| COLORATIONS | • colorations n. Plural of coloration. • COLORATION n. the act of coloring; the state of being colored, also COLOURATION. |
| CORPORATION | • corporation n. A body corporate, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent… • corporation n. The municipal governing body of a borough or city. • corporation n. (Historical) In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers’ and workers’ representatives. |
| DECORATIONS | • decorations n. Plural of decoration. • DECORATION n. the act of decorating. |
| DEFLORATION | • defloration n. The act of deflowering. • DEFLORATION n. rupture of the hymen. |
| DEPLORATION | • deploration n. The act of deploring or lamenting; lamentation. • DEPLORATION n. the act of deploring. |
| ELABORATION | • elaboration n. The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement. • elaboration n. The natural process of formation or assimilation, performed by the living organs in animals and vegetables… • elaboration n. (Computing) Setting up a hierarchy of calculated constants in a language such as Ada so that the values… |
| EVAPORATION | • evaporation n. The process of a liquid converting to the gaseous state. • evaporation n. The process in which all or a portion of liquid (in a container) is turned into vapour, in order to… • evaporation n. (Archaic) That which is evaporated; vapor. |
| EXPLORATION | • exploration n. The process of exploring. • exploration n. The process of penetrating, or ranging over for purposes of (especially geographical) discovery. • exploration n. The (pre-)mining process of finding and determining commercially viable ore deposits (after prospecting)… |
| IGNORATIONS | • IGNORATION n. the act of ignoring. |
| IMPLORATION | • imploration n. The action of imploring; begging, beseeching. • IMPLORATION n. the act of imploring. |
| MELIORATION | • melioration n. Archaic form of amelioration. • MELIORATION n. improvement, betterment. |
| PEJORATIONS | • pejorations n. Plural of pejoration. • PEJORATION n. the degeneration of a word or term e.g. "hector" has degenerated from "hero" to bully. |
| PERFORATION | • perforation n. The act of perforating or the state of being perforated. • perforation n. Any opening in a solid object. • perforation n. (Medicine) An abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture. |
| PERORATIONS | • perorations n. Plural of peroration. • PERORATION n. the concluding part of a discourse; a highly rhetorical speech. |
| PIGNORATION | • pignoration n. The act of pledging or pawning. • pignoration n. (Law) The taking of cattle doing damage, by way of pledge, until compensation is made. • PIGNORATION n. the act of pignorating, giving in pledge or pawn, also PIGNERATION. |
| RESTORATION | • restoration n. The process of bringing an object back to its original state; the process of restoring something. • restoration n. The return of a former monarchy or monarch to power, usually after having been forced to step down. • restoration n. (Theology) The receiving of a sinner to divine favor. |