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13-letter words that end in ng

  • be hard going — If you say that something is hard going, you mean it is difficult and requires a lot of effort.
  • be upstanding — (in a court of law) a direction to all persons present to rise to their feet before the judge enters or leaves the court
  • beer-swilling — in the habit of drinking a lot of beer
  • belly landing — the landing of an aircraft on its fuselage without use of its landing gear
  • beta-blocking — acting to inhibit the activity of the nerves that are stimulated by adrenaline
  • bible reading — a passage from the Bible, esp one read in a service
  • bill-sticking — a person who posts bills and advertisements.
  • bird-watching — Bird-watching is the activity of watching and studying wild birds in their natural surroundings.
  • bishop's ring — a reddish-brown corona occasionally seen around the sun, caused by volcanic dust in the atmosphere.
  • bit twiddling — 1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see tune) in which incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little noticeable improvement, often with the result that the code becomes incomprehensible. 2. Aimless small modification to a program, especially for some pointless goal. 3. bit bashing, especially used for the act of frobbing the device control register of a peripheral in an attempt to get it back to a known state.
  • black pudding — Black pudding is a thick sausage which has a black skin and is made from pork fat and pig's blood.
  • blacksmithing — the work of a blacksmith.
  • blamestorming — a discussion or meeting for the purpose of assigning blame.
  • block booking — the making of bookings for a number of people, or e.g. purchasing a number of seats in a theatre, concert hall, etc at the same time
  • blood pudding — Blood pudding is another word for black pudding.
  • blood-letting — Blood-letting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
  • bloodcurdling — terrifying; horrifying
  • blow moulding — a process for moulding single-piece plastic objects in which a thermoplastic is extruded into a split mould and blown against its sides
  • board meeting — a meeting of the board of a company or other organization
  • body building — the act or practice of exercising, lifting weights, etc., so as to develop the muscles of the body.
  • body piercing — the practice of making holes in the navel , nipples, etc so that jewellery can be worn in them
  • body shopping — the purchasing of manpower from another country, usually one where wages are cheap
  • body stocking — A body stocking is a piece of clothing that covers the whole of someone's body and fits tightly. Body stockings are often worn by dancers.
  • bone-chilling — extremely cold
  • bone-crushing — powerful or constricting enough to crush one's bones: a bone-crushing handshake.
  • book learning — knowledge gained from books rather than from direct personal experience
  • book-learning — knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
  • bosman ruling — an EU ruling that allows out-of-contract footballers to leave their clubs without the clubs receiving a transfer fee
  • bottlenecking — a narrow entrance or passageway.
  • bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
  • brace molding — keel1 (def 6).
  • brain-picking — the act of obtaining information or ideas by questioning another person.
  • brainstorming — intensive discussion to solve problems or generate ideas
  • brass rubbing — A brass rubbing is a picture made by placing a piece of paper over a brass plate that has writing or a picture on it, and rubbing it with a wax crayon.
  • brass-rubbing — an antiquarian's technique for copying designs from incised brass memorial slabs and the like.
  • brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
  • bread pudding — a rich cake made with bread soaked in milk, eggs, dried fruit and spices and baked, usually eaten cold
  • bread-winning — a person who earns a livelihood, especially one who also supports dependents.
  • break dancing — a style of dance engaged in by youths, involving acrobatic movements, spinning about on the head or shoulders, etc.
  • break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
  • breechloading — loaded at the breech.
  • brigham young — Andrew (Jackson, Jr.) born 1932, U.S. clergyman, civil-rights leader, politician, and diplomat: mayor of Atlanta, Georgia, 1981–89.
  • brown bagging — to bring (one's own liquor) to a restaurant or club, especially one that has no liquor license.
  • brown-bagging — the practice of eating one's lunch or drinking a bottle of alcohol from a brown bag
  • buck and wing — a boisterous tap dance, derived from Black and Irish clog dances
  • bulk settling — Bulk settling is a process in which two liquids, or a solid and a liquid, of different densities are allowed to separate by gravity.
  • bully-ragging — to bully; harass: to bullyrag fraternity plebs.
  • bus mastering — bus master
  • cabinetmaking — the manufacture of fine furniture and other woodwork.
  • cable molding — a molding in the form of a rope.
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