Words that rhyme with lection

adj 1: being the one previously mentioned or spoken of; "works of all the aforementioned authors"; "said party has denied the charges" [syn: aforesaid(a), aforementioned(a), said(a)]

n 1: small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly prized edible nuts enclosed in a hard green hull; cultivated in southern Australia and California [syn: almond, sweet almond, Prunus dulcis, Prunus amygdalus, Amygdalus communis] 2: oval-shaped edible seed of the almond tree

v 1: signal with the hands or nod; "She waved to her friends"; "He waved his hand hospitably" [syn: beckon, wave] 2: appear inviting; "The shop window decorations beckoned" 3: summon with a wave, nod, or some other gesture

n 1: airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. [syn: can, tin, tin can] 2: the quantity contained in a can [syn: can, canful] 3: a buoy with a round bottom and conical top [syn: can, can buoy] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 5: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne] 6: a room or building equipped with one or more toilets [syn: toilet, lavatory, lav, can, john, privy, bathroom] v 1: preserve in a can or tin; "tinned foods are not very tasty" [syn: can, tin, put up] 2: terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position; "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers" [syn: displace, fire, give notice, can, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate] [ant: employ, engage, hire]

adj 1: (of military officers) holding by virtue of a commission a rank of second lieutenant or ensign or above [ant: noncommissioned] 2: given official approval to act; "an accredited college"; "commissioned broker"; "licensed pharmacist"; "authorized representative" [syn: accredited, commissioned, licensed, licenced]

n 1: a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem 2: very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem [syn: diamond, adamant] 3: a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram [syn: rhombus, rhomb, diamond] 4: a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it; "he led a small diamond"; "diamonds were trumps" 5: the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate [syn: baseball diamond, diamond, infield] [ant: outfield] 6: the baseball playing field [syn: ball field, baseball field, diamond]

v 1: expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess] 2: judge to be probable [syn: calculate, estimate, reckon, count on, figure, forecast] 3: deem to be; "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do" [syn: see, consider, reckon, view, regard] 4: make a mathematical calculation or computation [syn: calculate, cipher, cypher, compute, work out, reckon, figure] 5: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn: count, bet, depend, look, calculate, reckon] 6: take account of; "You have to reckon with our opponents"; "Count on the monsoon" [syn: reckon, count]

adv 1: in the second place; "second, we must consider the economy" [syn: second, secondly] adj 1: coming next after the first in position in space or time or degree or magnitude [syn: second, 2nd, 2d] 2: a part or voice or instrument or orchestra section lower in pitch than or subordinate to the first; "second flute"; "the second violins" [ant: first] n 1: 1/60 of a minute; the basic unit of time adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: second, sec, s] 2: an indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: moment, mo, minute, second, bit] 3: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the second of the bases in the infield [syn: second base, second] 4: a particular point in time; "the moment he arrived the party began" [syn: moment, minute, second, instant] 5: following the first in an ordering or series; "he came in a close second" 6: a 60th part of a minute of arc; "the treasure is 2 minutes and 45 seconds south of here" [syn: second, arcsecond] 7: the official attendant of a contestant in a duel or boxing match 8: a speech seconding a motion; "do I hear a second?" [syn: second, secondment, endorsement, indorsement] 9: the gear that has the second lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; "he had to shift down into second to make the hill" [syn: second gear, second] 10: merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name [syn: irregular, second] v 1: give support or one's approval to; "I'll second that motion"; "I can't back this plan"; "endorse a new project" [syn: second, back, endorse, indorse] 2: transfer an employee to a different, temporary assignment; "The officer was seconded for duty overseas"

adj 1: made without leavening; "unleavened bread is often simply flour mixed with water" [syn: unleavened, unraised] [ant: leavened]

adj 1: generally agreed upon; not subject to dispute; "the undisputed fact" [syn: undisputed, unchallenged, unquestioned]

adj 1: not aged or processed; "unseasoned timber" [ant: seasoned] 2: without salt or seasoning [syn: unsalted, unseasoned] 3: not tried or tested by experience; "unseasoned artillery volunteers"; "still untested in battle"; "an illustrator untried in mural painting"; "a young hand at plowing" [syn: unseasoned, untested, untried, young]

adj 1: wandering aimlessly without ties to a place or community; "led a vagabond life"; "a rootless wanderer" [syn: rootless, vagabond] 2: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant] n 1: anything that resembles a vagabond in having no fixed place; "pirate ships were vagabonds of the sea" 2: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond] v 1: move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "roving vagabonds"; "the wandering Jew"; "The cattle roam across the prairie"; "the laborers drift from one town to the next"; "They rolled from town to town" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]

n 1: a choice or delicious dish

n 1: a rod used by a magician or water diviner 2: a thin supple twig or rod; "stems bearing slender wands of flowers" 3: a ceremonial or emblematic staff [syn: scepter, sceptre, verge, wand] 4: a thin tapered rod used by a conductor to lead an orchestra or choir [syn: baton, wand]

adj 1: impaired by diminution [syn: diminished, lessened, vitiated, weakened] 2: made weak or weaker 3: reduced in strength; "the faded tones of an old recording" [syn: attenuate, attenuated, faded, weakened] 4: mixed with water; "sold cut whiskey"; "a cup of thinned soup" [syn: cut, thinned, weakened] 5: damaged inanimate objects or their value [syn: hurt, weakened]

adj 1: (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age" [syn: white, whitened]

adj 1: lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened]

n 1: the state of being flexed (as of a joint) [syn: flexure, flection, flexion] 2: deviation from a straight or normal course [syn: inflection, flection, flexion]

n 1: the French moderate political party that was in power (1791-1793) during the French Revolution

n 1: the king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516) [syn: Ferdinand, King Ferdinand, Ferdinand of Aragon, Ferdinand V, Ferdinand the Catholic]