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Definition: Fabrication |
FabricationNoun1. A deliberately false or improbable account. 2. Writing in a fictional form. 3. The act of making something (a product) from raw materials. 4. The act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery). 5. The deliberate act of deviating from the truth. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fabrication" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Etymology: Fabrication \Fab`ri*ca"tion\, noun. [Latin expression fabricatio; compare to French fabrication.]. (references) |
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| FAO | French | Fabrication assistée par ordinateur | Computing, Meteorology & Standards |
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Synonyms: FabricationSynonyms: assembly (n), fable (n), fiction (n), fictionalisation (n), fictionalization (n), lying (n), manufacture (n), prevarication (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: dismantling (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Falsehood | Noun: falsehood, falseness; falsity, falsification; deception; untruth; guile; lying; untruth; guile; lying; Verb: misrepresentation; mendacity, perjury, false swearing; forgery, invention, fabrication; subreption; covin. |
Production | Noun: {ant., } production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster; organization; nisus formativus; putting together; Verb: establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement; (completion). |
Untruth | Invention, fabrication, fiction; fable, nursery tale; romance; (imagination); absurd story, untrue story, false story, trumped up story, trumped up statement; thing devised by the enemy; canard; shave, sell, hum, traveler;s tale, Canterbury tale, fairy tale, fake; claptrap. |
Forgery, fabrication, invention; misstatement, misrepresentation; perversion, falsification, gloss, suggestio falsi; exaggeration. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Fabrication |
| English words defined with "fabrication": canard ♦ formation ♦ make, metallurgical engineer, metallurgist ♦ shaping. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "fabrication": SUPERVISOR, DISPLAY FABRICATION, SUPERVISOR, EPOXY FABRICATION, SUPERVISOR, MIRROR FABRICATION. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Fabrication" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (fabrication, invention, making, manufacture, manufacturing, production). |
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Lyrics | A fabrication of a grand scheme (Telling Stories; performing artist: Tracy Chapman) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Fabrication moderne de la bière (1954) Fabrication de la dentelle (1937) La Fabrication du fil (1924) Fabrication des vis (1920) La Fabrication des mâles (2001) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | The Singapore government continues to aggressively seek investments in wafer fabrication facilities and design houses. (references) | |
The industry is able to draw on mechanical skills that have been developed over 20 years in precision machining and metal fabrication. (references) | ||
The only significant local production of aircraft maintenance equipment in Singapore is the fabrication of aircraft hangars and maintenance docks. (references) | ||
Economic History | New Zealand | Leading manufacturing sectors are food processing, metal fabrication, and wood and paper products. (references) |
Zambia | Major U.S. companies have purchased assets in the mining and power industries and metal fabrication. (references) | |
Switzerland | The highly-touted PC-12 aircraft is an excellent product, in which idea, concept, engineering and fabrication are skillfully combined. (references) | |
Human Rights | Georgia | Serious abuses and police misconduct, such as the fabrication or planting of evidence, remained problems. (references) |
Guatemala | Within hours of the event, the Interior Minister Byron Barrientos, publicly dismissed the event as a fabrication. (references) | |
Belarus | Lukashenka claimed that the letter was a fabrication and promised to renew the investigations into the disappearances; however, he removed the Prosecutor General and the KGB Chief who allegedly had been leading the investigation, and named Sheiman as the Prosecutor General. (references) | |
Trade | Malaysia | For example, EXIMBANK has recently provided guarantees for the two new silicon wafer fabrication plants in Malaysia. (references) |
Malaysia | This provision, for example, applies to Malaysian imports of semiconductor components used in the fabrication of completed semiconductors for export. (references) | |
Bolivia | However, prior to fabrication, importation, exportation, or sale and marketing locally, all pharmaceutical products, both generic and brand name, including over-the-counter drugs, must have a sanitary registration, as established by Pharmaceutical Law 1737 and its regulations. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | According to press reports an average of 25 persons, the majority minors, suffer burns and amputations for accidents in the fabrication of fireworks. (references) |
