initiation (n.)

• acceptance
• admission
• admittance
• anchorage
• baptism
• beginning
• celebration
• ceremonial
• ceremony
• colonization
• commencement
• convocation
• debut
• elements
• embarkation
• embarkment
• enlistment
• enrollment
• entrance
• establishment
• exercise
• exercises
• fixation
• floating
• flotation
• formal
• formality
• foundation
• function
• graduation
• hornbook
• inaugural
• inauguration
• inception
• induction
• installation
• installment
• instatement
• institution
• introduction
• intromission
• investiture
• launching
• liturgy
• lodgment
• mooring
• mummery
• observance
• office
• opener
• ordination
• origination
• performance
• plantation
• population
• preliminary
• primer
• propaedeutic
• reading
• rite
• ritual
• rudiments
• service
• settlement
• settling
• solemnity
• solemnization
• unveiling
• writing