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Definition: Completion |
CompletionNoun1. The act of becoming or making complete: "her work is still far from completion". 2. A successful forward pass in football. 3. A concluding action. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "completion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Completion \Com*ple"tion\, noun. [Latin expression completio filling, fulfillment.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of completing a task or piece of work, denotes that you will have acquired a competency early in life, and that you can spend your days as you like and wherever you please. For a young woman to dream that she has completed a garment, denotes that she will soon decide on a husband. To dream of completing a journey, you will have the means to make one whenever you like. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Language | The act of completing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | All the operations performed on a specific producing stratum beginning with drilling and ending with definitive production. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: CompletionSynonyms: closing (n), culmination (n), mop up (n), pass completion (n), windup (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Action | Deed, act, overt act, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force; (display); feat, exploit; achievement; (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy; (plan). |
Arrival | Completion. |
Compact | Ratification, completion, signature, seal, sigil, signet. |
Completeness | Noun: completeness; Adjective: completion; integration; allness. |
Completion | Noun: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close; (end); terminus; (arrival); winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link; superstructure, ne plus ultra, work done, fait accompli. |
End | Consummation, denouement; finish; (completion); fate; doom, doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain; goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry, extinction, extermination; death; end of all things; finality; eschatology. |
Production | Noun: {ant., } production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; nisus formativus; putting together; Verb: establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement; (completion). |
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Screenplays | No. We shot ten minutes of the movie, and now we're looking for completion funds (Ed Wood; writing credit: Scott Alexander) | |
Lyrics | Only this sense of completion (I Knew I Loved You; performing artist: Savage Garden) | |
Movie/TV Titles | To Completion Too (2001) | |
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 | 1. Original building on completion, 1940. Then called McArdle Memorial Laboratory for Cancer Research. 2. Dedication ceremony in 1964 of "new" McArdle Laboratory. From left: Melvin Laird, Wisconsin congressman; Harold P. Rusch, McArdle director; Kenneth Endicott, NCI director, and Robert Clodius, University of Wisconsin Vice President. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Triangulation diagram showing near completion of triangulation of Philippines Diagram produced in 1941. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | 100,000 pounds of stone later...Volunteers smile and relax after completion of the work. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Looking downstream, nearing completion of the construction. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Chuck Leinen, NRCS engineer, talks with homeowners in Washington Co following completion of berm rehabilation needed to eliminate risk caused by flash flooding of creek directly behind housing development. Emergency Watershed Program provided the needed s. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | Work-over rig/well completion tripping in the hole with rods. Credit: Merv Coleman. |
 | NHOTIC sign reading: National Historical Oregon Trail Interpretive Center. Flagstaff Site - Expected Completion Date 1991. Approved Strategy for "The Oregon Comeback". Neil Goldschmidt, Governor. Credit: Unknown. |  | Underway at high speed during her speed trials, prior to completion, circa 1906-07. Note that the eight-inch guns have not yet been installed in her forward turret. Halftone reproduction of a photograph. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Underway shortly after her completion, in about 1921. Credit: NAVY. |  | Grand completion of the Broadway elevated system. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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MoliFre | Long is the road from conception to completion. |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Up to the moment of the completion of the evacuation they shall refrain from any form of requisitioning in money or in kind and from all acts likely to prejudice the material interests of the country. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | The happiness of this most happy day, received its completion, in the animated contemplation of his worth which this comparison produced |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | I add, as a completion, that I have seen an English girl dance with a crown of roses and blue spectacles |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The life cycle of this tick may require up to 2 to 3 years for completion. (references) | |
On completion, the child may then be asked to work on the next item in the series. (references) | ||
Research indicates that the skills individuals learn through relapse prevention therapy remain after the completion of treatment. (references) | ||
Business | Both were released late in the year upon completion of their terms. (references) | |
