Imprecation

(n.) A curse; the act of invoking evil upon anyone; a prayer that a curse or calamity may fall on anyone.

Thesaurus Entries

adjuration, anathema, appeal, application, ban, beseechment, bid, blasphemy, call, clamor, commination, cry, curse, cursing, cussing, damnation, denunciation, entreaty, evil eye, excommunication, execration, fulmination, hex, imploration, imploring, invocation, invocatory plea, malediction, malison, malocchio, obsecration, obtestation, orison, petition, plea, prayer, profanity, proscription, rogation, suit, supplication, swearing, thundering, whammy