| APPELLATION | • appellation n. (Formal or dated) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; a designation. • appellation n. A geographical indication for wine that describes its geographic origin. • APPELLATION n. a name or title. |
| CANCELLATION | • cancellation n. The act, process, or result of cancelling; as, the cancellation of certain words in a contract, or of… • cancellation n. (Mathematics) The operation of striking out common factors, e.g. in both the dividend and divisor. • cancellation n. (Philately) A postmark that marks a postage stamp so as to prevent its reuse. |
| CASTELLATION | • castellation n. (Uncountable) The act or process of making a building into a castle. • castellation n. (Uncountable) The addition of battlements to a building, as for example when a feudal manor house needed… • castellation n. (Countable) Any of a set of slots or grooves in an object, often machined into a metal part, as for… |
| COMPELLATION | • compellation n. (Archaic, rare) An act of addressing a person by a certain name or title. • compellation n. (Archaic, rare) A name or title by which someone is addressed or identified; an appellation, a designation. • compellation n. (Obsolete) An act of addressing or speaking to someone; also, the address or speech so made. |
| CONSTELLATION | • constellation n. (Astronomy) An asterism, an arbitrary formation of stars perceived as a figure or pattern, or a division… • constellation n. An image associated with a group of stars. • constellation n. (Astrology) The configuration of planets at a given time (notably of birth), as used for determining a horoscope. |
| CRENELLATION | • crenellation n. (Countable, uncountable) A pattern along the top of a parapet (fortified wall), most often in the form… • crenellation n. (Uncountable) The act of crenellating; adding a top row that looks like the top of a medieval castle. • crenellation n. (Countable) Any of a series of notches with fancied resemblance to such battlements, as for example… |
| CUPELLATION | • cupellation n. The assaying of precious metal in a cupel. • CUPELLATION n. assaying or refining using a cupel; the separation of silver from lead in this way. |
| FELLATION | • fellation n. Alternative form of fellatio. • FELLATION n. oral stimulation of the penis, also FELLATIO. |
| FLABELLATION | • flabellation n. The act of keeping cool by use of a fan or fan-like instrument. • FLABELLATION n. the act of fanning. |
| FLAGELLATION | • flagellation n. A beating consisting of lashes, notably as corporal punishment or mortification, such as a whipping or scourging. • flagellation n. (Botany) The formation by plants of flagella, or their arrangement. • FLAGELLATION n. the act or practice of flagellating. |
| INTERPELLATION | • interpellation n. (Politics) The act of interpellating (questioning); the period in which government officials are questioned… • interpellation n. (Philosophy) The act of interpellating: the act of identification. • interpellation n. The act of interpelling: interruption. |
| LAMELLATION | • lamellation n. A lamellate layer or segment. • LAMELLATION n. the state of being lamellate. |
| OCELLATION | • ocellation n. (Uncountable) The development of eye-like markings, such as those on the wing of a butterfly or tail of a peacock. • ocellation n. (Countable) An eye-like marking; ocellus. • OCELLATION n. the state of being ocellated. |
| PIXELLATION | • pixellation n. Alternative form of pixelation. • PIXELLATION n. the act of dividing an image into pixels for display in a digital format, also PIXILATION, PIXILLATION. |
| PRECANCELLATION | • precancellation n. The act of precancelling. • PRECANCELLATION adj. preceding a cancellation. |
| SCUTELLATION | • scutellation n. (Zoology) The entire covering or arrangement of scales, as on the legs and feet of a bird. • SCUTELLATION n. an arrangement of scales or plates on an animal's body. |
| TESSELLATION | • tessellation n. (Uncountable) The property or fact of tessellating. • tessellation n. (Countable) A tiling pattern with no gaps; the result of tessellating an area or plane. • tessellation n. (Less common) polygon tessellation. |