8-letter words that end in ning
- preening — (of animals, especially birds) to trim or dress (feathers, fur, etc.) with the beak or tongue: The peacock preened itself on the lawn.
- queening — a female sovereign or monarch.
- quoining — The stone or brick used to form a quoin of a wall or building.
- ravening — rapacious; voracious.
- recaning — a stick or short staff used to assist one in walking; walking stick.
- refining — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- reigning — the period during which a sovereign occupies the throne.
- repining — to be fretfully discontented; fret; complain.
- resining — any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic, that consist of amorphous mixtures of carboxylic acids and are obtained directly from certain plants as exudations or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules: used in medicine and in the making of varnishes and plastics.
- scanning — the act of examining with a scanner
- scorning — open or unqualified contempt; disdain: His face and attitude showed the scorn he felt.
- shinning — the front part of the leg from the knee to the ankle.
- shunning — to keep away from (a place, person, object, etc.), from motives of dislike, caution, etc.; take pains to avoid.
- sirening — Classical Mythology. one of several sea nymphs, part woman and part bird, who lure mariners to destruction by their seductive singing.
- skinning — the external covering or integument of an animal body, especially when soft and flexible.
- spanning — the distance between the tip of the thumb and the tip of the little finger when the hand is fully extended.
- spawning — Zoology. the mass of eggs deposited by fishes, amphibians, mollusks, crustaceans, etc.
- spinning — the act of causing a spinning or whirling motion.
- splining — a long, narrow, thin strip of wood, metal, etc.; slat.
- spooning — a utensil for use in eating, stirring, measuring, ladling, etc., consisting of a small, shallow bowl with a handle.
- staining — a discoloration produced by foreign matter having penetrated into or chemically reacted with a material; a spot not easily removed.
- stunning — causing, capable of causing, or liable to cause astonishment, bewilderment, or a loss of consciousness or strength: a stunning blow.
- swaining — courtship
- swooning — to faint; lose consciousness.
- thinning — having relatively little extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thick: thin ice.
- tokening — something serving to represent or indicate some fact, event, feeling, etc.; sign: Black is a token of mourning.
- training — Railroads. a self-propelled, connected group of rolling stock.
- twinning — either of two children or animals brought forth at a birth.
- unwaning — to decrease in strength, intensity, etc.: Daylight waned, and night came on. Her enthusiasm for the cause is waning.
- wakening — awakening.
- widening — Of things that are growing wider.
- wizening — Present participle of wizen.
- yearning — deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness: a widower's yearning for his wife.
- yongning — former name of Nanning.
- yungning — Wade-Giles. Yongning.