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Definition: Cultivation |
CultivationNoun1. Socialization through training and education. 2. (agriculture) production of food by preparing the land to grow crops. 3. A highly developed state of perfection; having a flawless or impeccable quality; "they performed with great polish"; "I admired the exquisite refinement of his prose"; "almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art"--Joseph Conrad. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cultivation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Systematic preparation and use of land for the growing of crops. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CultivationSynonyms: culture (n), finish (n), polish (n), refinement (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agriculture | Noun: agriculture, cultivation, husbandry, farming; georgics, geoponics; tillage, agronomy, gardening, spade husbandry, vintage; horticulture, arboriculture, floriculture; landscape gardening; viticulture. |
Improvement | Noun: improvement; amelioration, melioration; betterment; mend, amendment, emendation; mending; Verb: advancement; advance; (progress); ascent; promotion, preferment; elevation; increase; cultivation, civilization; culture, march of intellect; menticulture; race-culture, eugenics. |
Preparation | Training; (education); inurement; (habit); novitiate; cooking, cookery; brewing, culinary art; tilling, plowing, sowing; semination, cultivation. |
Taste | Dilettantism, dilettanteism; virtu; fine art; culture, cultivation. |
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 | District Conservationist Wess Stanley discusses farm plan and no-till cultivation of corn into barley. Washington County, Virginia. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |  | NRCS District Conservationist Bobbi McDerMott disuccses cultivation practices with a cooperator in Yuma, Az. Credit: Jeff Vanuga. |
 | Between the row cultivation of the cotton plants in the fields of the Lekaj (Durrës area) agricultural cooperative, Albania. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Abaca cultivation. Laborer. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Tractors used in cultivation, Wabash Farms, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Large fields make tractor cultivation necessary. Wabash Farms, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sunset Valley, Malheur County, Oregon. Hay and clover, pasture land, corn land, grain land. Some of this valley has been under cultivation four or five years. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Abandoned citrus grove near Weslaco, Texas. Note the great amount of underbrush. There are several of these abandoned groves in this section, due to lack of finances for cultivation and irrigation. There is also much absentee ownership in the citrus indus. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bean field under cultivation, Seabrook Farm, Bridgeton, N.J. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Salvador, cultivation of maguey. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Marques De Pombal | The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consist the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms. |
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Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State; the bringing into cultivation of waste-lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan. (reference) |
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Business | Brazil is a large supplier, especially for tractors, harvesters and cultivation equipment. (references) | |
Production of equipment for large cultivation slowed down, while production of equipment for vineyards increased. (references) | ||
Israel is another strong player and major competitor in the areas of irrigation, greenhouse facilities and seed cultivation. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Colombia | In January representatives of various evangelical Christian churches reported that the FARC harassed congregation members for refusing to participate in coca cultivation in Meta and Cauca departments. (references) |
Economic History | Ghana | There is no cultivation of wheat in Ghana. (references) |
Haiti | Cultivation for domestic consumption declined. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | This area remains hotly contested between illegal armed groups, both for coca cultivation and for access to the Venezuelan border. (references) |
Colombia | The attacks appeared to have been part of an AUC-FARC struggle to control territory and coca cultivation, and to terrorize the local population. (references) | |
Afghanistan | The landmines and unexploded ordnance caused deaths and injuries, restricted areas available for cultivation, and slowed the return of refugees. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Malaysia | NGO's help to create maps that can then be used in court to protect NCR land from logging, development, and palm oil cultivation. (references) |
Malaysia | A four-member team from the National Human Rights Commission visited northern Sarawak and the Bakun area in October to investigate complaints related to the construction of the dam, logging, palm oil cultivation, and other development projects. (references) | |
Political Economy | Turkmenistan | Agriculture, particularly cotton cultivation, accounts for nearly half of total employment. (references) |
Trade | China | The catalogue identifies the following "prohibited commodities": used garments; used publications with licentious content; radioactive or harmful industrial waste; junk cars, used automobiles or components; seeds, seedlings, fertilizers, feed, additives, or antibiotics used in the cultivation or breeding of any export commodity. (references) |
Worker Rights | Mauritania | Young children in the countryside commonly pursue herding, cultivation, fishing, and other significant labor in support of their families' activities. (references) |
