noun. The act of making dry, or the state of being dry; the act or process of depriving of moisture; especially, the evaporation of the aqueous portion of a substance, as wood, meat, fruit, milk, etc., by artificial heat, as by a current of heated air.

noun. The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.

noun. The state or process of being desiccated

noun. An act or occurrence of desiccating

noun. the process of extracting moisture

noun. dryness resulting from the removal of water

"The rdar and the bdar strains were found to be equally tolerant to disinfectants, while the rdar strain was found to be more tolerant to long-term desiccation and nutrient depletion in biofilm than the bdar strain."

desiccant  desiccate  desiccator  

desiccational  

dryness  waterlessness  xerotes  

Alsatian  Americanization  Appalachian  Balkanization  Christianization  

abolishment  acclimatisation  adipocere  balsa  compaction