incubation

incubation is a 10-letter English word with 6 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 19 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A sitting on eggs for the purpose of hatching young; a brooding on, or keeping warm, (eggs) to develop the life within, by any process.
2. noun. The development of a disease from its causes, or its period of incubation. (See below.)
3. noun. A sleeping in a consecrated place for the purpose of dreaming oracular dreams.
4. noun. maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development
5. noun. sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body

   Synonyms: brooding

6. noun. (pathology) the phase in the development of an infection between the time a pathogen enters the body and the time the first symptoms appear

Synonyms

brooding

Common word forms

incubations, incubational

Words from these letters

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