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CRISPATION

Definition: CRISPATION

CRISPATION

Noun

1. A very slight convulsive or spasmodic contraction of certain muscles, external or internal.

2. The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: CRISPATION

Non-English Usage: "CRISPATION" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (contortion, jerk, tension, wince).

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Modern Translation: CRISPATION

Language Translations for "CRISPATION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Vietnamese 

  

sự uốn quăn sự rùng mình sự sởn gai ốc, sự nổi da gà (horripilation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "CRISPATION"

Words rhyming with "CRISPATION" (pronounced 'Cris*pa"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CRISPATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ascription.

Words within the letters "a-c-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-t"

-1 letter: opticians, psoriatic.

-2 letters: aoristic, apricots, atropins, cantrips, captions, carotins, optician, pactions, parsonic, piscator.

-3 letters: actions, airpost, apricot, aprotic, aroints, aspirin, atonics, atropin, cantors, cantrip, caption, captors, carotin, cartons, cations, catnips, cistron, citrins, citrons, contras, cortins, cratons, incisor, ironist, narcist, noritic, paction, parotic, partons, patrons, pianist, picaros, piratic, piscina, porcini, prosaic, psoatic, rapinis, rations.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-n-o-p-r-s-t"
 

+1 letter: anisotropic, ascriptions.

 

+2 letters: anticipators, antistrophic, conspiration, crepitations, importancies, imprecations, misanthropic, nonparasitic, pertinacious, predications, replications.

 

+3 letters: anisometropic, appreciations, conspirations, containership, coplanarities, depreciations, endoparasitic, haruspication, inscriptional, pantisocratic, personalistic, petrifactions, pictorialness, pontificators, practitioners, protactiniums, provincialist, purifications, saprogenicity, transcription, triplications.

 

+4 letters: actinomorphies, anticensorship, caprifications, conspirational, conspiratorial, containerships, contraposition, contrapositive, cooperationist, decrepitations, haruspications, incorporations, isentropically, micropulsation, nonpsychiatric, pantisocracies, pantisocratist, participations, pertinaciously, petrifications, picturizations, precipitations, prevarications, pronunciations, propagandistic, provincialists, reapplications, reciprocations, recompilations, reduplications, republications, spinthariscope, transcriptions, ultraprecision.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Rhymes
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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