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14-letter words that end in ng

  • staff training — training to improve the performance or knowledge of the employees or workforce or a company, etc
  • stay stitching — a line of stitches made in the seam allowance to prevent the edges from stretching
  • steam cracking — Steam cracking is the main method of breaking down large molecules of hydrocarbons, in which a gaseous or liquid hydrocarbon is diluted with steam and then heated.
  • steeplechasing — a horse race over a turf course furnished with artificial ditches, hedges, and other obstacles over which the horses must jump.
  • stock watering — the creation of more new shares in a company than is justified by its assets
  • strikebreaking — action directed at breaking up a strike of workers.
  • string-pulling — the use of one's influence with other people to get things done, often unfairly
  • strip cropping — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
  • strip lighting — Strip lighting is a method of lighting which uses long tubes rather than light bulbs.
  • strip planting — the growing of different crops on alternate strips of ground that usually follow the contour of the land, a recourse to minimize erosion.
  • sturmabteilung — a political militia of the Nazi party, organized about 1923 and notorious for its violence and terrorism up to 1934, when it was purged and reorganized as an instrument of physical training and political indoctrination of German men; Brown Shirts.
  • subcontracting — outsourcing of contract work
  • sulphur spring — a natural hot spring containing sulphur, believed to have curative properties
  • summer pudding — a pudding made by filling a bread-lined basin with a purée of fruit, leaving it to soak, and then turning it out
  • summit meeting — a meeting or conference of heads of state, especially to conduct diplomatic negotiations and ease international tensions.
  • sunday morning — a poem (1923) by Wallace Stevens.
  • sunday opening — the act of allowing shops and businesses to open on a Sunday
  • sunday trading — the fact of opening a shop or business on a Sunday
  • support buying — buying carried out to support an exchange rate
  • switch selling — a system of selling, now illegal in Britain, whereby potential customers are attracted by a special offer on some goods but the salesman's real aim is to sell other more expensive goods instead
  • swivel weaving — the process of weaving on a loom equipped with a swivel.
  • tablet coating — A tablet coating is a covering over a tablet, used to mask the taste, make it easier to swallow, or protect the active medication inside.
  • take a meeting — to attend a business conference
  • tape recording — sound reproduction on cassette
  • tariff heading — the description of a product attached to a tariff line
  • tax-collecting — the collection of taxes owed by individuals
  • teeth grinding — habitual, purposeless clenching and grinding of the teeth, especially during sleep.
  • teleprocessing — computerized processing and transmission of data over the telephone or other long-distance communications systems.
  • tenant farming — farming land owned by sb else
  • tenpin bowling — Tenpin bowling is a game in which you roll a heavy ball down a narrow track toward a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as possible.
  • test marketing — to offer (a new product) for sale, usually in a limited area, in order to ascertain and evaluate consumer response.
  • text messaging — sending typed mobile phone messages
  • the done thing — If you say that something is the done thing, you mean it is the most socially acceptable way to behave.
  • the prize ring — the sport of prizefighting
  • the real thing — If you say that a thing or event is the real thing, you mean that it is the thing or event itself, rather than an imitation or copy.
  • thermal spring — a spring whose temperature is higher than the mean temperature of ground water in the area.
  • thermostatting — a device, including a relay actuated by thermal conduction or convection, that functions to establish and maintain a desired temperature automatically or signals a change in temperature for manual adjustment.
  • thread rolling — the production of a screw thread by a rolling swaging process using hardened profiled rollers. Rolled threads are stronger than threads machined by a cutting tool
  • throat seizing — cuckold's knot.
  • thrust bearing — a bearing designed to absorb thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution.
  • time-consuming — (of an action) requiring or wasting much time.
  • to be bursting — to want desperately to urinate
  • to overflowing — If a place or container is filled to overflowing, it is so full of people or things that no more can fit in.
  • to sb's liking — If something is to your liking, it suits your interests, tastes, or wishes.
  • tongue-lashing — severe scolding
  • total fighting — a combat sport in which very few restrictions are placed on the type of blows or tactics that may be used
  • track lighting — lighting for a room or other area in which individual spotlight fixtures are attached along a narrow, wall- or ceiling-mounted metal track through which current is conducted, permitting flexible positioning of the lights.
  • train-spotting — (of a train enthusiast) the activity of going to train stations and recording the numbers of trains
  • triple glazing — three layers of glass in windows or doors
  • un-challenging — offering a challenge; testing one's ability, endurance, etc: a challenging course; a challenging game.
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