8-letter words that end in tion
- election — A formal and organized process of electing or being elected, especially of members of a political body.
- emiction — the passing of urine
- enaction — The process of enacting something.
- equation — A statement that the values of two mathematical expressions are equal (indicated by the sign =).
- erection — The action of erecting a structure or object.
- eruption — An act or instance of erupting.
- evection — (astronomy) Modification of the lunar orbit due to the gravitational effects of the Sun.
- eviction — The action of expelling someone, especially a tenant, from a property; expulsion.
- exaction — The action of demanding and obtaining something from someone, especially a payment or service.
- exertion — Physical or mental effort.
- fetation — the state of pregnancy
- fixation — the act of fixing or the state of being fixed.
- flection — the act of bending.
- fraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- friction — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
- fruition — attainment of anything desired; realization; accomplishment: After years of hard work she finally brought her idea to full fruition.
- function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- gelation — the process of gelling.
- gumption — initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness: With his gumption he'll make a success of himself.
- gyration — the act of gyrating; circular or spiral motion; revolution; rotation; whirling.
- halation — a blurred effect around the edges of highlight areas in a photographic image caused by reflection and scattering of light through the emulsion from the back surface of the film support or plate.
- himation — a garment consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth thrown over the left shoulder and wrapped about the body.
- ideation — the process of forming ideas or images.
- ignition — the act or fact of igniting; state of being ignited.
- illation — the act of inferring.
- inaction — absence of action; idleness.
- inertion — Want of activity or exertion; inertness; quietude.
- insition — The insertion of a scion in a stock; engraftment.
- iphition — (in the Iliad) a Trojan warrior slain by Achilles.
- jobation — an extensive rebuke; scolding
- junction — an act of joining; combining.
- juration — an act of taking or administering an oath.
- k ration — an emergency field ration for U.S. armed forces when other food or rations are not available, consisting of three separate packaged meals of concentrated or dehydrated food.
- lavation — the process of washing.
- laxation — a loosening or relaxing.
- legation — a diplomatic minister and staff in a foreign mission.
- lenition — Phonetics. a phonological process that weakens consonant articulation at the ends of syllables or between vowels, causing the consonant to become voiced, spirantized, or deleted.
- levation — The act of raising; elevation or upward motion, such as that produced by the action of a levator muscle.
- libation — a pouring out of wine or other liquid in honor of a deity.
- ligation — the act of ligating, especially of surgically tying up a bleeding artery.
- limation — The act of filing or polishing.
- lobation — lobate formation.
- location — memory location
- locution — a particular form of expression; a word, phrase, expression, or idiom, especially as used by a particular person, group, etc.
- lunation — the period of time from one new moon to the next (about 29½ days); a lunar month.
- luxation — The act of luxating, or the state of being luxated; a dislocation.
- monition — Literary. admonition or warning.
- munition — Usually, munitions. materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition.
- mutation — Biology. a sudden departure from the parent type in one or more heritable characteristics, caused by a change in a gene or a chromosome. an individual, species, or the like, resulting from such a departure.
- natation — an act or the skill of swimming.