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Definitions: Resignation |
ResignationNoun1. Acceptance of despair. 2. The act of resigning. 3. A formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; "he submitted his resignation as of next month". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "resignation" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonym: ResignationSynonym: surrender (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Content | Reconciliation; resignation; (patience). |
Excitability | Submission; resignation; sufferance, supportance, endurance, longsufferance, forbearance; longanimity; fortitude; patience of Job, patience "on a monument", patience "sovereign o'er transmuted ill"; moderation; repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling; restraint. |
Hopelessness | Abandonment, desolation; resignation, surrender, submission. |
Humility | Noun: humility, humbleness; meekness, lowness; lowliness, lowlihood; abasement, self-abasement; submission; resignation. |
Obedience | Noun: obedience; observance; compliance; submission; subjection; nonresistance; passiveness, resignation. |
Relinquishment | Noun: relinquishment, abandonment; (of a course); renunciation, expropriation, dereliction; cession, surrender, dispensation; quitclaim deed; resignation; riddance. |
Discontinuance; (cessation); renunciation; (recantation); abrogation; resignation; (retirement); desuetude; cession; (of property). | |
Resignation | Noun: resignation, retirement, abdication, renunciation, abjuration; abandonment, relinquishment. |
Abdicate; vacate, vacate one's seat; accept the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds; retire; tender one's resignation. | |
Submission | Surrender, cession, capitulation, resignation; backdown. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Resignation |
| English words defined with "resignation": abdication, abject ♦ deduction, Demission ♦ entailment, explode ♦ implication ♦ lieutenant governor ♦ Re sign, resigned, resignedly, Resignee ♦ shrug, stepping down ♦ To have in view ♦ unhopeful ♦ Watergate, Watergate scandal. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "resignation": Aspatia ♦ Baptism ♦ Crucifix ♦ executor by substitution ♦ Fly Out at ♦ Gudrun ♦ Personnel Turnover, PORT PURSER ♦ resign, Re-sign ♦ substitutionary executor. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Resignation" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. German (acquiescence, resignation, rezignation), Swedish (resignation). |
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Screenplays | Consider that my resignation from the Predacons Megatron. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio) Then you have my resignation, sir. (Licence to Kill; writing credit: Michael G. Wilson; Richard Maibaum) Well his resignation and suicide might be a good way. (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton) | |
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 | Photograph by Matthew Brady circa 1855-1861, mounted on a carte de visite. Some sources state that this view was taken in May 1861, immediately after his resignation from the U.S. Navy.Credit: NAVY. |  | Uncle Sam holds up resignation letter from Huntington Wilson signed "accepted, Woodrow Wilson".Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Macmillan's resignation.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Resignation / R. Westall R.A. pinxt. ; on stone by D. Fabronius.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Felicite de Lamennais | Every stable government in history has depended on the resignation of the poor to being poor. |
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US Constitution | 1791 | The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and of the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year; and if Vacancies happen by Resignation, or otherwise, during the Recess of the Legislature of any State, the Executive thereof may make temporary Appointments until the next Meeting of the Legislature, which shall then fill such Vacancies. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2003 | In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | In case of the death, resignation or recall of any Delegate, Assistant Delegate or Assessor, a successor to him shall be nominated as soon as possible. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | She is resigned, with that resignation that resembles indifference as death resembles sleep. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. |
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Civil Liberties | Argentina | The protests in solidarity with the public teachers' union's strike contributed to the resignation of Lopez Murphy and the reversal of the proposed education cuts. (references) |
Georgia | In May Zviadists held a demonstration demanding the present Government's resignation; fighting broke out between protesters and plainclothes police, and the police forcibly dispersed the demonstration. (references) | |
Kuwait | The criticism led to the offer of resignation by the Cabinet in March 2000, which was not accepted at that time, and to proposals by National Assembly members to amend the constitutional article that permits government suspension of publications without review by the Assembly or the courts. (references) | |
Economic History | Bangladesh | On December 6, 1990, Ershad offered his resignation. (references) |
Lithuania | Vagnorius unsuccessfully submitted his resignation in May. (references) | |
Indonesia | Demonstrators, initially led by students, called for Soeharto's resignation. (references) | |
Human Rights | Colombia | The La Picota incident prompted the resignation of the director of INPEC. (references) |
Georgia | Aoun's release followed the forced resignation of the controversial Tbilisi police chief. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | Chinamasa subsequently informed Gubbay in their meeting that he had been sent to accept Gubbay's resignation. (references) | |
