4 Letter 7 Letter 5 Letter Boggle Words Ending With G

BAG (6) [noun] A flexible container made of cloth, paper, plastic, etc. | [noun] A handbag | [noun] A suitcase. BEG (6) [noun] The act of begging; an imploring request. | [verb] To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. | [verb] To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. | [noun] A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey. | [noun] The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. BIG (6) [noun] Someone or something that is large in stature | [noun] An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name. | [noun] (as plural) The big leagues, big time. | [verb] To inhabit; occupy | [noun] One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley. BOG (6) [noun] An area of decayed vegetation (particularly sphagnum moss) which forms a wet spongy ground too soft for walking; a marsh or swamp. | [noun] Confusion, difficulty, or any other thing or place that impedes progress in the manner of such areas. | [noun] The acidic soil of such areas, principally composed of peat; marshland, swampland. | [noun] An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). | [noun] Puffery, boastfulness. | [verb] (usually with "off") To go away. BUG (6) [noun] An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”). | [noun] Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug, mudbug. | [noun] Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest. COG (6) [noun] A tooth on a gear. | [noun] A gear; a cogwheel. | [noun] An unimportant individual in a greater system. | [noun] A ship of burden, or war with a round, bulky hull. | [noun] A trick or deception; a falsehood. | [noun] A small fishing boat. DAG (5) [noun] A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. | [noun] A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. | [verb] To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. | [noun] A skewer. | [interjection] Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. | [noun] One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance. | [noun] A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V, E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. | [noun] A misty shower; dew. | [noun] A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding. DIG (5) [noun] An archeological or paleontological investigation, or the site where such an investigation is taking place. | [noun] A plodding and laborious student. | [noun] A thrust; a poke. | [verb] To understand or show interest in. | [noun] Digoxin. DOG (5) [noun] A mammal, Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris, that has been domesticated for thousands of years, of highly variable appearance due to human breeding. | [noun] Any member of the Family Canidae, including domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, jackals, foxes, and their relatives (extant and extinct); canid. | [noun] A male dog, wolf or fox, as opposed to a bitch or vixen. DUG (5) [verb] To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way. | [verb] To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up. | [verb] To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) A mammary gland on a domestic mammal with more than two breasts. EGG (5) [noun] An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development. | [noun] The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food. | [noun] The female primary cell, the ovum. | [verb] To encourage, incite. ENG (4) [adjective] Narrow. | [noun] Roman alphabet ŋ: The Latin-based letter formed by combining the letters n and g, used in the IPA, Saami, Mende, and some Australian aboriginal languages. In the IPA, it represents the voiced velar nasal, the ng sound in running and rink. ERG (4) [noun] The unit of work or energy, being the amount of work done by a force of one dyne applied through a distance of one centimeter. Equal to 10−7 joules. | [noun] A large desert region of sand dunes with little or no vegetation, especially in the Sahara. | [noun] An ergometer. FAG (7) [noun] In textile inspections, a rough or coarse defect in the woven fabric. | [noun] (dated in US and Canada) A cigarette. | [noun] The worst part or end of a thing. | [noun] A chore: an arduous and tiresome task. | [noun] (usually offensive, sometimes affectionate) A homosexual man, especially (usually derogatory) an especially effeminate or unusual one. FIG (7) [noun] A fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics. | [noun] The fruit of the fig tree, pear-shaped and containing many small seeds. | [noun] A small piece of tobacco. | [verb] To move suddenly or quickly; rove about. | [noun] A person's figure; dress or appearance. | [verb] To insert a ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra of: to perform figging upon. FOG (7) [noun] A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud. | [noun] A mist or film clouding a surface. | [noun] A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion. | [noun] A new growth of grass appearing on a field that has been mowed or grazed. FUG (7) [noun] A heavy, musty, and unpleasant atmosphere, usually in a poorly-ventilated area. | [noun] A state of lethargy and confusion; daze. | [noun] A state of chaos or confusion. | [noun] An act of sexual intercourse. GAG (5) [noun] A device to restrain speech, such as a rag in the mouth secured with tape or a rubber ball threaded onto a cord or strap. | [noun] An order or rule forbidding discussion of a case or subject. | [noun] A joke or other mischievous prank. GIG (5) [noun] A performing engagement by a musical group; or, generally, any job or role, especially for a musician or performer. | [noun] (by extension) Any job; especially one that is temporary; or alternately, one that is very desirable. | [noun] A forked spear for catching fish, frogs, or other small animals. | [noun] Clipped form of gigabyte. | [noun] A playful or wanton girl; a giglot. | [verb] To engender. HAG (7) [noun] A witch, sorceress, or enchantress; a wizard. | [noun] An ugly old woman. | [noun] A fury; a she-monster. | [noun] A small wood, or part of a wood or copse, which is marked off or enclosed for felling, or which has been felled. | [verb] To harass; to weary with vexation. HOG (7) [noun] Any animal belonging to the Suidae family of mammals, especially the pig, the warthog, and the boar. | [noun] (specifically) An adult swine (contrasted with a pig, a young swine). | [noun] A greedy person; one who refuses to share. | [verb] To process (bark, etc.) into hog fuel. | [noun] A quahog (clam) HUG (7) [noun] A close embrace, especially when charged with such an emotion as represented by: affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, agression, compassion, and the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace or "little hug"). | [noun] A particular grip in wrestling. | [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. JAG (11) [noun] A sharp projection. | [noun] A part broken off; a fragment. | [noun] A cleft or division. | [noun] Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful. JIG (11) [noun] A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue. | [noun] A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig. | [noun] (traditional English Morris dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team. | [noun] A black person. JOG (11) [noun] An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise. | [noun] A sudden push or nudge. | [noun] A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface. JUG (11) [noun] A serving vessel or container, typically circular in cross-section and typically higher than it is wide, with a relatively small mouth or spout, an ear handle and often a stopper or top. | [noun] The amount that a jug can hold. | [noun] Jail. | [noun] A small mixed breed of dog created by mating a Jack Russell terrier and a pug. KEG (8) [noun] A round, traditionally wooden container of lesser capacity than a barrel, often used to store beer. | [verb] To store in a keg. LAG (4) [noun] A gap, a delay; an interval created by something not keeping up; a latency. | [noun] Delay; latency. | [noun] One sentenced to transportation for a crime. LEG (4) [noun] A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion. | [noun] In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle. | [noun] The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle. | [adjective] Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking LOG (4) [noun] The trunk of a dead tree, cleared of branches. | [noun] Any bulky piece as cut from the above, used as timber, fuel etc. | [noun] A unit of length equivalent to 16 feet, used for measuring timber, especially the trunk of a tree. | [noun] A logbook, or journal of a vessel (or aircraft)'s progress | [verb] To move to and fro; to rock. | [noun] A Hebrew unit of liquid volume (about 1/3 liter). | [noun] Logarithm. LUG (4) [noun] The act of hauling or dragging. | [noun] That which is hauled or dragged. | [noun] Anything that moves slowly. MAG (6) [noun] (abbreviation) magazine (publication or ammunition) | [noun] (abbreviation) magnet | [noun] (abbreviation) mag wheel | [verb] To steal. MIG (6) MOG (6) [noun] A young cow or bull. | [noun] Leather made of the skin of the calf; especially, a fine, light-coloured leather used in bookbinding. | [noun] A young deer, elephant, seal, whale or giraffe (also used of some other animals). | [verb] To move away; to go off. | [verb] (pickup community) To assert one's dominance over. MUG (6) [noun] A large cup for hot liquids, usually having a handle and used without a saucer. | [noun] The face, often used deprecatingly. | [noun] A gullible or easily-cheated person. | [noun] Motherfucker (usually in similes, e.g. "like a mug" or "as a mug") NAG (4) [noun] A small horse; a pony. | [noun] An old useless horse. | [noun] A paramour. | [noun] Someone or something that nags. NOG (4) [noun] A wooden block, the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork. | [noun] One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine. | [noun] A treenail to fasten the shores. | [noun] Short for noggin. | [noun] A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy or whisky; popular at Christmas. | [noun] A dark-skinned person; nig-nog. PEG (6) [noun] A cylindrical wooden or metal object used to fasten or as a bearing between objects. | [noun] Measurement between the pegs: after killing an animal hunters used the distance between a peg near the animal's nose and one near the end of its tail to measure its body length. | [noun] A protrusion used to hang things on. PIG (6) [noun] Any of several intelligent mammalian species of the genus Sus, having cloven hooves, bristles and a nose adapted for digging; especially the domesticated animal Sus scrofa. | [noun] (specifically) A young swine, a piglet (contrasted with a hog, an adult swine). | [noun] The edible meat of such an animal; pork. | [noun] Earthenware, or an earthenware shard PUG (6) [noun] A small dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail. | [noun] A bargeman. | [noun] Chaff; the refuse of grain | [noun] An elf or hobgoblin. | [noun] One who fights with fists; a boxer. | [noun] Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil) | [noun] The pawprint or footprint of an animal | [noun] A term of endearment. RAG (4) [noun] (in the plural) Tattered clothes. | [noun] A piece of old cloth; a tattered piece of cloth; a shred, a tatter. | [noun] A shabby, beggarly fellow; a ragamuffin. | [noun] A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone. | [noun] A prank or practical joke. | [noun] An informal dance party featuring music played by African-American string bands. REG (4) [noun] A regular. | [noun] A regulation. | [noun] Registrar | [noun] A hard surface of rock fragments set in a sandy matrix, found in some hot deserts; regolith, stony desert. RIG (4) [noun] The rigging of a sailing ship or other such craft. | [noun] Special equipment or gear used for a particular purpose. | [noun] A large truck such as a semi-tractor. | [noun] A ridge. | [noun] A wanton; one given to unbecoming conduct. | [noun] An algebraic structure similar to a ring, but without the requirement that every element have an additive inverse. RUG (4) [noun] A partial covering for a floor. | [noun] A (usually thick) piece of fabric used for warmth (especially on a bed); a blanket. | [noun] A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for clothing. SAG (4) [noun] The state of sinking or bending; a droop. | [noun] The difference in elevation of a wire, cable, chain or rope suspended between two consecutive points. | [noun] The difference in height or depth between the vertex and the rim of a curved surface, specifically used for optical elements such as a mirror or lens. | [noun] An Indian dish made from greens (usually spinach) cooked down to a thick paste. SEG (4) TAG (4) [noun] A small label. | [noun] A children's chasing game in which one player (known as "it") attempts to touch another, who then becomes "it". | [noun] A skin tag, an excrescence of skin. | [noun] A decoration drawn over some Hebrew letters in Jewish scrolls. TEG (4) [noun] A sheep (originally a ewe) that is one to two years old | [noun] A doe in its second year TOG (4) [noun] A cloak. | [noun] A coat. | [noun] A unit of thermal resistance, being ten times the temperature difference (in °C) between the two surfaces of a material when the flow of heat is equal to one watt per square metre | [adverb] At the same time, in the same place; in close association or proximity. TUG (4) [noun] A sudden powerful pull. | [noun] A tugboat. | [noun] A kind of vehicle used for conveying timber and heavy articles. VEG (7) [noun] Vegetable. | [verb] To vegetate; to engage in complete inactivity; to rest | [adjective] Vegetarian | [noun] A unit of subjective weight, equivalent to the perceived weight of lifting 100 grams. VIG (7) [noun] A charge taken on bets, as by a bookie or gambling establishment. | [noun] The interest on a loan of money, especially for loans made by a usurer or loan shark. | [noun] An amount owed on account of or payment of a bookie's charge or of interest. VUG (7) [noun] A small to medium-sized cavity inside rock that may be formed through a variety of processes. WAG (7) [noun] An oscillating movement. | [noun] A witty person. | [verb] To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. WIG (7) [noun] A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying. | [noun] (among fishermen) An old seal. | [verb] To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.). WOG (7) [noun] Any dark-skinned person. It originally referred specifically to Indians, but later also applied to people of North African, Mediterranean, or Middle Eastern ancestry. | [noun] A person of Southern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern, or Southeastern European ancestry. | [verb] (WWII slang) (Of soldiers stationed abroad) to sell something, especially illicit or stolen goods, to the local inhabitants. | [noun] A tadpole. | [noun] A bug, an insect. | [noun] A person who is not a Scientologist. ZAG (13) [noun] One of a series of sharp turns or reversals. | [noun] Twist in a storyline | [verb] To move with a sharp turn or reversal. ZIG (13) [noun] A sudden or sharp turn or change of direction. | [verb] To make such a turn.

AGOG (6) [adjective] In eager desire, eager, astir. | [adjective] (chiefly of eyes) Wide open. | [adverb] In a state of high anticipation, excitement, or interest. BANG (7) [noun] A sudden percussive noise. | [noun] A strike upon an object causing such a noise. | [noun] An explosion. | [noun] Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent. BERG (7) [noun] An iceberg. | [noun] Mountain BONG (7) [noun] The clang of a large bell. | [noun] Doorbell chimes. | [verb] To pull a bell. | [noun] A vessel, usually made of glass or ceramic and filled with water, used in smoking various substances; especially marijuana or pot. | [noun] A very wide piton. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A purse. | [noun] An Australian Aboriginal person. BRAG (7) [noun] A boast or boasting; bragging; ostentatious pretence or self-glorification. | [noun] The thing which is boasted of. | [noun] (by ellipsis) The card game three card brag. BRIG (7) [noun] A two-masted vessel, square-rigged on both foremast and mainmast | [noun] A jail or guardhouse, especially in a naval military prison or jail on a ship, navy base, or (in fiction) spacecraft. | [noun] Bridge. | [noun] Brigadier. BUNG (7) [noun] A stopper, alternative to a cork, often made of rubber used to prevent fluid passing through the neck of a bottle, vat, a hole in a vessel etc. | [noun] A cecum or anus, especially of a slaughter animal. | [noun] A bribe. | [adjective] Broken, not in working order. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A purse. BURG (7) [noun] A city or town. | [noun] A fortified town in medieval Europe. | [noun] Burger CHUG (10) [noun] A dull, fairly quick explosive or percussive sound, as if made by a labouring engine. | [noun] A large gulp of drink. | [noun] A homemade Cuban boat, built to carry emigrants to the USA, and often abandoned upon arrival. | [noun] A dog; a cross between a pug and a chihuahua. | [verb] To solicit charitable donations on the street, particularly in a persistent manner. | [noun] (racial slur) A person of Native American descent. CLAG (7) [noun] A glue or paste made from starch. | [noun] Low cloud, fog or smog. | [noun] Unburned carbon (smoke) from a steam or diesel locomotive, or multiple unit. CLOG (7) [noun] A type of shoe with an inflexible, often wooden sole sometimes with an open heel. | [noun] A blockage. | [noun] A shoe of any type. CRAG (7) [noun] A rocky outcrop; a rugged steep rock or cliff. | [noun] A rough broken fragment of rock. | [noun] A partially compacted bed of gravel mixed with shells, of the Tertiary age. | [noun] The neck or throat. DANG (6) [noun] A damn, a negligible quantity, minimal consideration. | [verb] Damn. | [adjective] Damn. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To dash. DING (6) [noun] Very minor damage, a small dent or chip. | [noun] A rejection. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [noun] The high-pitched resonant sound of a bell. | [noun] An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid. DONG (6) [noun] The currency of Vietnam, 100 xus. Symbol: ₫ | [noun] A penis. | [noun] (by extension) A dildo, specifically a synthetic anatomical replica of the penis. | [noun] Onomatopoeia for the ringing sound made by a bell with a low pitch. | [noun] A submunicipal administrative unit of a city in North or South Korea. DRAG (6) [noun] Resistance of the air (or some other fluid) to something moving through it. | [noun] (foundry) The bottom part of a sand casting mold. | [noun] A device dragged along the bottom of a body of water in search of something, e.g. a dead body, or in fishing. | [noun] Women's clothing worn by men for the purpose of entertainment. DREG (6) DRUG (6) [noun] A substance used to treat an illness, relieve a symptom, or modify a chemical process in the body for a specific purpose. | [noun] A psychoactive substance, especially one which is illegal and addictive, ingested for recreational use, such as cocaine. | [noun] Anything, such as a substance, emotion or action, to which one is addicted. | [verb] To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty. | [noun] A drudge. DUNG (6) [noun] Manure; animal excrement. | [noun] A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. | [verb] To fertilize with dung. | [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To discard (especially rubbish); to chuck out. FANG (8) [noun] A long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh | [noun] (in snakes) a long pointed tooth for injecting venom | [verb] To strike or attack with the fangs. | [verb] To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of. | [noun] A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold. FLAG (8) [noun] A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol. | [noun] An exact representation of a flag (for example: a digital one used in websites). | [noun] A flag flown by a ship to show the presence on board of the admiral; the admiral himself, or his flagship. | [verb] To weaken, become feeble. | [noun] Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus. | [noun] A slice of turf; a sod. | [noun] A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc. FLOG (8) [noun] A contemptible, often arrogant person. | [verb] To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment. | [verb] To use something to extreme; to abuse. | [noun] A weblog designed to look authentic, but actually developed as part of a commercial marketing strategy to promote some product or service. FRAG (8) [noun] A fragmentation grenade. | [noun] A successful kill in a deathmatch game. | [verb] To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. FRIG (8) [noun] An act of frigging. | [noun] A temporary modification to a piece of equipment to change the way it operates (usually away from as originally designed). | [noun] A fuck. | [noun] An insulated bin, box or cabinet used to keep food or beverages cold. FROG (8) [noun] A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops. | [noun] The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached. | [noun] Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad. | [noun] A French person. | [noun] A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt. | [verb] To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake. FRUG (8) [noun] (usually preceded by definite article) A dance derived from the twist, popular in the 1960s. | [verb] To perform this dance. GANG (6) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [noun] A number going in company; a number of friends or persons associated for a particular purpose. | [noun] A group of laborers under one foreman; a squad. | [verb] (obsolete outside Northumbria) To go. | [verb] To participate in a gangbang. | [noun] The earthy waste substances occurring in metallic ore. GLEG (6) GLUG (6) [noun] The sound made when a significant amount of liquid is poured suddenly out of something, such as a jug or bottle. | [noun] The amount of liquid issued when the "glug" sound is heard. | [verb] To flow in noisy bursts. GONG (6) [noun] A percussion instrument consisting of a metal disk that emits a sonorous sound when struck with a soft hammer. | [noun] A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor. | [verb] To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. | [noun] An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory. | [noun] A kind of cultivation energy, more powerful than qi. GRIG (6) [noun] A dwarf. | [noun] A cricket or grasshopper. | [noun] A small or young eel. | [noun] Heath or heather. | [verb] To irritate or annoy. GROG (6) [noun] (original meaning) An alcoholic beverage made with rum and water, especially that once issued to sailors of the Royal Navy. | [noun] (by extension) Any alcoholic beverage. | [noun] A glass or serving of an alcoholic beverage. HANG (8) [noun] The way in which something hangs. | [noun] A grip, understanding. | [noun] An instance of ceasing to respond to input. | [noun] Cheap processed ham (cured pork), often made specially for sandwiches. | [noun] Name and trademark of a musical instrument invented and built by PANArt Hangbau AG. HOGG (9) [noun] A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget. HONG (8) HUNG (8) [verb] To be or remain suspended. | [verb] To float, as if suspended. | [verb] (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. JAGG (13) KING (9) [noun] A male monarch; a man who heads a monarchy. If it's an absolute monarchy, then he is the supreme ruler of his nation. | [noun] A powerful or majorly influential person. | [noun] Something that has a preeminent position. | [noun] A sounding stone, a Chinese musical instrument. LANG (5) LING (5) [noun] Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod. | [noun] The common ling, Molva molva. | [noun] Any of various varieties of heather or broom. | [noun] Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod. | [noun] The scientific study of language. LONG (5) [noun] A long vowel. | [noun] A long syllable. | [noun] A note formerly used in music, one half the length of a large, twice that of a breve. | [adverb] Over a great distance in space. | [verb] To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true) | [verb] To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to. | [noun] Longitude | [verb] To belong. LUNG (5) [noun] A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood. | [noun] (plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath. | [noun] That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place. MIGG (8) MUGG (8) NOGG (6) PANG (7) [noun] (often in the plural) A paroxysm of extreme physical pain or anguish; a feeling of sudden and transitory agony; a throe. | [noun] (often in the plural) A sudden sharp feeling of an emotional or mental nature, as of joy or sorrow. | [verb] To cause to have great pain or suffering; to torment, to torture. PEAG (7) PING (7) [noun] A high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. | [noun] (submarine navigation) A pulse of high-pitched or ultrasonic sound whose echoes provide information about nearby objects and vessels. | [noun] A packet which a remote host is expected to echo, thus indicating its presence. PLUG (7) [noun] A pronged connecting device which fits into a mating socket, especially an electrical one. | [noun] Any piece of wood, metal, or other substance used to stop or fill a hole. | [noun] A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco. PONG (7) [noun] A stench, a bad smell. | [verb] To stink, to smell bad. | [verb] To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it. | [noun] A packet sent in reply to a ping, thereby indicating the presence of a host. | [noun] A set of three identical tiles. PRIG (7) [noun] A tinker. | [noun] A petty thief or pickpocket. | [noun] A deliberately superior person; a person who demonstrates an exaggerated conformity or propriety, especially in an irritatingly arrogant or smug manner. PROG (7) [noun] Progressive rock. | [noun] A program. | [noun] (university slang) A proctor. | [noun] Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies. PUNG (7) QUAG (14) [noun] Quagmire; marsh; bog. RANG (5) [verb] Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. | [verb] To make (a bell, etc.) produce a resonant sound. | [verb] To produce (a sound) by ringing. RING (5) [noun] (physical) A solid object in the shape of a circle. | [noun] (physical) A group of objects arranged in a circle. | [noun] A piece of food in the shape of a ring. | [noun] The resonant sound of a bell, or a sound resembling it. | [noun] An algebraic structure which consists of a set with two binary operations: an additive operation and a multiplicative operation, such that the set is an abelian group under the additive operation, a monoid under the multiplicative operation, and such that the multiplicative operation is distributive with respect to the additive operation. RUNG (5) [noun] A crosspiece forming a step of a ladder; a round. | [noun] A crosspiece between legs of a chair. | [noun] A position in a hierarchy. | [verb] Of a bell, etc., to produce a resonant sound. SANG (5) [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. | [verb] To soothe with singing. | [noun] A Chinese wind instrument, a free-reed mouth organ consisting of 13 or more bamboo pipes of various lengths, which are fixed at their bases in a wind chest made from a dried gourd (or, more recently, wood or chrome-plated brass). SCAG (7) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SHAG (8) [noun] Matted material; rough massed hair, fibres etc. | [noun] Coarse shredded tobacco. | [noun] A type of rough carpet pile. | [noun] Several species of sea birds in the family Phalacrocoracidae (cormorant family), especially the common shag or European shag, Phalacrocorax aristotelis, found on European and African coasts. | [noun] A swing dance. | [noun] (Northwestern Ontario) A fundraising dance in honour of a couple engaged to be married. | [noun] Friend; mate; buddy. SHOG (8) SING (5) [noun] A gathering at which people sing songs. | [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. SKAG (9) [noun] Heroin. | [noun] (originally African American Vernacular English) A woman of loose morals. | [noun] A cigarette. SKEG (9) [noun] A fin-like structure to the rear of the keel of a vessel that supports the rudder and protects a propeller. | [noun] A similar construction on a boat that acts as a keel. | [noun] A fin that serves to stabilize a surfboard. SLAG (5) [noun] Waste material from a coal mine | [noun] Scum that forms on the surface of molten metal | [noun] Impurities formed and separated out when a metal is smelted from ore; vitrified cinders SLOG (5) [noun] A long, tedious walk, or session of work. | [noun] An aggressive shot played with little skill. | [verb] To walk slowly, encountering resistance. SLUG (5) [noun] Any of many terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks, having no (or only a rudimentary) shell. | [noun] A slow, lazy person; a sluggard. | [noun] A bullet or other projectile fired from a firearm; in modern usage, generally refers to a shotgun slug. | [noun] A hard blow, usually with the fist. SMOG (7) [noun] A noxious mixture of particulates and gases that is the result of urban air pollution. | [verb] To get a smog check; to check a vehicle or have it checked for emissions. SMUG (7) [verb] To make smug, or spruce. | [verb] To seize; to confiscate. | [verb] To hush up. SNAG (5) [noun] A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch. | [noun] A dead tree that remains standing. | [noun] A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk. | [noun] A light meal. | [noun] A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons). SNOG (5) [noun] A passionate kiss. | [verb] To kiss passionately. SNUG (5) [noun] A small, comfortable back room in a pub. | [noun] A lug. | [verb] To make secure or snug. SONG (5) [noun] A musical composition with lyrics for voice or voices, performed by singing. | [noun] (by extension) Any musical composition. | [noun] Poetical composition; poetry; verse. STAG (5) [noun] An adult male deer. | [noun] A colt, or filly. | [noun] (by extension) A romping girl; a tomboy. SUNG (5) [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. | [verb] To soothe with singing. SWAG (8) [noun] (window coverings) A loop of draped fabric. | [noun] A low point or depression in land; especially, a place where water collects. | [verb] To (cause to) sway. | [noun] Style; fashionable appearance or manner. | [noun] (thieves' cant) A shop and its goods; any quantity of goods. | [noun] Initialism of scientific/speculative/sophisticated/stupid wild-ass guess. SWIG (8) [noun] Drink, liquor. | [noun] (by extension) A long draught from a drink. | [noun] A person who drinks deeply. TANG (5) [noun] A refreshingly sharp aroma or flavor. | [noun] A strong or offensive taste; especially, a taste of something extraneous to the thing itself. | [noun] A sharp, specific flavor or tinge. | [noun] A sharp, twanging sound; an unpleasant tone; a twang. | [noun] Knotted wrack, Ascophyllum nodosum (coarse blackish seaweed) | [noun] The vagina. THUG (8) [noun] Someone with an intimidating and unseemly appearance and mannerisms, who treats others violently and roughly, often for hire. | [noun] One of a band of assassins formerly active in northern India who worshipped Kali and offered their victims to her. | [noun] In gardening, an over-vigorous plant that spreads and dominates the flowerbed. TING (5) [noun] The sound made when a small bell is struck. | [verb] To make a high sharp sound like a small bell being struck. | [interjection] Used to represent the sound of a small bell. | [noun] An ancient Chinese vessel with legs and a lid. | [noun] (Caribbean creoles) Thing, person. TONG (5) [noun] An instrument or tool used for manipulating things in a fire without touching them with the hands. | [verb] To use tongs. | [verb] To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs. | [noun] A Chinese secret society or gang. | [noun] The flexible muscular organ in the mouth that is used to move food around, for tasting and that is moved into various positions to modify the flow of air from the lungs in order to produce different sounds in speech. TRIG (5) [noun] A dandy; coxcomb. | [adjective] True; trusty; trustworthy; faithful. | [adjective] Safe; secure. | [noun] Trigonometry. | [noun] A stone, block of wood, or anything else, placed under a wheel or barrel to prevent motion; a scotch; a skid. | [verb] To fill; to stuff; to cram. | [noun] Triglyceride TRUG (5) [noun] A shallow, oval basket used for gardening | [noun] A trough or tray. | [noun] A hod for mortar. TUNG (5) TWIG (8) [noun] A small thin branch of a tree or bush. | [verb] To beat with twigs. | [verb] To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something. | [verb] To twitch; to pull; to tweak. VANG (8) [verb] To take; undertake for. | [verb] (as a godparent) To undertake for at the baptismal font; be godfather or godmother to. | [noun] A line extended down from the end of a yard or a gaff, used to regulate its position VUGG (9) WHIG (11) [noun] Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage. | [noun] Buttermilk | [verb] Urge forward; drive briskly. WING (8) [noun] An appendage of an animal's (bird, bat, insect) body that enables it to fly; a similar fin at the side of a ray or similar fish | [noun] Human arm. | [noun] Part of an aircraft that produces the lift for rising into the air. YANG (8) [noun] A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated with bright, hot, masculine, etc. elements of the natural world. | [noun] The monetary unit of Korea from 1892 to 1902, divided into 100 pun. | [noun] The cry of the wild goose; a honk. YEGG (9) [noun] A person who breaks open safes; a burglar. ZING (14) [noun] A short high-pitched humming sound, such as that made by a bullet or vibrating string. | [noun] A witty insult or derogatory remark. | [noun] Zest or vitality.

ACING (8) [verb] (US) To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly. | [verb] To win a point by an ace. | [verb] To make an ace (hole in one). AGING (7) [verb] To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. | [verb] To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt. | [verb] To categorize by age. ALANG (6) ALMUG (8) ALONG (6) [adverb] In company; together. | [adverb] Onward, forward, with progressive action. | [preposition] By the length of; in a line with the length of; lengthwise next to. AMONG (8) [preposition] Denotes a mingling or intermixing with distinct or separable objects. (See Usage Note at amidst.) | [preposition] Denotes a belonging of a person or a thing to a group. | [preposition] Denotes a sharing of a common feature in a group. APING (8) [verb] To behave like an ape. | [verb] To imitate or mimic, particularly to imitate poorly. | [noun] Foolish imitation or mimicry. AWING (9) [adverb] On the wing; flying; fluttering. | [verb] To inspire fear and reverence in. | [verb] To control by inspiring dread. AXING (13) [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [verb] To put forward (a question) to be answered. | [verb] To interrogate or enquire of (a person). BEFOG (11) [verb] To envelop in fog or smoke. | [verb] To confuse, mystify (a person); to make less acute or perceptive, to cloud (a person’s faculties). | [verb] To obscure, make less clear (a subject, issue, etc.). BEING (8) [noun] A living creature. | [noun] The state or fact of existence, consciousness, or life, or something in such a state. | [noun] That which has actuality (materially or in concept). BEWIG (11) [verb] To put a wig on; to cover with a wig. BHANG (11) [noun] Cannabis, especially as used in the Indian subcontinent. BOING (8) [noun] The sound made by an elastic object (such as a spring) when bouncing; the sound of a bounce. | [verb] To make a boing sound or bouncing motion. BOURG (8) [noun] A market town or borough, especially in France or other European countries. BRING (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere. | [verb] To supply or contribute. | [verb] To occasion or bring about. | [interjection] The sound of a telephone ringing. CHANG (11) [noun] A type of beer brewed in Tibet and other Himalayan regions. CLANG (8) [noun] A loud, ringing sound, like that made by free-hanging metal objects striking each other. | [noun] Quality of tone. | [noun] The cry of some birds, including the crane and the goose. CLING (8) [noun] Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit. | [noun] Adherence; attachment; devotion | [verb] To hold very tightly, as to not fall off. | [verb] To produce a high-pitched ringing sound, like a small bell. CLUNG (8) [verb] To hold very tightly, as to not fall off. | [verb] To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films. | [verb] To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing. COHOG (11) [noun] A quahog clam, a hard-shelled edible clam found along the Atlantic coast of North America. COLOG (8) CUING (8) DEBUG (9) [noun] The action, or a session, of reviewing source code to find and eliminate errors. | [verb] To search for and eliminate malfunctioning elements or errors in something, especially a computer program or machinery. | [verb] To remove a hidden electronic surveillance device from (somewhere). DEFOG (10) DOING (7) [verb] (auxiliary) A syntactic marker. | [verb] To perform; to execute. | [verb] To cause, make (someone) (do something). | [interjection] The sound made by an elastic object when struck by or striking a hard object. DYING (10) [verb] To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death. | [verb] To (stop living and) undergo (a specified death). | [verb] To yearn intensely. EKING (10) [noun] The act or process of adding. | [noun] That which is added. | [noun] A supplementary piece of timber used to lengthen another. | [verb] Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen. EYING (9) [verb] To observe carefully or appraisingly. | [verb] To appear; to look. FLING (9) [noun] An act of throwing, often violently. | [noun] An act of moving the limbs or body with violent movements, especially in a dance. | [noun] An act or period of unrestrained indulgence. | [verb] To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash. FLONG (9) FLUNG (9) [verb] To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash. | [verb] To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl. | [verb] To throw; to wince; to flounce. GLOGG (8) [noun] A Scandinavian version of vin chaud or mulled wine; a hot punch made of red wine, brandy and sherry flavoured with almonds, raisins and orange peel. GOING (7) [verb] To move: | [verb] (chiefly of a machine) To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). | [verb] To start; to begin (an action or process). GULAG (7) [noun] A prison camp. | [noun] The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period. | [verb] To force into this prison or a similar system. HYING (12) [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). | [noun] Haste ICING (8) [noun] A sweet glaze made primarily of sugar and often flavored, typically used for baked goods; frosting. | [noun] A minor violation of ice hockey rules, occurring when a player shoots the puck from his/her side of the red line so that it crosses the goal line on the opponent's side. A team playing short-handed is not penalized for this. | [noun] The process of forming a layer of ice on a surface. | [verb] To cool with ice, as a beverage. INCOG (8) [noun] Incognito. | [adjective] Incognito. | [adverb] Incognito. IRING (6) KIANG (10) [noun] A large wild ass, Equus kiang, native to the Tibetan Plateau. KLONG (10) [noun] A canal on the central plain of Thailand. LIANG (6) LYING (9) [verb] To rest in a horizontal position on a surface. | [verb] To be placed or situated. | [verb] To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition. | [verb] To rest in a horizontal position on a surface. OHING (9) OPING (8) [verb] To open. ORANG (6) [noun] An orangutan. OWING (9) [verb] To be under an obligation to give something back to someone or to perform some action for someone. | [verb] To have debt; to be in debt. | [adjective] Still to be paid; owed as a debt. PIING (8) PIROG (8) [noun] A baked case of dough with a sweet or savoury filling, popular in Eastern Europe. PRANG (8) [noun] An aeroplane crash. | [noun] A bombing raid. | [noun] An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties. | [noun] A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia. PRONG (8) [noun] A thin, pointed, projecting part, as of an antler or a fork or similar tool. A tine. | [noun] A branch; a fork. | [noun] The penis. RENIG (6) REPEG (8) RERIG (6) RETAG (6) RUING (6) [verb] To cause to repent of sin or regret some past action. | [verb] To cause to feel sorrow or pity. | [verb] To repent of or regret (some past action or event); to wish that a past action or event had not taken place. SCRAG (8) [noun] A thin or scrawny person or animal. | [noun] The lean end of a neck of mutton; the scrag end. | [noun] The neck, especially of a sheep. SHRUG (9) [noun] A lifting of the shoulders to signal indifference or a casual lack of knowledge. | [noun] A cropped, cardigan-like garment with short or long sleeves, typically knitted. | [verb] To raise (the shoulders) to express uncertainty, lack of concern, (formerly) dread, etc. SLANG (6) [noun] Language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register. | [noun] Language that is unique to a particular profession or subject; jargon. | [noun] The specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group; cant. | [verb] To throw with a circular or arcing motion. | [noun] Any long, narrow piece of land; a promontory. | [noun] A fetter worn on the leg by a convict. | [verb] To sell (especially illegal drugs). SLING (6) [noun] An instrument for throwing stones or other missiles, consisting of a short strap with two strings fastened to its ends, or with a string fastened to one end and a light stick to the other. | [noun] A kind of hanging bandage put around the neck, in which a wounded arm or hand is supported. | [noun] A loop of cloth, worn around the neck, for supporting a baby or other such load. | [noun] A young or infant spider, such as one raised in captivity. SLUNG (6) [verb] To throw with a circular or arcing motion. | [verb] To throw with a sling. | [verb] To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle. SPANG (8) [noun] A shiny ornament or object; a spangle | [verb] To set with bright points: star or spangle. | [verb] To hitch; fasten. | [verb] (of a flying object such as a bullet) To strike or ricochet with a loud report | [noun] A bound or spring; a leap. | [noun] A span. SPRAG (8) [adjective] Lively, full of energy | [noun] A billet of wood; a piece of timber, a similar solid object or constructed unit used as a prop. | [verb] To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep slope, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel. | [noun] A young salmon. SPRIG (8) [noun] A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray. | [noun] An ornament resembling a small shoot or twig. | [noun] One of the separate pieces of lace fastened on a ground in applique lace. SPRUG (8) SQUEG (15) STAIG (6) STANG (6) STING (6) [noun] A bump left on the skin after having been stung. | [noun] A bite by an insect. | [noun] A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack. | [verb] To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both. STUNG (6) [verb] To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both. | [verb] (of an insect) To bite. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain. SUING (6) [verb] To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action. | [verb] To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead. | [verb] (of a hawk) To clean (the beak, etc.). | [noun] The act of one who sues for something. SWANG (9) SWING (9) [noun] The manner in which something is swung. | [noun] The sweep or compass of a swinging body. | [noun] A line, cord, or other thing suspended and hanging loose, upon which anything may swing. SWUNG (9) [verb] To rotate about an off-centre fixed point. | [verb] To dance. | [verb] To ride on a swing. THING (9) [noun] That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept. | [noun] A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity. | [noun] An individual object or distinct entity. THONG (9) [noun] A strip of leather. | [noun] (usually in the plural) An item of footwear, usually of rubber, secured by two straps which join to pass between the big toe and its neighbour. | [noun] An undergarment or swimwear consisting of very narrow strips designed to cover just the genitals and nothing more. TWANG (9) [noun] The sharp, quick sound of a vibrating tight string, for example, of a bow or a musical instrument. | [noun] A particular sharp vibrating sound characteristic of electric guitars. | [noun] A trace of a regional or foreign accent in someone's voice. TYING (9) [verb] To twist (a string, rope, or the like) around itself securely. | [verb] To form (a knot or the like) in a string or the like. | [verb] To attach or fasten (one thing to another) by string or the like. UNPEG (8) [verb] To remove from a peg. UNRIG (6) [verb] To remove the rigging from (a vessel, etc.). | [verb] To disable. | [verb] To undress (someone). USING (6) [verb] To utilize or employ. | [verb] To accustom; to habituate. (Now common only in participial form. Uses the same pronunciation as the noun; see usage notes.) | [verb] (except in past tense) To habitually do; to be wont to do. (Now chiefly in past-tense forms; see used to.) VYING (12) [verb] To fight for superiority; to contend; to compete eagerly so as to gain something. | [verb] To rival (something), etc. | [verb] To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy. WHANG (12) [noun] A blow; a whack. | [noun] A large piece or slice; a chunk. | [noun] A house-cleaning party. WRANG (9) WRING (9) [noun] A powerful squeezing or twisting action. | [noun] Pain or distress. | [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. | [noun] A device for pressing or compressing, especially for cider. WRONG (9) [noun] Something that is immoral or not good. | [noun] An instance of wronging someone (sometimes with possessive to indicate the wrongdoer). | [noun] The incorrect or unjust position or opinion. WRUNG (9) [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. | [verb] To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it. | [verb] To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force. YOUNG (9) [noun] People who are young; young people, collectively; youth. | [noun] Young or immature offspring (especially of an animal). | [noun] (possibly nonstandard) An individual offspring; a single recently born or hatched organism.

