Words that rhyme with laicization

n 1: a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation) 2: an unplanned expedient [syn: improvisation, temporary expedient] 3: a performance given extempore without planning or preparation [syn: extemporization, extemporisation, improvisation]

n 1: a group of people who work together [syn: organization, organisation] 2: an organized structure for arranging or classifying; "he changed the arrangement of the topics"; "the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original"; "he tried to understand their system of classification" [syn: arrangement, organization, organisation, system] 3: the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something; "he claims that the present administration is corrupt"; "the governance of an association is responsible to its members"; "he quickly became recognized as a member of the establishment" [syn: administration, governance, governing body, establishment, brass, organization, organisation] 4: the act of organizing a business or an activity related to a business; "he was brought in to supervise the organization of a new department" [syn: organization, organisation] 5: an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized; "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality"; "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here" [syn: organization, organisation, system] 6: the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically; "his organization of the work force was very efficient" [syn: organization, organisation] 7: 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]

n 1: coming to understand something clearly and distinctly; "a growing realization of the risk involved"; "a sudden recognition of the problem he faced"; "increasing recognition that diabetes frequently coexists with other chronic diseases" [syn: realization, realisation, recognition] 2: making real or giving the appearance of reality [syn: realization, realisation, actualization, actualisation] 3: a musical composition that has been completed or enriched by someone other than the composer [syn: realization, realisation] 4: a sale in order to obtain money (as a sale of stock or a sale of the estate of a bankrupt person) or the money so obtained [syn: realization, realisation] 5: the completion or enrichment of a piece of music left sparsely notated by a composer [syn: realization, realisation] 6: something that is made real or concrete; "the victory was the realization of a whole year's work" [syn: realization, realisation, fruition]

n 1: the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes); "a committee was appointed to oversee the reorganization of the curriculum"; "top officials were forced out in the cabinet shakeup" [syn: reorganization, reorganisation, shake-up, shakeup] 2: an extensive alteration of the structure of a corporation or government; "after the takeover there was a thorough reorganization"; "the reorganization was prescribed by federal bankruptcy laws"

n 1: the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years [syn: amortization, amortisation] 2: payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers [syn: amortization, amortisation]

n 1: (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints [syn: canonization, canonisation]

n 1: the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies; "the British colonization of America" [syn: colonization, colonisation, settlement]

n 1: to represent as diabolically evil; "the demonization of our enemies" [syn: demonization, demonisation]

n 1: the act of making immune (especially by inoculation) [syn: immunization, immunisation]

n 1: the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge); "the ionization of a gas" [syn: ionization, ionisation] 2: the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas [syn: ionization, ionisation]

n 1: the mathematical process of finding the maximum value of a function 2: the act of raising to the highest possible point or condition or position [syn: maximization, maximisation, maximation] [ant: minimisation, minimization]

n 1: the act of rendering optimal; "the simultaneous optimization of growth and profitability"; "in an optimization problem we seek values of the variables that lead to an optimal value of the function that is to be optimized"; "to promote the optimization and diversification of agricultural products" [syn: optimization, optimisation]

n 1: act of forming labor unions; "the issue underlying the strike was unionization" [syn: unionization, unionisation]

n 1: the condition of being urbanized [syn: urbanization, urbanisation] 2: the social process whereby cities grow and societies become more urban [syn: urbanization, urbanisation]

n 1: annihilation by vaporizing something [syn: vaporization, vaporisation] 2: the process of becoming a vapor [syn: vaporization, vaporisation, vapor, vapour, evaporation]

n 1: conversion into dramatic form; "the play was a dramatization of a short story" [syn: dramatization, dramatisation] 2: a dramatic representation [syn: dramatization, dramatisation]

n 1: changing something from state to private ownership or control [syn: denationalization, denationalisation, privatization, privatisation] [ant: communisation, communization, nationalisation, nationalization]

n 1: a document giving an official instruction or command [syn: mandate, authorization, authorisation] 2: the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so] 3: official permission or approval; "authority for the program was renewed several times" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, sanction] 4: the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant [syn: authorization, authorisation, empowerment]

n 1: the act of reducing something to the least possible amount or degree or position [syn: minimization, minimisation] [ant: maximation, maximisation, maximization]