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15-letter words that end in ng

  • nonintimidating — not intimidating, free of intimidation
  • nonintoxicating — Not intoxicating; not causing drunkenness.
  • nonslaveholding — Not slaveholding.
  • nonwithstanding — Misspelling of notwithstanding.
  • not for nothing — If you say that it was not for nothing that something happened, you are emphasizing that there was a very good reason for it to happen.
  • notwithstanding — in spite of; without being opposed or prevented by: Notwithstanding a brilliant defense, he was found guilty. She went to the game anyway, doctor's orders notwithstanding.
  • nuclear testing — the process of carrying out a test on a nuclear weapon to determine effectiveness, etc
  • oblique sailing — the navigation of a vessel on a point of the compass other than one of the cardinal points.
  • obsidian dating — a method of dating obsidian artifacts or debitage by calculating how long it has taken to produce a given thickness of a hydration layer within such matter.
  • office building — building containing offices
  • offset printing — offset (def 6).
  • on a shoestring — If you do something or make something on a shoestring, you do it using very little money.
  • open-cut mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • open-pit mining — a method of mining, usually for metallic ores, in which the waste and ore are completely removed from the sides and bottom of a pit which gradually becomes an enormous canyonlike hole
  • opencast mining — mining by excavating from the surface
  • optical pumping — a method for increasing the number of atoms or molecules occupying higher energy levels by irradiating them with light of the proper frequencies to raise them to those levels.
  • optical tooling — the technique of establishing precise reference lines and planes by means of telescopic sights, especially for the purpose of aligning machinery, machine-shop work, etc.
  • order-embedding — A function f : D -> C is order-embedding iff for all x, y in D, f(x) <= f(y) <=> x <= y. I.e. arguments and results compare similarly. A function which is order-embedding is monotonic and one-to-one and an injection. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \sqsubseteq).
  • ordinary rating — a rank in the Royal Navy comparable to that of a private in the army
  • organic farming — farming with organic methods
  • out of training — become unfit
  • outline drawing — a drawing consisting only of external lines
  • outward-looking — looking beyond oneself; open-minded and reaching out to other people, organizations, etc
  • over-performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • overcontrolling — excessively controlling
  • overdramatizing — Present participle of overdramatize.
  • overemphasizing — Present participle of overemphasize.
  • overprogramming — the act or instance of programming unnecessary details
  • paedophile ring — a group of people who take part in illegal sexual activity involving children
  • painted bunting — a brilliantly colored bunting, Passerina ciris, of the southern U.S.
  • passive smoking — the inhaling of cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoke of others, especially by a nonsmoker in an enclosed area.
  • pattern bombing — aerial bombing in which bombs are dropped on a target in a predetermined pattern.
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • phase-switching — a technique used in radio interferometry in which the signal from one of the two antennae is periodically reversed in phase before being multiplied by the signal from the other antenna
  • photoconducting — of or relating to photoconduction
  • phrasemongering — the act of coining memorable phrases
  • picture writing — the art of recording events or expressing ideas by pictures, or pictorial symbols, as practiced by preliterate peoples.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
  • pigeon shooting — the act of hunting and shooting live pigeons
  • plane surveying — the surveying of areas of limited size, making no corrections for the earth's curvature
  • plea bargaining — pleading guilty to a lesser charge
  • pleasure-loving — enjoying pleasure
  • polynomial ring — the set of all polynomials in an indeterminate variable with coefficients that are elements of a given ring.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • prairie-dogging — (in an open-plan office) the practice of looking over the top of one's partition in order to discover the source of or reason for a commotion
  • pre-advertising — to announce or praise (a product, service, etc.) in some public medium of communication in order to induce people to buy or use it: to advertise a new brand of toothpaste.
  • pre-engineering — the art or science of making practical application of the knowledge of pure sciences, as physics or chemistry, as in the construction of engines, bridges, buildings, mines, ships, and chemical plants.
  • pressure-piping — Pressure-piping is a set of pipes which are used to contain fluid at high pressure.
  • primary sealing — Primary sealing is devices used for sealing tanks, to reduce emissions, often made of foam.
  • primary winding — an induction coil that is the part of an electric circuit in which a changing current induces a current in a neighbouring circuit
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