maturation

Maturation has 4 syllables: mat · u · ra · tion.

noun. Coming to full development; becoming mature.

noun. (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus.

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.