Political Economy | Argentina | Efforts to keep FREPASO as a full member of the ruling coalition succeeded in the months after Alvarez's resignation. (references) |
Sao Tome and Principe | In September President Menezes accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Guilherme Posser da Costa and the MLSTP government. (references) | |
Kuwait | On occasion, pressure exerted by the National Assembly, including through votes of no confidence, has led to the resignation or removal of ministers. (references) | |
Political Rights | Bolivia | On May 22, CNE President Juan Guzman announced his resignation for the same reasons. (references) |
Rwanda | Some of these inquiries have resulted in the sanctioning and resignation of ministers. (references) | |
Russia | After President Yeltsin's December 1999 resignation, Vladimir Putin assumed the post of acting President. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Guatemala | Union leaders were forced to sign letters of resignation from their positions in the union and from their jobs. (references) |
Chad | Such practices were a consequence of parental resignation, dislocation of the family unit, endemic poverty, lack of appropriate legal protection, demographic and population explosion, and civil war. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | RESIGN, v.t. To renounce an honor for an advantage. To renounce an advantage for a greater advantage. 'Twas rumored Leonard Wood had signed A true renunciation Of title, rank and every kind Of military station -- Each honorable station. By his example fired -- inclined To noble emulation, The country humbly was resigned To Leonard's resignation -- His Christian resignation. Politian Greame |
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Bob Woodward | That indeed is the case. Robin Cook, you have to salute any resignation on principle because it's so rare. It just doesn't happen that often. |
Gerald Ford | I said, well, I wish this was not going to happen, because I really had hoped that the things that may come to light were not the truth or were not justifying his resignation. |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | For a more enlarged view of the public finances, with a view of the measures pursued by the Treasury Department previous to the resignation of the late Secretary, I transmit an extract from the last report of that officer. |
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| "Resignation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "Resignation" is used about 2,190 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) | 99.95% | 2,189 | 4,006 |
| Noun (common) | 0.05% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,190 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "resignation": submit one's resignation ♦ tender of resignation ♦ tender one's resignation. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "resignation": post-resignation. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "resignation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaan | aftreding (abdication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dorëheqje (demission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | تنازل (abdicate, back down, cede, concede, concession, condescend, deign, demission, disclaimer, give ground, give in, give up, part with, pass up, recede, recession, relinquish, renounce, renunciation, stand down, step down, surrender, transfer, waive, waiver, yield), تسليم ب (presumption, recognition), تخلي عن, ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, ditch, drop, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, let go, neglect, peg, quit, rap, resign, sign away, strand, suffer, unhand), إستقالة (demission, departure), إستسلام (capitulation, sell out, submitting, surrender), إستعفاء, إعتزال (nook, seclusion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | смирение (humility, meekness, submission), оставка (demission, retirement), примирение със съдбата, помирение (conciliation, reconciliation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 辞职 (resign, Re-sign, resigned, Resigning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rezignace (submission), výpovìï (dismissal, statement, utterance, warning), odstoupení z úřadu, odevzdanost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | udtrædelse (abdication), udmeldelse (abdication). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | berusting (acquiescence, rezignation, submission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | rezignemo (acquiescence, submission), rezignacio, malprotesto (acquiescence, submission), eksiĝo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کناره گیری (Demission, Detachment, Renunciation, Retreat), واگذاری (Abandon, Abandonment, Assignment, Bail, Cession, Conveyance, Demission, Submission, Surrender), تفویض (Conferment, Investiture, Submission), تسلیم (Deference, Delivery, Rendition, Submission, Surrender), استعفا. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | irtisanominen (discharge, dismissal, notice, termination, withdrawal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | démission (abdication of responsibility, resigns). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Resignation (acquiescence, rezignation), Rücktritt (abdication, free and voluntary desistance, recession, rescission, resigns, retirement, withdrawal), Austritt (abdication, discharge, escape, exit, exudation, leaving, outflow, outlet, protrusion, withdrawal), Abschiedsgesuch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παραίτηση (abdication, discontinuance, relinquishment, resigns, waiver), εγκαρτέρηση (perseverance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ותור (abnegation, cession, concession, disclaimer, relinquishment, renunciation, surrender, waiver, yielding), "תפטרות, "כ עות (submissiveness, surrender), רתוי (gentle, indulgent, leniency, lenient, mild, mildness, withdrawal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rezignáció, megnyugvás (acquiescence, relief, satisfaction, sedation, settling, solace), lemondólevél, lemondás (abandonment, abdication, abnegation, cancellation, cession, demission, disclaimer, regrets, renouncement, renunciation, self abnegation, surrender, waiver, waiver of a right), leköszönés, beletörődés (acquiescence, meekness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pengunduran diri (retirement). