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15-letter words that end in ng

  • self-monitoring — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
  • self-preserving — preservation of oneself from harm or destruction.
  • self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
  • self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
  • self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • self-respecting — You can use self-respecting with a noun describing a particular type of person to indicate that something is typical of, or necessary for, that type of person.
  • self-satisfying — effecting satisfaction to oneself.
  • self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • self-sustaining — self-supporting.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • service ceiling — the height above sea level, measured under standard conditions, at which the rate of climb of an aircraft has fallen to a specified amount
  • sheet lightning — lightning appearing merely as a general illumination over a broad area, usually because the path of the flash is obscured by clouds.
  • shillyshallying — hesitation; vacillation
  • shotgun wedding — a wedding occasioned or precipitated by pregnancy.
  • shrink-wrapping — a flexible plastic wrapping designed to shrink about its contours to protect and seal something
  • silver quandong — an Australian tree, Elaeocarpus grandis: family Elaeocarpaceae
  • singapore sling — a cocktail of gin, cherry brandy, sugar, and water.
  • situs picketing — common situs picketing.
  • slab plastering — coarse plastering, as between the studs in a half-timbered wall.
  • sleeve coupling — a cylinder joining the ends of two lengths of shafting or pipe.
  • sliver building — a very narrow skyscraper designed in response to restriction of the building site or zoning, frequently containing only a single apartment per floor or comparably limited office space.
  • social climbing — advancement of one's social status
  • social drinking — the practice of drinking alcohol occasionally and usually only in social situations
  • social spending — the money that is spent on welfare payments
  • social standing — a person's status or social class in society
  • social-drinking — a person who drinks alcoholic beverages usually in the company of others and is in control of his or her drinking.
  • solution mining — removal of a soluble mineral by dissolving it and leaching it out, as in the Frasch process.
  • soul-destroying — Activities or situations that are soul-destroying make you depressed, because they are boring or because there is no hope of improvement.
  • sound deadening — a process or material that reduces the resonance or volume of sound
  • speech training — training designed to improve spoken skills, such as voice projection
  • spirit leveling — leveling according to the indications of a spirit level.
  • spread sampling — the selection of a corpus for statistical analysis by selecting a number of short passages at random throughout the work and considering their aggregation
  • spring training — a program of physical exercise, practice, and exhibition games followed by a baseball team in the late winter and early spring, before the start of the regular season.
  • spring-cleaning — a complete cleaning of a place, as a home, done traditionally in the spring of the year.
  • standard lining — a system for aligning type so that all fonts of the same point size have a common baseline.
  • start something — to cause a disturbance or trouble
  • steam reforming — a process in which methane from natural gas is heated, with steam, usually with a catalyst, to produce a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen used in organic synthesis and as a fuel
  • steamed pudding — a traditional pudding containing fat, sugar, eggs, flour, and other ingredients, which is steamed
  • steel engraving — a method of incising letters, designs, etc., on steel.
  • stephen hawking — Stephen William, born 1942, English mathematician and theoretical physicist.
  • stop at nothing — to be prepared to do anything; be unscrupulous or ruthless
  • straight-acting — (of a gay person) having the mannerisms of a heterosexual person: used esp by gay people of other gay people
  • street fighting — violent and illegal fighting between individuals or groups
  • street lighting — the provision of lighting at night in public places to illuminate the streets
  • strobe lighting — a high-intensity flashing beam of light produced by rapid electrical discharges in a tube or by a perforated disc rotating in front of an intense light source: used in discotheques, etc
  • sturm und drang — a style or movement of German literature of the latter half of the 18th century: characterized chiefly by impetuosity of manner, exaltation of individual sensibility and intuitive perception, opposition to established forms of society and thought, and extreme nationalism.
  • subject heading — a title or heading of a category, esp in a bibliography or index
  • subject-raising — a rule that moves the subject of a complement clause into the clause in which it is embedded, as in the derivation of He is likely to be late from It is likely that he will be late
  • suicide bombing — a terrorist bomb attack in which the perpetrator knows that he or she will be killed in the explosion
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