11-letter words that end in on
- connotation — The connotations of a particular word or name are the ideas or qualities which it makes you think of.
- consecution — a sequence or succession of events or things
- consolation — the act of consoling or state of being consoled; solace
- consumption — The consumption of fuel or natural resources is the amount of them that is used or the act of using them.
- contraction — When a woman who is about to give birth has contractions, she experiences a very strong, painful tightening of the muscles of her womb.
- contraption — You can refer to a device or machine as a contraption, especially when it looks strange or you do not know what it is used for.
- conurbation — A conurbation consists of a large city together with the smaller towns around it.
- convocation — A convocation is a meeting or ceremony attended by a large number of people.
- convolution — Convolutions are curves on an object or design that has a lot of curves.
- cooperation — joint operation or action
- coopetition — Collaboration between business competitors, in the hope of mutually beneficial results.
- corporation — A corporation is a large business or company.
- correlation — A correlation between things is a connection or link between them.
- corrugation — a corrugating or being corrugated
- cortication — having a cortex.
- coruscation — a gleam or flash of light
- counter-ion — an ion in solution that associates itself with an ion of opposite charge on the surface of a member of a solute.
- covariation — a correlated variation
- craft union — a labour organization membership of which is restricted to workers in a specified trade or craft
- crance iron — a metal ring or cap to which bobstays and shrouds are secured, at the forward end of a bowsprit.
- creep up on — If you creep up on someone, you move slowly closer to them without being seen by them.
- crenelation — Alternative form of crenellation.
- crenulation — any of the teeth or notches of a crenulate structure
- crepitation — the act of crepitating
- crimination — An accusation of wrongdoing, a recrimination.
- crucifixion — Crucifixion is a way of killing people which was common in the Roman Empire, in which they were tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
- cryosurgeon — a surgeon who specializes in cryosurgery
- cuff button — the button for a shirt cuff.
- culmination — Something, especially something important, that is the culmination of an activity, process, or series of events happens at the end of it.
- cultivation — the planting, tending, improving, or harvesting of crops or plants
- cupellation — the process of recovering precious metals from lead by melting the alloy in a cupel and oxidizing the lead by means of an air blast
- cuspidation — decoration using cusps
- cut a melon — to declare an abnormally high dividend to shareholders
- cyanidation — (metallurgy) The extraction of gold or silver from their ores using the cyanide process.
- cybernation — the use of computers to control and carry out operations, as in manufacturing
- cyclization — the process by which the atoms of a compound become a closed ring
- daffynition — A form of pun involving the reinterpretation of an existing word, on the basis that it sounds like another word or phrase.
- deaccession — to sell (a work of art) from a museum's or gallery's collections, especially with a view to acquiring funds for the purchase of other works.
- dead season — a period during which there is very little activity either in business or in the political world
- dead-reckon — to calculate (one's position) by means of dead reckoning.
- deamidation — (biochemistry) The conversion of glutamine, asparagine, glutamine residues in a polypeptide to glutamic acid or aspartic acid by treatment with strong acid, transamidase or deamidase.
- deamination — to remove the amino group from (a compound).
- debarkation — Disembarkation.
- decantation — the act of decanting a liquid
- declamation — a rhetorical or emotional speech, made esp in order to protest or condemn; tirade
- declaration — A declaration is an official announcement or statement.
- declination — the angular distance, esp in degrees, of a star, planet, etc, from the celestial equator measured north (positive) or south (negative) along the great circle passing through the celestial poles and the body
- decollation — to behead; decapitate.
- decondition — to take away or cancel conditioned responses in (a person)
- decurvation — the act of curving downwards