Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pandiculation

1 sense of pandiculation

Sense 1
pandiculation -- (yawning and stretching (as when first waking up))
       => stretch, stretching -- (exercise designed to extend the limbs and muscles to their full extent)
       => yawn, yawning, oscitance, oscitancy -- (an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom; "he could not suppress a yawn"; "the yawning in the audience told him it was time to stop"; "he apologized for his oscitancy")