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Definition: Dissolution |
DissolutionNoun1. The process of going into solution; "the dissolving of salt in water". 2. Separation into component parts. 3. Dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure. 4. The termination of a meeting. 5. The termination of a relationship. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "dissolution" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Etymology: Dissolution \Dis`so*lu"tion\, noun. [from Old English expression dissolucioun dissoluteness, French dissolution, from the Latin expression dissolutio, from dissolvere. See Dissolve.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Geological | The process of chemical weathering of bedrock in which the combination of water and acid slowly removes mineral compounds from solid bedrock and carries them away in liquid solution. Also called chemical solution. (references) |
Insurance | Winding up of a mutual insurance company on expiration of the term fixed in the by-laws, by a resolution of the Highest Representation by adjudication in bankruptcy or by judicial dismis sal of bankruptcy proceedings for lack of assets. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. The act or process of dissolving or breaking up, as a separation into component parts b. The taking up of a substance by a liquid with the formation of ahomogeneous solution. (references) |
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Synonyms: DissolutionSynonyms: adjournment (n), breakup (n), disintegration (n), dissipation (n), dissolving (n), licentiousness (n), profligacy (n). (additional references) |
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Abrogation | Abolition, abolishment; dissolution. |
Death | Noun: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity. |
Decomposition | Noun: decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution; corruption; (uncleanness); dispersion; disjunction; disintegration. |
Destruction | Noun: {ant. } destruction; waste, dissolution, breaking up; diruption, disruption; consumption; disorganization. |
Liquefaction | Noun: liquefaction; liquescence, liquescency; melting. (heat); colliquation, colliquefaction; thaw; liquation, deliquation, deliquescence; lixiviation, dissolution. |
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Crosswords: Dissolution |
| English words defined with "dissolution": bacteriolysis ♦ CIS, Commonwealth of Independent States ♦ Deliquium, dissolution of marriage, divorce, divorcement ♦ Histolysis ♦ karyolysis ♦ lysis ♦ necrolysis ♦ Resolution of a nebula. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "dissolution": acid leach, anode mud ♦ Bier, BRINE MAKER I ♦ carbonate leach ♦ Death ♦ Elsner's equation, Entrails ♦ Fag-end, fibrinolytic ♦ God ♦ hulls ♦ Lamps, LEACHER, LIGHT BRIDGE, Lily ♦ magmatic dissolution, Myocardial Reperfusion ♦ Oral Dissolution Therapy ♦ Reasons for moving, ROCKEFELLER ♦ sabkha, slime leaching, solution mining, Spondylolysis, stringy knot, subordinated debenture ♦ Visions ♦ Wenzel's law. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "dissolution": Catalysis. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Dissolution" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (disbandment, dismissal, dissoluteness, dissolution, foulness, solution, solvability). |
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 | Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Dissolution block used to measure flow-speed of currents in inter-tidal zone. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Figure 34. Richard mercury bottle shown with the apparatus in the closed position. This apparatus was specially designed by Dr. Jules Richard for use on board the PRINCESSE ALICE in 1896. It sampled water for studying the condition s for the dissolution of gases at various depths. It was used between 1000 and 2700 meters at 3 stations. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | The Dissolution, : or The Alchymist producing an Aetherial Representation. / J. G[illray] des. & fec. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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 | Doom; annihilation; demise; destruction; dissolution; dissolution; expiration; extermination; extinction; finish; passing; ruin; ruination; final; end; . |
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Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution. |
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John Locke | 1690 | He that will with any clearness speak of the dissolution of government, ought in the first place to distinguish between the dissolution of the society and the dissolution of the government. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | When people speak of ideas that revolutionise society, they do but express the fact, that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | If this dissolution would cause one of the parties substantial prejudice, equitable compensation, calculated solely on the capital employed without taking account of loss of profits, shall be accorded to the prejudiced party. (reference) |
United Nations | 1948 | They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution. (reference) |
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Health | Oral dissolution therapy. (references) | |
