9-letter words that end in tion
- obtention — (rare, science) The act of obtaining.
- obvention — (obsolete) The act of happening incidentally; that which happens casually; an incidental advantage; an occasional offering.
- obviation — to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary: to obviate the risk of serious injury.
- olfaction — the act of smelling.
- omination — (obsolete) The act of ominating; presaging; omen.
- operation — an act or instance, process, or manner of functioning or operating.
- opination — The state or process of opining. For example:.
- ovulation — to produce and discharge eggs from an ovary or ovarian follicle.
- oxidation — the process or result of oxidizing.
- ozonation — the act or instance of ozonating
- palmation — a palmate state or formation.
- palpation — to examine by touch, especially for the purpose of diagnosing disease or illness.
- pandation — the action of warping under weight
- partition — a division into or distribution in portions or shares.
- peltation — having the stalk or support attached to the lower surface at a distance from the margin, as a leaf; shield-shaped.
- perdition — a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
- phonation — rapid, periodic opening and closing of the glottis through separation and apposition of the vocal cords that, accompanied by breath under lung pressure, constitutes a source of vocal sound.
- pinnation — pinnate condition or formation.
- placation — to appease or pacify, especially by concessions or conciliatory gestures: to placate an outraged citizenry.
- planation — the process whereby an irregular land surface is made flat or level by erosion.
- plication — the act or procedure of folding.
- pollution — the act of polluting or the state of being polluted.
- preaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- predation — depredation; plundering.
- prelation — the setting of one above another
- premotion — a previous motion
- prenotion — a preconception.
- preoption — the right of first choice
- privation — lack of the usual comforts or necessaries of life: His life of privation began to affect his health.
- proaction — the process or state of acting or of being active: The machine is not in action now.
- probation — the act of testing.
- prolation — the time relationship between a semibreve and a minim in mensural notation.
- promotion — advancement in rank or position.
- pronation — rotation of the hand or forearm so that the surface of the palm is facing downward or toward the back (opposed to supination).
- proration — to make an arrangement on a basis of proportional distribution.
- pulsation — the act of pulsating; beating or throbbing.
- purgation — the act of purging.
- quotation — something that is quoted; a passage quoted from a book, speech, etc.: a speech full of quotations from Lincoln's letters.
- quotition — division by repeated subtraction
- raciation — the evolutionary development of races
- radiation — Physics. the process in which energy is emitted as particles or waves. the complete process in which energy is emitted by one body, transmitted through an intervening medium or space, and absorbed by another body. the energy transferred by these processes.
- reboation — a repeated bellowing sound
- recaption — the taking back without violence of one's property or a member of one's family or household unlawfully in the possession or custody of another.
- recaution — alertness and prudence in a hazardous situation; care; wariness: Landslides ahead—proceed with caution.
- reception — the act of receiving or the state of being received.
- redaction — to put into suitable literary form; revise; edit.
- reduction — the act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- refection — refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- reflation — restoration of economic activity, consumer prices, etc., to higher levels by manipulating monetary policy.
- rejection — the act or process of rejecting.