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12-letter words that end in ng

  • beleaguering — to surround with military forces.
  • bell housing — A bell housing is a bell-shaped extension of an engine crankcase, that contains the flywheel and the clutch.
  • belly-aching — Informal. a pain in the abdomen or bowels.
  • benchmarking — In business, benchmarking is a process in which a company compares its products and methods with those of the most successful companies in its field, in order to try to improve its own performance.
  • benzene ring — the hexagonal ring of bonded carbon atoms in the benzene molecule or its derivatives
  • best-selling — A best-selling product such as a book is very popular and a large quantity of it has been sold.
  • beta testing — (programming)   Evaluation of a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software (or possibly hardware) by making it available to selected users ("beta testers") before it goes on general distribution. Beta testign aims to discover bugs that only occur in certain environments or under certain patterns of use, while reducing the volume of feedback to a manageable level. The testers benefit by having earlier access to new products, features and fixes. Beta testing may be preceded by "alpha testing", performed in-house by a handful of users (e.g. other developers or friends), who can be expected to give rapid, high quality feedback on design and usability. Once the product is considered to be usable for its intended purpose it then moves on to "beta testing" by a larger, but typically still limited, number of ordinary users, who may include external customers. Some companies such as Google or Degree Jungle stretch the definition, claiming their products are "in beta" for many months by millions of users. The term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the industry. "Alpha test" was the unit test, module test or component test phase; "Beta Test" was initial system test. These themselves came from earlier A- and B-tests for hardware. The A-test was a feasibility and manufacturability evaluation done before any commitment to design and development. The B-test was a demonstration that the engineering model functioned as specified. The C-test (corresponding to today's beta) was the B-test performed on early samples of the production design.
  • bevel siding — siding composed of tapered pieces, as clapboards, laid with the thicker lower edge of any piece overlapping the thinner upper edge of the piece below it.
  • bias binding — a strip of material cut on the bias for extra stretch and often doubled, used for binding hems, interfacings, etc, or for decoration
  • big-sounding — meant to be impressive in scale
  • binge eating — the practice of eating excessive amounts of food over a short period of time
  • biocomputing — the application of computing to problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics
  • bird nesting — the activity of searching for birds' nests as a hobby
  • bird-dogging — to follow, watch carefully, or investigate.
  • bit diddling — bit bashing
  • bit stuffing — (protocol)   A protocol which guarantees the receiver of synchronous data can recover the sender's clock. When the data stream sent contains a large number of adjacent bits which cause no transition of the signal, the receiver cannot adjust its clock to maintain proper synchronised reception. To eliminate the possibility of such a pathological case, when a preset number of transitionless bits have been transmitted, a bit which does cause a transition is "stuffed" (transmitted) by the sender. The receiver follows the same protocol and removes the stuffed bit after the specified number of transitionless bits, but can use the stuffed bit to recover the sender's clock. The advantage of bit stuffing is that only a bit (not a byte) is inserted in the data stream, and that only when the content of the data stream fails to provide a timing signal to the receiver. Thus very nearly 100% of the bits transported are useful data. In contrast, asynchronous transmission of data "throws away" a start bit and one or more stop bits for each data byte sent.
  • blackbirding — a common European thrush, Turdus merula, the male of which is black with a yellow bill.
  • blind casing — (in a box window frame) a rough framework to which the trim is secured.
  • block caving — a method of mining a large block of ore by systematically undercutting so the ore will cave. Compare cave (def 5a).
  • block voting — voting using block votes
  • blockbusting — A blockbusting film or book is one that is very successful, usually because it is very exciting.
  • blood doping — the illegal practice of removing a quantity of blood from an athlete long before a race and reinjecting it shortly before a race, so boosting oxygenation of the blood
  • blood typing — the classification of human blood cells to determine compatible blood types as for transfusion or organ transplant
  • bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • bloodsucking — any animal that sucks blood, especially a leech.
  • blow molding — Blow molding is a process for forming plastic objects in which plastic is melted, put in a mold, and then shaped by having compressed air blown into it.
  • blow-molding — the sound of any vapor or gas issuing from a vent under pressure.
  • blue whiting — a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
  • blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
  • bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
  • bluestocking — A bluestocking is an intellectual woman.
  • boar-hunting — the practice of hunting wild boars
  • boardsailing — windsurfing
  • boatbuilding — Boatbuilding is the craft or industry of making boats.
  • body popping — a dance style involving muscular jerking of the upper body
  • bodyboarding — the sport of surfing using a bodyboard
  • bodybuilding — Bodybuilding is the activity of doing special exercises regularly in order to make your muscles grow bigger.
  • boilermaking — metal-working in heavy industry; plating or welding
  • bond washing — a series of deals in bonds made with the intention of avoiding taxation
  • book burning — the destruction of writings of which the subject, the view of the author, or the like is considered politically or socially objectionable: used as a means of censorship or oppression.
  • book signing — a prearranged and publicized event at which an author signs copies of their latest book, often with individual dedications to purchasers
  • book-keeping — the skill or occupation of maintaining accurate records of business transactions
  • bookcrossing — the practice of deliberately leaving books in places where they will be found and read by other people
  • boolean ring — a nonempty collection of sets having the properties that the union of two sets of the collection is a set in the collection and that the relative complement of each set with respect to any other set is in the collection.
  • boomeranging — a bent or curved piece of tough wood used by the Australian Aborigines as a throwing club, one form of which can be thrown so as to return to the thrower.
  • boot topping — the part of a ship's hull that is between the load line and the water line when the ship is not loaded
  • bowdlerizing — to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable.
  • brainwashing — the process of brainwashing.
  • brake lining — a curved thin strip of an asbestos composition riveted to a brake shoe to provide it with a renewable surface
  • breadwinning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
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