Dissolution of gallstones by both mechanical and biochemical means is available. (references) | ||
Considerably less experience is recorded in the use of contact dissolution agents. (references) | ||
Business | Increased competition will likely result in the dissolution of the more fragile, small-scale banks in Egypt. (references) | |
This is due to the 1992 dissolution of the Argentine Government reinsurance agency INDER (Instituto Nacional de Reaseguros). (references) | ||
Creating new political and economic systems has been the primary objective of the Uzbek Government after the Soviet Union dissolution. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Lebanon | The Ministry also required every association to obtain the Ministry's approval of any change in by-laws; failure to do so could result in the dissolution of the association. (references) |
France | The legislation provides for the dissolution by judicial decision of any legal entity (including a religious association) that had been the subject of "several" criminal judgments. (references) | |
Taiwan | Grounds for dissolution include objectives or actions that are deemed to jeopardize the existence of the "Republic of China." The Constitutional Court heard no cases under this law during the year. (references) | |
Economic History | Somalia | The Somali Government's demise led to the de facto dissolution of the national armed forces. (references) |
Croatia | The 1991-1995 war that followed the dissolution of Yugoslavia, heavily affected Croatia's tourism sector. (references) | |
Haiti | Prior to dissolution of Parliament, the investment code was under revision and drafting had proceeded quite far. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guatemala | FRG hard-liners called for the complete dissolution of COPREDEH. (references) |
Lebanon | Before its May 2000 dissolution, the SLA allowed representatives of the ICRC and family members of inmates to visit detainees at al-Khiam prison. (references) | |
Nepal | In 1995 the Court also decided that the dissolution of the Parliament at the request of a former Prime Minister was unconstitutional, and ordered the body restored. (references) | |
Minorities | Iran | The Government traditionally has viewed Azeri nationalism as threatening, particularly since the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the creation of an independent Azerbaijan. (references) |
Political Economy | COLOMBIA | It allows unions to freely determine internal rules, elect officials and manage activities, and forbids the dissolution of trade unions by administrative fiat. (references) |
Nauru | The Nauru Island Council (NIC) was dissolved in 1999 by virtue of the Nauru Island Council (Dissolution) Act of 1999--that all assets and liabilities would vest in the Government of Nauru. (references) | |
Political Rights | Singapore | Elections must be held within 3 months of Parliament's dissolution. (references) |
Singapore | Nine N.M.P.'s sat in Parliament prior to its dissolution in October. (references) | |
Bahrain | Since the dissolution of the National Assembly in 1975, there have been no formal democratic political institutions. (references) | |
Women | Luxembourg | In the absence of a prenuptial agreement, property is divided equally upon the dissolution of a marriage. (references) |
Worker Rights | Colombia | The law also forbids the dissolution of trade unions by administrative fiat. (references) |
New Zealand | The law protects unions from governmental interference, suspension, and dissolution. (references) | |
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Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | The loss of liberty, of all good government, of peace, plenty, and happiness, must inevitably follow a dissolution of the Union. |
James K. Polk | 1845-1849 | All must see that if it were possible for them to be successful in attaining their object the dissolution of the Union and the consequent destruction of our happy form of government must speedily follow. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | Reasoned estimates have been presented of the pecuniary profits and local advantages which would result to different States and sections from its dissolution and of the comparative injuries which such an event would inflict on other States and sections. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | But the call of the future is too strong, the challenge too great to get lost in the blind alleyways of dissolution, drugs, and despair. |
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| "Dissolution" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.87% of the time. "Dissolution" is used about 768 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) | 99.87% | 767 | 8,964 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 768 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "dissolution": dissolution into thin air ♦ dissolution of marriage ♦ Oral Dissolution Therapy. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "dissolution": post-dissolution. | |
