ad·o·les·cence 
(ăd′l-ĕsəns)
(ăd′l-ĕsəns)n.
1. The period of physical and psychological development from the onset of puberty to adulthood.
2. A similar period in nonhuman animals, ending at sexual maturity.
3. A transitional period of development between an initial or early phase and an established or mature phase: the adolescence of a nation.
- expectorate
- expectoration
- expediate
- expedience
- expediency
- expedient
- expediential
- whodunit
- whodunnit
- whoever
- whole
- whole blood
- whole-cell vaccine
- whole cloth
- whole enchilada
- whole gale
- wholehearted
- wholeheartedly
- wholeheartedness
- whole hog
- whole language
- whole-language
- whole life insurance
- whole milk
- wholeness