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Definition: Speculation |
SpeculationNoun1. A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence. 2. A hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); "speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he dismissed it as mere conjecture". 3. An investment that is very risky but could yield great profits; "he knew the stock was a speculation when he bought it". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "speculation" was first used: sometime around 1380. (references) |
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Finance | Dealing in a commodity or financial asset with a view to obtaining a profit on the prospective change in the market value of the item in question ; buying and selling of securities or commodities for profit. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The act of knowingly investing funds in a venture carrying higher-than-average risks in the hope of making above-average profits. Speculators expect to make a profit because of price changes. (references) | |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Sometimes speculative purchasing can cause particular prices to rise above their "true worth" simply because the speculative purchasing is artificially increasing the demand. Speculative selling can also cause prices to fall below "true value" in a similar fashion. In some situations price rises due to speculative purchasing cause further speculative purchasing in the hope that the price will continue to rise. This creates a positive feedback loop in which prices rise dramatically above the underlying "value" or "worth" of the items. This is known as an economic bubble (or sometimes a speculative bubble). Such a period of increasing speculative purchasing is very often followed by one of speculative selling in which the price falls in a crash (see Stock market crash). This is often even more dramatic than the period of rising prices.
Speculators are comically pictured as speculating in pork bellies and such and often losing their shirts or making a fortune upon small market changes. Speculation exists especially in futures which involve leverage that can transform a small market movement into a huge gain or loss.
Most non-professional traders lose money on speculation. Occasionally some dramatic event will occur such as the effort of the Hunts to corner the silver market or the currency speculations of George Soros.
Speculation can be economically useful as it can transfer risk from one party to another. For example, a pork bellies future effectively transfers risk from a farmer who is guaranteed a price for his pork bellies to a speculator who has the financial resources to withstand a lose should the price of pork bellies drop.
Speculation is the main approach to stock purchases now, with people betting on a gain in price "buy low sell high" and many companies now not even issueing dividends. Increasing of the stock price is the generally the main goal of CEO's, and making and sustaining a profit is only an indirect part of that process.
See also: Equity investment, Investment, Financial markets, Stock market bubble, Tobin tax, Tulipomania
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Speculation."
Synonyms: SpeculationSynonyms: conjecture (n), guess (n), hypothesis (n), supposition (n), surmisal (n), surmise (n), venture (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amusement | Cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun; quinze, thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat. |
Barter | Trade, commerce, mercature, buying and selling, bargain and sale; traffic, business, nundination, custom, shopping; commercial enterprise, speculation, jobbing, stockjobbing, agiotage, brokery. |
Chance 2 | Statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances; bookmaking; assurance; speculation, gaming. |
Essay | Noun: essay, trial, endeavor, attempt; aim, struggle, venture, adventure, speculation, coup d'essai, debut; probation; (experiment). |
Experiment | Speculation, random shot, leap in the dark. |
Intention | Speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot; blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke; (uncertainty); fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer; limit. |
Mart | Investment; speculation. |
Supposition | Conjecture; guess, guesswork, speculation; rough guess, shot, shot in the dark; conjecturality; surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion; estimate, approximation (nearness). |
Thought | Noun: thought; exercitation of the intellect, exercise of the intellect; intellection; reflection, cogitation, consideration, meditation, study, lucubration, speculation, deliberation, pondering; head work, brain work; cerebration; deep reflection; close study, application; (attention). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Speculation |
| English words defined with "speculation": Common sense ♦ Dilettant ♦ jerry-builder ♦ permissible, Philosophation, positivist, profitable ♦ question ♦ rationalist ♦ Speculative theology, Speculatory ♦ Theoretics, Theoric, tipster, To be beside one's self, To do danger, tout, Trancscendental ♦ venture ♦ wonder. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "speculation": Abode, Addition ♦ Broom, BULL, Bulls ♦ Capel Court, Chamber, Chandelier ♦ FOOL ♦ gnomes of Zurich, Gymnast, Gypsy ♦ Jewels ♦ kremvax ♦ Lottery, Luggage ♦ Make a Hit, memetics ♦ passive public information policy, Pictures ♦ Raffle, reckless bankruptcy and reduction of assets, Ropes ♦ Spirit or Specter ♦ Tadpole, tights ♦ Underground ♦ Women, Writing. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "speculation": Philosophation ♦ Theory. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The Marriage Speculation (1917) | |
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 | The dangers of speculation. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | All authorities agree that extreme speculation is dangerous. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The future of stock speculation. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Poster, composed of six different images, highlighting behavior that impedes perestroika: drunkenness, laziness, covetousness, bribery, speculation, embezzlement] / Kollektiv avtorov. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles | Without speculation there is no good and original observation. |