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| 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 "dissolution"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zbërthim (analysis, decomposition, diffraction, disintegration, dismounting, dispersion, pulling apart, resolution, unbuttoning, undoing, unnailing), vdekje (bane, death, decease, departure, doom, dying, exit, fate, quietus), tretje (assimilation, attrition, cachexy, decomposition, digestion, evaporation, incision, maceration, melting), tretësirë (dip, solution, temper, tincture), shpërndarje (allocation, apportion, deal, delivery, deployment, diaspora, diffusion, dismissal, dismission, dispensation, dispersal, dispersion, dissipation, distribution, division, layout, share out, spread, spreading), shpërbërje (diffraction, disintegration, dispersion, resolution), shkatërrim (breakdown, breakup, collapse, decay, decimation, demolition, depredation, desolation, destruction, devastation, downfall, havoc, mess, ravage, ruin, wrack, wreck, wrecking), rrënim (desolation, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, downfall, havoc, rack, ravage, ruin), prishje (abolition, annulment, blasting, breach, breaking, breakup, chasm, collapse, corruption, damage, debasement, decay, decomposition, defacement, defeat, defilement, depravation, depravity, deterioration, discord, failure, obliteration, quarrel, rancidity, rancidness, rot, split up, spoilage, stymie, taint, vitiation, warp, wrecking), lëng (dip, fluid, juice, liquid, liquor, milk, sap, wash, water). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فناء (cessation of being, court, courtyard, dooryard, dying, patio, precinct, yard), فض البرلمان (adjournment, disbandment), موت (bane, death, decease, demise, ending, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, passing, quietus), حل برلمان, تصفية شركة, تذويب, إنهاء (break up, ending, solution, windup, wrap up), إنحلال (decadence, decay, degeneracy, degeneration, degradation, disintegration, foulness, laxity, loosestrife, putrefaction, putridity, resolution, solution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | унищожаване (abolishment, abolition, annihilation, cancellation, consumption, demolition, destruction, devastation, extermination, obliteration, ruination, squelch), разтваряне (decomposition, digestion, explication, solution), разпускане (dismissal), разпадане (breakup, collapse, decay, disintegration, disruption, dissociation), край (about, abutment, border, by, close, closing, conclusion, country, curtains, death, edge, end, ending, extremity, fag end, finale, finality, finish, flange, hem, issuance, issue, land, last, limb, limit, list, margin, off, on, outskirts, over, parts, past, period, point, quietus, region, rim, stop, surcease, tail, term, terminal, termination, truce, ultima thule, verge, wind up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 溶解 (molten). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zrušení (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, annulment, breach, cancellation, diriment, recall, renunciation, repeal, rescission, withdrawal), rozpuštìní, rozpad (breakup, decline, disintegration), rozložení (decomposition, resolution, scatter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | oploesning (decadence, liquor, solution), opløsning (abandonment, break-up, decomposition, neglect, resolution, resolving power, solvation, split-up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | oplossing (solution), oplossen (dissolve, solve), ontbinding (abolishment, abolition, abrogation, analysis). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | liukeneminen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | dissolution (disbandment, dismissal, dissoluteness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | auflösung (annulment, breaking off, breaking up, breakup, cancellation, clearance, clearing up, denoument, disappearance, disbandment, disintegration, dismissal, dispersal, dissolving, elimination, liquidation, resolution, resolving, solution, solving, winding up). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | διάλυση(ορυκτών), διάλυση εταιρίας, διάλυση (annulment, breakup, dialysis, dilution, disbandment, disintegration, dissipation, maceration, resolution, solution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "מסות (dissolving, melting), "מס" (dissolving, liquefying, solution), "תמוססות (dissolving), "תפרקות (decomposition, disarming, discharge, dismantling, redemption). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pusztulás (decay, destruction, devastation, dilapidation, havoc, perdition, rack, ruin, wrack, wreck), feloszlatás, feloldás (relaxation, solution), felbomlás (breakup, break-up, decomposition, disintegration), eltörlés (abolition, abrogation, cancellation, obliteration, recission, repeal, wipe), bomlás (decay, decomposition, disorganization, putrefaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pembubaran (abrogation, dismissal, dispersal, dispersion, liquidation), keleburan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | dissoluzione (disbandment, resolution, solution), scioglimento (denouement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 解散 (breakup), 解党 , "縦 (licence, looseness, self-indulgence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほうじゅう (licence, looseness, self-indulgence), かいさ" (breakup, founding a temple, marine production, opening of a parachute), かいとう (answer, glycolysis, good pitch, mysteriousthief, reply, sharp sword, society president, solution, thaw). