Words that rhyme with cratia

n 1: any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia

n 1: the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all)

n 1: a Japanese woman trained to entertain men with conversation and singing and dancing [syn: geisha, geisha girl]

n 1: new connective tissue and tiny blood vessels that form on the surfaces of a wound during the healing process [syn: granulation, granulation tissue] 2: the act of forming something into granules or grains; "the granulation of medicines"

n 1: the act of inhaling; the drawing in of air (or other gases) as in breathing [syn: inhalation, inspiration, aspiration, intake, breathing in] 2: a medication to be taken by inhaling it [syn: inhalant, inhalation]

n 1: taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease [syn: inoculation, vaccination]

n 1: the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn: installation, installing, installment, instalment] 2: a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility" [syn: facility, installation] 3: a formal entry into an organization or position or office; "his initiation into the club"; "he was ordered to report for induction into the army"; "he gave a speech as part of his installation into the hall of fame" [syn: initiation, induction, installation]

n 1: the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel" [syn: insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment] 2: a material that reduces or prevents the transmission of heat or sound or electricity [syn: insulating material, insulant, insulation] 3: the act of protecting something by surrounding it with material that reduces or prevents the transmission of sound or heat or electricity

n 1: a state of separation between persons or groups 2: a feeling of being disliked and alone 3: the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others [syn: isolation, closing off] 4: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism in which memory of an unacceptable act or impulse is separated from the emotion originally associated with it 5: a country's withdrawal from international politics; "he opposed a policy of American isolation"

n 1: a feeling of extreme joy [syn: exultation, jubilance, jubilancy, jubilation] 2: a joyful occasion for special festivities to mark some happy event [syn: celebration, jubilation] 3: the utterance of sounds expressing great joy [syn: exultation, rejoicing, jubilation]

n 1: exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage; "his manipulation of his friends was scandalous" [syn: manipulation, use] 2: the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means [syn: handling, manipulation]

n 1: a mistake in calculating [syn: miscalculation, misreckoning, misestimation]

n 1: a musical passage moving from one key to another [syn: transition, modulation] 2: (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase 3: rise and fall of the voice pitch [syn: intonation, modulation, pitch contour] 4: a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified [syn: modulation, inflection] 5: the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)

n 1: a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic] 2: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: nation, land, country] 3: United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) [syn: Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation] 4: a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation"

n 1: the process of oscillating between states 2: (physics) a regular periodic variation in value about a mean [syn: oscillation, vibration] 3: a single complete execution of a periodically repeated phenomenon; "a year constitutes a cycle of the seasons" [syn: cycle, oscillation]

n 1: the expulsion of an ovum from the ovary (usually midway in the menstrual cycle) [ant: anovulation]

n 1: the people who inhabit a territory or state; "the population seemed to be well fed and clothed" 2: a group of organisms of the same species inhabiting a given area; "they hired hunters to keep down the deer population" 3: (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn; "it is an estimate of the mean of the population" [syn: population, universe] 4: the number of inhabitants (either the total number or the number of a particular race or class) in a given place (country or city etc.); "people come and go, but the population of this town has remained approximately constant for the past decade"; "the African-American population of Salt Lake City has been increasing" 5: the act of populating (causing to live in a place); "he deplored the population of colonies with convicted criminals"

n 1: the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel); "the rations should be nutritionally balanced" 2: a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity) v 1: restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war; "Bread was rationed during the siege of the city" 2: distribute in rations, as in the army; "Cigarettes are rationed" [syn: ration, ration out]

n 1: the act of calculating again (usually to eliminate errors or to include additional data); "recalculation yielded a much larger value"

adj 1: prescribed by or according to regulation; "regulation army equipment" n 1: an authoritative rule [syn: regulation, ordinance] 2: a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior; "it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast"; "short haircuts were the regulation" [syn: rule, regulation] 3: the state of being controlled or governed 4: (embryology) the ability of an early embryo to continue normal development after its structure has been somehow damaged or altered 5: the act of bringing to uniformity; making regular [syn: regulation, regularization, regularisation] 6: the act of controlling or directing according to rule; "fiscal regulations are in the hands of politicians" [syn: regulation, regulating]

n 1: an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of two entities or parts together 2: the act of sexual procreation between a man and a woman; the man's penis is inserted into the woman's vagina and excited until orgasm and ejaculation occur [syn: sexual intercourse, intercourse, sex act, copulation, coitus, coition, sexual congress, congress, sexual relation, relation, carnal knowledge] 3: a person related by blood or marriage; "police are searching for relatives of the deceased"; "he has distant relations back in New Jersey" [syn: relative, relation] 4: an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable" [syn: relation, telling, recounting] 5: (law) the principle that an act done at a later time is deemed by law to have occurred at an earlier time; "his attorney argued for the relation back of the amended complaint to the time the initial complaint was filed" [syn: relation back, relation] 6: (usually plural) mutual dealings or connections among persons or groups; "international relations"

n 1: a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose; "he started looking for a gas station"; "the train pulled into the station" 2: proper or designated social situation; "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station" [syn: place, station] 3: (nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty 4: the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand; "a soldier manned the entrance post"; "a sentry station" [syn: post, station] 5: the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station v 1: assign to a station [syn: station, post, send, place]

n 1: a tingling feeling of excitement (as from teasing or tickling) 2: an agreeable arousal 3: the act of tickling [syn: tickle, tickling, titillation]

n 1: a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language [syn: translation, interlingual rendition, rendering, version] 2: a uniform movement without rotation 3: the act of changing in form or shape or appearance; "a photograph is a translation of a scene onto a two-dimensional surface" [syn: transformation, translation] 4: (mathematics) a transformation in which the origin of the coordinate system is moved to another position but the direction of each axis remains the same 5: (genetics) the process whereby genetic information coded in messenger RNA directs the formation of a specific protein at a ribosome in the cytoplasm 6: rewording something in less technical terminology 7: the act of uniform movement [syn: translation, displacement]

n 1: a trigonometric method of determining the position of a fixed point from the angles to it from two fixed points a known distance apart; useful in navigation 2: a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated

n 1: an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague" [syn: trial, tribulation, visitation]

n 1: indecision in speech or action [syn: hesitation, vacillation, wavering] 2: changing location by moving back and forth [syn: swing, swinging, vacillation]

n 1: the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air [syn: ventilation, airing] 2: a mechanical system in a building that provides fresh air; "she was continually adjusting the ventilation" [syn: ventilation, ventilation system, ventilating system] 3: free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest; "such a proposal deserves thorough public discussion" [syn: public discussion, ventilation] 4: the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation [syn: breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation]

n 1: a crime less serious than a felony [syn: misdemeanor, misdemeanour, infraction, violation, infringement] 2: an act that disregards an agreement or a right; "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment" [syn: violation, infringement] 3: entry to another's property without right or permission [syn: trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpation] 4: a disrespectful act [syn: irreverence, violation] 5: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: rape, violation, assault, ravishment]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the republic of Haiti or its people; "Haitian shantytowns" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Haiti

n 1: the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) [syn: deregulation, deregulating]

n 1: a republic in the western Balkans in south-central Europe in the eastern Adriatic coastal area; formerly part of the Habsburg monarchy and Yugoslavia; became independent in 1991 [syn: Croatia, Republic of Croatia, Hrvatska]