Charles Baudelaire | For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. |
Marcus T. Cicero | Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature. |
Samuel Butler | What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, ''I bet that my Redeemer liveth.'' |
Samuel Johnson | When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four. |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | All the rest, in speculation at least, was perfectly smooth. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | A tendency to speculation, though it may keep woman quiet, as it does man, yet makes her sad. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | How all of this comes about has been a subject of speculation and experiments for more than a century. (references) | |
Recently, scientific studies have demonstrated that bedsharing, between mother and baby, can alter sleep patterns of the mother and baby. These studies have led to speculation that bedsharing, sometimes referred to as co-sleeping, may also reduce the risk of SIDS. While bedsharing may have certain benefits (such as encouraging breast feeding), there are not scientific studies demonstrating that bedsharing reduces SIDS. Some studies actually suggest that bedsharing, under certain conditions, may increase the risk of SIDS. If mothers choose to sleep in the same beds with their babies, care should be taken to avoid using soft sleep surfaces. (references) | ||
Business | Russian banks preferred to invest in high-risk, high-yield instruments, and in currency speculation. (references) | |
GM's Vauxhall Motors Ltd. has largely been overshadowed by events at Rover and Ford but has recently expanded its production facilities at Luton and Ellesmere Port. This followed speculation that it was moving its production facilities to mainland Europe. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Kenya | Although there was much public speculation to the contrary, an FBI report, released in April, concluded that the evidence collected was most consistent with suicide, and that it was unlikely that Father Kaiser had been murdered. (references) |
Economic History | Greece | A similar wave of speculation was beaten back in fall 1997, following the Asian financial crisis. (references) |
Jamaica | Weakness in the financial sector, speculation, and low levels of investment erode confidence in the productive sector. (references) | |
Human Rights | Turkey | The extralegal aspects of the transaction fueled speculation that some weapons may have disappeared. (references) |
Trinidad and Tobago | Despite public speculation about possible political motives, indications are that corruption was at the root of the incident. (references) | |
Nigeria | There was widespread speculation that Ige and others were killed in connection with the political dispute between the Osun State Governor, Bisi Akanda, and Osun State Deputy Governor, Iyiola Omisore. (references) | |
Political Economy | BULGARIA | However, bidders still complain that tendering processes are frequently unclear and/or subject to irregularities, fueling speculation on corruption in government tenders. (references) |
TAIWAN | The Central Bank of China (CBC) intervenes in the foreign exchange market when it feels that speculation or "drastic fluctuations" in the exchange rate may impair normal market adjustments. (references) | |
THAILAND | More recently, the government has restricted the supply of baht at any one time to 50 million (about $1.12 million) per non-resident counter party (unless there is an underlying transaction requiring the currency) to cut down on offshore speculation. (references) | |
Trade | Kazakhstan | The volume of lending is low, with Kazakhstani banks concentrating on currency speculation and short-term trade finance. (references) |
India | There are no restrictions on the use of such loans, except that they cannot be used for real estate or for stock market speculation. (references) | |
Switzerland | The National Bank has authority to introduce measures concerning minimum reserve requirements, foreign currency position, foreign source funds and a calendar for public issues of bonds and shares, but these are intended for use only to counter exceptional circumstances such as massive speculation resulting in permanent over-valuation of the Swiss currency, causing significant problems for the Swiss export industry. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamation of the press agent with a particular publicity. Public attention was once somewhat diverted from this garment to Miss Lillian Russell's refusal to wear it, and many were the conjectures as to her motive, the guess of Miss Pauline Hall showing a high order of ingenuity and sustained reflection. It was Miss Hall's belief that nature had not endowed Miss Russell with beautiful legs. This theory was impossible of acceptance by the male understanding, but the conception of a faulty female leg was of so prodigious originality as to rank among the most brilliant feats of philosophical speculation! It is strange that in all the controversy regarding Miss Russell's aversion to tights no one seems to have thought to ascribe it to what was known among the ancients as "modesty." The nature of that sentiment is now imperfectly understood, and possibly incapable of exposition with the vocabulary that remains to us. The study of lost arts has, however, been recently revived and some of the arts themselves recovered. This is an epoch of renaissances, and there is ground for hope that the primitive "blush" may be dragged from its hiding-place amongst the tombs of antiquity and hissed on to the stage. |
