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Definition: Comprehension |
ComprehensionNoun1. An ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result); "how you can do that is beyond my comprehension"; "he was famous for his comprehension of American literature". 2. The relation of comprising something; "he admired the inclusion of so many ideas in such a short work". 3. The act of comprising something. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "comprehension" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Understanding is a psychological state in relation to an object or person whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to be able to deal adequately with that object.For example, I understand the weather if I am able to predict and give an explanation of some of its features.
Or, a psychiatrist understands another person if he knows his anxieties and their causes, and can give him useful advice on how to minimise the anxiety.
I understand a command if I know who gave it, what is expected, and whether the command is legitimate.
Also one can understand a reasoning, an argument, and a language.
See also knowledge, epistemology, and thought.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Understanding."
Synonym: ComprehensionSynonym: inclusion (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: incomprehension (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Class | Noun: {opp. } inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception. |
Composition | Noun: composition, crasis; combination; inclusion, admission, comprehension, reception; embodiment; formation. |
Intelligence Wisdom | Noun: intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe , savvy ; intellect; nous, parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit, gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness; Adjective: acumen, subtlety, penetration, perspicacy, perspicacity; discernment, due sense of, good judgment; discrimination; cunning; refinement; (taste). |
Knowledge | Noun: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence; acquaintance, experience, ken, privity, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation; (judgment); intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics. |
Unintelligibility | Verb: be unintelligible; Adjective: require explanation; have a doubtful meaning, pass comprehension. |
Inconceivable, inconceptible; searchless; above comprehension, beyond comprehension, past comprehension; beyond one's depth; unconceived. | |
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Crosswords: Comprehension |
| English words defined with "comprehension": accessible, approachable ♦ empathetic, empathic ♦ mystic ♦ Over the head of ♦ religious mystic ♦ speech perception ♦ To ♦ unconcerned, understanding ♦ verbal intelligence. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "comprehension": AUDIOLOGIST, Axiom of Comprehension ♦ Bastian aphasia ♦ Corceca, cortical sensorial aphasia ♦ David Turner ♦ GUMPTION ♦ INSTRUCTOR, GROUND SERVICES ♦ Language Disorders, Language Tests, list comprehension ♦ MUSIC THERAPIST ♦ Rehabilitation of Hearing Impaired, RUM GUMPTION, Russell's Paradox ♦ safety, set abstraction, set comprehension, SETL ♦ TEACHER, HEARING IMPAIRED, TEACHER, VISUALLY IMPAIRED, T-gen ♦ Wernicke Aphasia ♦ Zermelo set theory, ZF expression. (references) |
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Screenplays | We have comprehension! (Night Court; writing credit: Artur Makarov) I coalesce the vapors of human existence into a viable and meaningful comprehension. (History of the World: Part I; writing credit: Mel Brooks) And not for this day and hour alone were the mind and conscience of this man darkened, on whom the burden of events weighed more heavily than on all the others who took part in it. Never, to the end of his life, had he the least comprehension of goodness, of beauty or of truth, or of the significance of his actions, which were too contrary to goodness and truth, too remote from everything human for him ever to understand their meaning (War and Peace; writing credit: Sergei Bondarchuk; Vasili Solovyov) An equation so complex as to utterly defy possibility of comprehension by even the most brilliant human mind, but an equation nonetheless (Spaced; writing credit: Simon Pegg; Jessica Stevenson) | |
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| "_TRANSPORT:47" by Janus R. Sørensen Commentary: "We all live in a world of interconnection... a world of continuous dynamicism... a world of perpetual and neverending information transport. In order for our socitey to thrive, we must communicate. New ideas, concepts, and feelings all transverse the gl" |
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John Adams | Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak. |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | But, that a man of quality should be served all by horses, was beyond my comprehension. |
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Health | LKS affects the parts of the brain that control speech and comprehension. (references) | |
Patients lose almost all language function, both comprehension and expression. (references) | ||
In general, patients tend to recover skills in language comprehension more completely than those skills involving expression. (references) | ||
