formulation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: for=mu=la=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

formulation, n. 

 The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

formulation

allocation, allotment, apportionment, architecture, arrangement, array, arraying, assembly, building, casting, choice of words, collation, collocation, composition, constitution, construction, conversion, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, cultivation, deployment, devising, dialect, diction, disposal, disposition, distribution, elaboration, erection, expression, extraction, fabrication, fashioning, form, formation, forming, framing, grammar, growing, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, idiom, language, locution, machining, making, manufacture, manufacturing, marshaling, milling, mining, molding, order, ordering, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, placement, prefabrication, preparation, processing, producing, raising, refining, regimentation, rhetoric, shaping, smelting, speech, structuring, syntax, talk, usage, use of words, usus loquendi, verbiage, wordage, wording, workmanship