12-Letter Words That End With: UATIONS

• a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

• to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

• being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs)

• a general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions

• a wave motion

• an instance of change; the rate or magnitude of change

• the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes

• an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries

• the reduction of something's value or worth

• something that makes repeated and regular interruptions or divisions

• the marks used to clarify meaning by indicating separation of words into sentences and clauses and phrases

• the use of certain marks to clarify meaning of written material by grouping words grammatically into sentences and clauses and phrases

• a new appraisal or evaluation

• a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration

• temporary love of an adolescent

• an object of extravagant short-lived passion

• weakening in force or intensity

• the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density

• an indirect (and usually malicious) implication

• the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments