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SPHACELATION

Definition: SPHACELATION

SPHACELATION

Noun

1. The process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: SPHACELATION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Disease

Sore, ulcer, abscess, fester, boil; pimple, wen; (swelling); carbuncle, gathering, imposthume, peccant humor, issue; rot, canker, cold sore, fever sore; cancer, carcinoma, leukemia, neoplastic disease, malignancy, tumor; caries, mortification, corruption, gangrene, sphacelus, sphacelation, leprosy; eruption, rash, breaking out.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Translation: SPHACELATION

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

Turkish

  

kangren (gangrene, mortification, necrosis). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "SPHACELATION"

Words rhyming with "SPHACELATION" (pronounced 'Sphac`e*la"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: SPHACELATION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-n-o-p-s-t"

-2 letters: analeptics, apothecial, caliphates, chatelains, chelations, clothespin, escalation, neoplastic, placations, pleonastic.

-3 letters: alopecias, analcites, analeptic, anapestic, anelastic, antipoles, aphanites, aphelions, apholates, apothecia, asphaltic, caliphate, caseation, cathepsin, cenotaphs, cephalins, chapaties, chaplains, chatelain, chelation, coastline, conepatls, hailstone, halations, haplontic, helicopts, hepaticas, laitances, neoplasia, palatines, phenolics, phonetics, pinochles, placation, placentas, planchets, poachiest, potlaches, scapolite, sectional, selachian.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-h-i-l-n-o-p-s-t"
 

+2 letters: cephalizations.

 

+3 letters: phthalocyanines, plainclothesman.

 

+4 letters: encephalopathies, stenographically.

 

+5 letters: australopithecine.

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

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INDEX

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


  

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