12-letter words containing sing
- generalising — to infer (a general principle, trend, etc.) from particular facts, statistics, or the like.
- gobind singh — 1666–1708, tenth and last guru of the Sikhs (1675–1708): assassinated
- gormandising — Present participle of gormandise.
- hair-raising — terrifying or horrifying: We had a hair-raising brush with death.
- hairdressing — the act or process of cutting, combing out, doing up, or styling hair.
- hell-raising — behaviour which causes trouble
- homogenising — Present participle of homogenise.
- housing list — a list of people waiting to obtain council houses
- illegalising — Present participle of illegalise.
- immiserising — immiserate.
- immobilising — Present participle of immobilise.
- imparadising — Present participle of imparadise.
- imposingness — The quality of being imposing.
- incompassing — Present participle of incompass.
- increasingly — growing larger or greater; enlarging; augmenting.
- indigenising — to make indigenous.
- initialising — to set (variables, counters, switches, etc.) to their starting values at the beginning of a program or subprogram.
- jeopardising — Present participle of jeopardise.
- kissing gate — a gate hung in a narrow enclosure having the shape of a U or a V , allowing only one person to pass at a time.
- legitimising — Present participle of legitimise.
- liberalising — Present participle of liberalise.
- lobotomising — Present participle of lobotomise.
- lowsing time — the time at which work or school finishes; knocking-off time
- mastersinger — Meistersinger (def 1).
- metabolising — Present participle of metabolise.
- metaphrasing — Present participle of metaphrase.
- minimalising — to make minimal: to minimalize tax increases.
- missing link — a hypothetical form of animal assumed to have constituted a connecting link between the anthropoid apes and humans, identified by some authorities as constituting the genus Australopithecus.
- missing mass — the difference in mass in the universe between that observed to exist and that necessary for the closed universe model.
- moisturising — Present participle of moisturise.
- monopolising — Present participle of monopolise.
- naturalising — Present participle of naturalise.
- neutralising — Present participle of neutralise.
- nursing home — a private residential institution equipped to care for persons unable to look after themselves, as the aged or chronically ill.
- opera singer — a professional singer of opera
- ore dressing — Metallurgy. the mechanical processes by which valuable minerals are separated from ore.
- overdressing — Present participle of overdress.
- paralysingly — in a manner that paralyses
- paraphrasing — a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as for clearness; rewording.
- passing bell — a bell tolled to announce a death or funeral.
- passing lane — a highway lane in which a driver may pass other vehicles legally.
- passing note — a note that is foreign to a harmony and is introduced between two successive chord tones in order to produce a melodic transition.
- passing shot — a shot played to one side of and beyond the reach of an opponent coming to or stationed at the net.
- pasteurising — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- plagiarising — to take and use by plagiarism.
- posing pouch — a thong that emphasizes the genitals
- predisposing — to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible: Genetic factors may predispose human beings to certain metabolic diseases.
- ranjit singh — ("Lion of the Punjab") 1780–1839, Indian maharaja: founder of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab.
- reprocessing — a systematic series of actions directed to some end: to devise a process for homogenizing milk.
- rising hinge — a gravity hinge causing a door, shutter, etc., to rise slightly when opened.