18-letter words that end in ing
- duty-free shopping — the making of duty-free purchases
- electronic banking — the transfer of money between financial institutions through an exchange of electronic signals over a network
- electronic editing — editing of a sound or vision tape recording by electronic rerecording rather than by physical cutting
- electronic meeting — (messaging) The use of a network of personal computers to improve communication that takes place in a meeting. Electronic meetings are effective with as few as two participants and with over 100 participants. Participants can be face-to-face in a meeting room or distributed around the world. They may all be participating at the same time or different times.
- electronic tagging — Electronic tagging is a system in which a criminal or suspected criminal has an electronic device attached to them which enables the police to know if they leave a particular area.
- equinoctial spring — either of the two highest spring tides that occur at the equinoxes
- exhaustive testing — (programming) Executing a program with all possible combinations of inputs or values for program variables.
- exhibition killing — the murder of a hostage by terrorists, filmed for broadcasting on television or the internet
- farewell-to-spring — a slender, showy plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, native to western North America, having satiny, cup-shaped, lilac-crimson or reddish-pink flowers and roundish fruit.
- financial planning — the devising of a program for the allocation and management of finances and capital through budgeting, investment, etc.
- flash butt welding — a method of welding metal edge-to-edge with a powerful electric flash followed by the application of pressure.
- for the time being — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
- fore-edge painting — a technique of painting a picture on the fore edge of a book, often in such a manner that only when the pages are slightly fanned the picture is revealed.
- free-will offering — a voluntary religious contribution made in addition to what may be expected or required.
- functional testing — (testing) (Or "black-box testing", "closed-box testing") The application of test data derived from functional requirements without regard to how the system is implemented.
- genetic counseling — the counseling of individuals with established or potential genetic problems, concerned with inheritance patterns and risks to future offspring.
- geodetic surveying — the surveying of the earth's surface, making allowance for its curvature and giving an accurate framework for smaller-scale surveys
- good/not bad going — If you say that something that has been achieved is good going or not bad going, you mean that it is better than usual or than expected.
- government housing — housing owned and managed by the federal or state government, which is rented out to tenants, esp as a form of affordable housing
- greenhouse warming — the increase in the mean temperature of the earth attributed to the greenhouse effect
- heuristics testing — failure-directed testing
- horizontal tasting — a tasting of wines from the same year but from different vineyards, producers, etc.
- houghton-le-spring — a town in N England, in Sunderland unitary authority, Tyne and Wear: coal-mining. Pop: 36 746 (2001)
- hypothesis testing — the theory, methods, and practice of testing a hypothesis concerning the parameters of a population distribution (the null hypothesis) against another (the alternative hypothesis) which will be accepted only if its probability exceeds a predetermined significance level, generally on the basis of statistics derived from random sampling from the given population
- i know the feeling — You say 'I know the feeling' to show that you understand or feel sorry about a problem or difficult experience that someone is telling you about.
- idylls of the king — a series of poems by Tennyson, based on Arthurian legend.
- impedance matching — the technique of choosing or adjusting electric circuits and components so that the impedance of the load is equal to the internal impedance of the power source, thereby optimizing the power transfer from source to load.
- in-band signalling — (communications) (Or CAS, channel associated signaling) Transmission of control signals in the same channel as data. This is commonly used in the Public Switched Telephone Network where the same pair of wires carry both voice and control signals (e.g. dialling, ringing). Another example is the use on a computer serial line of Control-S and Control-Q characters for flow control as opposed to hardware flow control which would be out-of-band signalling. In digital communications, in-band signalling often uses "bit-robbing" where, for example, one bit in each frame is used for signalling instead of data. This is the reason why a D1 channel in the T-carrier system can only carry 56 Kbps of usable data instead of the 64 Kbps carried by the D0 channel in the E-carrier system.
- independent living — a living arrangement for disabled people and others with special needs, usually in their own home, affording them as much independence and autonomy as possible.
- induction training — training intended to enable new staff and recruits to do their work
- inductive coupling — the coupling between two electric circuits through inductances linked by a common changing magnetic field.
- influence peddling — the use of power or influence on someone else's behalf in return for money or favours
- institutionalising — Present participle of institutionalise.
- institutionalizing — Present participle of institutionalize.
- instrument landing — an aircraft landing accomplished by use of gauges on the instrument panel and ground-based radio equipment, with limited reference to outside visual signals.
- internationalizing — Present participle of internationalize.
- intimate borrowing — the borrowing of linguistic forms by one language or dialect from another when both occupy a single geographical or cultural community.
- investment casting — a casting process in which an expendable pattern is surrounded by an investment compound and then baked so that the investment is hardened to form a mold and the pattern material may be melted and run off.
- labeled bracketing — a representation of the constituent structure of a string, as a word or sentence, comparable to a tree diagram, in which each constituent is shown in brackets and given a subscript grammatical label, with each bracketed item corresponding to a node in a tree diagram.
- landscape painting — art: depicting natural scenery
- lean manufacturing — efficiency in the production of goods
- linear programming — any of several methods for finding where a given linear function of several nonnegative variables assumes an extreme value and for determining the extreme value, the variable usually being subjected to constraints in the form of linear equalities or inequalities.
- love-lies-bleeding — an amaranth, especially Amaranthus caudatus, having spikes of crimson flowers.
- magnetic recording — the process of recording sound or other data on magnetic tape, wire, etc.
- malicious wounding — the intentional violent wounding or injuring of someone
- man-to-man marking — the tactic of assigning a particular player to stay close to a specific member of the opposing team to hamper his or her play
- marine engineering — the branch of mechanical engineering that deals with the design, construction, installation, operation, and repair of the machinery of vessels.
- materials handling — the loading, unloading, and movement of goods, as within a factory or warehouse, especially by the aid of mechanical devices.
- mechanical drawing — drawing, as of machinery, done with the aid of rulers, scales, compasses, etc.
- mechanical testing — Mechanical testing is the testing of a material to find out its mechanical properties, for example its yield strength or hardness.