Words that rhyme with transfixion

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"

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

n 1: the act of praying for divine protection [syn: blessing, benediction] 2: a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection [syn: benediction, blessing]

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

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"

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]

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]

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]

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

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

n 1: authoritative prohibition 2: a court order prohibiting a party from doing a certain activity [syn: interdict, interdiction]

n 1: (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law; "courts having jurisdiction in this district" [syn: legal power, jurisdiction] 2: in law; the territory within which power can be exercised

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]

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: a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, land, commonwealth, res publica, body politic] 2: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: nation, land, country] 3: United States prohibitionist who raided saloons and destroyed bottles of liquor with a hatchet (1846-1911) [syn: Nation, Carry Nation, Carry Amelia Moore Nation] 4: a federation of tribes (especially Native American tribes); "the Shawnee nation"

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]

adj 1: available only with a doctor's written prescription; "a prescription drug" [ant: nonprescription(a), over-the- counter(a)] n 1: directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions; "I tried to follow her prescription for success" 2: a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist; "he told the doctor that he had been taking his prescription regularly" [syn: prescription drug, prescription, prescription medicine, ethical drug] [ant: over-the-counter drug, over-the- counter medicine] 3: written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person 4: written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient

n 1: the food allowance for one day (especially for service personnel); "the rations should be nutritionally balanced" 2: a fixed portion that is allotted (especially in times of scarcity) v 1: restrict the consumption of a relatively scarce commodity, as during war; "Bread was rationed during the siege of the city" 2: distribute in rations, as in the army; "Cigarettes are rationed" [syn: ration, ration out]

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]

n 1: a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose; "he started looking for a gas station"; "the train pulled into the station" 2: proper or designated social situation; "he overstepped his place"; "the responsibilities of a man in his station"; "married above her station" [syn: place, station] 3: (nautical) the location to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty 4: the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand; "a soldier manned the entrance post"; "a sentry station" [syn: post, station] 5: the frequency assigned to a broadcasting station v 1: assign to a station [syn: station, post, send, place]

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

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the republic of Haiti or its people; "Haitian shantytowns" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Haiti

n 1: prose writing that is not fictional [syn: nonfiction, nonfictional prose]

n 1: a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms