excavation
nounHow many syllables in excavation?
There are 4 syllables in the word excavation.How to pronounce excavation:
Definition of excavation:
- excavation (noun):
- the act of digging.
- the action or process of excavating
- a hole dug in the ground by a rabbit or other small animal
Synonyms for excavation:
alcove
archeological site
basin
borehole
bowl
burrow
cave
cavern
cavity
cleft
concavity
crater
cut
cutting
dent
depression
dig
digging
diggings
dint
ditch
dugout
furrow
groove
gutter
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Antonyms for excavation:
filling
fullness
increase
mountain
rise
solid
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- structuralize
- maleficent
- logically
- industrial
- eliminate
- Aloysius
- achaia
- philocaly
- conspiracy
- discovering
- deafeningly
- netiquette
- limoncello
- ingenious
- hallucinate
- contagious
- untrainable
- underwater
- unattractive
- extroverted
- disappointed
- curiousness
- obedience
- necessity
- ilio-psoas
- cuyahoga
- mademoiselle
- mechanism
- Yosemite
- effaceable
- Karnataka
- supposition
- underrated
- situations
- discerningly
- self-explaining
- rancorously
- incognito
- execrable
- calliope
- influencer
- parliament
- continuous
- organizer
- ignominy
- congregation
- palatitis
- untouchable
- theatrically
- assignable
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