Both Li and Guo were released in late 1997 at the completion of their terms. (references) | ||
All buildings, upon their completion, must receive licenses before they are occupied. (references) | ||
Children | Cyprus | In the government-controlled areas, free education is available at all levels through the age of 18. Education is compulsory up to the age of 15 or completion of secondary school. (references) |
Bhutan | In 1999 the participation rate for children in primary schools was estimated at 72 percent, with the rate of completion of 7 years of schooling at 60 percent for girls and at 59 percent for boys. (references) | |
Botswana | Government estimates of the proportion of children who never attend school have ranged from 10 to 17 percent, and fewer than 20 percent of children complete secondary school; school attendance and completion rates are highest in urban areas, and lowest in remote rural areas, especially those inhabited chiefly by Basarwa (San or Bushmen). (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Vietnam | This program is nearing completion. (references) |
Austria | A number of officers were suspended pending the completion of the investigation. (references) | |
Iran | One of the 10 convicted was released in February upon completion of his prison term; 9 remained in prison at year's end. (references) | |
Economic History | Oman | It is scheduled for completion by mid-2003. (references) |
Hong Kong | Both projects are scheduled for completion in 2004. (references) | |
Ukraine | A treaty on avoiding double taxation is close to completion. (references) | |
Human Rights | Pakistan | Some persons remain in prison after completion of their terms for failure to pay Diyat. (references) |
Albania | The Penal Procedures Code requires completion of pretrial investigations within 3 months. (references) | |
Oman | Judges often pronounce the verdict and sentence within 1 day of the completion of a trial. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | In Bolivar state, the Pemon indigenous people remain highly skeptical of the Government's willingness and ability to comply with its pledges related to the completion of power lines through the Canaima National Park. (references) |
Political Economy | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | This customs clearance process has made completion of production contracts with specific deadlines difficult. (references) |
ITALY | Italy ratified ILO convention 182 prohibiting the worst forms of child labor following completion of parliamentary action in May 2000. (references) | |
Political Rights | East Timor | The Constitution originally was scheduled for completion on December 15; however, the UNTAET Administrator granted the Constituent Assembly a 30-day extension. (references) |
Trade | Jamaica | This is effected on completion of a Revenue Deposit Receipt (RDR form) at customs at the point of entry. (references) |
Venezuela | Industrial establishments can also be declared in-bond if these are used for assembly, completion or improvement of products for re-export. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Senegal | The program was scheduled for completion in December; however, it received additional funding, which allowed it to continue to operate for 2 more years. (references) |
Guatemala | In October 2000, the Ministry of Labor facilitated the completion of a collective bargaining agreement between the SITRABI union and the contractors who had taken up operating the plantations on which the 900 workers previously had worked as direct-hire BANDEGUA employees. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Those for the security of the city of New York, though far advanced toward completion, will require a further time and appropriation. |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | Their final completion can not fail to give great additional security to that frontier, and to diminish proportionably the expense of defending it in the event of war. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | A provision for taking the census of the people of the United States will, to insure the completion of that work within a convenient time, claim the early attention of Congress. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | The completion of the commitment on both sides and the achievement of a peaceful solution to the Cuban crisis might well open the door to the solution of other outstanding problems. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | My Administration also supports the completion of the Upper Mississippi River Master Plan to determine the feasibility of constructing a second lock at Alton, Illinois. |
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| "Completion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.96% of the time. "Completion" is used about 2,469 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.96% | 2,468 | 3,645 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,469 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "completion": authorization of preliminary completion ♦ bring to completion ♦ call completion service ♦ certificate of completion of egb course at age 14 ♦ completion date ♦ completion of calls to busy subscribers ♦ completion of contract ♦ date of completion ♦ estimated time of completion ♦ on completion of ♦ on the completion of a mission ♦ pass completion ♦ per cent completion ♦ work completion statement. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "completion": non-completion, post-completion, pre-completion, sentence-completion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "completion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | përmbushje (consummation, execution, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, indulgence, performance, satisfaction), përfundim (afterpiece, closing, closure, conclusion, consequence, consummation, denouement, derivation, development, eduction, effect, end product, event, expiration, finality, finding, finish, fulfillment, fulfilment, harvest, issue, job, lapse, last, offshoot, offspring, outcome, output, perfecting, performance, result, resume, rider, total, train, upshot, windup). (various references) | |