AAHING (10) ABYING (12) ACHING (12) [verb] To suffer pain; to be the source of, or be in, pain, especially continued dull pain; to be distressed. | [verb] To cause someone or something to suffer pain. | [noun] The feeling of an ache; a dull pain. ACTING (9) [verb] To do something. | [verb] To do (something); to perform. | [verb] To perform a theatrical role. ADDING (9) [verb] To join or unite (e.g. one thing to another, or as several particulars) so as to increase the number, augment the quantity or enlarge the magnitude, or so as to form into one aggregate. | [verb] To sum up; to put together mentally. | [verb] To combine elements of (something) into one quantity. AGEING (8) [verb] To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to. | [verb] To postpone an action that would extinguish something, as a debt. | [verb] To categorize by age. AIDING (8) [verb] To provide support to; to further the progress of; to help; to assist. | [verb] To climb with the use of aids such as pitons. | [noun] The act of one who aids or assists. AILING (7) [verb] To cause to suffer; to trouble, afflict. (Now chiefly in interrogative or indefinite constructions.) | [verb] To be ill; to suffer; to be troubled. | [noun] An ailment. AIMING (9) [verb] To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it | [verb] To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive | [verb] To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object AIRING (7) [verb] To bring (something) into contact with the air, so as to freshen or dry it. | [verb] To let fresh air into a room or a building, to ventilate. | [verb] To discuss varying viewpoints on a given topic. ANALOG (7) [noun] Something that bears an analogy to something else | [noun] An organ or structure that is similar in function to one in another kind of organism but is of dissimilar evolutionary origin | [noun] A structural derivative of a parent compound that often differs from it by a single element ANTING (7) [noun] The practice of some birds of rubbing live ants or occasionally other items into the feathers, possibly as a means of controlling parasites. APOLOG (9) ARCING (9) [verb] To move following a curved path. | [verb] To shape into an arc; to hold in the form of an arc. | [verb] To form an electrical arc. ARMING (9) [verb] To take by the arm; to take up in one's arms. | [verb] To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons. | [verb] To prepare a tool or a weapon for action; to activate. ASHING (10) [verb] The act of reducing something to ashes by burning. | [verb] Coating or covering with ash. ASKING (11) [verb] To request (information, or an answer to a question). | [verb] To put forward (a question) to be answered. | [verb] To interrogate or enquire of (a person). AUDING (8) [verb] The present participle of "audi," meaning to listen or hear; used in some contexts related to audio or auditory processes. AWEING (10) [verb] Present participle of "awe," meaning to inspire wonder, astonishment, or reverence in someone. AWNING (10) [noun] A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. | [noun] That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin. BAAING (9) [verb] To make the characteristic cry of a sheep. | [noun] The bleating of a sheep. BAGWIG (13) [noun] A type of wig with the back hair gathered into a bag or pouch, popular in the 18th century. BAKING (13) [verb] (with person as subject) To cook (something) in an oven. | [verb] (with baked thing as subject) To be cooked in an oven. | [verb] To be warmed to drying and hardening. BALING (9) [verb] To remove water from a boat with buckets etc. | [noun] A collection of material packaged into a bale. BANDOG (10) [noun] A dog that has been tied up; a mastiff or other kind of guard dog. | [noun] (specifically) A type of large, ferocious dog, bred by crossing American pit bull terriers with Neapolitan mastiffs. | [noun] A bailiff or prison guard. BANING (9) BARING (9) [verb] To uncover; to reveal. | [noun] The act by which something is laid bare. BARONG (9) [noun] A cutting weapon similar to a cleaver, with a thick back and thin razor-like edge, used by the Moros of the Philippines. BASING (9) [verb] To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of. | [verb] To be located (at a particular place). | [verb] (acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer. BATING (9) [verb] To reduce the force of something; to abate. | [verb] To restrain, usually with the sense of being in anticipation | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To cut off, remove, take away. BAYING (12) [verb] To howl. | [verb] To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay. | [verb] To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds. BECLOG (11) BEDBUG (12) [noun] A small nocturnal insect (Cimex lectularius), of the family Cimicidae, that feeds on the blood of humans and other warm-blooded hosts. BEDRUG (10) [verb] To drug again or excessively. BEFLAG (12) [verb] To mark or decorate with flags. BELONG (9) [verb] To have its proper place. | [verb] (followed by to) To be part of, or the property of. | [verb] (followed by to) To be the spouse or partner of. | [preposition] (Australian Aboriginal, optionally followed by to) Of, belonging to. BIDING (10) [noun] An awaiting; expectation. | [noun] Residence; habitation. | [verb] To bear; to endure; to tolerate. BIGWIG (13) [noun] A person of importance to a group or organization. BIKING (13) [verb] To ride a bike. | [verb] To travel by bike. | [verb] To transport by bicycle BITING (9) [verb] To cut into something by clamping the teeth. | [verb] To hold something by clamping one's teeth. | [verb] To attack with the teeth. BLUING (9) [verb] To make or become blue. | [verb] To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust. | [verb] (laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid) BODING (10) [verb] To indicate by signs, as future events; to be an omen of; to portend or foretell. | [verb] (followed by "well", "ill", "no good", etc.) To betoken or augur something good or bad that will happen in the future. | [noun] An omen, a prediction of disaster, a portent. BONING (9) [verb] To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. | [verb] To fertilize with bone. | [verb] To put whalebone into. BOOING (9) [verb] To shout extended boos derisively. | [verb] To shout extended boos at, as a form of derision. | [noun] A disapproving exclamation by a member of an audience. BORING (9) [verb] To inspire boredom in somebody. | [verb] To make a hole through something. | [verb] To make a hole with, or as if with, a boring instrument; to cut a circular hole by the rotary motion of a tool. BOWING (12) [verb] To play music on (a stringed) instrument using a bow. | [verb] To become bent or curved. | [verb] To make something bend or curve. BOWLEG (12) [noun] A leg that curves outward at the knee, causing the feet to be wide apart when standing with the legs together. | [verb] To have or develop bowlegs. BOXING (16) [verb] To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. | [verb] Usually followed by in: to surround and enclose in a way that restricts movement; to corner, to hem in. | [verb] To mix two containers of paint of similar colour to ensure that the color is identical. | [verb] To place inside a box; to pack in one or more boxes. BUSING (9) [verb] To transport via a motor bus. | [verb] To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. | [verb] To travel by bus. BUYING (12) [verb] To obtain (something) in exchange for money or goods | [verb] To obtain by some sacrifice. | [verb] To bribe. CAGING (10) [verb] To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage. | [verb] To restrict someone's movement or creativity. | [verb] To track individual responses to direct mail, either to maintain and develop mailing lists or to identify people who are not eligible to vote because they do not reside at the registered addresses. CAKING (13) [verb] Coat (something) with a crust of solid material. | [verb] To form into a cake, or mass. | [verb] To cackle like a goose. CANING (9) [verb] To strike or beat with a cane or similar implement | [verb] To destroy; to comprehensively defeat | [verb] To do something well, in a competent fashion CARING (9) [verb] To be concerned (about), to have an interest (in); to feel concern (about). | [verb] (polite) To want, to desire; to like; to be inclined towards. | [verb] (with for) To look after or look out for. CASING (9) [verb] To propose hypothetical cases. | [verb] To place (an item or items of manufacture) into a box, as in preparation for shipment. | [verb] To cover or protect with, or as if with, a case; to enclose. CAVING (12) [verb] To surrender. | [verb] To collapse. | [verb] To hollow out or undermine. CAWING (12) [verb] To make the harsh cry of a crow, rook, or raven. | [noun] The act of producing a caw sound. CEDING (10) [verb] To give up; yield to another. | [verb] To give way. CERING (9) [verb] Present participle of "cere," meaning to wrap (a dead body) in a cerecloth or winding sheet for burial. | [noun] A waxy covering at the base of a bird's upper beak. CITING (9) [verb] To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another. | [verb] To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context. | [verb] To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court. CLUING (9) [verb] Providing hints or information to help someone guess or solve something. | [verb] In crossword puzzles, giving clues that lead to puzzle answers. CODING (10) [verb] To write software programs. | [verb] To add codes to a dataset. | [verb] To categorise by assigning identifiers from a schedule, for example CPT coding for medical insurance purposes. COKING (13) [verb] To produce coke from coal. | [verb] To turn into coke. | [verb] To add deleterious carbon deposits as a byproduct of combustion. COMING (11) [verb] To move from further away to nearer to. | [verb] To arrive. | [verb] To appear, to manifest itself. | [noun] The act of arriving; an arrival CONING (9) [verb] To fashion into the shape of a cone. | [verb] To form a cone shape. | [verb] (frequently followed by "off") To segregate or delineate an area using traffic cones COOING (9) [verb] To make a soft murmuring sound, as a pigeon. | [verb] To speak in an admiring fashion, to be enthusiastic about. | [noun] A coo; a cooing sound. COPING (11) [verb] To deal effectively with something, especially if difficult. | [verb] To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal. | [verb] To clip the beak or talons of a bird. CORING (9) [verb] To remove the core of an apple or other fruit. | [verb] To extract a sample with a drill. | [noun] The production of a core by means of drilling | [noun] The dual of a ring. COTING (9) [verb] Present participle of "cote," meaning to pass by or overtake. | [noun] A shelter or coop for birds or animals, such as a dovecote. COVING (12) [noun] A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. | [noun] The vertical sides connecting the jambs with the breast of a fireplace. COWING (12) [verb] (chiefly in the passive voice) To intimidate; to daunt the spirits or courage of. COXING (16) [verb] To act as coxswain for. COYDOG (13) [noun] Any hybrid of a coyote (Canis latrans) and a (usually feral) dog (Canis lupus familiaris). | [noun] A hybrid between a male coyote and a female dog. COYING (12) [verb] Present participle of "coy," meaning to act shy, modest, or reluctant in a playful or coquettish manner. | [verb] Behaving in a way that is not straightforward or direct; being evasive or elusively playful. CRYING (12) [verb] To shed tears; to weep. | [verb] To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly. | [verb] To shout, scream, yell. CUBING (11) [verb] To raise to the third power; to determine the result of multiplying by itself twice. | [verb] To form into the shape of a cube. | [verb] To cut into cubes. CUEING (9) CURING (9) [verb] To restore to health. | [verb] To bring (a disease or its bad effects) to an end. | [verb] To cause to be rid of (a defect). | [noun] The act by which something is cured. CYBORG (14) [noun] A person who is part machine, a robot who is part organic. | [noun] A robot who has an organic past. | [noun] A human with electronic or bionic prostheses. DARING (8) [verb] To have enough courage (to do something). | [verb] To defy or challenge (someone to do something) | [verb] To have enough courage to meet or do something, go somewhere, etc.; to face up to DATING (8) [verb] To note the time or place of writing or executing; to express in an instrument the time of its execution. | [verb] To note or fix the time of (an event); to give the date of. | [verb] To determine the age of something. DAWING (11) DAZING (17) [verb] To stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear DEFANG (11) [verb] To remove the fangs from (something). | [verb] To render harmless. DEKING (12) [verb] To avoid, go around, or dodge an object, person, or conversation topic; often by using trickery. | [verb] To execute a deke in ice hockey or other sports. DEWING (11) [verb] To wet with, or as if with, dew; to moisten. | [noun] A contributor to corrosion? DIALOG (8) [noun] A conversation or other form of discourse between two or more individuals. | [noun] In a dramatic or literary presentation, the verbal parts of the script or text; the verbalizations of the actors or characters. | [noun] A literary form, where the presentation resembles a conversation. DICING (10) [verb] To play dice. | [verb] To cut into small cubes. | [verb] To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes. DIEING (8) DIKING (12) [noun] The process of building a dike. DINING (8) [verb] To eat; to eat dinner or supper. | [verb] To give a dinner to; to furnish with the chief meal; to feed. | [verb] To dine upon; to have to eat. DIVING (11) [verb] To swim under water. | [verb] To jump into water head-first. | [verb] To jump headfirst toward the ground or into another substance. DOGLEG (9) [noun] A sharp bend in the fairway (before the hole) | [noun] A configuration of stairs where a flight ascends to a half landing before turning 180 degrees and continuing upwards. | [noun] A sharp bend in a canyon or ravine. DOLING (8) [verb] To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource. | [noun] The act of one who doles. DOMING (10) DOPING (10) [verb] To affect with drugs. | [verb] To treat with dope (lubricant, etc.). | [verb] To add a dopant such as arsenic to (a pure semiconductor such as silicon). DORBUG (10) DOSING (8) [noun] The administration of a dose DOTING (8) [verb] (usually with on) To be weakly or foolishly fond of somebody. | [verb] To act in a foolish manner; to be senile. | [noun] Excessive fondness; reverence. DOWING (11) DOZING (17) [verb] To sleep lightly or briefly; to nap, snooze. | [verb] To make dull; to stupefy. | [verb] To bulldoze. DRYING (11) [verb] To lose moisture. | [verb] To remove moisture from. | [verb] To be thirsty. DUDING (9) [verb] To address someone as dude. | [verb] To take a vacation in a dude ranch. | [verb] Usually followed by up: to dress up, to wear smart or special clothes. DUGONG (9) [noun] A plant-eating aquatic marine mammal, of the genus Dugong, found in tropical regions. DUKING (12) [verb] To hit or beat with the fists. | [verb] To give cash to; to give a tip to. DUOLOG (8) DUPING (10) [verb] To swindle, deceive, or trick. | [verb] To duplicate. DURING (8) [verb] To last, continue, endure. | [preposition] For all of a given time interval. | [preposition] At any time or period within a given time interval. DYEING (11) [verb] To colour with dye, or as if with dye. | [noun] The act by which something is dyed. DYKING (15) [noun] The process of building a dike. EARING (7) EARWIG (10) [noun] Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen. | [noun] One who whispers insinuations; a secret counsellor. | [noun] A flatterer. EASING (7) [verb] To free (something) from pain, worry, agitation, etc. | [verb] To alleviate, assuage or lessen (pain). | [verb] To give respite to (someone). EATING (7) [verb] To ingest; to be ingested. | [verb] To use up. | [verb] To cause (someone) to worry. | [noun] The act of ingesting food. EBBING (11) [verb] To flow back or recede | [verb] To fall away or decline | [verb] To fish with stakes and nets that serve to prevent the fish from getting back into the sea with the ebb ECHING (12) EDGING (9) [verb] To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction. | [verb] (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin. EGGING (9) [verb] To throw eggs at. | [verb] To dip in or coat with beaten egg. | [verb] To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally. EGGNOG (9) [noun] A beverage based on milk, eggs, sugar, and nutmeg; often made alcoholic with rum, brandy or whisky; popular at Christmas. ENDING (8) [noun] A termination or conclusion. | [noun] The last part of something. | [noun] (grammar) The last morpheme of a word, added to some base to make an inflected form (such as -ing in "ending"). | [verb] To come to an end EPILOG (9) [noun] A short speech, spoken directly at the audience at the end of a play | [noun] The performer who gives this speech | [noun] A brief oration or script at the end of a literary piece; an afterword ERRING (7) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To sin. | [verb] To stray. | [verb] To utter the word "er" when hesitating in speech, found in the phrase um and er. EYEING (10) [verb] To observe carefully or appraisingly. | [verb] To appear; to look. FACING (12) [verb] (of a person or animal) To position oneself or itself so as to have one's face closest to (something). | [verb] (of an object) To have its front closest to, or in the direction of (something else). | [verb] To cause (something) to turn or present a face or front, as in a particular direction. FADING (11) [verb] To grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither, as a plant. | [verb] To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color. | [verb] To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish. FAKING (14) [verb] To cheat; to swindle; to steal; to rob. | [verb] To modify fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is | [verb] To make a counterfeit, to counterfeit, to forge, to falsify. FAMING (12) FARING (10) [noun] A structure on various parts of a vehicle, for example an aircraft, automobile, or motorcycle, that produces a smooth exterior and reduces drag | [noun] A present; originally, one given or purchased at a fair. | [noun] Something edible; fare. FATING (10) [verb] To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable. FAXING (17) [verb] To send a document via a fax machine. FAYING (13) FAZING (19) [verb] To frighten or cause hesitation; to daunt, put off (usually used in the negative); to disconcert, to perturb. FEEING (10) [verb] To reward for services performed, or to be performed; to recompense; to hire or keep in hire; hence, to bribe. | [noun] The hiring of servants for a fee FETING (10) [verb] (usually in the passive) To celebrate (a person). FEUING (10) [verb] To bring (land) under the system of feudal tenure. FIFING (13) [verb] To play this instrument. FILING (10) [verb] To commit (official papers) to some office. | [verb] To place in an archive in a logical place and order | [verb] To store a file (aggregation of data) on a storage medium such as a disc or another computer. FINING (10) [verb] To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify. | [verb] To become finer, purer, or cleaner. | [verb] To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc. FIRING (10) [verb] To set (something, often a building) on fire. | [verb] To heat as with fire, but without setting on fire, as ceramic, metal objects, etc. | [verb] To drive away by setting a fire. FIXING (17) [verb] To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. | [verb] To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. | [verb] To mend, to repair. FIZGIG (20) [noun] A flirtatious, coquettish girl, inclined to gad or gallivant about; a gig, a giglot, a jillflirt. | [noun] Something frivolous or trivial; a gewgaw, a trinket. | [verb] To roam around in a frivolous manner; to gad about, to gallivant. | [noun] A small squib-like firework that explodes with a fizzing or hissing noise. | [noun] A spear with a barb on the end of it, used for catching fish; a type of harpoon. | [noun] A police informer, a stool pigeon, someone employed by police to entrap someone elseor provoke them to commit a crime. | [noun] The common ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris). FLYING (13) [verb] To hit a fly ball; to hit a fly ball that is caught for an out. Compare ground (verb) and line (verb). | [verb] To travel through the air, another gas or a vacuum, without being in contact with a grounded surface. | [verb] To flee, to escape (from). | [noun] An act of flight. FOGDOG (12) FOXING (17) [verb] To trick, fool or outwit (someone) by cunning or ingenuity. | [verb] To confuse or baffle (someone). | [verb] To act slyly or craftily. FRYING (13) [verb] A method of cooking food. | [verb] To be affected by extreme heat or current. | [noun] The action of the verb fry. FUMING (12) [verb] To expose (something) to fumes; specifically, to expose wood, etc., to ammonia in order to produce dark tints. | [verb] To apply or offer incense to. | [verb] To emit fumes. FUSING (10) [verb] To melt together; to blend; to mix indistinguishably. | [verb] To melt together. | [verb] To furnish with or install a fuse. FUZING (19) [verb] (professional usage) To attach a fuze to. GAEING (8) GAGING (9) [verb] To give or deposit as a pledge or security; to pawn. | [verb] To wager, to bet. | [verb] To bind by pledge, or security; to engage. GAMING (10) [verb] To gamble. | [verb] To play card games, board games, or video games. | [verb] To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable. GAPING (10) [verb] To open the mouth wide, especially involuntarily, as in a yawn, anger, or surprise. | [verb] To stare in wonder. | [verb] To open wide; to display a gap. | [noun] The act of one who gapes. GASBAG (10) [noun] A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon. | [noun] A person who is overly garrulous or prone to making empty, unsupportable statements; a windbag. | [verb] To speak foolishly, pompously, or at length; to blather. GATING (8) [verb] To keep something inside by means of a closed gate. | [verb] To punish, especially a child or teenager, by not allowing them to go out. | [verb] To open a closed ion channel. GAZING (17) [verb] To stare intently or earnestly. | [verb] To stare at. | [noun] The act by which somebody gazes. GEEING (8) [verb] Of a horse, pack animal, etc.: to move forward; go faster; or turn in a direction away from the driver, typically to the right. | [verb] To cause an animal to move in this way. | [verb] To agree; to harmonize. GIBING (10) [verb] Alternative spelling of gybe | [verb] Alternative spelling of jibe | [noun] A gibe. GIEING (8) GIVING (11) [verb] (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. | [verb] (ditransitive) To estimate or predict (a duration or probability) for (something). | [verb] To yield slightly when a force is applied. GLUING (8) [verb] To join or attach something using glue. | [verb] To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. | [noun] The act of attaching something with glue. GOBANG (10) GORING (8) [verb] (of an animal) To pierce with the horn. | [verb] To pierce with anything pointed, such as a spear. | [verb] To cut in a triangular form. GUNDOG (9) [noun] A breed of dog used by hunters to find, flush out and retrieve birds and other game. GUYING (11) [verb] To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November. | [verb] To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo. | [verb] To play in a comedic manner. GYBING (13) [verb] To shift a fore-and-aft sail from one side of a sailing vessel to the other, while sailing before the wind. | [verb] Of a fore-and-aft sail or its boom: to shift, often forcefully and suddenly, from one side of a sailing vessel to the other. | [verb] Generally of a small sailing vessel: to change tack with the wind crossing behind the vessel. GYRING (11) [verb] To whirl GYVING (14) HADING (11) [verb] To slope or incline from the vertical. HAEING (10) HALING (10) [verb] To drag or pull, especially forcibly. HARING (10) [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. HATING (10) [verb] To dislike intensely or greatly. | [verb] To experience hatred. HAVING (13) [verb] To possess, own. | [verb] To hold, as something at someone's disposal. | [verb] Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject. HAWING (13) HAYING (13) [verb] To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder. | [verb] To lay snares for rabbits. | [noun] The act of gathering hay. HAZING (19) [verb] To be or become hazy, or thick with haze. | [verb] To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit. | [verb] To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work. HEWING (13) [verb] To chop away at; to whittle down; to mow down. | [verb] To shape; to form. | [verb] To act according to, to conform to; usually construed with to. HEXING (17) [verb] To cast a spell on (specifically an evil spell), to bewitch. | [noun] The act of casting a hex or curse. HIDING (11) [verb] To put (something) in a place where it will be harder to discover or out of sight. | [verb] To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight. | [verb] To beat with a whip made from hide. | [noun] A beating or spanking. HIEING (10) [verb] To hasten; to go quickly, to hurry. | [verb] To hurry (oneself). HIKING (14) [verb] To take a long walk for pleasure or exercise. | [verb] To unfairly or suddenly raise a price. | [verb] To snap the ball to start a play. HIRING (10) [verb] To obtain the services of in return for fixed payment. | [verb] To employ; to obtain the services of (a person) in exchange for remuneration; to give someone a job. | [verb] To exchange the services of for remuneration. HIVING (13) [verb] To enter or possess a hive. | [verb] To form a hive-like entity. | [verb] To collect into a hive. HOEING (10) [verb] To care, be anxious, long. | [verb] To cut, dig, scrape, turn, arrange, or clean, with this tool. | [verb] To clear from weeds, or to loosen or arrange the earth about, with a hoe. HOKING (14) [verb] To ascribe a false or artificial quality to; to pretend falsely to have some quality or to be doing something, etc. | [verb] To scrounge, to grub. HOLING (10) [verb] To make holes in (an object or surface). | [verb] (by extension) To destroy. | [verb] To go into a hole. | [noun] Undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass HOMING (12) [verb] (of animals) To return to its owner. | [verb] (always with "in on") To seek or aim for something. HONING (10) [verb] To sharpen with a hone; to whet. | [verb] To use a hone to produce a precision bore. | [verb] To refine or master (a skill). HOPING (12) [verb] To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might. | [verb] To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes. | [verb] To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in. HOSING (10) [verb] To water or spray with a hose. | [verb] To deliver using a hose. | [verb] To provide with hose (garment) | [noun] A spraying or washing with a hose. | [noun] Material used for making hosiery. HOTDOG (11) [noun] A sandwich consisting of a frankfurter, or wiener, in a bread roll, usually served with ketchup, mustard, relish, etc. | [noun] A sausage of the type used as a general ingredient in this sandwich. | [noun] A show-off or daredevil, especially in such sports as surfing, skateboarding, or skiing. HUMBUG (14) [noun] A hoax, jest, or prank. | [noun] A fraud or sham (countable); hypocrisy (uncountable). | [noun] A fraudster, cheat, or hypocrite. HYPING (15) [verb] To throw (an opponent) using this technique. | [verb] To promote heavily; to advertise or build up. IDLING (8) [verb] To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume. | [verb] To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business. | [verb] Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over. IMPING (11) [verb] To plant or engraft. | [verb] To graft, implant; to set or fix. | [verb] To engraft (feathers) into a bird's wing. INKING (11) [verb] To apply ink to; to cover or smear with ink. | [verb] To sign (a contract or similar document). | [verb] To apply a tattoo to (someone). INNING (7) [noun] A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game. | [noun] A similar period of play. | [noun] A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul. | [verb] To house; to lodge. IRKING (11) [verb] To irritate; annoy; bother ISLING (7) ISOLOG (7) JADING (15) JAPING (16) [verb] To jest; play tricks. | [verb] To mock; deride. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. JAWING (17) [verb] To assail or abuse by scolding. | [verb] To scold; to clamor. | [verb] To talk; to converse. JEEING (14) JEWING (17) JIBING (16) [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. JIVING (17) [verb] To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock, to taunt. | [verb] To say in a mocking or taunting manner. | [verb] To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. JOKING (18) [verb] To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously. | [verb] (intransitive, followed by with) To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with. | [verb] To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally. JOWING (17) JOYING (17) [verb] To feel joy, to rejoice. | [verb] To enjoy. | [verb] To give joy to; to congratulate. JUKING (18) [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [verb] To stab KALONG (11) [noun] A fruit bat, especially the Indian edible fruit bat or black-eared flying fox (Pteropus melanotus). KEYING (14) [verb] To fit (a lock) with a key. | [verb] To fit (pieces of a mechanical assembly) with a key to maintain the orientation between them. | [verb] To mark or indicate with a symbol indicating membership in a class. KITING (11) [noun] The act of writing a check on an account with insufficient funds, expecting that funds will become available by the time the check clears. | [noun] The act of tampering with a medical prescription, increasing the number of pills or other item. LACING (9) [verb] To fasten (something) with laces. | [verb] To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink). | [verb] To interweave items. LADING (8) [verb] To fill or load (related to cargo or a shipment). | [verb] To weigh down, oppress, or burden. | [verb] To use a ladle or dipper to remove something (generally water). LAKING (11) LAMING (9) [noun] The act or process of rendering lame | [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to become lame. | [verb] To shine. LAPDOG (10) [noun] A small toy dog, kept as household pet, whose light weight and companionable temperament make it both suited and disposed to spend time resting in the comfort of its master's lap; a dog bred to behave in this manner. | [noun] (by extension) A person who behaves in a servile manner, such as a sycophantic employee or a fawning lover. LASING (7) [verb] To use a laser beam on, as for cutting. | [verb] To operate as a laser, to release coherent light due to stimulation. | [noun] The application of a laser beam. LAVING (10) [verb] To pour or throw out, as water; lade out; bail; bail out. | [verb] To draw, as water; drink in. | [verb] To give bountifully; lavish. LAWING (10) LAYING (10) [verb] To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position. | [verb] To cause to subside or abate. | [verb] To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle). LAZING (16) [verb] To be lazy, waste time. | [verb] To pass time relaxing; to relax, lounge. LEGONG (8) LIKING (11) [verb] To enjoy, be pleased by; favor; be in favor of. | [verb] To please. | [verb] To derive pleasure of, by or with someone or something. | [noun] A like; a predilection. LIMING (9) [verb] To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime). | [verb] To smear with birdlime. | [verb] To apply limewash. LINING (7) [verb] To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align. | [verb] To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify. | [verb] To form a line along. LIVING (10) [verb] To be alive; to have life. | [verb] To have permanent residence somewhere, to inhabit, to reside. | [verb] To survive; to persevere; to continue. LOOING (7) LOPING (9) [verb] To travel an easy pace with long strides. | [verb] To jump, leap. LOSING (7) [verb] To cause (something) to cease to be in one's possession or capability due to unfortunate or unknown circumstances, events or reasons. | [verb] To wander from; to miss, so as not to be able to find; to go astray from. | [verb] To fail to win (a game, competition, trial, etc). LOVING (10) [verb] (usually transitive, sometimes intransitive, stative) To have a strong affection for (someone or something). | [verb] To need, thrive on. | [verb] To be strongly inclined towards something; an emphatic form of like. LOWING (10) [verb] To depress; to lower. | [verb] To moo. | [verb] To burn; to blaze. LOXING (14) LURING (7) [verb] To attract by temptation etc.; to entice | [verb] To recall a hawk with a lure | [noun] Allurement LUTING (7) [verb] To play on a lute, or as if on a lute. | [verb] To fix or fasten something with lute. | [noun] Lute (a kind of sticky clay or cement) LYSING (10) [verb] To burst or cut a cell or cell structure; to induce lysis. | [verb] To break down molecularly into smaller molecules; to induce lysis. MACING (11) [verb] To hit someone or something with a mace. | [verb] To spray in defense or attack with mace (pepper spray or tear gas) using a hand-held device. | [verb] To spray a similar noxious chemical in defense or attack using an available hand-held device such as an aerosol spray can. MAKING (13) [noun] The act of forming, causing, or constituting; workmanship; construction. | [noun] Process of growth or development. | [verb] To create. MASKEG (13) MATING (9) [verb] To put the king of an opponent into checkmate. | [verb] (by extension) To place in a losing situation that has no escape. | [verb] To match, fit together without space between. MAWING (12) MAYING (12) [verb] To gather may, or flowers in general. | [verb] To celebrate May Day. | [noun] The celebrations traditionally held to celebrate May Day. MAZING (18) [verb] To amaze, astonish, bewilder | [verb] To daze, stupefy, or confuse METING (9) [verb] To measure. | [verb] (usually with “out”) To dispense, measure (out), allot (especially punishment, reward etc.). | [noun] The act of one who metes; a distribution or handing out. MEWING (12) [verb] To shut away, confine, lock up. | [verb] (of a bird) To moult. | [verb] (of a bird) To cause to moult. MIDLEG (10) MIKING (13) [verb] To microphone; to place one or more microphones (mikes) on. | [verb] To measure using a micrometer. MIMING (11) [verb] To mimic. | [verb] To act without words. | [verb] To represent an action or object through gesture, without the use of sound. MINING (9) [verb] To remove (ore) from the ground. | [verb] To dig into, for ore or metal. | [verb] To sow mines (the explosive devices) in (an area). MIRING (9) [verb] To cause or permit to become stuck in mud; to plunge or fix in mud. | [verb] To sink into mud. | [verb] To weigh down. MIXING (16) [verb] To stir together. | [verb] To combine (items from two or more sources normally kept separate). | [verb] To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to concoct from different parts. MOOING (9) [verb] Of a cow or bull, to make its characteristic lowing sound. | [noun] The action of the verb moo; a mooing sound. | [adjective] (of a steak) very rare MOPING (11) [verb] To carry oneself in a depressed, lackadaisical manner; to give oneself up to low spirits; to pout, sulk. | [verb] To make spiritless and stupid. | [noun] The act of one who mopes. MOVING (12) [verb] To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another. | [verb] To act; to take action; to begin to act | [verb] To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in. MOWING (12) [verb] To cut down grass or crops. | [verb] To cut down or slaughter in great numbers. | [verb] To make grimaces, mock. MULING (9) MURING (9) [verb] To wall in or fortify | [verb] To enclose or imprison within walls. MUSING (9) [verb] To become lost in thought, to ponder. | [verb] To say (something) with due consideration or thought. | [verb] To think on; to meditate on. MUSKEG (13) [noun] A terrain composed of peat bog with tussocky meadow and woody vegetation including spruce. MUTING (9) [verb] To silence, to make quiet. | [verb] To turn off the sound of. | [verb] Of a bird: to defecate. NAMING (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To give a name to. | [verb] To mention, specify. | [verb] To identify as relevant or important NIDING (8) NIXING (14) [verb] To make something become nothing; to reject or cancel. | [verb] To destroy or eradicate. NOSING (7) [verb] To move cautiously by advancing its front end. | [verb] To snoop. | [verb] To detect by smell or as if by smell. NOTING (7) [verb] To notice with care; to observe; to remark; to heed. | [verb] To record in writing; to make a memorandum of. | [verb] To denote; to designate. NUKING (11) [verb] To use a nuclear weapon on a target. | [verb] To destroy or erase completely. | [verb] (by extension) To carry out a denial-of-service attack against (an IRC user). NUTMEG (9) [noun] An evergreen tree (Myristica fragrans) cultivated in the East Indies for its spicy seeds. | [noun] The aromatic seed of this tree, used as a spice. | [noun] A grey-brown colour. OARING (7) [verb] To row; to travel with, or as if with, oars. OBLONG (9) [noun] Something with an oblong shape. | [noun] A rectangle having length greater than width or width greater than length. | [adjective] Longer than wide or wider than long; not square. OFFING (13) [verb] To kill. | [verb] To switch off. | [noun] The area of the sea in which a ship can be seen in the distance from land, excluding the parts nearest the shore, and beyond the anchoring ground. OGLING (8) [verb] To stare at (someone or something), especially impertinently, amorously, or covetously. | [noun] Action of the verb to ogle. OILING (7) [verb] To lubricate with oil. | [verb] To grease with oil for cooking. | [noun] An application of oil. OOHING (10) [verb] To exclaim ooh. | [noun] An ooh sound. OOLONG (7) [noun] A partially fermented tea, often roasted, which combines the characteristics of green tea and black tea. OOZING (16) [verb] To be secreted or slowly leak. | [verb] To give off a strong sense of (something); to exude. | [noun] Something that oozes; a seepage. OPTING (9) [verb] To choose; select. ORBING (9) OURANG (7) OUTBEG (9) OUTING (7) [verb] To eject; to expel. | [verb] To reveal (a person) as LGBT+ (gay, trans, etc). | [verb] To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective. OWNING (10) [verb] To have rightful possession of (property, goods or capital); to have legal title to. | [verb] To have recognized political sovereignty over a place, territory, as distinct from the ordinary connotation of property ownership. | [verb] To defeat or embarrass; to overwhelm. PACING (11) [verb] To walk back and forth in a small distance. | [verb] To set the speed in a race. | [verb] To measure by walking. PADNAG (10) PAGING (10) [verb] To mark or number the pages of, as a book or manuscript. | [verb] (often with “through”) To turn several pages of a publication. | [verb] To furnish with folios. PALING (9) [verb] To turn pale; to lose colour. | [verb] To become insignificant. | [verb] To make pale; to diminish the brightness of. PARANG (9) [noun] A short, heavy, straight-edged knife used in Malaysia and Indonesia as a tool and weapon. | [noun] A style of music originating from Trinidad and Tobago, strongly influenced by Venezuelan music. PARING (9) [verb] To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife | [verb] (often with down or back) to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off | [verb] To trim the hoof of a horse PAVING (12) [verb] To cover something with paving slabs. | [verb] To cover with stone, concrete, blacktop or other solid covering, especially to aid travel. | [verb] To pave the way for; to make easy and smooth. PAWING (12) [verb] (of an animal) To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. | [verb] (of an animal) To gently push on something with a paw. | [verb] (of an animal) To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. PAYING (12) [verb] To give money or other compensation to in exchange for goods or services. | [verb] To discharge, as a debt or other obligation, by giving or doing what is due or required. | [verb] To be profitable for. PEEING (9) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] (mildly vulgar) To drizzle. PENANG (9) PHOTOG (12) [noun] A photographer, especially a professional one. PIEING (9) PIKING (13) [verb] To prod, attack, or injure someone with a pike. | [verb] To assume a pike position. | [verb] To bet or gamble with only small amounts of money. PILING (9) [verb] (often used with the preposition "up") To lay or throw into a pile or heap; to heap up; to collect into a mass; to accumulate | [verb] To cover with heaps; or in great abundance; to fill or overfill; to load. | [verb] To add something to a great number. PINANG (9) PINING (9) [verb] To languish; to lose flesh or wear away through distress. | [verb] To long, to yearn so much that it causes suffering. | [verb] To grieve or mourn for. PIPING (11) [verb] To play (music) on a pipe instrument, such as a bagpipe or a flute. | [verb] To shout loudly and at high pitch. | [verb] To emit or have a shrill sound like that of a pipe; to whistle. PLYING (12) [verb] To bend; to fold; to mould; to adapt, to modify; to change (a person's) mind, to cause (a person) to submit. | [verb] To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.). | [verb] To work at (something) diligently. POKING (13) [verb] To prod or jab with an object such as a finger or a stick. | [verb] To stir up a fire to remove ash or promote burning. | [verb] To rummage; to feel or grope around. POLING (9) [verb] To propel by pushing with poles, to push with a pole. | [verb] To identify something quite precisely using a telescope. | [verb] To furnish with poles for support. PORING (9) [verb] To study meticulously; to go over again and again. | [verb] To meditate or reflect in a steady way. | [noun] The act of one who pores. POSING (9) [verb] To place in an attitude or fixed position, for the sake of effect. | [verb] To ask; to set (a test, quiz, riddle, etc.). | [verb] To constitute (a danger, a threat, a risk, etc.). POXING (16) PROLEG (9) [noun] An appendage of the abdomen of some insect larvae, such as caterpillars, which is used like a leg. PROLOG (9) [noun] A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel. | [noun] A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine. PRYING (12) [verb] To look where one is not welcome; to be nosy. | [verb] To keep asking about something that does not concern one. | [verb] To look closely and curiously at (something closed or not public). PUKING (13) [verb] To vomit; to throw up; to eject from the stomach. | [verb] To sell securities or investments at a loss, often under duress or pressure, in order to satisfy liquidity or margin requirements, or out of a desire to exit a deteriorating market. | [noun] The act of one who pukes or vomits. PULING (9) [verb] To whimper or whine. | [verb] To pipe or chirp. PUTLOG (9) [noun] One of the short pieces of timber on which the planks forming the floor of a scaffold are laid, one end resting on the ledger of the scaffold, and the other in a hole left in the wall temporarily for the purpose. QUAHOG (19) [noun] An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria. | [noun] A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica | [verb] To dig for quahogs. QUOHOG (19) RACING (9) [verb] To take part in a race (in the sense of a contest). | [verb] To compete against in such a race. | [verb] To move or drive at high speed; to hurry or speed. RAGBAG (10) [noun] A collection containing a variety of miscellaneous things. RAGING (8) [verb] To act or speak in heightened anger. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To move with great violence, as a storm etc. | [verb] To enrage. RAGTAG (8) [adjective] Unkempt, shabby, or in a state of disrepair. | [adjective] Very diverse; having irregular and dissimilar components. RAKING (11) [verb] To walk; to roam, to wander. | [verb] Of animals (especially sheep): to graze. | [verb] To roam or wander through (somewhere). RAPING (9) RARING (7) [verb] To rear, rise up, start backwards. | [verb] To rear, bring up, raise. | [adjective] Eager. RASING (7) [verb] To rub along the surface of; to graze | [verb] To rub or scratch out; to erase | [verb] To level with the ground; to overthrow; to destroy; to raze RATBAG (9) [noun] A despicable person. | [noun] (sometimes affectionate) A mischievous person, especially a child. RATING (7) [verb] To assign or be assigned a particular rank or level. | [verb] To evaluate or estimate the value of. | [verb] To consider or regard. RAVING (10) [verb] To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging. | [verb] To speak or write wildly or incoherently. | [verb] To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about, of, or (formerly) on. RAXING (14) RAYING (10) [verb] To emit something as if in rays. | [verb] To radiate as if in rays. | [verb] To arrange. RAZING (16) [verb] To demolish; to level to the ground. | [verb] To scrape as if with a razor. REDBUG (10) REDING (8) [verb] To govern, protect. | [verb] To discuss, deliberate. | [verb] To advise. REDLEG (8) REHANG (10) [verb] To hang again. REHUNG (10) [verb] To hang again. RICING (9) [verb] To squeeze through a ricer; to mash or make into rice-sized pieces (especially potatoes). | [verb] To harvest wild rice (Zizania sp.) | [verb] To throw rice at a person (usually at a wedding). RIDING (8) [verb] To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. | [verb] To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. | [verb] (chiefly US and South Africa) To transport (someone) in a vehicle. | [noun] Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England. RILING (7) [verb] To make angry | [verb] To stir or move from a state of calm or order RIMING (9) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. | [adjective] That rimes (i.e., covers with rime or hoar frost) something. | [noun] (done to wool or yarn) The action or process of dying red-brown by steeping in water with alder twigs. | [noun] The process of riming (i.e., covering with rime or hoar frost). RIPING (9) RISING (7) [verb] To move, or appear to move, physically upwards relative to the ground. | [verb] To increase in value or standing. | [verb] To begin; to develop. RIVING (10) [verb] To tear apart by force; to rend; to split; to cleave. | [verb] To pierce or cleave with a weapon. | [noun] A strip of a townfield. ROBING (9) [verb] To clothe; to dress. | [verb] To put on official vestments. | [noun] The act of putting on ceremonial clothing. ROPING (9) [verb] To tie (something) with rope. | [verb] To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something). | [verb] To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread. ROSING (7) [verb] To make rose-coloured; to redden or flush. | [verb] To perfume, as with roses. | [noun] The process of imparting a pink tint to raw white silk. ROVING (10) [verb] To shoot with arrows (at). | [verb] To roam, or wander about at random, especially over a wide area. | [verb] To roam or wander through. ROWING (10) [verb] To propel (a boat or other craft) over water using oars. | [verb] To transport in a boat propelled with oars. | [verb] To be moved by oars. RULING (7) [verb] To regulate, be in charge of, make decisions for, reign over. | [verb] To excel. | [verb] To mark (paper or the like) with rules (lines). RYKING (14) SANING (7) SARONG (7) [noun] A garment made of a length of printed cloth wrapped about the waist that is commonly worn by men and women in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, India, Indonesia, and the Pacific islands. SATANG (7) [noun] A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Thai baht. SATING (7) [verb] To satisfy the appetite or desire of; to fill up. SAVING (10) [verb] To prevent harm or difficulty. | [verb] To put aside, to avoid. | [noun] A reduction in cost or expenditure. SAWING (10) [verb] To cut (something) with a saw. | [verb] To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw. | [verb] To be cut with a saw. SAWLOG (10) [noun] The part of a tree stem that will be processed at a sawmill, rather than becoming pulpwood. SAYING (10) [verb] To pronounce. | [verb] To recite. | [verb] To tell, either verbally or in writing. SEABAG (9) [noun] A duffel bag used by sailors or marines. SEADOG (8) [noun] A sailor accustomed to the sea. | [noun] A pirate. | [noun] A seal. (marine mammal) SEEING (7) [verb] (stative) To perceive or detect with the eyes, or as if by sight. | [verb] To form a mental picture of. | [verb] (social) To meet, to visit. | [conjunction] Inasmuch as; in view of the fact that. SERING (7) SEWING (10) [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. | [verb] To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through pieces of fabric in order to join them together. | [verb] Followed by into: to enclose by sewing. | [noun] The action of the verb to sew. SEXING (14) [verb] To determine the sex of an animal. | [verb] To have sex with. | [noun] The determination of the sex of a young bird (typically poultry) SHYING (13) [verb] To avoid due to timidness or caution. | [verb] To jump back in fear. | [verb] To throw sideways with a jerk; to fling SIDING (8) [noun] A building material which covers and protects the sides of a house or other building. | [verb] To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with" | [verb] To lean on one side. | [noun] A second, relatively short length of track just to the side of a railroad track, joined to the main track by switches at one or both ends, used either for loading or unloading freight, storing trains or other rail vehicles; or to allow two trains on a same track to meet (opposite directions) or pass (same direction) (the latter sense is probably an American definition). SIPING (9) SIRING (7) [verb] (of a male) to procreate; to father, beget, impregnate. | [noun] An act of procreation, especially between animals. SITING (7) [verb] To situate or place a building. | [noun] The act of finding a site for something. SIZING (16) [verb] To adjust the size of; to make a certain size. | [verb] To classify or arrange by size. | [verb] To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of. SKIING (11) [verb] To move on skis | [verb] To travel over (a slope etc.) on skis; to travel on skis at (a place), (especially as a sport) | [noun] A group of sports utilizing skis as primary equipment. SKYING (14) [verb] To hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high. | [verb] To clear (a hurdle, high jump bar, etc.) by a large margin. | [verb] To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen. SLUING (7) [verb] To rotate something on an axis. | [verb] To turn something sharply. | [verb] To rotate on an axis; to pivot. SOLING (7) [verb] To pull by the ears; to pull about; haul; lug. | [verb] To put a sole on (a shoe or boot) SORING (7) SOWING (10) [verb] To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). | [verb] To spread abroad; to propagate. | [verb] To scatter over; to besprinkle. SPRANG (9) [verb] To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation | [verb] To burst forth. | [verb] (of beards) To grow. SPRING (9) [verb] To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation | [noun] An act of springing: a leap, a jump. | [noun] The season of the year in temperate regions in which plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life, variously reckoned as SPRUNG (9) [verb] To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation | [verb] To burst forth. | [verb] (of beards) To grow. SPUING (9) SPYING (12) [verb] To act as a spy. | [verb] To spot; to catch sight of. | [verb] To search narrowly; to scrutinize. STALAG (7) [noun] A German prisoner-of-war camp, especially in World War II. | [noun] A genre of Nazi exploitation Holocaust pornography in Israel that flourished in the 1950s and early 1960s. STRANG (7) STRING (7) [noun] A building, wing or dependency set apart and adapted for lodging and feeding (and training) animals with hoofs, especially horses. | [noun] (metonymy) All the racehorses of a particular stable, i.e. belonging to a given owner. | [noun] A set of advocates; a barristers' chambers. STRONG (7) [adjective] Capable of producing great physical force. | [adjective] Capable of withstanding great physical force. | [adjective] (of water, wind, etc.) Having a lot of power. STRUNG (7) [verb] To put (items) on a string. | [verb] To put strings on (something). | [verb] To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc. STYING (10) [verb] To place in, or as if in, a sty | [verb] To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place | [verb] To ascend, rise up, climb. SUNDOG (8) [noun] Either of two bright spots, caused by the refraction of sunlight through ice crystals, sometimes seen on the parhelic circle. TAGRAG (8) TAKING (11) [verb] To get into one's hands, possession or control, with or without force. | [verb] To receive or accept (something) (especially something given or bestowed, awarded, etc). | [verb] To remove. TAMING (9) [verb] To make (an animal) tame; to domesticate. | [verb] To become tame or domesticated. | [verb] To make gentle or meek. TAPING (9) [verb] To bind with adhesive tape. | [verb] To record, particularly onto magnetic tape. | [verb] (passive) To understand, figure out. TARING (7) TAUTOG (7) [noun] A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina (Tautoga onitis). TAWING (10) [verb] To prepare or dress, as hemp, by beating; to tew. | [verb] (by extension) To beat; to scourge. | [verb] To dress and prepare, as the skins of sheep, lambs, goats, and kids, for gloves, etc., by imbuing them with alum, salt, and other agents, for softening and bleaching them. TAXING (14) [verb] To impose and collect a tax from (a person or company). | [verb] To impose and collect a tax on (something). | [verb] To make excessive demands on. TEEING (7) [verb] To draw; lead. | [verb] To draw away; go; proceed. | [verb] To place a ball on a tee TEWING (10) THRONG (10) [noun] A group of people crowded or gathered closely together. | [noun] A group of things; a host or swarm. | [verb] To crowd into a place, especially to fill it. TIDING (8) [verb] To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream. | [verb] To pour a tide or flood. | [verb] To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse. TIEING (7) TILING (7) [verb] To cover with tiles. | [verb] To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface). | [verb] To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique. TIMING (9) [verb] To measure or record the time, duration, or rate of. | [verb] To choose when something begins or how long it lasts. | [verb] To keep or beat time; to proceed or move in time. TINING (7) TIRING (7) [verb] To become sleepy or weary. | [verb] To make sleepy or weary. | [verb] To become bored or impatient (with). TOEING (7) [verb] To furnish (a stocking, etc.) with a toe. | [verb] To touch, tap or kick with the toes. | [verb] To touch or reach with the toes; to come fully up to. TOKING (11) [verb] To give a gratuity to. | [verb] To smoke marijuana. | [verb] To inhale a puff of marijuana TOLING (7) TONING (7) [verb] To give a particular tone to | [verb] To change the colour of | [verb] To make (something) firmer TOPING (9) [verb] To drink excessively; to get drunk. TOTING (7) [verb] To carry or bear. | [verb] To add up; to calculate a total. TOWING (10) [noun] The act by which something is towed. TOYING (10) [verb] To play (with) in an idle or desultory way. | [verb] To ponder or consider. | [verb] To stimulate with a sex toy. TRUING (7) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. | [noun] The alignment (and cutting) of a wheel (especially a grinding wheel) such that its surface is concentric with its axis. TRYING (10) [verb] To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive. | [verb] To divide; to separate. | [verb] To test, to work out. TSKING (11) TUBING (9) [verb] To supply with, or enclose in, a tube. | [verb] To ride an inner tube. | [verb] To intubate. TUNING (7) [verb] To adjust (a musical instrument) so that it produces the correct pitches. | [verb] To adjust or modify (esp. a mechanical or electrical device) so that it functions optimally. | [verb] To adjust the frequency on a radio or TV set, so as to receive the desired channel. TYNING (10) TYPING (12) [verb] To put text on paper using a typewriter. | [verb] To enter text or commands into a computer using a keyboard. | [verb] To determine the blood type of. TYRING (10) UMPING (11) [verb] To act as an umpire. UNCLOG (9) [verb] To remove a blockage from. | [verb] To have a blockage removed. UNHANG (10) [verb] Hypothetically, to undo the execution of (a person) by hanging. | [verb] To take down something (such as a picture) from a hanging position UNHUNG (10) [adjective] (of a person) Not (yet) executed by hanging; unhanged. | [adjective] (of a painting) Not selected for exhibition. | [adjective] (of game) Cooked without being hung to mature. UNPLUG (9) [verb] To disconnect from a supply, especially an electrical socket. | [verb] To stop using electronic devices, especially for relaxation or to reduce stress. | [verb] To remove a blockage from (especially a water pipe or drain). UNSUNG (7) [adjective] Which has not been lauded or appreciated. | [adjective] Not sung. UPPING (11) [verb] To increase or raise. | [verb] To promote. | [verb] (usually in combination with another verb) To act suddenly. URGING (8) [verb] To press; to push; to drive; to impel; to force onward. | [verb] To press the mind or will of; to ply with motives, arguments, persuasion, or importunity. | [verb] To provoke; to exasperate. VEXING (17) [verb] To trouble aggressively, to harass. | [verb] To annoy, irritate. | [verb] To cause (mental) suffering to; to distress. VICING (12) VIKING (14) [noun] One of the Scandinavian or other Northern European seafaring warriors that raided (and then settled) the British Isles and other parts of Europe in the 8th to the 11th centuries and, according to many historians, were the first Europeans to reach North America. | [noun] (by extension) A stock character common in the fantasy genre, namely a barbarian, generally equipped with an axe or sword and a helmet adorned with horns. | [noun] A Norseman (mediaeval Scandinavian). VINING (10) [noun] A twisting, twining pattern or motion. | [adjective] Growing in the manner of a vine; twisting and entwining. VISING (10) VOLING (10) VOTING (10) [verb] To cast a vote; to assert a formalized choice in an election | [verb] To choose or grant by means of a vote, or by general consent | [noun] Action of the verb to vote VOWING (13) [verb] To make a vow; to promise. | [verb] To make a vow regarding (something). | [verb] To declare publicly that one has made a vow, usually to show one's determination or to announce an act of retaliation. WADING (11) [verb] To walk through water or something that impedes progress. | [verb] To progress with difficulty | [verb] To walk through (water or similar impediment); to pass through by wading WAGING (11) [verb] To wager, bet. | [verb] To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard. | [verb] To employ for wages; to hire. WAKING (14) [verb] (often followed by up) To stop sleeping. | [verb] (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep. | [verb] To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite. WALING (10) WANING (10) [verb] To progressively lose its splendor, value, ardor, power, intensity etc.; to decline. | [verb] Said of light that dims or diminishes in strength. | [verb] Said of the Moon as it passes through the phases of its monthly cycle where its surface is less and less visible. | [noun] The fact or act of becoming less or less intense. WARING (10) [verb] To be ware or mindful of something. | [verb] To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary. | [verb] To wear, or veer. WAVING (13) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WAXING (17) [verb] To apply wax to (something, such as a shoe, a floor, a car, or an apple), usually to make it shiny. | [verb] To remove hair at the roots from (a part of the body) by coating the skin with a film of wax that is then pulled away sharply. | [verb] To defeat utterly. WIFING (13) WIGWAG (14) [noun] An act of wigwagging. | [noun] Any of a number of mechanical or electrical devices which cause a component to oscillate between two states. | [noun] A signal sent by waving a flag to and fro. WILING (10) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WINING (10) [verb] To entertain with wine. | [verb] To drink wine. | [noun] A session of drinking wine socially. WIPING (12) [verb] To move an object over, maintaining contact, with the intention of removing some substance from the surface. (Compare rub.) | [verb] To remove by rubbing; to rub off; to obliterate; usually followed by away, off, or out. | [verb] To cheat; to defraud; to trick; usually followed by out. WIRING (10) [verb] To fasten with wire, especially with reference to wine bottles, corks, or fencing. | [verb] To string on a wire. | [verb] To equip with wires for use with electricity. WISING (10) [verb] To become wise. | [verb] Usually with "up", to inform or learn. | [verb] To instruct. WITING (10) WIVING (13) [verb] To marry (a woman). | [verb] To provide (someone) with a wife. WOOING (10) [verb] To endeavor to gain someone's support. | [verb] (often of a man) To try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with | [verb] To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. WOWING (13) [verb] To amaze or awe. WRYING (13) WYLING (13) WYTING (13) YAWING (13) [verb] To turn about the vertical axis while maintaining course. | [verb] To swerve off course to port or starboard. | [verb] To steer badly, zigzagging back and forth across the intended course of a boat; to go out of the line of course. YOKING (14) [verb] To link or to join. | [verb] To unite, to connect. | [verb] To enslave; to bring into bondage; to restrain; to confine. YOWING (13) ZAFTIG (19) [adjective] Of a woman, having a plump and sexually attractive figure; voluptuous, well-proportioned; large. ZIGZAG (26) [noun] A line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions | [noun] One of such sharp turns | [verb] To move or to twist in a zigzag manner. ZOFTIG (19) [adjective] Of a woman, having a plump and sexually attractive figure; voluptuous, well-proportioned; large. ZONING (16) [verb] To divide into or assign sections or areas. | [verb] To define the property use classification of an area. | [verb] To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.

ABASING (10) [verb] To lower, as in condition in life, office, rank, etc., so as to cause pain or hurt feelings; to degrade, to depress, to humble, to humiliate. | [verb] To lower physically; to depress; to cast or throw down; to stoop. | [verb] To lower in value, in particular by altering the content of alloys in coins; to debase. ABATING (10) [verb] (obsolete outside law) To put an end to; to cause to cease. | [verb] To become null and void. | [verb] To nullify; make void. ABIDING (11) [verb] To endure without yielding; to withstand; await defiantly; to encounter; to persevere. | [verb] To bear patiently; to tolerate; to put up with; stand. | [verb] To pay for; to stand the consequences of; to answer for; to suffer for; to atone for. | [noun] The action of one who abides; the state of an abider. ABODING (11) ABUSING (10) [verb] To put to a wrong use; to misapply; to use improperly; to misuse; to use for a wrong purpose or end; to pervert | [verb] To injure; to maltreat; to hurt; to treat with cruelty, especially repeatedly. | [verb] To attack with coarse language; to insult; to revile; malign; to speak in an offensive manner to or about someone; to disparage. ADDLING (10) [noun] (provincial) Earnings. | [verb] (provincial) To earn, earn by labor; earn money or one's living. | [verb] (provincial) To thrive or grow; to ripen. ADORING (9) [verb] To worship. | [verb] To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection. | [verb] To be very fond of. AGELONG (9) [adjective] Lasting throughout all time; eternal AIRTING (8) ALINING (8) ALLYING (11) [verb] To unite, or form a connection between, as between families by marriage, or between princes and states by treaty, league, or confederacy. | [verb] To connect or form a relation between by similitude, resemblance, friendship, or love. AMAZING (19) [verb] To fill with wonder and surprise; to astonish, astound, surprise or perplex. | [verb] To undergo amazement; to be astounded. | [verb] To stupefy; to knock unconscious. AMBLING (12) [verb] To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely. | [verb] Of a quadruped: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other. | [noun] The act of one who ambles. AMUSING (10) [verb] To entertain or occupy in a pleasant manner; to stir with pleasing emotions. | [verb] To cause laughter or amusement; to be funny. | [verb] To keep in expectation; to beguile; to delude. ANELING (8) [verb] To anoint; to give extreme unction with oil. ANGLING (9) [verb] (often in the passive) To place (something) at an angle. | [verb] To change direction rapidly. | [verb] To present or argue something in a particular way or from a particular viewpoint. ANKLING (12) [verb] To walk. | [verb] To cyclically angle the foot at the ankle while pedaling, to maximize the amount of work applied to the pedal during each revolution. ANTEING (8) [verb] To pay the ante in poker. Often used as ante up. | [verb] To make an investment in money, effort, or time before knowing one's chances. ANTIBUG (10) ANTILOG (8) [noun] An antilogarithm. ANTISAG (8) ARCHING (13) [verb] To form into an arch shape | [verb] To cover with an arch or arches. | [noun] The arched part of a structure. ARCKING (14) ARGLING (9) ARGUING (9) [verb] To show grounds for concluding (that); to indicate, imply. | [verb] To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints. | [verb] To have an argument, a quarrel. ARISING (8) [verb] To come up from a lower to a higher position. | [verb] To come up from one's bed or place of repose; to get up. | [verb] To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself. ATONING (8) [verb] To make reparation, compensation, amends or satisfaction for an offence, crime, mistake or deficiency. | [verb] To bring at one or at concordance; to reconcile; to suffer appeasement. | [verb] To agree or accord; to be in accordance or harmony. AUTOING (8) AVOWING (14) [verb] To declare openly and boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly. | [verb] To bind or devote by a vow. | [verb] To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See avowry. AWAKING (15) [verb] To become conscious after having slept. | [verb] To cause (somebody) to stop sleeping. | [verb] To excite or to stir up something latent. BABYING (15) [verb] To coddle; to pamper somebody like an infant. | [verb] To tend (something) with care; to be overly attentive to (something), fuss over. | [noun] The act of coddling or pampering somebody. BACHING (15) [verb] To live apart from women, as during the period when a divorce is in progress. (Compare bachelor pad.) BACKING (16) [verb] To go in the reverse direction. | [verb] To support. | [verb] (of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere. BACKLOG (16) [noun] A large log to burn at the back of a fire. | [noun] A reserve source or supply. | [noun] An accumulation or buildup, especially of unfilled orders or unfinished work. BADGING (12) [verb] To mark or distinguish with a badge. | [verb] To show a badge to. | [verb] To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge. BAFFING (16) [verb] Present participle of baff, meaning to strike a golf ball with the sole of the club, or to hit something with a bat or club. BAGGING (12) [verb] To put into a bag. | [verb] To catch or kill, especially when fishing or hunting. | [verb] To gain possession of something, or to make first claim on something. | [noun] Bootstrap aggregating BAILING (10) [verb] To secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail. | [verb] To release a person under such guarantee. | [verb] To hand over personal property to be held temporarily by another as a bailment. BAITING (10) [verb] To attract with bait; to entice. | [verb] To affix bait to a trap or a fishing hook or fishing line. | [verb] To set dogs on (an animal etc.) to bite or worry; to attack with dogs, especially for sport. BALDING (11) [verb] To become bald. | [adjective] Becoming bald, especially having male pattern baldness BALKING (14) [verb] To pass over or by. | [verb] To omit, miss or overlook by chance. | [verb] To miss intentionally; to avoid. BALLING (10) [verb] To form or wind into a ball. | [verb] To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. BAMMING (14) BANDING (11) [verb] To fasten with a band. | [verb] To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird). | [verb] To group together for a common purpose; to confederate. BANGING (11) [verb] To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something. | [verb] To hit hard. | [verb] To engage in sexual intercourse. BANKING (14) [verb] To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client. | [verb] To put into a bank. | [verb] To conceal in the rectum for use in prison. BANNING (10) [verb] To summon; to call out. | [verb] To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban. | [verb] To curse; to execrate. BANTENG (10) [noun] A wild ox, Bos javanicus, found in Borneo, Malaysia and the Indochina peninsula. BARBING (12) [verb] To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. | [verb] To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard. | [verb] To cut (hair). BARDING (11) [verb] To cover a horse in defensive armor. | [verb] To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon. | [noun] Armour for a warhorse. BARFING (13) [verb] To vomit. | [verb] Of a system: to fail. BARGING (11) [verb] To intrude or break through, particularly in an unwelcome or clumsy manner. | [verb] To push someone. BARKING (14) [verb] To make a short, loud, explosive noise with the vocal organs (said of animals, especially dogs). | [verb] To make a clamor; to make importunate outcries. | [verb] To speak sharply. | [noun] The action of the verb to bark. BARRING (10) [verb] To obstruct the passage of (someone or something). | [verb] To prohibit. | [verb] To lock or bolt with a bar. BASHING (13) [verb] To strike heavily. | [verb] To collide. | [verb] To criticize harshly. BASKING (14) [verb] To bathe in warmth; to be exposed to pleasant heat. | [verb] To take great pleasure or satisfaction; to feel warmth or happiness. (This verb is usually followed by "in"). | [noun] The act of one who basks. BASTING (10) [verb] To sew with long or loose stitches, as for temporary use, or in preparation for gathering the fabric. | [verb] To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting. | [verb] (by extension) To coat over something. BATHING (13) [verb] To clean oneself by immersion in water or using water; to take a bath, have a bath. | [verb] To immerse oneself, or part of the body, in water for pleasure or refreshment; to swim. | [verb] To clean a person by immersion in water or using water; to give someone a bath. | [verb] To wash a person or animal in a bath BATTING (10) [noun] Cotton, wool, silk or synthetic material used to stuff the inside of a mattress, quilt etc. | [noun] Special cotton for surgery. | [verb] To hit with a bat or (figuratively) as if with a bat. BATWING (13) [noun] The wing of a bat, or its shape. | [noun] Several South or Southeast Asian species of tailless dark swallowtail butterflies in the genus Atrophaneura. | [noun] An area of flabby fat under a person's arms. BAWLING (13) [verb] To shout or utter in a loud and intense manner. | [verb] To wail; to give out a blaring cry. | [noun] The act of one who bawls or shouts. BEADING (11) [verb] To form into a bead. | [verb] To apply beads to. | [verb] To form into a bead. BEAMING (12) [verb] To emit beams of light; shine; radiate. | [verb] To smile broadly or especially cheerfully. | [verb] To furnish or supply with beams BEANBAG (12) [noun] A piece of soft furniture consisting of a leather or vinyl covering stuffed with dry beans or other similar pellets. | [noun] A small cloth bag filled with dry beans, used as a toy or for exercising the hands. | [noun] A type of juggling ball usually made from leather or cloth stuffed with dry beans. BEANING (10) [verb] To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head. BEARHUG (13) [noun] Any especially large, tight or enthusiastic hug, usually friendly and especially between males. | [noun] A hostile takeover effort in which one firm offers to buy the other firm at a share price too high to refuse. | [noun] A hold with the arms around the opponent. BEARING (10) [verb] To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in. | [verb] To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To support, sustain, or endure. | [noun] A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction. BEATING (10) [verb] To hit; strike | [verb] To strike or pound repeatedly, usually in some sort of rhythm. | [verb] To strike repeatedly; to inflict repeated blows; to knock vigorously or loudly. BECKING (16) BEDDING (12) [noun] The textiles associated with a bed, e.g., sheets, pillowcases, bedspreads, blankets, etc. | [noun] Any material used by or provided to animals to lie on. | [noun] A structure occurring in granite and similar massive rocks that allows them to split in well-defined planes horizontally or parallel to the land surface | [verb] Senses relating to a bed as a place for resting or sleeping. BEEFING (13) [verb] To complain. | [verb] To add weight or strength to; to beef up. | [verb] To fart; break wind. BEEPING (12) [verb] To sound (something that makes a beep). | [verb] To have sexual intercourse (with) - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts | [verb] To produce a beep. BEGGING (12) [noun] The act of one who begs. | [verb] To request the help of someone, often in the form of money. | [verb] To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat. BELLING (10) [noun] Bellowing; the sound of a male deer during the rutting season | [noun] (Indiana) A shivaree. | [verb] To attach a bell to. BELTING (10) [verb] To encircle. | [verb] To fasten a belt on. | [verb] To invest (a person) with a belt as part of a formal ceremony such as knighthood. BELYING (13) [verb] To lie around; encompass. | [verb] (of an army) To surround; beleaguer. | [verb] To tell lies about. BENDING (11) [verb] To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means. | [verb] To become curved. | [verb] To cause to change direction. BESTING (10) [verb] To surpass in skill or achievement. | [verb] To beat in a contest BETTING (10) [verb] To stake or pledge upon the outcome of an event; to wager. | [verb] To be sure of something; to be able to count on something. | [verb] To place money into the pot in order to require others do the same, usually only used for the first person to place money in the pot on each round. BIASING (10) [verb] To place bias upon; to influence. | [noun] The process of adding a bias. BIBBING (14) [verb] To dress (somebody) in a bib. | [verb] To drink heartily; to tipple. | [verb] To beep (e.g. a car horn). BIDDING (12) [verb] To issue a command; to tell. | [verb] To invite; to summon. | [verb] To utter a greeting or salutation. BIFFING (16) [verb] To punch or hit. | [verb] To discard; to throw out; to throw away. | [verb] To wipe out; to faceplant; to fall. BIGGING (12) [verb] To praise, recommend, or promote. | [verb] To inhabit; occupy | [verb] To locate oneself BILGING (11) [verb] To spring a leak in the bilge. | [verb] To bulge or swell. | [verb] To break open the bilge(s) of. BILKING (14) [verb] To spoil the score of (someone) in cribbage. | [verb] To do someone out of their due; to deceive or defraud, to cheat (someone). | [verb] To evade, elude. BILLBUG (12) [noun] A weevil that damages grain crops and stored cereals by boring into the kernels. BILLING (10) [verb] To dig, chop, etc., with a bill. | [verb] To peck | [verb] To stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness BILTONG (10) [noun] (Zimbabwe) A South African food categorized by strips of lean meat cured by salting and drying, similar to American jerky. BINDING (11) [verb] To tie; to confine by any ligature. | [verb] To cohere or stick together in a mass. | [verb] To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. BINGING (11) [verb] To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption. | [verb] To go; walk; come; run | [verb] Making the sound of a bounce BINNING (10) [verb] To dispose of (something) by putting it into a bin, or as if putting it into a bin. | [verb] To throw away, reject, give up. | [verb] To convert continuous data into discrete groups. BIRDING (11) [noun] Birdwatching | [noun] The catching of birds; fowling BIRLING (10) [verb] To pour a drink (for). | [verb] To drink deeply or excessively; carouse. | [noun] A type of boat used especially in the Hebrides and West Highlands of Scotland in the Middle Ages. BIRRING (10) [verb] Making a whirring sound, as of rapid rotation or vibration. | [verb] Present participle of birr, meaning to move with a whirring sound. BITTING (10) [verb] To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse). | [verb] To put round the bitts. | [noun] The part of a key that engages the tumblers to activate the lock BLAMING (12) [noun] The act of accusing or assigning culpability to | [verb] To censure (someone or something); to criticize. | [verb] To bring into disrepute. BLARING (10) [verb] To make a loud sound. | [verb] To cause to sound like the blare of a trumpet; to proclaim loudly. | [noun] Any loud noise, such as from an elephant. BLAWING (13) BLAZING (19) [verb] To be on fire, especially producing bright flames. | [verb] To send forth or reflect a bright light; shine like a flame. | [verb] To be conspicuous; shine brightly a brilliancy (of talents, deeds, etc.). BLOWING (13) [verb] To produce an air current. | [verb] To propel by an air current. | [verb] To be propelled by an air current. | [noun] The act of one who blows, or that which blows. BLUEING (10) [verb] To make or become blue. | [verb] To treat the surface of steel so that it is passivated chemically and becomes more resistant to rust. | [verb] (laundry) To brighten by treating with blue (laundry aid) BLUMING (12) BOATING (10) [verb] To travel by boat. | [verb] To transport in a boat. | [verb] To place in a boat. BOBBING (14) [verb] To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium. | [verb] To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water. | [verb] To curtsy. BODYING (14) [verb] To give body or shape to something. | [verb] To construct the bodywork of a car. | [verb] To embody. BOGGING (12) [verb] (now often with "down") To sink or submerge someone or something into bogland. | [verb] To prevent or slow someone or something from making progress. | [verb] (now often with "down") To sink and stick in bogland. BOILING (10) [verb] (of liquids) To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas. | [verb] To cook in boiling water. | [verb] (of liquids) To begin to turn into a gas, seethe. BOLLING (10) [verb] Present participle of "boll," meaning to form seed pods or to swell into a rounded shape, as cotton does. BOLTING (10) [verb] To connect or assemble pieces using a bolt. | [verb] To secure a door by locking or barring it. | [verb] To flee, to depart, to accelerate suddenly. BOMBING (14) [verb] To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard. | [verb] To fail dismally. | [verb] To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs. BONDING (11) [verb] To connect, secure or tie with a bond; to bind. | [verb] To cause to adhere (one material with another). | [verb] To form a chemical compound with. BONGING (11) [verb] To pull a bell. | [verb] To ring a doorbell. BONKING (14) [verb] To strike or collide with something. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse. | [verb] To hit something with the front of the board, especially in midair. BOOBING (12) [verb] To behave stupidly; to act like a boob. | [verb] To make a mistake BOOKING (14) [verb] To reserve (something) for future use. | [verb] To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book. | [verb] (law enforcement) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence for later judicial action. BOOMING (12) [verb] To make a loud, hollow, resonant sound. | [verb] (of speech) To exclaim with force, to shout, to thunder. | [verb] To make something boom. BOOTING (10) [verb] To kick. | [verb] To put boots on, especially for riding. | [verb] To apply corporal punishment (compare slippering). BOOTLEG (10) [noun] The part of a boot that is above the instep. | [noun] An illegally produced, transported or sold product; contraband. | [noun] An unauthorized recording, e.g., of a live concert. BOOZING (19) [verb] To drink alcohol. | [noun] The act of drinking heavily. BOPPING (14) [verb] To strike gently or playfully. | [verb] To dance to this music, or any sort of popular music with a strong beat. | [verb] To have sex. BOSSING (10) [verb] To exercise authoritative control over; to tell (someone) what to do, often repeatedly. | [verb] To decorate with bosses; to emboss. | [noun] A boss; a projecting element. BOUSING (10) [verb] Present participle of "bouse," meaning to drink heavily or to haul on a rope in nautical contexts. | [noun] A drinking bout or spree. BOWLING (13) [verb] To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports. | [verb] To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports). | [verb] To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels. BOWSING (13) [verb] To drink excessively or carouse. | [verb] In nautical terms, to haul or pull on a rope. BRACING (12) [verb] To prepare for something bad, such as an impact or blow. | [verb] To place in a position for resisting pressure; to hold firmly. | [verb] To swing round the yards of a square rigged ship, using braces, to present a more efficient sail surface to the direction of the wind. BRAKING (14) [verb] To bruise and crush; to knead | [verb] To pulverise with a harrow | [verb] To operate (a) brake(s). BRAVING (13) [verb] To encounter with courage and fortitude, to defy, to provoke. | [verb] To adorn; to make fine or showy. | [noun] A bravado; a boast. BRAYING (13) [verb] Of an animal (now chiefly of animals related to the ass or donkey, and the camel): to make its cry. | [verb] (by extension) To make a harsh, discordant sound like a donkey's bray. | [verb] To make or utter (a shout, sound, etc.) discordantly, loudly, or in a harsh and grating manner. BRAZING (19) [verb] To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. | [verb] To burn or temper in fire. | [noun] A method of joining metals by using heat and a filler BREWING (13) [verb] To make tea or coffee by mixing tea leaves or coffee beans with hot water. | [verb] To heat wine, infusing it with spices; to mull. | [verb] To make a hot soup by combining ingredients and boiling them in water. BRIBING (12) [verb] To give a bribe to; specifically, to ask a person to do something, usually against his/her will, in exchange for some type of reward or relief from potential trouble. | [verb] To gain by a bribe; to induce as by a bribe. | [noun] Bribery. BRINING (10) [verb] To preserve food in a salt solution. | [verb] To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution. BROKING (14) [noun] The craft or profession of a broker; mediation in a sale or transaction. | [noun] The action of a broker agent; exchange of messages or transactions involving a software agent. BRUTING (10) [verb] To shape a diamond into a round form by grinding it against another diamond. | [verb] To spread rumors or report gossip. BUCKING (16) [verb] To copulate, as bucks and does. | [verb] To bend; buckle. | [verb] (of a horse or similar saddle or pack animal) To leap upward arching its back, coming down with head low and forelegs stiff, forcefully kicking its hind legs upward, often in an attempt to dislodge or throw a rider or pack. BUDDING (12) [verb] To form buds. | [verb] To reproduce by splitting off buds. | [verb] To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. BUDGING (12) [verb] To move. | [verb] To move. | [verb] To yield in one’s opinions or beliefs. BUFFING (16) [verb] To polish and make shiny by rubbing. | [verb] To make a character or an item stronger. | [verb] To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner. BUGGING (12) [verb] To annoy. | [verb] To install an electronic listening device or devices in. | [noun] Electronic surveillance. BUGLING (11) [verb] To announce, sing, or cry in the manner of a musical bugle | [noun] The act of playing a bugle. BULGING (11) [verb] To stick out from (a surface). | [verb] To bilge, as a ship; to founder. | [noun] The shape or motion of something that bulges. BULKING (14) [verb] To appear or seem to be, as to bulk or extent. | [verb] To grow in size; to swell or expand. | [verb] To gain body mass by means of diet, exercise, etc. BULLDOG (11) [noun] A breed of dog developed in England by the crossing of the bullbaiting dog and the Pug to produce a ladies companion dog. Having a very smooth coat, a flattened face, wrinkly cheeks, powerful front legs and smaller hind legs. | [noun] British bulldog | [noun] A stubborn person. BULLING (10) [verb] To force oneself (in a particular direction). | [verb] To lie, to tell untruths. | [verb] To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. BUMMING (14) [verb] To sodomize; to engage in anal sex. | [verb] To ask someone to give one (something) for free; to beg for something. | [verb] To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond; to loiter. BUMPING (14) [verb] To knock against or run into with a jolt. | [verb] To move up or down by a step; displace. | [verb] To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads. BUNGING (11) [verb] To plug, as with a bung. | [verb] To put or throw somewhere without care; to chuck. | [verb] To batter, bruise; to cause to bulge or swell. BUNKING (14) [verb] To occupy a bunk. | [verb] To provide a bunk. | [verb] To fail to attend school or work without permission; to play truant (usually as in 'to bunk off'). BUNTING (10) [noun] Strips of material used as festive decoration, especially in the colours of the national flag. | [noun] A thin cloth of woven wool from which flags are made; it is light enough to spread in a gentle wind but resistant to fraying in a strong wind. | [noun] Flags considered as a group. | [noun] Any of various songbirds, mostly of the genus Emberiza, having short bills and brown or gray plumage. | [noun] A warm, hooded infant garment, as outerwear or sleepwear, similar to a sleeper or sleepsack; especially as baby bunting or bunting bag. | [verb] To push with the horns; to butt. BUOYING (13) [verb] To keep afloat or aloft; used with up. | [verb] To support or maintain at a high level. | [verb] To mark with a buoy. BURKING (14) [verb] To suppress or smother something, especially a scandal or controversy, by keeping it quiet. | [verb] To suffocate a person in order to sell their body for dissection (from the historical criminal William Burke). BURLING (10) [verb] To remove burls (knots or lumps) from cloth or wood. | [verb] To fish by trailing a line with a burling device. BURNING (10) [verb] To cause to be consumed by fire. | [verb] To be consumed by fire, or in flames. | [verb] To overheat so as to make unusable. BURPING (12) [verb] To emit a burp. | [verb] To cause someone (such as a baby) to burp. | [noun] The sound of a burp. BURRING (10) [verb] To pronounce with a uvular "r". | [verb] To make a rough humming sound. BURYING (13) [verb] To ritualistically inter in a grave or tomb. | [verb] To place in the ground. | [verb] To hide or conceal as if by covering with earth or another substance. BUSHING (13) [noun] A type of bearing, a cylindrical lining designed to reduce friction and wear inside a hole, often used as a casing for a shaft, pin or hinge. | [noun] An elastic bearing used as a type of vibration isolator, commonly made of rubber. An interface between two parts, damping the movement and the energy transmitted. | [noun] A threaded bushing, is a fastener element that is inserted into an object, usually to add a threaded hole in a softer or thin material. BUSHPIG (15) [noun] An African pig of the genus Potamochoerus; Potamochoerus porcus or Potamochoerus larvatus. | [noun] A fat and very ugly woman. BUSKING (14) [verb] To prepare; to make ready; to array; to dress. | [verb] To go; to direct one's course. | [verb] To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport BUSSING (10) [verb] To transport via a motor bus. | [verb] To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration. | [verb] To travel by bus. BUSTING (10) [verb] To break. | [verb] To arrest (someone) for a crime. | [verb] To catch (someone) in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal, especially when being done in a sneaky or secretive state. BUSYING (13) [verb] To make somebody busy or active; to occupy. | [verb] To rush somebody. | [noun] Busyness; making oneself busy with something BUTLING (10) [verb] To serve as or perform the duties of a butler. BUTTING (10) [verb] To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. | [verb] To strike bluntly, particularly with the head. | [verb] To strike bluntly with the head. | [verb] Use the word "but". BUZZING (28) [verb] To make a low, continuous, humming or sibilant sound, like that made by bees with their wings. | [verb] To show a high level of activity and haste (alluding to the common simile "busy as a bee"). Often in the colloquial imperative "Buzz off!" | [verb] To whisper; to communicate, as tales, in an undertone; to spread, as a report, by whispers or secretly. BUZZWIG (31) BYRLING (13) CABBING (14) [verb] To travel by taxicab. | [noun] The profession of a cabbie, especially one who drives a black cab. CABLING (12) [verb] To provide with cable(s) | [verb] To fasten (as if) with cable(s) | [verb] To wrap wires to form a cable CACHING (15) [verb] To place in a cache. CADGING (12) [verb] To beg. | [verb] To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. | [verb] To carry hawks and other birds of prey. CALKING (14) [verb] To make an indentation in the edge of a metal plate, as along a seam in a steam boiler or an iron ship, to force the edge of the upper plate hard against the lower and so fill the crevice. | [verb] To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight. | [verb] To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials. CALLING (10) [verb] (heading) To use one's voice. | [verb] (heading) To visit. | [verb] (heading) To name, identify or describe. CALMING (12) [verb] To make calm. | [verb] To become calm. CALVING (13) [verb] To give birth to a calf | [verb] To assist in a cow's giving birth to a calf | [verb] To give birth to (a calf) CAMPING (14) [verb] To live in a tent or similar temporary accommodation. | [verb] To set up a camp. | [verb] To afford rest or lodging for. CAMPONG (14) [noun] A Malay or Indonesian village or compound, typically consisting of houses built around a central area. CANNING (10) [verb] To seal in a can. | [verb] To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can. | [verb] To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.). CANTDOG (11) CANTING (10) [verb] To speak with the jargon of a class or subgroup. | [verb] To speak in set phrases. | [verb] To preach in a singsong fashion, especially in a false or empty manner. | [noun] A pen-like tool used to apply liquid wax in the batik process. CAPPING (14) [verb] To cover or seal with a cap. | [verb] To award a cap as a mark of distinction. | [verb] To lie over or on top of something. CARDING (11) [verb] To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement. | [verb] To play cards. | [verb] To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card. CARKING (14) [verb] To be filled with worry, solicitude, or troubles. | [verb] To bring worry, vexation, or anxiety. | [verb] To labor anxiously. CARLING (10) [noun] An old woman. | [noun] A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking. | [noun] A cultivar of field pea or maple pea, dried, soaked, boiled, then fried. | [noun] A cultivar of field pea or maple pea, dried, soaked, boiled, then fried. CARPING (12) [verb] To complain about a fault; to harp on. | [verb] To say; to tell. | [verb] To find fault with; to censure. CARTING (10) [verb] To carry goods. | [verb] To carry or convey in a cart. | [verb] To remove, especially involuntarily or for disposal. CARVING (13) [verb] To cut. | [verb] To cut meat in order to serve it. | [verb] To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work. CASHING (13) [verb] To exchange (a check/cheque) for money in the form of notes/bills. | [verb] To obtain a payout from a tournament. | [verb] To disband. To do away with, kill CASKING (14) [verb] The present participle of "cask," meaning to put or store in a cask or barrel. CASTING (10) [verb] (physical) To move, or be moved, away. | [verb] To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.). | [verb] To add up (a column of figures, accounts etc.); cross-cast refers to adding up a row of figures. | [noun] The