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rassegnazione, dimissioni (resigns). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 覚悟 (preparedness, readiness, resolution). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | たいしゃ (amnesty, Grand Shrine, leaving office, metabolism, red ocher, regeneration, renewal), おもいきり (resolution, with all one's strength), ふくじゅう (obedience, submission), ほうき (abandonment, abdication, age, broom, fragrant scent, outstanding individual, renunciation, revolt, sweet seventeen, the law, treasured article or vessel, uprising), に"じゅう (submission), かく" (object, preparedness, readiness, resolution), か"ね" (acceptance, conception, idea, notion, preparedness, sense), あきらめ (acceptance, consolation), じしょくねがい (letter of resignation), じしょく (multiplying, one's speech and appearance, reproducing in large numbers), じに" (acknowledgment, admission, pretension, self-appointment), じけつ (self-determination, suicide), とうりょう (boss, chief, chief support, equal amount, equivalent, giving up the game for lost, head, leader, pillar), ていか" (articles of incorporation, clear vision, company statute, diadem, imperial crown), ちし (fatal, lethal, seventy years of age, topography, wisdom tooth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 사직 (Resigning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | surranse (bear, endure, stick out; sufferance, suffer, undergo), irree ass (abdicate, cry off, emanate, relinquish, resign, retire). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | esignationray renúncia (abjuration, cession, departure, disclaimer, disclose, divestment, quitclaim, recession, relinquishment, renounce, renouncement, renunciation, self abnegation, self-devotion, surrender, waiver). (various references) resemnare (submission), renunţare (abnegation, relinquishment, rendering, renounce, renouncement, renunciation), demisie (demission, quit), abdicare (abdication). (various references) отставка (demission, resign, retirement). (various references) rezignacija, ostavka (resign). (various references) resignación (acquiescence, rezignation). (various references) undergivenhet (abjection, submissiveness), avskedsansökan, avsägelse (abdication, renunciation, retractation). (various references) rıza (acquiescence, assent, compliance, consent), vazgeçme (abandonment, abnegation, backdown, cession, disclaimer, discontinuance, discontinuation, discouragement, dispensation, never say die, recantation, relinquishment, remise, remission, renunciation, surrender, waiver, withdrawal), tevekkül, istifa (demission, resigning, tender of resignation), feragat (abnegation, demise, disclaimer, release, relinquishment, remise, remission, renunciation, self denial, surrender, waiver), boyun eğme (bow, indulgence, obedience, subjection, submission, submittal), bırakma (abandonment, disuse, exposure, leaving, never say die, release, relinquishment, renunciation, surrender, withdrawal), çekilme (abdication, breakaway, cession, contraction, defection, low water, pull off, pull out, reflux, retirement, walkout, withdrawal). (various references) відставка (demission, dismission, retirement), покірність (acquiescence, humility, leniency, lowliness, meekness, non-resistance, obedience, passivity, prostration, submission). (various references) sự trao, sự từ chức, sự nhẫn nhục (sufferance), đơn xin từ chức sự từ bỏ. (various references) ymddeoliad. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "resignation": resignations. (additional references) | |
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"Resignation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preignition, reaignation, resignition. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "resignation" (pronounced re'zugnā"shun) |
| 6 | -g n ā" sh u n | designation, impregnation, indignation, stagnation. |
| 5 | -n ā" sh u n | abomination, alienation, antidiscrimination, assassination, carnation, combination, concatenation, condemnation, consternation, contamination, coordination, coronation, culmination, damnation, decaffeination, decontamination, denomination, desalination, destination, determination, detonation, discrimination, disinclination, dissemination, divination, domination, donation, elimination, emanation, examination, explanation, extermination, fascination, germination, hallucination, hibernation, hydrogenation, illumination, imagination, impersonation, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incrimination, indoctrination, insemination, insubordination, intonation, machination, nation, nomination, nondiscrimination, ordination, origination, pagination, pollination, predestination, procrastination, profanation, recrimination, reexamination, reincarnation, rejuvenation, renomination, rumination, subordination, termination, transillumination, vaccination. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accumulation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, adulation, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annihilation, annotation, anticipation, appellation, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, articulation, aspiration, assimilation, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calculation, calibration, cancellation, cannibalization, capitalization, capitulation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, coagulation, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, compilation, complication, computation, computerization, concentration, conciliation, condensation, confabulation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congratulation, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolation, consolidation, constellation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contemplation, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, corporation, correlation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, cultivation, dalmatian, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, 