maturation

maturation is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 15 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 12 · Words With Friends 15 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.
2. noun. (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

   Synonyms: festering, suppuration

3. noun. (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

   "he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children"

   Synonyms: development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny

4. noun. coming to full development; becoming mature

   Synonyms: maturement, ripening

Synonyms

festering, suppuration, development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny, maturement, ripening

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in maturation:

natatorium

Common word forms

maturations, maturational

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