; "the movement of people from the farms to the cities"; "his move put him directly in my path" [syn: motion, movement, move] 3: a natural event that involves a change in the position or location of something [syn: movement, motion] 4: a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals; "he was a charter member of the movement"; "politicians have to respect a mass movement"; "he led the national liberation front" [syn: movement, social movement, front] 5: a major self-contained part of a symphony or sonata; "the second movement is slow and melodic" 6: a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end; "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort" [syn: campaign, cause, crusade, drive, movement, effort] 7: an optical illusion of motion produced by viewing a rapid succession of still pictures of a moving object; "the cinema relies on apparent motion"; "the succession of flashing lights gave an illusion of movement" [syn: apparent motion, motion, apparent movement, movement] 8: a euphemism for defecation; "he had a bowel movement" [syn: bowel movement, movement, bm] 9: a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right" [syn: drift, trend, movement] 10: the driving and regulating parts of a mechanism (as of a watch or clock); "it was an expensive watch with a diamond movement" 11: the act of changing the location of something; "the movement of cargo onto the vessel"

n 1: the paved surface of a thoroughfare [syn: pavement, paving] 2: material used to pave an area [syn: paving, pavement, paving material] 3: walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually beside a street or roadway [syn: sidewalk, pavement]

n 1: the reestablishing of cordial relations [syn: reconciliation, rapprochement]

n 1: a new appraisal or evaluation [syn: reappraisal, revaluation, review, reassessment]

n 1: a military operation (often involving new supplies of men and materiel) to strengthen a military force or aid in the performance of its mission; "they called for artillery support" [syn: support, reinforcement, reenforcement] 2: information that makes more forcible or convincing; "his gestures provided eloquent reinforcement for his complaints" [syn: reinforcement, reenforcement] 3: (psychology) a stimulus that strengthens or weakens the behavior that produced it [syn: reinforcing stimulus, reinforcer, reinforcement] 4: a device designed to provide additional strength; "the cardboard backing was just a strengthener"; "he used gummed reinforcements to hold the page in his notebook" [syn: strengthener, reinforcement] 5: an act performed to strengthen approved behavior [syn: reward, reinforcement]

n 1: the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; "replacing the star will not be easy" [syn: replacement, replacing] 2: someone who takes the place of another person [syn: surrogate, alternate, replacement] 3: an event in which one thing is substituted for another; "the replacement of lost blood by a transfusion of donor blood" [syn: substitution, permutation, transposition, replacement, switch] 4: a person or thing that takes or can take the place of another [syn: substitute, replacement] 5: filling again by supplying what has been used up [syn: refilling, replenishment, replacement, renewal] 6: a person who follows next in order; "he was President Lincoln's successor" [syn: successor, replacement]

n 1: the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child [syn: childbirth, childbearing, accouchement, vaginal birth]

n 1: the act of coercing someone into government service [syn: impress, impressment]

n 1: surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing

n 1: the act of improving yourself [syn: self-improvement, self-reformation]