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, denuclearization, denunciation, depopulation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, deregulation, derivation, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, desolation, desperation, destabilization, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, dilation, discoloration, discontinuation, disembarkation, disinflation, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, distillation, diversification, documentation, domestication, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, ejaculation, elaboration, elation, electrification, elevation, elongation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, emulation, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, escalation, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhalation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extrapolation, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, federation, fermentation, fertilization, fibrillation, figuration, filtration, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, formulation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, gastrulation, generalization, generation, gentrification, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, granulation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, harmonization, hesitation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hyperinflation, identification, illustration, imitation, immigration, immunization, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incorporation, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, inflation, information, inhabitation, inhalation, initiation, innovation, inoculation, insinuation, inspiration, installation, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insulation, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, 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, 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, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, mutilation, narration, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, observation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, organisation, organization, orientation, ornamentation, oscillation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overpopulation, overregulation, overvaluation, ovulation, oxidation, pacification, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pontification, popularization, population, precipitation, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procreation, 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, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reflation, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, regulation, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, relation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reregulation, reservation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, revelation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, simulation, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, speculation, stabilization, stagflation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, subluxation, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, tabulation, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, titillation, toleration, transformation, translation, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, triangulation, tribulation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, 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-e-g-i-i-n-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: isoantigen, originates, resinating, resonating. | |
-2 letters: anointers, antinoise, arginines, arointing, gannister, grainiest, ignitrons, ingestion, inserting, insertion, negations, negatrons, nitrogens, orangiest, orienting, originate, rationing, reanoints, reasoning, retaining, rigatonis, seriating, signorina, signorine, sintering, sortieing, straining, trainings. | |
-3 letters: aginners, anginose, angriest, anointer, antigens, arginine, astringe, earnings, enations, engrains, entrains, estragon, ganister, gantries, genitors, gentians, ginniest, granites, grannies. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-i-n-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: denigrations, germinations, integrations, resignations. | |
+2 letters: emarginations, energizations, housetraining, impersonating, impregnations, overstraining. | |
+3 letters: antiaggression, conservatizing, containerising, disintegration, disorientating, generalisation, germanizations, integrationist, interrogations, peregrinations, regimentations, reintegrations, renegotiations. | |
+4 letters: anticarcinogens, antisegregation, centrifugations, counterstaining, disintegrations, generalisations, generalizations, gentrifications, integrationists, intergradations, mongrelizations, mountaineerings, reconsolidating, redintegrations, reinvestigation, reinvigorations, reorganizations. | |
+5 letters: anticholinergics, gastrointestinal, interdigitations, intergenerations, magnetostriction, proletarianising, reconfigurations, regionalizations, reinvestigations. | |
| 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)52 65 73 69 67 6E 61 74 69 6F 6E |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . ... .. --. -. .- - .. --- -. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110011 01101001 01100111 01101110 01100001 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e s i g n a t i o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0073 0069 0067 006E 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)5271857573806786758180 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Historic 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Spoken | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Expressions 16. Expressions: Internet | 17. Translations: Modern 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Orthography 22. Bibliography |
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