Peru | Other children reportedly are employed at times in dangerous occupations or in high-risk environments, such as informal gold mining, garbage collection, loading and unloading produce in markets, brick making, coca cultivation, or work in stone quarries and fireworks factories, among others. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ORPHAN, n. A living person whom death has deprived of the power of filial ingratitude -- a privation appealing with a particular eloquence to all that is sympathetic in human nature. When young the orphan is commonly sent to an asylum, where by careful cultivation of its rudimentary sense of locality it is taught to know its place. It is then instructed in the arts of dependence and servitude and eventually turned loose to prey upon the world as a bootblack or scullery maid. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | In a cultivation of the materials and the extension of useful manufactures, more especially in the general application to household fabrics, we behold a rapid diminution of our dependence on foreign supplies. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | That such should be the aspect of our finances is highly flattering to the industry and enterprise of our population and auspicious of the wealth and prosperity which await the future cultivation of their growing resources. |
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| "Cultivation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.67% of the time. "Cultivation" is used about 608 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) | 99.67% | 606 | 10,598 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 608 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cultivation": area under cultivation ♦ cultivation of flax ♦ cultivation of grain ♦ experimental cultivation ♦ flame cultivation ♦ seed cultivation ♦ shifting cultivation ♦ soil cultivation ♦ spray cultivation ♦ terrace cultivation. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "cultivation": over-cultivation, self-cultivation, shifting-cultivation, strip-cultivation. | |
Containing "cultivation": seed-cultivation station. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 "cultivation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | rritje (accretion, advance, augmentation, boost, breeding, climb, development, evolution, expansion, extension, gain, germination, growth, increase, increment, intensification, nurture, progress, raise, upgrowth), ngritje (advance, ascension, boosting, building, elevation, erection, flow, hoist, increase, jump, lifting up, progress, projection, prominence, prominency, putting up, raise, rise, rising, setting up, take off, uprise, upswing, uptake), lëvrim (combing, tillage), kulturë (civilization, culture, reading), kultivim (culture), formim (building up, construction, education, formation, forming, moldiness, molding, mouldiness, moulding, shaping, training). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حراثة (culture, plowing, tillage, tilth), تهذيب (breeding, culture, discipline, edification, expurgation, polish, politeness, precept, pruning, purgation, refinement, reformation, retouch, revision, sublimation, urbanity), زراعة (agriculture, farming, husbandry, seeding), ثقافة (culture, education, enlightenment), رعاية (auspices, care, charge, custody, favor, favour, inspection, nursing, patronage, protection, sponsor, sponsorship, tutorship, ward). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | развиване (scanning), култура (acquirements, attainments, civilization, culture), култивиране (domestication, reclamation, tilth), образование (breeding, education, schooling, upbringing), обработване (processing, reduction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 耕种 (Cultivate, Cultivated, Cultivating, tillage, tilled, tilling), 養殖 (cultivate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vzdìlávání, pìstování, obdìlávání, kultivace (reclamation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | dyrkningsmetoder (crop management practices, cultural practices), dyrkning (farming, management), drift (conation, drift, drive, drove, farming, impulse, instinct, management, Operation, revenue, urge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | cultuur van het gewas (crop management practices, cultural practices), cultuur (culture), verzorging (crop management practices, cultural practices, grooming), teeltwijze (crop management practices, cultural practices), bewerking (adaptation, adjustment, operation, process, surgical operation, tillage), bedrijfsvoering (farming, management, Operation), bebouwing (tillage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | kultivado (tillage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | viljely (culture, tillage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | culture (culture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | anbau (annex, annexation, annexe, building, construction, extension, growing, lean to, outhouse), kultivierung (reclamation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | καλλιέργεια (crop, culture, farming, tillage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עבו" "א"מ" (tillage), עבו" (adaptation, arrangement, cultivated, elaboration, prepared, processing), טפוח (attendance, breeding, care, fostering, nursing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | megművelés, műveltség (civilization, erudition, learning), művelés, kultiválás, gyakorlás (exercise, practice), földművelés (tillage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengusahaan, pengolahan (manufacture, preparation, processing), pembudayaan, budidaya. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | coltivazione (culture, farming, growing, tillage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 養殖 (culture, raising), 開" (pioneer, reclamation), 培養 (culture, nurture), 培 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たくま (polish), た"せい (diligence, effort, graceful, handsome, noble, pains, painting, red and blue, shapely, sigh, sincerity, training, unisexual, working earnestly), きょうよう (coercion, common use, communal, culture, education, extortion, offer for use, refinement), さいばい, ばいよう (culture, nurture), かいたく (pioneer, reclamation), か"よう (common, crucial, customary, essential, forbearance, fostering, generosity, government business, governmental porcelain furnace, importance, lobe of the liver, official use, tolerance, training, vital), いくせい (nurture, promotion, rearing, training), "うさく (blending, cable, complication, construction, farming, handicraft, maneuvering, mixture, steel wire rope, work), れ"ま (practice, training), ようしょく (beauty, culture, features, important office, looks, raising, Western-style meal), とうや (education, that night, tonight, training). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 경작 (Cultivating, Culturing, farming, tilling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | lhiasaghey (amendment, appendix, appendix book, atone, atonement, compensate, compensation, correct, correct as text, correction, cultivate, culture, cure, curing, develop, developing, dress, dressing, dung, dunging, enrich, expiate, expiation, fertilize, fertilizer, furtherance, husband, husband as land, improvement, imputation, manure, manuring, propitiate, propitiation, reclaim, reclamation, recompense, repair, replenish, replenishment, restitution, revise, revision, rub up, season), jannoo seose (concoct, consist, constitute, make up, patch up), errooid (ploughmanship, tillage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | kultivo (tillage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ultivationcay cultura (accomplishments, civilization, culture, erudition, germination, growth, niceness, scholarship). (various references) culturã (breeding, civility, crop, culture, education, growing, growth, letter, rearing), cultivare (culture, working), instruire (education, enlightenment, initiation, schooling), educare (education, enlightenment, nurture). (various references) развитие (development, elaboration, evolution, germination, growth). (various references) obrađivanje (tillage), kultivacija. (various references) cultivo (crop, culture, farming, planting), cultivación. (various references) odling (culture, farm, farming, growth, incubation, tillage). (various references) ziraat (agrarian, agricultural, agriculture, cultural), yetiştirme (breeding, culture, edification, growing, nurture, upbringing), yetişme (upbringing), terbiye (breeding, decency, dressage, dressing, education, liaison, manners, nurture, politeness, sauce, schooling, seasoning), tarım (agrarian, agricultural, agriculture, farming, growing, husbandry, tillage, tilth), işleme (crop, engraving, fancywork, handiwork, movement, perpetration, processing, service, travel, work, working), görgü (breeding, convenances, etiquette, good manners, grace, manners). (various references) kultiwatsiяa (r). (various references) розведення (culture, keeping, raising, watering), розвиток (amplification, development, enlargement, evolution, growth, progress), культивування, культивація, обробіток (culture). (various references) sự tu dưỡng (culture), sự trau d"i (improvement), sự tr"ng trọt sự dạy dỗ, sự nuôi dưỡng (nutrition), sự mở mang (culture, development), sự giáo hoá, sự c y cấy. (various references) gwrteithiad (culture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cultu, cultui, cultum, cultura, culturae, culturam, cultus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cultivation": cultivations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cultivation": cocultivation, noncultivation, overcultivation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "cultivation": cocultivations, noncultivations, overcultivations. (additional references) | |
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"Cultivation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Multivision. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cultivation" (pronounced ku'ltivā"shun) |
| 7 | -t i v ā" sh u n | inactivation. |
| 5 | -v ā" sh u n | activation, aggravation, conservation, depravation, deprivation, derivation, elevation, excavation, innovation, motivation, observation, ovation, preservation, privation, renovation, reservation, salvation, starvation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abomination, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, appellation, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, aspiration, assassination, assimilation, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, compilation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confabulation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, contemplation, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correlation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, depopulation, deportation, depreciation, depredation, deregulation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, dilation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, distillation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, ejaculation, elaboration, elation, electrification, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emulation, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhalation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, inoculation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, installation, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, manipulation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, modulation, molestation, monopolization, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, overpopulation, overregulation, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, population, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, pressurization, 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, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, tabulation, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, titillation, toleration, transformation, transillumination, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, violation, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization. |
| 3 | -sh u n | abduction, abolition, abortion, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, 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, faction, fashion, fiction, fission, 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-c-i-i-l-n-o-t-t-u-v" | |
-2 letters: tuitional. | |
-3 letters: anticult, citation, outcavil, univocal, volitant. | |
-4 letters: auction, avionic, caution, inocula, invital, linocut, litotic, lunatic, nautili, outlain, taction, titanic, tuition, uncivil, unvocal, vicinal, victual, vincula, voltaic, volutin. | |
-5 letters: action, alnico, atonic, cation, catlin, citola, clivia, coital, incult, intact, intuit, italic, latino, lattin, octant, oilcan, otitic, outact, talion, tincal, titian, toluic, toucan, tunica, uncial. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-i-l-n-o-t-t-u-v" | |
+1 letter: cultivations. | |
+2 letters: cocultivating, cocultivation, voluntaristic. | |
+3 letters: cocultivations, noncultivation. | |
+4 letters: noncultivations, overcultivation. | |
+5 letters: atrioventricular, overarticulating, overcultivations. | |
| 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: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 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. Bibliography |
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