9-letter words that end in tion
- inanition — exhaustion from lack of nourishment; starvation.
- incaution — lack of caution; heedlessness; carelessness.
- inception — beginning; start; commencement.
- incretion — a substance, as a hormone, that is secreted internally.
- indention — the indenting of a line or lines in writing or printing.
- indiction — a proclamation made every 15 years in the later Roman Empire, fixing the valuation of property to be used as a basis for taxation.
- induction — the act of inducing, bringing about, or causing: induction of the hypnotic state.
- infection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- inflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- ingestion — to take, as food, into the body (opposed to egest).
- injection — the act of injecting.
- insection — A cutting in; incision.
- insertion — the act of inserting: the insertion of a coin in a vending machine.
- intention — an act or instance of determining mentally upon some action or result.
- intuition — direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process; immediate apprehension.
- inunction — the act of anointing.
- invection — (obsolete) An inveighing against; invective.
- invention — the act of inventing.
- irisation — the effect or quality of being iridescent; iridescence.
- irruption — a breaking or bursting in; a violent incursion or invasion.
- isolation — an act or instance of isolating.
- iteration — the act of repeating; a repetition.
- jactation — boasting; bragging.
- lactation — the secretion or formation of milk.
- lallation — a speech defect in which l is pronounced instead of r, or in which an l- sound is mispronounced.
- largition — an act of, or the quality of, generosity or largesse
- latration — an instance of barking
- laudation — an act or instance of lauding; encomium; tribute.
- libration — a real or apparent oscillatory motion, especially of the moon.
- lineation — an act or instance of marking with or tracing by lines.
- liquation — (metallurgy) The partial melting of a mixture of metals or ores in order to separate components.
- luctation — an effort; a struggle
- mactation — the act of sacrificial killing
- mancation — a holiday for a group of men, esp. one that involves typically masculine pursuits
- mediation — action in mediating between parties, as to effect an agreement or reconciliation.
- mentation — mental activity.
- migration — the process or act of migrating.
- miniation — the act of miniating
- mutuation — (obsolete) The act of borrowing or exchanging.
- narration — something narrated; an account, story, or narrative.
- nervation — venation.
- neuration — venation, as of an insect's wings.
- nictation — The action or process of blinking.
- nitration — Chemistry. a salt or ester of nitric acid, or any compound containing the univalent group –ONO 2 or NO 3 .
- nonaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- nunnation — the doubling, in writing, of the final vowel symbol to indicate the addition, in speech, of the indefinite suffix n to certain nouns.
- nutrition — the act or process of nourishing or of being nourished.
- obduction — (obsolete) The act of drawing or laying over, as a covering.
- objection — a reason or argument offered in disagreement, opposition, refusal, or disapproval.
- obreption — Canon Law. fraud in obtaining or attempting to obtain something from an official. Compare subreption (def 1).