10-Letter Words That End With: ESSION

• an admission of misdeeds or faults

• a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party

• (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution

• a public declaration of your faith

• the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century)

• the body of people in a learned occupation

• an occupation requiring special education (especially in the liberal arts or sciences)

• an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion

• affirmation of acceptance of some religion or faith

• a vague idea in which some confidence is placed

• an outward appearance

• a clear and telling mental image

• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

• a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving

• all the copies of a work printed at one time

• (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster

• an impressionistic portrayal of a person

• the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another

• (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

• the group action of a collection of people or animals or vehicles moving ahead in more or less regular formation

• the act of moving forward (as toward a goal)

• the act of subjugating by cruelty

• the state of being kept down by unjust use of force or authority:

• a feeling of being oppressed

• a following of one thing after another in time

• a group of people or things arranged or following in order

• the action of following in order

• (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established

• acquisition of property by descent or by will

• a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business

• the act of conceding or yielding

• a point conceded or yielded

• the motion of a spinning body (as a top) in which it wobbles so that the axis of rotation sweeps out a cone

• the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)

• a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity

• a period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment

• a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment

• a sunken or depressed geological formation

• sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy

• an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation

• a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention

• a concavity in a surface produced by pressing

• angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object)

• pushing down