percolation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: per=co=la=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

percolation, n. [L. percolatio.].

 The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

percolation

absorbency, absorbent, absorption, access, admission, adsorbent, adsorption, assimilation, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, bolting, brewing, chemisorption, chemosorption, clarification, colature, colliquation, condensation, decoagulation, deliquescence, deliquium, destructive distillation, digestion, dissolution, dissolving, distillation, drench, drenching, dribble, drip, dripping, drop, ducking, dunking, edulcoration, effusion, elution, elutriation, endosmosis, engrossment, entrance, entree, entry, essentialization, excretion, exfiltration, exosmosis, extraction, extravasation, exudation, filtering, filtration, fluidification, fluidization, fusing, fusion, imbruement, imbuement, import, importation, importing, impregnation, income, incoming, infiltration, infusion, ingoing, ingress, ingression, injection, input, insertion, insinuation, intake, interpenetration, introduction, introgression, intrusion, leaching, leakage, liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, lixiviation, maceration, melting, ooze, oozing, osmosis, penetration, percolating, permeation, pulping, purification, reception, refinement, riddling, running, saturation, screening, seep, seepage, seeping, seething, separation, sieving, sifting, soak, soakage, soaking, solubilization, solution, sopping, sorption, souse, sousing, spiritualization, sponge, sponging, spurtle, steeping, straining, sublimation, sweating, thawing, transudation, trickle, tricklet, unclotting, weep, weeping, winnowing

ROGET THESAURUS

percolation

Egress

N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.