Words that rhyme with australasian

  • abrasion
    n 1: an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off [syn: abrasion, scratch, scrape, excoriation] 2: erosion by friction [syn: abrasion, attrition, corrasion, detrition] 3: the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice [syn: grinding, abrasion, attrition, detrition]
  • aspersion
    n 1: a disparaging remark; "in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion"; "it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility" [syn: aspersion, slur] 2: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name [syn: aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigration] 3: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: aspersion, sprinkling]
  • circumcision
    n 1: (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st [syn: Circumcision, Feast of the Circumcision, January 1] 2: the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite 3: the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males
  • collision
    n 1: (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction" [syn: collision, hit] 2: an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object; "three passengers were killed in the collision"; "the collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill" 3: a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals; "a collision of interests"
  • collusion
    n 1: secret agreement 2: agreement on a secret plot [syn: connivance, collusion]
  • concision
    n 1: terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words [syn: conciseness, concision, pithiness, succinctness]
  • delusion
    n 1: (psychology) an erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary [syn: delusion, psychotic belief] 2: a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea; "he has delusions of competence"; "his dreams of vast wealth are a hallucination" [syn: delusion, hallucination] 3: the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas [syn: delusion, illusion, head game]
  • derision
    n 1: contemptuous laughter 2: the act of deriding or treating with contempt [syn: derision, ridicule]
  • disillusion
    n 1: freeing from false belief or illusions [syn: disenchantment, disillusion, disillusionment] v 1: free from enchantment [syn: disenchant, disillusion] [ant: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish, transport]
  • dissuasion
    n 1: a communication that dissuades you 2: persuading not to do or believe something; talking someone out of a belief or an intended course of action [ant: persuasion, suasion]
  • division
    n 1: an army unit large enough to sustain combat; "two infantry divisions were held in reserve" 2: one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole; "the written part of the exam"; "the finance section of the company"; "the BBC's engineering division" [syn: part, section, division] 3: the act or process of dividing 4: an administrative unit in government or business 5: discord that splits a group [syn: division, variance] 6: a league ranked by quality; "he played baseball in class D for two years"; "Princeton is in the NCAA Division 1-AA" [syn: class, division] 7: (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category 8: (botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum 9: a unit of the United States Air Force usually comprising two or more wings [syn: division, air division] 10: a group of ships of similar type [syn: division, naval division] 11: an arithmetic operation that is the inverse of multiplication; the quotient of two numbers is computed 12: the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart [syn: division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation]
  • equation
    n 1: a mathematical statement that two expressions are equal 2: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality, equivalence, equation, par] 3: the act of regarding as equal [syn: equation, equating]
  • evasion
    n 1: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth [syn: evasion, equivocation] 2: the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment" [syn: evasion, nonpayment] [ant: defrayal, defrayment, payment] 3: nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive" [syn: evasion, escape, dodging] 4: the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
  • invasion
    n 1: the act of invading; the act of an army that invades for conquest or plunder 2: any entry into an area not previously occupied; "an invasion of tourists"; "an invasion of locusts" [syn: invasion, encroachment, intrusion] 3: (pathology) the spread of pathogenic microorganisms or malignant cells to new sites in the body; "the tumor's invasion of surrounding structures"
  • lesion
    n 1: any localized abnormal structural change in a bodily part 2: an injury to living tissue (especially an injury involving a cut or break in the skin) [syn: wound, lesion]
  • occasion
    n 1: an event that occurs at a critical time; "at such junctures he always had an impulse to leave"; "it was needed only on special occasions" [syn: juncture, occasion] 2: a vaguely specified social event; "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions" [syn: affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function] 3: reason; "there was no occasion for complaint" 4: the time of a particular event; "on the occasion of his 60th birthday" 5: an opportunity to do something; "there was never an occasion for her to demonstrate her skill" v 1: give occasion to
  • persuasion
    n 1: the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action [syn: persuasion, suasion] [ant: dissuasion] 2: a personal belief or judgment that is not founded on proof or certainty; "my opinion differs from yours"; "I am not of your persuasion"; "what are your thoughts on Haiti?" [syn: opinion, sentiment, persuasion, view, thought]
  • scission
    n 1: the act of dividing by cutting or splitting
  • suasion
    n 1: the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action [syn: persuasion, suasion] [ant: dissuasion]
  • vision
    n 1: a vivid mental image; "he had a vision of his own death" 2: the ability to see; the visual faculty [syn: sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality] 3: the perceptual experience of seeing; "the runners emerged from the trees into his clear vision"; "he had a visual sensation of intense light" [syn: vision, visual sensation] 4: the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be" [syn: imagination, imaginativeness, vision] 5: a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance; "he had a vision of the Virgin Mary"
  • asian
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture; "Asian countries" [syn: Asian, Asiatic] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Asia [syn: Asian, Asiatic]
  • frisian
    adj 1: of or relating to the people or culture or language of Friesland or Frisia n 1: a native or inhabitant of Friesland or Frisia 2: a West Germanic language spoken in Friesland in the northwestern Netherlands; a near relative of English
  • persian
    adj 1: of or relating to Iran or its people or language or culture; "Iranian mountains"; "Iranian security police" [syn: Iranian, Persian] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Iran; "the majority of Irani are Persian Shiite Muslims" [syn: Irani, Iranian, Persian] 2: the language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms [syn: Persian, Farsi]
  • caucasian
    adj 1: of or relating to the geographical region of Caucasia; "Caucasian languages" [syn: Caucasian, Caucasic] 2: of or relating to Caucasian people [syn: Caucasian, Caucasoid] n 1: a member of the Caucasoid race [syn: White, White person, Caucasian] 2: a number of languages spoken in the Caucasus that are unrelated to languages spoken elsewhere [syn: Caucasian, Caucasian language]
  • malaysian
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Malaysia; "Malaysian police crack down hard on drug smugglers"; "Malayan crocodiles" [syn: Malaysian, Malayan] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Malaysia 2: the Malay language spoken in Malaysia [syn: Malaysian, Bahasa Malaysia, Bahasa Melayu, Bahasa Kebangsaan]
  • eurasian
    adj 1: relating to, or coming from, Europe and Asia; "His mother was Eurasian, and his father Chinese"; "the Eurasian landmass is the largest in the world" [syn: Eurasian, Eurasiatic] n 1: a person of mixed European and Asian descent
  • corrasion
    n 1: erosion by friction [syn: abrasion, attrition, corrasion, detrition]
  • austronesian
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Austronesia or its people or culture n 1: a native or inhabitant of Austronesia 2: the family of languages spoken in Australia and Formosa and Malaysia and Polynesia [syn: Austronesian, Austronesian language]
  • erasion
  • athanasian

See also australasian definition