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regeneration

Regeneration is a 12 letter word which starts with the letter R and ends with the letter N for which we found 5 definitions.

Definition
(n.) The act of regenerating or the state of being regenerated.
(n.) The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of becoming or of being made Christian; that change by which holy affectations and purposes are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart.
(n.) The reproduction of a part which has been removed or destroyed; re-formation; -- a process especially characteristic of a many of the lower animals; as the regeneration of lost feelers limbs and claws by spiders and crabs.
(n.) The reproduction or renewal of tissues cells etc. which have been used up and destroyed by the ordinary processes of life; as the continual regeneration of the epithelial cells of the body or the regeneration of the contractile substance of muscle.
(n.) The union of parts which have been severed so that they become anatomically perfect; as the regeneration of a nerve.
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