procreation

procreation
    n 1: the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
         [syn: {reproduction}, {procreation}, {breeding}, {facts of
         life}]
    

Procreation \Pro`cre*a"tion\, n. [F. procr['e]ation, L,
   procreatio.]
   The act of begetting; generation and production of young.
   --South.
   [1913 Webster]
    

PROCREATION. The generation of children; it is an act authorized by the law 
of nature: one of the principal ends of marriage is the procreation of 
children. Inst. tit. 2, in pr. 
    

93 Moby Thesaurus words for "procreation":
      abiogenesis, act of love, adultery, aphrodisia, archigenesis, ass,
      balling, begetting, biogenesis, birth, blastogenesis, breeding,
      budding, burgeoning, carnal knowledge, climax, cohabitation,
      coition, coitus, coitus interruptus, commerce, congress,
      connection, copula, copulation, coupling, crossbreeding,
      development, diddling, digenesis, dissogeny, endogamy,
      engenderment, epigenesis, eumerogenesis, excrescence, fornication,
      gemmation, generation, genesis, germination, growth, heterogenesis,
      histogenesis, homogenesis, inbreeding, intercourse, intimacy,
      isogenesis, linebreeding, lovemaking, making it with,
      marital relations, marriage act, mating, maturation, meat,
      merogenesis, metagenesis, monogenesis, multiplication, onanism,
      orgasm, orthogenesis, outbreeding, outgrowth, overgrowth, ovum,
      pangenesis, pareunia, parthenogenesis, proliferation, propagation,
      pullulation, relations, reproduction, screwing, sex, sex act,
      sexual climax, sexual commerce, sexual congress,
      sexual intercourse, sexual relations, sexual union, sleeping with,
      sperm, spontaneous generation, sprouting, upgrowth, vegetation,
      venery, xenogamy