13-letter words containing ating
- excoriatingly — So as to excoriate.
- expectorating — Present participle of expectorate.
- expostulating — Present participle of expostulate.
- expropriating — Present participle of expropriate.
- extenuatingly — in an extenuating manner
- exterminating — Present participle of exterminate.
- extrapolating — Present participle of extrapolate.
- extravasating — Present participle of extravasate.
- fascinatingly — of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating: a fascinating story; fascinating jewelry.
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- floating dock — a submersible, floating structure used as a dry dock, having a floor that is submerged, slipped under a floating vessel, and then raised so as to raise the vessel entirely out of the water.
- floating gang — a group of railroad workers who service or repair the track but are not assigned to a particular section.
- floating rate — fluctuating exchange rate
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- floating roof — A floating roof is an internal roof of a fuel storage tank.
- floating vote — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- fractionating — Present participle of fractionate.
- free-floating — (of an emotional state) lacking an apparent cause, focus, or object; generalized: free-floating hostility.
- frustratingly — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- gesticulating — Present participle of gesticulate.
- guesstimating — Present participle of guesstimate.
- hallucinating — Present participle of hallucinate.
- heating plant — a building or facility containing a boiler or furnace that provides heat to a building or a number of buildings
- heating power — power that can be used to heat something
- humiliatingly — lowering the pride, self-respect, or dignity of a person; mortifying: Such a humiliating defeat was good for his overblown ego.
- hydrogenating — Present participle of hydrogenate.
- hypothecating — Present participle of hypothecate.
- impersonating — to assume the character or appearance of; pretend to be: He was arrested for impersonating a police officer.
- incarcerating — Present participle of incarcerate.
- incorporating — to form into a legal corporation.
- incriminating — to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: He incriminated both men to the grand jury.
- individuating — Present participle of individuate.
- infuriatingly — causing or tending to cause anger or outrage; maddening: His delay is infuriating.
- ingurgitating — Present participle of ingurgitate.
- insinuatingly — tending to instill doubts, distrust, etc.; suggestive: an insinuating letter.
- instantiating — Present participle of instantiate.
- intellidating — the practice of going on a date at a venue, event, etc, associated with high culture or learning (rather than at a bar, cinema, etc)
- intercalating — Present participle of intercalate.
- interpolating — Present participle of interpolate.
- interrelating — Present participle of interrelate.
- interrogating — to ask questions of (a person), sometimes to seek answers or information that the person questioned considers personal or secret.
- investigating — Present participle of investigate.
- junior rating — a military rank for non-officer personnel in the navy
- mating season — the period during each year when a particular bird, animal, or fish mates
- matriculating — Present participle of matriculate.
- misallocating — Present participle of misallocate.
- necessitating — to make necessary or unavoidable: The breakdown of the car necessitated a change in our plans.
- nonirritating — Not irritating; not an irritant.
- octane-rating — (of gasoline) a designation of antiknock quality, numerically equal to the percentage of isooctane by volume in a mixture of isooctane and normal heptane that matches the given gasoline in antiknock characteristics.
- orchestrating — Present participle of orchestrate.