| AESTIVATION | • aestivation n. (Biology) A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation. • aestivation n. (Botany) The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration. • aestivation n. (Obsolete) The spending or passing of a summer. |
| AGGRAVATION | • aggravation n. The act of aggravating, or making worse; used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity… • aggravation n. Exaggerated representation. • aggravation n. An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity. |
| CAPTIVATION | • captivation n. The act of captivating or the state of being captivated. • CAPTIVATION n. the act of captivating. |
| CULTIVATION | • cultivation n. The art or act of cultivating; improvement of land for or by agriculture. • cultivation n. The state of being cultivated or used for agriculture. • cultivation n. Devotion of time or attention to the improvement of (something). |
| DECURVATION | • DECURVATION n. downward curvature. |
| DENERVATION | • denervation n. (Medicine) The removal or blocking of a nerve connection to tissue, such as by surgical or chemical means. • DENERVATION n. the act of denervating. |
| DEPRAVATION | • depravation n. Detraction; depreciation. (Can we add an example for this sense?) • depravation n. The act of depraving, or making anything bad; the act of corrupting. • depravation n. The state of being depraved or degenerated; degeneracy; depravity. |
| DEPRIVATION | • deprivation n. (Countable) The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity. • deprivation n. (Uncountable) The state of being deprived. • deprivation n. (Countable) The taking away from a clergyman of his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. |
| INCURVATION | • incurvation n. The act of acquiring or being given a curved form; an instance of curving or bending. • incurvation n. The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend. • incurvation n. (Obsolete) Bowing in reverence or worship. |
| INNERVATION | • innervation n. (Anatomy, zoology)… • INNERVATION n. the state of being innervate. |
| OBSERVATION | • observation n. The act of observing, and the fact of being observed (see observance). • observation n. The act of noting and recording some event; or the record of such noting. • observation n. A remark or comment. |
| PASSIVATION | • passivation n. (Chemistry, materials science) The process of making a material passive (non-reactive) in relation to… • passivation n. (Chemistry) The spontaneous formation of a hard non-reactive surface film (usually an oxide or nitride)… • passivation n. (Control theory) Conversion of a non-passive dynamical system into a passive one. |
| RESERVATION | • reservation n. The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back. • reservation n. Something that is withheld or kept back. • reservation n. (Often in the plural) A limiting qualification regarding certainty; a doubt. |
| TITTIVATION | • tittivation n. Alternative form of titivation. • TITTIVATION n. (slang) smartening up, also TIDIVATION, TITIVATION. |