Words that rhyme with rubrician

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"

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

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]

n 1: a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers; "business competition can be fiendish at times" 2: an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants [syn: contest, competition] 3: the act of competing as for profit or a prize; "the teams were in fierce contention for first place" [syn: competition, contention, rivalry] [ant: cooperation] 4: the contestant you hope to defeat; "he had respect for his rivals"; "he wanted to know what the competition was doing" [syn: rival, challenger, competitor, competition, contender]

n 1: the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole; "harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art" [syn: composition, composing] 2: the way in which someone or something is composed [syn: constitution, composition, physical composition, makeup, make-up] 3: a mixture of ingredients 4: a musical work that has been created; "the composition is written in four movements" [syn: musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music] 5: musical creation [syn: composing, composition] 6: the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" [syn: writing, authorship, composition, penning] 7: art and technique of printing with movable type [syn: typography, composition] 8: an essay (especially one written as an assignment); "he got an A on his composition" [syn: composition, paper, report, theme] 9: something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole; "he envied the composition of their faculty"

n 1: sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation [syn: attrition, contrition, contriteness]

n 1: the form in which a text (especially a printed book) is published 2: all of the identical copies of something offered to the public at the same time; "the first edition appeared in 1920"; "it was too late for the morning edition"; "they issued a limited edition of Bach recordings" 3: an issue of a newspaper; "he read it in yesterday's edition of the Times" 4: something a little different from others of the same type; "an experimental version of the night fighter"; "a variant of the same word"; "an emery wheel is the modern variation of a grindstone"; "the boy is a younger edition of his father" [syn: version, variant, variation, edition]

n 1: a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines [syn: electrician, lineman, linesman]

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]

n 1: a mathematician specializing in geometry [syn: geometer, geometrician]

n 1: a specialist in gerontology [syn: gerontologist, geriatrician]

n 1: a state of poor nutrition; can result from insufficient or excessive or unbalanced diet or from inability to absorb foods

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]

n 1: someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession) [syn: musician, instrumentalist, player] 2: artist who composes or conducts music as a profession

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)

n 1: a physician specializing in obstetrics [syn: obstetrician, accoucheur]

n 1: a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision [syn: optician, lens maker]

n 1: a specialist in the care of babies [syn: baby doctor, pediatrician, pediatrist, paediatrician]

n 1: a vertical structure that divides or separates (as a wall divides one room from another) [syn: partition, divider] 2: (computer science) the part of a hard disk that is dedicated to a particular operating system or application and accessed as a single unit 3: (anatomy) a structure that separates areas in an organism 4: the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart [syn: division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation] v 1: divide into parts, pieces, or sections; "The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British" [syn: partition, partition off] 2: separate or apportion into sections; "partition a room off" [syn: partition, zone]

n 1: the process of giving birth [syn: parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing]

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]

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]

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

n 1: a licensed medical practitioner; "I felt so bad I went to see my doctor" [syn: doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr., medico]

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

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]

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

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]

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]

n 1: a person who delivers a speech or oration [syn: orator, speechmaker, rhetorician, public speaker, speechifier]

n 1: a fee paid for instruction (especially for higher education); "tuition and room and board were more than $25,000" [syn: tuition, tuition fee] 2: teaching pupils individually (usually by a tutor hired privately) [syn: tutelage, tuition, tutorship]

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]

n 1: weapons considered collectively [syn: weaponry, arms, implements of war, weapons system, munition] 2: military supplies [syn: munition, ordnance, ordnance store] 3: defensive structure consisting of walls or mounds built around a stronghold to strengthen it [syn: fortification, munition] v 1: supply with weapons

n 1: a specialist in the study of nutrition [syn: dietician, dietitian, nutritionist]

n 1: a specialist in the care of babies [syn: baby doctor, pediatrician, pediatrist, paediatrician]

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]

n 1: the discharge of urine [syn: micturition, urination]

n 1: suggesting by deliberately concise treatment that much of significance is omitted [syn: paralepsis, paraleipsis, paralipsis, preterition]