9-letter words ending with TION
Dive into the specific realm of 9-letter words that conclude with the letter TION. This focused section reveals the fascinating ways in which words of this particular length, ending with TION, contribute to the richness of the English language. Whether it's for expanding your vocabulary, solving puzzles, or simply for the love of words, discover how these terms uniquely blend length and ending sound.
| Word | Points | Definition | Sentence example |
|---|---|---|---|
| situation | 9 | a condition or position in which you find yourself | the unpleasant situation (or position) of having to choose between two evils |
| attention | 9 | the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others | - |
| operation | 11 | activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) | it was a joint operation of the navy and air force |
| condition | 12 | the procedure that is varied in order to estimate a variable's effect by comparison with a control condition | - |
| direction | 12 | the act of setting and holding a course | a new council was installed under the direction of the king |
| education | 12 | the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with education (including federal aid to educational institutions and students); created 1979 | - |
| tradition | 10 | a specific practice of long standing | - |
| reception | 13 | the act of receiving | - |
| affection | 17 | a positive feeling of liking | he had trouble expressing the affection he felt |
| promotion | 13 | a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | - |
| intention | 9 | an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | good intentions are not enough |
| objection | 20 | the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | - |
| evolution | 12 | (biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms | - |
| infection | 14 | an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | - |
| radiation | 10 | the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay | - |
| exception | 20 | a deliberate act of omission | with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news |
| salvation | 12 | (theology) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil | - |
| execution | 18 | putting a condemned person to death | - |
| detention | 10 | a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | his detention was politically motivated |
| invention | 12 | a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation | - |
| sensation | 9 | someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | - |
| selection | 11 | the person or thing chosen or selected | - |
| injection | 18 | any solution that is injected (as into the skin) | - |
| probation | 13 | a trial period during which an offender has time to redeem himself or herself | - |
| violation | 12 | the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | - |
| intuition | 9 | an impression that something might be the case | he had an intuition that something had gone wrong |
| formation | 14 | (geology) the geological features of the earth | - |
| animation | 11 | the condition of living or the state of being alive | - |
| addiction | 13 | being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | - |
| isolation | 9 | the act of isolating something; setting something apart from others | - |
| pollution | 11 | the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors | - |
| commotion | 15 | the act of making a noisy disturbance | - |
| rejection | 18 | (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign | rejection of the transplanted liver |
| deception | 14 | a misleading falsehood | - |
| inflation | 12 | a general and progressive increase in prices | in inflation everything gets more valuable except money |
| coalition | 11 | the state of being combined into one body | - |
| extortion | 16 | an exorbitant charge | - |
| reduction | 12 | the act of decreasing or reducing something | - |
| abduction | 14 | (physiology) moving of a body part away from the central axis of the body | - |
| nutrition | 9 | a source of materials to nourish the body | - |
| imitation | 11 | a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | - |
| cremation | 13 | the incineration of a dead body | - |
| seduction | 12 | an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone | - |
| damnation | 12 | the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell | - |
| migration | 12 | a group of people migrating together (especially in some given time period) | - |
| vibration | 14 | a shaky motion | - |
| variation | 12 | an activity that varies from a norm or standard | any variation in his routine was immediately reported |
| detection | 12 | the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | - |
| digestion | 11 | learning and coming to understand ideas and information | his appetite for facts was better than his digestion |
| quotation | 18 | a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | - |
| deduction | 13 | an amount or percentage deducted | - |
| partition | 11 | divide into parts, pieces, or sections | The Arab peninsula was partitioned by the British |
| elevation | 12 | angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | - |
| adoration | 10 | the act of admiring strongly | - |
| dictation | 12 | an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | - |
| narration | 9 | the act of giving an account describing incidents or a course of events | his narration was hesitant |
| exemption | 20 | immunity from an obligation or duty | - |
| induction | 12 | stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | - |
| insertion | 9 | the act of putting one thing into another | - |
| agitation | 10 | a state of agitation or turbulent change or development | - |
| assertion | 9 | a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary) | - |
| rendition | 10 | an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning |
| retention | 9 | the power of retaining and recalling past experience | - |
| deviation | 13 | a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | the deviation from the mean |
| depiction | 14 | representation by drawing or painting etc | - |