Portugal | Once at their destinations, they live in overcrowded, substandard "hostels." The traffickers offer them loans at very high interest rates and, for a fee, find them jobs at constructions sites or other industries, e.g., textile mills, woodworking or metal shops, and marble fabrication. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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James Monroe | 1817-1825 | The fabrication of arms at the national armories and by contract with the Department has been gradually improving in quality and cheapness. |
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| "Fabrication" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fabrication" is used about 190 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% | 190 | 22,288 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| France | SFIM - Societe de Fabrication d'Instruments de Mesure SA | USA | Gulf Island Fabrication Inc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expression using "fabrication": metal fabrication. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "fabrication": pre-fabrication. | |
| 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 "fabrication"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | falsifikim (adulteration, counterfeit, Counterfeiting, falsification, forgery), fabrikim (manufacture, milling, production), trillim (fable, faddiness, fiction, invention), shpikje (concoction, contrivance, invention, mintage, patent), prodhim (article, crop, generation, harvest, make, making, manufacture, milling, mintage, output, out-turn, produce, product, production, recovery, runout, turn out, yield). (various references) | |
Arabic | تلفيق (invention), تزيف, صنع (dip, fabricate, fashion, industrialize, make, manufacture, nil, output, produce, production, turn out), إختلاق, إختراع (concoction, contrivance, devise, invention), إبتداع (heterodoxy, innovation). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | фалшифициран документ, фалшификация (counterfeit, ersatz, fake, falsification, forgery, sham), фабрикация (make, manufacture), производство (make, making, manufacture, output, production, turnout, yield), произвеждане (generation, manufacture, production, promoting, promotion), измислица (concoction, excogitation, fable, fairy tale, fake, fib, fiction, figment, flam, hoax, invention, make believe, make up, myth, nonentity, tale, tall story, taradiddle). (various references) | |
Chinese | 制 (Fabricate, Fabricated, Fabricating, manufacture). (various references) | |
Czech | výroba (generation, manufactory, produce, production), výmysl (contraption, fable, fantasy, fiction, invention, shift, story), stavba (building, construction, structure). (various references) | |
Danish | værkstedsarbejde. (various references) | |
Dutch | fabriekswerk. (various references) | |
Finnish | työpajatyö. (various references) | |
French | fabrication (fabricated fact, false fact). (various references) | |
German | herstellung (completion, creation, cutting, establishment, farad, make, making, manifacture, manufacture, manufacturing, production, restoration), Vorfertigung (prefabrication), Fertigung (manufacturing, production). (various references) | |
Greek | κατεργασία στο εργοστάσιο, κατασκεύασμα (construction), κατασκευαυστικές εργασίες, σκευωρία (cabal, concoction, frame up, machination, scheme, trumped up charges). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פברוק, זיוף (adulteration, fake, falsification, falsity, forgery), כזב (fallaciousness, falsehood, lie, prevarication, untruth), ב"י" (falsehood, fib, fiction, legend), ב"ות" (falsehood, fib, fish story, tale), ב"אות (concoction, confabulation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | koholmány (fake, fiction, figment, forgery, fudge, invention, prevarication), készítés (making), gyártás (making, manufacture, production). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembuatan (construction, production), pembikinan (manufacture), pemalsuan (adulteration), akalan (invention). (various references) | |
Italian | falsificazione (counterfeit, faking, falsification, forgery), fabbricazione, costruzione, lavoro d'officina, invenzione (contrivance, fiction, figment, invention, lie, make up, story), costruzione (build, building, construction, manufacture, provision), contraffazione (adulteration, counterfeit, falsification, forgery, spuriousness), bugia (falsehood, fib, lie, story). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 贋 (counterfeiting, forgery), 絵空事 (pipe dream), 捏 (falsehood, forgery), 拵え事 (invented story), 作り話 (fable, fiction, made-up story, myth), 作り言 (fiction, lie), 作り事 (fiction, lie), 偽 (counterfeiting, falsification, forgery), 偽り (falsehood, fiction, lie), でっち上' (but, exhausted, frame-up, however, logy, lovestruck, put-up job, so, then, trumped-up story, well, well then). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎぞう (counterfeiting, falsification, forgery), が"ぞう (counterfeiting, forgery, gradual increase), ねつぞう (falsehood, forgery), でっちあ' (frame-up, put-up job, trumped-up story), つくりばなし (fable, fiction, made-up story, myth), つくり"と (fiction, lie), いつわり (falsehood, fiction, lie), "しらえ"と (invented story), えそら"と (a fabrication, pipe dream). (various references) | |
Korean | 작. (various references) | |
Manx | lhiassaghey (allege, amend, ascribe, ascription, charge, charge imputation, contrive, contriving, fabricate, improve, make up, preserve). (various references) | |
