| CILIATION | • ciliation n. (Biology) The quality of having cilia. • ciliation n. The growth and development of cilia. • CILIATION n. the state of having cilia, hairlike lashes borne by a cell. |
| DEVIATION | • deviation n. The act of deviating; wandering off the correct or true path or road. • deviation n. A departure from the correct way of acting. • deviation n. The state or result of having deviated; a transgression; an act of sin; an error; an offense. |
| EXPIATION | • expiation n. An act of atonement for a sin or wrongdoing. • expiation n. (Obsolete) The act of expiating or stripping off. • EXPIATION n. the act of expiating. |
| FILIATION | • filiation n. (Uncountable) The condition of being a child of a specified parent. • filiation n. (Countable) The ancestry or lineage shared by a group having the same bloodline. • filiation n. (Countable, law) The determination of paternity. |
| FOLIATION | • foliation n. (Botany) The process of forming into a leaf or leaves. • foliation n. (Publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination. • foliation n. (Codicology, publishing) The numbering of the folios of a manuscript or a book. |
| MEDIATION | • mediation n. Negotiation to resolve differences conducted by an impartial party. • mediation n. The act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement. • mediation n. (Gallicism) heritage interpretation. |
| MINIATION | • miniation n. The act or result of miniating; a painting or tingeing with vermilion. • MINIATION n. the act of painting with minium. |
| OBVIATION | • obviation n. The act of obviating; deterrence or prevention. • OBVIATION n. the action of obviating something. |
| RACIATION | • raciation n. The division of people or other organisms into races. • RACIATION n. the formation locally of new biological groups smaller than species. |
| RADIATION | • radiation n. The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like diverging rays of light. • radiation n. The process of radiating waves or particles. • radiation n. The transfer of energy via radiation. |
| SATIATION | • satiation n. The state of being satiated or sated, of being full, of being at maximum capacity. • SATIATION n. the state of being satiated, also SATIETY. |
| SERIATION | • seriation n. The arrangement of things in a series. • seriation n. The relative dating of archaeological artifacts in a chronological order. • SERIATION n. arrangement or position in a series. |
| SOCIATION | • sociation n. (Botany) A plant community. • sociation n. (Ecology) The stable interactions and influences among the species within a coenose. • sociation n. (Sociology) Interactions and relationships among people. |
| STRIATION | • striation n. (Countable, mineralogy) One of a number of parallel grooves and ridges in a rock or rocky deposit, formed… • striation n. (Countable, geomorphology) One of a number of parallel scratch lines in rock outcrops, formed when glaciers… • striation n. The action of marking with a stria. |
| VARIATION | • variation n. The act of varying; a partial change in the form, position, state, or qualities of a thing. • variation n. A related but distinct thing. • variation n. (Nautical) The angular difference at the vessel between the direction of true north and magnetic north. |
| VITIATION | • vitiation n. A reduction in the value, or an impairment in the quality of something. • vitiation n. Moral corruption. • vitiation n. An abolition or abrogation. |