Words That End With: ERSIONS

• an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates

• a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern)

• an attack calculated to draw enemy defense away from the point of the principal attack

• sinking until covered completely with water

• (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse

• complete attention; intense mental effort

• a form of baptism in which part or all of a person's body is submerged

• the act of wetting something by submerging it

• the layer of air near the earth is cooler than an overlying layer

• abnormal condition in which an organ is turned inward or inside out (as when the upper part of the uterus is pulled into the cervical canal after childbirth)

• a chemical process in which the direction of optical rotation of a substance is reversed from dextrorotatory to levorotary or vice versa

• (genetics) a kind of mutation in which the order of the genes in a section of a chromosome is reversed

• the reversal of the normal order of words

• (counterpoint) a variation of a melody or part in which ascending intervals are replaced by descending intervals and vice versa

• a term formerly used to mean taking on the gender role of the opposite sex

• turning upside down; setting on end

• the act of turning inside out

• (law) an interest in an estate that reverts to the grantor (or his heirs) at the end of some period (e.g., the death of the grantee)

• (genetics) a return to a normal phenotype (usually resulting from a second mutation)

• a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

• turning in the opposite direction

• returning to a former state

• a failure to maintain a higher state

• a feeling of intense dislike

• the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away

• a disparaging remark

• an abusive attack on a person's character or good name

• the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)

• the position of being turned outward

• the act of turning inside out

• an interpretation of a matter from a particular viewpoint

• something a little different from others of the same type

• a written work (as a novel) that has been recast in a new form

• a written communication in a second language having the same meaning as the written communication in a first language

• a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something

• manual turning of a fetus in the uterus (usually to aid delivery)

• (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse

• the act of emerging