explanation (n.)

• abstraction
• accomplishment
• account
• analysis
• answer
• case
• cause
• clarification
• clearance
• clearing
• commentary
• construction
• cracking
• criticism
• decipherment
• decoding
• definition
• delineation
• demonstration
• demythologization
• denouement
• description
• determination
• disclosure
• disentanglement
• editing
• elucidation
• emblem
• emendation
• end
• enlightenment
• example
• exculpation
• excuse
• exegesis
• exemplar
• exemplification
• explication
• exponent
• expose
• exposition
• expounding
• finding
• grounds
• illumination
• illustration
• instance
• interpretation
• issue
• justification
• key
• light
• meaning
• motive
• outcome
• pretense
• pretext
• purgation
• purging
• rationale
• rationalization
• reason
• rehabilitation
• reinstatement
• representative
• resolution
• resolving
• restoration
• result
• signification
• simplification
• solution
• solving
• speculation
• symbol
• theorization
• theory
• type
• untangling
• upshot
• vindication
• working