Business | Each of them has a well-developed correspondent bank network in the U.S., as well as a local representative office in at least one major U.S. city. Because of the lack of restrictions, easy tele-electronic communications, and a strong comprehension of English, banking relationships with the U.S. and other countries generally run smoothly. (references) | |
Children | Pakistan | According to UNICEF figures, a nationwide sample of children in grade five revealed that only 33 percent could read with comprehension, while a mere 17 percent were able to write a simple letter. (references) |
Economic History | Estonia | Those who arrived subsequently can become citizens one year following a four-year residence retroactive to March 30, 1990 and demonstrate comprehension of Estonian. (references) |
Indigenous People | Guatemala | Indigenous people arrested for crimes often are at a disadvantage due to their limited comprehension of Spanish. (references) |
Travel | Bulgaria | Nearly all Bulgarians have some level of Russian language comprehension. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SAFETY-:CLUTCH:, n. A mechanical device acting automatically to prevent the fall of an elevator, or cage, in case of an accident to the hoisting apparatus. Once I seen a human ruin In an elevator-well, And his members was bestrewin' All the place where he had fell. And I says, apostrophisin' That uncommon woful wreck: "Your position's so surprisin' That I tremble for your neck!" Then that ruin, smilin' sadly And impressive, up and spoke: "Well, I wouldn't tremble badly, For it's been a fortnight broke." Then, for further comprehension Of his attitude, he begs I will focus my attention On his various arms and legs -- How they all are contumacious; Where they each, respective, lie; How one trotter proves ungracious, T'other one an alibi. These particulars is mentioned For to show his dismal state, Which I wasn't first intentioned To specifical relate. None is worser to be dreaded That I ever have heard tell Than the gent's who there was spreaded In that elevator-well. Now this tale is allegoric -- It is figurative all, For the well is metaphoric And the feller didn't fall. I opine it isn't moral For a writer-man to cheat, And despise to wear a laurel As was gotten by deceit. For 'tis Politics intended By the elevator, mind, It will boost a person splendid If his talent is the kind. Col. Bryan had the talent (For the busted man is him) And it shot him up right gallant Till his head begun to swim. Then the rope it broke above him And he painful come to earth Where there's nobody to love him For his detrimented worth. Though he's livin' none would know him, Or at leastwise not as such. Moral of this woful poem: Frequent oil your safety-clutch. Porfer Poog |
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Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | Inconsiderable in population and apparent resources, it was upheld by a broad and intelligent comprehension of rights and an all-pervading purpose to maintain them, stronger than armaments. |
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| "Comprehension" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Comprehension" is used about 589 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% | 589 | 10,783 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "comprehension": axiom of Comprehension ♦ list comprehension ♦ listening comprehension ♦ pass comprehension ♦ past comprehension ♦ quick of comprehension ♦ reading comprehension ♦ set comprehension ♦ slow of comprehension. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "comprehension": near-comprehension, non-comprehension. | |
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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 "comprehension"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | të kuptuarit (apprehension), përfshirje (inclusion, incorporation, insertion), kuptim (conception, construction, drift, hang, import, meaning, perception, point, purport, realization, sense, significance, signification, stress, understanding). (various references) | |
Arabic | فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, penetrate, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), إشتمال, إدراك (appreciation, apprehension, cognizance, conception, grasp, intelligence, knowledge, maturity, puberty, pubescence, realization, reason, recognition, responsiveness, savvy, science, sense, senses, sensibilities, sensibility, smart, understanding). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | схващане (apprehension, conception, cramp, grasp, idea, kink, notion, opinion, outlook, perception, prehension, understanding, uptake, view), разбиране (apprehension, conception, feeling, grasp, grip, hold, idea, knowing, opinion, perception, realization, taste, understanding, uptake), обхващане (inclusion). (various references) | |
Chinese | 领悟, 理解 (to comprehend, to understand, understanding). (various references) | |
Czech | chápavost (prehension, scope), chápání (apprehension, perception, prehension, understanding), pochopení (appreciation, insight, sympathy, understanding). (various references) | |
Danish | opfattelse (concept, contention, idea, opinion), forståelse (apprehension, intuition). (various references) | |
Dutch | passieve woordenschat (vocabulary of comprehension, vocabulary of understanding). (various references) | |
Farsi | قوه ادراک (Sixthsense), دریافت (Inception, Perception, Receipt). (various references) | |
Finnish | tajunta (apprehension, conception, consciousness), käsitys (idea, opinion, view). (various references) | |