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 해체 (Breakup). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | skeaylley (bestrew, breed, cast loose, demobilization, diffract, diffuse, diffusion, disband, discharge, dismiss, dispel, disseminate, dissipate, dissipation, dissolve, draw apart, drop away, leakage, liquidate, looseness, release, resolution, resolve, run out, scatter, scattering, scramble, slacken, slackening, slip, spread, spreading, spring, sprinkle, sprinkling, undoing, unfix, unfurl, unfurling), lheie (assimilation, blow, blow of fuse, blow out, blowing, digest, disappear, dissipate, dissipation, dissolve, fuse, liquefaction, liquefy; digestion, melting, smelt, smelting, soften). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | issolutionday dissolução (dissoluteness, solution). (various references) dizolvare (disbandment, dismissal, dissolving, solution), dispariţie (bunk, disappearance, evanescence, extinguishment, fadeaway, flight), dezintegrare (break up, disintegration), dezagregare (break up, disintegration, disruption, weathering), desfiinţare (abolition, abrogation, disbandment, disestablishment, liquidation, suppression), desfacere (cancellation, decomposition, detachment, disentanglement, looseness, sale, unbinding), descompunere (decay, decomposition, degradation, putrefaction, resolution, rottenness, rotting), topire (fount, melt, rendering, rettery), sfârşit (all over, cessation, close, conclusion, death, decline, end, end-all, ended, ending, exhausted, finality, fine, finis, finish, issue, quietus, stop, term, termination, upshot), reziliere (annulment, renouncement). (various references) растворение (dilution, resolution). (various references) rastvaranje (resolution), raspuštanje, poništenje (abolishment, annulment, avoid, avoidance, cancellation, cassation, countermand, defeasance, invalidation, nullification, recession, repeal, rescission, vitiation). (various references) disolución (breakup, dilution, looseness, melting). (various references) upplösning (breakup, decomposition, denouement, disbandment, disintegration, disintergration, dismissal, dismission, disruption, dissociation, fragmentation, resolution, solution, unraveling, winding up). (various references) dağılma (breakup, creepage, diffusibility, diffusion, disbandment, disintegration, dispersal, dispersion, distribution, sprawl, spread, tapping), yok olma (disappearance, evanescence, extinction), tasfiye (cleanup, clearance, close out, combout, house cleaning, liquidation, purge, purification, refinement, settlement, takeout, winding up), sarsılma (being shaken, jar, quaking, shaking, shock, vibration), iptal (abatement, abolition, abrogation, annihilation, annulment, avoidance, cancel, cancellation, cancelling, cassation, defeasance, defeat, invalidation, nullification, nullity, recall, repeal, rescission, reversal, revocation, termination, void, withdrawal), fesih (abolition, annulment, cancel, cancellation, cassation, defeasance, denouncement, invalidation, repeal, rescission), feshetme (abolishing, abolition, dissolubility, extinction, recall), eritme (fusing, fusion, melting), bozulma (breach, breakdown, breakup, confusion, corrosion, corruption, decay, declension, decomposition, deformation, degeneration, degradation, derogation, deterioration, devolution, disfiguration, disfigurement, disruption, impairment, infection, pollution, putrefaction, rancidity, rancidness, rottenness, shipwreck, spoilage, taint, undoing, upset), bozma (annulment, breach, breaking, cancel, cancellation, changing, corruption, defacement, dislocation, exchange, impairment, infraction, infringement, mutilation, obliteration, perversion, ruining, spoiling, stain, violation, vitiation), ölüm (bitter end, capital, deadly, death, decease, demise, departure, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, killing, kiss off, last, latter end, longed-for rest, mortuary, necro-, obituary, passing, passing away, quietus, rest, sleep, the great divide, the grim reaper, the reaper, tomb), çözünme (dissociation, resolution, solution). (various references) розрив (avulsion, breach, breaking, bursting, chasm, denunciation, divorce, divorcement, estrangement, rip, rupture, severance, split, tear), розчинення (carving, dilution, solution), розкладання (decay, decomposition, resolve), танення (melting, thaw). (various references) sự tan rã, sự rã ra (weathering), sự phân huỷ sự ho tan, sự biến mất sự chết. (various references) datgorfforiad, ymddatodiad, tranc (death, end). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | dialysis. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | dissolutio, dissolutionem, interitu, interitum, interitus. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "dissolution": dissolutions. (additional references) | |
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"Dissolution" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: desolution, diissolution, disolation, disolotion, disolution, dissolusion, dissolutoin. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "dissolution" (pronounced di'suluw"shun) |
| 7 | -s u l uw" sh u n | absolution, solution. |
| 6 | -u l uw" sh u n | counterrevolution, devolution, evolution, pollution, resolution, revolution. |
| 5 | -l uw" sh u n | dilution. |