| secretion | 11 | the organic process of synthesizing and releasing some substance | - |
| inception | 13 | an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | - |
| carnation | 11 | Eurasian plant with pink to purple-red spice-scented usually double flowers; widely cultivated in many varieties and many colors | - |
| ovulation | 12 | the expulsion of an ovum from the ovary (usually midway in the menstrual cycle) | - |
| valuation | 12 | an appraisal of the value of something | he set a high valuation on friendship |
| abolition | 11 | the act of abolishing a system or practice or institution (especially abolishing slavery) | the abolition of capital punishment |
| summation | 13 | the final aggregate | - |
| desertion | 10 | withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | - |
| flotation | 12 | the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking) | - |
| urination | 9 | the discharge of urine | - |
| cessation | 11 | a stopping | a cessation of the thunder |
| tarnation | 9 | - | - |
| depletion | 12 | the act of decreasing something markedly | - |
| elocution | 11 | an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture | - |
| oxidation | 17 | the process of oxidizing; the addition of oxygen to a compound with a loss of electrons; always occurs accompanied by reduction | - |
| perdition | 12 | (Christianity) the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment | Hurl'd headlong...To bottomless perdition, there to dwell |
| mediation | 12 | the act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement | - |
| hydration | 16 | the process of combining with water; usually reversible | - |
| attrition | 9 | erosion by friction | - |
| adulation | 10 | servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise | - |
| ingestion | 10 | the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) | - |
| defection | 15 | withdrawing support or help despite allegiance or responsibility | - |
| expiation | 18 | compensation for a wrong | - |
| gestation | 10 | the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | - |
| causation | 11 | the act of causing something to happen | - |
| ruination | 9 | an event that results in destruction | - |
| deflation | 13 | a contraction of economic activity resulting in a decline of prices | - |
| erudition | 10 | profound scholarly knowledge | - |
| dentition | 10 | the kind and number and arrangement of teeth (collectively) in a person or animal | - |
| dejection | 19 | solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels | - |
| excretion | 18 | waste matter (as urine or sweat but especially feces) discharged from the body | - |
| privation | 14 | a state of extreme poverty | - |
| resection | 11 | surgical removal of part of a structure or organ | - |
| cognition | 12 | the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning | - |
| evocation | 14 | stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | - |
| palpation | 13 | a method of examination in which the examiner feels the size or shape or firmness or location of something (of body parts when the examiner is a health professional) | - |
| predation | 12 | an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding | - |
| irruption | 11 | a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition) | - |
| nitration | 9 | - | - |
| pulsation | 11 | the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart | - |
| lactation | 11 | feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast | - |
| emanation | 11 | (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost | the emanation of the Holy Spirit |
| emulation | 11 | ambition to equal or excel | - |
| striation | 9 | a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | - |
| refection | 14 | a light meal or repast | - |
| repletion | 11 | eating until excessively full | - |
| iteration | 9 | (computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated | the solution took hundreds of iterations |
| chelation | 14 | (medicine) the process of removing a heavy metal from the bloodstream by means of a chelate as in treating lead or mercury poisoning | - |
| avocation | 14 | an auxiliary activity | - |
| apportion | 13 | give out as one's portion or share | - |
| actuation | 11 | the act of propelling | - |
| neuration | 9 | - | - |
| nervation | 12 | - | - |
| nonaction | 11 | - | - |
| nictation | 11 | a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | - |
| nunnation | 9 | - | - |
| obtention | 11 | the act of obtaining | - |
| obreption | 13 | - | - |
| obvention | 14 | - | - |
| obviation | 14 | the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | - |
| olfaction | 14 | the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents | - |
| ozonation | 18 | - | - |
| pandation | 12 | - | - |
| palmation | 13 | - | - |
| mentation | 11 | the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | - |
| miniation | 11 | - | - |
| vitiation | 12 | nullification by the destruction of the legal force; rendering null | the vitiation of the contract |
| satiation | 9 | the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more | - |
| scalation | 11 | - | - |
| saltation | 9 | a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | - |
| scutation | 11 | - | - |
| seriation | 9 | - | - |
| septation | 11 | the division or partitioning of a cavity into parts by a septum | - |
| serration | 9 | a row of notches | the pliers had serrations to improve the grip |
| siltation | 9 | - | - |
| sigmation | 12 | - | - |
| sinuation | 9 | - | - |
| solvation | 12 | a chemical process in which solvent molecules and molecules or ions of the solute combine to form a compound | - |
| sortition | 9 | making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn | - |
| sortation | 9 | - | - |
| sociation | 11 | - | - |
| spiration | 11 | - | - |
| subaction | 13 | - | - |
| striction | 11 | - | - |
| ructation | 11 | - | - |
| tentation | 9 | - | - |
| testation | 9 | - | - |
| titration | 9 | a measured amount of a solution of unknown concentration is added to a known volume of a second solution until the reaction between them is just complete; the concentration of the unknown solution (the titer) can then be calculated | - |
