Cognation is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 285 anagrams from letters in cognation (acginnoot).
1350-1400; Middle English cognacioun (Anglo-French, Old French) Latin cognātiōn- (stem of cognātiō) kinship, equivalent to cognāt(us) cognate + -iōn- Examples for cognation
Again, deportation to an island, which entails minor or intermediate loss of status, destroys rights by cognation. The evidence of cognation is derived exclusively from the vocabulary. Neither coincidences nor borrowed material, however, can be properly regarded as evidence of cognation. Sir H. Maine says that the prtors early laid hold on cognation as the natural form of kinship. Perhaps the latter infers how close the cognation of the creative and the critical faculty.