Words that rhyme with jurisdiction

• addiction 0
  n 1: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation] 2: an abnormally strong craving 3: (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master; "under Roman law addiction was the justification for slavery"
• affliction 0
  n 1: a state of great suffering and distress due to adversity 2: a condition of suffering or distress due to ill health 3: a cause of great suffering and distress
• benediction 0
  n 1: the act of praying for divine protection [syn: blessing, benediction] 2: a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection [syn: benediction, blessing]
• constriction 0
  n 1: a narrowing that reduces the flow through a channel [syn: constriction, bottleneck, chokepoint] 2: tight or narrow compression [syn: constriction, coarctation] 3: a tight feeling in some part of the body; "he felt a constriction in her chest"; "she felt an alarming tightness in her chest"; "emotion caused a constriction of his throat" [syn: constriction, tightness] 4: the action or process of compressing
• contradiction 0
  n 1: opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas 2: (logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction" [syn: contradiction, contradiction in terms] 3: the speech act of contradicting someone; "he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"
• conviction 0
  n 1: an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence [syn: conviction, strong belief, article of faith] 2: (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise" [syn: conviction, judgment of conviction, condemnation, sentence] [ant: acquittal]
• crucifixion 0
  n 1: the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross 2: the death of Jesus by crucifixion 3: the infliction of extremely painful punishment or suffering [syn: crucifixion, excruciation]
• depiction 0
  n 1: a graphic or vivid verbal description; "too often the narrative was interrupted by long word pictures"; "the author gives a depressing picture of life in Poland"; "the pamphlet contained brief characterizations of famous Vermonters" [syn: word picture, word-painting, delineation, depiction, picture, characterization, characterisation] 2: a representation by picture or portraiture [syn: depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayal] 3: a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects [syn: delineation, depiction, limning, line drawing] 4: representation by drawing or painting etc [syn: depiction, delineation, portrayal]
• dereliction 0
  n 1: a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities" [syn: delinquency, dereliction, willful neglect] 2: willful negligence
• diction 0
  n 1: the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience [syn: enunciation, diction] 2: the manner in which something is expressed in words; "use concise military verbiage"- G.S.Patton [syn: wording, diction, phrasing, phraseology, choice of words, verbiage]
• eviction 0
  n 1: action by a landlord that compels a tenant to leave the premises (as by rendering the premises unfit for occupancy); no physical expulsion or legal process is involved [syn: eviction, constructive eviction] 2: the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law [syn: eviction, dispossession, legal ouster]
• fiction 0
  n 1: a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact 2: a deliberately false or improbable account [syn: fabrication, fiction, fable]
• friction 0
  n 1: a state of conflict between persons [syn: clash, friction] 2: the resistance encountered when one body is moved in contact with another [syn: friction, rubbing] 3: effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure [syn: friction, detrition, rubbing]
• infliction 0
  n 1: the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) [syn: imposition, infliction] 2: an act causing pain or damage 3: something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness; "washing dishes was a nuisance before we got a dish washer"; "a bit of a bother"; "he's not a friend, he's an infliction" [syn: annoyance, bother, botheration, pain, infliction, pain in the neck, pain in the ass]
• interdiction 0
  n 1: authoritative prohibition 2: a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity [syn: interdict, interdiction]
• malediction 0
  n 1: the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations of the mob" [syn: imprecation, malediction]
• option 0
  n 1: the right to buy or sell property at an agreed price; the right is purchased and if it is not exercised by a stated date the money is forfeited 2: one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen; "what option did I have?"; "there no other alternative"; "my only choice is to refuse" [syn: option, alternative, choice] 3: the act of choosing or selecting; "your choice of colors was unfortunate"; "you can take your pick" [syn: choice, selection, option, pick]
• prediction 0
  n 1: the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) [syn: prediction, anticipation, prevision] 2: a statement made about the future [syn: prediction, foretelling, forecasting, prognostication]
• restriction 0
  n 1: a principle that limits the extent of something; "I am willing to accept certain restrictions on my movements" [syn: restriction, limitation] 2: an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) [syn: limitation, restriction] 3: the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary); "the restriction of the infection to a focal area" [syn: restriction, confinement]
• valediction 0
  n 1: a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) [syn: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration, valedictory] 2: the act of saying farewell
• vision 0
  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"
• nonfiction 0
  n 1: prose writing that is not fictional [syn: nonfiction, nonfictional prose]
• indiction 0
  n 1: a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms
• confliction 0
• transfixion 0
• prefixion 0

See also jurisdiction definition and jurisdiction synonyms