decomposition
(de-com-po-si-tion)
5 syllables
Definition
noun. the process of breaking down organic matter.
Example Sentence
Earthworms increase the decomposition rate of organic matter.
More Example Sentences
Leaves undergo decomposition in the fall.
Synonyms
Hear It! Say It! Write It!
decomposition
Rhymes
- britian
- fission
- mission
- titian
- wishon
- addition
- admission
- ambition
- attrition
- audition
- clinician
- cognition
- commision
- commission
- condition
- contrition
- dentition
- edition
- emission
- fruition
- ignition
- logician
- magician
- mccuistion
- mortician
- munition
- musician
- nutrition
- omission
- optician
- partition
- patrician
- permission
- petition
- physician
- position
- recission
- remission
- rendition
- sedition
- submission
- suspicion
- tactician
- technician
- tradition
- transition
- transmission
- tuition
- volition
- abolition
- acquisition
- admonition
- ammunition
- apparition
- coalition
- competition
- composition
- daffynition
- decommission
- definition
- demolition
- deposition
- dietitian
- disposition
- electrician
- erudition
- exhibition
- expedition
- exposition
- extradition
- fondkommission
- imposition
- inhibition
- inquisition
- intermission
- intuition
- malnutrition
- obstetrician
- opposition
- politician
- precondition
- preignition
- premonition
- prohibition
- proposition
- recognition
- recondition
- repetition
- reposition
- requisition
- retransmission
- rhetorician
- statistician
- superstition
- supposition
- academician
- decomposition
- geriatrician
- juxtaposition
- mathematician
- pediatrician
- predisposition
- presupposition
- redefinition
- redeposition
- reimposition
- theoretician