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Definition: Accumulation |
AccumulationNoun1. An increase by natural growth or addition. 2. Several things grouped together. 3. The act of accumulating. 4. (finance) profits that are not paid out as dividends but are added to the capital base of the corporation. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "accumulation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
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Finance | Is the total of all the securities, both stocks and bonds, outstanding in a business enterprise ; converting deferred interest payment into new debt instruments. Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | An increase of the concentration of a substance in soil due to the fact that the substance input is larger than the substance output. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geography | The process of piling up products of erosion. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Material produced by erosion and piled up at a given place. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Quantity of snow or any other form of water in the solid state which is added to a glacier or snow-field by alimentation. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A. In coal mining, bodies of combustible gases that tend to collect in higher parts of mine workings and at the edge of goaves and wastes. They are found in cavities, at ripping lips, at other sheltered places protected from the ventilating current, and at the higher sides of rise faces b. The concentration or gathering of oil or gas in some form of trap. Commercial accumulation is a volume or quantity sufficient for profitableexploitation. (references) |
Weather | All processes, which include snowfall, condensation, avalanching, snow transport by wind, and freezing of liquid water, that add snow or ice to a glacier, floating ice, or snow cover. The term also includes the amount of snow or other solid precipitation added to a glacier or snowfield by these processes. (references) |
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Synonyms: AccumulationSynonyms: accretion (n), accrual (n), accruement (n), aggregation (n), assemblage (n), collection (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Assemblage | Accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta;accumulation; (store); congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid; bing; drift; snowball, snowdrift; acervation, cumulation; glomeration, agglomeration; conglobation; conglomeration, conglomerate; coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta; quantity; (greatness). |
Redundancy | Accumulation; (store); heap; drug, drug in the market; glut; crowd; burden. |
Store | Store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay; (provision). |
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 | Gross autopsy specimen of liver from child who died of Reye's syndrome. Cut surface shows slight pallor due to fat accumulation in liver cells. Credit: CDC. |  | Snowpack accumulation at 14,255 ft. on Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Rural scrap salvage. Farmyards hold vast stores of scrap metal and rubber. Harvey Fischer, Route 1, Dexter, Michigan, did something about his large accumulation, and became the first farmer in Michigan to sell his discarded tires and metal to the governme. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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 | Ante; plastic; clink; pile; piling; accumulation; aggregate; aggregation; amassment; assemblage; bank; barrel; buildup; chunk; collection; conglomeration; gob; great deal; hill; hoard; hunk; jumble; lump; mass; mound; oodles; pack; peck; pyramid; quantity. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Hard work is an accumulation of easy things you didn't do when you should have. |
Charles Dickens | Many merry Christmases, friendships, great accumulation of cheerful recollections, affection on earth, and Heaven at last for all of us. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You bend over the well, the eye is lost in a deep brick cylinder, which is filled with an accumulation of shadows |
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Health | Edema--Abnormal fluid accumulation in body tissues. (references) | |
This accumulation of DHT may encourage the growth of cells. (references) | ||
Pulmonary congestion (or edema)--Fluid accumulation in the lungs. (references) | ||
Business | Of dentate residents, caries in the crown and the root, and significant plaque and tartar accumulation, are major problems. (references) | |
In addition, 1999 saw an accumulation of an unprecedented number of natural catastrophes globally that adversely affected the level and volume of insurance operations worldwide, including Saudi Arabia. (references) | ||
