accreditation | (noun) the act of granting credit or recognition (especially with respect to an educational institution that maintains suitable standards) | - |
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agitation | (noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: excitement, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
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(noun) the act of agitating something; causing it to move around (usually vigorously) | - |
(noun) the feeling of being agitated; not calm | - |
(noun) a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, tempestuousness, unrest |
(noun) a mental state of extreme emotional disturbance | - |
agitator | (noun) one who agitates; a political troublemaker | Synonyms: fomenter |
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blaxploitation | (noun) the exploitation of black people (especially with regard to stereotyped roles in movies) | - |
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capitate | (noun) the wrist bone with a rounded head shape that articulates with the 3rd metacarpus | Synonyms: capitate bone, os capitatum |
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capitation | (noun) a tax levied on the basis of a fixed amount per person | - |
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citation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: commendation |
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(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
(noun) a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding | - |
(noun) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | Synonyms: quotation, quote |
(noun) (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.) | - |
cogitation | (noun) attentive consideration and meditation | Synonyms: study |
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(noun) a carefully considered thought about something | - |
cohabitation | (noun) the act of living together and having a sexual relationship (especially without being married) | - |
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crepitation | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crackling |
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debilitation | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: enervation, enfeeblement, exhaustion |
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decapitation | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: beheading |
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(noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: beheading |
decrepitation | (noun) the crackling or breaking up of certain crystals when they are heated | - |
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delimitation | (noun) a line that indicates a boundary | Synonyms: border, borderline, boundary line, mete |
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elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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equitation | (noun) the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements | Synonyms: horseback riding, riding |
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excitation | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitement |
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(noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: innervation, irritation |
(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitement, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
excogitation | (noun) thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it | - |
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(noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, innovation, invention |
excogitator | (noun) a thinker who considers carefully and thoroughly | - |
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exploitation | (noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: development |
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(noun) an act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly) | Synonyms: using, victimisation, victimization |
facilitation | (noun) act of assisting or making easier the progress or improvement of something | - |
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(noun) (neurophysiology) phenomenon that occurs when two or more neural impulses that alone are not enough to trigger a response in a neuron combine to trigger an action potential | - |
(noun) the condition of being made easy (or easier) | - |
facilitator | (noun) someone who makes progress easier | - |
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felicitation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: congratulation |
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(noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: congratulation |
gravitation | (noun) a figurative movement toward some attraction | - |
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(noun) movement downward resulting from gravitational attraction | - |
(noun) (physics) the force of attraction between all masses in the universe; especially the attraction of the earth's mass for bodies near its surface | Synonyms: gravitational attraction, gravitational force, gravity |
habitat | (noun) the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs | Synonyms: home ground |
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habitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: inhabitancy, inhabitation |
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(noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling, dwelling house, home |
(noun) the native habitat or home of an animal or plant | - |
hesitater | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitator, vacillator, waverer |
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hesitation | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, faltering, waver |
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(noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, indisposition, reluctance |
(noun) indecision in speech or action | Synonyms: vacillation, wavering |
hesitator | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, vacillator, waverer |
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imitation | (noun) copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else | - |
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(noun) something copied or derived from an original | - |
(noun) the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations | - |
(noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, impersonation |
imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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imitator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, emulator |
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(noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: impersonator |
incitation | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitement |
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(noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitement, provocation |
inhabitation | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: habitation, inhabitancy |
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invitation | (noun) a tempting allurement | - |
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(noun) a request (spoken or written) to participate or be present or take part in something | - |
irritation | (noun) unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment | Synonyms: aggravation, provocation |
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(noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, annoying, vexation |
(noun) an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress | Synonyms: discomfort, soreness |
(noun) a sudden outburst of anger | Synonyms: pique, temper |
(noun) the psychological state of being irritated or annoyed | Synonyms: annoyance, botheration, vexation |
(noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, innervation |
(noun) (pathology) abnormal sensitivity to stimulation | - |
jactitation | (noun) (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness | Synonyms: jactation |
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(noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, boasting, self-praise |
(noun) (law) a false boast that can harm others; especially a false claim to be married to someone (formerly actionable at law) | - |
levitation | (noun) the act of raising (a body) from the ground by presumably spiritualistic means | - |
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(noun) movement upward in virtue of lightness | - |
(noun) the phenomenon of a person or thing rising into the air by apparently supernatural means | - |
limitation | (noun) an act of limiting or restricting (as by regulation) | Synonyms: restriction |
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(noun) the quality of being limited or restricted | - |
(noun) a principle that limits the extent of something | Synonyms: restriction |
(noun) the greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed | Synonyms: limit |
(noun) (law) a time period after which suits cannot be brought | - |
meditation | (noun) continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature | Synonyms: speculation |
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(noun) (religion) contemplation of spiritual matters (usually on religious or philosophical subjects) | - |
meditativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, pensiveness |
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mellitate | (noun) a salt of mellitic acid. | - |
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mussitation | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
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nictitation | (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, blinking, eye blink, nictation, wink, winking |
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overexploitation | (noun) exploitation to the point of diminishing returns | Synonyms: overuse, overutilisation, overutilization |
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palpitation | (noun) a rapid and irregular heart beat | - |
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(noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: quiver, quivering, shakiness, shaking, trembling, vibration |
precipitate | (noun) a precipitated solid substance in suspension or after settling or filtering | - |
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precipitateness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitousness, suddenness |
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precipitation | (noun) an unexpected acceleration or hastening | - |
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(noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hastiness, hurriedness, hurry |
(noun) the act of casting down or falling headlong from a height | - |
(noun) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) | Synonyms: downfall |
(noun) the process of forming a chemical precipitate | - |
(noun) the quantity of water falling to earth at a specific place within a specified period of time | - |
precipitator | (noun) removes dust particles from gases by electrostatic precipitation | Synonyms: Cottrell precipitator, electrostatic precipitator |
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premeditation | (noun) planning or plotting in advance of acting | Synonyms: forethought |
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(noun) (law) thought and intention to commit a crime well in advance of the crime; goes to show criminal intent | - |
prestidigitation | (noun) manual dexterity in the execution of tricks | Synonyms: sleight of hand |
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prestidigitator | (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, illusionist, magician |
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recitation | (noun) systematic training by multiple repetitions | Synonyms: drill, exercise, practice, practice session |
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(noun) a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study | Synonyms: class period, course session |
(noun) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance | Synonyms: reading, recital |
(noun) written matter that is recited from memory | - |
recitative | (noun) a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech | - |
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regurgitation | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, puking, vomit, vomiting |
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(noun) recall after rote memorization | - |
(noun) backflow of blood through a defective heart valve | - |
rehabilitation | (noun) the conversion of wasteland into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation | Synonyms: reclamation, renewal |
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(noun) the restoration of someone to a useful place in society | - |
(noun) the treatment of physical disabilities by massage and electrotherapy and exercises | - |
(noun) vindication of a person's character and the re-establishment of that person's reputation | - |
resuscitation | (noun) the act of reviving a person and returning them to consciousness | - |
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resuscitator | (noun) a breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration | - |
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sanitation | (noun) making something sanitary (free of germs) as by sterilizing | Synonyms: sanitisation, sanitization |
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(noun) the state of being clean and conducive to health | - |
sexploitation | (noun) the commercial exploitation of sex or sexuality or explicit sexual material | - |
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solicitation | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: allurement |
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(noun) an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status | - |
(noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, ingathering |
visitation | (noun) an official visit for inspection or supervision | - |
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(noun) an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event | Synonyms: trial, tribulation |
(noun) any disaster or catastrophe | - |