mummification

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: mum=mi=fi=ca=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

mummification, n. [See Mummify.].

 The act of making a mummy.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

mummification

air-drying, anhydration, ashes, blast-freezing, body, bones, bottling, brining, cadaver, canning, carcass, carrion, clay, corning, corpse, corpus delicti, crowbait, curing, dead body, dead man, dead person, decedent, dehumidification, dehydration, desiccation, drainage, dry bones, dry-curing, drying, drying up, dust, earth, embalmed corpse, embalming, embalmment, evaporation, food for worms, freeze-drying, freezing, fuming, insolation, irradiation, jerking, late lamented, marination, mortal remains, mummy, organic remains, pickling, potting, quick-freezing, refrigeration, relics, reliquiae, remains, salting, seasoning, skeleton, smoking, stiff, stuffing, taxidermy, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, tinning, withering