In the present economic situation, waste materials represent a major problem for environmental protection, due to their accumulation in large quantities and their inappropriate disposal over a long period of time. The deposits of industrial or domestic wastes cover large areas are a permanent pollution threat to the environment (especially for underground waters) and for human health. (references) | ||
Economic History | Vietnam | Another concern is the mass accumulation of solid waste in the country. (references) |
Philippines | Accumulation of earnings for the reasonable needs of a business are exempted from the 10 percent tax. (references) | |
Tanzania | Note: Stocks have been calculated as an accumulation of inflows since 1992, based on the Foreign Direct Investment Flows above. (references) | |
Political Economy | BELGIUM | Throughout the late 1970s and the 1980s, Belgium ran chronic budget deficits, leading to a rapid accumulation of public sector debt. (references) |
SWITZERLAND | As a result of the economic stagnation, the country ran up large, unprecedented (for Switzerland) deficits, causing a corresponding accumulation of public debt. (references) | |
GHANA | To stem the accumulation of debts by the utilities and the oil refinery, the government took a bold step by significantly increasing fuel, water, and energy tariffs. (references) | |
Trade | Kazakhstan | Of these nine, four are also licensed to carry out custodian services to APF (pension accumulation funds). (references) |
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John Adams | 1797-1801 | The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | A naval force adequate to the protection of our commerce, always afloat, with an accumulation of the means to give it a rapid extension in case of need, furnishes the power by which all such aggressions may be prevented or repelled. |
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| "Accumulation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Accumulation" is used about 906 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) | 100% | 906 | 7,907 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "accumulation": accumulation of capital ♦ Accumulation of degrees ♦ Accumulation of energy ♦ accumulation of fat ♦ accumulation register ♦ An accumulation of degrees ♦ capital accumulation ♦ flood debris accumulation ♦ point of accumulation. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "accumulation": bêta-accumulation, mutation-accumulation. | |
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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 "accumulation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | akkumulasie, stapel (crowd, heap, mass, multitude, pile, stack), skare (are, band, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, gang, group, heap, herd, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set), menigte (crowd, heap, mass, multitude, pile), massa (crowd, heap, lump, mass, multitude, pile). (various references) | |
Albanian | akumulim (storage), mbledhje (addition, assemblage, assembly, clearing, collection, congregation, contraction, convocation, council, erection, furl, gathering, Ingathering, meeting, muster, picking, proceedings, rally, reaping, retraction, round up, session, shrinkage, sitting, squat, summation, turn out), grumbullim sendesh (amassment of things), grumbullim (agglomeration, aggregate, amassment, collection, conglomeration, congregation, crowding, cumulation, gathering, Ingathering, milling, muster, rally, round up, ruck, turn out). (various references) | |
Arabic | تكديس, تجميع (aggregation, assemblage, bank up, collecting, gathering, ingathering, parataxis), تراكم (accumulate, bank, bulk, collect, collection, cumulation, drift, gathering, inure, pack, pile, piling up, press), التراكم, شىء متراكم. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | събиране (addition, aggregation, assemblage, assembly, casting, collection, convention, convergence, gathering, get together, levy, meet, meeting, muster, summation), увеличаване (access, aggrandizement, amplification, augmentation, enlargement, expansion, increase, increment), куп (agglomeration, amassment, bunch, bundle, clamp, cluster, congeries, crop, crowd, cumulation, cumulus, heap, hoard, huddle, knot, lashings, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, pack, parcel, pile, raft, ruck, scad, shoal, sight, slathers, stack, tumble), натрупване (accretion, agglomeration, amassment, concourse, congestion, cumulation, hilling, jam, lodgement, lodgment), маса (aggregation, body, bulk, concretion, crowd, gross, heap, heaps of, herd, lashings, lot, lump, mass, oodles, pack, regiment, ruck, scad, shoal, slathers, stack, swarm, table, volume, volumes). (various references) | |
Chinese | 储积. (various references) | |
Czech | akumulace, vzrùst (aggrandizement, growth, increase, rise, stature), nashromáždìní. (various references) | |
Danish | akkumulation (enhancement, storage). (various references) | |
Dutch | opeenhoping (agglomeration, conglomeration, storage), accumulatie (aggregation, build-up, build-up effect, storage). (various references) | |
