modification (n.)
- about-face
- accommodation
- adaptation
- adjustment
- allophone
- allowance
- alteration
- alveolar
- amelioration
- analysis
- apostasy
- articulation
- aspiration
- assimilation
- atomization
- betterment
- bilabial
- break
- cession
- change
- changeableness
- check
- circumscription
- concession
- consonant
- continuant
- continuity
- conversion
- defection
- degeneration
- demarcation
- dental
- deterioration
- deviation
- difference
- differentiation
- diphthong
- discontinuity
- discrimination
- disjunction
- dissimilation
- distinction
- divergence
- diversification
- diversion
- diversity
- division
- exception
- exemption
- explosive
- fitting
- flip-flop
- glide
- grant
- guttural
- hedge
- hedging
- improvement
- individualization
- individuation
- labial
- labiodental
- lateral
- limitation
- lingual
- liquid
- melioration
- metamorphosis
- mitigation
- modulation
- morphophoneme
- mutation
- mute
- nasal
- occlusive
- overthrow
- palatal
- particularization
- peak
- personalization
- pharyngeal
- phone
- phoneme
- plosive
- qualification
- re-creation
- reform
- reformation
- remaking
- renewal
- reservation
- restriction
- reversal
- revival
- revivification
- revolution
- salvo
- segregation
- semivowel
- separation
- severance
- shift
- sonant
- sonority
- specialization
- specialness
- specification
- stop
- surd
- switch
- syllable
- tempering
- transformation
- transition
- transmogrification
- turn
- turnabout
- upheaval
- variation
- variety
- velar
- vocable
- voice
- voicing
- vowel
- waiver
- worsening
It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.