Rhyme Dictionary
Rhymes with “Contention”
/kənˈtɛnʃən/
Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle.
♬100 rhyming words found
🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Contention"
50 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "contention" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| apprehension | 4 | noun | Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future. |
| condescension | 4 | noun | The act of condescending; a manner of behaving in an outwardly polite way that nevertheless implies superiority to another; patronizing courtesy toward inferiors. |
| convention | 3 | noun | A practice or procedure widely observed in a group, especially to facilitate social interaction; a custom. |
| comprehension | 4 | noun | A thorough understanding. |
| retention | 3 | noun | The act of retaining or something retained. |
| dissension | 3 | noun | Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord. |
| pretension | 3 | noun | A claim or aspiration to a particular status or quality. |
| tension | 2 | noun | The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other. |
| dimension | 3 | noun | A measure of spatial extent in a particular direction, such as height, width or breadth, or depth. |
| invention | 3 | noun | Something invented. |
| misapprehension | 5 | noun | A failure to understand something; an illusion, misconception or misunderstanding. |
| extension | 3 | noun | The act of extending; a stretching out; enlargement in length, breadth, or time; an increase. |
| attention | 3 | noun | (uncountable) Mental focus. |
| mention | 2 | verb | A speaking or noticing of anything, usually in a brief or cursory manner. |
| detention | 3 | noun | (countable) A temporary state of custody or confinement. |
| prevention | 3 | noun | (medicine) Any measure intended to limit health-related risks (such as information campaigns, vaccination, early diagnosis etc.). |
| gentian | 2 | noun | (countable) Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers. |
| fourth dimension | 4 | noun | (physics) The dimension of time. |
| suspension | 3 | noun | The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended. |
| pay attention | 4 | verb | (idiomatic, intransitive) To attend; to be attentive; to focus one's attention. |
| pension | 2 | noun | (finance) An annuity paid regularly as benefit due to a retired employee, serviceman etc. in consideration of past services, originally and chiefly by a government but also by various private pension schemes. |
| not to mention | 4 | much less | |
| paying attention | 5 | noun | paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) |
| hypertension | 4 | noun | (medicine, cardiology) A state of abnormally high blood pressure of arterial blood (arterial hypertension) or of the intra-ocular fluid. |
| honorable mention | 6 | noun | (idiomatic) An award or recognition given to a person or thing who does not achieve a higher standing but whose performance or entry was noteworthy. |
| reinvention | 4 | noun | A reinventing of something. |
| hypotension | 4 | noun | (medicine, cardiology) The disease or disorder of abnormally low blood pressure. |
| surface tension | 4 | noun | (physics) the effect on the surface of a liquid that makes it behave as a stretched elastic membrane; it is caused by unbalanced intermolecular forces |
| right ascension | 4 | noun | (astronomy) The angular distance east of the vernal point (“the solar zenith at the March equinox”); the celestial equivalent of longitude. |
| third dimension | 4 | noun | the quality, of depth or thickness, that differentiates a solid object from a two-dimensional image of it |
| essential hypertension | 7 | (also called primary hypertension, or idiopathic hypertension) a form of hypertension without an identifiable physiologic cause. | |
| colloidal suspension | 6 | noun | a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid |
| center of attention | 6 | noun | US spelling of centre of attention. [(British spelling) Something that attracts a lot of attention.] |
| horse gentian | 3 | noun | Any of the genus Triosteum of flowering plants, especially Triosteum perfoliatum |
| university extension | 8 | noun | The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centres. |
| closed gentian | 3 | noun | gentian of eastern north america having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all |
| green gentian | 3 | noun | Any plant of the genus Frasera. |
| secondary hypertension | 8 | (or, less commonly, inessential hypertension) a type of hypertension which has a specific and identifiable underlying primary cause. | |
| bottle gentian | 4 | noun | gentian of eastern north america having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all |
| american gentian | 6 | noun | any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of california, oregon, and washington |
| marsh gentian | 3 | noun | A blue-to-purple gentian native to Eurasian marshlands, Gentiana pneumonanthe. |
| spurred gentian | 3 | noun | any of various plants of the genus halenia having flowers with spurred lobes |
| striped gentian | 3 | noun | a perennial marsh gentian of eastern north america |
| american baptist convention | 9 | noun | an association of northern baptists |
| birth prevention | 4 | noun | limiting the number of children born |
| blind gentian | 3 | noun | gentian of eastern north america having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all |
| stiff gentian | 3 | noun | gentian of eastern north america having clusters of bristly blue flowers |