Arabic | فراغ (air, blank, emptiness, finishing, free time, gap, idleness, inane, inanity, leisure, nothingness, space, spare time, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void), إكمال (accomplishment, consummation, fulfillment, fulfilment), إكتمال, إتمام (accomplishment, perfecting). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | цялостност (completeness, integrity, totality), завършък (come off, consummation, finality, terminal, termination), завършване (conclusion, termination), завършеност (completeness, finish, perfection), пълнота (amplitude, completeness, corpulence, embonpoint, entirety, fat, fatness, fleshiness, fullness, fulness, integrality, plenitude, plenum, portliness, pregnancy, rotundity, stoutness, thoroughness, volume, wholeness), изпълнение (accomplishment, acquittal, acting, discharge, effect, effectuation, enforcement, execution, exercise, implementation, interpretation, operation, performance, pursuance, rendering, rendition, working out). (various references) | |
Chinese | 完成 (Accomplish, Accomplishing, Completed, Completing, Effectuate, Effectuated, Effectuating, finalise, finalize, finalized, finalizing, finished). (various references) | |
Czech | vyplnìní (fulfillment, fulfilment), uzavření (closure, encasement, obturation), skonèení (cessation), podepsání, dostavìní, dokonèení, dohotovení (finish, finishing), absolvování (graduation). (various references) | |
Danish | brøndens klargøring til produktion. (various references) | |
Dutch | afwerking van een boorput. (various references) | |
Finnish | valmistus (finishing, manufacture, preparation), täydennys (addendum, after-culture, beating, beating up, blank-filling, enclosed leaf, filling fail places, gapping, infilling, overplanting, patching up, recruiting, reinforcement planting, repair planting), kaivon viimeistely, kaivon saattaminen tuotantokuntoon. (various references) | |
French | achèvement. (various references) | |
German | vervollständigung (adjunct, integration, rounding off), fertigstellung (accomplishment), ergänzung (addition, adjunct, amendment, appendix, complement, replacement, replenishment, supplement, supplementation, supplementing, supply), beendigung (closure, conclusion, determining, ending, terminating, termination). (various references) | |
Greek | ολοκλήρωση (consummation, integration), αποπεράτωση. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תום (innocence, integrity, naivety, perfection, purity, simplicity, wholeness), תשלום (charge, disbursement, fee, offset, pay, payment, retribution, reward), תכלית (aim, end, intention, limit, object, perfection, point, purpose), כלול (complete, comprehensive, included, inclusive), "שלמ" (accomplishment, complement, fulfillment, reconciliation, supplement), 'מיר" (ending, finishing), 'מור (absolute, complete, concluded, conclusion, end, ended, entire, finish, finished, finishing, out and out, outright, perfect, sheer, stark, termination, thorough, thoroughgoing, through, total, utter, very), 'מר (complete, conclusion, end, final, finish, termination), בצוע (achievement, carrying into effect, execution, implementation, operation, performance, pursuance, realization, rendering, rendition), סיום (conclusion, end, ending, finish, termination). (various references) | |
Hungarian | véghezvitel (achievement, commission, performance, pursuance), kiegészítés (addition, admixture, affix, amendment, codicil, complement, corollary, makeup, refill, resupply, supplement, supplemental), elvégzés (perfection, performance), elkészítés (dispensing, making, preparation), beteljesedés, beteljesülés (consummation, fulfilment), befejezés (accomplishment, conclusion, end, finale, finishing, perfecting, perfection, roundoff, termination, windup). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penyelesaian (accomplishment, settlement, solution). (various references) | |
Italian | completamento (appendix, complement, consummation, supplement), compimento (accomplishment, achievement, consummation, fulfillment, fulfilment). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 充実 (enrichment, fullness, perfection, substantiality). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | か"せい (accomplishment, cheer, complete, control, dry, dryness, government-manufactured, government-regulated organization or facility etc., inertia, perfection, pitfall, quiet, sense, sensitiveness, sensitivity, shout, shout of joy, snoring sound, tranquil, trap), じゅうじつ (enrichment, fullness, perfection, substantiality), じゅうび (perfection), けつりょう, コンプリション , コンプリーション , あがり (advance income, after, ascent, crop yield, death, ex, finish, freshly-drawn green tea, rise, slope, spinning, stop), りょう (amount, catch, charge, companion, defy, dormitory, eclipse, endure, excel, fee, finish, fishing, game, good, hostel, hunting, keep out, material, official, portion, pull through, quantity, rate, skill, slight, stave off, surpass, tide over, understanding, volume), か"けつ (brevity, conciseness, conclusion, intermittence, intermittency, intermittent, investigation and decision, simplicity, sweat and blood), じょうじゅ (fulfillment, realization), か""う (call to surrender, consider, customary practice, decisive action, encouragement of industry, examination and correction, exposure, gagging, going slowly, habit, hushing up, issue, keeping silent, kindness, largeheartedness, publication, sensitization, sightseeing, traditional event), たいせい (accomplishment, attainment of greatness or success, attitude, blackish blue, conditions, current thought, decay, decline, general trend, gestation, great sage, ones declining fortunes, one's declining fortunes, opposing pairs, order, organization, posture, preparations, resistance, set-up, sovereign power, stance, structure, system, the Occident, the reins of government, the West), か"び (end of a book, perfection, sweet, warship's stern), せいりつ (arrangements, coming into existence, establishment, upright), せいび (adjustment, complete equipment, consolidation), ほか" (charge, custody, deposit, interpolation, safekeeping, storage, supplement), しゅ""う (completion of construction, scenery of spring, spring sunlight), しゅ"せい, しゅうりょう (close, end, size of harvest, termination, yield), しめくくり (conclusion, end, summing up, supervision), しあがり (end, finish), か"りょう (bureaucracy, bureaucrat, conclusion, control). (various references) | |
