Words that rhyme with wizen

• abolition 0
  n 1: the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery); "the abolition of capital punishment" [syn: abolition, abolishment]
• academician 0
  n 1: someone elected to honorary membership in an academy 2: a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation [syn: academician, schoolman] 3: an educator who works at a college or university [syn: academician, academic, faculty member]
• 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]
• admonition 0
  n 1: cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness); "a letter of admonition about the dangers of immorality"; "the warning was to beware of surprises"; "his final word of advice was not to play with matches" [syn: admonition, monition, warning, word of advice] 2: a firm rebuke [syn: admonition, admonishment, monition]
• 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
• ammunition 0
  n 1: projectiles to be fired from a gun [syn: ammunition, ammo] 2: any nuclear or chemical or biological material that can be used as a weapon of mass destruction 3: information that can be used to attack or defend a claim or argument or viewpoint; "his admission provided ammunition for his critics"
• 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
• audition 0
  n 1: the ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired" [syn: hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality] 2: a test of the suitability of a performer [syn: audition, tryout] v 1: perform in order to get a role; "She auditioned for a role on Broadway" [syn: audition, try out]
• beautician 0
  n 1: someone who works in a beauty parlor [syn: beautician, cosmetician]
• bedizen 0
  v 1: decorate tastelessly 2: dress up garishly and tastelessly [syn: bedizen, dizen]
• christen 0
  v 1: administer baptism to; "The parents had the child baptized" [syn: baptize, baptise, christen]
• circumcision 0
  n 1: (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st [syn: Circumcision, Feast of the Circumcision, January 1] 2: the act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite 3: the act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males
• clinician 0
  n 1: a practitioner (of medicine or psychology) who does clinical work instead of laboratory experiments
• 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]
• collision 0
  n 1: (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together; "the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction" [syn: collision, hit] 2: an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object; "three passengers were killed in the collision"; "the collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill" 3: a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals; "a collision of interests"
• commission 0
  n 1: a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle [syn: committee, commission] 2: a fee for services rendered based on a percentage of an amount received or collected or agreed to be paid (as distinguished from a salary); "he works on commission" 3: the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions [syn: commission, commissioning] 4: the state of being in good working order and ready for operation; "put the ships into commission"; "the motor was out of commission" 5: a group of representatives or delegates [syn: deputation, commission, delegation, delegacy, mission] 6: a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury" [syn: commission, charge, direction] 7: an official document issued by a government and conferring on the recipient the rank of an officer in the armed forces [syn: commission, military commission] 8: the act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration, commission, committal] 9: 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] v 1: put into commission; equip for service; of ships 2: place an order for 3: charge with a task
• competition 0
  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]
• concision 0
  n 1: terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words [syn: conciseness, concision, pithiness, succinctness]
• condition 0
  n 1: a state at a particular time; "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations" [syn: condition, status] 2: an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else [syn: condition, precondition, stipulation] 3: a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing; "the human condition" 4: information that should be kept in mind when making a decision; "another consideration is the time it would take" [syn: circumstance, condition, consideration] 5: the state of (good) health (especially in the phrases `in condition' or `in shape' or `out of condition' or `out of shape') [syn: condition, shape] 6: an illness, disease, or other medical problem; "a heart condition"; "a skin condition" 7: (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement; "the contract set out the conditions of the lease"; "the terms of the treaty were generous" [syn: condition, term] 8: the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition [syn: condition, experimental condition] v 1: establish a conditioned response 2: develop (children's) behavior by instruction and practice; especially to teach self-control; "Parents must discipline their children"; "Is this dog trained?" [syn: discipline, train, check, condition] 3: specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the dates of the payments" [syn: stipulate, qualify, condition, specify] 4: put into a better state; "he conditions old cars" 5: apply conditioner to in order to make smooth and shiny; "I condition my hair after washing it"
• contrition 0
  n 1: sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation [syn: attrition, contrition, contriteness]
• cosmetician 0
  n 1: someone who sells or applies cosmetics 2: someone who works in a beauty parlor [syn: beautician, cosmetician]
• horizon 0
  n 1: the line at which the sky and Earth appear to meet [syn: horizon, apparent horizon, visible horizon, sensible horizon, skyline] 2: the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge" [syn: horizon, view, purview] 3: a specific layer or stratum of soil or subsoil in a vertical cross section of land 4: the great circle on the celestial sphere whose plane passes through the sensible horizon and the center of the Earth [syn: horizon, celestial horizon]
• treason 0
  n 1: a crime that undermines the offender's government [syn: treason, high treason, lese majesty] 2: disloyalty by virtue of subversive behavior [syn: treason, subversiveness, traitorousness] 3: an act of deliberate betrayal [syn: treachery, betrayal, treason, perfidy]
• unfrozen 0
  adj 1: not frozen; "unfrozen ground" [ant: frozen]
• unison 0
  n 1: corresponding exactly; "marching in unison" 2: occurring together or simultaneously; "the two spoke in unison" 3: (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves; "singing in unison"
• unreason 0
  n 1: the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding [syn: irrationality, unreason]
• venison 0
  n 1: meat from a deer used as food
• damson 0
  n 1: dark purple plum of the damson tree [syn: damson, damson plum]
• tarzan 0
  n 1: (sometimes used ironically) a man of great strength and agility (after the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs) 2: a man raised by apes who was the hero of a series of novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs [syn: Tarzan, Tarzan of the Apes]
• amazon 0
  n 1: a large strong and aggressive woman [syn: amazon, virago] 2: (Greek mythology) one of a nation of women warriors of Scythia (who burned off the right breast in order to use a bow and arrow more effectively) 3: a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles) [syn: Amazon, Amazon River] 4: mainly green tropical American parrots
• mizen 0
  n 1: third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy [syn: mizzenmast, mizenmast, mizzen, mizen] 2: fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast [syn: mizzen, mizen]
• nisan 0
  n 1: the seventh month of the civil year; the first month of the ecclesiastic year (in March and April) [syn: Nisan, Nissan]
• kansan 0
  n 1: a native or resident of Kansas
• greisen 0
  n 1: a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica
• grison 0
  n 1: carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts [syn: grison, Grison vittatus, Galictis vittatus]
• dizen 0
  v 1: dress up garishly and tastelessly [syn: bedizen, dizen]
• munchausen 0
  n 1: German raconteur who told preposterous stories about his adventures as a soldier and hunter; his name is now associated with any telling of exaggerated stories or winning lies (1720-1797) [syn: Munchhausen, Karl Friedrich Hieronymus von Munchhausen, Munchausen, Baron Munchausen]
• spiegeleisen 0
  n 1: pig iron containing manganese; used as a deoxidizing agent and to raise the manganese content in making steel [syn: spiegeleisen, spiegel, spiegel iron]
• benison 0
  n 1: a spoken blessing
• pilsen 0
  n 1: a town in Czech Republic where Pilsner beer originated [syn: Pilsen, Plzen]
• arisen 0
• bipartition 0
• susan 0
• biometrician 0
• ramson 0
• unrisen 0
• malison 0
• rosen 0
• unchosen 0
• curzon 0
• gossan 0
• seizin 0
• disseisin 0
• stockhausen 0

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