| tufted gentian | 4 | noun | small blue-flowered fringed gentian of sierra nevada mountains |
| tulip gentian | 4 | noun | one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers laving large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern colorado and nebraska south to new mexico and texas |
| immediate apprehension | 8 | noun | immediate intuitive awareness |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Contention"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| apprehensive | 4 | noun | Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt; reluctant. |
| affection | 3 | noun | A feeling of love or strong attachment. |
| contentious | 3 | Marked by heated arguments or controversy. | |
| pretentious | 3 | Motivated by an inappropriate, excessive, or unjustified desire to impress others. | |
| contentment | 3 | noun | Happiness in one's situation; satisfaction |
| connection | 3 | noun | A feeling of understanding and ease of communication between two or more people. |
| strengthen | 2 | verb | (transitive) To make strong or stronger; to add strength to; to increase the strength of; to fortify. |
| reflection | 3 | noun | The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected. |
| consensus | 3 | noun | General agreement among the members of a given group or community, each member of which exercises some discretion in decision-making and follow-up action. |
| obsession | 3 | noun | An idea that engenders a compulsive or irrational preoccupation, or the preoccupation thereby engendered. |
| penchant | 2 | noun | Taste, liking, or inclination (for). |
| progression | 3 | noun | The act of moving forward or proceeding in a course; motion onward. |
| question | 2 | noun | A worded or expressed sentence, phrase, or only a word on its own, which asks for information, a reply, or a response; an interrogative. |
| intention | 3 | noun | A course of action that a person intends to follow. |
| redemption | 3 | noun | (religion) Salvation from sin. |
| section | 2 | noun | A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something. |
| protection | 3 | noun | The process of keeping (something or someone) safe. |
| suggestion | 3 | noun | (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for) |
| collection | 3 | noun | A set of items or amount of material procured, gathered or presented together. |
| direction | 3 | noun | A theoretical line (physically or mentally) followed from a point of origin or towards a destination. May be relative (e.g. up, left, outbound, dorsal), geographical (e.g. north), rotational (e.g. clockwise), or with respect to an object or location (e.g. toward Boston). |
| mentioned | 2 | verb | To make a short reference to something. |
| intervention | 4 | noun | The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events. |
| competition | 4 | noun | (uncountable) The action of competing. |
| engine | 2 | noun | The part of a car or other vehicle which provides the force for motion, now especially one powered by internal combustion. |
| procession | 3 | noun | A group of people or things moving along in an orderly, stately, or solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a retinue. |
| nation | 2 | noun | (collective) A historically constituted, stable community of people, formed based on a common language, territory, economic life, ethnicity and/or psychological make-up manifested in a common culture. |
| reception | 3 | noun | The act of receiving. |
| henchmen | 2 | a 2018 Canadian animated action comedy film written and directed by Adam Wood, based on his own 2014 short film Henchmen: Ill Suited. | |
| defensive | 3 | noun | (chiefly sports) Pertaining to defense, as opposed to attack. |
| profession | 3 | noun | A professional occupation. |
| exception | 3 | noun | The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule. |
| lesson | 2 | noun | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| exemption | 3 | noun | The state of being exempt; immunity. |
| fence in | 2 | verb | (idiomatic, by extension) To restrict freedom. |
| quenching | 2 | noun | (metallurgy) The rapid cooling of a hot metal object, by placing it in a liquid, in order to harden it. |
| suspended | 3 | Caused to stop for a while; interrupted or delayed. | |
| intentions | 3 | noun | A course of action that a person intends to follow. |
| infection | 3 | noun | An uncontrolled growth of harmful microorganisms in a host. |
| correction | 3 | noun | The act of correcting. |
| lessen | 2 | verb | (transitive) To make less; to diminish; to reduce. |
| confession | 3 | noun | The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad). |
| tensions | 2 | noun | The condition of being held in a state between two or more forces, which are acting in opposition to each other. |
| compression | 3 | noun | An increase in density; the act of compressing, or the state of being compressed; compaction. |
| weapon | 2 | noun | An instrument of attack or defense in combat or hunting, e.g. most guns, missiles, or swords. |
| interception | 4 | noun | An act of intercepting something, the state of being intercepted, or a thing that is intercepted. |
| attentions | 3 | noun | (uncountable) Mental focus. |
| lengthen | 2 | verb | (transitive) To make longer, to extend the length of. |
| contentions | 3 | noun | Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle. |
| contentioned | 3 | Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle. | |
| denton | 2 | noun | (uncountable) A number of places in England: |
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