act or process of selecting actors, singers, dancers, models, etc. CATALOG (10) [noun] A systematic list of names, books, pictures etc. | [noun] A complete (usually alphabetical) list of items. | [noun] A list of all the publications in a library. CATLING (10) [noun] A small cat. | [noun] A catling, a surgical instrument used for cutting or dissecting. CATTING (10) [verb] To hoist (the anchor) by its ring so that it hangs at the cathead. | [verb] To flog with a cat-o'-nine-tails. | [verb] To vomit. CAUSING (10) [verb] To set off an event or action. | [verb] (ditransitive) To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority. | [verb] To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse. CEASING (10) [verb] To stop. | [verb] To stop doing (something). | [verb] To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. CEILING (10) [verb] To line or finish (a surface, such as a wall), with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or similar. | [verb] To set a higher bound. | [noun] The overhead closure of a room. CELLING (10) CENSING (10) [verb] To perfume with incense. CESSING (10) [verb] Present participle of "cess," meaning to assess or levy a tax or rate on property or persons. | [verb] Present participle of "cess," meaning to stop or cease (archaic usage). CHAFING (16) [verb] To excite heat in by friction; to rub in order to stimulate and make warm. | [verb] To excite passion or anger in; to fret; to irritate. | [verb] To fret and wear by rubbing. CHARING (13) [verb] Present participle of char; to burn or scorch the surface of something. | [verb] To hire or rent a ship or aircraft. CHASING (13) [verb] To pursue. | [verb] To consume another beverage immediately after drinking hard liquor, typically something better tasting or less harsh such as soda or beer; to use a drink as a chaser | [verb] To attempt to win by scoring the required number of runs in the final innings. CHAWING (16) [verb] To chew; to grind with one's teeth; to masticate (food, or the cud) | [verb] To ruminate (about) in thought; to ponder; to consider | [verb] To steal. CHEWING (16) [verb] To crush with the teeth by repeated closing and opening of the jaws; done to food to soften it and break it down by the action of saliva before it is swallowed. | [verb] To grind, tear, or otherwise degrade or demolish something with teeth or as with teeth. | [verb] To think about something; to ponder; to chew over. | [noun] The act by which something is chewed on; mastication. CHIDING (14) [verb] To admonish in blame; to reproach angrily. | [verb] To utter words of disapprobation and displeasure; to find fault; to contend angrily. | [verb] To make a clamorous noise; to chafe. CHIMING (15) [verb] To make the sound of a chime. | [verb] To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. | [verb] To utter harmoniously; to recite rhythmically. CHINING (13) [verb] To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces. | [verb] To chamfer the ends of a stave and form the chine. | [verb] To crack, split, fissure, break. CHOKING (17) [verb] To be unable to breathe because of obstruction of the windpipe (for instance food or other objects that go down the wrong way, or fumes or particles in the air that cause the throat to constrict). | [verb] To prevent (someone) from breathing or talking by strangling or filling the windpipe. | [verb] To obstruct (a passage, etc.) by filling it up or clogging it. CHORING (13) [verb] Present participle of "chore," meaning to do chores or routine tasks. | [verb] To assign chores to someone. CHOWING (16) [verb] To eat. | [verb] To call a discarded tile to produce a chow. CHUTING (13) [verb] Present participle of chute, meaning to convey or move something through a chute. | [verb] To descend rapidly or plummet. CLAWING (13) [verb] To scratch or to tear at. | [verb] To use the claws to seize, to grip. | [verb] To use the claws to climb. CLAYING (13) [verb] Present participle of clay, meaning to treat, coat, or work with clay; or to purify (as in oil refining) by treating with clay. CLEPING (12) [verb] To give a call; cry out; appeal. | [verb] To call; call upon; cry out to. | [verb] To call to oneself; invite; summon. CLEWING (13) [verb] To roll into a ball | [verb] (transitive and intransitive) to raise the lower corner(s) of (a sail) CLONING (10) [verb] To create a clone of. | [noun] The production of an exact copy of an object. | [noun] The production of a cloned embryo by transplanting the nucleus of a somatic cell into an ovum. CLOSING (10) [verb] (physical) To remove a gap. | [verb] (social) To finish, to terminate. | [verb] To come or gather around; to enclose; to encompass; to confine. CLOYING (13) [verb] To fill up or choke up; to stop up. | [verb] To clog, to glut, or satisfy, as the appetite; to satiate. | [verb] To fill to loathing; to surfeit. CLUEING (10) [verb] To provide with a clue. | [verb] To provide someone with information which he or she lacks (often used with "in" or "up"). COALING (10) [verb] To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships). | [verb] To supply with coal. | [verb] To be converted to charcoal. COAMING (12) [noun] On a boat, the vertical side of above-deck structures, such as the coach roof, hatch, and cockpit. | [noun] A raised frame, designed to deflect or prevent entry of water, around an opening (e.g., a hatch or skylight) in a flat surface, such as a roof or deck. COATING (10) [verb] To cover with a coating of some material. | [verb] To cover like a coat. | [verb] To clothe. COAXING (17) [verb] To fondle, kid, pet, tease. | [verb] To wheedle, persuade (a person, organisation, animal etc.) gradually or by use of flattery to do something. | [verb] To carefully manipulate into a particular desired state, situation or position. COCKING (16) [verb] To lift the cock of a firearm or crossbow; to prepare (a gun or crossbow) to be fired. | [verb] To be prepared to be triggered by having the cock lifted. | [verb] To erect; to turn up. CODDING (12) [verb] To attempt to deceive or confuse. | [adjective] Lustful CODLING (11) [noun] A young small cod. | [noun] A hake (cod-related food fish), notably from the genus Urophycis. | [verb] To treat gently or with great care. | [noun] A small, immature apple COFFING (16) [verb] Present participle of "coff," meaning to buy or purchase (archaic/dialectal usage). | [verb] Present participle of "coff," meaning to scoff or jeer at something. COGGING (12) [verb] To furnish with a cog or cogs. | [verb] To load (a die) so that it can be used to cheat. | [verb] To cheat; to play or gamble fraudulently. COIFING (13) [verb] To style or arrange hair. COILING (10) [verb] To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece. | [verb] To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center. | [verb] To wind cylindrically or spirally. COINING (10) [verb] To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal. | [verb] (by extension) To make or fabricate. | [verb] To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. COMBING (14) [verb] (especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a comb. | [verb] To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers. | [verb] To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb. COMPING (14) [verb] To accompany, in music. | [verb] To compose (a visual design); to make a composite. | [verb] To provide someone with (a complimentary item, such as a ticket). CONKING (14) [verb] To hit, especially on the head. | [verb] To chemically straighten tightly curled hair. | [verb] (often with out) To fail or show signs of failing, cease operating, break down, become unconscious. CONNING (10) [verb] To study or examine carefully, especially in order to gain knowledge of; to learn, or learn by heart. | [verb] To know, understand, acknowledge. | [verb] To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain. COOKING (14) [verb] To prepare (food) for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients. | [verb] To prepare (unspecified) food for eating by heating it, often by combining it with other ingredients. | [verb] To be cooked. COOLING (10) [verb] To lose heat, to get colder. | [verb] To make cooler, less warm. | [verb] To become less intense, e.g. less amicable or passionate. COOPING (12) [verb] To keep in a coop. | [verb] To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp. | [verb] To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election. COPPING (14) [verb] To obtain, to purchase (as in drugs), to get hold of, to take. | [verb] To (be forced to) take; to receive; to shoulder; to bear, especially blame or punishment for a particular instance of wrongdoing. | [verb] (trainspotting) To see and record a railway locomotive for the first time. COPYING (15) [verb] To produce an object identical to a given object. | [verb] To give or transmit a copy to (a person). | [verb] To place a copy of an object in memory for later use. CORDING (11) [verb] To furnish with cords | [verb] To tie or fasten with cords | [verb] To flatten a book during binding CORKING (14) [verb] To seal or stop up, especially with a cork stopper. | [verb] To blacken (as) with a burnt cork | [verb] To leave the cork in a bottle after attempting to uncork it. CORNING (10) [verb] The process of preserving food, typically meat, by curing it with salt or salt brine. | [noun] A city in New York State known for glassmaking. COSHING (13) [verb] To strike with a weapon of this kind. COSTING (10) [verb] To incur a charge of; to require payment of a (specified) price. | [verb] To cause something to be lost; to cause the expenditure or relinquishment of. | [verb] To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. COSYING (13) [verb] To become snug and comfortable. | [verb] To become friendly with. COUPING (12) COWLING (13) [noun] A young or little cow; calf. | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, a cowl (hood). | [verb] To wrap or form (something made of fabric) like a cowl. COZYING (22) [verb] To become snug and comfortable. | [verb] To become friendly with. CRANING (10) [verb] To extend (one's neck). | [verb] To raise or lower with, or as if with, a crane. | [verb] To pull up before a jump. CRANNOG (10) [noun] An artificial island, used in prehistoric and medieval times in Scotland and Ireland for dwelling. CRAPING (12) CRATING (10) [verb] To put into a crate. | [verb] To keep in a crate. CRAVING (13) [noun] A strong desire; yearning. | [verb] To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for. | [verb] To ask for earnestly; to beg; to claim. CRAZING (19) [verb] To weaken; to impair; to render decrepit. | [verb] To derange the intellect of; to render insane. | [verb] To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane. CREPING (12) CREWING (13) CROWING (13) [verb] To make the shrill sound characteristic of a rooster; to make a sound in this manner, either in gaiety, joy, pleasure, or defiance. | [verb] To shout in exultation or defiance; to brag. | [verb] To test the reed of a double reed instrument by placing the reed alone in the mouth and blowing it. CUFFING (16) [verb] To furnish with cuffs. | [verb] To handcuff. | [verb] To hit, as a reproach, particularly with the open palm to the head; to slap. CULLING (10) [verb] To pick or take someone or something (from a larger group). | [verb] To gather, collect. | [verb] To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner. CULMING (12) CUNNING (10) [adjective] Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour. | [adjective] Skillful, artful. | [adjective] Wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity; ingenious. | [noun] Practical knowledge or experience; aptitude in performance; skill, proficiency; dexterity. CUPPING (14) [noun] The operation of drawing blood to or from the surface of the person by forming a partial vacuum over the spot. | [noun] A similar operation for drawing pus from an abscess. | [noun] Fire cupping, a traditional therapeutic treatment called in which heated cupping glasses are applied to the skin, supposedly to draw blood towards the surface. | [verb] To form into the shape of a cup, particularly of the hands. CURBING (12) [verb] To check, restrain or control. | [verb] To rein in. | [verb] To furnish with a curb, as a well; to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth. CURDING (11) CURLING (10) [verb] To cause to move in a curve. | [verb] To make into a curl or spiral. | [verb] To assume the shape of a curl or spiral. CURRING (10) CURSING (10) [verb] To place a curse upon (a person or object). | [verb] To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate. | [verb] To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet. | [noun] The act of one who curses. CURVING (13) [verb] To bend; to crook. | [verb] To cause to swerve from a straight course. | [verb] To bend or turn gradually from a given direction. CUSSING (10) [verb] To use cursing, to use bad language, to speak profanely. | [noun] The act of one who cusses, or uses bad language. CUTTING (10) [verb] (heading) To incise, to cut into the surface of something. | [verb] To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. | [verb] (heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce. CYCLING (15) [verb] To ride a bicycle or other cycle. | [verb] To go through a cycle or to put through a cycle. | [verb] To turn power off and back on CYMLING (15) DABBING (13) [verb] To press lightly in a repetitive motion with a soft object without rubbing. | [verb] To apply a substance in this way. | [verb] To strike by a thrust; to hit with a sudden blow or thrust. DADOING (10) DAFFING (15) DAMMING (13) [verb] To block the flow of water. DAMNING (11) [verb] To condemn to hell. | [verb] To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment. | [verb] To put out of favor; to ruin; to label negatively. DAMPING (13) [verb] To dampen; to make moderately wet | [verb] To put out, as fire; to weaken, restrain, or make dull. | [verb] To suppress vibrations (mechanical) or oscillations (electrical) by converting energy to heat (or some other form of energy). DANCING (11) [verb] To move with rhythmic steps or movements, especially in time to music. | [verb] To leap or move lightly and rapidly. | [verb] To perform the steps to. DANGING (10) [verb] Damn. | [verb] To dash. DAPPING (13) [verb] To greet with a dap. DARKING (13) DARLING (9) [noun] A person who is dear to one. | [noun] A kind or sweet person; sweetheart. | [noun] An affectionate term of address. DARNING (9) [verb] Euphemism of damn. | [verb] To repair by stitching with thread or yarn, particularly by using a needle to construct a weave across a damaged area of fabric. | [noun] A repair made by darning. DARTING (9) [verb] To throw with a sudden effort or thrust; to hurl or launch. | [verb] To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot | [verb] To shoot with a dart, especially a tranquilizer dart DASHING (12) [verb] To run quickly or for a short distance. | [verb] To leave or depart. | [verb] To destroy by striking (against). DAUBING (11) [verb] To apply (something) to a surface in hasty or crude strokes. | [verb] To paint (a picture, etc.) in a coarse or unskilful manner. | [verb] To cover with a specious or deceitful exterior; to disguise; to conceal. DAUTING (9) DAWNING (12) [verb] To begin to brighten with daylight. | [verb] To start to appear or be realized. | [verb] To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. DAWTING (12) DAYLONG (12) [adjective] Which lasts a day, or approximately so. | [adverb] Throughout the day. DEALING (9) [verb] To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share. | [verb] To administer or give out, as in small portions. | [verb] To distribute cards to the players in a game. DEANING (9) DEAVING (12) DECALOG (11) DECKING (15) [verb] To furnish with a deck, as a vessel. | [verb] To knock someone to the floor, especially with a single punch. | [verb] To cause a player to run out of cards to draw and usually lose the game as a result. DEEDING (10) [verb] To transfer real property by deed. DEEMING (11) [verb] To judge, to pass judgment on; to doom, to sentence. | [verb] To adjudge, to decree. | [verb] To dispense (justice); to administer (law). DEFYING (15) [verb] To challenge (someone) or brave (a hazard or opposition). | [verb] To refuse to obey. | [verb] To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations. DEICING (11) DELEING (9) [verb] (usually imperative) to delete DELVING (12) [verb] To dig the ground, especially with a shovel. | [verb] To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out | [verb] To dig, to excavate. DEMAGOG (12) DENNING (9) [verb] To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den. DENTING (9) [verb] To impact something, producing a dent. | [verb] To develop a dent or dents. DENYING (12) [verb] To disallow or reject. | [verb] To assert that something is not true. | [verb] (ditransitive) To refuse to give or grant something to someone. DEUCING (11) DIALING (9) [verb] To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial. | [verb] To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone. | [verb] To use a dial or a telephone. DIBBING (13) [verb] To dig a hole by poking; especially, to dig a small hole in soil for the purpose of planting a bulb or seed | [verb] To move in a rapid, cautious manner; especially, with movement like a mouse or rat. | [verb] (sometimes humorous) In the scouting movement, to chant dyb, meaning "do your best" (to follow the scouting laws). DICKING (15) [verb] To mistreat or take advantage of somebody (often with around or up). | [verb] (of a man) To have sexual intercourse with. | [noun] An act of penetrative sexual intercourse with a man. DIETING (9) [verb] To regulate the food of (someone); to put on a diet. | [verb] To modify one's food and beverage intake so as to decrease or increase body weight or influence health. | [verb] To eat; to take one's meals. DIGGING (11) [verb] To move hard-packed earth out of the way, especially downward to make a hole with a shovel. Or to drill, or the like, through rocks, roads, or the like. More generally, to make any similar hole by moving material out of the way. | [verb] To get by digging; to take from the ground; often with up. | [verb] To take ore from its bed, in distinction from making excavations in search of ore. DIMMING (13) [verb] To make something less bright. | [verb] To become darker. | [verb] To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct DINGING (10) [verb] To hit or strike. | [verb] To dash; to throw violently. | [verb] To inflict minor damage upon, especially by hitting or striking. DINKING (13) [verb] To play a soft drop shot. | [verb] To chip lightly, to play a light chip shot. | [verb] To carry someone on a pushbike: behind, on the crossbar or on the handlebar. DINNING (9) [verb] To make a din, to resound. | [verb] (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound. | [verb] To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise. DINTING (9) [verb] To dent. DIPPING (13) [verb] To lower into a liquid. | [verb] To immerse oneself; to become plunged in a liquid; to sink. | [verb] (of a value or rate) To decrease slightly. DIRKING (13) DIRLING (9) DIRTBAG (11) [noun] A dirty, grimy, sleazy, or disreputable person | [noun] (climbing) A poor climber, alpinist, skier or other outdoorsman who lives cheaply, without normal employment, and with few amenities in order to spend as much time on their sport as possible. Used praisingly. DISCING (11) DISHING (12) DISHRAG (12) [noun] A piece of cloth used for washing dishes. | [noun] An unclean person; used in similes. DISKING (13) DISSING (9) [verb] To put (someone) down, or show disrespect by the use of insulting language or dismissive behaviour. DOATING (9) DOCKING (15) [verb] To cut off a section of an animal's tail, to practise a caudectomy. | [verb] To reduce (wages); to deduct from. | [verb] To cut off, bar, or destroy. DODGING (11) [verb] To avoid (something) by moving suddenly out of the way. | [verb] To avoid; to sidestep. | [verb] To go hither and thither. DOFFING (15) [verb] (clothing) To remove or take off, especially of clothing. | [verb] To remove or tip a hat, as in greeting, salutation or as a mark of respect. | [verb] To get rid of, to throw off. DOGGING (11) [verb] To pursue with the intent to catch. | [verb] To follow in an annoying or harassing way. | [verb] To fasten a hatch securely. DOLLING (9) DONNING (9) [verb] (clothing) To put on, to dress in. DOOMING (11) [verb] To pronounce sentence or judgment on; to condemn. | [verb] To destine; to fix irrevocably the ill fate of. | [verb] To judge; to estimate or determine as a judge. DOSSING (9) [verb] To avoid work, shirk, etc. | [verb] To sleep in the open or in a derelict building because one is homeless DOTTING (9) [verb] To cover with small spots (of some liquid). | [verb] To add a dot (the symbol) or dots to. | [verb] To mark by means of dots or small spots. DOUSING (9) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DOWNING (12) [verb] To knock (someone or something) down; to cause to come down, to fell. | [verb] To lower; to put (something) down. | [verb] To defeat; to overpower. DOWSING (12) [verb] To plunge suddenly into water; to duck; to immerse. | [verb] To fall suddenly into water. | [verb] To put out; to extinguish. DRAPING (11) [verb] To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery | [verb] To spread over, cover. | [verb] To rail at; to banter. DRAWING (12) [verb] To move or develop something. | [verb] To exert or experience force. | [verb] (fluidic) To remove or separate or displace. | [noun] A picture, likeness, diagram or representation, usually drawn on paper. DRAYING (12) DREEING (9) [verb] (North England and Scotland) To suffer; bear; endure; put up with; undergo. | [verb] (North England and Scotland) To endure; brook; be able to do or continue. DRIVING (12) [verb] To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto. | [verb] To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind. | [verb] To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force. | [noun] The action of the verb to drive in any sense. DRONING (9) [verb] To kill with a missile fired by unmanned aircraft. | [verb] To produce a low-pitched hum or buzz. | [verb] To speak in a monotone way. DROVING (12) [verb] To herd cattle; particularly over a long distance. | [verb] To finish (stone) with a drove chisel. DUBBING (13) [verb] To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with a sword. | [verb] To name, to entitle, to call. | [verb] To deem. DUCKING (15) [verb] To quickly lower the head or body in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To quickly lower (the head) in order to prevent it from being struck by something. | [verb] To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. | [adjective] Fucking (as intensifier) DUCTING (11) [verb] To channel something through a duct (or series of ducts). | [noun] Ductwork DUELING (9) [verb] To engage in a battle. | [noun] Act of taking part in a duel. DULLING (9) [verb] To render dull; to remove or blunt an edge or something that was sharp. | [verb] To soften, moderate or blunt; to make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy. | [verb] To lose a sharp edge; to become dull. DUMBING (13) [verb] To silence. | [verb] To make stupid. | [verb] To represent as stupid. DUMPING (13) [verb] To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner. | [verb] To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore. | [verb] To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping. DUNGING (10) [verb] To fertilize with dung. | [verb] (calico printing) To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant. | [verb] To release dung: to defecate. DUNKING (13) [noun] The act or process of briefly submerging or immersing an object or person in a liquid, as in dunking a cookie in milk, or dunking a playmate in the swimming pool. | [noun] Forcefully thrusting the ball through the basket from above. DUNNING (9) [verb] To ask or beset a debtor for payment. | [verb] To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request. | [verb] To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance. DUNTING (9) [verb] To strike; give a blow to; knock. DUPPING (13) DURNING (9) DUSKING (13) [verb] To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk. | [verb] To make dusk. DUSTING (9) [verb] To remove dust from. | [verb] To remove dust; to clean by removing dust. | [verb] Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth. DUSTRAG (9) DWINING (12) EANLING (8) EARNING (8) [verb] To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. | [verb] To receive payment for work. EARPLUG (10) [noun] A piece of protective gear meant to be inserted in the ear canal to protect the wearer's hearing from loud noises or the intrusion of water. | [verb] To fit with earplugs. EARRING (8) [noun] A piece of jewelry worn on the ear. EASTING (8) [noun] The distance east of a standard reference meridian. | [noun] A distance traveled eastward. | [noun] A turning towards the east. ECHOING (13) [verb] (of a sound or sound waves) To reflect off a surface and return. | [verb] To reflect back (a sound). | [verb] (by extension) To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.). EDDYING (13) [verb] To form an eddy; to move in, or as if in, an eddy; to move in a circle. | [noun] The motion of an eddy. EDITING (9) [verb] To change a text, or a document. | [verb] To be the editor of a publication. | [verb] To change the contents of a file, website, etc. EDUCING (11) [verb] To direct the course of (a flow, journey etc.); to lead in a particular direction. | [verb] To infer or deduce (a result, theory etc.) from existing data or premises. | [verb] To draw out or bring forth from some basic or potential state; to elicit, to develop. ELATING (8) [verb] To make joyful or proud. | [verb] To lift up; raise; elevate. ELIDING (9) [verb] To leave out or omit (something). | [verb] To cut off, as a vowel or a syllable. | [verb] To conflate; to smear together; to blur the distinction between. ELOPING (10) [verb] (of a married person) To run away from home with a paramour. | [verb] (of an unmarried person) To run away secretly for the purpose of getting married with one's intended spouse; to marry in a quick or private fashion, especially without a public period of engagement. | [verb] To run away from home (for any reason). ELUDING (9) [verb] To evade, or escape from someone or something, especially by using cunning or skill | [verb] To shake off a pursuer; to give someone the slip | [verb] To escape understanding of; to be incomprehensible to ELUTING (8) [verb] To separate one substance from another by means of a solvent; to wash; to cleanse. EMOTING (10) [verb] To display emotions openly, especially while acting. | [verb] To induce an emotion in. | [verb] To perform a virtual action, presented to other users as reported speech, rather than sending a direct message. ENDLONG (9) ENDUING (9) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). ENSUING (8) [verb] To follow (a leader, inclination etc.). | [verb] To follow (in time), to be subsequent to. | [verb] To occur afterwards, as a result or effect. ENURING (8) [verb] To inure; to make accustomed or desensitized to something unpleasant due to constant exposure. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative; used with to. ENVYING (14) [verb] To feel displeasure or hatred towards (someone) for their good fortune or possessions. | [verb] To have envious feelings (at). | [verb] To give (something) to (someone) grudgingly or reluctantly; to begrudge. ERASING (8) [verb] To remove markings or information | [verb] To obliterate information from (a storage medium), such as to clear or (with magnetic storage) to demagnetize. | [verb] To obliterate (information) from a storage medium, such as to clear or to overwrite. ERELONG (8) ERLKING (12) ERODING (9) [verb] To wear away by abrasion, corrosion or chemical reaction. | [verb] To destroy gradually by an ongoing process. ESPYING (13) [verb] To catch sight of; to see; to spot (said especially of something not easy to see) | [verb] To examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe. | [verb] To look or search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy. ETCHING (13) [verb] To cut into a surface with an acid or other corrosive substance in order to make a pattern. Best known as a technique for creating printing plates, but also used for decoration on metal, and, in modern industry, to make circuit boards. | [verb] To engrave a surface. | [verb] To make a lasting impression. EVADING (12) [verb] To get away from by cunning; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to cleverly escape from | [verb] To escape; to slip away; — sometimes with from. | [verb] To attempt to escape; to practice artifice or sophistry, for the purpose of eluding. EVENING (11) [noun] The time of the day between dusk and night, when it gets dark. | [noun] The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours. | [noun] A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something. | [verb] To make flat and level. | [verb] To occur; to happen; to come to pass. EVITING (11) [verb] To avoid. EVOKING (15) [verb] To call out; to draw out or bring forth. | [verb] To cause the manifestation of something (emotion, picture, etc.) in someone's mind or imagination. | [verb] To elicit a response. EXILING (15) [verb] To send into exile. EXITING (15) [verb] To go out or go away from a place or situation; to depart, to leave. | [verb] To depart from life; to die. | [verb] To end or terminate (a program, subroutine, etc.) EXUDING (16) [verb] To discharge through pores or incisions, as moisture or other liquid matter; to give out. | [verb] To flow out through the pores. | [noun] The process by which something exudes. FABLING (13) [verb] To compose fables; hence, to write or speak fiction; to write or utter what is not true. | [verb] To make up; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely; to recount in the form of a fable. | [noun] The act of telling fables. FADGING (13) FAGGING (13) [verb] (used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out. | [verb] To droop; to tire. | [verb] For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools. FAILING (11) [verb] To be unsuccessful. | [verb] Not to achieve a particular stated goal. (Usage note: The direct object of this word is usually an infinitive.) | [verb] To neglect. FAIRING (11) [verb] To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface). | [verb] To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members). | [verb] To construct or design a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline or reduce air drag or water resistance. FALLING (11) [verb] (heading) To be moved downwards. | [verb] To move downwards. | [verb] To happen, to change negatively. FANNING (11) [verb] To blow air on (something) by means of a fan (hand-held, mechanical or electrical) or otherwise. | [verb] To slap (a behind, especially). | [verb] (usually to fan out) To move or spread in multiple directions from one point, in the shape of a hand-held fan. FARCING (13) FARDING (12) FARMING (13) [verb] To work on a farm, especially in the growing and harvesting of crops. | [verb] To devote (land) to farming. | [verb] To grow (a particular crop). FARTING (11) [verb] (impolite) To emit digestive gases from the anus; to flatulate. | [verb] (usually as "fart around") To waste time with idle and inconsequential tasks; to go about one's activities in a lackadaisical manner; to be lazy or over-relaxed in one's manner or bearing. | [verb] To emit (fumes, gases, etc.). FASHING (14) [verb] To worry; to bother, annoy. | [verb] To trouble oneself; to take pains. FASTING (11) [verb] To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things, in various manners (totally, temporally, by avoiding particular items), often for religious or medical reasons. | [noun] Abstinence from food FATLING (11) [noun] A young animal (especially a calf or lamb) which has been fattened for slaughter. FATTING (11) [verb] To make fat; to fatten. | [verb] To become fat; to fatten. FAWNING (14) [verb] To give birth to a fawn. | [verb] To exhibit affection or attempt to please. | [verb] To seek favour by flattery and obsequious behaviour (with on or upon). FEARING (11) [verb] To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm. | [verb] To feel fear (about something). | [verb] (used with for) To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for. FEASING (11) FEAZING (20) FEEDBAG (14) [noun] A horse's nosebag. FEEDING (12) [verb] (ditransitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat. | [verb] To eat (usually of animals). | [verb] To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food. FEELING (11) [verb] (heading) To use or experience the sense of touch. | [verb] (heading) To sense or think emotionally or judgmentally. | [verb] To be or become aware of. FEEZING (20) FELLING (11) [verb] To make something fall; especially to chop down a tree. | [verb] To strike down, kill, destroy. | [verb] To stitch down a protruding flap of fabric, as a seam allowance, or pleat. FELTING (11) [verb] To make into felt, or a feltlike substance; to cause to adhere and mat together. | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, felt. | [verb] To cause a player to lose all their chips. FENCING (13) [verb] To enclose, contain or separate by building fence. | [verb] To defend or guard. | [verb] To engage in the selling or buying of stolen goods. FENDING (12) [verb] To take care of oneself; to take responsibility for one's own well-being. | [verb] (except as "fend for oneself") To defend, to take care of (typically construed with for); to block or push away (typically construed with off). FESSING (11) [verb] To confess; to admit. FETTING (11) FEUDING (12) [verb] To carry on a feud. | [noun] Participation in feuds. FIBBING (15) [verb] To lie, especially more or less inconsequentially. | [verb] (thieves cant) To punch, especially a series of punches in rapid succession; to beat; to hit; to strike. | [noun] Repeatedly striking an opponent's head while holding them in a headlock; a pummelling; a drubbing; a beating. FIDGING (13) FIGGING (13) [noun] The insertion of ginger root into the anus, vagina or urethra, originally applied to slaves and prisoners as a punishment, then to horses as a form of deception as to the horse's condition, and later used in BDSM. | [verb] To insult with a fico, or contemptuous motion. | [verb] To put into the head of, as something useless or contemptible. FILIBEG (13) [noun] A little kilt. FILLING (11) [verb] To occupy fully, to take up all of. | [verb] To add contents to (a container, cavity or the like) so that it is full. | [verb] To enter (something), making it full. FILMING (13) [verb] To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film. | [verb] To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle. | [noun] The action of the verb to film. FINDING (12) [verb] To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon. | [verb] To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate. | [verb] (ditransitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end. FINKING (15) [verb] To betray a trust; to inform on. FINNING (11) [verb] To cut the fins from a fish, shark, etc. | [verb] (Of a fish) to swim with the dorsal fin above the surface of the water. | [verb] To swim in the manner of a fish. FIREBUG (13) [noun] Pyrrhocoris apterus, a common red and black insect, that is the type species of the family Pyrrhocoridae. | [noun] A pyromaniac or arsonist. FIREDOG (12) [noun] A Bronze Age artifact used in worshipping either bulls or the moon, or as a holder for wooden logs to be used in a fire altar. | [noun] (chiefly US) Either of a pair of horizontal metal supports for holding logs in a fireplace FIRMING (13) [verb] To make firm or strong; fix securely. | [verb] To make compact or resistant to pressure; solidify. | [verb] To become firm; stabilise. FISHGIG (15) FISHING (14) [noun] The act of catching fish. | [noun] The act of catching other forms of seafood, separately or together with fish. | [noun] Commercial fishing: the business or industry of catching fish and other seafood for sale. | [verb] To hunt fish or other aquatic animals. FISTING (11) [verb] To strike with the fist. | [verb] To close (the hand) into a fist. | [verb] To grip with a fist. FITTING (11) [verb] To be suitable for. | [verb] To conform to in size and shape. | [verb] To be of the right size and shape FIZZING (29) [verb] To emit bubbles. | [verb] To make a rapid hissing or bubbling sound. | [verb] To shoot or project something moving at great velocity. FLAKING (15) [verb] To break or chip off in a flake. | [verb] To prove unreliable or impractical; to abandon or desert, to fail to follow through. | [verb] To store an item such as rope or sail in layers FLAMING (13) [verb] To produce flames; to burn with a flame or blaze. | [verb] To burst forth like flame; to break out in violence of passion; to be kindled with zeal or ardour. | [verb] To post a destructively critical or abusive message (to somebody). FLARING (11) [verb] To cause to burn. | [verb] To cause inflammation; to inflame. | [verb] To open outward in shape. FLAWING (14) [verb] To add a flaw to, to make imperfect or defective. | [verb] To become imperfect or defective; to crack or break. FLAYING (14) [verb] To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening). | [verb] To frighten; scare; terrify. | [verb] To be fear-stricken. FLEABAG (13) [noun] A bed or sleeping bag. | [noun] A place of shabby lodging, particularly a filthy hotel or run-down apartment. | [noun] An unkempt mammal. FLEEING (11) [verb] To run away; to escape. | [verb] To escape from. | [verb] To disappear quickly; to vanish. FLEXING (18) [verb] To bend something. | [verb] To repeatedly bend one of one's joints. | [verb] To move part of the body using one's muscles. FLEYING (14) FLITING (11) FLOWING (14) [verb] To move as a fluid from one position to another. | [verb] To proceed; to issue forth. | [verb] To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. FLUKING (15) [verb] To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance. | [verb] To fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way. FLUMING (13) FLUTING (11) [verb] To play on a flute. | [verb] To make a flutelike sound. | [verb] To utter with a flutelike sound. FLUXING (18) [verb] To use flux on. | [verb] To melt. | [verb] To flow as a liquid. FLYTING (14) FOALING (11) [verb] To give birth to (a foal); to bear offspring. | [noun] Act of giving birth to a foal FOAMING (13) [verb] To form or emit foam. | [verb] To spew saliva as foam, to foam at the mouth. | [noun] A process that forms foam. FOBBING (15) [verb] To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone. | [verb] To beat; to maul. FOGGING (13) [verb] To become covered with or as if with fog. | [verb] To become obscured in condensation or water. | [verb] To become dim or obscure. FOILING (11) [verb] To cover or wrap with foil. | [verb] To prevent (something) from being accomplished. | [verb] To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something. FOINING (11) FOLDING (12) [verb] To bend (any thin material, such as paper) over so that it comes in contact with itself. | [verb] To make the proper arrangement (in a thin material) by bending. | [verb] To become folded; to form folds. FONDING (12) FOOLING (11) [verb] To trick; to deceive | [verb] To act in an idiotic manner; to act foolishly | [noun] The act of one who fools. FOOTING (11) [verb] To use the foot to kick (usually a ball). | [verb] To pay (a bill). | [verb] To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip. FOPPING (15) FORCING (13) [verb] To violate (a woman); to rape. | [verb] To exert oneself, to do one's utmost. | [verb] To compel (someone or something) to do something. FORDING (12) [verb] To cross a stream using a ford. | [noun] The act by which something is forded. | [noun] Fording place FORELEG (11) [noun] Either of the two legs towards the front of a four-legged animal, a piece of furniture, etc. FORGING (12) [verb] To shape a metal by heating and hammering. | [verb] To form or create with concerted effort. | [verb] To create a forgery of; to make a counterfeit item of; to copy or imitate unlawfully. FORKING (15) [verb] To divide into two or more branches. | [verb] To move with a fork (as hay or food). | [verb] To spawn a new child process in some sense duplicating the existing process. FORMING (13) [verb] To assume (a certain shape or visible structure). | [verb] To give (a shape or visible structure) to a thing or person. | [verb] To take shape. FOULING (11) [verb] To make dirty. | [verb] To besmirch. | [verb] To clog or obstruct. FOWLING (14) [verb] To hunt fowl. | [noun] A session of hunting fowl. FRAMING (13) [verb] To fit, as for a specific end or purpose; make suitable or comfortable; adapt; adjust. | [verb] To construct by fitting or uniting together various parts; fabricate by union of constituent parts. | [verb] To bring or put into form or order; adjust the parts or elements of; compose; contrive; plan; devise. FRAYING (14) [verb] To (cause to) unravel; used particularly for the edge of something made of cloth, or the end of a rope. | [verb] To cause exhaustion, wear out (a person's mental strength). | [verb] Frighten; alarm FREEING (11) [verb] To make free; set at liberty; release. | [verb] To rid of something that confines or oppresses. | [noun] The act of making something free; liberation. FRIZING (20) FUBBING (15) FUCKING (17) [verb] To have sexual intercourse, to copulate. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To insert one’s penis, a dildo or other phallic object, into a specified orifice or cleft. FUDGING (13) [verb] To try to avoid giving a direct answer. | [verb] To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty. Always deliberate, but not necessarily dishonest or immoral. | [verb] To botch or bungle something. FUELING (11) [verb] To provide with fuel. | [verb] To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater. | [noun] The act or process by which something is fueled. FUGGING (13) FUGLING (12) FUGUING (12) FULLING (11) [noun] Baptism. | [verb] (of the moon) To become full or wholly illuminated. | [verb] To baptise. FUNDING (12) [verb] To pay for. | [verb] To place (money) in a fund. | [verb] To form a debt into a stock charged with interest. FUNKING (15) [verb] To emit an offensive smell; to stink. | [verb] To envelop with an offensive smell or smoke. | [verb] To shrink from, or avoid something because of fear. FUNNING (11) [verb] To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of. FURLING (11) [verb] To lower, roll up and secure (something, such as a sail or flag) | [noun] The act by which something is furled. FURLONG (11) [noun] A unit of length equal to 220 yards, 1/8 mile, or 201.168 meters, now only used in measuring distances in horse racing. FURRING (11) [verb] To cover with fur or a fur-like coating. | [verb] To become covered with fur or a fur-like coating. | [verb] To level a surface by applying furring to it. FUSSING (11) [verb] To be very worried or excited about something, often too much. | [verb] To fiddle; fidget; wiggle, or adjust | [verb] (especially of babies) To cry or be ill-humoured. FUTZING (20) [verb] To be frivolous and waste time | [verb] To experiment by trial and error FUZZING (29) [verb] To make fuzzy. | [verb] To become fuzzy. | [verb] To make drunk. GABBING (13) [verb] To jest; to tell lies in jest; exaggerate; lie. | [verb] To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects. | [verb] To speak or tell falsely. GABLING (11) GADDING (11) [verb] To move from one location to another in an apparently random and frivolous manner. | [noun] The act of one who gads, or moves about frivolously. GAFFING (15) [verb] To use a gaff, especially to land a fish. | [verb] To cheat or hoax. | [verb] To gamble. GAGGING (11) [verb] To experience the vomiting reflex. | [verb] To cause to heave with nausea. | [verb] To restrain someone's speech by blocking his or her mouth. GAINING (9) [verb] To acquire possession of. | [verb] To have or receive advantage or profit; to acquire gain; to grow rich; to advance in interest, health, or happiness; to make progress. | [verb] To come off winner or victor in; to be successful in; to obtain by competition. GAITING (9) GALLING (9) [verb] To bother or trouble. | [verb] To harass, to harry, often with the intent to cause injury. | [verb] To chafe, to rub or subject to friction; to create a sore on the skin. GAMMING (13) GANGING (10) [verb] To go; walk; proceed. | [verb] To attach similar items together to form a larger unit. | [verb] To participate in a gangbang. GAOLING (9) [noun] An instance of a person being gaoled. | [verb] To imprison. GAPPING (13) [verb] To notch, as a sword or knife. | [verb] To make an opening in; to breach. | [verb] To check the size of a gap. GARBING (11) [verb] To dress in garb. GARRING (9) GASHING (12) [verb] To make a deep, long cut; to slash. | [noun] The act of making a gash, or cut. | [noun] The roughing operation for worm gears. GASKING (13) GASPING (11) [verb] To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock. | [verb] To breathe laboriously or convulsively. | [verb] To speak in a breathless manner. GASSING (9) [verb] To kill with poisonous gas. | [verb] To talk in a boastful or vapid way; chatter. | [verb] To impose upon by talking boastfully. GASTING (9) GAUGING (10) [verb] To measure or determine with a gauge; to measure the capacity of. | [verb] To estimate. | [verb] To appraise the character or ability of; to judge of. GAUMING (11) GAWKING (16) [verb] To stare or gape stupidly. | [verb] To stare conspicuously. GAWPING (14) [verb] To stare stupidly or rudely; to gawk. | [noun] The action of the verb gawp. | [adjective] That gawps or gawp. GEARING (9) [verb] To provide with gearing; to fit with gears in order to achieve a desired gear ratio. | [verb] To be in, or come into, gear. | [verb] To dress; to put gear on; to harness. GECKING (15) GELDING (10) [verb] To castrate a male (usually an animal). | [verb] To deprive of anything essential; to weaken. | [noun] A castrated male horse. GELLING (9) [verb] To apply (cosmetic) gel to (the hair, etc). | [verb] To become a gel. | [verb] To develop a rapport. GEMMING (13) [verb] To adorn with, or as if with, gems. GENSENG (9) GETTING (9) [verb] (ditransitive) To obtain; to acquire. | [verb] To receive. | [verb] (in a perfect construction, with present-tense meaning) To have. See usage notes. GIBBING (13) [verb] To fasten in place with a gib. | [verb] To blast an enemy or opponent into gibs. | [verb] To install plasterboard. GIFTING (12) [verb] To give as a gift or donation. | [verb] To give away, to concede easily. | [noun] A divine gift. GIGGING (11) [verb] To fish or catch with a gig, or fish spear. | [verb] To engage in musical performances. | [verb] To make fun of; to make a joke at someone's expense, often condescending. GILDING (10) [verb] To cover with a thin layer of gold; to cover with gold leaf. | [verb] To adorn. | [verb] To decorate with a golden surface appearance. GILLING (9) [verb] To remove the gills from a fish as part of gutting and cleaning it | [verb] To catch (a fish) in a gillnet | [verb] To be or become entangled in a gillnet GIMPING (13) [verb] (of yarn, cord, thread, etc.) To wrap or wind (surround) with another length of yarn or wire in a tight spiral, often by means of a gimping machine, creating 'gimped yarn', etc. Also, generally, to wrap or twist with string or wire. See gimped. | [verb] To notch or indent; to jag or make jagged; to edge with serrations or grooves. | [verb] To limp; to hobble. GINNING (9) [verb] To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin. | [verb] To trap something in a gin. | [verb] To begin. GINSENG (9) [noun] Any plant of two species of the genus Panax (Panax ginseng and Panax quinquefolius), having forked roots supposed to have medicinal properties. | [noun] The root of such a plant, or an extract of these roots. GIPPING (13) GIRDING (10) [verb] To bind with a flexible rope or cord. | [verb] To encircle with, or as if with a belt. | [verb] To prepare oneself for an action. GIRNING (9) [verb] To grimace; to snarl. | [verb] To whinge, moan, complain. | [verb] To make elaborate unnatural and distorted faces as a form of amusement or in a girning competition. GIRTING (9) GLARING (9) [verb] To stare angrily. | [verb] To shine brightly. | [verb] To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid. GLAZING (18) [verb] To install windows. | [verb] To apply a thin, transparent layer of coating. | [verb] To become glazed or glassy. GLEYING (12) GLIDING (10) [verb] To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly. | [verb] To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish. | [verb] To cause to glide. GLIMING (11) GLOBING (11) [verb] To become spherical. | [verb] To make spherical. GLOVING (12) [verb] To catch the ball in a baseball mitt. | [verb] To put a glove or gloves on. | [verb] To touch a delivery with one's glove while the gloved hand is on the bat. Under the rules of cricket, the batsman is deemed to have hit the ball. GLOWING (12) [verb] To give off light from heat or to emit light as if heated. | [verb] To radiate some emotional quality like light. | [verb] To gaze especially passionately at something. GLOZING (18) [verb] To extenuate, explain away, gloss over. | [verb] To use flattering language. | [verb] To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation. GLUEING (9) [verb] To join or attach something using glue. | [verb] To cause something to adhere closely to; to follow attentively. GNAWING (12) [verb] To bite something persistently, especially something tough. | [verb] To produce excessive anxiety or worry. | [verb] To corrode; to fret away; to waste. GOADING (10) [verb] To prod with a goad. | [verb] To encourage or stimulate. | [verb] To incite or provoke. GOALING (9) GOBBING (13) [verb] To gather into a lump. | [verb] To spit, especially to spit phlegm. | [verb] To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine. GODDING (11) GODLING (10) GOLDBUG (12) GOLFING (12) [verb] To play the game of golf. | [verb] To write something in as few characters as possible (e.g. in code golf, regex golf) | [noun] A session of playing golf. GONGING (10) [verb] To make the sound of a gong; to ring a gong. | [verb] To send a signal to, using a gong or similar device. | [verb] To give an award or medal to. GOOFING (12) [verb] To make a mistake. | [verb] To engage in mischief. GOOSING (9) [verb] To sharply poke or pinch someone's buttocks. Derived from a goose's inclination to bite at a retreating intruder's hindquarters. | [verb] To stimulate, to spur. | [verb] To gently accelerate an automobile or machine, or give repeated small taps on the accelerator. GORGING (10) [noun] The act of one who gorges, or eats to satiety. GOSLING (9) [noun] A young goose. | [noun] A callow), or foolish and naive, young person. | [noun] A catkin on nut trees and pines. GOUGING (10) [verb] To make a groove, hole, or mark in by scooping with or as if with a gouge. | [verb] To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price. | [verb] To dig or scoop (something) out with or as if with a gouge; in particular, to use a thumb to push or try to push the eye (of a person) out of its socket. GOWNING (12) [verb] To dress in a gown, to don or garb with a gown. GRACING (11) [verb] To adorn; to decorate; to embellish and dignify. | [verb] To dignify or raise by an act of favour; to honour. | [verb] To supply with heavenly grace. GRADING (10) [verb] To assign scores to the components of an academic test. | [verb] To assign a score to overall academic performance. | [verb] To organize in grades. GRATING (9) [verb] To furnish with grates; to protect with a grating or crossbars | [verb] To shred (things, usually foodstuffs), by rubbing across a grater | [verb] To make an unpleasant rasping sound, often as the result of rubbing against something GRAVING (12) [verb] To dig. | [verb] To carve or cut, as letters or figures, on some hard substance; to engrave. | [verb] To carve out or give shape to, by cutting with a chisel; to sculpture. GRAYING (12) [verb] To become gray. | [verb] To cause to become gray. | [verb] To turn progressively older, alluding to graying of hair through aging (used in context of the population of a geographic region) GRAYLAG (12) [noun] A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak. GRAZING (18) [verb] To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. | [verb] To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) | [verb] To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. GREEING (9) GREYING (12) [verb] To become grey. | [verb] To cause to become grey. | [verb] To turn progressively older, in the context of the population of a geographic region. GREYLAG (12) [noun] A large grey European goose, Anser anser, with pink legs and dull orange beak. GRIDING (10) GRIMING (11) [verb] To begrime; to cake with dirt. GRIPING (11) [verb] To complain; to whine. | [verb] To annoy or bother. | [verb] To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm. GROPING (11) [verb] To feel with or use the hands; to handle. | [verb] To search or attempt to find something in the dark, or, as a blind person, by feeling; to move about hesitatingly, as in darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see. | [verb] To touch (another person) closely and (especially) sexually. GROWING (12) [verb] To become larger, to increase in magnitude. | [verb] To appear or sprout. | [verb] To develop, to mature. GUIDING (10) [verb] To serve as a guide for someone or something; to lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path. | [verb] To steer or navigate, especially a ship or as a pilot. | [verb] To exert control or influence over someone or something. GUILING (9) GUISING (9) GULFING (12) GULLING (9) [verb] To deceive or cheat. | [verb] To mislead. | [verb] To trick and defraud. GULPING (11) [verb] To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down in one swallow. | [verb] To react nervously by swallowing. | [noun] The action of one who gulps. GUMMING (13) [verb] To chew, especially of a toothless person or animal. | [verb] To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw), as with a gummer. | [verb] (sometimes with up) To apply an adhesive or gum to; to make sticky by applying a sticky substance to. GUNNING (9) GURGING (10) GUSHING (12) [verb] To flow forth suddenly, in great volume. | [verb] To send (something) flowing forth suddenly in great volume. | [verb] (especially of a woman) To ejaculate during orgasm. GUSTING (9) [verb] To blow in gusts. | [verb] To taste. | [verb] To have a relish for. GUTTING (9) [verb] To eviscerate. | [verb] To remove or destroy the most important parts of. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) The remains after gutting a fish. GYPPING (16) [verb] (sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately. HACKING (17) [verb] To chop or cut down in a rough manner. | [verb] To cough noisily. | [verb] To withstand or put up with a difficult situation. | [noun] Playful solving of technical work that requires deep understanding, especially of a computer system. HAFTING (14) [verb] To fit a handle to (a tool or weapon); to grip by the handle HAGGING (13) HAILING (11) [verb] Of hail, to fall from the sky. | [verb] To send or release hail. | [verb] To pour down in rapid succession. HALOING (11) [verb] To encircle with a halo. HALTING (11) [verb] To limp; move with a limping gait. | [verb] To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. | [verb] To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. HALVING (14) [verb] To reduce to half the original amount. | [verb] To divide into two halves. | [verb] To make up half of. HAMBURG (15) [noun] (Midwestern US) hamburger (food) | [verb] (Grenada) To annoy. HAMMING (15) [verb] To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions. HANDBAG (14) [noun] (mainly Commonwealth) A small bag used by women (or sometimes by men) for carrying various small personal items. | [noun] An subgenre of house music of the late 1980s, often with booming vocals. | [verb] Figuratively, to hit with a handbag; to attack verbally or subject to criticism (used of Margaret Thatcher). HANDING (12) [verb] To give, pass, or transmit with the hand, literally or figuratively. | [verb] To lead, guide, or assist with the hand; to conduct. | [verb] To manage. HANGDOG (13) [noun] A base, degraded person; a sneak; a gallows bird. | [adjective] Low; sneaking; ashamed. HANGING (12) [verb] To be or remain suspended. | [verb] To float, as if suspended. | [verb] (of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground. | [noun] The act of hanging a person (or oneself) by the neck in order to kill that person (or to commit suicide). HANGTAG (12) HANKING (15) HANTING (11) HAPPING (15) [verb] To happen; to befall; to chance. | [verb] To happen to. | [verb] To wrap, clothe. HARKING (15) [verb] To listen attentively; often used in the imperative. | [noun] The act of harking back; a reversion or return. HARMING (13) [verb] To cause injury to another; to hurt; to cause damage to something. HARPING (13) [verb] (usually with on) To repeatedly mention a subject. | [verb] To play on (a harp or similar instrument) | [verb] To play (a tune) on the harp. HASHING (14) [verb] To chop into small pieces, to make into a hash. | [verb] To make a quick, rough version | [verb] To transform according to a hash function. HASPING (13) [verb] To shut or fasten with a hasp. HASTING (11) [verb] To urge onward; to hasten. | [verb] To move with haste. HATTING (11) HAULING (11) [verb] To transport by drawing or pulling, as with horses or oxen, or a motor vehicle. | [verb] To draw or pull something heavy. | [verb] To carry or transport something, with a connotation that the item is heavy or otherwise difficult to move. HAWKING (18) [verb] To hunt with a hawk. | [verb] To make an attack while on the wing; to soar and strike like a hawk. | [verb] To sell; to offer for sale by outcry in the street; to carry (merchandise) about from place to place for sale; to peddle. HEADING (12) [verb] To be in command of. (See also head up.) | [verb] To come at the beginning of; to commence. | [verb] To strike with the head; as in soccer, to head the ball HEALING (11) [noun] The process where the cells in the body regenerate and repair themselves. | [noun] An act of healing, as by a faith healer. | [noun] The psychological process of dealing with a problem or problems. | [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. HEAPING (13) [verb] To pile in a heap. | [verb] To form or round into a heap, as in measuring. | [verb] To supply in great quantity. HEARING (11) [verb] (stative) To perceive sounds through the ear. | [verb] (stative) To perceive (a sound, or something producing a sound) with the ear, to recognize (something) in an auditory way. | [verb] To exercise this faculty intentionally; to listen to. HEATING (11) [verb] To cause an increase in temperature of (an object or space); to cause to become hot (often with "up"). | [verb] To become hotter. | [verb] To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish. HEAVING (14) [verb] To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing). | [verb] To throw, cast. | [verb] To rise and fall. HEDGING (13) [verb] To enclose with a hedge or hedges. | [verb] To obstruct or surround. | [verb] To offset the risk associated with. HEEDING (12) [verb] To guard, protect. | [verb] To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe. | [verb] To pay attention, care. HEELING (11) [verb] To make better from a disease, wound, etc.; to revive or cure. | [verb] To become better or healthy again. | [verb] To reconcile, as a breach or difference; to make whole; to free from guilt. HEEZING (20) HEFTING (14) [verb] To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy. | [verb] To test the weight of something by lifting it. | [verb] (Northern England and Scotland) To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture. HEILING (11) HEIRING (11) HELLING (11) HELMING (13) [verb] To be a helmsman or a member of the helm; to be in charge of steering the boat. | [verb] (by extension) To lead (a project, etc.). HELPING (13) [verb] To provide assistance to (someone or something). | [verb] To assist (a person) in getting something, especially food or drink at table; used with to. | [verb] To contribute in some way to. HELVING (14) HEMAGOG (14) HEMMING (15) [verb] To make the sound expressed by the word hem; to hesitate in speaking. | [verb] (in sewing) To make a hem. | [verb] : To put hem on an article of clothing, to edge or put a border on something. HENTING (11) HERDING (12) [verb] To unite or associate in a herd; to feed or run together, or in company. | [verb] To unite or associate in a herd | [verb] To associate; to ally oneself with, or place oneself among, a group or company. HERRING (11) [noun] A type of small, oily fish of the genus Clupea, often used as food. | [noun] Fish in the family Clupeidae. | [noun] Fish similar to those in genus Clupea, many of those in the order Clupeiformes. HILDING (12) HILLING (11) [verb] To form into a heap or mound. | [verb] To heap or draw earth around plants. | [noun] The act or process of heaping or drawing earth around plants. HILTING (11) HINGING (12) [verb] To attach by, or equip with a hinge. | [verb] (with on or upon) To depend on something. | [verb] The breaking off of the distal end of a knapped stone flake whose presumed course across the face of the stone core was truncated prematurely, leaving not a feathered distal end but instead the scar of a nearly perpendicular break. HINTING (11) [verb] To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue. | [verb] To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner. | [verb] To develop and add hints to a font. HIPPING (15) HISSING (11) [verb] To make a hissing sound. | [verb] To condemn or express contempt (for someone or something) by hissing. | [verb] To utter (something) with a hissing sound. HISTING (11) HITTING (11) [verb] (heading, physical) To strike. | [verb] To manage to touch (a target) in the right place. | [verb] To switch on. HOAXING (18) [verb] To deceive (someone) by making them believe something that has been maliciously or mischievously fabricated. | [noun] The perpetration of a hoax. HOBBING (15) HOBOING (13) HOCKING (17) [verb] To disable by cutting the tendons of the hock; to hamstring; to hough. | [verb] To leave with a pawnbroker as security for a loan. | [verb] To bother; to pester; to annoy incessantly HOGGING (13) [verb] To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others. | [verb] To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly. | [verb] To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom. HOISING (11) HOLDING (12) [verb] To grasp or grip. | [verb] To contain or store. | [verb] (heading) To maintain or keep to a position or state. HOLKING (15) HOMBURG (15) [noun] A type of men's felt fedora; a stiff felt hat similar to a trilby. HOMOLOG (13) [noun] Something homologous; a homologous organ or part, chemical compound or chromosome. | [noun] A word shared by two languages or dialects. | [noun] One of a group of similar DNA sequences that share a common ancestry. HONKING (15) [verb] To use a car horn. | [verb] To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn. | [verb] To make the vocal sound of a goose. HOODING (12) [verb] To cover something with a hood. HOOFING (14) [verb] To trample with hooves. | [verb] To walk. | [verb] To dance, especially as a professional. HOOKING (15) [verb] To attach a hook to. | [verb] To catch with a hook (hook a fish). | [verb] To work yarn into a fabric using a hook; to crochet. HOOPING (13) [verb] To bind or fasten using a hoop. | [verb] To clasp; to encircle; to surround. | [verb] To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout. HOOTING (11) [verb] To cry out or shout in contempt. | [verb] To make the cry of an owl, a hoo. | [verb] To assail with contemptuous cries or shouts; to follow with derisive shouts. HOPPING (15) [noun] Hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent. | [noun] The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent | [verb] To jump a short distance. HORDING (12) HORNING (11) [verb] (of an animal) To assault with the horns. | [verb] To furnish with horns. | [verb] To cuckold. HORSING (11) [verb] To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".) | [verb] To provide with a horse; supply horses for. | [verb] To get on horseback. HOSTING (11) [verb] To perform the role of a host. | [verb] To lodge at an inn. | [verb] To run software made available to a remote user or process. HOTTING (11) [verb] (with up) To heat; to make or become hot. | [verb] (with up) To become lively or exciting. | [noun] Riding in a high-performance stolen car, especially as a form of display HOUSING (11) [verb] To keep within a structure or container. | [verb] To admit to residence; to harbor/harbour. | [verb] To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge. | [noun] The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone. HOWKING (18) HOWLING (14) [noun] The act of producing howls. | [verb] To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do. | [verb] To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail. HUFFING (17) [verb] To breathe heavily. | [verb] To say in a huffy manner. | [verb] To enlarge; to swell up. HUGGING (13) [verb] To crouch; huddle as with cold. | [verb] To cling closely together. | [verb] To embrace by holding closely, especially in the arms. HULKING (15) [verb] To reduce (a ship) to a (nonfunctional) hulk. | [verb] To be a hulk, a large (hulking) and often imposing presence. | [verb] To move (one's large, hulking body). HULLING (11) [verb] To remove the outer covering of a fruit or seed. | [verb] To drift; to be carried by the impetus of wind or water on the ship's hull alone, with sails furled. | [verb] To hit (a ship) in the hull with cannon fire etc. HUMMING (15) [verb] To make a sound from the vocal chords without pronouncing any real words, with one's lips closed. | [verb] To express by humming. | [verb] To drone like certain insects naturally do in motion, or sounding similarly | [noun] The sound of something that hums; a hum. HUMPING (15) [verb] To bend something into a hump. | [verb] To carry (something), especially with some exertion. | [verb] To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse HUNTING (11) [noun] The act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc. | [noun] Looking for something, especially for a job or flat. | [noun] Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing. | [verb] To find or search for an animal in the wild with the intention of killing the animal for its meat or for sport. HURLING (11) [verb] To throw (something) with force. | [verb] To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. | [verb] To participate in the sport of hurling. HURTING (11) [verb] To be painful. | [verb] To cause (a creature) physical pain and/or injury. | [verb] To cause (somebody) emotional pain. HUSHING (14) [verb] To become quiet. | [verb] To make quiet. | [verb] To appease; to allay; to soothe. HUSKING (15) [verb] To remove husks from. | [verb] To cough, clear one's throat. | [verb] To say huskily, to utter in a husky voice. HUTTING (11) [verb] To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut. | [verb] To take shelter in a hut. | [verb] To stack (sheaves of grain). HYMNING (16) [verb] To sing a hymn. | [verb] To praise or extol in hymns. | [noun] A singing of hymns. HYPOING (16) ICEBERG (12) [noun] A huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf | [noun] An aloof person. | [noun] (after an adjective) An impending disastrous event whose adverse effects are only beginning to show, in reference to one-tenth of the volume of an iceberg being visible above water. IMAGING (11) [verb] To represent by an image or symbol; to portray. | [verb] To reflect, mirror. | [verb] To create an image of. IMBUING (12) [verb] To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. | [verb] In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. INBEING (10) INCHING (13) [verb] (followed by a preposition) To advance very slowly, or by a small amount (in a particular direction). | [verb] To drive by inches, or small degrees. | [verb] To deal out by inches; to give sparingly. INDUING (9) [verb] To pass food into the stomach; to digest; also figuratively, to take on, absorb. | [verb] To take on, to take the form of. | [verb] To put on (a piece of clothing); to clothe (someone with something). INGOING (9) [noun] The act of going in; entrance. | [noun] An internal recess of a window. | [adjective] Going in; entering INKLING (12) [noun] Usually preceded by forms of to give: a slight hint, implication, or suggestion given. | [noun] Often preceded by forms of to get or to have: an imprecise idea or slight knowledge of something; a suspicion. | [noun] A desire, an inclination. | [verb] To hint at; disclose. INURING (8) [verb] To cause someone to become accustomed to something (usually) unpleasant. | [verb] To take effect, to be operative. | [verb] To commit. IRISING (8) [verb] (of an aperture, lens or door) To open or close in the manner of an iris. IRONING (8) [verb] To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases. | [verb] To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff. | [verb] To furnish or arm with iron. ISSUING (8) [verb] To flow out, to proceed from, to come out or from. | [verb] To rush out, to sally forth. | [verb] To extend into, to open onto. ITCHING (13) [verb] To feel itchy; to feel a need to be scratched. | [verb] To have a constant, teasing urge; to feel strongly motivated; to want or desire something. | [verb] To cause to feel an itch. | [noun] A sensation that itches. ITEMING (10) JABBING (19) [verb] To poke or thrust abruptly, or to make such a motion. | [verb] To deliver a quick punch. | [verb] To give someone an injection JACKING (21) [verb] To raise using a jack. | [verb] To raise or increase. | [verb] To produce by freeze distillation; to distil (an alcoholic beverage) by freezing it and removing the ice (which is water), leaving the alcohol (which remains liquid). JACKLEG (21) [noun] A type of drill operated by means of compressed air. | [noun] An amateur; an untrained or incompetent person. | [noun] A shyster or con artist; a gambler who cheats; a generally dishonest or reprehensible person. JAGGING (17) [verb] To cut unevenly. | [verb] To tease. JAILING (15) [verb] To imprison. | [noun] An instance of a person being jailed. JAMBING (19) JAMMING (19) [verb] To get something stuck in a confined space. | [verb] To brusquely force something into a space; cram, squeeze. | [verb] To cause congestion or blockage. Often used with "up" JARRING (15) [verb] To preserve (food) in a jar. | [verb] To knock, shake, or strike sharply, especially causing a quivering or vibrating movement. | [verb] To harm or injure by such action. JAUKING (19) JAUPING (17) JAZZING (33) [verb] To destroy. | [verb] To play (jazz music). | [verb] To dance to the tunes of jazz music. JEEPING (17) JEERING (15) [verb] (jeer at) To utter sarcastic or mocking comments; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language. | [noun] A mocking utterance. JELLING (15) [verb] To gel JERKING (19) [verb] To make a sudden uncontrolled movement. | [verb] To give a quick, often unpleasant tug or shake. | [verb] To masturbate. JESSING (15) [verb] To fasten a strap around the leg of a hawk. JESTING (15) [verb] To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone. | [noun] Joking | [noun] Bantering; ridicule JETTING (15) [verb] To spray out of a container. | [verb] To spray with liquid from a container. | [verb] To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion JIBBING (19) [noun] The performance of tricks using jibs (objects in a skatepark, etc.). JIGGING (17) [verb] To move briskly, especially as a dance. | [verb] To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks. | [verb] To fish with a jig. JILTING (15) [verb] To cast off capriciously or unfeelingly, as a lover; to deceive in love. | [noun] The rejection of a lover. JINKING (19) [verb] To make a quick evasive turn. | [verb] To cause a vehicle to make a quick evasive turn. | [verb] In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also, to attempt to win all five tricks, losing what has been already won if unsuccessful. JINXING (22) [verb] To cast a spell on. | [verb] To bring bad luck to. | [verb] To cause something to happen by mentioning it, usually sarcastically. JOBBING (19) [verb] To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire. | [verb] To work as a jobber. | [verb] To take the loss. JOGGING (17) [noun] The action of the verb to jog. | [noun] The practice of running at a relatively slow pace for exercise. | [verb] To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt. JOINING (15) [verb] To connect or combine into one; to put together. | [verb] To come together; to meet. | [verb] To come into the company of. JOLTING (15) [verb] To push or shake abruptly and roughly. | [verb] To knock sharply | [verb] To shock (someone) into taking action or being alert JOSHING (18) [verb] To tease someone in a kindly or friendly fashion. | [verb] To make or exchange good-natured jokes. JOTTING (15) [verb] (usually with "down") To write quickly. | [noun] A brief note or sketch JOUKING (19) [verb] To play dance music, or to dance, in a juke | [verb] To hit | [verb] To stab JUDGING (17) [verb] To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on. | [verb] To sit in judgment, to act as judge. | [verb] To form an opinion on. JUGGING (17) [verb] To stew in an earthenware jug etc. | [verb] To put into jail. | [verb] To utter a sound like "jug", as certain birds do, especially the nightingale. JUICING (17) [verb] To extract the juice from something. | [verb] To energize or stimulate something. | [noun] The process of extracting the juice from something. JUMPING (19) [verb] To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne. | [verb] To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward. | [verb] To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap. JUNKING (19) [verb] To throw away. | [verb] To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junk shop) JURYING (18) [verb] To judge by means of a jury. JUSTING (15) JUTTING (15) [verb] To stick out. | [verb] To butt. | [noun] That which juts or protrudes. KAMPONG (16) [noun] (Cambodia) A landing, a port; a river town. | [noun] (Brunei) A traditional Malay village. | [noun] A district or suburb where a former kampung stood. KARTING (12) KAYOING (15) [verb] To knock someone out, or render them unconscious or senseless. KECKING (18) [verb] To retch or heave as if to vomit. KEDGING (14) [verb] To warp (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it. | [verb] (of a vessel) To move with the help of a kedge, as described above. KEEKING (16) [verb] To peek; peep. KEELING (12) [verb] To mark with ruddle. | [verb] To put to death; to extinguish the life of. | [verb] To render inoperative. | [noun] A cod. KEENING (12) [verb] To make cold, to sharpen. | [verb] To utter a keen. | [verb] To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry. KEEPING (14) [verb] To continue in (a course or mode of action); not to intermit or fall from; to uphold or maintain. | [verb] (heading) To hold the status of something. | [verb] (heading) To hold or be held in a state. KEGLING (13) KELPING (14) KENNING (12) [verb] To give birth, conceive, beget, be born; to develop (as a fetus); to nourish, sustain (as life). | [verb] To know, perceive or understand. | [verb] To discover by sight; to catch sight of; to descry. | [noun] A chalaza or tread of an egg (a spiral band attaching the yolk of the egg to the eggshell); a cicatricula. | [noun] A metaphorical phrase used in Germanic poetry (especially Old English or Old Norse) whereby a simple thing is described in an allusive way. | [noun] A dry measure equivalent to half a bushel; a container with that capacity. KEPPING (16) KERBING (14) [verb] To damage vehicle wheels or tyres by running into or over a pavement kerb. | [noun] A strip of kerb. KERFING (15) KERNING (12) [verb] (chiefly proportional font printing) To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules. | [noun] The adjustment of the horizontal space between selected pairs of glyphs in a typeface. KICKING (18) [verb] To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg. | [verb] To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something. | [verb] To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg. KIDDING (14) [verb] To make a fool of (someone). | [verb] To dupe or deceive (someone). | [verb] To make a joke with (someone). KILLING (12) [verb] To put to death; to extinguish the life of. | [verb] To render inoperative. | [verb] To stop, cease or render void; to terminate. KILNING (12) KILTING (12) [verb] To gather up (skirts) around the body. | [noun] A method of vertically arranging flat plaits such that each plait is folded so as to cover half the of the one before it. KINGING (13) [verb] To crown king, to make (a person) king. | [verb] To rule over as king. | [verb] To perform the duties of a king. KINKING (16) [verb] To laugh loudly. | [verb] To gasp for breath as in a severe fit of coughing. | [verb] To form a kink or twist. KIPPING (16) [verb] (chiefly UK) To sleep; often with the connotation of a temporary or charitable situation, or one borne out of necessity. | [verb] To snatch; take up hastily; filch | [verb] To hold or keep (together) KIRNING (12) KISSING (12) [verb] To touch with the lips or press the lips against, usually to show love or affection or passion, or as part of a greeting. | [verb] To (cause to) touch lightly or slightly; to come into contact. | [verb] Of two or more people, to touch each other's lips together, usually to express love or affection or passion. | [noun] The act of giving a kiss. KITHING (15) KITLING (12) KITTING (12) [verb] To assemble or collect something into kits or sets or to give somebody a kit. See also kit out and other derived phrases. | [noun] (retail) The process of assembling or bundling various related goods for sale to increase revenue. KNEEING (12) [verb] To kneel to. | [verb] To poke or strike with the knee. | [verb] To move on the knees; to use the knees to move. KNIFING (15) [verb] To cut with a knife. | [verb] To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon. | [verb] To cut through as if with a knife. KNOWING (15) [verb] To perceive the truth or factuality of; to be certain of or that. | [verb] To be aware of; to be cognizant of. | [verb] To be acquainted or familiar with; to have encountered. KONKING (16) KYTHING (18) LACKING (14) [verb] To be without, to need, to require. | [verb] To be short (of or for something). | [verb] To be in want. LADLING (9) [verb] To pour or serve something with a ladle. LADYBUG (14) [noun] Any of the Coccinellidae family of beetles, typically having a round shape and red or yellow spotted elytra. LAGGING (10) [verb] To fail to keep up (the pace), to fall behind | [verb] To cover (for example, pipes) with felt strips or similar material (referring to a time lag effect in thermal transfer) | [verb] To transport as a punishment for crime. LAIRING (8) [verb] To rest; to dwell. | [verb] To lay down. | [verb] To bury. LALLING (8) LAMBING (12) [verb] Of a sheep, to give birth. | [verb] To assist (sheep) to give birth. | [noun] The act of a ewe giving birth to a lamb LAMMING (12) [verb] To beat or thrash. | [verb] To flee or run away. | [noun] A beating. LAMPING (12) [verb] To hit, clout, belt, wallop. | [verb] To hunt at night using a lamp; see lamping. | [verb] To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular. LANCING (10) [verb] To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. | [verb] To open with a lancet; to pierce | [verb] To throw in the manner of a lance; to lanch. LANDING (9) [verb] To descend to a surface, especially from the air. | [verb] To alight, to descend from a vehicle. | [verb] To come into rest. LAPPING (12) [verb] To enfold; to hold as in one's lap; to cherish. | [verb] To rest or recline in a lap, or as in a lap. | [verb] To fold; to bend and lay over or on something. | [noun] A kind of machine blanket or wrapping material used by calico printers. LAPSING (10) [verb] To fall away gradually; to subside. | [verb] To fall into error or heresy. | [verb] To slip into a bad habit that one is trying to avoid. LAPWING (13) [noun] Any of several medium-sized wading birds belonging to the subfamily Vanellinae within family Charadriidae. | [noun] The tewit (Vanellus cristatus) (which is a type of lapwing in the first sense). | [noun] A silly man. LARDING (9) [verb] To stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking. | [verb] To smear with fat or lard. | [verb] To garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing. LARKING (12) [verb] To catch larks (type of bird). | [verb] To sport, engage in harmless pranking. | [verb] To frolic, engage in carefree adventure. LASHING (11) [verb] To strike with a lash; to whip or scourge with a lash, or with something like one. | [verb] To strike forcibly and quickly, as with a lash; to beat, or beat upon, with a motion like that of a lash. | [verb] To throw out with a jerk or quickly. LASTING (8) [verb] To perform, carry out. | [verb] To endure, continue over time. | [verb] To hold out, continue undefeated or entire. LATHING (11) [verb] To invite; bid; ask. | [verb] To shape with a lathe. | [verb] To produce a three-dimensional model by rotating a set of points around a fixed axis. LAUDING (9) [verb] To praise, to glorify | [noun] An act of giving praise. LAZYING (20) LEADING (9) [verb] To cover, fill, or affect with lead | [verb] To place leads between the lines of. | [verb] (heading) To guide or conduct. | [noun] An act by which one is led or guided. | [noun] Vertical space added between lines; line spacing. LEAFING (11) [verb] To produce leaves; put forth foliage. | [verb] To divide (a vegetable) into separate leaves. | [noun] The act of one who leafs through something. LEAKING (12) [verb] To allow fluid or gas to pass through an opening that should be sealed. | [verb] (of a fluid or gas) To pass through an opening that should be sealed. | [verb] To disclose secret information surreptitiously or anonymously. LEANING (8) [noun] A tendency or propensity. | [verb] To incline, deviate, or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating. | [verb] To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; often with to, toward, etc. LEAPING (10) [verb] To jump. | [verb] To pass over by a leap or jump. | [verb] To copulate with (a female beast); to cover. LEASING (8) [noun] A lie; the act of lying, falsehood. | [verb] (chiefly dialectal) To gather. | [verb] (chiefly dialectal) To pick, select, pick out; to pick up. LEAVING (11) [verb] To have a consequence or remnant. | [verb] To depart; to separate from. | [verb] To transfer something. LECHING (13) [verb] To behave lecherously LEERING (8) [verb] To look sideways or obliquely; now especially with sexual desire or malicious intent. | [verb] To entice with a leer or leers. | [verb] To teach. LEGGING (10) [verb] To remove the legs from an animal carcass. | [verb] To build legs onto a platform or stage for support. | [verb] To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market. LEMMING (12) [noun] A small Arctic and Subarctic rodent from any of six genera of similar rodents. | [noun] Any member of a group given to conformity or groupthink, especially a group poised to follow a leader off a cliff. LENDING (9) [verb] To allow to be used by someone temporarily, on condition that it or its equivalent will be returned. | [verb] To make a loan. | [verb] To be suitable or applicable, to fit. LENSING (8) LETTING (8) [verb] To allow to, not to prevent (+ infinitive, but usually without to). | [verb] To leave. | [verb] To allow the release of (a fluid). LEVYING (14) [verb] To impose (a tax or fine) to collect monies due, or to confiscate property. | [verb] To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority. | [verb] To draft someone into military service. LICKING (14) [verb] To stroke with the tongue. | [verb] To lap; to take in with the tongue. | [verb] To beat with repeated blows. LIDDING (10) LIFTING (11) [verb] To raise or rise. | [verb] To steal. | [verb] To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise. LILTING (8) [verb] To do something rhythmically, with animation and quickness, usually of music. | [verb] To sing cheerfully, especially in Gaelic. | [verb] To utter with spirit, animation, or gaiety; to sing with spirit and liveliness. LIMBING (12) LIMNING (10) [verb] To draw or paint; to delineate. | [verb] To illuminate, as a manuscript; to decorate with gold or some other bright colour. | [noun] A depiction. LIMPING (12) [verb] To walk lamely, as if favouring one leg. | [verb] (of a vehicle) To travel with a malfunctioning system of propulsion. | [verb] To move or proceed irregularly. LINKING (12) [verb] To connect two or more things. | [verb] (of a Web page) To contain a hyperlink to another page. | [verb] To supply (somebody) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link. LINSANG (8) [noun] Any of the members of two catlike Asian animal species classified in the mammalian family Prionodontidae. | [noun] Any of the members of two superficially catlike African animal species classified in the mammalian family Viverridae. LIPPING (12) [verb] To touch or grasp with the lips; to kiss; to lap the lips against (something). | [verb] (of something inanimate) To touch lightly. | [verb] To wash against a surface, lap. LISPING (10) [verb] To pronounce the consonant ‘s’ imperfectly; to give ‘s’ and ‘z’ the sounds of ‘th’ (/θ/). This is a speech impediment common among children. | [verb] To speak with imperfect articulation; to mispronounce, such as a child learning to talk. | [verb] To speak hesitatingly and with a low voice, as if afraid. LISTING (8) [verb] To create or recite a list. | [verb] To place in listings. | [verb] To sew together, as strips of cloth, so as to make a show of colours, or to form a border. LOADING (9) [verb] To put a load on or in (a means of conveyance or a place of storage). | [verb] To place in or on a conveyance or a place of storage. | [verb] To put a load on something. LOAFING (11) [verb] To do nothing, to be idle. | [verb] (Cockney rhyming slang) To headbutt, (from loaf of bread) | [noun] The idle behaviour of somebody who loafs. LOAMING (10) LOANING (8) [verb] To lend (something) to (someone). | [noun] The action of, or an instance of the action of the verb to loan. | [noun] (Scottish and Northern English) A lane LOBBING (12) [verb] To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch. | [verb] To throw. | [verb] To put, place LOCKING (14) [verb] To become fastened in place. | [verb] To fasten with a lock. | [verb] To be capable of becoming fastened in place. LOCOING (10) LODGING (10) [verb] To be firmly fixed in a specified position. | [verb] To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady. | [verb] To stay in any place or shelter. LOFTING (11) [noun] An upper part; ceiling. | [noun] Lagging or longitudinal timber resting on caps to support the roof of a working. | [verb] To propel high into the air. LOGGING (10) [verb] To cut trees into logs. | [verb] To cut down (trees). | [verb] To cut down trees in an area, harvesting and transporting the logs as wood. LOLLING (8) [verb] To laugh out loud. | [verb] To act lazily or indolently while reclining; to lean; to lie at ease. | [verb] To hang extended from the mouth, like the tongue of an animal heated from exertion. LONGING (9) [verb] To take a long position in. | [verb] To await, aspire, desire greatly (something to occur or to be true) | [verb] To be appropriate to, to pertain or belong to. | [noun] An earnest and deep, not greatly passionate, but rather melancholic desire. LOOKING (12) [noun] The act of one who looks; a glance. | [noun] The manner in which one looks; appearance; countenance. LOOMING (10) [verb] To appear indistinctly, eg. when seen on the horizon or through the murk. | [verb] To appear in an exaggerated or threatening form; to be imminent. | [verb] To rise and to be eminent; to be elevated or ennobled, in a moral sense. LOOPING (10) [verb] To form something into a loop. | [verb] To fasten or encircle something with a loop. | [verb] To fly an aircraft in a loop. | [noun] The running together of ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination. LOOSING (8) [verb] To let loose, to free from restraints. | [verb] To unfasten, to loosen. | [verb] To make less tight, to loosen. LOOTING (8) [verb] To steal, especially as part of war, riot or other group violence. | [verb] To steal from. | [verb] To examine the corpse of a fallen enemy for loot. LOPPING (12) [verb] (usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone. | [verb] To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side. | [verb] To allow to hang down. LORDING (9) [verb] Domineer or act like a lord. | [verb] To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord. | [noun] A lord. LOTTING (8) [verb] To allot; to sort; to apportion. | [verb] To count or reckon (on or upon). LOUPING (10) [noun] An enzootic and often fatal viral disease of sheep and other domestic animals, spread by ticks. It is characterized by muscular tremors and spasms, followed by more or less complete paralysis. The principal lesion is an inflammation of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. LOURING (8) [verb] To frown; to look sullen. | [verb] To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest. | [noun] The act of one who, or that which, lours. LOUSING (8) [verb] To remove lice from. LOUTING (8) LOVEBUG (13) LUCKING (14) [verb] To succeed by chance. | [verb] To rely on luck. | [verb] To carry out relying on luck. LUFFING (14) [verb] (of a sail) To shake due to being trimmed improperly. | [verb] (of a boat) To alter course to windward so that the sails luff. (Alternatively luff up) | [verb] To let out (a sail) so that it luffs. LUGEING (9) LUGGING (10) [verb] (sometimes figurative) To haul or drag along (especially something heavy); to carry; to pull. | [verb] To run at too slow a speed. | [verb] To carry an excessive amount of sail for the conditions prevailing. LULLING (8) [verb] To cause to rest by soothing influences; to compose; to calm | [verb] To become gradually calm; to subside; to cease or abate. LUMPING (12) [verb] To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items). | [verb] To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another. | [verb] To hit or strike (a person). LUNGING (9) [verb] To (cause to make) a sudden forward movement (present participle: lunging). | [verb] To longe or work a horse in a circle around a handler (present participle: lunging or lungeing). | [noun] The act of one who lunges; a lunge. LUNTING (8) LURKING (12) [verb] To remain concealed in order to ambush. | [verb] To remain unobserved. | [verb] To hang out or wait around a location, preferably without drawing attention to oneself. LUSHING (11) [verb] To drink (liquor) to excess. LUSTING (8) [verb] (usually in the phrase "lust after") To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature. | [noun] The act of one who lusts. MADDING (12) [verb] To be or become mad. | [verb] To madden, to anger, to frustrate. | [adjective] Affected with madness; raging; furious. MAHJONG (20) [noun] A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits. | [noun] A solitaire game using the same tiles, where the player wins by removing pairs of matching exposed tiles until none remain. MAHUANG (13) MAILBAG (12) [noun] A strong canvas bag used for the transportation of mail | [noun] A smaller bag, slung from the shoulders, used for the delivery of mail MAILING (10) [verb] (ditransitive) To send (a letter, parcel, etc.) through the mail. | [verb] (ditransitive) To send by electronic mail. | [verb] To contact (a person) by electronic mail. | [noun] A farm. MAIMING (12) [verb] To wound seriously; to cause permanent loss of function of a limb or part of the body. | [noun] The act by which somebody is maimed. MALLING (10) [noun] The transformation of a district by building shopping malls. MALTING (10) [verb] To convert a cereal grain into malt by causing it to sprout (by soaking in water) and then halting germination (by drying with hot air) in order to develop enzymes that can break down starches and proteins in the grain. | [verb] To become malt. | [verb] To drink malt liquor. MANNING (10) [verb] To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). | [verb] To take up position in order to operate (something). | [verb] (possibly obsolete) To brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. (Compare man up.) MAPPING (14) [verb] To create a visual representation of a territory, etc. via cartography. | [verb] (followed by a "to" phrase) To act as a function on something, taking it to something else. | [verb] (followed by a "to" phrase) To have a direct relationship; to correspond. MARKING (14) [verb] To put a mark on (something); to make (something) recognizable by a mark; to label or write on (something). | [verb] To leave a mark (often an undesirable or unwanted one) on (something). | [verb] To have a long-lasting negative impact on (someone or something). MARLING (10) [verb] To cover with the earthy substance called marl. | [verb] To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a peculiar hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. | [noun] An application of marl to the soil, to aid agriculture. MARRING (10) [verb] To spoil; to ruin; to scathe; to damage. | [noun] Something that mars or spoils; a blemish. MARTING (10) MASHING (13) [verb] To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure | [verb] In brewing, to convert (for example malt, or malt and meal) into the mash which makes wort. | [verb] To press down hard (on). MASKING (14) [verb] To cover (the face or something else), in order to conceal the identity or protect against injury; to cover with a mask or visor. | [verb] To disguise; to cover; to hide. | [verb] To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of. MASSING (10) [verb] To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble. | [verb] To have a certain mass. | [verb] To celebrate mass. MASTING (10) [verb] To supply and fit a mast to (a ship). | [verb] (of swine and other animals) To feed on forest seed or fruit. | [verb] (of a population of plants) To vary fruit and seed production in multi-year cycles. MATTING (10) [verb] To cover, protect or decorate with mats. | [verb] To form a thick, tangled mess; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. | [noun] Mats, a collection of ground coverings. MAULING (10) [verb] To handle someone or something in a rough way. | [verb] To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal). | [verb] To criticise harshly. MEANING (10) [noun] (of words or symbols) The entity, perception, feeling or concept thereby represented or evoked. | [noun] The value, purpose, importance, point or significance (of something beyond the fact of that thing's existence). | [noun] The object or concept that a word or phrase denotes, or that which a sentence says. | [verb] To lament. MEETING (10) [noun] (gerund) The act of persons or things that meet. | [noun] A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly. | [noun] (collective) The people at such a gathering. | [verb] To make contact (with) while in proximity. MELDING (11) [verb] To combine multiple similar objects into one | [verb] In card games, especially of the rummy family, to announce or display a combination of cards. | [noun] A composite or hybrid, the result of being melded. MELLING (10) MELTING (10) [verb] To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat. | [verb] To dissolve, disperse, vanish. | [verb] To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken. MENDING (11) [verb] To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement. | [verb] To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace. | [verb] To help, to advance, to further; to add to. MENSING (10) MEOUING (10) MEOWING (13) [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. | [noun] The act of uttering a meow. MERGING (11) [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To combine into a whole. | [verb] To blend gradually into something else. MESHING (13) [verb] To connect together by interlocking, as gears do. | [verb] (by extension) To fit in; to come together harmoniously. | [verb] To catch in a mesh. MESSING (10) [verb] (transitive, often used with "up") To make untidy or dirty. | [verb] (transitive, often used with "up") To throw into disorder or to ruin. | [verb] To interfere. METRING (10) MEWLING (13) [noun] A sound that mewls. | [verb] To cry weakly with a soft, high-pitched sound; to whimper; to whine. MICHING (15) MIFFING (16) [verb] (usually used in the passive) To offend slightly. | [verb] To become slightly offended. MILCHIG (15) MILKING (14) [verb] To express milk from (a mammal, especially a cow). | [verb] To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder. | [verb] To express any liquid (from any creature). | [noun] The act by which a cow, etc. is milked MILLING (10) [verb] To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine. | [verb] To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine. | [verb] To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin). MILTING (10) MINCING (12) [verb] To make less; make small. | [verb] To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise. | [verb] To effect mincingly. MINDING (11) [noun] The act of taking heed of something. | [verb] (originally and chiefly in negative or interrogative constructions) To dislike, to object to; to be bothered by. | [verb] To look after, to take care of, especially for a short period of time. MINTING (10) [verb] To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence. | [verb] To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion. | [verb] (provincial) To try, attempt; take aim. MISSING (10) [verb] To fail to hit. | [verb] To fail to achieve or attain. | [verb] To avoid; to escape. MISTING (10) [verb] To form mist. | [verb] To spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. | [verb] To cover with a mist. MITRING (10) [verb] To adorn with a mitre. | [verb] To unite at an angle of 45°. MOANING (10) [verb] To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. | [verb] To grieve. | [verb] To distress (someone); to sadden. MOATING (10) [verb] To surround with a moat. MOBBING (14) [verb] To crowd around (someone), sometimes with hostility. | [verb] To crowd into or around a place. | [verb] To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. MOCKING (16) [verb] To mimic, to simulate. | [verb] To create an artistic representation of. | [verb] To make fun of by mimicking, to taunt. MOGGING (12) MOILING (10) [verb] To toil, to work hard. | [verb] To churn continually; to swirl. | [verb] To defile or dirty. MOLDING (11) [verb] To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to. | [verb] To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence | [verb] To fit closely by following the contours of. MOLTING (10) [noun] A molt; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc. | [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To shed in such a manner. MONOLOG (10) [noun] (authorship) A long speech by one person in a play; sometimes a soliloquy; other times spoken to other characters. | [noun] A long series of comic stories and jokes as an entertainment. | [noun] A long, uninterrupted utterance that monopolizes a conversation. MOONING (10) [verb] To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest. | [verb] (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone. | [verb] To spend time idly, absent-mindedly. MOORING (10) [verb] To cast anchor or become fastened. | [verb] To fix or secure (e.g. a vessel) in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with ropes, cables or chains or the like | [verb] To secure or fix firmly. MOOTING (10) [noun] The activity of taking part in a moot court. | [verb] To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose. | [verb] To discuss or debate. MOPPING (14) [verb] To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop. | [verb] To make a wry expression with the mouth. | [noun] The process of cleaning with a mop. MORNING (10) [noun] The part of the day from dawn to noon. | [noun] The part of the day between midnight and noon. | [noun] The early part of anything. MOSSING (10) [verb] To become covered with moss. | [verb] To cover (something) with moss. MOUSING (10) [verb] To move cautiously or furtively, in the manner of a mouse (the rodent) (frequently used in the phrasal verb to mouse around). | [verb] To hunt or catch mice (the rodents), usually of cats. | [verb] To close the mouth of a hook by a careful binding of marline or wire. MUCKING (16) [verb] To shovel muck. | [verb] To manure with muck. | [verb] To do a dirty job. MUDDING (12) MUFFING (16) [verb] To drop or mishandle (the ball, a catch etc.); to play badly. | [verb] To mishandle; to bungle. | [noun] Penetration of the inguinal canal (e.g. with a finger, or by pushing the testicle back inside it) as a form of sexual activity among trans women. MUGGING (12) [verb] To strike in the face. | [verb] To assault for the purpose of robbery. | [verb] To exaggerate a facial expression for communicative emphasis; to make a face, to pose, as for photographs or in a performance, in an exaggerated or affected manner. MULLING (10) [verb] (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. | [verb] To powder; to pulverize. | [verb] To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form. MUMMING (14) [verb] To act in a pantomime or dumb show. | [noun] A pantomime or dumb show. MUMPING (14) MUNTING (10) MUSHING (13) [verb] To squish so as to break into smaller pieces or to combine with something else. | [verb] To walk, especially across the snow with dogs. | [verb] To drive dogs, usually pulling a sled, across the snow. MUSSING (10) [verb] To rumple, tousle or make (something) untidy. MUSTANG (10) [noun] A small, hardy, naturalized (feral) horse of the North American west. | [noun] A merchant marine who joined the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer during the American Civil War. | [noun] (generalized) A commissioned officer who started military service as an enlisted person. MUSTING (10) NABBING (12) [verb] To seize, arrest or take into custody (a criminal or fugitive). | [verb] To grab or snatch something. NAGGING (10) [verb] To continuously remind or complain to (someone) in an annoying way, often about insignificant or unnecessary matters. | [verb] To bother with persistent thoughts or memories. | [verb] To bother or disturb persistently in any way. NAILING (8) [verb] To fix (an object) to another object using a nail. | [verb] To drive a nail. | [verb] To stud or boss with nails, or as if with nails. NAMETAG (10) [noun] A tag with one's name inscribed on it. NAPPING (12) [verb] To have a nap; to sleep for a short period of time, especially during the day. | [verb] To be off one's guard. | [verb] To form or raise a soft or fuzzy surface on (fabric or leather). NARKING (12) [verb] To watch; to observe. | [verb] To serve or behave as a spy or informer. | [verb] To annoy or irritate. NEARING (8) [verb] To come closer to; to approach. NECKING (14) [verb] To hang by the neck; strangle; kill, eliminate | [verb] To make love; to intently kiss or cuddle; to canoodle. | [verb] To drink rapidly. NEEDING (9) [verb] To have an absolute requirement for. | [verb] To want strongly; to feel that one must have something. | [verb] (modal verb) To be obliged or required (to do something). NERVING (11) [verb] To give courage. | [verb] To give strength; to supply energy or vigour. | [noun] An arrangement of nerves or veins in a plant. NESTING (8) [verb] (of animals) To build or settle into a nest. | [verb] To settle into a home. | [verb] To successively neatly fit inside another. NETTING (8) [noun] Something that acts as, or looks like, a net. | [noun] Urine | [verb] To catch by means of a net. NIBBING (12) NICHING (13) [verb] To place in a niche. | [verb] To specialize in a niche, or particular narrow section of the market. NICKING (14) [verb] To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way. | [verb] To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with. | [verb] To make a cut at the side of the face. NIGHING (12) NILLING (8) NIMMING (12) NIPPING (12) [verb] To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon. | [verb] To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. | [verb] To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy. NOCKING (14) [verb] To fit an arrow against the bowstring of a bow or crossbow. (See also notch.) | [verb] To cut a nock in (usually in an arrow's base or the tips of a bow). NODDING (10) [verb] To incline the head up and down, as to indicate agreement. | [verb] To briefly incline the head downwards as a cursory greeting. | [verb] To sway, move up and down. NOGGING (10) [verb] To fill in, as between scantling, with brickwork. | [verb] To fasten, as shores, with treenails. | [noun] A horizontal beam used in the construction of a building, especially to strengthen upright posts. NOISING (8) [verb] To make a noise; to sound. | [verb] To spread news of; to spread as rumor or gossip. NONDRUG (9) NOONING (8) [verb] To relax or sleep around midday | [noun] A nap or rest in the middle of the day. | [noun] Lunch; a meal in the middle of the day NOOSING (8) [verb] To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare. NOSEBAG (10) [noun] A round sack or bag to feed for a horse, mule, ox or alike animal. Usually made of canvas sides and leather bottom slipped over the nose and attached to harness my a strong strap, rope or string. Design to feed animal in public areas and to eliminate spillage from eating. | [noun] Food. | [noun] A curious older woman of other peoples business or affairs. NOSHING (11) [verb] (usually with on) To eat a snack or light meal. | [verb] To perform fellatio (on); to blow. | [noun] A session of eating; a feast. NOTHING (11) [noun] Something trifling, or of no consequence or importance. | [noun] A trivial remark (especially in the term sweet nothings). | [noun] A nobody (insignificant person). NUDGING (10) [verb] To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal. | [verb] To near or come close to something. | [noun] The act of giving a nudge; pushing, touching. NULLING (8) [verb] To nullify; to annul. | [verb] To form nulls, or into nulls, as in a lathe. | [verb] To crack; to remove restrictions or limitations in (software). NUMBING (12) [verb] To cause to become numb (physically or emotionally). | [verb] To cause (a feeling) to be less intense. | [verb] To cause (the mind, faculties, etc.) to be less acute. NURLING (8) NURSING (8) [verb] To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle. | [verb] To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast. | [verb] To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to. NUTTING (8) [verb] (mostly in the form "nutting") To gather nuts. | [verb] To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt. | [verb] (mildly) To orgasm; to ejaculate. OBEYING (13) [verb] To do as ordered by (a person, institution etc), to act according to the bidding of. | [verb] To do as one is told. | [verb] To be obedient, compliant (to a given law, restriction etc.). OCHRING (13) OINKING (12) [verb] Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound. OKAYING (15) [verb] To approve. | [verb] To confirm by activating a button marked OK. OMENING (10) ONGOING (9) [verb] To be ongoing (occurring, happening); to last, proceed or continue. | [noun] Something that is going on; a happening. | [adjective] Continuing, permanent, lasting. OPENING (10) [verb] To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position. | [verb] To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility. | [verb] To bring up, broach. OPINING (10) [verb] To have or express an opinion; to state as an opinion; to suppose, consider (that). | [verb] To give one's formal opinion (on or upon something). | [noun] The act of giving one's opinion. ORATING (8) [verb] To speak formally; to give a speech. | [verb] To speak passionately; to preach for or against something. OUCHING (13) OUSTING (8) [verb] To expel; to remove. | [noun] The act by which somebody is ousted. OUTBRAG (10) OUTDRAG (9) OUTRANG (8) OUTRING (8) OUTRUNG (8) OUTSANG (8) [verb] To sing better, longer or louder than. OUTSING (8) [verb] To sing better, longer or louder than. OUTSUNG (8) [verb] To sing better, longer or louder than. OVERBIG (13) OVERDOG (12) [noun] Someone who is dominant or has a significant advantage in their field OVERING (11) PACKING (16) [verb] (physical) To put or bring things together in a limited or confined space, especially for storage or transport. | [verb] (social) To cheat. | [verb] To load with a pack PADDING (12) [verb] To stuff. | [verb] To furnish with a pad or padding. | [verb] To increase the size of, especially by adding undesirable filler. PAIKING (14) PAINING (10) [verb] To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture. | [verb] To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve. | [verb] To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish. PAIRING (10) [verb] To group into one or more sets of two. | [verb] To bring two (animals, notably dogs) together for mating. | [verb] To engage (oneself) with another of opposite opinions not to vote on a particular question or class of questions. PALLING (10) [verb] To cloak or cover with, or as if with, a pall. | [verb] To make vapid or insipid; to make lifeless or spiritless; to dull, to weaken. | [verb] To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste. | [verb] Be friends with, hang around with. PALMING (12) [verb] To hold or conceal something in the palm of the hand, e.g, for an act of sleight of hand or to steal something. | [verb] To hold something without bending the fingers significantly. | [verb] To move something with the palm of the hand. PANGING (11) PANNING (10) [verb] To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold). | [verb] To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to criticise severely. | [verb] With "out" (to pan out), to turn out well; to be successful. PANTING (10) [verb] To breathe quickly or in a labored manner, as after exertion or from eagerness or excitement; to respire with heaving of the breast; to gasp. | [verb] To long eagerly; to desire earnestly. | [verb] To long for (something); to be eager for (something). PARGING (11) [verb] To apply a parge on to a surface. | [noun] A coat of cement mortar on the face of rough masonry, the earth side of foundation and basement walls; a parge. | [noun] Pargeting. PARKING (14) [verb] To bring (something such as a vehicle) to a halt or store in a specified place. | [verb] To defer (a matter) until a later date. | [verb] To bring together in a park, or compact body. PARLING (10) PARRING (10) [verb] To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes. PARSING (10) [verb] To resolve (a sentence, etc.) into its elements, pointing out the several parts of speech, and their relation to each other by agreement or government; to analyze and describe grammatically. | [verb] To examine closely; to scrutinize. | [verb] To split (a file or other input) into pieces of data that can be easily manipulated or stored. PARTING (10) [verb] To leave the company of. | [verb] To cut hair with a parting; shed. | [verb] To divide in two. PASHING (13) [verb] To snog, to make out, to kiss. | [verb] To throw (or be thrown) and break. | [verb] To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash into pieces. PASSING (10) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. PASTING (10) [verb] To stick with paste; to cause to adhere by or as if by paste. | [verb] To insert a piece of media (e.g. text, picture, audio, video) previously copied or cut from somewhere else. | [verb] To strike or beat someone or something. PATTING (10) [verb] To (gently) tap the flat of one's hand on a person or thing. | [verb] To hit lightly and repeatedly with the flat of the hand to make smooth or flat | [verb] To stroke or fondle (an animal). PAUSING (10) [verb] To take a temporary rest, take a break for a short period after an effort. | [verb] To interrupt an activity and wait. | [verb] To hesitate; to hold back; to delay. PAWNING (13) [verb] To pledge; to stake or wager. | [verb] To give as security on a loan of money; especially, to deposit (something) at a pawn shop. | [noun] The act by which something is pawned. PEACING (12) [verb] To make peace; to put at peace; to be at peace. | [verb] To peace out. PEAKING (14) [verb] To reach a highest degree or maximum. | [verb] To rise or extend into a peak or point; to form, or appear as, a peak. | [verb] To raise the point of (a gaff) closer to perpendicular. PEALING (10) [verb] To sound with a peal or peals. | [verb] To utter or sound loudly. | [verb] To assail with noise. PECHING (15) [verb] To pant, to struggle for breath. PECKING (16) [verb] To strike or pierce with the beak or bill (of a bird). | [verb] To form by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument. | [verb] To strike, pick, thrust against, or dig into, with a pointed instrument, especially with repeated quick movements. PEDAGOG (12) [noun] A teacher or instructor of children; one whose occupation is to teach the young. | [noun] A pedant; one who by teaching has become overly formal or pedantic in his or her ways; one who has the manner of a teacher. | [noun] A slave who led the master's children to school, and had the charge of them generally. PEEKING (14) [verb] To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep. | [verb] To be only slightly, partially visible, as if peering out from a hiding place. | [verb] To retrieve (a value) from a memory address. PEELING (10) [verb] To remove the skin or outer covering of. | [verb] To remove something from the outer or top layer of. | [verb] To become detached, come away, especially in flakes or strips; to shed skin in such a way. PEENING (10) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [noun] The hardening of a metal surface by hammering, or by blasting with shot PEEPING (12) [verb] To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird. | [verb] To speak briefly with a quiet voice. | [verb] To look, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed. PEERING (10) [verb] To look with difficulty, or as if searching for something. | [verb] To come in sight; to appear. | [verb] To make equal in rank. PEEVING (13) [verb] To annoy; vex. PEGGING (12) [verb] To fasten using a peg. | [verb] To affix or pin. | [verb] To fix a value or price. PEINING (10) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. PEISING (10) PELTING (10) [verb] To bombard, as with missiles. | [verb] To throw; to use as a missile. | [verb] To rain or hail heavily. | [adjective] Mean; paltry PENDING (11) [verb] To hang down. | [verb] To arch over (something); to vault. | [verb] To hang; to depend. PENNING (10) [verb] To enclose in a pen. | [verb] To write (an article, a book, etc.). | [noun] Writing; literary composition. | [noun] An old currency unit, the Swedish penning. PEPPING (14) [verb] To inject with energy and enthusiasm. PERIWIG (13) [noun] A wig, especially any kind of stylised wig as formerly worn by men and women. | [verb] To dress with a periwig, or with false hair; to bewig. PERKING (14) [verb] To make (coffee) in a percolator or a drip coffeemaker. | [verb] Of coffee: to be produced by heated water seeping (“percolating”) through coffee grounds. | [verb] To make trim or smart; to straighten up; to erect; to make a jaunty or saucy display of. PERMING (12) [verb] To give hair a perm, using heat, chemicals etc. PETTING (10) [verb] To stroke or fondle (an animal). | [verb] To stroke or fondle (another person) amorously. | [verb] Of two or more people, to stroke and fondle one another amorously. PFENNIG (13) [noun] One hundredth of the former German mark (Deutsche Mark). PHASING (13) [noun] Movement through phases; arrangement of a sequence or cycle. PHONING (13) [verb] To call (someone) using a telephone. PICKING (16) [verb] To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. | [verb] To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground. | [verb] To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck. PIECING (12) [verb] (usually with together) To assemble (something real or figurative). | [verb] To make, enlarge, or repair, by the addition of a piece or pieces; to patch; often with out. | [verb] To produce a work of graffiti more complex than a tag. PIGGING (12) [verb] (of swine) to give birth. | [verb] To greedily consume (especially food). | [verb] To huddle or lie together like pigs, in one bed. | [noun] A small pail, can or ladle with the handle on the side; a lading-can. In the colonial era, some buckets were made like a small barrel, but with one stave left extra long. This stave would be carved into a handle so the bucket could be used as an oversized scoop for scattering grain, slopping the hogs, etc. PILLING (10) [verb] Of a woven fabric surface, to form small matted balls of fiber. | [verb] To form into the shape of a pill. | [verb] To medicate with pills. PIMPING (14) [verb] To act as a procurer of prostitutes; to pander. | [verb] To prostitute someone. | [verb] To excessively customize something, especially a vehicle, according to ghetto standards (also pimp out). PINGING (11) [verb] To make a high-pitched, short and somewhat sharp sound. | [verb] (submarine navigation) To emit a signal and then listen for its echo in order to detect objects. | [verb] To send a packet in order to determine whether a host is present, particularly by use of the ping utility. PINKING (14) [verb] To decorate a piece of clothing or fabric by adding holes or by scalloping the fringe. | [verb] To prick with a sword. | [verb] To wound by irony, criticism, or ridicule. PINNING (10) [verb] To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen. | [verb] (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin. PIPPING (14) [verb] To get the better of; to defeat by a narrow margin | [verb] To hit with a gunshot | [verb] To peep, to chirp PIQUING (19) [verb] To wound the pride of; to excite to anger. | [verb] To take pride in; to pride oneself on. | [verb] To stimulate (a feeling, emotion); to offend by slighting; to excite (someone) to action by causing resentment or jealousy. PISHING (13) PISSING (10) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] To discharge as or with the urine. | [noun] An act of urination. PITHING (13) [verb] To extract the pith from (a plant stem or tree). | [verb] To kill (especially cattle or laboratory animals) by cutting or piercing the spinal cord. PITTING (10) [verb] To make pits in; to mark with little hollows. | [verb] To put (an animal) into a pit for fighting. | [verb] To bring (something) into opposition with something else. PITYING (13) [verb] To feel pity for (someone or something). | [verb] To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of. | [noun] The act of one who pities. PLACING (12) [verb] To put (an object or person) in a specific location. | [verb] To earn a given spot in a competition. | [verb] To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. PLANING (10) [verb] To smooth (wood) with a plane. | [verb] To move in a way that lifts the bow of a boat out of the water. | [verb] To glide or soar. PLATING (10) [verb] To cover the surface material of an object with a thin coat of another material, usually a metal. | [verb] To place the various elements of a meal on the diner's plate prior to serving. | [verb] To score a run. PLAYING (13) [verb] To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment. | [verb] To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game). | [verb] To take part in amorous activity; to make love. PLOWING (13) [noun] The breaking of the ground into furrows (with a plough) for planting. PLOYING (13) PLUMING (12) [verb] To adorn, cover, or furnish with feathers or plumes, or as if with feathers or plumes. | [verb] Chiefly of a bird: to arrange and preen the feathers of, specifically in preparation for flight; hence , to prepare for (something). | [verb] (by extension) To congratulate (oneself) proudly, especially concerning something unimportant or when taking credit for another person's effort; to self-congratulate. POCKING (16) PODDING (12) [verb] To bear or produce pods | [verb] To remove peas from their case. | [verb] To put into a pod or to enter a pod. POISING (10) [verb] To hang in equilibrium; to be balanced or suspended; hence, to be in suspense or doubt. | [verb] To counterpoise; to counterbalance. | [verb] To be of a given weight; to weigh. POLLING (10) [verb] To take, record the votes of (an electorate). | [verb] To solicit mock votes from (a person or group). | [verb] To vote at an election. PONCING (12) [verb] To act as a pimp. | [verb] Hence, to try to get rid of or proactively sell something. | [verb] To behave in a posh or effeminate manner. PONDING (11) [verb] To block the flow of water so that it can escape only through evaporation or seepage; to dam. | [verb] To make into a pond; to collect, as water, in a pond by damming. | [verb] To form a pond; to pool. PONGING (11) [verb] To stink, to smell bad. | [verb] To deliver a line of a play in an arch, suggestive or unnatural way, so as to draw undue attention to it. PONYING (13) [verb] To lead (a horse) from another horse. | [verb] To use a crib or cheat-sheet in translating. POOHING (13) [verb] To defecate. | [verb] To dirty something with feces. | [verb] To say "pooh". POOLING (10) [verb] (of a liquid) To form a pool. | [verb] To put together; contribute to a common fund, on the basis of a mutual division of profits or losses; to make a common interest of. | [verb] To combine or contribute with others, as for a commercial, speculative, or gambling transaction. POOPING (12) [verb] To make a short blast on a horn | [verb] To break wind. | [verb] To defecate. POPPING (14) [verb] To make a pop, or sharp, quick sound. | [verb] To burst (something) with a popping sound. | [verb] (with in, out, upon, etc.) To enter, or issue forth, with a quick, sudden movement; to move from place to place suddenly; to dart. PORTING (10) [verb] To turn or put to the left or larboard side of a ship; said of the helm. | [verb] To carry, bear, or transport. See porter. | [verb] To hold or carry (a weapon) with both hands so that it lays diagonally across the front of the body, with the barrel or similar part near the left shoulder and the right hand grasping the small of the stock; or, to throw (the weapon) into this position on command. POSTBAG (12) [noun] A bag used for carrying post (mail) POSTING (10) [verb] To hang (a notice) in a conspicuous manner for general review. | [verb] To hold up to public blame or reproach; to advertise opprobriously; to denounce by public proclamation. | [verb] To carry (an account) from the journal to the ledger. POTTING (10) [verb] To put (something) into a pot. | [verb] To preserve by bottling or canning. | [verb] To cause a ball to fall into a pocket. POURING (10) [verb] To cause (liquid, or liquid-like substance) to flow in a stream, either out of a container or into it. | [verb] To send out as in a stream or a flood; to cause (an emotion) to come out; to cause to escape. | [verb] To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly. POUTING (10) [verb] To push out one's lips. | [verb] To thrust itself outward; to be prominent. | [verb] To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk. | [noun] A fish in the cod family (Gadidae), Trisopterus luscus. PRATING (10) [verb] To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly. | [noun] Foolish chatter PRAYING (13) [verb] To direct words and/or thoughts to God or any higher being, for the sake of adoration, thanks, petition for help, etc. | [verb] To humbly beg a person for aid or their time. | [verb] To ask earnestly for; to seek to obtain by supplication; to entreat for. PREEING (10) PREPREG (12) [noun] Fiber material impregnated with its matrix material, usually a plastic, well before its use to form a manufactured part. PRESONG (10) PREYING (13) [verb] To act as a predator. PRICING (12) [verb] To determine the monetary value of (an item); to put a price on. | [verb] To pay the price of; to make reparation for. | [verb] To set a price on; to value; to prize. PRIDING (11) [verb] To take or experience pride in something; to be proud of it. PRIMING (12) [verb] To prepare a mechanism for its main work. | [verb] To apply a coat of primer paint to. | [verb] To be renewed. PRISING (10) [verb] To force (open) with a lever; to pry. PRIZING (19) [verb] To consider highly valuable; to esteem. | [verb] To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate. | [verb] To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry. PROBANG (12) [noun] A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the oesophagus, etc. PROBING (12) [verb] To explore, investigate, or question | [verb] To insert a probe into. | [noun] The action of investigating or exploring. PROLONG (10) [verb] To extend in space or length. | [verb] To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of | [verb] To put off to a distant time; to postpone. PROSING (10) [noun] Tedious talk or writing. | [adjective] Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner. PROVING (13) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. | [noun] Experimentation to determine which substances cause which effects when ingested. PRUNING (10) [verb] To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water. | [verb] To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. | [verb] To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material). PUDDING (12) [noun] Any of various dishes, sweet or savoury, prepared by boiling or steaming, or from batter. | [noun] A type of cake or dessert cooked usually by boiling or steaming. | [noun] A type of dessert that has a texture similar to custard or mousse but using some kind of starch as the thickening agent. PUFFING (16) [verb] To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs. | [verb] To pant. | [verb] To advertise. PUGGING (12) [verb] To mix and stir when wet. | [verb] To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. | [noun] Mortar etc. laid between the joists under the boards of a floor, or within a partition, to deaden sound. PULLING (10) [verb] To apply a force to (an object) so that it comes toward the person or thing applying the force. | [verb] To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward oneself; to pluck. | [verb] To attract or net; to pull in. | [noun] The act by which something is pulled. PULPING (12) [verb] To make or be made into pulp. | [verb] To beat to a pulp. | [verb] To deprive of pulp; to separate the pulp from. PULSING (10) [verb] To beat, to throb, to flash. | [verb] To flow, particularly of blood. | [verb] To emit in discrete quantities. PUMPING (14) [verb] To use a pump to move (liquid or gas). | [verb] (often followed by up) To fill with air. | [verb] To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump. PUNNING (10) [verb] To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize. | [verb] To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words. | [noun] The action of the verb to pun. PUNTING (10) [verb] To propel a punt or similar craft by means of a pole. | [verb] To dropkick; to kick something a considerable distance. | [verb] To equivocate and delay or put off (answering a question, addressing an issue, etc). PUPPING (14) [verb] To give birth to pups. PURGING (11) [noun] The process or act of purging, such as by the use of a purgative. | [noun] The process or act of cleansing from sin or guilt. | [verb] To clean thoroughly; to cleanse; to rid of impurities. PURLING (10) [verb] To decorate with fringe or embroidered edge | [verb] An inverted stitch producing ribbing etc | [verb] To upset, to spin, capsize, fall heavily, fall headlong. PURRING (10) [verb] Of a cat, to make a vibrating sound in its throat when contented. | [verb] To say (something) in a throaty, seductive manner. | [verb] To make a vibrating throaty sound, as from pleasure. PURSING (10) [verb] To press (one's lips) in and together so that they protrude. | [verb] To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles; to pucker; to knit. | [verb] To put into a purse. PUSHING (13) [verb] To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force. | [verb] To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action. | [verb] To press or urge forward; to drive. PUTTING (10) [verb] To place something somewhere. | [verb] To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition. | [verb] To exercise a put option. | [verb] To place something somewhere. PUTZING (19) [verb] Waste time. | [verb] (Pennsylvania Dutch) To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood. QUAHAUG (20) [noun] An edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America, from species Mercenaria mercenaria, formerly Venus mercenaria. | [noun] A similar edible clam found along coasts around the North Atlantic, generally in deeper waters, the ocean quahog, black quahog, mahogany clam or Icelandic cyprine, Arctica islandica | [verb] To dig for quahogs. QUAKING (21) [verb] To tremble or shake. | [verb] To be in a state of fear, shock, amazement, etc., such as might cause one to tremble. | [noun] The action of the verb to quake. QUEUING (17) [verb] To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line. | [verb] To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue. | [verb] To add to a queue data structure. QUIRING (17) QUOTING (17) [verb] To repeat the exact words of (a person). | [verb] To repeat (the exact words of a person). | [verb] To prepare a summary of work to be done and set a price. RACKING (14) [verb] To place in or hang on a rack. | [verb] To torture (someone) on the rack. | [verb] To cause (someone) to suffer pain. RADDING (10) RAFTING (11) [verb] To convey on a raft. | [verb] To make into a raft. | [verb] To travel by raft. RAGGING (10) [verb] To decorate (a wall, etc.) by applying paint with a rag. | [verb] To become tattered. | [verb] To break (ore) into lumps for sorting. RAIDING (9) [verb] To engage in a raid against. | [verb] To lure from another; to entice away from. | [verb] To indulge oneself by taking from. RAILING (8) [verb] To travel by railway. | [verb] To enclose with rails or a railing. | [verb] To range in a line. RAINING (8) [verb] To have rain fall from the sky. | [verb] To fall as or like rain. | [verb] To issue (something) in large quantities. RAISING (8) [verb] (physical) To cause to rise; to lift or elevate. | [verb] To create, increase or develop. | [verb] To establish contact with (e.g., by telephone or radio). RAMMING (12) [verb] To collide with (an object), usually with the intention of damaging it or disabling its function. | [verb] To strike (something) hard, especially with an implement. | [verb] To fill or compact by pounding or driving. RAMPING (12) [verb] To behave violently; to rage. | [verb] To spring; to leap; to bound, rear, or prance; to move swiftly or violently. | [verb] To climb, like a plant; to creep up. RANGING (9) [verb] To travel over (an area, etc); to roam, wander. | [verb] To rove over or through. | [verb] To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit to, over. RANKING (12) [verb] To place abreast, or in a line. | [verb] To have a ranking. | [verb] To assign a suitable place in a class or order; to classify. RANTING (8) [verb] To speak or shout at length in uncontrollable anger. | [verb] To criticize by ranting. | [verb] To speak extravagantly, as in merriment. | [noun] A long, angry, and impassioned speech. RAPPING (12) [verb] To strike something sharply with one's knuckles; knock. | [verb] To strike with a quick blow; to knock on. | [verb] To free (a pattern) in a mould by light blows on the pattern, so as to facilitate its removal. RASPING (10) [verb] To use a rasp. | [verb] To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps. | [verb] To work something with a rasp. RATTING (8) [verb] (usually with “on” or “out”) To betray a person or party, especially by telling their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in. | [verb] To work as a scab, going against trade union policies. | [verb] (of a dog, etc.) To kill rats. RAZZING (26) [verb] To tease playfully; to heckle. | [verb] To drive an automobile around. READING (9) [verb] To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. | [verb] To speak aloud words or other information that is written. Often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object. | [verb] To read work(s) written by (a named author). REAMING (10) [verb] To cream; mantle; foam; froth. | [verb] To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. | [verb] To shape or form, especially using a reamer. REAPING (10) [verb] To cut (for example a grain) with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine | [verb] To gather (e.g. a harvest) by cutting. | [verb] To obtain or receive as a reward, in a good or a bad sense. REARING (8) [verb] To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. | [verb] (said of people towards animals) To breed and raise. | [verb] To rise up on the hind legs REAVING (11) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. RECKING (14) [verb] To make account of; to care for; to heed, regard, consider. | [verb] To concern, to be important or earnest. | [verb] To think. REDDING (10) [verb] To free from entanglement. | [verb] To free from embarrassment. | [verb] To fix boundaries. REDOING (9) [verb] To do again. REDWING (12) [noun] A small thrush, Turdus iliacus, native to Eurasia, with a white eye stripe and red under-wing feathers. REEDING (9) [noun] Thatching. | [noun] Decorative moulding of parallel strips that resemble reeds. | [noun] Milling on the edge of a coin. | [verb] To thatch. REEFING (11) [verb] To take in part of a sail in order to adapt the size of the sail to the force of the wind. | [verb] To pull or yank strongly, especially in relation to horse riding. | [verb] (of paddles) To move the floats of a paddle wheel toward its center so that they will not dip so deeply. REEKING (12) [verb] To have or give off a strong, unpleasant smell. | [verb] To be evidently associated with something unpleasant. | [verb] To be emitted or exhaled, emanate, as of vapour or perfume. REELING (8) [verb] To wind on a reel. | [verb] To spin or revolve repeatedly. | [verb] To unwind, to bring or acquire something by spinning or winding something else. REEVING (11) [verb] To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it. REFFING (14) [verb] To referee; to act as a referee in a sport or game. REINING (8) [verb] To direct or stop a horse by using reins. | [verb] To restrain; to control; to check. | [verb] To obey directions given with the reins. REIVING (11) [verb] To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove. | [verb] To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence. | [verb] To split, tear, break apart. RELYING (11) [verb] (with on or upon, formerly also with in) to trust; to have confidence in; to depend. RENDING (9) [verb] To separate into parts with force or sudden violence; to split; to burst | [verb] To part or tear off forcibly; to take away by force; to amputate. | [verb] To be rent or torn; to become parted; to separate; to split. RENTING (8) [verb] To occupy premises in exchange for rent. | [verb] To grant occupation in return for rent. | [verb] To obtain or have temporary possession of an object (e.g. a movie) in exchange for money. RESTING (8) [verb] To cease from action, motion, work, or performance of any kind; stop; desist; be without motion. | [verb] To come to a pause or an end; end. | [verb] To be free from that which harasses or disturbs; be quiet or still; be undisturbed. RETTING (8) [noun] The act or process of preparing flax for use by soaking, maceration, and similar processes. | [noun] A place where flax is retted; a rettery. RETYING (11) [verb] To tie again; to tie something that has already been tied or was tied before. | [noun] The act of tying something again. REUSING (8) [verb] To use again something that is considered past its usefulness (usually for something else). | [verb] To use again, or in another place. | [noun] Reuse REVVING (14) [verb] To increase the speed of a motor, or to operate at a higher speed. | [noun] The act by which an engine is revved. | [noun] A technique for reducing web page loading times by assigning far-future expiration dates to the resources on the page (so that the browser caches them indefinitely) and, if changes are needed, using different filenames for those resources. RHYMING (16) [verb] To compose or treat in verse; versify. | [verb] (followed by with) Of a word, to be pronounced identically with another from the vowel in its stressed syllable to the end. | [verb] Of two or more words, to be pronounced identically from the vowel in the stressed syllable of each to the end of each. RIBBING (12) [verb] To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs. | [verb] To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way. | [verb] To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in. RICKING (14) [verb] To heap up (hay, etc.) in ricks. | [verb] To slightly sprain or strain the neck, back, ankle etc. RIDDING (10) [verb] To free (something) from a hindrance or annoyance. | [verb] To banish. | [verb] To kill. RIDGING (10) [verb] To form into a ridge | [verb] To extend in ridges | [noun] A pattern of ridges. RIFFING (14) [verb] To lay off from work due to a reduction in force. | [verb] To improvise in the performance or practice of an art, especially by expanding on or making novel use of traditional themes. | [verb] To riffle. RIFLING (11) [verb] To quickly search through many items (such as papers, the contents of a drawer, a pile of clothing). (See also rifflehttp//verbmall.blogspot.com/2008/05/riffle-or-rifle.html) | [verb] To commit robbery or theft. | [verb] To search with intent to steal; to ransack, pillage or plunder. RIFTING (11) [verb] To form a rift; to split open. | [verb] To cleave; to rive; to split. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland and northern Britain) To belch. RIGGING (10) [verb] To fit out with a harness or other equipment. | [verb] To equip and fit (a ship) with sails, shrouds, and yards. | [verb] To dress or clothe in some costume. RILLING (8) [verb] To trickle, pour, or run like a small stream. RIMMING (12) [verb] To form a rim on. | [verb] To follow the contours, possibly creating a circuit. | [verb] (of a ball) To roll around a rim. RINGING (9) [verb] To enclose or surround. | [verb] To make an incision around; to girdle. | [verb] To attach a ring to, especially for identification. RINNING (8) RINSING (8) [verb] To wash (something) quickly using water and no soap. | [verb] To remove soap from (something) using water. | [verb] To thoroughly defeat in an argument, fight or other competition. RIOTING (8) [verb] To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition. | [verb] To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of feasting, luxury, etc. | [verb] To cause to riot; to throw into a tumult. RIPPING (12) [verb] To divide or separate the parts of (especially something flimsy such as paper or fabric), by cutting or tearing; to tear off or out by violence. | [verb] To tear apart; to rapidly become two parts. | [verb] To get by, or as if by, cutting or tearing. RISKING (12) [verb] To incur risk of (something). | [verb] To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing. | [verb] To incur risk as a result of (doing something). ROAMING (10) [verb] To wander or travel freely and with no specific destination. | [verb] To use a network or service from different locations or devices. | [verb] To transmit (resources) between different locations or devices, to allow comparable usage from any of them. ROARING (8) [verb] To make a loud, deep cry, especially from pain, anger, or other strong emotion. | [verb] To laugh in a particularly loud manner. | [verb] Of animals (especially the lion), to make a loud deep noise. ROBBING (12) [verb] To steal from, especially using force or violence. | [verb] To deprive of, or withhold from, unjustly or injuriously; to defraud. | [verb] (used with "of") To deprive (of). ROCKING (14) [verb] To move gently back and forth. | [verb] To cause to shake or sway violently. | [verb] To sway or tilt violently back and forth. RODDING (10) ROGUING (9) [verb] To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination. | [verb] To cheat. | [verb] To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry. ROILING (8) [verb] To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of. | [verb] To annoy; to make someone angry. | [verb] To bubble, seethe. ROLFING (11) [verb] To apply the Rolfing massage technique to. ROLLING (8) [verb] To cause to revolve by turning over and over; to move by turning on an axis; to impel forward by causing to turn over and over on a supporting surface. | [verb] To turn over and over. | [verb] To tumble in gymnastics; to do a somersault. ROMPING (12) [verb] To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously. | [verb] (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress. | [verb] To win easily. ROOFING (11) [noun] Material used on the outside of a roof, such as shingles. | [noun] A way of travel which consists in clambering over the roofs of skyscrapers. | [verb] To cover or furnish with a roof. ROOKING (12) [verb] To cheat or swindle. | [verb] To squat; to ruck. | [verb] Pronunciation spelling of look. ROOMING (10) [verb] To reside, especially as a boarder or tenant. | [verb] To assign to a room; to allocate a room to. ROOSING (8) ROOTING (8) [verb] To grow roots; to enter the earth, as roots; to take root and begin to grow. | [verb] To prepare, oversee, or otherwise cause the rooting of cuttings | [verb] To be firmly fixed; to be established. ROTTING (8) [verb] To suffer decomposition due to biological action, especially by fungi or bacteria. | [verb] To decline in function or utility. | [verb] To (cause to) deteriorate in any way, as in morals; to corrupt. ROUGING (9) [verb] To apply rouge (makeup). ROUPING (10) [verb] To cry or shout. | [verb] To sell by auction. ROUSING (8) [verb] To wake (someone) or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy. | [verb] To cause, stir up, excite (a feeling, thought, etc.). | [verb] To provoke (someone) to action or anger. ROUTING (8) [verb] To direct or divert along a particular course. | [verb] To connect two local area networks, thereby forming an internet. | [verb] To send (information) through a router. | [verb] To make a noise; roar; bellow; snort. RUBBING (12) [noun] An impression of an embossed or incised surface made by placing a piece of paper over it and rubbing with graphite, crayon or other coloring agent. | [verb] To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction. | [verb] To rub something against (a second thing). RUBYING (13) RUCHING (13) RUCKING (14) [verb] To act as a ruck in a stoppage in Australian rules football. | [verb] To contest the possession of the ball in a ruck. | [verb] To crease or fold. RUFFING (14) [verb] To shape (fabric, etc.) into a ruff; to adorn (a garment, etc.) with a ruff. | [verb] Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to hit (the prey) without fixing or grabbing hold of it. | [verb] To ruffle; to disorder. RUGGING (10) RUINING (8) [verb] To cause the fiscal ruin of. | [verb] To destroy or make something no longer usable. | [verb] To cause severe financial loss to; to bankrupt or drive out of business. RUNNING (8) [verb] To move swiftly. | [verb] (fluids) To flow. | [verb] (of a vessel) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing close-hauled. RUSHING (11) [verb] To hurry; to perform a task with great haste. | [verb] To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily. | [verb] To dribble rapidly. RUSTING (8) [verb] To oxidize, especially of iron or steel. | [verb] To cause to oxidize. | [verb] To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust. RUTTING (8) [verb] To be in the annual rut or mating season. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. SABBING (12) [verb] To sabotage, especially fox hunts in opposition to blood sports. SABEING (10) SABRING (10) [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SACKING (14) [verb] (games) To sacrifice. | [verb] To put in a sack or sacks. | [verb] To bear or carry in a sack upon the back or the shoulders. SACRING (10) [verb] To consecrate | [noun] Consecration of the Eucharist. | [noun] Consecration of a person for holy office, usually a bishop or sovereign. SAGGING (10) [verb] To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane. | [verb] (by extension) To lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position. | [verb] To lose firmness, elasticity, vigor, or a thriving state; to sink; to droop; to flag; to bend; to yield, as the mind or spirits, under the pressure of care, trouble, doubt, or the like; to be unsettled or unbalanced. SAILING (8) [verb] To be impelled or driven forward by the action of wind upon sails, as a ship on water; to be impelled on a body of water by steam or other power. | [verb] To move through or on the water; to swim, as a fish or a waterfowl. | [verb] To ride in a boat, especially a sailboat. | [adjective] Travelling by ship. | [noun] Motion across a body of water in a craft powered by the wind, as a sport or otherwise SAINING (8) SALTING (8) [verb] To add salt to. | [verb] To deposit salt as a saline solution. | [verb] To fill with salt between the timbers and planks, as a ship, for the preservation of the timber. SALVING (11) [verb] To calm or assuage. | [verb] To heal by applications or medicaments; to apply salve to; to anoint. | [verb] To heal; to remedy; to cure; to make good. SANDBAG (11) [noun] A sturdy sack filled with sand, generally used in large numbers to make defensive walls against flooding, bullets, or shrapnel. | [noun] A small bag filled with sand and used as a cudgel. | [noun] An engraver's leather cushion, etc. SANDHOG (12) [noun] A person employed to dig tunnels. | [verb] To work digging tunnels. SANDING (9) [verb] To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it. | [verb] To cover with sand. | [verb] To blot ink using sand. | [noun] The act or process by which something is sanded; the application of sandpaper, etc. SAPLING (10) [noun] A young tree, but bigger than a seedling. | [noun] A youngster, especially a male nearing maturity. SAPPING (12) [verb] To drain, suck or absorb from (tree, etc.). | [verb] To exhaust the vitality of. | [verb] To strike with a sap (with a blackjack). SASHING (11) SASSING (8) [verb] To talk, to talk back. | [verb] To speak insolently to. SAUCING (10) [verb] To add sauce to; to season. | [verb] To cause to relish anything, as if with a sauce; to tickle or gratify, as the palate; to please; to stimulate. | [verb] To make poignant; to give zest, flavour or interest to; to set off; to vary and render attractive. SCALING (10) [verb] To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product. | [verb] To climb to the top of. | [verb] To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors. SCAPING (12) SCARING (10) [verb] To frighten, terrify, startle, especially in a minor way. SCOPING (12) [verb] To perform a cursory investigation of; scope out. | [verb] To perform any medical procedure that ends in the suffix -scopy, such as endoscopy, colonoscopy, bronchoscopy, etc. | [verb] To limit (an object or variable) to a certain region of program source code. SCORING (10) [verb] To cut a notch or a groove in a surface. | [verb] To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination. | [verb] To obtain something desired. SCOWING (13) SCRYING (13) [verb] To predict the future using crystal balls or other objects. | [verb] To descry; to see. | [verb] To proclaim. SCUMBAG (14) [noun] Condom | [noun] (mildly) sleazy, disreputable or despicable person; lowlife SEALING (8) [verb] To hunt seals. | [verb] To place a seal on (a document). | [verb] To mark with a stamp, as an evidence of standard exactness, legal size, or merchantable quality. | [verb] To hunt seals. SEAMING (10) [verb] To put together with a seam. | [verb] To make the appearance of a seam in, as in knitting a stocking; hence, to knit with a certain stitch, like that in such knitting. | [verb] To mark with a seam or line; to scar. SEARING (8) [verb] To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument. | [verb] To wither; to dry up. | [verb] To make callous or insensible. SEATING (8) [verb] To put an object into a place where it will rest; to fix; to set firm. | [verb] To provide with places to sit. | [verb] To request or direct one or more persons to sit. SEEDING (9) [verb] To plant or sow an area with seeds. | [verb] To cover thinly with something scattered; to ornament with seedlike decorations. | [verb] To start; to provide, assign or determine the initial resources for, position of, state of. SEEKING (12) [verb] To try to find; to look for; to search for. | [verb] To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. | [verb] To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at. SEELING (8) [verb] To sew together the eyes of a young hawk. | [verb] (by extension) To blind. | [verb] (of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm. SEEMING (10) [verb] To appear; to look outwardly; to be perceived as. | [verb] To befit; to beseem. | [noun] Outward appearance. SEEPING (10) [verb] To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc. | [verb] To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse. | [verb] To diminish or wane away slowly. SEINING (8) [verb] To use a seine, to fish with a seine. | [noun] Fishing with a seine SEISING (8) [verb] To vest ownership of a freehold estate in (someone). | [verb] (with of) To put in possession. | [verb] To seize. SEIZING (17) [verb] To deliberately take hold of; to grab or capture. | [verb] To take advantage of (an opportunity or circumstance). | [verb] To take possession of (by force, law etc.). SELFING (11) [noun] A plant produced by vegetative propagation. SELLING (8) [verb] (ditransitive) To transfer goods or provide services in exchange for money. | [verb] To be sold. | [verb] To promote a product or service. SEMILOG (10) SENDING (9) [verb] To make something (such as an object or message) go from one place to another. | [verb] To excite, delight, or thrill (someone). | [verb] To bring to a certain condition. SENSING (8) [verb] To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel. | [verb] To instinctively be aware. | [verb] To comprehend. SERGING (9) SERVING (11) [verb] (personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink). | [verb] To treat (someone) in a given manner. | [verb] To be suitor to; to be the lover of. SETTING (8) [verb] To put (something) down, to rest. | [verb] To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place. | [verb] To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be. SHADING (12) [verb] To shield from light. | [verb] To alter slightly. | [verb] To vary or approach something slightly, particularly in color. SHAKING (15) [verb] To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly. | [verb] To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate refusal, reluctance or disapproval. | [verb] To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion. SHAMING (13) [verb] To cause to feel shame. | [verb] To cover with reproach or ignominy; to dishonor; to disgrace. | [verb] To drive or compel by shame. SHAPING (13) [verb] To create or make. | [verb] To give something a shape and definition. | [verb] To form or manipulate something into a certain shape. SHARING (11) [verb] To give part of what one has to somebody else to use or consume. | [verb] To have or use in common. | [verb] To divide and distribute. SHAVING (14) [verb] To make bald or shorter by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin. | [verb] To cut anything in this fashion. | [verb] To remove hair from one's face by this means. SHAWING (14) SHEBANG (13) [noun] A lean-to or temporary shelter. | [noun] A place or building; a store, saloon, or brothel. | [noun] Any matter of present concern; thing; or business; most commonly in the phrase "the whole shebang". | [noun] The character string "#!" used at the beginning of a computer file to indicate which interpreter can process the commands in the file, chiefly used in Unix and related operating systems. SHEWING (14) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHINDIG (12) [noun] A noisy party or festivities. SHINING (11) [verb] To emit light. | [verb] To reflect light. | [verb] To distinguish oneself; to excel. SHOEING (11) [verb] To put shoes on one's feet. | [verb] To put horseshoes on a horse. | [verb] To equip an object with a protection against wear. SHOOING (11) [verb] To induce someone or something to leave. | [verb] To leave under inducement. | [verb] To usher someone. SHORING (11) [verb] To set on shore. | [verb] (without up) To provide with support. | [verb] (usually with up) To reinforce (something at risk of failure). SHOVING (14) [verb] To push, especially roughly or with force. | [verb] To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off. | [verb] (by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet. SHOWING (14) [verb] To display, to have somebody see (something). | [verb] To bestow; to confer. | [verb] To indicate (a fact) to be true; to demonstrate. SHUTING (11) SIAMANG (10) [noun] A large black gibbon, Symphalangus syndactylus, from Sumatra SIBLING (10) [noun] A person who shares a parent; one's brother or sister who one shares a parent with. | [noun] A node in a data structure that shares its parent with another node. | [noun] The most closely related species, or one of several most closely species when none can be determined to be more closely related. SICCING (12) [verb] To mark with a bracketed sic. | [verb] To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. | [verb] To set upon; to chase; to attack. SICKING (14) [verb] To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs. | [verb] To set upon; to chase; to attack. | [verb] To vomit. SIDLING (9) [adjective] Directed toward one side | [adjective] Inclined; having an inclination | [adverb] In a sidelong direction | [verb] To (cause something to) move sideways. SIEGING (9) SIEVING (11) [verb] To strain, sift or sort using a sieve. | [verb] To concede; let in | [noun] The act of passing something through a sieve. SIFTING (11) [noun] The act by which something is sifted. SIGHING (12) [verb] To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like. | [verb] To lament; to grieve. | [verb] To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over. SIGNING (9) [verb] To make a mark | [verb] To make the sign of the cross | [verb] To indicate SILKING (12) SILOING (8) [verb] To store in a silo. | [noun] The practice of using silos | [noun] The action of the verb to silo SILTING (8) [verb] To clog or fill with silt. | [verb] To become clogged with silt. | [verb] To flow through crevices; to percolate. SINGING (9) [verb] To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. | [verb] To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. | [verb] To soothe with singing. SINKING (12) [verb] (heading, physical) To move or be moved into something. | [verb] (heading, social) To diminish or be diminished. | [verb] To conceal and appropriate. SINNING (8) [verb] To commit a sin. | [noun] The act of committing a sin. SIPPING (12) [verb] To ooze or pass slowly through pores or other small openings, and in overly small quantities; said of liquids, etc. | [verb] To enter or penetrate slowly; to spread or diffuse. | [verb] To diminish or wane away slowly. SITTING (8) [noun] A period during which one is seated for a specific purpose. | [noun] A special seat allotted to a seat-holder, at church, etc. | [noun] The part of the year in which judicial business is transacted. | [verb] (of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks. SKATING (12) [verb] To move along a surface (ice or ground) using skates. | [verb] To skateboard | [verb] To use the skating technique. SKEEING (12) SKEWING (15) [verb] To form or shape in an oblique way; to cause to take an oblique position. | [verb] To bias or distort in a particular direction. | [verb] To hurl or throw. SKITING (12) [verb] To boast. | [verb] To skim or slide along a surface. | [verb] To slip, such as on ice. SKIVING (15) [verb] To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk. | [verb] To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of. | [noun] A piece made in skiving (the paring or splitting of leather), especially the part from the inner, or flesh, side. SLAKING (12) [verb] To satisfy (thirst, or other desires). | [verb] To cool (something) with water or another liquid. | [verb] To become mixed with water, so that a true chemical combination takes place. SLATING (8) [verb] To cover with slate. | [verb] To criticise harshly. | [verb] To schedule. SLAVING (11) [verb] To work as a slaver, to enslave people. | [verb] To work hard. | [verb] To place a device under the control of another. SLAYING (11) [verb] To kill, murder. | [verb] To eradicate or stamp out. | [verb] (by extension) To defeat, overcome (in a competition or contest). SLEWING (11) [verb] To rotate or turn something about its axis. | [verb] To veer a vehicle. | [verb] To insert extra ticks or skip some ticks of a clock to slowly correct its time. SLICING (10) [verb] To cut into slices. | [verb] To cut with an edge utilizing a drawing motion. | [verb] To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar. SLIDING (9) [verb] To (cause to) move in continuous contact with a surface | [verb] To move on a low-friction surface. | [verb] To drop down and skid into a base. SLIMING (10) [verb] To coat with slime. | [verb] To besmirch or disparage. | [verb] To carve (fish), removing the offal. SLIPING (10) SLOPING (10) [verb] To tend steadily upward or downward. | [verb] To form with a slope; to give an oblique or slanting direction to; to incline or slant. | [verb] (usually followed by a preposition) To try to move surreptitiously. SLOWING (11) [verb] To make (something) run, move, etc. less quickly; to reduce the speed of. | [verb] To keep from going quickly; to hinder the progress of. | [verb] To become slow; to slacken in speed; to decelerate. SMILING (10) [verb] To have (a smile) on one's face. | [verb] To express by smiling. | [verb] To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness. SMITING (10) [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To strike down or kill with godly force. | [verb] To injure with divine power. | [noun] The act of one who smites. SMOKING (14) [verb] To inhale and exhale the smoke from a burning cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc. | [verb] To inhale and exhale tobacco smoke. | [verb] To give off smoke. | [noun] The act or process of emitting smoke. SNAKING (12) [verb] To follow or move in a winding route. | [verb] To steal slyly. | [verb] To clean using a plumbing snake. SNARING (8) [verb] To catch or hold, especially with a loop. | [verb] To ensnare. | [noun] The capture of a person or animal by means of a snare. SNAWING (11) SNIPING (10) [verb] To hunt snipe. | [verb] To shoot at individuals from a concealed place. | [verb] (by extension) To shoot with a sniper rifle. SNORING (8) [verb] To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate. | [noun] The action or sound of breathing during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate. SNOWING (11) [verb] To have snow fall from the sky. | [verb] To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information. | [verb] To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards. SOAKING (12) [verb] To be saturated with liquid by being immersed in it. | [verb] To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation. | [verb] To penetrate or permeate by saturation. SOAPING (10) [verb] To apply soap to in washing. | [verb] To cover, lather or in any other form treat with soap, often as a prank. | [verb] To be discreet about (a topic). SOARING (8) [verb] To fly high with little effort, like a bird. | [verb] To mount upward on wings, or as on wings. | [verb] To remain aloft by means of a glider or other unpowered aircraft. SOBBING (12) [verb] To weep with convulsive gasps. | [verb] To say (something) while sobbing. | [verb] To soak. SOCKING (14) [verb] To hit or strike violently; to deliver a blow to. | [verb] To throw. | [adverb] Very, extremely SODDING (10) [verb] To cover with sod. | [verb] Bugger; sodomize. | [verb] Damn, curse, confound. SOILING (8) [verb] To make dirty. | [verb] To become dirty or soiled. | [verb] To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully. SOLOING (8) [verb] To perform a solo. | [verb] To perform something in the absence of anyone else. | [verb] To drop the ball and then toe-kick it upward into the hands. SOLVING (11) [verb] To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out. | [verb] To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities. | [verb] To algebraically manipulate an equation or inequality into a form that isolates a chosen variable on one side, so that the other side consists of an expression that may be used to generate solutions. SOOTING (8) [verb] To cover or dress with soot. SOPPING (12) [verb] To steep or dip in any liquid. | [verb] To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate. | [adjective] Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping. SORBING (10) SORNING (8) SORTING (8) [verb] To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. | [verb] To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically. | [verb] To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. SOUPING (10) [verb] To feed: to provide with soup or a meal. | [verb] To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution. | [verb] Alternative form of sup SOURING (8) [verb] To make sour. | [verb] To become sour. | [verb] To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted. SOUSING (8) [verb] To immerse in liquid; to steep or drench. | [verb] To steep in brine; to pickle. | [verb] To strike, beat. SPACING (12) [verb] To roam, walk, wander. | [verb] To set some distance apart. | [verb] To insert or utilise spaces in a written text. SPADING (11) [verb] To turn over soil with a spade to loosen the ground for planting. | [noun] The act by which soil is spaded, or turned over by digging. SPAEING (10) [verb] To divine; foretell SPARING (10) [verb] To show mercy. | [verb] To keep. | [verb] To give up To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with. SPAYING (13) [verb] To divine; foretell | [verb] To remove or destroy the ovaries (of an animal) so that it cannot become pregnant. | [noun] The act or operation of neutering an animal; normally used in reference to performing the operation on a female. SPEWING (13) [verb] To eject forcibly and in a stream | [verb] To speak or write quickly and voluminously, especially words that are not worth listening to or reading. | [verb] To vomit SPICING (12) [verb] To add spice or spices to; season. | [verb] To spice up. SPIKING (14) [verb] To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails. | [verb] To set or furnish with spikes. | [verb] To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people. SPILING (10) [verb] To plug (a hole) with a spile. | [verb] To draw off (a liquid) using a spile. | [verb] To provide (a barrel, tree etc.) with a spile. SPIRING (10) SPITING (10) [verb] To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart. | [verb] To be angry at; to hate. | [verb] To fill with spite; to offend; to vex. SPOKING (14) SPORING (10) SPUMING (12) [verb] To froth. STAGING (9) [verb] To produce on a stage, to perform a play. | [verb] To demonstrate in a deceptive manner. | [verb] To orchestrate; to carry out. STAKING (12) [verb] To fasten, support, defend, or delineate with stakes. | [verb] To pierce or wound with a stake. | [verb] To put at risk upon success in competition, or upon a future contingency. | [noun] An act of stabbing with a stake. STALING (8) [verb] (of alcohol) To make stale; to age in order to clear and strengthen (a drink, especially beer). | [verb] To make stale; to cause to go out of fashion or currency; to diminish the novelty or interest of, particularly by excessive exposure or consumption. | [verb] To become stale; to grow odious from excessive exposure or consumption. STANING (8) STARING (8) [verb] (construed with at) To look fixedly (at something). | [verb] To influence in some way by looking fixedly. | [verb] To be very conspicuous on account of size, prominence, colour, or brilliancy. STATING (8) [verb] To declare to be a fact. | [verb] To make known. | [noun] Statement STAVING (11) [verb] To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. | [verb] (usually with 'in') To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. | [verb] (with 'off') To push, or keep off, as with a staff. STAYING (11) [verb] To prop; support; sustain; hold up; steady. | [verb] To support from sinking; to sustain with strength; to satisfy in part or for the time. | [verb] To stop; detain; keep back; delay; hinder. STEWING (11) [verb] To cook (food) by slowly boiling or simmering. | [verb] To brew (tea) for too long, so that the flavour becomes too strong. | [verb] To suffer under uncomfortably hot conditions. STOKING (12) [verb] To poke, pierce, thrust. | [verb] To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. | [verb] (by extension) To encourage a behavior or emotion. STONING (8) [verb] To pelt with stones, especially to kill by pelting with stones. | [verb] To wall with stones. | [verb] To remove a stone from (fruit etc.). STOPING (10) [noun] In mining, the removal of the desired ore from an underground mine, leaving behind an open space known as a stope. STORING (8) [verb] To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose. | [verb] To write (something) into memory or registers. | [noun] An amount stored. STOWING (11) [verb] To put something away in a compact and tidy manner, in its proper place, or in a suitable place. | [verb] To store or pack something in a space-saving manner and over a long time. | [verb] To arrange, pack, or fill something tightly or closely. STYLING (11) [verb] To design, fashion, make, or arrange in a certain way or form (style) | [verb] To call or give a name or title to. | [verb] To create for, or give to, someone a style, fashion, or image, particularly one which is regarded as attractive, tasteful, or trendy. SUBBING (12) [verb] To substitute for. | [verb] To work as a substitute teacher, especially in primary and secondary education. | [verb] To replace (a player) with a substitute. SUBRING (10) SUCKING (14) [verb] To use the mouth and lips to pull in (a liquid, especially milk from the breast). | [verb] To perform such an action; to feed from a breast or teat. | [verb] To put the mouth or lips to (a breast, a mother etc.) to draw in milk. SUDSING (9) [verb] To cover with, or as if with, soapsuds. SUEDING (9) SUGHING (12) SUITING (8) [verb] To make proper or suitable; to adapt or fit. | [verb] (said of clothes, hairstyle or other fashion item) To be suitable or apt for one's image. | [verb] To be appropriate or apt for. SULKING (12) [verb] To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn. | [noun] The act of one who sulks. SUMMING (12) [verb] To add together. | [verb] To give a summary of. | [noun] The act or result of addition; a sum. SUNNING (8) [verb] To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun. | [verb] To warm or dry in the sunshine. | [verb] To be exposed to the sun. SUPPING (12) [verb] To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon. | [verb] To take supper. | [noun] The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. SURFING (11) [verb] To ride a wave, usually on a surfboard. | [verb] To browse the Internet, television, etc. | [noun] The pastime or sport of riding surf on a surfboard. SURGING (9) [verb] To rush, flood, or increase suddenly. | [verb] To accelerate forwards, particularly suddenly. | [verb] To slack off a line. SUSSING (8) [verb] To arrest for suspicious behaviour. | [verb] (often with "out") To discover, infer or figure out. | [verb] To study or size up, to check out (examine). SWAGING (12) [verb] To lessen the intensity of, to mitigate or relieve (hunger, emotion, pain etc.). | [verb] To pacify or soothe (someone). | [verb] To calm down, become less violent (of passion, hunger etc.); to subside, to abate. SWAYING (14) [verb] To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward; to rock. | [verb] To move or wield with the hand; to swing; to wield. | [verb] To influence or direct by power, authority, persuasion, or by moral force; to rule; to govern; to guide. Compare persuade. SWIPING (13) [verb] To grab or bat quickly. | [verb] To strike with a strong blow in a sweeping motion. | [verb] To scan or register by sliding (a swipecard etc.) through a reader. SWIVING (14) [verb] To copulate with (a woman). | [verb] To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest. | [noun] The act or process of copulating; copulation. SYNAGOG (12) SYNCING (13) [verb] To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video. | [verb] To flush all pending I/O operations to disk. TABBING (12) [verb] To affix with tabs; to label. | [verb] To use the Tab key on a computer to advance the cursor or move the input focus, or on a typewriter to advance the carriage. TABLING (10) [verb] To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. | [verb] To supply (a guest, client etc.) with food at a table; to feed. | [verb] To delineate; to represent, as in a picture; to depict. TABUING (10) [verb] To mark as taboo. | [verb] To ban. | [verb] To avoid. TACKING (14) [verb] To nail with a tack (small nail with a flat head). | [verb] To sew/stich with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth). | [verb] To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other. TAGGING (10) [verb] To label (something). | [verb] (graffiti) To mark (something) with one’s tag. | [verb] To remove dung tags from a sheep. TAILING (8) [verb] To follow and observe surreptitiously. | [verb] To hold by the end; said of a timber when it rests upon a wall or other support; with in or into | [verb] To swing with the stern in a certain direction; said of a vessel at anchor. TALCING (10) [verb] To apply talc to. TALKING (12) [noun] The action of the verb talk. | [verb] To communicate, usually by means of speech. | [verb] To discuss; to talk about. TAMPING (12) [verb] (blasting) To plug up with clay, earth, dry sand, sod, or other material, as a hole bored in a rock. | [verb] To drive in or pack down by frequent gentle strokes | [verb] To reduce the intensity of. TANGING (9) [verb] To strike two metal objects together loudly in order to persuade a swarm of honeybees to land so it may be captured by the beekeeper. | [verb] To make a ringing sound; to ring. TANKING (12) [verb] To fail or fall (often used in describing the economy or the stock market); to degenerate or decline rapidly; to plummet. | [verb] To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently. | [verb] To put (fuel, etc.) into a tank. TANNING (8) [verb] To change to a tan colour due to exposure to the sun. | [verb] To change an animal hide into leather by soaking it in tannic acid. To work as a tanner. | [verb] To spank or beat. TAPPING (12) [verb] To furnish with taps. | [verb] To draw off liquid from a vessel. | [verb] To deplete, especially of a liquid via a tap; to tap out. TARRING (8) [verb] To coat with tar. | [verb] To besmirch. | [verb] To create a tar archive. TARTING (8) [verb] To practice prostitution | [verb] To practice promiscuous sex | [verb] To dress garishly, ostentatiously, whorishly, or sluttily TASKING (12) [verb] To assign a task to, or impose a task on. | [verb] To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax. | [verb] To charge, as with a fault. TASTING (8) [noun] A small amount of food or drink. | [noun] The taking of a small amount of food or drink into the mouth in order to taste it. | [verb] To sample the flavor of something orally. TATTING (8) [verb] To make (something by) tatting. | [verb] To apply a tattoo. | [noun] A form of looped and knotted lace needlework made from a single thread. TAUTAUG (8) TAUTING (8) TAWSING (11) TAXIING (15) [verb] To move an aircraft on the ground under its own power. | [verb] To travel by taxicab. | [noun] The movement of aircraft on the ground in readiness for takeoff or after landing TAXYING (18) TEAMING (10) [verb] To form a group, as for sports or work. | [verb] (by extension) To go together well; to harmonize. | [verb] To convey or haul with a team. TEARING (8) [verb] To rend (a solid material) by holding or restraining in two places and pulling apart, whether intentionally or not; to destroy or separate. | [verb] To injure as if by pulling apart. | [verb] To destroy or reduce abstract unity or coherence, such as social, political or emotional. | [noun] Continuous shedding of tears; epiphora TEASING (8) [verb] To separate the fibres of a fibrous material. | [verb] To comb (originally with teasels) so that the fibres all lie in one direction. | [verb] To back-comb. TEDDING (10) [verb] To spread hay for drying. | [noun] The process by which hay is tedded, or spread out for drying. TEEMING (10) [verb] To be stocked to overflowing. | [verb] To be prolific; to abound; to be rife. | [verb] To bring forth young, as an animal; to produce fruit, as a plant; to bear; to be pregnant; to conceive; to multiply. TELLING (8) [verb] (archaic outside of idioms) To count, reckon, or enumerate. | [verb] To narrate. | [verb] To convey by speech; to say. | [noun] The act of narration. TEMPING (12) [verb] To work as a temporary employee. TENDING (9) [verb] (Old English law) To make a tender of; to offer or tender. | [verb] (followed by a to-infinitive) To be likely, or probable to do something, or to have a certain habit or leaning. | [verb] To contribute to or toward some outcome. TENSING (8) [verb] (grammar) To apply a tense to. | [verb] To make or become tense. | [noun] The act of making something tense. TENTING (8) [verb] To go camping. | [verb] To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven. | [verb] To form into a tent-like shape. TERMING (10) [verb] To phrase a certain way; to name or call. | [verb] To terminate one's employment TESTING (8) [verb] To challenge. | [verb] To refine (gold, silver, etc.) in a test or cupel; to subject to cupellation. | [verb] To put to the proof; to prove the truth, genuineness, or quality of by experiment, or by some principle or standard; to try. THAWING (14) [verb] To gradually melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften from frozen | [verb] To become so warm as to melt ice and snow — said in reference to the weather, and used impersonally. | [verb] To grow gentle or genial. THEMING (13) [verb] To give a theme to. | [verb] To apply a theme to; to change the visual appearance and/or layout of (software). THEOLOG (11) THOLING (11) [verb] To suffer. | [verb] To endure, to put up with, to tolerate. THOUING (11) TICKING (14) [noun] A strong cotton or linen fabric used to cover pillows and mattresses. | [verb] To make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands in an analog clock. | [verb] To make a tick or checkmark. | [noun] A marking that occurs on some horses. It involves white flecks of hair at the flank, and white hairs at the base of the tail, called a skunk tail or rabicano. Sometimes referred to as birdcatcher ticks. TIDYING (12) [verb] To make tidy; to neaten. | [noun] The act or process in which things are tidied. TIERING (8) TIFFING (14) TILLING (8) [verb] To develop so as to improve or prepare for usage; to cultivate (said of knowledge, virtue, mind etc.). | [verb] To work or cultivate or plough (soil); to prepare for growing vegetation and crops. | [verb] To cultivate soil. | [noun] The act of one who tills. TILTING (8) [verb] To slope or incline (something); to slant. | [verb] (jousting) To charge (at someone) with a lance. | [verb] To be at an angle. TINGING (9) [verb] To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing. | [verb] To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing. | [verb] To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing. | [verb] To make a high sharp sound like a small bell being struck. TINNING (8) [verb] To place into a tin in order to preserve. | [verb] To cover with tin. | [verb] To coat with solder in preparation for soldering. TINTING (8) [verb] To shade, to color. | [noun] The application of a tint or shade of color. TIPPING (12) [verb] To provide with a tip; to cover the tip of. | [verb] (To cause) to become knocked over, fall down or overturn. | [verb] (To cause) to be, or come to be, in a tilted or sloping position; (to cause) to become unbalanced. TIRLING (8) TITHING (11) [verb] To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly: | [verb] To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly: | [verb] To compose the tenth part of something. | [noun] A reward, grant, or concession. TITLING (8) [verb] To assign a title to; to entitle. | [noun] The act of giving something a title, or of impressing the title on the back of a book. | [noun] A legal right to a property; holding a title. | [noun] The hedge sparrow, dunnock, titlene, Prunella modularis. TOGGING (10) [verb] To dress (often with up or out). TOILING (8) [verb] To labour; work. | [verb] To struggle. | [verb] To work (something); often with out. TOITING (8) TOLLING (8) [verb] To impose a fee for the use of. | [verb] To levy a toll on (someone or something). | [verb] To take as a toll. TOMBING (12) TOMMING (12) [verb] (of a black person) To act in an obsequiously servile manner toward white authority. | [verb] To dig out a hole below the hatch cover of a bulker and fill it with cargo or weights to aid stability. TONGING (9) [verb] To use tongs. | [verb] To grab, manipulate or transport something using tongs. | [noun] The action of seizing, grabbing, holding, or manipulating a given object with tongs. TOOLING (8) [verb] To work on or shape with tools, e.g., hand-tooled leather. | [verb] To equip with tools. | [verb] To work very hard. TOOTING (8) [verb] To stand out, or be prominent. | [verb] To peep; to look narrowly. | [verb] To see; to spy. TOPPING (12) [verb] To cover on the top or with a top. | [verb] To cut or remove the top (as of a tree) | [verb] To excel, to surpass, to beat. TOSSING (8) [verb] To throw with an initial upward direction. | [verb] To lift with a sudden or violent motion. | [verb] To agitate; to make restless. TOTTING (8) [verb] To sum or total. | [verb] To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified. | [noun] The act of totting or adding up; an addition. TOURING (8) [verb] To make a journey | [verb] To make a circuit of a place | [verb] To toot a horn. TOUSING (8) TOUTING (8) [verb] To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote. | [verb] To look upon or watch. | [verb] To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.). TRACING (10) [verb] To follow the trail of. | [verb] To follow the history of. | [verb] To draw or sketch lightly or with care. TRADING (9) [verb] To engage in trade. | [verb] To be traded at a certain price or under certain conditions. | [verb] To give (something) in exchange for. TREEING (8) [verb] To chase (an animal or person) up a tree. | [verb] To place in a tree. | [verb] To place upon a tree; to fit with a tree; to stretch upon a tree. TREPANG (10) [noun] An echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin. TRICING (10) TRINING (8) [verb] To put in the aspect of a trine. | [verb] To hang; To execute (someone) by suspension from the neck. | [verb] To go. TROKING (12) TROWING (11) [verb] To trust or believe. | [verb] To have confidence in, or to give credence to. TRUCING (10) TRUEING (8) [verb] To straighten. | [verb] To make even, level, symmetrical, or accurate, align; adjust. TUBBING (12) [verb] To plant, set, or store in a tub. | [verb] To bathe in a tub. | [noun] The forming of a tub. TUCKING (14) [verb] To pull or gather up (an item of fabric). | [verb] To push into a snug position; to place somewhere safe or somewhat hidden. | [verb] (often with "in" or "into") To eat; to consume. TUFTING (11) [verb] To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts. | [verb] To form into tufts. | [verb] To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. TUGGING (10) [verb] To pull or drag with great effort | [verb] To pull hard repeatedly | [verb] To tow by tugboat TUMPING (12) TUNNING (8) [verb] To put into tuns, or casks. TUPPING (12) [verb] To mate; used of a ram mating with a ewe. | [verb] To have sex with, to bonk, etc. | [verb] (regional English) To butt: said of a ram. TURFING (11) [verb] To cover with turf; to create a lawn by laying turfs. | [verb] (Ultimate Frisbee) To throw a frisbee well short of its intended target, usually causing it to hit the ground within 10 yards of its release. | [verb] To fire from a job or dismiss from a task. TURNING (8) [verb] (heading) to make a non-linear physical movement. | [verb] (heading) To change condition or attitude. | [verb] To change one's course of action; to take a new approach. TUSHING (11) TUSKING (12) TUTTING (8) [verb] To make a tut tut sound of disapproval. | [verb] To work by the piece; to carry out tut-work. | [noun] The act of making a tut sound in disapproval. TWINING (11) [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries). TYTHING (14) UNAGING (9) UNDOING (9) [noun] The act of loosening or unfastening | [noun] Ruin; defeat, that which causes defeat or ruin. | [noun] Annulment; reversal | [verb] To reverse the effects of an action. UNDYING (12) [verb] To come back to life after having died. | [verb] To become undead. | [adjective] Permanent; never-ending; infinite UNITING (8) [verb] To bring together as one. | [verb] To come together as one. | [noun] The act by which things are united; the formation of a union. UNSLING (8) [verb] To take something from a hanging or slung position. UNSLUNG (8) [verb] To take something from a hanging or slung position. | [adjective] That has not been slung. UNSTUNG (8) UNTYING (11) [verb] To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of. | [verb] To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind. | [verb] To resolve; to unfold; to clear. UNWRUNG (11) UNYOUNG (11) UPFLING (13) UPFLUNG (13) [adjective] Flung or thrown up. UPGOING (11) UPSWING (13) [noun] An upward swing | [noun] (by extension) an upward trend or an increase in activity | [verb] To swing upward. UPSWUNG (13) VAILING (11) [verb] To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something). | [verb] To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat. | [verb] To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink. VALUING (11) [verb] To estimate the value of; judge the worth of something. | [verb] To fix or determine the value of; assign a value to, as of jewelry or art work. | [verb] To regard highly; think much of; place importance upon. VALVING (14) VAMPING (15) [verb] To patch, repair, or refurbish. | [verb] Often as vamp up: to fabricate or put together (something) from existing material, or by adding new material to something existing. | [verb] To cobble together, to extemporize, to improvise. VANNING (11) VARYING (14) [verb] To change with time or a similar parameter. | [verb] To institute a change in, from a current state; to modify. | [verb] Not to remain constant: to change with time or a similar parameter. VATTING (11) [verb] To put into a vat. | [verb] To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat; figuratively, to mix or blend elements as if with wines or spirits. VEALING (11) VEERING (11) [verb] To let out (a sail-line), to allow (a sheet) to run out. | [verb] To change direction or course suddenly; to swerve. | [verb] (of the wind) To shift in a clockwise direction (if in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a counterclockwise direction if in the Southern Hemisphere). VEILING (11) [verb] To dress in, or decorate with, a veil. | [verb] To conceal as with a veil. | [noun] The act of covering with a veil. VEINING (11) [verb] To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern. | [noun] An arrangement of veins or veinlike markings. VENDING (12) [verb] To hawk or to peddle merchandise. | [verb] To sell wares through a vending machine. VENGING (12) VENTING (11) [verb] To allow gases to escape. | [verb] To allow to escape through a vent. | [verb] To express a strong emotion. VERGING (12) [verb] To be or come very close; to border; to approach. | [verb] To bend or incline; to tend downward; to slope. | [noun] A neusis. VERSING (11) [verb] To compose verses. | [verb] To tell in verse, or poetry. | [verb] To educate about, to teach about. VESTING (11) [verb] To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely. | [verb] To clothe with authority, power, etc.; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; followed by with and the thing conferred. | [verb] To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; with in before the possessor. VETOING (11) [verb] To use a veto against. VETTING (11) [verb] To thoroughly check or investigate particularly with regard to providing formal approval. | [noun] A checking or investigation. VIALING (11) VIEWING (14) [verb] To look at. | [verb] To regard in a stated way. | [noun] An instance of viewing something. VISAING (11) VISEING (11) VOGUING (12) [noun] A stylized form of modern dance characterized by photographic-style poses integrated with angular, linear and rigid movements. VOICING (13) [verb] To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce | [verb] To utter audibly, with tone and not just breath. | [verb] To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of | [noun] The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument. VOIDING (12) [verb] To make invalid or worthless. | [verb] To empty. | [verb] To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge. WADDING (13) [noun] Wads collectively | [noun] Soft, fibrous cotton or wool used to make a wad, or as a packaging material | [verb] To crumple or crush into a compact, amorphous shape or ball. WAFFING (17) WAFTING (14) [verb] To (cause to) float easily or gently through the air. | [verb] To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float. | [verb] To give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. WAGGING (13) [verb] To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief. | [verb] To play truant from school. | [verb] To be in action or motion; to move; progress. WAIFING (14) WAILING (11) [verb] To cry out, as in sorrow or anguish. | [verb] To weep, lament persistently or bitterly. | [verb] To make a noise like mourning or crying. WAIRING (11) WAITING (11) [verb] To delay movement or action until the arrival or occurrence of; to await. (Now generally superseded by “wait for”.) | [verb] To delay movement or action until some event or time; to remain neglected or in readiness. | [verb] To wait tables; to serve customers in a restaurant or other eating establishment. WAIVING (14) [verb] To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forego. | [verb] To put aside, avoid. | [verb] To outlaw (someone). WALKING (15) [verb] To move on the feet by alternately