Words That End With: IONS

• a large truck designed to carry heavy loads; usually without sides

• a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage

• a small flag used by surveyors or soldiers to mark a position

• A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).

• A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride.

• A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks.

• A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable.

• a vivid mental image

• the ability to see; the visual faculty

• the perceptual experience of seeing

• the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses

• a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance

• an occurrence that involves the production of a union

• the state of being combined into one body

• the merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words

• a nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy

• the combining of images from the two eyes to form a single visual percept

• correction of an unstable part of the spine by joining two or more vertebrae; usually done surgically but sometimes done by traction or immobilization

• the act of fusing (or melting) together

• (virology) a complete viral particle; nucleic acid and capsid (and a lipid envelope in some viruses)