Words that rhyme with attainment

• arraignment 0
  n 1: a legal document calling someone to court to answer an indictment
• assignment 0
  n 1: a duty that you are assigned to perform (especially in the armed forces); "hazardous duty" [syn: assignment, duty assignment] 2: the instrument by which a claim or right or interest or property is transferred from one person to another 3: the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" [syn: assignment, assigning] 4: (law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance [syn: grant, assignment] 5: an undertaking that you have been assigned to do (as by an instructor) 6: the act of putting a person into a non-elective position; "the appointment had to be approved by the whole committee" [syn: appointment, assignment, designation, naming]
• atonement 0
  n 1: compensation for a wrong; "we were unable to get satisfaction from the local store" [syn: atonement, expiation, satisfaction] 2: the act of atoning for sin or wrongdoing (especially appeasing a deity) [syn: expiation, atonement, propitiation]
• cantonment 0
  n 1: temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers; "wherever he went in the camp the men were grumbling" [syn: camp, encampment, cantonment, bivouac]
• containment 0
  n 1: a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully; "containment of communist expansion was a central principle of United States' foreign policy from 1947 to the 1975" 2: (physics) a system designed to prevent the accidental release of radioactive material from a reactor 3: the act of containing; keeping something from spreading; "the containment of the AIDS epidemic"; "the containment of the rebellion"
• entertainment 0
  n 1: an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention [syn: entertainment, amusement]
• enthronement 0
  n 1: the ceremony of installing a new monarch [syn: coronation, enthronement, enthronization, enthronisation, investiture]
• entombment 0
  n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture]
• environment 0
  n 1: the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room" 2: the area in which something exists or lives; "the country-- the flat agricultural surround" [syn: environment, environs, surroundings, surround]
• government 0
  n 1: the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; "the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities" [syn: government, authorities, regime] 2: the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government" [syn: government, governing, governance, government activity, administration] 3: (government) the system or form by which a community or other political unit is governed; "tyrannical government" 4: the study of government of states and other political units [syn: politics, political science, government]
• imprisonment 0
  n 1: putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment 2: the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon" [syn: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement] 3: the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) [syn: imprisonment, internment]
• internment 0
  n 1: confinement during wartime 2: the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison) [syn: imprisonment, internment] 3: placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law [syn: impoundment, impounding, internment, poundage]
• misalignment 0
  n 1: the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned
• misgovernment 0
  n 1: government that is inefficient or dishonest [syn: misgovernment, misrule]
• obtainment 0
  n 1: the act of obtaining [syn: obtainment, obtention]
• pavement 0
  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]
• postponement 0
  n 1: time during which some action is awaited; "instant replay caused too long a delay"; "he ordered a hold in the action" [syn: delay, hold, time lag, postponement, wait] 2: act of putting off to a future time [syn: postponement, deferment, deferral]
• reapportionment 0
  n 1: a new apportionment (especially a new apportionment of congressional seats in the United States on the basis of census results) [syn: reallotment, reapportionment, reallocation]
• reassignment 0
  n 1: assignment to a different duty
• refinement 0
  n 1: a highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph Conrad [syn: polish, refinement, culture, cultivation, finish] 2: the result of improving something; "he described a refinement of this technique" [syn: refinement, elaboration] 3: the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) [syn: refining, refinement, purification] 4: a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning" [syn: nuance, nicety, shade, subtlety, refinement] 5: the quality of excellence in thought and manners and taste; "a man of intellectual refinement"; "he is remembered for his generosity and civilization" [syn: refinement, civilization, civilisation]
• infotainment 0
  n 1: a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event [syn: documentary, docudrama, documentary film, infotainment]
• nonalignment 0
  n 1: people (or countries) who are not aligned with other people (or countries) in a pact or treaty [syn: nonalignment, nonalinement] [ant: alignment, alinement, alliance, coalition]
• edutainment 0
  n 1: entertainment that is intended to be educational
• ascertainment 0
• concernment 0
• enshrinement 0
• entwinement 0
• intertwinement 0
• ordainment 0
• realignment 0

See also attainment definition and attainment synonyms