Faeroese | mongd (crowd, heap, lump, mass, multitude, pile, quantity), hópur (are, bevy, cluster, collection, crowd, group, heap, herd, lump, mass, multitude, pack, pile, set, swarm). (various references) | |
Farsi | انباشتگی (Amplitude). (various references) | |
Finnish | akkumuloituminen (storage), akkumulaatio, useiden virkojen ja tehtävien samanaikainen hoitaminen (simultaneous collection), rikastuminen (getting rich), koron pääomittaminen (capitalization, interest capitalization), kertyminen (build-up, build-up effect, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, retention, storage, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration), kasaantuminen, kasaantuma, kasa (crowd, heap, lot, mass, multitude, pile, stack). (various references) | |
French | accumulation (accretion). (various references) | |
German | Akkumulation (aggrégation, congestion, deposit, deposition, stocking, storage, storing), Haufen (aggregate, batches, bunch, bundle, cloud, cluster, crowd, flock, gang, heap, huddle, load, lot, mass, mob, mound, multitude, pile, slew, stack, throng), Ansammlung (accumulativeness, array, build up, collection, concentration, conglomeration, crowd, gathering, package, pile), Anhäufung (agglomeration, aggregation, amassing, amassment, cluster, conglomeration, hoarding), Anfall (access, accrual, aggression, attack, blaze, bout, fit, go, paroxysm, seizure, spasm, yield). (various references) | |
Greek | συσσώρευση (accumulating, agglomeration, amassment, conglomeration, cumulation, hoarding). (various references) | |
Hebrew | א'יר" (collecting, hoarding, stock piling), אסוף (collected, collection, compilation), "צבר, "צטברות (accretion, agglomeration, collection), צביר" (agglomeration, amassing, conglomeration, stock piling, storage). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tömeg (body, bulk, cloud, clump, concourse, concrete, confluence, conglomerate, crowd, crush, drove, gross, heap, hoi polloi, host, mass, mob, multiplicity, multitude, pack, pile, quantity, quantum, regiment, shoal, swarm, throng), halom (batch, clamp, clump, congeries, conglomerate, cop, dump, heap, hillock, mass, mound, peck, pile, stack, tump), felhalmozódás (agglomeration, aggregation, piling). (various references) | |
Indonesian | akumulasi, timbunan (heap, hoard), penumpukan (hoarding), pengumpulan (aggregate, aggregation). (various references) | |
Italian | accumulazione (accrual, assembly, storage), immagazzinamento (storage), folla (crowd, crush, drove, heap, host, huddle, mass, mob, multitude, pile, rabble, throng). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | "積 (accumulate, store), 累積. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しゅうしゅう (collection, control, coping, every province, every state, gathering up, settling), しゅうせき, つみかさね (pile), るいせき, ていたい (congestion, falling into arrears, hard, retention, severe, stagnation, tie-up), ちくせき (accumulate, store). (various references) | |
Korean | 축 (Accumulating, Cumulating). (various references) | |
Manx | thummid (bank, batch, batch of things, bulk, size, volume), sheebey (blow about, blowing, drift, drive, gust, sandbank on land, scold), chymsaght (family, inflammation, set). (various references) | |
Papiamen | akumulashon, monton (crowd, heap, mass, multitude, pile). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | accumulationay.(various references) | |
Polish | masa (crowd, heap, mass, multitude, pile). (various references) | |
Portuguese | acumulação (assembly, congeries, cumulation, jamming), montão (congeries, crowd, dollop, heap, mass, multitude, peck, pile, rick, ruck, stack), amontoamento (assembly), aglomeração (agglomeration, aggregation, cluster, crush, jam, megalopolis, turn-out), acúmulo (backlog, congestion, crowd, heap, mass, multitude, pile, rush). (various references) | |
Romanian | adunare (addition, aggregate, assemblage, assembly, cluster, collection, conference, congregation, congress, conjunction, convention, convocation, crowd, footing up, gathering, heap, hoarding, meeting, muster, powwow, rally, reunion, rodeo, sitting, social, tot, turn out), acumulare (amassment, assemblage, cumulation), strângere (amassment, clench, collection, constriction, contraction, grip, gripe, hug, jam, nip, squeeze), sporire (accession, accretion, accrual, development, enhancement, enlargement, increase), mulţime (army, array, body, boodle, cloud, cluster, concourse, crowd, dozen, drove, fifty, flock, forest, generality, heap, herd, hive, host, huddle, lashing, manifold, mass, mob, multitude, muster, number, Peck, pile, plenty, populace, press, quantity, rabble, ream, shoal, sight, squash, stack, swarm, throng), cantitate mare (lashing, mort, quantity). (various references) | |
Russian | накопление (accrual, accruals, accruement, conglomeration, cumulation, stockpiling, storage, upbuilding). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | akumulacija, hrpa (batch, heap, pile), gomilanje (accrual, cumulation), gomila (agglomerate, aggregate, batch, concourse, congeries, crowd, flock, heap, huddle, mob, pile, pileup, plump, stack, swarm, throng). (various references) | |