Norwegian | oppspinn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abricationfay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | feitio (character, confection, cut, cutout, fabric, fit, form, make, shape, temperament), fabricac,a~o, fabricação (coinage, making, manifacture, manufacture), sistema monetário (coinage, monetary system), palavra inventada (coinage), invenção (coinage, contrivance, device, excogitation, fiction, figment, finding, flam, gadget, invention, mintage, origination), cunhagem (coinage, incuse, mintage). (various references) | |
Romanian | ficţiune (fiction, negation, nonentity, romance), fabricare (manufacture), scornire (invention), nãscocire (concoction, contrivance, discovery, fable, fib, figment, invention, lie, make up, tale, yarn), minciunã (bung, deceit, falsehood, fib, gag, lie, lying, tale, untruth), construire (building, construction, erection, making). (various references) | |
Russian | фальшивка (fake, flam), выдумка (brain-child, contrivance, fairytale, fib, figment, make up, storytelling), ложь (cracker, crammer, falsehood, fib, leasing, lie, lying, mendacity, taradiddle, terminological inexactitudes, untruth), производство (make, making, manufacture, production), подделка (adulteration, counterfeit, false coin, falsification, hacking, manipulation, phoney, sham, shams), изготовление (in-process, make, making, manufacture), измышление (excogitation). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | fabrikovanje (manufacture), izmišljotina (fiction, figment, flam). (various references) | |
Spanish | ficción (fiction, invention), fabricación (farad, making, manifacture, manufactory, manufacture, manufacturing, production), trabajo de taller, invención (coinage, concoction, contrivance, devise, discovery, excogitation, fiction, figment, invention, make believe, patent). (various references) | |
Swedish | påhitt (artifice, concoction, contrivance, device, fiction, figment, invention). (various references) | |
Turkish | yalan (deceit, falsehood, falseness, fib, flam, gammon, hollow, invention, lie, made up, mendacious, plumper, prevarication, quack, sham, shave, tale, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tell a lie, telltale, untrue, untruth, untruthful), uydurma (adjustment, apocryphal, arranging, cardboard box, coinage, colorable, concoction, fabled, fabulous, fake, false, falsification, fib, fiction, fictitious, fictive, figment, fitting, flam, gold brick, improvisation, improvised, invention, made up, making up, mendacious, out of whole cloth, quack, tosh, trumped-up, tuning, untrue, untruth, untruthful), sahtesini yapma (Counterfeiting, falsification), imal etme, bir araya getirme, üretme (breeding, culture, generation, procreation, producing, production, working). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | фабрикація (manufacture), виробництво (framing, make, making, manufacture, manufacturing, production, yielding), вигадування, вигадка (artifice, caulker, excogitation, fib, figment, fudge, invention, make believe, wrinkle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự sản xuất, sự bịa đặt (romance), cách chế tạo. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "fabrication": fabrications. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "fabrication": prefabrication. (additional references) | |
Words containing "fabrication": prefabrications. (additional references) | |
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"Fabrication" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fabracation, fabrcation, fabricatio, fabriication. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "fabrication" (pronounced fa'brikā"shun) |
| 8 | -b r i k ā" sh u n | lubrication. |
| 6 | -i k ā" sh u n | abdication, clarification, detoxication, detoxification, electrification, gentrification, glorification, indemnification, justification, misidentification, mummification, publication, simplification, sophistication, specification, syndication, telecommunication. |
| 5 | -k ā" sh u n | falsification, acidification, adjudication, advocation, allocation, altercation, amplification, application, authentication, avocation, bifurcation, certification, classification, codification, communication, complication, confiscation, convocation, decertification, dedication, deification, demarcation, desiccation, disembarkation, dislocation, disqualification, diversification, domestication, duplication, echolocation, edification, education, embarkation, equivocation, eradication, evocation, excommunication, explication, fortification, gasification, gratification, identification, implication, indication, intensification, intoxication, invocation, location, magnification, medication, misallocation, misapplication, miscommunication, modification, multiplication, notification, nullification, obfuscation, ossification, pacification, personification, pontification, prefabrication, prognostication, provocation, purification, qualification, quantification, ramification, ratification, reallocation, recertification, reclassification, rectification, rededication, relocation, replication, reunification, revocation, sanctification, saponification, suffocation, unification, vacation, verification, vilification, vindication, vocation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | facilitation, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, abbreviation, aberration, abomination, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, activation, adaptation, administration, admiration, adoration, adulation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