Words that rhyme with dermabrasion

  • 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]
  • 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]
  • 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
  • fusion
    n 1: an occurrence that involves the production of a union [syn: fusion, merger, unification] 2: the state of being combined into one body [syn: coalition, fusion] 3: the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words 4: a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy [syn: fusion, nuclear fusion, nuclear fusion reaction] 5: the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept [syn: fusion, optical fusion] 6: correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization [syn: fusion, spinal fusion] 7: the act of fusing (or melting) together
  • 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]
  • preclusion
    n 1: the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively [syn: obviation, forestalling, preclusion]
  • prevision
    n 1: a prophetic vision (as in a dream) 2: the power to foresee the future [syn: prescience, prevision] 3: seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing [syn: prevision, foresight, farsightedness, prospicience] 4: the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) [syn: prediction, anticipation, prevision]
  • profusion
    n 1: the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English" [syn: profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia]
  • prolusion
    n 1: a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book [syn: foreword, preface, prolusion] 2: exercising in preparation for strenuous activity [syn: warm- up, tune-up, prolusion]
  • protrusion
    n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence] 2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion, projection, jut, jutting]
  • rescission
    n 1: (law) the act of rescinding; the cancellation of a contract and the return of the parties to the positions they would have had if the contract had not been made; "recission may be brought about by decree or by mutual consent" [syn: recission, rescission]
  • revision
    n 1: the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification); "it would require a drastic revision of his opinion" [syn: revision, alteration] 2: the act of rewriting something [syn: revision, revisal, revise, rescript] 3: something that has been written again; "the rewrite was much better" [syn: rewrite, revision, rescript]
  • scission
    n 1: the act of dividing by cutting or splitting
  • seclusion
    n 1: the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others [syn: privacy, privateness, seclusion] 2: the act of secluding yourself from others
  • suasion
    n 1: the act of persuading (or attempting to persuade); communication intended to induce belief or action [syn: persuasion, suasion] [ant: dissuasion]
  • subdivision
    n 1: an area composed of subdivided lots 2: the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided 3: a division of some larger or more complex organization; "a branch of Congress"; "botany is a branch of biology"; "the Germanic branch of Indo-European languages" [syn: branch, subdivision, arm] 4: a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical); "he always turns first to the business section"; "the history of this work is discussed in the next section" [syn: section, subdivision] 5: a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided [syn: subsection, subdivision]
  • submersion
    n 1: sinking until covered completely with water [syn: submergence, submerging, submersion, immersion] 2: the act of wetting something by submerging it [syn: submersion, immersion, ducking, dousing]
  • 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]
  • athanasian

See also dermabrasion definition