15-letter words that end in tion
- diagonalisation — (UK) In matrix algebra, the process of converting a square matrix into a diagonal matrix, usually to find the eigenvalues of the matrix.
- diagonalization — (in linear algebra) the process of diagonalizing
- dichotomisation — Alternative spelling of dichotomization.
- dichotomization — The act of dichotomizing or the thing dichotomized; classification.
- differentiation — Biology. the process by which cells or tissues change from relatively generalized to specialized kinds, during development.
- dilatory motion — a formal proposal to be discussed and voted on in a debate whose effect is to interrupt the business under discussion at the time
- direct question — interrogative sentence
- direct taxation — Direct taxation is a system in which a government raises money by means of direct taxes.
- disarticulation — The act of disarticulating.
- disassimilation — The decomposition of complex substances, within an organism, into simpler ones suitable only for excretion, with the release of energy; a normal nutritional process that is the reverse of assimilation.
- disconfirmation — to prove to be invalid.
- discontinuation — a breach or interruption of continuity or unity: Progress was delayed by repeated discontinuations of work.
- discoordination — Impaired coordination.
- dishabilitation — the imposition of a legal disqualification
- disintoxication — detoxification (def 4).
- disorganisation — Alternative spelling of disorganization.
- disorganization — a breaking up of order or system; disunion or disruption of constituent parts.
- dissatisfaction — the state or attitude of not being satisfied; discontent; displeasure.
- diversification — the act or process of diversifying; state of being diversified.
- docking station — device: charger
- double negation — the principle that a statement is equivalent to the denial of its negation, as it is not the case that John is not here meaning John is here
- drip irrigation — a system of crop irrigation involving the controlled delivery of water directly to individual plants through a network of tubes or pipes.
- dystrophication — the process by which a body of water becomes dystrophic.
- electrification — The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
- encephalization — (biology) the amount of brain mass exceeding that related to an animal's total body mass.
- eta abstraction — eta conversion
- etherealization — The act or process of etherealizing.
- excommunication — The act of excommunicating or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.
- exemplification — The act of exemplifying; a showing or illustrating by example.
- experimentation — The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
- extemporisation — Alternative spelling of extemporization.
- extemporization — The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
- extensification — The process of making something (more) extensive.
- extensivization — the process of (something) becoming more extensive, esp in agriculture
- exteriorisation — Mental awareness of the form of something that cannot be directly visualised.
- exteriorization — The physical embodiment of an abstraction.
- externalisation — Alternative spelling of externalization.
- externalization — A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
- extreme unction — Catholicism: last rites
- eye examination — an eye test
- familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
- familiarization — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- fatal exception — (programming, operating system) A program execution error which is trapped by the operating system and which results in abrupt termination of the program. It may be possible for the program to catch some such errors, e.g. a floating point underflow; others, such as an invalid memory access (an attempt to write to read-only memory or an attempt to read memory outside of the program's address space), may always cause control to pass to the operating system without allowing the program an opportunity to handle the error. The details depend on the language's run-time system and the operating system. See also: fatal error.
- filling station — service station (def 1).
- fire prevention — safety measures to decrease fire risk
- first intention — See under intention (def 5a).
- first-intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
- focal infection — an infection in which bacteria are localized in some region, as the tonsils or the tissue around a tooth, from which they may spread to some other organ or structure of the body.
- formularization — The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.