| 4 | -uw" sh u n | attribution, constitution, contribution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, execution, institution, lilliputian, persecution, prosecution, prostitution, redistribution, restitution, retribution, substitution. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, abduction, aberration, abolition, abomination, abortion, abrogation, absorption, abstraction, academician, acceleration, accession, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accretion, 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, attrition, auction, audition, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, beautician, benediction, bifurcation, brutalization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, caption, carburetion, 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, completion, 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, constriction, construction, consultation, consummation, consumption, contamination, contemplation, contention, continuation, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contrition, convection, convention, conversation, conviction, convocation, convolution, convulsion, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correction, correlation, corroboration, corruption, 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, deletion, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demolition, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, demotion, denationalization, denomination, dentition, denuclearization, denunciation, depiction, depletion, 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, devotion, dictation, diction, dietitian, differentiation, diffraction, digression, dilatation, dilation, dimension, 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, distillation, distinction, distortion, distraction, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, dysfunction, echolocation, edification, edition, education, egyptian, ejaculation, ejection, elaboration, elation, election, electrician, electrification, elevation, elimination, 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, exacerbation, exaction, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, exception, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, excoriation, excretion, 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, facilitation, faction, falsification, fascination, fashion, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, fiction, figuration, filtration, fission, 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, 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, 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, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, petition, physician, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politician, politicization, pollination, 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, 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, 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, respiration, restoration, restriction, resumption, resurrection, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, retention, retraction, retransmission, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revulsion, rhetorician, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanction, sanitation, saponification, satisfaction, saturation, secession, secretion, section, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, sedition, seduction, segmentation, segregation, selection, sensation, separation, sequestration, session, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, statistician, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, submission, subordination, subscription, subsection, subsidization, substantiation, substation, 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, venetian, 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 "d-i-i-l-n-o-o-s-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: dilutions, inositols, solutions, toluidins. | |
-3 letters: dilution, inositol, sinusoid, solitons, solution, tolidins, toluidin. | |
-4 letters: distils, indults, insouls, instils, insults, lotions, nudists, oodlins, outsins, outsold, solidus, solions, soliton, soloist, stolons, stounds, studios, tolidin, toluids, tonsils, unsolid. | |
-5 letters: distil, donuts, dossil, idiots, indols, indult, insist, insoul, instil, insult, iodins, iodous, lotion, nodous, nudist, odious, odists, ootids, outsin. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-i-i-l-n-o-o-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: dissolutions. | |
+3 letters: devolutionists. | |
+4 letters: bloodguiltiness, discontinuously. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 73 6F 6C 75 74 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... ... --- .-.. ..- - .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110011 01101111 01101100 01110101 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s s o l u t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0073 006F 006C 0075 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3875858581788786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Expressions | 13. Expressions: Internet 14. Translations: Modern 15. Translations: Ancient 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Orthography 20. Bibliography |
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