Words that rhyme with disconfirmation

n 1: adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) [syn: acclimatization, acclimatisation, acclimation]

n 1: enthusiastic approval; "the book met with modest acclaim"; "he acknowledged the plaudits of the crowd"; "they gave him more eclat than he really deserved" [syn: acclaim, acclamation, plaudits, plaudit, eclat]

n 1: a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something [syn: avowal, avouchment, affirmation] 2: the act of affirming or asserting or stating something [syn: affirmation, assertion, statement] 3: (religion) a solemn declaration that serves the same purpose as an oath (if an oath is objectionable to the person on religious or ethical grounds) 4: a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was correct and should stand [ant: reversal]

n 1: the combination of two or more commercial companies [syn: amalgamation, merger, uniting]

n 1: the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" [syn: animation, life, living, aliveness] 2: the property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality of a seed" [syn: animation, vitality] 3: quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous [syn: animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification] 4: the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something [syn: vivification, invigoration, animation] 5: the making of animated cartoons 6: general activity and motion [syn: liveliness, animation]

n 1: an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take" [syn: estimate, estimation, approximation, idea] 2: the quality of coming near to identity (especially close in quantity) 3: an imprecise or incomplete account; "newspapers gave only an approximation of the actual events" 4: the act of bringing near or bringing together especially the cut edges of tissue [syn: approximation, bringing close together]

n 1: the act of implementing the control of equipment with advanced technology; usually involving electronic hardware; "automation replaces human workers by machines" [syn: automation, mechanization, mechanisation] 2: the condition of being automatically operated or controlled; "automation increases productivity" 3: equipment used to achieve automatic control or operation; "this factory floor is a showcase for automation and robotic equipment"

n 1: the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope

n 1: additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct; "fossils provided further confirmation of the evolutionary theory" [syn: confirmation, verification, check, substantiation] 2: information that confirms or verifies 3: making something valid by formally ratifying or confirming it; "the ratification of the treaty"; "confirmation of the appointment" [syn: ratification, confirmation] 4: a ceremony held in the synagogue (usually at Pentecost) to admit as adult members of the Jewish community young men and women who have successfully completed a course of study in Judaism 5: a sacrament admitting a baptized person to full participation in the church

n 1: a symmetrical arrangement of the parts of a thing 2: any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline); "he could barely make out their shapes" [syn: shape, form, configuration, contour, conformation] 3: acting according to certain accepted standards; "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices" [syn: conformity, conformation, compliance, abidance] [ant: disobedience, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity]

n 1: the completion of marriage by sexual intercourse 2: the act of bringing to completion or fruition

n 1: the incineration of a dead body

n 1: destroying or killing a large part of the population (literally every tenth person as chosen by lot)

n 1: vehement oratory 2: recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric

n 1: a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions [syn: defamation, calumny, calumniation, obloquy, traducement, hatchet job] 2: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name [syn: aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation, denigration]

n 1: a change for the worse [syn: distortion, deformation] 2: alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it 3: the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself) [syn: contortion, deformation]

n 1: the act of asserting that something alleged is not true [syn: denial, disaffirmation]

n 1: a document appraising the value of something (as for insurance or taxation) [syn: appraisal, estimate, estimation] 2: the respect with which a person is held; "they had a high estimation of his ability" [syn: estimate, estimation] 3: an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth; "an estimate of what it would cost"; "a rough idea how long it would take" [syn: estimate, estimation, approximation, idea] 4: a judgment of the qualities of something or somebody; "many factors are involved in any estimate of human life"; "in my estimation the boy is innocent" [syn: estimate, estimation]

n 1: an abrupt excited utterance; "she gave an exclamation of delight"; "there was much exclaiming over it" [syn: exclamation, exclaiming] 2: a loud complaint or protest or reproach 3: an exclamatory rhetorical device; "O tempore! O mores" [syn: ecphonesis, exclamation]

n 1: the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried [syn: exhumation, disinterment, digging up]

n 1: an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit; "a defensive formation"; "a formation of planes" 2: the act of fabricating something in a particular shape [syn: formation, shaping] 3: the act of forming or establishing something; "the constitution of a PTA group last year"; "it was the establishment of his reputation"; "he still remembers the organization of the club" [syn: constitution, establishment, formation, organization, organisation] 4: (geology) the geological features of the earth [syn: geological formation, formation] 5: a particular spatial arrangement 6: natural process that causes something to form; "the formation of gas in the intestine"; "the formation of crystals"; "the formation of pseudopods" 7: creation by mental activity; "the formation of sentences"; "the formation of memories"

n 1: a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat [syn: inflammation, redness, rubor] 2: the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up; "his face was flushed with excitement and his hands trembled"; "he tried to calm those who were in a state of extreme inflammation" [syn: excitement, excitation, inflammation, fervor, fervour] 3: arousal to violent emotion [syn: inflammation, inflaming] 4: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]

n 1: a message received and understood [syn: information, info] 2: knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction 3: formal accusation of a crime 4: a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn; "statistical data" [syn: data, information] 5: (communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome; "the signal contained thousands of bits of information" [syn: information, selective information, entropy]

n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture]

n 1: an indirect suggestion; "not a breath of scandal ever touched her" [syn: hint, intimation, breath] 2: a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen" [syn: inkling, intimation, glimmering, glimmer]

n 1: an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed [syn: deformity, malformation, misshapenness] 2: something abnormal or anomalous [syn: malformation, miscreation]

n 1: information that is incorrect

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: a formal public statement; "the government made an announcement about changes in the drug war"; "a declaration of independence" [syn: announcement, proclamation, annunciation, declaration] 2: the formal act of proclaiming; giving public notice; "his promulgation of the policy proved to be premature" [syn: proclamation, promulgation]

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: renewed affirmation [syn: reassertion, reaffirmation]

n 1: the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation [syn: reclamation, renewal, rehabilitation] 2: rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course; "the reclamation of delinquent children" [syn: reclamation, reformation] 3: the recovery of useful substances from waste products

n 1: improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs 2: a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches [syn: Reformation, Protestant Reformation] 3: rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course; "the reclamation of delinquent children" [syn: reclamation, reformation]

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: (chemistry) a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state without becoming liquid 2: (psychology) modifying the natural expression of an impulse or instinct (especially a sexual one) to one that is socially acceptable

n 1: a concluding summary (as in presenting a case before a law court) [syn: summation, summing up, rundown] 2: (physiology) the process whereby multiple stimuli can produce a response (in a muscle or nerve or other part) that one stimulus alone does not produce 3: the final aggregate; "the sum of all our troubles did not equal the misery they suffered" [syn: sum, summation, sum total] 4: the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers; "the summation of four and three gives seven"; "four plus three equals seven" [syn: summation, addition, plus]

n 1: a qualitative change [syn: transformation, transmutation, shift] 2: (mathematics) a function that changes the position or direction of the axes of a coordinate system 3: a rule describing the conversion of one syntactic structure into another related syntactic structure 4: (genetics) modification of a cell or bacterium by the uptake and incorporation of exogenous DNA 5: 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]

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

adj 1: of or relating to Dalmatia or its inhabitants n 1: a native or inhabitant of Dalmatia 2: a large breed having a smooth white coat with black or brown spots; originated in Dalmatia [syn: dalmatian, coach dog, carriage dog]

n 1: shedding tears [syn: lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing, watering]