Words that rhyme with paediatrician

• acquisition 0
  n 1: the act of contracting or assuming or acquiring possession of something; "the acquisition of wealth"; "the acquisition of one company by another" 2: something acquired; "a recent acquisition by the museum" 3: the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; "the child's acquisition of language" [syn: learning, acquisition] 4: an ability that has been acquired by training [syn: skill, accomplishment, acquirement, acquisition, attainment]
• addition 0
  n 1: a component that is added to something to improve it; "the addition of a bathroom was a major improvement"; "the addition of cinnamon improved the flavor" [syn: addition, add-on, improver] 2: the act of adding one thing to another; "the addition of flowers created a pleasing effect"; "the addition of a leap day every four years" [ant: deduction, subtraction] 3: a quantity that is added; "there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks" [syn: addition, increase, gain] 4: something added to what you already have; "the librarian shelved the new accessions"; "he was a new addition to the staff" [syn: accession, addition] 5: a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area 6: 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]
• admission 0
  n 1: the act of admitting someone to enter; "the surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic" [syn: admission, admittance] 2: an acknowledgment of the truth of something 3: the fee charged for admission [syn: entrance fee, admission, admission charge, admission fee, admission price, price of admission, entrance money] 4: the right to enter [syn: entree, access, accession, admission, admittance]
• ambition 0
  n 1: a cherished desire; "his ambition is to own his own business" [syn: ambition, aspiration, dream] 2: a strong drive for success [syn: ambition, ambitiousness] v 1: have as one's ambition
• apparition 0
  n 1: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre] 2: the appearance of a ghostlike figure; "I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter" 3: something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight" [syn: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, shadow] 4: an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly; "natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger"
• attrition 0
  n 1: erosion by friction [syn: abrasion, attrition, corrasion, detrition] 2: the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice [syn: grinding, abrasion, attrition, detrition] 3: sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation [syn: attrition, contrition, contriteness] 4: a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition" 5: the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
• coalition 0
  n 1: an organization of people (or countries) involved in a pact or treaty [syn: alliance, coalition, alignment, alinement] [ant: nonalignment, nonalinement] 2: the state of being combined into one body [syn: coalition, fusion] 3: the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts [syn: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination]
• contrition 0
  n 1: sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation [syn: attrition, contrition, contriteness]
• electrician 0
  n 1: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman]
• fission 0
  n 1: reproduction of some unicellular organisms by division of the cell into two more or less equal parts 2: a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy [syn: fission, nuclear fission]
• geometrician 0
  n 1: a mathematician specializing in geometry [syn: geometer, geometrician]
• geriatrician 0
  n 1: a specialist in gerontology [syn: gerontologist, geriatrician]
• malnutrition 0
  n 1: a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods
• mission 0
  n 1: an organization of missionaries in a foreign land sent to carry on religious work [syn: mission, missionary post, missionary station, foreign mission] 2: an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters; "the planes were on a bombing mission" [syn: mission, military mission] 3: a special assignment that is given to a person or group; "a confidential mission to London"; "his charge was deliver a message" [syn: mission, charge, commission] 4: the organized work of a religious missionary [syn: mission, missionary work] 5: a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy, mission]
• nutrition 0
  n 1: (physiology) the organic process of nourishing or being nourished; the processes by which an organism assimilates food and uses it for growth and maintenance 2: a source of materials to nourish the body [syn: nutriment, nourishment, nutrition, sustenance, aliment, alimentation, victuals] 3: the scientific study of food and drink (especially in humans)
• obstetrician 0
  n 1: a physician specializing in obstetrics [syn: obstetrician, accoucheur]
• omission 0
  n 1: a mistake resulting from neglect [syn: omission, skip] 2: something that has been omitted; "she searched the table for omissions" 3: any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases [syn: omission, deletion] 4: neglecting to do something; leaving out or passing over something
• opposition 0
  n 1: the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with; "he encountered a general feeling of resistance from many citizens"; "despite opposition from the newspapers he went ahead" [syn: resistance, opposition] 2: the relation between opposed entities [syn: opposition, oppositeness] 3: the act of hostile groups opposing each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition" [syn: confrontation, opposition] 4: a contestant that you are matched against [syn: opposition, opponent, opposite] 5: a body of people united in opposing something 6: a direction opposite to another 7: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition] 8: the major political party opposed to the party in office and prepared to replace it if elected; "Her Majesty's loyal opposition"
• optician 0
  n 1: a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision [syn: optician, lens maker]
• parturition 0
  n 1: the process of giving birth [syn: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing]
• patrician 0
  adj 1: befitting a person of noble origin; "a patrician nose" 2: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes" [syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician] n 1: a person of refined upbringing and manners 2: a member of the aristocracy [syn: aristocrat, blue blood, patrician]
• permission 0
  n 1: approval to do something; "he asked permission to leave" 2: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization [syn: license, permission, permit]
• petition 0
  n 1: a formal message requesting something that is submitted to an authority [syn: request, petition, postulation] 2: reverent petition to a deity [syn: prayer, petition, orison] v 1: write a petition for something to somebody; request formally and in writing