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Rush Limbaugh | Partly because of the breadth of the relationship Chirac and Hussein had created in a relatively short period of time and the obvious warmth of their personal ties, there was intense speculation about the less visible aspects of the relationship. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | By preventing the extension of the credit system it measurably cut off the means of speculation and retarded its progress in monopolizing the most valuable of the public lands. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Any uncertainty now as to whether the act will be extended gives rise to price speculation, to withholding of goods from the market in anticipation of rising prices, and to delays in achieving maximum production. |
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| "Speculation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.94% of the time. "Speculation" is used about 1,673 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) | 99.94% | 1,672 | 5,005 |
| Noun (common) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,673 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "speculation". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Mizpah | N/A | Biblical | Speculation |
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Expressions using "speculation": property speculation ♦ with speculation. Additional references. | |
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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 "speculation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | spekulim (jobbery, jobbing, money spinner, profiteering, spec), meditim (rationale), arsyetim (argumentation, descant, intellection, logic, rationality, rationalization, reasoning, recollection, Rede, understanding). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مضاربة في البورصة, تفكر (contemplate, contemplation, meditation, ponder, rumination, speculate), تحزر (speculate), تخمين (appraisal, assessment, estimate, estimation, guess, guess-work, presumption, prognosis, rating, valuation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | спекулация (gamble, jobbery, rig, spec), размишляване, размишление (cogitation, contemplation, meditation, muse, musing, reflection, think), хипотеза (hypothesis), теория (doxy, notion, theory), предположение (assumption, conjecture, guess, hypothesis, if, postulate, presumption, presupposition, suggestion, supposition, surmise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 猜想, 推測 (conjecture, speculate, surmise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | spekulace, teorie (theory), rozjímání (contemplation, meditation, recollection), přemýšlení (contemplation, muse, thinking, thought), hloubání, dohady (guesswork, talk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | spekulation (trading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | speculatie (trading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | spekulativo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | keinottelu (trading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | spéculation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spekulation (spec, supposition), Mutmaßung (conjecture, supposition, surmise). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κερδοσκοπία (profiteering). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "שער" (assumption, hypothesis, presumption, supposition, surmise), "עלאת "שערות, "ר"ור (contemplation, meditation, reflection, rumination, think, thought), ספקולצי", ספסור (blackmarketing, profiteering), ספסרות (blackmarketing, mediation, profiteering), סבר" (conjecture, logical argument, opinion, presumption, supposition, surmise, view). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | töprengés (cogitation, pensiveness, rumination), spekuláció, elmélkedés (cogitation, conscience, contemplation, meditation, reflection, rumination), elmélet (conception, doctrine, ism, theory). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | spekulasi (gamble). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | speculazione (flutter, venture). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 思索 (meditation, thinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | そうば (estimation, market price), 'ばひょう (gossip, hearsay, irresponsible criticism, rumor), やまか" (guesswork), スペキュレーション , いちろくしょうぶ (gambling), さきものがい (buying futures), とうき (abandonment, ceramics, current term, fighting spirit, giving up, party discipline, party rules or regulations, pottery, registration, registry, rise, this plane, throwing away, winter, winter term, wintertime), しい (arbitrariness, circumference, demonstration, personal opinion, selfishness, show of force, surroundings, thinking, thought), すい"う (accomplishment, elaboration on, execution, hydroponics, improvement, polish, revision, surmising), くうそうば (fictitious transaction), しさく (composition of a poem, experiment, measure, meditation, policy, stay, thinking, trial manufacture), しまおくそく (conjectures), しべ" (defrayal, disbursement, payment, very convenient), おくせつ (conjecture, hypothesis, surmise), おくそく (guess, supposition), しゃ"う (darken, inclined shaft, pretence, shade, slanting rays of light, social intercourse, social life). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 숙 (Contemplation, Deliberation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | sheiltynys (concept, conjecture, fancy, fantasy, hypothesis, presumption, supposition, theory), jannoo tuarymaght (speculate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eculationspay especulação (jobbery, spec, theory). (various references) supoziţie (conjecture, if, supposition), speculaţie (conjecture, hypothesis, theory), teorie (abstraction, ideology, theory), reflecţie (reflection, thought), presupunere (assumption, conjecture, guess, idea, if, presumption, supposition, surmise), operaţie (action, agency, intervention, operation, process, reckoning, work), meditaţie (brown study, coaching, introversion, meditation, musing), joc la bursã, ipotezã (assumption, conjecture, hypothesis, suggestion, theory), afacere (affair, affairs, bargain, business, business deal, case, commerce, concern, deal, dealings, enterprise, go, job, matter, palaver, pennyworth, percentage, show, tasks, trade, transaction, undertaking), acţiune (act, action, activity, agency, deed, feat, gesture, go, move, operation, proceeding, share, story, undertaking, work). (various