| accretion | (noun) (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance) | - |
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| (noun) an increase by natural growth or addition | Synonyms: accumulation |
| (noun) (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment | - |
| (noun) (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles | - |
| (noun) (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases | - |
| (noun) something contributing to growth or increase | - |
| accretionary | (adjective) marked or produced by accretion | - |
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| aetiologic | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiological, etiologic, etiological |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiological, etiologic, etiological |
| aetiological | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, etiologic, etiological |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, etiologic, etiological |
| aetiologist | (noun) a specialist in the etiology of diseases | Synonyms: etiologist |
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| aetiology | (noun) the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: etiology |
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| (noun) the cause of a disease | Synonyms: etiology |
| completion | (noun) a concluding action | Synonyms: closing, culmination, mop up, windup |
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| (noun) (American football) a successful forward pass in football | Synonyms: pass completion |
| concretion | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, conglutination |
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| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, compression, densification |
| (noun) a hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body | Synonyms: calculus |
| (noun) the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys) | - |
| deletion | (noun) the act of deleting something written or printed | - |
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| (noun) the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage | Synonyms: cut, excision |
| (noun) (genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome | - |
| (noun) any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases | Synonyms: omission |
| depletion | (noun) the act of decreasing something markedly | - |
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| (noun) the state of being depleted | - |
| discretion | (noun) the trait of judging wisely and objectively | Synonyms: discernment |
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| (noun) the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies | Synonyms: free will |
| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discreetness, prudence |
| (noun) refined taste; tact | Synonyms: delicacy |
| (noun) freedom to act or judge on one's own | - |
| discretional | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretionary |
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| discretionary | (adjective) having or using the ability to act or decide according to your own discretion or judgment | Synonyms: discretional |
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| (adjective) (especially of funds) not earmarked; available for use as needed | - |
| etiolate | (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: blanched, etiolated |
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| (verb) make pale or sickly | - |
| (verb) bleach and alter the natural development of (a green plant) by excluding sunlight | - |
| (verb) make weak by stunting the growth or development of | - |
| etiolated | (adjective) (especially of plants) developed without chlorophyll by being deprived of light | Synonyms: blanched, etiolate |
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| etiolation | (noun) (botany) the act of causing a plant to develop without chlorophyll by growing it without exposure to sunlight | - |
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| (noun) the act of weakening by stunting the growth or development of something | - |
| (noun) a pale and sickly appearance | - |
| etiologic | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiological |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiological |
| etiological | (adjective) relating to the etiology of a disease | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiologic |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiologic, aetiological, etiologic |
| etiologist | (noun) a specialist in the etiology of diseases | Synonyms: aetiologist |
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| etiology | (noun) the philosophical study of causation | Synonyms: aetiology |
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| (noun) the cause of a disease | Synonyms: aetiology |
| excretion | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excreting, voiding |
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| (noun) waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | Synonyms: body waste, excrement, excreta, excretory product |
| facetious | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: bantering, tongue-in-cheek |
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| facetiously | (adverb) not seriously | Synonyms: jokingly, tongue-in-cheek |
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| facetiousness | (noun) playful humor | - |
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| hypersecretion | (noun) excessive secretion | - |
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| indiscretion | (noun) a petty misdeed | Synonyms: peccadillo |
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| (noun) the trait of being injudicious | Synonyms: injudiciousness |
| palaetiology | (noun) the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes) | Synonyms: paletiology |
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| paletiology | (noun) the explanation of past events in terms of scientific causes (as geological causes) | Synonyms: palaetiology |
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| petiole | (noun) the slender stem that supports the blade of a leaf | Synonyms: leafstalk |
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| petiolule | (noun) the stalk of a leaflet | - |
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| repletion | (noun) eating until excessively full | Synonyms: surfeit |
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| (noun) the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more | Synonyms: satiation, satiety |
| secretion | (noun) a functionally specialized substance (especially one that is not a waste) released from a gland or cell | - |
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| (noun) the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance | Synonyms: secernment |