development (n.)
- abiogenesis
- access
- accession
- accomplishment
- accretion
- accrual
- accruement
- accumulation
- action
- addition
- advance
- advancement
- aggrandizement
- aging
- amplification
- angle
- appreciation
- apprenticeship
- architectonics
- architecture
- argument
- ascent
- atmosphere
- augmentation
- background
- ballooning
- beautification
- biogenesis
- birth
- blastogenesis
- blossoming
- boom
- boost
- bourdon
- breaking
- breeding
- bridge
- broadening
- budding
- buildup
- burden
- by-product
- cadence
- catastrophe
- characterization
- chorus
- circumstance
- coda
- color
- complication
- condition
- conditioning
- consequence
- continuity
- contrivance
- corollary
- crescendo
- cultivation
- denouement
- derivation
- derivative
- design
- device
- digenesis
- dilation
- discipline
- distillate
- division
- drill
- drilling
- edema
- effect
- elaboration
- elevation
- embellishment
- enlargement
- epigenesis
- episode
- event
- eventuality
- evolution
- evolvement
- excrescence
- exercise
- expansion
- expatiation
- explication
- exposition
- extension
- fable
- figure
- flood
- flowering
- folderol
- fostering
- fruit
- furtherance
- gain
- gemmation
- generation
- genesis
- germination
- gimmick
- grooming
- growth
- gush
- happening
- harvest
- heterogenesis
- hike
- housebreaking
- improvement
- incident
- increase
- increment
- inflation
- interlude
- intermezzo
- issue
- jump
- leap
- legacy
- line
- maturation
- maturity
- measure
- mellowing
- metagenesis
- monogenesis
- mood
- motif
- mounting
- movement
- multiplication
- nurture
- occurrence
- offshoot
- offspring
- ornament
- outcome
- outgrowth
- overgrowth
- part
- parthenogenesis
- passage
- perfection
- period
- peripeteia
- phenomenon
- phrase
- plan
- plot
- practice
- precipitate
- preparation
- procreation
- product
- productiveness
- progress
- progression
- proliferation
- pullulation
- raise
- raising
- readying
- rearing
- recognition
- refinement
- refrain
- rehearsal
- reproduction
- resolution
- response
- result
- resultant
- ripening
- rise
- scheme
- seasoning
- section
- senescence
- sequel
- sequela
- sequence
- situation
- slant
- spread
- sprouting
- stanza
- statement
- story
- strain
- structure
- subject
- surge
- swelling
- switch
- tailpiece
- tempering
- theme
- tone
- topic
- training
- tumescence
- twist
- unfolding
- up
- upbringing
- upping
- upshot
- upsurge
- upturn
- variation
- vegetation
- verse
- waxing
- widening