references) спекуляция (agiotage, profiteering, spec, spivvery, venture), рассмотрение (advisement, approval, consideration, review, scrutinies), размышление (cogitation, meditation, reasoning, reflection, reflexion, self-communion, thinking). (various references) spekulacija (flier), špekulacija (spec). (various references) especulación (spec). (various references) spekulation (spec, venture). (various references) spekülasyon (adventure, spec), teori (theory), tahmin (approximation, calculation, conjecture, divination, estimate, estimation, forecast, guess, judgement, outlook, prediction, presumption, presupposition, prognostication, prophecy, shot, supposition, surmise), kuramsal düşünme, borsada oynama. (various references) спекуляція (jobbery, spec, venture), тіпотеза, міркування (case, cogitation, consideration, contemplation, descant, rationale, reflection, reflexion, think, thinking). (various references) sự suy xét (consideration), sự nghiên cứu sự suy đoán. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | theorema, theoria. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | speculari. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | speculationem. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "speculation": speculations. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "speculation": antispeculation, overspeculation, superspeculation. (additional references) | |
Words containing "speculation": overspeculations, superspeculations. (additional references) | |
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"Speculation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seculation, specualtion, speculatipon, specultion, spesulation. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "speculation" (pronounced spe'kyulā"shun) |
| 8 | -k y u l ā" sh u n | articulation, calculation, inoculation, miscalculation, recalculation. |
| 7 | -y u l ā" sh u n | accumulation, coagulation, confabulation, depopulation, deregulation, emulation, formulation, granulation, manipulation, overpopulation, overregulation, ovulation, population, regulation, reregulation, simulation, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, tabulation, tribulation. |
| 6 | -u l ā" sh u n | adulation, annihilation, appellation, assimilation, cancellation, capitulation, compilation, congratulation, consolation, constellation, correlation, demodulation, desolation, distillation, elation, escalation, exhalation, extrapolation, fibrillation, gastrulation, inhalation, installation, insulation, isolation, jubilation, modulation, mutilation, oscillation, revelation, titillation, vacillation, ventilation, violation. |
| 5 | -l ā" sh u n | contemplation, deflation, dilation, disinflation, ejaculation, hyperinflation, inflation, legislation, reflation, relation, stagflation, translation, triangulation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abomination, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, accreditation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, aspiration, assassination, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calibration, cannibalization, capitalization, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolidation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, designation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, elaboration, electrification, elevation, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, fabrication, facilitation, falsification, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, figuration, filtration, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, generalization, generation, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, information, inhabitation, initiation, innovation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, molestation, monopolization, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, observation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overvaluation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, 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, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reservation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, stabilization, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, toleration, transformation, transillumination, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, 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 | |
Direct Anagrams: peculations. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: inculpates, inoculates, inosculate, neoplastic, peculation, pleonastic, pleustonic. | |
-2 letters: antipoles, coastline, conepatls, consulate, copulates, inculpate, inoculate, poultices, pulsation, scapolite, sectional, suctional, tenacious. | |
-3 letters: aconites, alnicoes, alunites, antipole, apolunes, auctions, autopsic, canoeist, canopies, capelins, capitols, capstone, captions, captious, cautions, cleanups, coaliest, coalpits, conepatl, copulate, counties, couplets, cutlines, ectopias, elations, elutions, insolate, insulate, lacteous, lactones, lacunose. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-l-n-o-p-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cupellations, exculpations, postulancies, speculations. | |
+2 letters: conceptualise, conceptualism, conceptualist, encapsulation, inoperculates. | |
+3 letters: conceptualised, conceptualises, conceptualisms, conceptualists, conceptualizes, encapsulations, nonspeculative, pertinaciously, reduplications, republications, ultraprecision. | |
+4 letters: antispeculation, conceptualising, conceptualistic, conceptualities, conceptualizers, overspeculating, overspeculation, prepublications, recapitulations, ultraprecisions. | |
+5 letters: microencapsulate, overspeculations, reconceptualizes, superspeculation. | |
| 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: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Fiction | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Spoken 11. Quotations: Speeches 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Names: Derived from 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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