crepitation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: crep=i=ta=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

crepitation, n. [Cf. F. crépitation.].

•  The act of crepitating or crackling.  [1913 Webster]
•  A grating or crackling sensation or sound, as that produced by rubbing two fragments of a broken bone together, or by pressing upon cellular tissue containing air.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

crepitation, n.
1 Med. = CREPITUS.
2 the action or sound of crackling or rattling.

ROGET THESAURUS

crepitation

Snap

N snap, rapping, decrepitation, crepitation, report, thud, burst, explosion, blast, boom, discharge, detonation, firing, salvo, volley, squib, cracker, firecracker, cherry bomb, M, gun, cap, cap gun, popgun, implosion, bomb burst, atomic explosion, nuclear explosion (arms), gunpowder, dynamite, gun cotton, nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, plastic explosive, plastique, TNT, cordite, trinitrotoluene, picric acid, picrates, mercury fulminate (arms), whack, wham, pow, rapping, Int, kaboom!, whamo!, Heewhack!, pow!.