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3,263 words match “RATIO”

EMIGRATIONIST n.
An advocate or promoter of emigration.
EMPLASTRATION n. 2 definitions
The act or process of grafting by inoculation; budding. [Obs.] Holland.
ENARRATION n.
A detailed exposition; relation. [Obs.] Hakewill.
ENUMERATION n. 3 definitions
noticed. Because almost every man we meet possesses these, we leave them out of our enumeration. Paley.
EPURATION n.
Purification.
EQUILIBRATION n. 2 definitions
eing balanced; equipoise. In . . . running, leaping, and dancing, nature's laws of equilibration are observed. J. Denham.
ERRATION n.
A wandering; a roving about. [Obs.] Cockeram.
EVAPORATION n. 4 definitions
substance is converted from a liquid state into, and carried off in, vapor; as, the evaporation of water, of ether, of camphor.
EVENTRATION n. 3 definitions
A tumor containing a large portion of the abdominal viscera, occasioned by relaxation of the walls of the abdomen.
EVIRATION n.
Castration. [Obs.]
EVISCERATION a.
A disemboweling.
EXAGGERATION n. 3 definitions
The act of heaping or piling up. [Obs.] "Exaggeration of sand." Sir M. Hale.
EXARATION n.
Act of plowing; also, act of writing. [Obs.] Bailey.
EXASPERATION n. 2 definitions
te of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger. Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits. South.
EXAUCTORATION n.
See Exauthoration.
EXAUGURATION n.
The act of exaugurating; desecration. [Obs.]
EXAUTHORATION n.
Deprivation of authority or dignity; degration. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.
EXCEREBRATION n.
The act of removing or beating out the brains.
EXECRATION n. 2 definitions
ings of hatred; imprecation; utter detestation expressed. Cease, gentle, queen, these execrations. Shak.
EXENTERATION n.
Act of exenterating. [R.]
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