French | compréhension (connotation). (various references) | |
German | verständnis (appreciation, conception, grasp, grip, idea, insight, notion, realization, sense, sympathy, understanding), Begriffsvermögen. (various references) | |
Greek | κατανόηση (understanding). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תפישה (conception), קליטה (absorption, conception, intake, integration, occlusion, reception, understanding), השגה (acquirement, acquisition, attainment, conception, objection, obtainment, perception, procurement, reach), הבנת הנקרא (reading comprehension), הבנה (apprehension, insight, realization, savvy, understanding, wit), בינה (insight, intellect, prudence, understanding, wisdom). (various references) | |
Hungarian | felfogás (apprehension, approach, cognizance, conception, penetration, perception, realization, sense, uptake), megértés (appreciation, apprehension, catholicity, understanding), értelem (apprehension, bearing, connotation, conscience, head, import, intellect, intelligence, meaning, mind, purport, rationale, reason, senses, significance, wit). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pengertian (insight, sense, understanding), pemahaman (understanding). (various references) | |
Italian | comprensione (apprehension, grasp, Ken, realisation, realization, sympathy, understanding, uptake). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 包含 (implication, inclusion), 了解 (consent, roger on the radio, understanding), 悟り (Buddhist enlightenment, understanding). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たいとく (experience, knack, mastery, realization), がってん (agreement, assent, consent, grasp, understanding), がてん (agreement, assent, consent, grasp, understanding), なっとく (agreement, assent, consent, grasp, understanding), ないほう (connotation, inside, secret information, tip-off, your wife), さとり (Buddhist enlightenment, understanding), ほうがん (ancient Chinese sacrificial ritual, cannon ball, implication, inclusion, shell, shots), ほうかつ (inclusion, subsumption), ほうよう (Buddhist memorial service, embrace, falconry, hawking, holding in one's arms, hug, implication, magnanimity, toleration), かいご (enlightenment, nursing, remorse, repentance, safe custody, wisdom), りかい (understanding), りょうかい (agreement, consent, roger, territorial waters, understanding), わかり (understanding), ちとく (knowledge, knowledge and virtue), えとく (appreciation, grasp, perception, understanding). (various references) | |
Korean | 독해력. (various references) | |
Manx | toiggal (apprehension, comprehend, construction, construe, figure; comprehension, realization, realize, understand). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omprehensioncay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | compreensão (apprehension, candor, candour, coverage, insight, intelligence, knowledge, mind, openness, prehension, realization, sense, understanding, uptake, view, wit). (various references) | |
Romanian | cuprindere (inclusion), comprehensiune (prehension, understanding), vederi largi (breadth of mind, broad gauge, broad ideas, large views, liberality, wide views), toleranţã (allowance, bearing, fondness, forbearance, indulgence, liberality, limit, tolerance, toleration), solicitudine (solicitude, understanding), inteligenţã (brain, brain-sauce, cleverness, cuteness, ingenuity, intellect, intelligence, light, smartness, understanding, wit), includere (inclusion), atitudine îngâduitoare, înţelegere (accommodation, accord, agreement, apprehension, arrangement, compact, compliance, composition, comprehensiveness, concert, concord, concordat, connivance, convention, covenant, goodwill, grasp, grip, insight, intelligence, knowing, mindfulness, perception, prehension, realization, sympathy, understanding, unity). (various references) | |
Russian | понимание (apprehension, aprehension, conception, digestion, grasp, insight, knowing, perception, reading, realization, savvy, understanding). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | spoznaja (cognition, cognizance), shvatanje (apprehension, grasp, insight, understanding, uptake), razumevanje (apprehension, cognizance, intellection, savvy, understanding). (various references) | |
Spanish | comprensión (apprehension, charity, grasp, judgement, judgment, perception, prehension, realization, savvy, sympathy, understanding). (various references) | |
Swedish | uppfattning (appreciation, apprehension, conception, contention, estimation, feeling, idea, mind, opinion, perception, understanding), fattningsförmåga (apprehension, capacity, comprehensive faculty, intelligence, understanding). (various references) | |
Turkish | kavrayış (perspicacity, reach, realization, savvy, understanding), kavrama (apperception, apprehension, bite, chuck, cinch, clasp, claw, clutch, cognation, cognizance, conception, digestion, engaging, fathom, grasp, grip, gripping, insight, penetration, perception, prehension, seizing, understanding, uptake), kapsam (compass, comprehensiveness, content, extent, gauge, scope), idrak (apperception, appreciation, cognation, cognizance, consciousness, discernment, grasp, grip, intelligence, nous, perception, percipience, perspicacity, realization), anlayış (apprehension, cognizance, discernment, horizon, intelligence, mentality, percipience, sagacity, savvy, sensibility, understanding), anlama (appreciation, apprehension, drift, fathom, grasp, grip, insight, intelligence, knowledge, prehension, realization, sense, understanding, uptake), akıl (advice, bean, brain, chump, consciousness, gray matter, grey matter, head, headpiece, intellect, intelligence, loaf, memory, mental, mind, nous, prudence, psyche, reason, sapience, senses, strength of mind, wisdom, wit). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | тямущість (dexterity, docility, perceptivity), включення (inclusion), охоплення (coverage, folding, incidence), зрозуміння. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nhận thức sự bao gồm, sự lĩnh hội (apprehension, digestion), sự hiểu, sự bao hàm. (various references) | |