Korean | 완료 (Completing). (various references) | |
Manx | creaghney (accomplish). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ompletioncay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | completação de um poço, realização (accomplishment, achievement, acting, actualization, attainment, consummation, execution, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, materialization, performance, prosecution, realization, transaction, working-out), acabamento (complement, consummation, finish, finishing, workmanship). (various references) | |
Romanian | complinire (adjunct, complement), completare (addendum, addition, annex, complement, filling, parenthesis, supplement), desãvârşire (accomplishment, consummation, excellency, finishing, perfection, ripeness), întregime (completing, entirety, integrity), îndeplinire (accomplishment, achievement, acquittal, acquittance, discharge, execution, fulfilment, implementation, pursuance, realization, satisfaction). (various references) | |
Russian | окончание (close, conclusion, desinence, end, ending, expiry, finish, finishing, graduation, termination), завершение (accomplishment, closure, come off, consummation, cope-stone, denouement, end, finishing, follow through, perfecting, rundown, termination). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | završetak (coda, conclusion, end, termination, wind up). (various references) | |
Spanish | coronamiento (crowning, top), completación, terminación (curtailment, ending, expiration, expiry, termination), realización (accomplishment, achievement, actualization, attainment, enforcement, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementation, materialization, performance, production, realization), hecho complementario, afinación (cognition, tuning). (various references) | |
Swedish | komplettering, avslutning (close, closure, consummation, end, ending, finish, speech day, termination). (various references) | |
Turkish | tamamlama (accomplishment, consummation, finish, finishing, follow through, fulfillment, fulfilment, integration, perfection), ikmal (condition, replenishment, supply), bitirme (closure, consumption, ending, finishing, graduation). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | виконання (accomplishment, achievement, acquittal, acting, effectuation, execution, fulfilment, implementation, performance, pursuance, pursuit, realization, redemption, rendition), закінчення (close, closing, conclusion, ending, expiry, leaving, outgoing), завершення (achievement, close, closure, come off, conclusion, consummation, copestone, coping stone, ending, finality, finishing, fulfilment, perfecting, wind up). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự l m xong sự l m cho ho n to n, sự l m cho đầy đủ, sự ho n th nh (accomplishment, discharge, encompassment, fulfilment, perfection, termination). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adimpletione, consummatio, consummatione, consummationem, consummationi, consummationis, expletionem, expletionis, peractio, persecutio, persecutione, persecutionem, persecutiones, persecutionibus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "completion": completions. (additional references) | |
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"Completion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cambletown, Campleshon, competion, completign, completionil, complextion, compluvium, compultion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "completion" (pronounced kumplē"shun) |
| 6 | -p l ē" sh u n | depletion. |
| 5 | -l ē" sh u n | deletion. |
| 4 | -ē" sh u n | accretion, carburetion, excretion, secretion, venetian. |
| 3 | -sh u n | facilitation, faction, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, fiction, figuration, filtration, fission, abrogation, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, acceleration, accession, acclimation, accommodation, abbreviation, abdication, abduction, aberration, abolition, abomination, abortion, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, acquisition, action, activation, adaptation, addiction, addition, adjudication, administration, admiration, admission, admonition, adoption, adoration, adulation, advection, advocation, affectation, affection, affiliation, affirmation, affliction, agglomeration, aggravation, aggression, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, alliteration, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, alternation, amalgamation, ambition, amelioration, ammunition, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, antiabortion, anticipation, anticorruption, antidiscrimination, apparition, appellation, application, apportion, appreciation, apprehension, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, ascension, ashen, aspiration, assassination, assertion, assimilation, association, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, beautician, benediction, bifurcation, brutalization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, caption, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