9-letter words that end in ing
- attacking — to set upon in a forceful, violent, hostile, or aggressive way, with or without a weapon; begin fighting with: He attacked him with his bare hands.
- attaining — to reach, achieve, or accomplish; gain; obtain: to attain one's goals.
- attending — having primary responsibility for a patient.
- attesting — to bear witness to; certify; declare to be correct, true, or genuine; declare the truth of, in words or writing, especially affirm in an official capacity: to attest the truth of a statement.
- attriting — Also, attrited. worn by rubbing or attrition.
- auspicing — (AU) administration of a grant by one group on behalf of another.
- authoring — Authoring is the creation of documents, especially for the Internet.
- averaging — Present participle of average.
- avocating — Present participle of avocate.
- avouching — Present participle of avouch.
- awakening — the start of a feeling or awareness in a person
- azotizing — Present participle of azotize.
- b-setting — a shutter setting in which the shutter remains open until the shutter control is released
- backswing — the movement of a club, bat, or racket backwards, away from the intended point of contact, in preparation for making a stroke
- bad thing — (jargon) (From the 1930 Sellar & Yeatman parody "1066 And All That") Something that can't possibly result in improvement of the subject. This term is always capitalised, as in "Replacing all of the 9600-baud modems with bicycle couriers would be a Bad Thing". Opposite: Good Thing. British correspondents confirm that Bad Thing and Good Thing (and probably therefore Right Thing and Wrong Thing) come from the book referenced in the etymology, which discusses rulers who were Good Kings but Bad Things. This has apparently created a mainstream idiom on the British side of the pond.
- bada-bing — an expression used to suggest that something can be done with no difficulty or delay
- badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
- balancing — the process of achieving or maintaining equilibrium
- balk ring — A balk ring is a rotating part of a gearbox that prevents the gears from engaging too early.
- balloting — voting in an election
- bandaging — Strips of cloth or other material used to create a bandage.
- banishing — Present participle of banish.
- bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
- baptising — Present participle of baptise.
- baptizing — Present participle of baptize.
- barbering — The trade of and practice of shaving and cutting hair.
- barcoding — The assignment of a barcode to a product and the printing of the barcode on the product.
- barraging — Military. a heavy barrier of artillery fire to protect one's own advancing or retreating troops or to stop the advance of enemy troops.
- barreling — a cylindrical wooden container with slightly bulging sides made of staves hooped together, and with flat, parallel ends.
- bartering — Present participle of barter.
- batteling — Alternative form of battling.
- battening — to thrive by feeding; grow fat.
- battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
- beaconing — a guiding or warning signal, as a light or fire, especially one in an elevated position.
- bebopping — Present participle of bebop.
- becalming — Present participle of becalm.
- beckoning — a nod, gesture, etc., that signals, directs, summons, indicates agreement, or the like.
- bedaubing — Present participle of bedaub.
- bedecking — Present participle of bedeck.
- bedspring — a spring that supports a mattress
- bee-sting — a sting from a bee
- beelining — Present participle of beeline.
- befalling — A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
- befitting — proper or right; suitable
- begetting — (especially of a male parent) to procreate or generate (offspring).
- beggaring — a person who begs alms or lives by begging.
- beginning — The beginning of an event or process is the first part of it.
- beguiling — Something that is beguiling is charming and attractive.
- beheading — the action of decapitating someone
- beholding — to observe; look at; see.