| ACCRETIONS | • accretions n. Plural of accretion. • ACCRETION n. accumulation; the addition of parts to form a whole. |
| COMPLETION | • completion n. The act or state of being or making something complete; conclusion, accomplishment. • completion n. (Law) The conclusion of an act of conveyancing concerning the sale of a property. • completion n. (American football) A forward pass that is successfully caught by the intended receiver. |
| CONCRETION | • concretion n. The process of aggregating or coalescing into a mass. • concretion n. A solid, hard mass formed by a process of aggregation or coalescence. • concretion n. (Petrology) A rounded mass of a mineral, sometimes found in sedimentary rock or on the ocean floor. |
| DEPLETIONS | • depletions n. Plural of depletion. • DEPLETION n. the act of depleting. |
| DISCRETION | • discretion n. Individual justice from experience in quality of perception: discrete. • discretion n. The quality of being discreet. • discretion n. The ability to make wise choices or decisions. |
| ETIOLATING | • etiolating v. Present participle of etiolate. • ETIOLATE v. to make pale by preventing exposure to sunlight. |
| ETIOLATION | • etiolation n. (Botany) Growth process of plants grown in the absence of light, characterized by long, weak stems… • etiolation n. (Botany) Blanching of plants, accomplished by excluding the light of the sun; the condition of a blanched plant. • etiolation n. Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease. |
| ETIOLOGIES | • etiologies n. Plural of etiology Alternative spelling of aetiologies. • ETIOLOGY n. the science of causes, esp. of disease, also AETIOLOGY. |
| ETIOLOGIST | • etiologist n. A practitioner of etiology. • ETIOLOGIST n. a student of etiology, also AETIOLOGIST. |
| EXCRETIONS | • excretions n. Plural of excretion. • EXCRETION n. the act of excreting. |
| IMPLETIONS | • impletions n. Plural of impletion. • IMPLETION n. filling, fullness. |
| INCRETIONS | • incretions n. Plural of incretion. • INCRETION n. internal secretion. |
| OBSOLETION | • obsoletion n. Obsolescence. • OBSOLETION n. obsolescence. |
| PETIOLATED | • petiolated adj. (Botany, zoology) Having a petiole. • PETIOLATED adj. having a petiole, a leafstalk, also PETIOLATE, PETIOLED. |
| PETIOLULES | • petiolules n. Plural of petiolule. • PETIOLULE n. a small petiole, or the petiole of a leaflet. |
| REPLETIONS | • repletions n. Plural of repletion. • REPLETION n. the state of being replete. |
| SECRETIONS | • secretions n. Plural of secretion. • SECRETION n. something that is secreted. |
| SUPPLETION | • suppletion n. The supplying of something lacking. • suppletion n. (Linguistics, grammar) The use of an unrelated word or phrase to supply inflected forms otherwise lacking… • suppletion n. (Grammar) More loosely, the use of unrelated (or distantly related) words for semantically related words… |