Nouns denoting natural proesses
- stiffening
- the process of becoming stiff or rigid
- infection
- (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound
- vinification
- the process whereby fermentation changes grape juice into wine
- radiation
- the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay
- inspissation
- the process of thickening by dehydration
- metathesis
- a linguistic process of transposition of sounds or syllables within a word or words within a sentence
- keratinisation
- organic process by which keratin is deposited in cells and the cells become horny (as in nails and hair)
- childbearing
- the parturition process in human beings; having a baby; the process of giving birth to a child
- demagnetization
- the process of removing magnetization
- stochastic process
- a statistical process involving a number of random variables depending on a variable parameter (which is usually time)
- aeration
- the process of exposing to air (so as to purify)
- release
- a process that liberates or discharges something
- zygotene
- the second stage of the prophase of meiosis
- stimulation
- (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)
- Westernization
- assimilation of Western culture; the social process of becoming familiar with or converting to the customs and practices of Western civilization
- accretion
- (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
- re-uptake
- a process of using up or consuming again
- wetting
- a euphemism for urination
- healing
- the natural process by which the body repairs itself
- association
- (chemistry) any process of combination (especially in solution) that depends on relatively weak chemical bonding
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