Spanish | acumulación (collection, drift, hoard, hoarding), cúmulo (cumulus, heap). (various references) | |
Swedish | anhopning (accretion, jam, piling up), ackumulation (storage). (various references) | |
Turkish | yığın (agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, bank, batch, budget, bulk, bundle, cartload, chunk, clamp, clump, collection, congeries, conglomerate, conglomeration, crowd, drove, flock, force, heap, Hill, huddle, lump, mass, mound, pack, Peck, pile, raft, slew, stack, swarm, tons, volume, wilderness), toplanma (agglomeration, aggregation, assemblage, bee, build up, collection, coming together, concentration, concourse, congregation, congress, convention, gathering, getting together, grouping, muster, rally, rallying, reunion, rush), birikim (back demand, backlog, depot, nest egg, saving). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | скупчення (affluence, agglomerate, agglomeration, aggregation, assemblage, cluster, collection, concourse, confluence, conflux, congeries, lodgement, lodgment, mass), сила-силенна (basinful, crowd, ocean, orb, orgy, zillion), купа (bale, barrel, batch, clamp, cluster, congeries, cumulus, deal, heap, huddle, lump, pile, stack, swarm, throng), накопичення (conglomeration, cumulation), нагромадження (agglomerate, agglomeration, congestion, exaggeration, packing), акумуляція. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tích tụ (agglomeration), sự tích luỹ (amassment, cumulation), sự tích lại, sự góp nhặt sự l m gi u, sự chất đống (amassment), sự ch"ng chất. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | collectum, collectus, congerie, congeriem, congeries, consummatio, consummatione, consummationem, consummationi, consummationis, exaggeratio, massa, multitudo, turba. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "accumulation": accumulations. (additional references) | |
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"Accumulation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: accomulation, accumuation, accumulatio, accumulattion, acxcumulation. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "accumulation" (pronounced ukyuw'myulā"shun) |
| 8 | -m y u l ā" sh u n | emulation, formulation, simulation, stimulation. |
| 7 | -y u l ā" sh u n | articulation, calculation, coagulation, confabulation, depopulation, deregulation, granulation, inoculation, manipulation, miscalculation, overpopulation, overregulation, ovulation, population, recalculation, regulation, reregulation, speculation, stipulation, strangulation, tabulation, tribulation. |
| 6 | -u l ā" sh u n | fibrillation, adulation, annihilation, appellation, assimilation, cancellation, capitulation, compilation, congratulation, consolation, constellation, correlation, demodulation, desolation, distillation, elation, escalation, exhalation, extrapolation, gastrulation, inhalation, installation, insulation, isolation, jubilation, modulation, mutilation, oscillation, revelation, titillation, vacillation, ventilation, violation. |
| 5 | -l ā" sh u n | contemplation, deflation, dilation, disinflation, ejaculation, hyperinflation, inflation, legislation, reflation, relation, stagflation, translation, triangulation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | facilitation, falsification, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, figuration, filtration, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abomination, accreditation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, aspiration, assassination, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calibration, cannibalization, capitalization, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolidation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, designation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, elaboration, electrification, elevation, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, fabrication, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, generalization, generation, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, information, inhabitation, initiation, innovation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, molestation, monopolization, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, observation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overvaluation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, prognostication, proliferation, pronunciation, propagation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reservation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, stabilization, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, toleration, transformation, transillumination, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization. |