Welsh | dirnadaeth (apprehension, discernment), amgyffrediad, amgyffred (comprehend, comprise). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | conprehensione, intellectu, intellectum, intellectus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "comprehension": comprehensions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "comprehension": incomprehension, miscomprehension, noncomprehension. (additional references) | |
Words containing "comprehension": incomprehensions, miscomprehensions, noncomprehensions. (additional references) | |
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"Comprehension" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comparhension, comprehenion, comprehention, comprohension, conprehension. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "comprehension" (pronounced kÄ'mprēhe"nshun) |
| 9 | -p r ē h e" n sh u n | misapprehension. |
| 6 | -h e" n sh u n | apprehension. |
| 5 | -e" n sh u n | ascension, attention, condescension, contention, convention, detention, dimension, dissension, extension, gentian, hypertension, hypotension, invention, mention, pension, pretension, prevention, reinvention, retention, suspension, tension. |
| 4 | -n sh u n | expansion, mansion, overexpansion. |
| 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, 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, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, ashen, aspiration, assassination, assertion, assimilation, association, assumption, attraction, attribution, 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, compression, compulsion, compunction, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conception, conceptualization, concession, conciliation, concoction, concussion, condemnation, condensation, 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, continuation, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, 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, 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, deterioration, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, devolution, devotion, dictation, diction, dietitian, differentiation, diffraction, digression, dilatation, dilation, dilution, 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, 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, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exfoliation, exhalation, exhibition, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, expedition, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, exposition, expression, expropriation, expulsion, 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, 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, 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, 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, marginalization, martian, masturbation, mathematician, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, midsection, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, 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, overpopulation, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, overregulation, oversimplification, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, partition, passion, pasteurization, patrician, pediatrician, penetration, 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, 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, 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, retraction, retransmission, retribution, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, revolution, 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, 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, suspicion, syncopation, syndication, tabulation, tactician, taxation, technician, telecommunication, temptation, 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 "c-e-e-h-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-r-s" | |
-2 letters: mesonephric, mesonephroi, microphones, prominences. | |
-3 letters: conominees, ionosphere, microphone, moonshiner, pheromones, prehension, prominence. | |
-4 letters: coinheres, conominee, cooperies, cornpones, economies, economise, enciphers, encrimson, isochrone, monoecies, moonshine, morphines, neomorphs, noncrimes, nonheroes, nonspeech, noosphere, pecorinos, pensioner, pheromone, phonemics, pinecones, poechores, premonish, prenomens, recension, recompose. | |
-5 letters: cheerios, chimeres, chinones, chompers, choosier, chopines, choremen, chorines, chorions, chrismon, chronons, cohesion, coinhere. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-h-i-m-n-n-o-o-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: comprehensions. | |
+2 letters: incomprehension. | |
+3 letters: incomprehensions, miscomprehension, noncomprehension. | |
+4 letters: mechanoreceptions, miscomprehensions, noncomprehensions. | |
| 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: Digital Art 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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