| ADMIRATION | • admiration n. A positive emotion including wonder and approbation; the regarding of another as being wonderful. • admiration n. (Obsolete) Wondering or questioning (without any particular positive or negative attitude to the subject). • admiration n. (Obsolete) Cause of admiration; something to excite wonder, or pleased surprise. |
| ASPIRATION | • aspiration n. The act of aspiring or ardently desiring; an ardent wish or desire, chiefly after what is elevated or… • aspiration n. The action of aspirating. • aspiration n. (Phonetics) A burst of air that follows the release of some consonants. |
| CONSPIRATION | • conspiration n. Agreement or concurrence for some end or purpose. • conspiration n. A plot between two or more people against somebody’s wishes; conspiracy. • CONSPIRATION n. the act or action of plotting or secretly combining. |
| DEASPIRATION | • deaspiration n. The act, process or result of deaspirating. • DEASPIRATION n. the act of deaspirating. |
| DELIRATION | • deliration n. Aberration of the mind; delirium. • DELIRATION n. madness; aberration. |
| ENQUIRATION | • ENQUIRATION n. (dialect) inquiry, also INQUIRATION. |
| EXPIRATION | • expiration n. The act of expiring. • expiration n. The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth. • expiration n. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. |
| INQUIRATION | • inquiration n. (UK, dialect) inquiry. • INQUIRATION n. (Dickens) inquiry, also ENQUIRATION. |
| INSPIRATION | • inspiration n. (Physiology, uncountable) The drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of… • inspiration n. (Countable) A breath, a single inhalation. • inspiration n. A supernatural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified… |
| LEVIRATION | • leviration n. Levirate marriage. • LEVIRATION n. levirate marriage or marriages. |
| PERSPIRATION | • perspiration n. The action or process of perspiring. • perspiration n. (By extension) Hard work. • perspiration n. A saline fluid secreted by the sweat glands; sweat. |
| RESPIRATION | • respiration n. The process of inhaling and exhaling; breathing, breath. • respiration n. An act of breathing; a breath. • respiration n. Any similar process in an organism that lacks lungs that exchanges gases with its environment. |
| SPIRATION | • spiration n. (Archaic) The act of breathing. • spiration n. (Theology) The procession of the Holy Ghost. • SPIRATION n. the act of breathing. |
| SUSPIRATION | • suspiration n. The act of breathing, not necessarily for a sustained period (compare respiration, which is sustained). • SUSPIRATION n. the act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath. |
| TRANSPIRATION | • transpiration n. (Botany) The loss of water by evaporation in terrestrial plants, especially through the stomata; accompanied… • transpiration n. (Physiology) The process of giving off water vapour through the skin or mucous membranes. • transpiration n. The passage of gases through fine tubes. |