deglutition

noun deglutition

• bite — If you bite something, you use your teeth to cut into it, for example in order to eat it or break it. If an animal or person bites you, they use their teeth to hurt or injure you.
• fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
• rumination — to chew the cud, as a ruminant.
• absorption — The absorption of a liquid, gas, or other substance is the process of it being soaked up or taken in.
• ingurgitate — to swallow greedily or in great quantity, as food.