• physician 0
  n 1: a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" [syn: doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico]
• politician 0
  n 1: a leader engaged in civil administration 2: a person active in party politics [syn: politician, politico, pol, political leader] 3: a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways
• position 0
  n 1: the particular portion of space occupied by something; "he put the lamp back in its place" [syn: position, place] 2: a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons [syn: military position, position] 3: a way of regarding situations or topics etc.; "consider what follows from the positivist view" [syn: position, view, perspective] 4: the arrangement of the body and its limbs; "he assumed an attitude of surrender" [syn: position, posture, attitude] 5: the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society; "he had the status of a minor"; "the novel attained the status of a classic"; "atheists do not enjoy a favorable position in American life" [syn: status, position] 6: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation] 7: the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated; "the position of the hands on the clock"; "he specified the spatial relations of every piece of furniture on the stage" [syn: position, spatial relation] 8: the appropriate or customary location; "the cars were in position" 9: (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?" 10: the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement] 11: a condition or position in which you find yourself; "the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils"; "found herself in a very fortunate situation" [syn: situation, position] 12: a rationalized mental attitude [syn: position, stance, posture] 13: an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute; "there are two sides to every question" [syn: side, position] 14: an item on a list or in a sequence; "in the second place"; "moved from third to fifth position" [syn: place, position] 15: the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another; "can you go in my stead?"; "took his place"; "in lieu of" [syn: stead, position, place, lieu] 16: the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom v 1: cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation 2: put into a certain place or abstract location; "Put your things here"; "Set the tray down"; "Set the dogs on the scent of the missing children"; "Place emphasis on a certain point" [syn: put, set, place, pose, position, lay]
• precondition 0
  n 1: an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else [syn: condition, precondition, stipulation] 2: an assumption that is taken for granted [syn: given, presumption, precondition] 3: a condition that is a prerequisite v 1: put into the required condition beforehand
• premonition 0
  n 1: a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" [syn: foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding] 2: an early warning about a future event [syn: forewarning, premonition]
• prohibition 0
  n 1: a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages; "in 1920 the 18th amendment to the Constitution established prohibition in the US" 2: a decree that prohibits something [syn: prohibition, ban, proscription] 3: the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment [syn: prohibition, prohibition era] 4: refusal to approve or assent to 5: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof); "they were restrained by a prohibition in their charter"; "a medical inhibition of alcoholic beverages"; "he ignored his parents' forbiddance" [syn: prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance]
• proposition 0
  n 1: (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false 2: a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection; "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse" [syn: suggestion, proposition, proffer] 3: an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors) 4: the act of making a proposal; "they listened to her proposal" [syn: proposal, proposition] 5: a task to be dealt with; "securing adequate funding is a time-consuming proposition" v 1: suggest sex to; "She was propositioned by a stranger at the party"
• recognition 0
  n 1: the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged; "the partners were delighted with the recognition of their work"; "she seems to avoid much in the way of recognition or acknowledgement of feminist work prior to her own" [syn: recognition, acknowledgment, acknowledgement] 2: the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering; "a politician whose recall of names was as remarkable as his recognition of faces"; "experimental psychologists measure the elapsed time from the onset of the stimulus to its recognition by the observer" [syn: recognition, identification] 3: approval; "give her recognition for trying"; "he was given credit for his work"; "give her credit for trying" [syn: recognition, credit] 4: 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] 5: (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape; "molecular recognition drives all of biology, for instance, hormone and receptor or antibody-antigen interactions or the organization of molecules into larger biologically active entities" 6: the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country; "territorial disputes were resolved in Guatemala's recognition of Belize in 1991" 7: an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid; "the recognition of the Rio Grande as a boundary between Mexico and the United States" 8: designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body; "he was unable to make his motion because he couldn't get recognition by the chairman"
• rhetorician 0
  n 1: a person who delivers a speech or oration [syn: orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier]
• volition 0
  n 1: the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; "the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith [syn: volition, will] 2: the act of making a choice; "followed my father of my own volition" [syn: volition, willing]
• detrition 0
  n 1: erosion by friction [syn: abrasion, attrition, corrasion, detrition] 2: the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice [syn: grinding, abrasion, attrition, detrition] 3: effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure [syn: friction, detrition, rubbing]
• micturition 0
  n 1: the discharge of urine [syn: micturition, urination]
• preterition 0
  n 1: suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted [syn: paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition]
• innutrition 0
• metrician 0
• rubrician 0

See also paediatrician definition and paediatrician synonyms