development

Development has 4 syllables: de · vel · op · ment.

noun. Processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible.

noun. The act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful.

noun. A process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage).

noun. (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level.