11-letter words that end in ion
- deglutition — the act of swallowing
- degradation — You use degradation to refer to a situation, condition, or experience which you consider shameful and disgusting, especially one which involves poverty or immorality.
- degustation — the act of sampling a wide variety of foods, wines, etc.
- dehortation — an exhortation against a course of action
- dehydration — the act or process of dehydrating.
- deification — If you talk about the deification of someone or something, you mean that they are regarded with very great respect and are not criticized at all.
- deisolation — to remove from isolation.
- delectation — pleasure; enjoyment
- delibration — (obsolete, uncountable) The act of stripping off bark.
- delineation — the act or process of delineating.
- demarcation — Demarcation is the establishment of boundaries or limits separating two areas, groups, or things.
- demarkation — the determining and marking off of the boundaries of something.
- demibastion — half a bastion, having only one flank, at right angles to the wall
- demigration — moving from one place to another
- denervation — to cut off the nerve supply from (an organ or body part) by surgery or anesthetic block.
- denigration — to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner; sully; defame: to denigrate someone's character.
- denitration — Chemistry. to free from nitric acid or nitrates; remove oxides of nitrogen from.
- deoxidation — (mineralogy) The process of extracting the oxygen content of a dissolved oxide, or of removing dissolved oxygen, with the aid of a reducing agent.
- deploration — the act of deploring
- deplumation — to deprive of feathers; pluck.
- depollution — to eliminate, clean up, or decrease pollution in (an area).
- deportation — the act of expelling an alien from a country; expulsion
- depravation — to make morally bad or evil; vitiate; corrupt.
- deprecation — to express earnest disapproval of.
- depredation — The depredations of a person, animal, or force are their harmful actions, which usually involve taking or damaging something.
- deprivation — If you suffer deprivation, you do not have or are prevented from having something that you want or need.
- dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
- description — You can say that something is beyond description, or that it defies description, to emphasize that it is very unusual, impressive, terrible, or extreme.
- desecration — a desecrating or being desecrated
- desiccation — Desiccation is the process of becoming completely dried out.
- designation — A designation is a description, name, or title that is given to someone or something. Designation is the fact of giving that description, name, or title.
- desperation — Desperation is the feeling that you have when you are in such a bad situation that you will try anything to change it.
- dessication — Misspelling of desiccation.
- destination — The destination of someone or something is the place to which they are going or being sent.
- destitution — Destitution is the state of having no money or possessions.
- destruction — Destruction is the act of destroying something, or the state of being destroyed.
- detestation — intense hatred; abhorrence
- deuteration — the process of introducing deuterium into a molecule or chemical compound
- devaluation — a decrease in the exchange value of a currency against gold or other currencies, brought about by a government
- devastation — Devastation is severe and widespread destruction or damage.
- diffraction — the phenomenon exhibited by wave fronts that, passing the edge of an opaque body, are modulated, thereby causing a redistribution of energy within the front: it is detectable in light waves by the presence of a pattern of closely spaced dark and light bands (diffraction pattern) at the edge of a shadow.
- discerption — The action of pulling something apart.
- discreation — to reduce to nothing; annihilate.
- disfunction — dysfunction.
- disillusion — to free from or deprive of illusion, belief, idealism, etc.; disenchant.
- disjunction — the act of disjoining or the state of being disjoined: a disjunction between thought and action.
- dislocation — an act or instance of dislocating.
- dismutation — (biochemistry) A disproportionation reaction, especially in a biological context, in which oxidized and reduced forms of a chemical species are produced simultaneously.
- disposition — the predominant or prevailing tendency of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude: a girl with a pleasant disposition.
- disputation — the act of disputing or debating; verbal controversy; discussion or debate.