This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. Contemplation or consideration of a subject; meditation.

n. A conclusion, opinion, or theory reached by conjecture.

n. Reasoning based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or supposition.

n. Engagement in risky business transactions on the chance of quick or considerable profit.

n. A commercial or financial transaction involving speculation.

n. The process of thinking or meditating on a subject

n. A judgement or conclusion reached by speculating

n. An investment involving higher than normal risk in order to obtain a higher than normal return

n. The act of speculating.

n. Examination by the eye; view.

n. Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.

n. The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.

n. The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.

n. Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.

n. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.

n. Power of sight.

n. A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.

n. The act or state of speculating, or of seeing or looking; intelligent contemplation or observation; a viewing; inspection.

n. The pursuit of truth by means of thinking, especially mathematical reasoning and logical analysis; meditation; deep and thorough consideration of a theoretical question.

n. In philosophy, sometimes, a purely a priori method of philosophizing: but commonly in philosophy the word has the meaning 2, above.

n. The investing of money at a risk of loss on the chance of unusual gain; specifically, buying and selling, not in the ordinary course of commerce for the continuous marketing of commodities, but to hold in the expectation of selling at a profit upon a change in values or market rates.

n. A game at cards, the leading principle of which is the purchase of an unknown card on the calculation of its probable value, or of a known card on the chance of no better appearing during the game, a part of the pack not being dealt.

n. an investment that is very risky but could yield great profits

n. a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence

n. continuous and profound contemplation or musing on a subject or series of subjects of a deep or abstruse nature

n. a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence)

"If I may be allowed to appropriate the term speculation for the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market, and the term enterprise for the activity of forecasting the prospective yield of assets over their whole life, it is by no means always the case that speculation predominates over enterprise."

rumination    thoughtfulness    reflection    contemplation    musing    reflexion    theory    possibility    hypothesis   

consideration    opinion   

work    to    creating    with    it    selling    Creating    a    as    the   

view    contemplation    notion    conjecture    supposition   

Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   

speculations    curiosity    conjecture    controversy    inquiry    criticism    excitement    discussion    imagination    enterprise