15-letter words that end in tion
- fourth position — a position in which the feet are at right angles to the direction of the body, the toes pointing out, with one foot forward and the other foot back.
- funeral oration — a formal speech delivered at a funeral
- gamma radiation — a photon of penetrating electromagnetic radiation (gamma radiation) emitted from an atomic nucleus.
- grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
- gram's solution — (sometimes lowercase) a solution of iodine, potassium iodide, and water, used in staining bacteria.
- granitification — the process or action of forming into granite
- granulitization — the process whereby metamorphism acts on a rock and reduces it to crystalline grains
- graph reduction — A technique invented by Chris Wadsworth where an expression is represented as a directed graph (usually drawn as an inverted tree). Each node represents a function call and its subtrees represent the arguments to that function. Subtrees are replaced by the expansion or value of the expression they represent. This is repeated until the tree has been reduced to a value with no more function calls (a normal form). In contrast to string reduction, graph reduction has the advantage that common subexpressions are represented as pointers to a single instance of the expression which is only reduced once. It is the most commonly used technique for implementing lazy evaluation.
- graviperception — the perception of gravity by plants
- guru meditation — (operating system) The Amiga equivalent of Unix's panic (sometimes just called a "guru" or "guru event"). When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX.YYYYYYYY" may appear, indicating what the problem was. An Amiga guru can figure things out from the numbers. In the earliest days of the Amiga, there was a device called a "Joyboard" which was basically a plastic board built onto a joystick-like device; it was sold with a skiing game cartridge for the Atari game machine. It is said that whenever the prototype OS crashed, the system programmer responsible would concentrate on a solution while sitting cross-legged, balanced on a Joyboard, resembling a meditating guru. Sadly, the joke was removed in AmigaOS 2.04. The Jargon File claimed that a guru event had to be followed by a Vulcan nerve pinch but, according to a correspondent, a mouse click was enough to start a reboot.
- han unification — Han character
- harbour station — the part of a port where boats shelter or station
- harmonic motion — periodic motion consisting of one or more vibratory motions that are symmetric about a region of equilibrium, as the motion of a vibrating string of a musical instrument.
- heart condition — cardiac disorder
- heart operation — a surgical operation performed on the heart
- heat exhaustion — a condition characterized by faintness, rapid pulse, nausea, profuse sweating, cool skin, and collapse, caused by prolonged exposure to heat accompanied by loss of adequate fluid and salt from the body.
- heat-conduction — the transfer of thermal energy between molecules
- hibernicization — the process or act of making Irish
- high definition — a system for screen display of images that are sharper and more detailed than normal, having many more than the standard number of scanning lines per frame: Most TV shows are available in high definition. Abbreviation: HD. See also high-definition television.
- high resolution — a great amount of detail visible in a photographic, TV, or video image
- high-definition — High-definition television or technology is a digital system that gives a much clearer picture than traditional television systems.
- high-resolution — having or capable of producing an image characterized by fine detail: high-resolution photography; high-resolution lens.
- historicization — Act or process of historicizing.
- home automation — the control of domestic appliances by electronically controlled systems
- hospitalisation — (British) alternative spelling of hospitalization.
- hospitalization — the act, process, or state of being hospitalized.
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- human condition — mortality
- hyperactivation — (biology) A form of sperm motility associated with active beating of the flagellum.
- hypercorrection — the substitution, in an inappropriate context, of a pronunciation, grammatical form, or usage thought by the speaker or writer to be appropriate, resulting usually from overgeneralizing in an effort to replace seemingly incorrect forms with correct ones, as the substitution of between you and I for between you and me, by analogy with you and I as the subject of a sentence.
- hyperinvolution — a decrease in the size of an organ following enlargement, usually used to describe the shrinking of the uterus after childbirth
- hyperproduction — an increased or excessive production or output
- hypersalivation — the act or process of salivating.
- hypostatization — to treat or regard (a concept, idea, etc.) as a distinct substance or reality.
- hypoventilation — Breathing at an abnormally slow rate, resulting in an increased amount of carbon dioxide in the blood.
- immortalization — to bestow unending fame upon; perpetuate.
- in conversation — If you say that people are in conversation, you mean that they are talking together.
- in no condition — If you say that someone is in no condition to do something, you mean that they are too ill, upset, or drunk to do it.
- incentivization — (US, business, economics) The act or process of incentivizing.
- inconsideration — without due regard for the rights or feelings of others: It was inconsiderate of him to keep us waiting.
- indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
- indetermination — the quality or condition of being indeterminate.
- infantilization — The act or process of infantilizing, or treating a non-infant as an infant.
- instrumentation — the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- insubordination — the quality or condition of being insubordinate, or of being disobedient to authority; defiance: The employee was fired for insubordination.
- intensification — to make intense or more intense.
- interconnection — to connect with one another.
- interdigitation — An interlinking that resembles the fingers of two hands being locked together.
- intergeneration — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- interiorization — Act or process of interiorizing.