, caution, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, circulation, circumspection, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, clinician, coagulation, coalition, codification, coercion, cogeneration, cogitation, cognition, cohabitation, collaboration, collection, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, commission, commotion, communication, communization, compassion, compensation, competition, compilation, complexion, complication, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conception, conceptualization, concession, conciliation, concoction, concussion, condemnation, condensation, condescension, condition, conduction, confabulation, confection, confederation, confession, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, conjunction, connection, conniption, connotation, conscription, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, constitution, constriction, construction, consultation, consummation, consumption, contamination, contemplation, contention, continuation, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conversation, conviction, convocation, convolution, convulsion, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correction, correlation, corroboration, corruption, counterrevolution, creation, cremation, criminalization, crucifixion, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, cushion, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, deception, decertification, decimation, declaration, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, deduction, defamation, defection, definition, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demolition, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, demotion, denationalization, denomination, dentition, denuclearization, denunciation, depiction, depopulation, deportation, deposition, depravation, depreciation, depredation, depression, deprivation, deregulation, dereliction, derivation, desalination, desalinization, description, desecration, desegregation, desertion, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, devolution, devotion, dictation, diction, dietitian, differentiation, diffraction, digression, dilatation, dilation, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, discoloration, disconnection, discontinuation, discretion, discrimination, discussion, disembarkation, disinclination, disinfection, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disposition, disputation, disqualification, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissemination, dissension, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, dissolution, distillation, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, dysfunction, echolocation, edification, edition, education, egyptian, ejaculation, ejection, elaboration, elation, election, electrician, electrification, electrocution, elevation, elimination, elocution, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emission, emotion, emulation, emulsion, encryption, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, erection, erudition, eruption, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, eviction, evocation, evolution, exacerbation, exaction, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, exception, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, excoriation, execution, exemption, exertion, exfoliation, exhalation, exhibition, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expansion, expatriation, expectation, expedition, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, exposition, expression, expropriation, expulsion, extension, extermination, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, extrapolation, fabrication, fixation, flexion, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formalization, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fraction, fragmentation, freshen, friction, fruition, frustration, fumigation, function, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentian, gentrification, geriatrician, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gumption, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hessian, hibernation, homogenization, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, hypertension, hypotension, identification, ignition, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impassion, imperfection, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, imposition, impregnation, impression, improvisation, imputation, inaction, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inception, incineration, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indiscretion, indoctrination, induction, industrialization, infarction, infatuation, infection, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, inflection, infliction, information, infraction, inhabitation, inhalation, inhibition, initiation, injection, injunction, innovation, inoculation, inquisition, inscription, insemination, insertion, insinuation, inspection, inspiration, installation, instigation, institution, institutionalization, instruction, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, insurrection, integration, intensification, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, interruption, intersection, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, introduction, introspection, intuition, inundation, invalidation, invention, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, junction, jurisdiction, justification, juxtaposition, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, lilliputian, limitation, liposuction, liquefaction, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, locomotion, logician, lotion, lubrication, machination, magician, magnetization, magnification, malformation, malfunction, malnutrition, manifestation, manipulation, mansion, marginalization, martian, masturbation