10-letter words containing sion
- pasionaria — La (la), real name Dolores Ibarruri. 1895–1989, Spanish Communist leader, who lived in exile in the Soviet Union (1939–75)
- passionary — passional (def 3).
- passionate — having, compelled by, or ruled by intense emotion or strong feeling; fervid: a passionate advocate of socialism.
- passionist — a member of the “Congregation of Barefooted Clerks of the Most Holy Cross and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ,” founded in 1720 and engaged chiefly in missionary work.
- pensionary — a pensioner.
- pensioneer — to canvas votes by promising higher pensions
- pensionnat — a simple boarding house or small hotel in France
- percussion — the striking of one body against another with some sharpness; impact; blow.
- permission — authorization granted to do something; formal consent: to ask permission to leave the room.
- persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
- perversion — the act of perverting.
- possession — the act or fact of possessing.
- precession — the act or fact of preceding; precedence.
- preclusion — to prevent the presence, existence, or occurrence of; make impossible: The insufficiency of the evidence precludes a conviction.
- prehension — the act of seizing or grasping.
- presension — the perception of something before it exists or happens
- presession — the sitting together of a court, council, legislature, or the like, for conference or the transaction of business: Congress is now in session.
- pretension — the laying of a claim to something.
- preversion — a particular account of some matter, as from one person or source, contrasted with some other account: two different versions of the accident.
- procession — the act of moving along or proceeding in orderly succession or in a formal and ceremonious manner, as a line of people, animals, vehicles, etc.
- profession — a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare learned profession.
- propension — propensity.
- propulsion — the act or process of propelling.
- protension — duration
- protrusion — the act of protruding or the state of being protruded.
- provisions — a clause in a legal instrument, a law, etc., providing for a particular matter; stipulation; proviso.
- pultrusion — a process for manufacturing reinforced plastic products in which a bundle of glass fibres is pulled through a resin bath and then through a heated die to shape the resin
- redecision — the act or process of deciding; determination, as of a question or doubt, by making a judgment: They must make a decision between these two contestants.
- redivision — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- regression — the act of going back to a previous place or state; return or reversion.
- reinvasion — the act or an instance of entering (a country, territory, etc) by military force again; a second or subsequent invasion
- repression — the act of repressing; state of being repressed.
- rescission — the act of rescinding.
- responsion — the act of responding or answering.
- revisional — the act or work of revising.
- sessionman — a professional musician who does studio recording work but is not a member of an established performing group.
- sponsional — relating to, involved in or entering into a sponsion
- submersion — to submerge.
- submission — an act or instance of submitting.
- subversion — an act or instance of subverting.
- succession — the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events: many troubles in succession.
- suspension — the act of suspending.
- television — the transmission of programming, in the form of still or moving images, via radio waves, cable wires, satellite, or wireless network to a receiver or other screen.
- tensioning — the act of stretching or straining.
- versioning — the adaptation of classic literary texts for film, which often involves updating or changing the setting
- versionist — a translator
- visionless — the act or power of sensing with the eyes; sight.