Words containing tion

Abacination means: The act of abacinating.

Abaction means: Stealing cattle on a large scale.

Abalienation means: The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.

Abannation means: Alt. of Abannition

Abannition means: Banishment.

Abarticulation means: Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis.

Abbreviation means: The act of shortening, or reducing.

Abbreviation means: The result of abbreviating; an abridgment.

Abbreviation means: The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America.

Abbreviation means: One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers.

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.