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15-letter words that end in ng

  • prince charming — (sometimes lowercase) a man who embodies a woman's romantic ideal.
  • private hearing — a formal or official trial that is not open to the public
  • problem-solving — skills, process: of finding solutions
  • process costing — a method of assigning costs to production processes where products must of necessity be produced in one continuous process, with unit cost arrived at by averaging units produced to the total cost of the process.
  • process heating — Process heating is heating, usually from steam, which is used to increase the temperature in a process vessel.
  • procrastinating — to defer action; delay: to procrastinate until an opportunity is lost.
  • program trading — trading on international stock exchanges using a computer program to exploit differences between stock index futures and actual share prices on world equity markets
  • public building — a building that belongs to a town or state, and is used by the public
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • public speaking — the act of delivering speeches in public.
  • public spending — expenditure by central government, local authorities, and public enterprises
  • puffin crossing — a UK pedestrian road crossing with traffic lights signalling red to stop the traffic flow when pedestrians are seen on the crossing by infrared detectors. The green signal reappears when no pedestrians are seen on the crossing
  • pyramid selling — Pyramid selling is a method of selling in which one person buys a supply of a particular product direct from the manufacturer and then sells it to a number of other people at an increased price. These people sell it on to others in a similar way, but eventually the final buyers are only able to sell the product for less than they paid for it.
  • quarter binding — a style of bookbinding in which the spine is leather and the sides are cloth or paper.
  • quintuplicating — Present participle of quintuplicate.
  • quite something — a remarkable or noteworthy thing or person
  • radiant heating — the means of heating objects or persons by radiation in which the intervening air is not heated.
  • random sampling — a method of selecting a sample (random sample) from a statistical population in such a way that every possible sample that could be selected has a predetermined probability of being selected.
  • reality testing — the objective evaluation of situations, defective in certain psychoses, that enable one to distinguish between the external and the internal worlds and between the self and the nonself.
  • record-breaking — top, most successful
  • refamiliarizing — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • relief-printing — prominence, distinctness, or vividness due to contrast.
  • resist printing — a fabric-printing method in which a dye-resistant substance is applied to certain specified areas of the material prior to immersion in a dye bath and subsequently removed so as to permit the original hue to act as a pattern against the colored ground.
  • revenue sharing — the system of disbursing part of federal tax revenues to state and local governments for their use.
  • richard hamming — (person)   Professor Richard Wesley Hamming (1915-02-11 - 1998-01-07). An American mathematician known for his work in information theory (notably error detection and correction), having invented the concepts of Hamming code, Hamming distance, and Hamming window. Richard Hamming received his B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1937, his M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1939, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1942. In 1945 Hamming joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. In 1946, after World War II, Hamming joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories where he worked with both Shannon and John Tukey. He worked there until 1976 when he accepted a chair of computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California. Hamming's fundamental paper on error-detecting and error-correcting codes ("Hamming codes") appeared in 1950. His work on the IBM 650 leading to the development in 1956 of the L2 programming language. This never displaced the workhorse language L1 devised by Michael V Wolontis. By 1958 the 650 had been elbowed aside by the 704. Although best known for error-correcting codes, Hamming was primarily a numerical analyst, working on integrating differential equations and the Hamming spectral window used for smoothing data before Fourier analysis. He wrote textbooks, propounded aphorisms ("the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers"), and was a founder of the ACM and a proponent of open-shop computing ("better to solve the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way."). In 1968 he was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and awarded the Turing Prize from the Association for Computing Machinery. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded Hamming the Emanuel R Piore Award in 1979 and a medal in 1988.
  • right-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position following the head, as the phrase the house of the friend of my brother; having most of the constituents on the right in a tree diagram (opposed to left-branching).
  • rolling bearing — any bearing in which the antifriction action depends on the rolling action of balls or rollers
  • rollmop herring — a herring fillet rolled, usually around onion slices, and pickled in spiced vinegar
  • rotary drilling — Rotary drilling is the use of a continuous circular motion of the drill bit to make a hole.
  • rough breathing — the symbol (ʿ) used in the writing of Greek to indicate aspiration of the initial vowel or of the ρ (rho) over which it is placed.
  • rudyard kipling — (Joseph) Rudyard [ruhd-yerd] /ˈrʌd yərd/ (Show IPA), 1865–1936, English author: Nobel Prize 1907.
  • running rigging — rigging for handling sails, yards, etc. (contrasted with standing rigging).
  • sausage turning — turning of members to resemble a continuous row of sausages flattened at the ends.
  • saviour sibling — a child conceived through IVF and screened for compatibility with a terminally or seriously ill sibling in order to provide organ or cell donations as a form of treatment
  • school teaching — School teaching is the work done by teachers in a school.
  • screen-printing — a print made by the silkscreen process.
  • second blessing — an experience of sanctification coming after conversion.
  • self-afflicting — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
  • self-committing — to give in trust or charge; consign.
  • self-correcting — automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.
  • self-energizing — giving rise to energy or power from within itself or oneself; capable of generating energy or power automatically.
  • self-exploiting — to utilize, especially for profit; turn to practical account: to exploit a business opportunity.
  • self-flattering — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
  • self-forgetting — self-forgetful.
  • self-fulfilling — characterized by or bringing about self-fulfillment.
  • self-generating — producing from within itself.
  • self-glorifying — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
  • self-immolating — of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.
  • self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
  • self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
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