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Definition: Privation |
PrivationNoun1. A state of extreme poverty. 2. Act of depriving. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "privation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
Etymology: Privation \Pri*va"tion\, noun. [Latin expression privatio: compare to the French expression privation. See Private.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: PrivationSynonyms: deprivation (n), want (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Loss | Privation, bereavement; deprivation; (dispossession); riddance; damage, squandering, waste. |
Poverty | Noun: poverty, indigence, penury, pauperism, destitution, want; need, neediness; lack, necessity, privation, distress, difficulties, wolf at the door. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Privation |
| English words defined with "privation": Apnoea ♦ Defraudment, Disanimation ♦ Exsanguinity ♦ Mortling ♦ Orbation ♦ Privative ♦ To be at a loss ♦ Un-. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "privation": loss ♦ orphan ♦ quails ♦ tail. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Privation" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (absence, bereavement, deficiency, deprival, deprivation, derequisition, lack, privation, shortage, shortcoming). |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Hazlitt | Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. |
John Kenneth Galbraith | The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Whereas the League of Nations has for its object the establishment of universal peace, and such a peace can be established only if it is based upon social justice; And whereas conditions of labour exist involving such injustice, hardship, and privation to large numbers of people as to produce unrest so great that the peace and harmony of the world are imperilled; and an improvement of those conditions is urgently required: as, for example, by the regulation of the hours of work, including the establishment of a maximum working day and week, the regulation of the labour supply, the prevention of unemployment, the provision of an adequate living wage, the protection of the worker against sickness, disease and injury arising out of his employment, the protection of children, young persons and women, provision for old age and injury, protection of the interests of workers when employed in countries other than their own recognition of the principle of freedom of association, the organisation of vocational and technical education and other measures; Whereas also the failure of any nation to adopt humane conditions of labour is an obstacle in the way of other nations which desire to improve the conditions in their own countries; The HIGH CONTRACTING PARTIES, moved by sentiments of justice and humanity as well as by the desire to secure the permanent peace of the world, agree to the following: CHAPTER l. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | I have not yet spoken of poverty and privation which are in many cases the prevailing anxiety. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Few know how much certain feeble beings, who have grown old in privation and honesty, can extract from a sou. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Nigeria | Currently, the Bureau of Public Enterprise, the government agency responsible for Nigeria's privation program, has advertised and called for an expression of interest from local and international firms wishing to participate in NITEL's privatization. (references) |
Human Rights | Guatemala | On March 13, Lieutenant Colonel Luis Alberto Linares Perez filed a complaint with the Prosecutor's Office against Minister of Defense, Eduardo Arevalo Lacs, Army Chief of Staff, Lionel Mendez Estrada, and Army Inspector General, Carlos Eddi Radford Bonilla for abuse of power, privation of liberty, unwarranted discharge, and cover up of corruption. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. Excepting in its foetal state, Man is without a tail, a privation of which he attests an hereditary and uneasy consciousness by the coat-skirt of the male and the train of the female, and by a marked tendency to ornament that part of his attire where the tail should be, and indubitably once was. This tendency is most observable in the female of the species, in whom the ancestral sense is strong and persistent. The tailed men described by Lord Monboddo are now generally regarded as a product of an imagination unusually susceptible to influences generated in the golden age of our pithecan past. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Privation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Privation" is used about 41 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% | 41 | 53,521 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
privation | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "privation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | privim, sakrificë (immolation, oblation, obsecration, offering, sacrifice, sin offering), mungesa, humbje (blow, come down, damage, defeat, deprivation, disappearance, draft, draught, flight, forfeiture, leak, leakage, losing, losings, loss, losses, Miss, passing, wastage, waste), heqje (abolition, clearing, collection, deduction, Defeasance, deletion, deprivation, derogation, dismissal, dismission, disposal, dispossession, ejection, elimination, evacuation, excision, extirpation, extraction, jump, omission, out, outage, recall, relegation, removal, rending, resection, reserve, skip, stripping, subtraction, tripping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فقدان (absence, bereavement, deprivation, destitution, forfeit, forfeiture, lack, loss, nonexistence), فاقة (need), حرمان (confiscation, deprivation, excommunication), عوز (destitution, distress, indigence, lack, misery, necessity, need, paucity, pauperism, poorness, poverty, want), عدم وجود (default, lack), إمتناع (abstention, omission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | нужда (call, destitution, distress, hardship, necessary, necessity, need, pinch, requirement, use, want), недостиг (deficit, famine, insufficiency, lack, scarceness, scarcity, shortage, stringency, ullage, want), лишение (pinch, want), липса (absence, default, defect, deficiency, failure, lack, penury, poverty, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, stringency, ullage, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | strádání (affliction, deprivation, destitution, hardship), nouze (deprivation, destitution, distress, indigence, necessities, need, needs, pinch, poverty, scarcity, want), nedostatek (absence, defect, deficiency, deficit, demerit, drawback, failing, failure, fault, inadequacy, insufficiency, lack, non-availability, penury, poverty, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محرومیت (Proscription, Reprobate), محروم سازی (Exclusion, Ouster), تعلیق مقام , سختی (Accolade, Austerity, Buckram, Difficulty, Duration, Duress, Granite, Hardship, Implacability, Inflexibility, Resistance, Rigidity, Severity, Solidity, Stress, Tenacity, Violence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | privation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | mangel (absence, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, deficit, desideratum, drought, fault, flaw, imperfection, lack, mangle, need, paucity, penury, poverty, privations, rotary iron, scarcities, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, vise, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κακουχία (hardship), στέρηση (bereavement, deprivation, forfeiture, hardship, lack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שליל" (denial, deprivation, fault, negation, prevention, refusal), עו י (indigence, meanness, misery, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty, want). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szűkölködés (destitution, need, want, wantingness), nyomor (destitution, extremity, misery, necessity, penury, poverty, squalor, want), megfosztás (deprivation, despoliation, dispossession, divestiture, eviction, stripping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | privazione (bereavement, deprival, deprivation, divestiture, hardship, loss, suffering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 辛酸 (hardships), 如 (deficiency, lack). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | し"さ" (hardships, intention), ""く (hardship), けつじょ (deficiency, lack, lusting), とうたい, とう い (head of the family, lighthouse, passing the examination, the present age, these days, Tokyo University). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | uail (disservice, fine, injury, penalty, ruination). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ivationpray privação (bereavement, deprivation, divestment, miss), perda (bereavement, confusion, damage, deprivation, forfeit, forfeiture, leakage, misbirth, miscarriage, miss, offscourings, perdition, prejudice, ruination, seepage, undoing, wastage, waste, wreck), miséria (affliction, distress, misery, penurity, penury, poverty, sorriness, squalor, want), falta (absence, default, deficiency, fail, failing, fault, forfeit, foul, guilt, lack, lacuna, miss, mistake, need, non-attendance, omission, paucity, penurity, penury, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, slip, want, wantage), ausência (absence, default, negation, non-attendance, want). (various references) privaţiune (deprivation, hardship), sãrãcie (baldness, barrenness, dearth, destitution, impecuniosity, indigence, meanness, misery, necessity, neediness, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, scarcity, sterility, stringency, want), lipsã (absence, blemish, dearth, default, defect, deficiency, demerit, destitution, drawback, failure, fault, gap, hardship, imperfection, lack, minus, mistake, necessity, neediness, out, paucity, penury, poverty, scantiness, scarceness, shortage, shortcoming, stinginess, stringency, vice, want), inexistenţã (absence, nonentity, non-existence, nothingness), absenţã (absence, default, poverty, shortage, wanting). (various references) лишение (deprivation, destitution, divestiture, hardship). (various references) oskudica (dearth, destitution, lack, necessity, need, penury, scarceness, scarcity, want, wantage). (various references) privación (abridgement, abridgment, confinement, confiscation, deprivation, detraction, hardship), miseria (beggary, destitution, distress, indignity, misery, peanuts, penury, pittance, powerty, squalor, want, wretchedness), apuro (difficulty, extremity, hardship, hole, hurry, jam, need, pinch, plight, predicament, push, quandary, trouble). (various references) umbärande (hardship), försakelse (deprivation, self denial, selfdenial). (various references) yoksunluk (deficiency, defraudation, deprivation, lack), yoksulluk (bareness, calamity, destitution, hardship, misery, need, neediness, pauperism, penury, poorness, poverty), yokluk (absence, absentness, dearth, exiguity, failure, famine, hardship, lack, neediness, nonappearance, non-appearance, nonexistence, non-existence, nudity, penury, poverty, shortage, Strait, straits, tightness, want), mahrumiyet (deprivation, destitution), ihtiyaç (call, demand, deprivation, desideratum, exigence, exigency, necessity, need, pinch, requirement, want). (various references) відсутність (absence, destitution, discontinuity, non-availability, nothing, want), нужда (destitution, indigence, necessity, need, neediness, want), злидні (beggarhood, beggarliness, beggary, destitution, distress, indigence, misery, need, neediness, penury). (various references) tình trạng thiếu (incompleteness, incompletion), tình trạng không có sự thiếu thốn, cảnh thiếu thốn (destitution, penury). (various references) amddifedi (destitution), amddifadrwydd (destitution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "privation": privations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "privation": deprivation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "privation": deprivations. (additional references) | |
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"Privation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pravation, prication, privaten, procation, provarian, provation, revation. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "privation" (pronounced prīvā"shun) |
| 5 | -v ā" sh u n | activation, aggravation, conservation, cultivation, depravation, deprivation, derivation, elevation, excavation, inactivation, innovation, motivation, observation, ovation, preservation, 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-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-v" | |
-2 letters: atropin, vitrain. | |
-3 letters: aroint, parton, patron, pavior, rapini, ration, tarpon, trivia, tropin, viator, virion. | |
-4 letters: aport, apron, atrip, avion, inapt, intro, invar, nitro, noria, orpin, paint, panto, parvo, patin, patio, pavin, piano, pinot, pinta, pinto, piton, pivot, point, print, prion, ratio, ravin, riant, tapir, torii, train, trona, vapor. | |
-5 letters: airn, airt, anti, arvo, atop. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-n-o-p-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: privations, provitamin. | |
+2 letters: deprivation, inoperative, provitamins. | |
+3 letters: deprivations, providential, vaporization, vibraphonist, vituperation. | |
+4 letters: improvisation, incorporative, interpolative, prevarication, privatization, provincialist, provinciality, pulverization, vaporizations, vibraphonists, vituperations. | |
+5 letters: contrapositive, improvisations, interoperative, prevarications, privatizations, providentially, provincialists, pulverizations. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 69 76 61 74 69 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. .. ...- .- - .. --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01101001 01110110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r i v a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0069 0076 0061 0074 0069 006F 006E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508475886786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Historic 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Derivations | 13. Rhymes 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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