Words ending in "-MATION"

Dr. Ravi P. Reddy (India)
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  1. acclamation
    enthusiastic approval or recognition
  2. acclimation
    adaptation to a new environment or situation
  3. affirmation
    the act of asserting or stating something
  4. amalgamation
    the combination of two or more commercial companies
  5. animation
    quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
  6. approximation
    a rough calculation of quantity or degree or worth
  7. automation
    the act of implementing the control of equipment
  8. collimation
    the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope
  9. confirmation
    information that verifies
  10. conformation
    acting according to certain accepted standards
  11. consummation
    the act of bringing to completion or fruition
  12. counterreformation
    a reformation intended to counter the results of a prior reformation
  13. cremation
    the incineration of a dead body
  14. decimation
    the destruction or killing of a large part of the population
  15. declamation
    a long, impassioned speech
  16. defamation
    an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
  17. deformation
    alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it
  18. desquamation
    loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales
  19. disaffirmation
    the act of asserting that something alleged is not true
  20. disinformation
    lies told and spread deliberately to influence others
  21. estimation
    an approximate calculation of quantity or degree or worth
  22. exclamation
    an abrupt excited utterance
  23. exhumation
    the act of digging something out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried
  24. formation
    the act of establishing or creating something
  25. gemmation
    asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual
  26. inflammation
    the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up
  27. information
    knowledge acquired through study or experience
  28. inhumation
    the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave
  29. intimation
    a slight suggestion or vague understanding
  30. lachrymation
    shedding tears
  31. lacrimation
    shedding tears
  32. legitimation
    the act of making lawful
  33. malformation
    something abnormal or anomalous
  34. misestimation
    a mistake in calculating
  35. misinformation
    information that is incorrect
  36. overestimation
    an appraisal that is too high
  37. preformation
    a theory (popular in the 18th century and now discredited) that an individual develops by simple enlargement of a tiny fully formed organism (a homunculus) that exists in the germ cell
  38. proclamation
    a formal public statement
  39. reaffirmation
    renewed affirmation
  40. reclamation
    rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
  41. reformation
    improvement in the condition of institutions or practices
  42. sublimation
    a change directly from the solid to the gaseous state
  43. summation
    calculating the total of two or more numbers
  44. transformation
    the act of changing in form or shape or appearance
  45. underestimation
    an estimation that is too low
Created on Thu Feb 21 02:51:24 EST 2013 (updated Thu Feb 21 20:19:08 EST 2013)

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