| 3 | -sh u n | faction, fashion, fiction, fission, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, abduction, abolition, abortion, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, commission, commotion, compassion, competition, completion, complexion, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, conception, conceptualization, concession, concoction, concussion, condescension, condition, conduction, confection, confession, conjunction, connection, conniption, conscription, constitution, constriction, construction, consumption, contention, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conviction, convolution, convulsion, correction, corruption, counterrevolution, crucifixion, cushion, deception, decimation, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, deduction, defection, definition, deletion, demolition, demotion, dentition, depiction, depletion, deposition, depression, dereliction, description, desertion, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, devolution, devotion, diction, dietitian, diffraction, digression, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, disconnection, discretion, discussion, disinfection, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissension, dissolution, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, dysfunction, edition, egyptian, ejection, election, electrician, electrocution, elocution, emission, emotion, emulsion, encryption, erection, erudition, eruption, eviction, evolution, exaction, exception, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exhibition, expansion, expedition, exposition, expression, expulsion, extension, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, flexion, formalization, fraction, freshen, friction, fruition, function, gentian, geriatrician, gumption, hessian, homogenization, hypertension, hypotension, ignition, impassion, imperfection, imposition, impression, inaction, inception, incineration, indiscretion, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, infraction, inhibition, injection, injunction, inquisition, inscription, insertion, inspection, institution, instruction, insurrection, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, interruption, intersection, introduction, introspection, intuition, invention, junction, jurisdiction, juxtaposition, lilliputian, liposuction, liquefaction, locomotion, logician, lotion, magician, malfunction, malnutrition, mansion, martian, mathematician, mention, midsection, misapprehension, misconception, misimpression, misperception, mission, mortician, motion, munition, musician, nonaggression, nonfiction, nonprescription, notion, nutrition, objection, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, ocean, omission, opposition, oppression, optician, option, overconsumption, overexpansion, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, oversimplification, partition, passion, patrician, pediatrician, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, permission, persecution, petition, physician, politician, pollution, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, preconception, precondition, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, preignition, premonition, prescription, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, procession, production, profession, progression, prohibition, projection, promotion, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, protection, ration, reaction, reassertion, reception, recession, recognition, recollection, recondition, reconstruction, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reflection, regression, reimposition, reinspection, reintegration, reintroduction, reinvention, rejection, remission, rendition, repercussion, repetition, reposition, repossession, repression, reproduction, requisition, resolution, restitution, restriction, resumption, resurrection, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, sanction, satisfaction, secession, secretion, section, sedition, seduction, selection, session, solution, statistician, submission, subscription, subsection, substation, substitution, subtraction, succession, suction, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, tactician, technician, tension, theoretician, titian, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transgression, transition, transmission, tuition, venetian, volition, workstation. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-c-i-l-m-n-o-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: cumulation, maculation. | |
-3 letters: cacuminal. | |
-4 letters: aciculum, aconitum, anatomic, atomical, autumnal, calamint, claimant, comatula, cuticula, inoculum, lactonic, nautical. | |
-5 letters: acclaim, account, acicula, acmatic, actinal, alation, alumina, animato, auction, automan, calcium, caution, clamant, comatic, comical, conical, council, inocula, laconic, limacon, linocut, lunatic, manioca, manitou, matinal, outlain, tinamou, uncomic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-c-i-l-m-n-o-t-u-u" | |
+1 letter: accumulations. | |
+4 letters: circumambulation. | |
+5 letters: circumambulations. | |
| 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: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 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. Bibliography |
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