| ABDICATION | • abdication n. (Obsolete) The act of disowning or disinheriting a child. • abdication n. The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder. • abdication n. The voluntary renunciation of sovereign power. |
| ADDITIONAL | • additional adj. Supplemental or added to something. • additional n. Something added. • ADDITIONAL adj. existing by way of addition. |
| ADMIRATION | • admiration n. A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful. • admiration n. (Obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject). • admiration n. (Obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise. |
| AMIANTHOID | • amianthoid adj. Resembling amianthus. • AMIANTHOID adj. of or like amianthus, asbestos with silky fibres, also AMIANTHINE, AMIANTHOIDAL. |
| AUDITORIAL | • auditorial adj. Auditory. • AUDITORIAL adj. relating to an auditor. |
| DILATATION | • dilatation n. Prolixity; diffuse discourse. • dilatation n. The act of dilating; expansion; an enlarging on all sides; the state of being dilated. • dilatation n. A dilation or enlargement of a canal or other organ. |
| DIVAGATION | • divagation n. Straying off from a course or way. • divagation n. (Medicine) Incoherent or wandering speech and thought. • DIVAGATION n. a wandering about or going astray; digression. |
| ERADIATION | • eradiation n. Emission of radiance in all directions. • ERADIATION n. emission of radiance. |
| IDEATIONAL | • ideational adj. Pertaining to the formation of ideas or thoughts of objects not immediately present to the senses. • IDEATIONAL adj. pertaining to, or characterized by, ideation. |
| INDAGATION | • indagation n. (Obsolete) Inquiry, investigation. • indagation n. (Medicine) The determination of the condition of the genital parts at the termination of the puerperium… • INDAGATION n. the act of searching out. |
| IRRADIATOR | • irradiator n. A device used to irradiate. • IRRADIATOR n. something or someone that irradiates. |
| LAPIDATION | • lapidation n. (Law) The practice or act of stoning, sometimes to the point of death, as punishment. • LAPIDATION n. (archaic) the act of stoning. |
| OMMATIDIAL | • ommatidial adj. Of or pertaining to the ommatidia. • OMMATIDIAL adj. relating to an ommatidium. |
| PARASITOID | • parasitoid n. Any organism that is parasitic during part of its life cycle, especially one that eventually kills its host. • PARASITOID n. an insect parasitic in one phase of the life history, thereafter independent. |
| RADIATIONS | • radiations n. Plural of radiation. • RADIATION n. heat transport without the intervention of matter, as in the transport of heat from the Sun to the Earth. |
| RADICATION | • radication n. The process of taking root, or state of being rooted. • radication n. (Botany) The disposition of the roots of a plant. • radication n. (Arithmetic, rare) The process of extracting a number’s root. |
| STAMINODIA | • staminodia n. Plural of staminodium. • STAMINODIUM n. a sterile stamen, also STAMINODE. |
| VALIDATION | • validation n. The act of validating something. • validation n. Something, such as a certificate, that validates something; attestation, authentication, confirmation… • validation n. The process whereby others confirm the validity of one’s emotions. |