13-letter words that end in ng
- cage fighting — Cage fighting is a type of organized violent fighting that takes place in an enclosed space.
- camp-drafting — a competitive test, esp at an agricultural show, of horsemen's skill in drafting cattle
- candlewicking — a kind of embroidery used for a bedspread, tablecloth, or pillow cover, patterned with French knots of candlewick embroidery thread or yarn
- cannibalizing — Present participle of cannibalize.
- cannonballing — Present participle of cannonball.
- cantilevering — Present participle of cantilever.
- carbo-loading — Informal. carbohydrate loading.
- carbon dating — Carbon dating is a system of calculating the age of a very old object by measuring the amount of radioactive carbon it contains.
- card clothing — a very sturdy fabric with a leather or rubber fillet imbedded with wire teeth for disentangling and cleaning textile fibers, used to cover the rollers or flats of a carding machine.
- card-carrying — A card-carrying member of a particular group or political party is an official member of that group or party, rather than someone who supports it.
- carpetbagging — relating to carpetbaggers or to the practice of carpetbaggers
- casehardening — Present participle of caseharden.
- casing string — A casing string is a series of lengths of steel pipe which are fitted together and put into a well.
- catheterizing — Present participle of catheterize.
- cave painting — a painting done by prehistoric people in caves
- cedar waxwing — a brownish-gray, crested American waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum), with red, waxlike tips on its secondary wing feathers
- chart-topping — very popular; coming top in the charts
- checkpointing — Present participle of checkpoint.
- chiang ch'ing — Jiang Qing.
- child rearing — the activity of rearing children
- child-bearing — the act or process of carrying and giving birth to a child
- chloroforming — Present participle of chloroform.
- churn molding — a molding decorated with chevrons.
- circularising — Present participle of circularise.
- circularizing — Present participle of circularize.
- circumflexing — Present participle of circumflex.
- circumventing — to go around or bypass: to circumvent the lake; to circumvent the real issues.
- circumvolving — Present participle of circumvolve.
- city planning — City planning is the planning and design of all the new buildings, roads, and parks in a place in order to make them attractive and convenient for the people who live there.
- civilianizing — Present participle of civilianize.
- claddagh ring — any of various elaborately designed rings, esp one in the shape of two hands embracing a heart, given as a token of lasting affection
- claim-jumping — a person who seizes another's claim of land, especially for mineral rights.
- class meaning — the meaning of a grammatical category or a form class, common to all forms showing the category or to all members of the form class, as in the meaning of number common to all Latin nouns or the meaning of singular common to all Latin singular noun and verb forms.
- clear-coating — an automotive painting technique in which a coating of clear lacquer or other synthetic liquid is applied over the base color to enhance the shine and durability of the paint.
- cliff-hanging — of, relating to, or characteristic of a cliff-hanger: a cliff-hanging vote of 20–19.
- close-fitting — Close-fitting clothes fit tightly and show the shape of your body.
- cloth binding — a type of binding in which a book is bound in stiff boards covered with cloth
- cloud seeding — any technique of adding material to a cloud to alter its natural development, usually to increase or obtain precipitation.
- coachbuilding — the manufacture of bodies for cars, buses, and coaches
- coat-trailing — provocative or contentious writing, speech, behavior, etc.
- codeswitching — Alternative form of code-switching.
- cold moulding — the production of moulded articles from resins that polymerize chemically
- collaborating — to work, one with another; cooperate, as on a literary work: They collaborated on a novel.
- commandeering — Present participle of commandeer.
- commemorating — Present participle of commemorate.
- commiserating — to feel or express sorrow or sympathy for; empathize with; pity.
- commissioning — the act of committing or entrusting a person, group, etc., with supervisory power or authority.
- commoditising — Present participle of commoditise.
- commoditizing — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- communalizing — Present participle of communalize.