| ululation | 9 | a long loud emotional utterance | - |
| vallation | 12 | - | - |
| vacuation | 14 | - | - |
| vernation | 12 | (botany) the arrangement of young leaves in a leaf bud before it opens | - |
| vendition | 13 | the act of selling goods for a living | - |
| sulcation | 11 | - | - |
| sulfation | 12 | - | - |
| sublation | 11 | - | - |
| placation | 13 | the act of placating and overcoming distrust and animosity | - |
| planation | 11 | the process of erosion whereby a level surface is produced | - |
| pinnation | 11 | - | - |
| plication | 13 | an angular or rounded shape made by folding | a plication on her blouse |
| preoption | 13 | - | - |
| prenotion | 11 | - | - |
| premotion | 13 | - | - |
| prelation | 11 | - | - |
| prolation | 11 | - | - |
| proration | 11 | the proportional limitation of production or distribution of something (e.g. crude oil or natural gas) to some fractional part of the total capacity of each producer | - |
| pronation | 11 | rotation of the hands and forearms so that the palms face downward | - |
| proaction | 13 | - | - |
| purgation | 12 | purging the body by the use of a cathartic to stimulate evacuation of the bowels | - |
| quotition | 18 | - | - |
| raciation | 11 | - | - |
| redaction | 12 | putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | - |
| reedition | 10 | - | - |
| recaution | 11 | - | - |
| recaption | 13 | - | - |
| reboation | 11 | - | - |
| reliction | 11 | - | - |
| reflation | 12 | inflation of currency after a period of deflation; restore the system to a previous state | - |
| reptation | 11 | - | - |
| retortion | 9 | - | - |
| restation | 9 | - | - |
| peltation | 11 | - | - |
| phonation | 14 | the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract | - |
| hortation | 12 | - | - |
| impaction | 15 | a disorder in which a tooth is so crowded in its socket that it cannot erupt normally | - |
| indiction | 12 | a 15-year cycle used as a chronological unit in ancient Rome and adopted in some medieval kingdoms | - |
| indention | 10 | the space left between the margin and the start of an indented line | - |
| incretion | 11 | - | - |
| impletion | 13 | - | - |
| inanition | 9 | weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | - |
| incaution | 11 | the trait of forgetting or ignoring possible danger | - |
| insection | 11 | - | - |
| irisation | 9 | - | - |
| intortion | 9 | - | - |
| inunction | 11 | anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual | - |
| jactation | 18 | (pathology) extremely restless tossing and twitching usually by a person with a severe illness | - |
| jawbation | 21 | - | - |
| largition | 10 | - | - |
| laudation | 10 | - | - |
| latration | 9 | - | - |
| lallation | 9 | gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | - |
| libration | 11 | (astronomy) a real or apparent slow oscillation of a moon or satellite | the libration of the moon |
| lineation | 9 | the line that appears to bound an object | - |
| liquation | 18 | - | - |
| mactation | 13 | - | - |
| luctation | 11 | - | - |
| connation | 11 | - | - |
| crenation | 11 | one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | - |
| curtation | 11 | - | - |
| curvation | 14 | - | - |
| decoction | 14 | (pharmacology) the extraction of water-soluble drug substances by boiling | - |
| darnation | 10 | - | - |
| dealation | 10 | - | - |
| dentation | 10 | - | - |
| detortion | 10 | - | - |
| detrition | 10 | effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | - |
| dormition | 12 | celebration in the Eastern Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Assumption in the Roman Catholic Church and is also celebrated on August 15th | - |
| emication | 13 | - | - |
| cognation | 12 | (anthropology) related by blood | - |
| coemption | 15 | - | - |
| collation | 11 | a light informal meal | - |
| exoration | 16 | - | - |
| exsection | 18 | - | - |
| exsertion | 16 | - | - |
| evitation | 12 | - | - |
| exaration | 16 | - | - |
| evanition | 12 | - | - |
| evagation | 13 | - | - |
| exudation | 17 | a substance that oozes out from plant pores | - |
| falcation | 14 | - | - |
| filiation | 12 | inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline | - |
| fellation | 12 | oral stimulation of the penis | - |
| foetation | 12 | - | - |
| foliation | 12 | (architecture) leaf-like architectural ornament | - |
| furcation | 14 | the place where something divides into branches | - |
| gammation | 14 | - | - |
| gemmation | 14 | asexual reproduction in which a local growth on the surface or in the body of the parent becomes a separate individual | - |
| gradation | 11 | relative position in a graded series | subtle gradations in color |
| guttation | 10 | - | - |
| gustation | 10 | the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth | - |
| grivation | 13 | - | - |
| emunction | 13 | - | - |
| epilation | 11 | the act of removing hair (as from an animal skin) | - |
| epulation | 11 | - | - |
| epuration | 11 | - | - |
| balection | 13 | - | - |
| bijection | 20 | - | - |
| bilection | 13 | - | - |
| bisection | 13 | dividing into two equal parts | - |
| bolection | 13 | - | - |
| cassation | 11 | - | - |
| caudation | 12 | - | - |
| caseation | 11 | - | - |
| clavation | 14 | - | - |
| ciliation | 11 | - | - |
| attuition | 9 | - | - |
| arenation | 9 | - | - |
| arcuation | 11 | - | - |
| accretion | 13 | an increase by natural growth or addition | - |
| abjection | 20 | a low or downcast state | - |
| abruption | 13 | an instance of sudden interruption | - |
| afflation | 15 | - | - |
| adduction | 13 | (physiology) moving of a body part toward the central axis of the body | - |
| ademption | 14 | - | - |
| acylation | 14 | the process of introducing an acyl group into a compound | - |
| advection | 15 | (meteorology) the horizontal transfer of heat or other atmospheric properties | - |
| stacation | 11 | - | - |
| daycation | 15 | - | - |
| gaycation | 15 | - | - |
| glycation | 15 | - | - |
| haycation | 17 | - | - |
| agflation | 13 | - | - |