, alphabetization, alteration, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, appellation, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, aspiration, assassination, assimilation, association, augmentation, authorization, automation, aviation, balkanization, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, coagulation, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communization, compensation, compilation, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confabulation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, contemplation, continuation, conversation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, correlation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, defamation, deflation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demodulation, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, depopulation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, deregulation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, designation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, dilation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disinclination, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, distillation, divination, documentation, domination, donation, dramatization, duration, ejaculation, elaboration, elation, elevation, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, emigration, emulation, enumeration, equalization, equitation, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, exfoliation, exhalation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, extrapolation, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, formulation, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gastrulation, generalization, generation, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, gradation, graduation, granulation, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, hyperinflation, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indentation, indexation, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, innovation, inoculation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, installation, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, insulation, integration, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, isolation, jubilation, laceration, lactation, legalization, legislation, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, machination, magnetization, malformation, manifestation, manipulation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misappropriation, miscalculation, mischaracterization, miscreation, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modulation, molestation, monopolization, motivation, mutation, mutilation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, nucleation, obligation, observation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, oscillation, ostentation, ovation, overpopulation, overregulation, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, popularization, population, precipitation, predestination, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, proliferation, pronunciation, propagation, proration, prostration, protestation, punctuation, quotation, radiation, radicalization, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reauthorization, recalculation, recantation, recapitalization, recitation, reclamation, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, recuperation, redecoration, reevaluation, reexamination, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relation, relaxation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, representation, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, reservation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanitation, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, specialization, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, summation, superstation, tabulation, taxation, temptation, termination, titillation, toleration, transformation, transillumination, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vaccination, vacillation, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, ventilation, vibration, victimization, violation, visitation, visualization, 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-b-c-f-i-i-n-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: fabricant. | |
-3 letters: botanica, brainiac, fibrotic, fraction, friction, raincoat. | |
-4 letters: abiotic, acrobat, actinia, airboat, antiair, anticar, biontic, botanic, carabin, carotin, ciboria, corbina, faction, fanatic, fibroin, fiction, frantic, infarct, infract, noritic, ocarina, taborin. | |
-5 letters: abator, acinar, action, antiar, aortic, arabic, arnica, aroint, atonic, bicorn, bicron, bionic, biotic, biotin, bonaci, bonita, caftan, cantor, carbon, carina, carton, cation. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-c-f-i-i-n-o-r-t" | |
+1 letter: fabrications. | |
+2 letters: abortifacient. | |
+3 letters: abortifacients, prefabrication. | |
+4 letters: prefabrications. | |
| 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: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Non-fiction 8. Quotations: Speeches | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Company Usage 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Abbreviations 15. Acronyms 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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