| ASPERSION | • aspersion n. An attack on somebody’s reputation or good name, often in the phrase to cast aspersions upon…. • aspersion n. (Obsolete) A sprinkling, especially of holy water. • aspersion n. (In the plural) slander, calumny. | 
| DECURSION | • decursion n. (Obsolete) A flowing. • decursion n. (Obsolete) A hostile incursion. • DECURSION n. a military manoeuvre or parade. | 
| DEMERSION | • demersion n. The act of plunging into a fluid; a drowning. • demersion n. The state of being overwhelmed in, or as if in, water. • DEMERSION n. immersion. | 
| DETERSION | • detersion n. The act of deterging or cleansing. • DETERSION n. the act of cleaning. | 
| DETORSION | • detorsion n. Alternative form of detortion. • DETORSION n. the act of detorting; a twisting or warping, also DETORTION. | 
| DIVERSION | • diversion n. (Military) A tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action. • diversion n. A hobby; an activity that distracts the mind. • diversion n. The act of diverting. | 
| EXCURSION | • excursion n. A brief recreational trip; a journey out of the usual way. • excursion n. A wandering from the main subject: a digression. • excursion n. (Aviation) An occurrence where an aircraft runs off the end or side of a runway or taxiway, usually… | 
| IMMERSION | • immersion n. The act of immersing or the condition of being immersed. • immersion n. (Britain, Ireland, informal) An immersion heater. • immersion n. (Mathematics) A smooth map whose differential is everywhere injective, related to the mathematical concept… | 
| INCURSION | • incursion n. An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion. • INCURSION n. a hostile inroad; the action of leaking or running in. | 
| INTORSION | • intorsion n. A winding, bending, or twisting. • intorsion n. (Botany) The bending or twining of any part of a plant toward one side or the other, or in any direction… • INTORSION n. a twist, a twine, also INTORTION. | 
| INVERSION | • inversion n. The action of inverting. • inversion n. The act of being in an inverted state; being upside down, inside out, or in a reverse sequence. • inversion n. (Music) The reversal of an interval; the move of one pitch in an interval up or down an octave. | 
| OBVERSION | • obversion n. The act of turning toward or downward. • obversion n. (Logic) An immediate inference that denies the opposite of something previously affirmed. • OBVERSION n. the act of turning toward or downward. | 
| RECURSION | • recursion n. The act of recurring. • recursion n. (Mathematics) The act of defining an object (usually a function) in terms of that object itself. • recursion n. (Programming) The invocation of a procedure from within itself. | 
| RETORSION | • retorsion n. (Law) An act of retaliation taken by one nation against another as a reprisal. • RETORSION n. the act of retorting or throwing back, also RETORTION. | 
| REVERSION | • reversion n. The action of reverting something. • reversion n. The action of returning to a former condition or practice. • reversion n. The fact of being turned the reverse way. |