, mathematician, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, mention, midsection, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misapprehension, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, misconception, miscreation, misidentification, misimpression, misinformation, misinterpretation, misperception, misrepresentation, mission, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, mortician, motion, motivation, multiplication, mummification, munition, musician, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nonaggression, nondiscrimination, nonfiction, nonprescription, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, notion, nucleation, nullification, nutrition, obfuscation, objection, obligation, observation, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, occupation, ocean, omission, operation, opposition, oppression, optician, optimization, option, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overconsumption, overexpansion, overpopulation, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, overregulation, oversimplification, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, partition, passion, pasteurization, patrician, pediatrician, penetration, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, perforation, permission, permutation, perpetuation, persecution, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, petition, physician, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politician, politicization, pollination, pollution, pontification, popularization, population, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, precipitation, preconception, precondition, predestination, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, prefabrication, preignition, premeditation, premonition, preoccupation, preparation, prescription, presentation, preservation, pressurization, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, privation, privatization, probation, procession, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, production, profanation, profession, prognostication, progression, prohibition, projection, proliferation, promotion, pronunciation, propagation, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proration, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, prostration, protection, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, ration, rationalization, reaction, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reassertion, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, reception, recertification, recession, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recognition, recollection, recommendation, reconciliation, recondition, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, reconstruction, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reflection, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regression, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reimposition, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinspection, reintegration, reinterpretation, reintroduction, reinvention, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejection, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remission, remuneration, renationalization, rendition, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, repercussion, repetition, replication, reposition, repossession, representation, repression, reproduction, repudiation, reputation, requisition, reregulation, reservation, resignation, resolution, respiration, restitution, restoration, restriction, resumption, resurrection, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanction, sanitation, saponification, satisfaction, saturation, secession, section, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, sedition, seduction, segmentation, segregation, selection, sensation, separation, sequestration, session, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, solution, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, statistician, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, submission, subordination, subscription, subsection, subsidization, substantiation, substation, substitution, subtraction, suburbanization, succession, suction, suffocation, summation, superstation, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, syndication, tabulation, tactician, taxation, technician, telecommunication, temptation, tension, termination, theoretician, titian, titillation, toleration, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transformation, transgression, transillumination, transition, translation, transmission, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, tuition, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, volition, vulgarization, westernization, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-i-l-m-n-o-o-p-t" | |
-2 letters: compline, leptonic, pentomic, picomole. | |
-3 letters: centimo, compile, complin, complot, compone, compote, coontie, copilot, emotion, entopic, lection, metopic, metopon, monocle, moonlet, moonlit, nepotic, oinomel, pimento, pinocle, polemic, potline, telomic, tompion, tonemic, topline. | |
-4 letters: cineol, citole, client, coelom, coempt, colone, coloni, compel, coolie, cootie, coplot, enolic, entoil, impone, incept, income, lectin, lentic, lepton, limpet, lomein. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-i-l-m-n-o-o-p-t" | |
+1 letter: completions. | |
+2 letters: compellation, complexation, componential, monophyletic. | |
+3 letters: compellations, complexations, contemplation, noncompatible, recompilation. | |
+4 letters: compensational, contemplations, contemporarily, multicomponent, noncomplicated, recompilations. | |
+5 letters: compassionately, complementation, nonmetaphorical, photomechanical. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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