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Answer for the clue "Thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it ", 12 letters:
excogitation

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Word definitions for excogitation in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Excogitation \Ex*cog`i*ta"tion\, n. [L. excogitatio: cf. F. excogitation.] The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Careful thought or consideration.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. thinking something out with care in order to achieve complete understanding of it the creation of something in the mind [syn: invention , innovation , conception , design ]

Usage examples of excogitation.

I thank you all most sincerely for your excogitations, welcome you as comrades-in-arms and bid you make yourselves comfortable in this place.

Lovely thou art and therefore to be loved, and day and night thou and Love the sum of my excogitations art, wherefore I, with loving art, am hither come to woo thee, since, lady, I do love thee.

I thank you all most sincerely for your excogitations, welcome you as comrades-in-arms and bid you make yourselves comfortable in this place.

Lovely thou art and therefore to be loved, and day and night thou and Love the sum of my excogitations art, wherefore I, with loving art, am hither come to woo thee, since, lady, I do love thee.