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15-letter words that end in ng

  • food processing — transforming raw materials into food
  • forward-looking — planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.
  • fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
  • french dressing — salad dressing prepared chiefly from oil, vinegar, and seasonings.
  • french-speaking — able to speak French
  • frisian carving — geometrical incised carving.
  • fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
  • gene sequencing — the determination of the order in which a particular gene's nucleotides are arranged
  • general meeting — business: for all members
  • german-speaking — able to speak German
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • globe lightning — ball lightning.
  • go with a swing — If you say that something is going with a swing, you mean that it is lively and exciting.
  • gossipmongering — The behaviour of a gossipmonger; the spreading of salacious rumours.
  • gotterdammerung — German Mythology. the destruction of the gods and of all things in a final battle with evil powers: erroneous modern translation of the Old Icelandic Ragnarǫk, meaning “fate of the gods,” misunderstood as Ragnarökkr, meaning “twilight of the gods.”.
  • graph colouring — (application)   A constraint-satisfaction problem often used as a test case in research, which also turns out to be equivalent to certain real-world problems (e.g. register allocation). Given a connected graph and a fixed number of colours, the problem is to assign a colour to each node, subject to the constraint that any two connected nodes cannot be assigned the same colour. This is an example of an NP-complete problem. See also four colour map theorem.
  • great awakening — the series of religious revivals among Protestants in the American colonies, especially in New England, lasting from about 1725 to 1770.
  • green lightning — [IBM] 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded. This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would let the user know that "something is happening". That, it certainly does. Later microprocessor-driven IBM colour graphics displays were actually *programmed* to produce green lightning! 2. [proposed] Any bug perverted into an alleged feature by adroit rationalisation or marketing. "Motorola calls the CISC cruft in the 88000 architecture "compatibility logic", but I call it green lightning". See also feature.
  • grid networking — a type of computer networking that harnesses unused processing cycles of ordinary desktop computers to create a virtual supercomputer
  • ground-breaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • heart-searching — a thorough examination of one's feelings and motives; a self-examination of one's conscience.
  • heat-conducting — able to conduct heat or whose function is to conduct heat
  • heavy breathing — stertorous breathing or breathing done with difficulty
  • heliacal rising — rising of a celestial object at approximately the same time as the rising of the sun
  • hit the ceiling — the overhead interior surface of a room.
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • hot-dip coating — the process of coating sheets of iron or steel with molten zinc.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hyperpolarizing — Present participle of hyperpolarize.
  • hypoventilating — Present participle of hypoventilate.
  • ignition timing — Ignition timing is the timing of the spark relative to the piston top dead center in a spark ignition engine.
  • immaterializing — Present participle of immaterialize.
  • in-suite dining — In-suite dining in a hotel is when guests eat meals in their rooms.
  • inconveniencing — the quality or state of being inconvenient.
  • individualising — Present participle of individualise.
  • individualizing — Present participle of individualize.
  • industrialising — Present participle of industrialise.
  • industrializing — Present participle of industrialize.
  • indy car racing — a US form of professional motor racing around banked oval tracks
  • inertia selling — (in Britain) the illegal practice of sending unrequested goods to householders followed by a bill for the price of the goods if they do not return them
  • insider dealing — dealing in company securities on a recognized stock exchange, with a view to making a profit or avoiding a loss, by a person who has confidential information about the securities that, if generally known, would affect their price. Its practice by those connected with a company is illegal
  • insider trading — the illegal buying and selling of securities by persons acting on privileged information.
  • interconnecting — Present participle of interconnect.
  • interior-sprung — (esp of a mattress) containing springs
  • interiorscaping — The design, installation, and maintenance of interiorscapes.
  • internetworking — Present participle of internetwork.
  • inunderstanding — (obsolete) Devoid of understanding.
  • john j pershing — John Joseph ("Blackjack") 1860–1948, U.S. general: commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
  • joint financing — the provision of funds for a project, etc, from two or more sources
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