setting each foot (or pair or group of feet, in the case of animals with four or more feet) forward, with at least one foot on the ground at all times. Compare run. | [verb] To "walk free", i.e. to win, or avoid, a criminal court case, particularly when actually guilty. | [verb] Of an object, to go missing or be stolen. | [noun] Present participle of walk. WALLING (11) [verb] To enclose with, or as if with, a wall or walls. | [verb] To boil. | [verb] To well, as water; spring. WANNING (11) WANTING (11) [verb] To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand. | [verb] (in particular) To wish, desire or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with. | [verb] To desire (to experience desire); to wish. | [noun] The state of wanting something; desire. WAPPING (15) WARDING (12) [verb] To keep in safety, to watch over, to guard. | [verb] To defend, to protect. | [verb] To fend off, to repel, to turn aside, as anything mischievous that approaches; -- usually followed by off. WARKING (15) WARMING (13) [verb] To make or keep warm. | [verb] To become warm, to heat up. | [verb] To favour increasingly. | [noun] A small rise in temperature. WARNING (11) [verb] To make (someone) aware of (something impending); especially: | [verb] To caution or admonish (someone) against unwise or unacceptable behaviour. | [verb] (chiefly with "off", "away", and similar words) To advise or order to go or stay away. WARPING (13) [verb] To twist or become twisted, physically or mentally: | [verb] (ropemaking) To run (yarn) off the reel into hauls to be tarred. | [verb] To arrange (strands of thread, etc) so that they run lengthwise in weaving. WARRING (11) [verb] To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe). | [verb] To carry on, as a contest; to wage. | [noun] The act of engaging in war or conflict. WARTHOG (14) [noun] A wild pig of the genus Phacochoerus, native to Africa. | [noun] A nickname for the A-10 Thunderbolt II air support warplane WASHING (14) [verb] To clean with water. | [verb] To move or erode by the force of water in motion. | [verb] To separate valuable material (such as gold) from worthless material by the action of flowing water. WASHRAG (14) [noun] A square piece of cloth for washing the face and body. WASTING (11) [verb] To devastate, destroy | [verb] To squander (money or resources) uselessly; to spend (time) idly. | [verb] To kill; to murder. WAUKING (15) WAULING (11) [verb] To wail, to cry plaintively. | [noun] A plaintive cry or howl, as of a cat. WAWLING (14) WAXWING (21) [noun] Any of several songbirds of the genus Bombycilla, having crested heads, and red tips to the wings. WEANING (11) [noun] The (passive) process of a child or animal ceasing to be dependent on the mother for nourishment. WEARING (11) [verb] To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc. | [verb] To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner. | [verb] To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance. WEAVING (14) [verb] To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another. | [verb] To spin a cocoon or a web. | [verb] To unite by close connection or intermixture. WEBBING (15) [verb] To construct or form a web. | [verb] To cover with a web or network. | [verb] To ensnare or entangle. WEDDING (13) [verb] To perform the marriage ceremony for; to join in matrimony. | [verb] To take as one's spouse. | [verb] To take a spouse. | [verb] To participate in a wedding. WEDGING (13) [verb] To support or secure using a wedge. | [verb] To force into a narrow gap. | [verb] To work wet clay by cutting or kneading for the purpose of homogenizing the mass and expelling air bubbles. WEEDING (12) [verb] To remove unwanted vegetation from a cultivated area. | [noun] The removal of weeds; the process by which something is weeded. WEENING (11) [verb] To suppose, imagine; to think, believe. | [verb] To expect, hope or wish. | [verb] To weep or cry. WEEPING (13) [verb] To cry; shed tears. | [verb] To lament; to complain. | [verb] (of a wound or sore) To produce secretions. WEETING (11) WELDING (12) [verb] To join two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination. | [verb] To bind together inseparably; to unite closely or intimately. | [verb] To wield. WELLING (11) [verb] To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring. | [verb] To have something seep out of the surface. | [noun] The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water. WELTING (11) [noun] The act of making reinforcing welts. WENDING (12) [verb] To turn; change. | [verb] To direct (one's way or course); pursue one's way; proceed upon some course or way. | [verb] To turn; make a turn; go round; veer. WESTING (11) [verb] To move to the west; (of the sun) to set. | [noun] A distance west of a datum line on a map or chart. | [noun] A distance travelled westward. WETTING (11) [verb] To cover or impregnate with liquid. | [verb] To accidentally urinate in or on. | [verb] To make or become wet. WHALING (14) [verb] To hunt for whales. | [verb] To thrash, to flog, to beat vigorously or soundly. | [noun] The practice of hunting whales. WHILING (14) [verb] To pass (time) idly. | [verb] To occupy or entertain (someone) in order to let time pass. | [verb] To loiter. WHINING (14) [noun] A long-drawn, high-pitched complaining cry or sound | [noun] A complaint or criticism | [verb] To utter a high-pitched cry. WHITING (14) [verb] To make white; to whiten; to bleach. | [noun] A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc. | [noun] A fish, Merlangius merlangus, similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US). WHORING (14) [verb] To prostitute oneself. | [verb] To engage the services of a prostitute. | [verb] To pimp; to pander. WICKING (17) [verb] To convey or draw off (liquid) by capillary action. | [verb] (of a liquid) To traverse (i.e. be conveyed by capillary action) through a wick or other porous material, as water through a sponge. Usually followed by through. | [verb] To strike (a stone) obliquely; to strike (a stationary stone) just enough that the played stone changes direction. WIGGING (13) [verb] To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.). | [verb] To upbraid, reprimand. | [verb] To become extremely emotional or excitable; to lose control of one's emotions. WILDING (12) [noun] A wild apple or apple-tree. | [noun] Any plant that grows wild; a wildflower, etc. | [verb] To commit random acts of assault, robbery, and rape in an urban setting, especially as a gang. WILLING (11) [verb] To wish, desire. | [verb] To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. | [verb] To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention). WILTING (11) [verb] To droop or become limp and flaccid (as a dying leaf or flower). | [verb] To fatigue; to lose strength. | [verb] To cause to droop or become limp and flaccid (as a flower). WINCING (13) [verb] To flinch as if in pain or distress. | [verb] To wash (cloth), dip it in dye, etc., with the use of a wince. | [verb] To kick or flounce when unsteady or impatient. WINDBAG (14) [noun] Bellows for an organ. | [noun] (mildly) Someone who talks excessively WINDING (12) [verb] To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. | [verb] To cause (someone) to become breathless, as by a blow to the abdomen, or by physical exertion, running, etc. | [verb] To cause a baby to bring up wind by patting its back after being fed. | [verb] To blow air through a wind instrument or horn to make a sound. WINGING (12) [verb] To injure slightly (as with a gunshot), especially in the wing or arm. | [verb] To fly. | [verb] (of a building) To add a wing (extra part) to. WINKING (15) [verb] To close one's eyes in sleep. | [verb] To close one's eyes. | [verb] Usually followed by at: to look the other way, to turn a blind eye. WINNING (11) [verb] To conquer, defeat. | [verb] To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb). | [verb] To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.). WISHING (14) [verb] To desire; to want. | [verb] To hope (+ object clause with may or in present subjunctive). | [verb] (followed by for) To hope (for a particular outcome). WISPING (13) WISSING (11) [verb] To know; to understand. WISTING (11) WITHING (14) WITLING (11) [noun] A person who feigns wit, pretending or aspiring to be witty. | [noun] A person with very little wit. WITTING (11) [noun] Knowledge, awareness. | [adjective] Aware, knowledgable WOLFING (14) [verb] To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously. | [verb] To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex. | [verb] To hunt for wolves. WONNING (11) WONTING (11) [verb] To make (someone) used to; to accustom. | [verb] To be accustomed (to something), to be in the habit (of doing something). WOODING (12) WOOFING (14) [verb] To make a woofing sound. | [noun] Act of woofing; barking. | [noun] Travelling to places for the purpose of volunteering on an organic farm there. WORDING (12) [verb] To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something). | [verb] To flatter with words, to cajole. | [verb] To ply or overpower with words. WORKBAG (17) [noun] A bag containing tools or material used for work, especially needlework. WORKING (15) [noun] (usually in the plural) Operation; action. | [noun] Method of operation. | [noun] The incidental or subsidiary calculations performed in solving an overall problem. | [verb] To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers. WORMING (13) [verb] To make (one's way) with a crawling motion. | [verb] To move with one's body dragging the ground. | [verb] To work one's way by artful or devious means. WOTTING (11) WRITING (11) [noun] Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning. | [noun] Something written, such as a document, article or book. | [noun] The process of representing a language with symbols or letters. | [verb] To form letters, words or symbols on a surface in order to communicate. YACKING (17) [verb] To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle. | [verb] To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption. YAFFING (17) YAKKING (19) [verb] To talk, particularly informally but persistently; to chatter or prattle. | [verb] To vomit, usually as a result of excessive alcohol consumption. YANKING (15) [verb] To pull (something) with a quick, strong action. | [verb] To remove from distribution. YAPPING (15) [verb] Of a small dog, to bark. | [verb] To talk, especially excessively; to chatter. | [verb] To rob or steal from (someone). YARDING (12) [verb] To confine to a yard. YARNING (11) [verb] To tell a story or stories. YAUPING (13) YAWLING (14) YAWNING (14) [verb] To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation. | [verb] To say while yawning. | [verb] To present a wide opening. YAWPING (16) [verb] To yelp, or utter a sharp cry, as in intense pain, or another raucous noise | [verb] To talk loudly and coarsely | [verb] Clamor, utter loud complaints YEALING (11) YEANING (11) [verb] (of goats or sheep) To give birth to. YELLING (11) [verb] Shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice. | [verb] To convey by shouting | [verb] To tell someone off (in a loud and angry manner) YELPING (13) [verb] To utter an abrupt, high-pitched noise. | [noun] The act of producing a yelp. YENNING (11) [verb] To have a strong desire for. YERKING (15) [verb] To stab. | [verb] To throw or thrust with a sudden, smart movement; to kick or strike suddenly; to jerk. | [verb] To strike or lash with a whip or stick. YESSING (11) YEUKING (15) YIPPING (15) [verb] To bark with a sharp, high-pitched voice | [noun] A sound that yips. YIRRING (11) YOCKING (17) YODLING (12) YOWLING (14) [verb] Utter a yowl. | [verb] Express by yowling; utter with a yowl. | [noun] A sound that yowls. YUCKING (17) [verb] To itch. YUKKING (19) [verb] To laugh exuberantly. ZAGGING (19) [verb] To move with a sharp turn or reversal. ZAPPING (21) [verb] To make a zap sound. | [verb] To use a remote control to repeatedly change channels on a television. | [verb] To strike (something or someone) with electricity or energy, as by shooting. ZEROING (17) [verb] To set a measuring instrument to zero; to calibrate instrument scale to valid zero. | [verb] To change a memory location or range to values of zero; to set a variable in a computer program to zero. | [verb] To cause or set some value or amount to be zero. ZESTING (17) [verb] To scrape the zest from a fruit. | [verb] To make more zesty. ZIGGING (19) [verb] To make such a turn. ZINCING (19) [verb] To electroplate with zinc. | [verb] To coat with sunblock incorporating zinc oxide. ZINGING (18) [verb] To move very quickly, especially while making a high-pitched hum. ZIPPING (21) [verb] To close with a zip fastener. | [verb] To close as if with a zip fastener. | [verb] To compress (one or more computer files) into a single and often smaller file, especially one in the ZIP format. ZONKING (21) [verb] To hit hard . | [verb] To make (someone) sleepy or delirious, to put into a stupor . | [verb] (usually followed by “out”) To become exhausted, sleepy or delirious. ZOOMING (19) [verb] To communicate with someone using the Zoom videoconferencing software. | [verb] To move fast with a humming noise | [verb] To fly an airplane straight up

ABASHING (14) [verb] To make ashamed; to embarrass; to destroy the self-possession of, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to disconcert; to discomfit. | [verb] To lose self-possession; to become ashamed. ABDUCING (14) ABETTING (11) [verb] To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable. | [verb] To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime. | [verb] To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid (any good cause, opinion, or action); to maintain. ABJURING (18) [verb] To renounce upon oath; to forswear; to disavow. | [verb] To cause one to renounce or recant. | [verb] To reject with solemnity; to abandon forever; to repudiate; to disclaim. ABLATING (11) [verb] To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization. | [verb] To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature. ABORNING (11) [adjective] While being born or produced. | [adverb] That is in the process of being born; coming into existence; before coming to completion. ABORTING (11) [verb] (now rare outside medicine) To miscarry; to bring forth (non-living) offspring prematurely. | [verb] To cause a premature termination of (a fetus); to end a pregnancy before term. | [verb] To end prematurely; to stop in the preliminary stages; to turn back. ABRADING (12) [verb] To rub or wear off; erode. | [verb] To wear down or exhaust, as a person; irritate. | [verb] To irritate by rubbing; chafe. ABUTTING (11) [verb] To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land) | [verb] To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to. | [verb] To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall. ACCEDING (14) [verb] To approach; to arrive, to come forward. | [verb] To give one's adhesion; to join up with (a group, etc.); to become part of. | [verb] To agree or assent to a proposal or a view; to give way. ACCRUING (13) [verb] To increase, to rise | [verb] To reach or come to by way of increase; to arise or spring up because of growth or result, especially as the produce of money lent. | [verb] To be incurred as a result of the passage of time. ACCUSING (13) [verb] To find fault with, blame, censure | [verb] (followed by "of") to charge with having committed a crime or offence | [verb] To make an accusation against someone ADAPTING (12) [verb] To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit | [verb] To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust | [verb] To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character ADDUCING (13) [verb] To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. ADEEMING (12) [verb] Present participle of "adeem," meaning to revoke or take away a specific bequest or gift made in a will. ADHERING (13) [verb] To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united. | [verb] To be attached or devoted by personal union, in belief, on principle, etc. | [verb] To be consistent or coherent; to be in accordance; to agree. ADJURING (17) [verb] To issue a formal command. | [verb] To earnestly appeal to or advise; to charge solemnly. | [noun] Adjuration ADMIRING (12) [verb] To be amazed at; to view with surprise; to marvel at. | [verb] To regard with wonder and delight. | [verb] To look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love or reverence. ADMIXING (19) [verb] To mingle with something else; to mix. ADOPTING (12) [verb] To take by choice into relationship (a child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.) | [verb] To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally. | [verb] To select and take or approve. ADORNING (10) [verb] To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate. | [noun] An adornment. ADVISING (13) [verb] To give advice to; to offer an opinion to, as worthy or expedient to be followed. | [verb] To recommend; to offer as advice. | [verb] To give information or notice to; to inform or counsel; — with of before the thing communicated. AERATING (9) [verb] To supply with oxygen or air. AFFIXING (22) [verb] To attach. | [verb] To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to. | [verb] To fix or fasten figuratively; with on or upon. AGENTING (10) AGISTING (10) [verb] To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. | [verb] To charge lands etc. with any public burden. AGNIZING (19) [verb] To recognise; to acknowledge. AGREEING (10) [verb] To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur. | [verb] To yield assent; to accede;—followed by to. | [verb] To yield assent to; to approve. AIRTHING (12) ALARMING (11) [verb] To call to arms for defense | [verb] To give (someone) notice of approaching danger | [verb] To rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert. ALERTING (9) [verb] To give warning to. ALIBIING (11) [verb] To provide an alibi for. | [verb] To provide an excuse for. ALIENING (9) ALIGNING (10) [verb] To form a line; to fall into line. | [verb] To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line. | [verb] To store (data) in a way that is consistent with the memory architecture, i.e. by beginning each item at an offset equal to some multiple of the word size. ALLAYING (12) [verb] To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm. | [verb] To alleviate; to abate; to mitigate. | [verb] To subside, abate, become peaceful. ALLEGING (10) [verb] To state under oath, to plead. | [verb] To cite or quote an author or his work for or against. | [verb] To adduce (something) as a reason, excuse, support etc. ALLOWING (12) [verb] To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. | [verb] To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. | [verb] To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. ALLOYING (12) [verb] To mix or combine; often used of metals. | [verb] To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance. | [verb] To impair or debase by mixture. ALLUDING (10) [verb] To refer to something indirectly or by suggestion. ALLURING (9) [verb] To entice; to attract. | [noun] The action of the verb allure. | [adjective] Having the power to allure. ALTERING (9) [verb] To change the form or structure of. | [verb] To become different. | [verb] To tailor clothes to make them fit. AMASSING (11) [verb] To collect into a mass or heap. | [verb] To gather a great quantity of; to accumulate. AMENDING (12) [verb] To make better; improve. | [verb] To become better. | [verb] To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.). AMERCING (13) [verb] To impose a fine on; to fine. | [verb] To punish; to make an exaction. ANEARING (9) [verb] Present participle of "anear," meaning to draw near or approach; to come close to. ANGELING (10) [verb] The act of fishing with a rod and line, or pursuing the sport of angling. | [verb] Positioning or moving at an angle. ANGERING (10) [verb] To cause such a feeling of antagonism in. | [verb] To become angry. ANNEXING (16) [verb] To add something to another thing, especially territory; to incorporate. | [verb] To attach or connect, as a consequence, condition, etc. | [verb] To join; to be united. ANNOYING (12) [verb] To disturb or irritate, especially by continued or repeated acts; to bother with unpleasant deeds. | [verb] To do something to upset or anger someone; to be troublesome. | [verb] To molest; to harm; to injure. ANTIDRUG (10) [adjective] Designed to prevent, oppose, or counteract the use of drugs. | [adjective] Relating to efforts or policies aimed at combating drug abuse. ANTIKING (13) ANTISMOG (11) ANVILING (12) ANYTHING (15) [noun] Someone or something of importance. | [pronoun] Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; a thing of any kind; something or other. | [pronoun] (with “as” or “like”) Expressing an indefinite comparison. | [adverb] In any way, any extent or any degree. APPLYING (16) [verb] To lay or place; to put (one thing to another) | [verb] To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case | [verb] To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative APPOSING (13) [verb] To interrogate; to question. | [verb] To place next or to or near to; to juxtapose. | [verb] To place opposite or before; to put or apply (one thing to another). APRONING (11) ARCADING (12) [noun] A series of arches supported by columns or pillars, typically forming a covered passage. | [verb] The act of constructing or arranging arches in a series. ARMORING (11) [verb] To equip something with armor or a protective coating or hardening. | [verb] To provide something with an analogous form of protection. | [noun] Armour or shielding. AROUSING (9) [verb] To stimulate feelings. | [verb] To sexually stimulate. | [verb] To wake from sleep or stupor. ARRAYING (12) [verb] To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire. | [verb] To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal. | [verb] To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time. ARRIVING (12) [verb] To reach; to get to a certain place. | [verb] To obtain a level of success or fame; to succeed. | [verb] To come; said of time. ARROWING (12) [verb] To move swiftly and directly (like an arrow) | [verb] To let fly swiftly and directly | [verb] (of a sugar cane plant) To develop an inflorescence. ASPIRING (11) [verb] To have a strong desire or ambition to achieve something. | [verb] To go as high as, to reach the top of (something). | [verb] To move upward; to be very tall. ASSAYING (12) [verb] To attempt (something). | [verb] To try, attempt (to do something). | [verb] To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.). ASSUMING (11) [verb] To authenticate by means of belief; to surmise; to suppose to be true, especially without proof | [verb] To take on a position, duty or form | [verb] To adopt a feigned quality or manner; to claim without right; to arrogate ASSURING (9) [verb] To make sure and secure. | [verb] (followed by that or of) To give (someone) confidence in the trustworthiness of (something). | [verb] To guarantee, promise (to do something). ATHELING (12) [noun] A prince, especially an Anglo-Saxon prince or royal heir. ATTIRING (9) [verb] To clothe or adorn. | [noun] Ornamentation ATTUNING (9) [verb] To bring into musical accord. | [verb] To tune (an instrument). | [verb] To bring into harmony or accord. AUDITING (10) [verb] To examine and adjust (e.g. an account). | [verb] To conduct an independent review and examination of system records and activities in order to test the adequacy and effectiveness of data security and data integrity procedures, to ensure compliance with established policy and operational procedures, and to recommend any necessary changes | [verb] To counsel spiritually. AUGURING (10) [verb] To foretell events; to exhibit signs of future events. | [verb] To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue. AVAILING (12) [verb] To turn to the advantage of. | [verb] To be of service to. | [verb] To promote; to assist. AVENGING (13) [verb] To take vengeance (for); to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. | [verb] To take vengeance. | [verb] To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. AVERRING (12) [verb] To assert the truth of, to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner. | [verb] To prove or justify a plea. | [verb] To avouch, prove, or verify; to offer to verify. AVERTING (12) [verb] To turn aside or away. | [verb] To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. | [verb] To turn away. AVIATING (12) [verb] To operate an aircraft. AVOIDING (13) [verb] To try not to meet or communicate with (a person); to shun | [verb] To keep away from; to keep clear of; to stay away from | [verb] To try not to do something or to have something happen AVULSING (12) [verb] To tear off forcibly. AWAITING (12) [verb] To wait for. | [verb] To expect. | [verb] To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for. AWARDING (13) [verb] To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge | [verb] To determine; to make or grant an award. | [verb] To give (an award). BABBLING (15) [verb] To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds | [verb] To talk incoherently; to utter meaningless words. | [verb] To talk too much; to chatter; to prattle. BAFFLING (17) [verb] To publicly disgrace, especially of a recreant knight. | [verb] To hoodwink or deceive (someone). | [verb] To bewilder completely; to confuse or perplex. BALLYRAG (14) [verb] To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally. BANDYING (15) [verb] To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. | [verb] To use or pass about casually. | [verb] To throw or strike reciprocally, like balls in sports. BANTLING (11) [noun] An infant or young child. BATCHING (16) [verb] To aggregate things together into a batch. | [verb] To handle a set of input data or requests as a batch process. | [verb] To live as a bachelor temporarily, of a married man or someone virtually married. BATTLING (11) [noun] A growing fat, or the process of causing to grow fat; a fattening. | [noun] That which nourishes or fattens, as food, or feed for animals, or manure for soil. | [adjective] Nourishing; fattening. | [verb] To join in battle; to contend in fight BAULKING (15) [verb] To pass over or by. | [verb] To omit, miss or overlook by chance. | [verb] To miss intentionally; to avoid. BEACHING (16) [verb] To run aground on a beach. | [verb] To run (something) aground on a beach. | [verb] (of a vehicle) To run into an obstacle or rough or soft ground, so that the floor of the vehicle rests on the ground and the wheels cannot gain traction. BEARDING (12) [verb] To grow hair on the chin and jaw. | [verb] To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded. | [verb] To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt. BECOMING (15) [verb] To arrive, come (to a place). | [verb] To come about; happen; come into being; arise. | [verb] Begin to be; turn into. BEDEWING (15) [verb] To make wet with or as if with dew. BEESWING (14) [noun] A filmy, translucent crust found in port and other old wines which have been bottled-aged for a long time. | [noun] Cream of tartar; potassium bitartrate; the residual salt of tartaric acid. BEETLING (11) [verb] To move away quickly, to scurry away. | [verb] To loom over; to extend or jut. | [verb] To beat with a heavy mallet. BEGAZING (21) [verb] Present participle of begaze; to gaze at or look upon steadily. BEHAVING (17) [verb] To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way. | [verb] To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. | [verb] To conduct, manage, regulate (something). BEHOVING (17) [verb] To befit, to suit. | [verb] To be necessary for (someone). | [verb] To be in the best interest of; to benefit. BELAYING (14) [verb] To surround; environ; enclose. | [verb] To overlay; adorn. | [verb] To besiege; invest; surround. BELCHING (16) [verb] To expel (gas) loudly from the stomach through the mouth. | [verb] To eject or emit (something) with spasmodic force or noise. | [verb] To be ejected or emitted (from something) with spasmodic force or noise. BELLYING (14) [verb] To position one’s belly; to move on one’s belly. | [verb] To swell and become protuberant; to bulge or billow. | [verb] To cause to swell out; to fill. BEMIRING (13) [verb] To soil with mud or a similar substance. | [verb] To immerse or trap in mire. BEMIXING (20) BEMUSING (13) [verb] To confuse or bewilder. | [verb] To devote to the Muses. BENAMING (13) BENCHING (16) [verb] To remove a player from play. | [verb] To remove someone from a position of responsibility temporarily. | [verb] To push a person backward against a conspirator behind them who is on their hands and knees, causing them to fall over. BERAKING (15) BERATING (11) [verb] To chide or scold vehemently | [noun] A scolding. BERIMING (13) BERRYING (14) [verb] To pick berries. | [verb] To bear or produce berries. | [verb] To beat; give a beating to; thrash. BERTHING (14) [verb] To bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth | [noun] The planking outside of a vessel, above the sheer strake. | [noun] An instance of a ship being brought to rest at some docking facility. BETAKING (15) [verb] To beteach. | [verb] To take over to; take across (to); deliver. | [verb] To seize; lay hold of; take. BETIDING (12) [verb] To happen unto; to befall. | [verb] To happen; to take place; to bechance or befall. BEVELING (14) [verb] To give a canted edge to a surface; to chamfer. | [noun] A bevel, a bevelled facet. BEWARING (14) [verb] Present participle of beware; exercising caution or wariness toward something or someone. BIASSING (11) [verb] Present participle of "bias," meaning to cause someone to have a prejudiced view or to influence unfairly. | [verb] In electrical engineering, the process of applying a voltage or current to establish a reference point in a circuit. BIELDING (12) [verb] Present participle of bield, meaning to shelter or protect from wind or cold, or to lean against for support. BIGHTING (15) BINGEING (12) [verb] To engage in a short period of excessive consumption, especially of excessive alcohol consumption. BIRCHING (16) [verb] To punish with a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood. | [verb] To punish as though one were using a stick, bundle of twigs, or rod made of birch wood. | [noun] A beating with a birch. BIRDSONG (12) [noun] A vocalisation made by a bird for the purposes of courtship. | [noun] Vocalisations made by birds, considered collectively. BIRTHING (14) [verb] To bear or give birth to (a child). | [verb] To produce, give rise to. | [noun] (sometimes attributive) The act of giving birth. BITCHING (16) [verb] To behave or act as a bitch. | [verb] To criticize spitefully, often for the sake of complaining rather than in order to have the problem corrected. | [verb] To spoil, to ruin. BITEWING (14) [noun] A type of dental X-ray film held between the upper and lower teeth to show the crowns and roots of teeth in a single image. BLABBING (15) [verb] To tell tales; to gossip without reserve or discretion. | [noun] Gossip; the telling of tales. BLACKING (17) [verb] To make black; to blacken. | [verb] To apply blacking to (something). | [verb] To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute. BLACKLEG (17) [noun] A person who takes the place of striking workers; a scab. | [noun] A person who cheats in a game; a cheater. | [noun] A notorious gambler. BLANKING (15) [verb] To make void; to erase. | [verb] To ignore (a person) deliberately. | [verb] To prevent from scoring, for example in a sporting event. BLASTING (11) [verb] To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din. | [verb] To make a loud noise. | [verb] To shatter, as if by an explosion. | [noun] A planned explosion, as in mining. BLATTING (11) [verb] To cry, as a calf or sheep; to bleat. | [verb] To make a senseless noise. | [verb] To talk inconsiderately. BLEARING (11) [verb] To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes. | [verb] (of the eyes or eyesight) To make blurred or dim. | [verb] (of an image) To blur, make blurry. BLEATING (11) [verb] Of a sheep or goat, to make its characteristic cry; of a human, to mimic this sound. | [verb] Of a person, to complain. | [noun] A noise that bleats. BLEEDING (12) [verb] (of a person or animal) To lose blood through an injured blood vessel. | [verb] To let or draw blood from. | [verb] To take large amounts of money from. BLEEPING (13) [verb] To emit one or more bleeps. | [verb] To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps. | [adjective] A generic intensifier which can be substituted for any profane intensifier. BLENDING (12) [verb] To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other. | [verb] To be mingled or mixed. | [verb] To pollute by mixture or association; to spoil or corrupt; to blot; to stain. BLESSING (11) [verb] To make something holy by religious rite, sanctify. | [verb] To make the sign of the cross upon, so as to sanctify. | [verb] To invoke divine favor upon. BLINDING (12) [verb] To make temporarily or permanently blind. | [verb] To curse. | [verb] To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal. BLINKING (15) [verb] To close and reopen both eyes quickly. | [verb] To flash on and off at regular intervals. | [verb] To perform the smallest action that could solicit a response. BLIPPING (15) [verb] To emit one or more bleeps. | [verb] To edit out inappropriate spoken language in a broadcast by replacing offending words with bleeps. | [verb] To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion. BLISSING (11) [noun] Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward. | [noun] A pronouncement invoking divine aid. | [noun] Good fortune. BLITZING (20) [verb] To attack quickly or suddenly, as by an air raid or similar action. | [verb] To perform a blitz. | [verb] To purée or chop (food products) using a food processor or blender. BLOATING (11) [verb] To cause to become distended. | [verb] (veterinary medicine) to get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant. | [verb] To fill soft substance with gas, water, etc.; to cause to swell. BLOBBING (15) [verb] To drop in the form of a blob or blobs | [verb] To drop a blob or blobs onto, cover with blobs. | [verb] To fall in the form of a blob or blobs. BLOCKING (17) [verb] To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass. | [verb] To prevent (something or someone) from passing. | [verb] To prevent (something from happening or someone from doing something). BLOODING (12) [verb] To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody. | [verb] To let blood (from); to bleed. | [verb] To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed. | [noun] A bleeding. BLOOMING (13) [verb] To cause to blossom; to make flourish. | [verb] To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. | [verb] Of a plant, to produce blooms; to open its blooms. BLOOPING (13) [verb] To make a hit just beyond the infield. | [verb] To produce a low-pitched beeping sound. | [verb] To cover up splices in a soundtrack tape to eliminate the unwanted noise they may produce. BLOTTING (11) [verb] To cause a blot (on something) by spilling a coloured substance. | [verb] To soak up or absorb liquid. | [verb] To dry (writing, etc.) with blotting paper. BLOUSING (11) [verb] To hang a garment in loose folds. | [verb] To tuck one's pants/trousers (into one's boots). BLUBBING (15) [verb] To cry, whine or blubber (usually carries a connotation of disapproval). | [verb] To swell; to puff out, as with weeping. | [noun] Crying; whining; blubbering. BLUFFING (17) [verb] To make a bluff; to give the impression that one's hand is stronger than it is. | [verb] (by analogy) To frighten or deter with a false show of strength or confidence; to give a false impression of strength or temerity in order to intimidate and gain some advantage. | [verb] To take advantage by bluffing. BLUNGING (12) [verb] To mix clay and water. BLUNTING (11) [verb] To dull the edge or point of, by making it thicker; to make blunt. | [verb] To repress or weaken; to impair the force, keenness, or susceptibility, of | [noun] The process by which something is made blunt. BLURBING (13) [verb] To write or quote in a blurb. | [verb] To supply with a blurb. BLURRING (11) [verb] To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim. | [verb] To smear, stain or smudge. | [verb] To become indistinct. BLURTING (11) [verb] To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to speak quickly or without thought; to divulge inconsiderately — commonly with out. | [noun] Something that is blurted, or spoken hastily without thinking. BLUSHING (14) [verb] To become red in the face (and sometimes experience an associated feeling of warmth), especially due to shyness, shame, excitement, or embarrassment. | [verb] To be ashamed or embarrassed (to do something). | [verb] To become red. BOARDING (12) [verb] To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance. | [verb] To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money. | [verb] To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money. BOASTING (11) [verb] To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself. | [verb] To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. | [verb] To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult. BOBBLING (15) [verb] To bob up and down. | [verb] To make a mistake in. | [verb] To roll slowly. BOGEYING (15) [verb] To make a bogey. | [verb] To swim; to bathe. BOGGLING (13) [verb] Either literally or figuratively to stop or hesitate as if suddenly seeing a bogle. | [verb] To be bewildered, dumbfounded, or confused. | [verb] To confuse or mystify; overwhelm. BOODLING (12) [verb] To engage in boodling, which is the practice of accepting bribes or engaging in corrupt dealings, especially in politics. BOOGYING (15) [verb] Present participle of "boogie," meaning to dance to rock or pop music, or to move rhythmically to music. | [verb] To travel or move quickly. BOOSTING (11) [verb] To lift or push from behind (one who is endeavoring to climb); to push up. | [verb] (by extension) To help or encourage (something) to increase or improve; to assist in overcoming obstacles. | [verb] To steal. BORATING (11) [verb] Present participle of "borate," meaning to treat or combine with boron or boric acid. BOSOMING (13) [verb] The present participle of "bosom," meaning to embrace or hold closely to one's chest, or to hide or conceal something in one's bosom. BOTCHING (16) [verb] To perform (a task) in an unacceptable or incompetent manner; to make a mess of something | [verb] To do something without skill, without care, or clumsily. | [verb] To repair or mend clumsily. BOTTLING (11) [verb] To seal (a liquid) into a bottle for later consumption. Also fig. | [verb] To feed (an infant) baby formula. | [verb] To refrain from doing (something) at the last moment because of a sudden loss of courage. BOUNCING (13) [verb] To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle. | [verb] To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly. | [verb] To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly. BOUNDING (12) [verb] To surround a territory or other geographical entity. | [verb] To be the boundary of. | [verb] To leap, move by jumping. BOWELING (14) BOWERING (14) [verb] To embower; to enclose. | [verb] To lodge. BRADDING (13) BRAGGING (13) [verb] To boast; to talk with excessive pride about what one has, is able to do, or has done; often as an attempt to popularize oneself. | [verb] To boast of. | [noun] The act of one who brags. BRAIDING (12) [verb] To make a sudden movement with, to jerk. | [verb] To start into motion. | [verb] To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids. BRAILING (11) [verb] To reef, shorten or strike sail using brails. BRAINING (11) [verb] To dash out the brains of; to kill by smashing the skull. | [verb] To strike (someone) on the head. | [verb] To destroy; to put an end to. BRAISING (11) [verb] To cook in a small amount of liquid, in a covered pan, somewhere between steaming and boiling. | [verb] To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness. | [verb] To burn or temper in fire. BRANDING (12) [verb] To burn the flesh with a hot iron, either as a marker (for criminals, slaves etc.) or to cauterise a wound. | [verb] To mark (especially cattle) with a brand as proof of ownership. | [verb] To make an indelible impression on the memory or senses. BRANNING (11) BRASSING (11) [verb] The present participle of brass, meaning to coat or reinforce with brass metal. | [verb] To behave boldly or impudently; to act with brass or audacity. BRAVOING (14) [verb] Expressing approval or acclaim by shouting "bravo" at a performance or performer. BRAWLING (14) [verb] To engage in a brawl; to fight or quarrel. | [verb] To create a disturbance; to complain loudly. | [verb] Especially of a rapid stream running over stones: to make a loud, confused noise. BREADING (12) [verb] To coat with breadcrumbs | [verb] To make broad; spread. | [verb] To form in meshes; net. BREAKING (15) [verb] To separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack, by a process that cannot easily be reversed for reassembly. | [verb] To divide (something, often money) into smaller units. | [verb] To cause (a person or animal) to lose spirit or will; to crush the spirits of. BREAMING (13) [verb] To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping. BREEDING (12) [noun] Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction. | [noun] The act of insemination by natural or artificial means. | [noun] The act of copulation in animals. | [verb] To produce offspring sexually; to bear young. BREEZING (20) [verb] (usually with along) To move casually, in a carefree manner. | [verb] To blow gently. | [verb] To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion. BRICKING (17) [verb] To build with bricks. | [verb] To make into bricks. | [verb] To hit someone or something with a brick. BRIDGING (13) [verb] To be or make a bridge over something. | [verb] To span as if with a bridge. | [verb] To transition from one piece or section of music to another without stopping. BRIDLING (12) [verb] To put a bridle on. | [verb] To check, restrain, or control with, or as if with, a bridle; as in bridle your tongue. | [verb] To show hostility or resentment. BRIEFING (14) [verb] To summarize a recent development to some person with decision-making power. | [verb] To write a legal argument and submit it to a court. | [noun] A short and concise summary of a situation. BRIMMING (15) [verb] To be full to overflowing. | [verb] To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top. | [verb] Of pigs: to be in heat, to rut. BRINGING (12) [verb] (ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere. | [verb] To supply or contribute. | [verb] To occasion or bring about. BRISKING (15) [verb] (often with "up") To make or become lively; to enliven; to animate. BRISLING (11) [noun] A sprat (small herring) BROILING (11) [verb] To cook by direct, radiant heat. | [verb] To expose to great heat. | [verb] To be exposed to great heat. BRONZING (20) [verb] To plate with bronze. | [verb] To color bronze; (of the sun) to tan. | [verb] (of the skin) To change to a bronze or tan colour due to exposure to the sun. BROODING (12) [verb] To keep an egg warm to make it hatch. | [verb] To protect (something that is gradually maturing); to foster. | [verb] (typically with about or over) To dwell upon moodily and at length, mainly alone. BROOKING (15) [verb] To use; enjoy; have the full employment of. | [verb] To earn; deserve. | [verb] To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate (usually used in the negative, with an abstract noun as object). BROOMING (13) [verb] The act of sweeping with a broom. | [verb] In curling, the action of sweeping the ice in front of a stone to reduce friction and increase its distance. BROWNING (14) [verb] To become brown. | [verb] To cook something until it becomes brown. | [verb] To tan. BROWSING (14) [verb] To scan, to casually look through in order to find items of interest, especially without knowledge of what to look for beforehand. | [verb] To move about while sampling, such as with food or products on display. | [verb] To navigate through hyperlinked documents on a computer, usually with a browser. BRUISING (11) [verb] To strike (a person), originally with something flat or heavy, but now specifically in such a way as to discolour the skin without breaking it. | [verb] To damage the skin of (fruit or vegetables), in an analogous way. | [verb] Of fruit or vegetables, to gain bruises through being handled roughly. BRUITING (11) [verb] To disseminate, promulgate, or spread news, a rumour, etc. | [noun] The act of one who bruits something; the promulgation of news or rumours. BRUSHING (14) [verb] To clean with a brush. | [verb] To untangle or arrange with a brush. | [verb] To apply with a brush. BUBBLING (15) [verb] To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such as in foods cooking or liquids boiling). | [verb] To churn or foment, as if wishing to rise to the surface. | [verb] To rise through a medium or system, similar to the way that bubbles rise in liquid. BUCKLING (17) [verb] To distort or collapse under physical pressure; especially, of a slender structure in compression. | [verb] To make bend; to cause to become distorted. | [verb] To give in; to react suddenly or adversely to stress or pressure (of a person). | [noun] A young male domestic goat of between one and two years. | [noun] Smoked herring. BUDDYING (16) [verb] To assign a buddy, or partner, to. BUILDING (12) [noun] The act or process by which something is built; construction. | [noun] A closed structure with walls and a roof. | [verb] To form (something) by combining materials or parts. BULLFROG (14) [noun] Any of various frogs having a croak that resembles the bellow of a cow or bull. BULLRING (11) [noun] The area in which a bullfight takes place. BULLYING (14) [noun] An act of intimidating a person to do something, especially such repeated coercion. | [noun] Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person. | [verb] To intimidate (someone) as a bully. BULLYRAG (14) [verb] To harass, badger, taunt, or abuse verbally. BUMBLING (15) [verb] To act in an inept, clumsy or inexpert manner; to make mistakes. | [verb] To boom, as a bittern; to buzz, as a fly. | [noun] The act of one who bumbles; a mistake or error, especially through clumsiness. BUNCHING (16) [verb] To gather into a bunch. | [verb] To gather fabric into folds. | [verb] To form a bunch. BUNCOING (13) [verb] To swindle (someone). BUNDLING (12) [verb] To tie or wrap together into a bundle. | [verb] To hustle; to dispatch something or someone quickly. | [verb] To prepare for departure; to set off in a hurry or without ceremony; used with away, off, out. BUNGLING (12) [verb] To botch up, bumble or incompetently perform a task; to make or mend clumsily; to manage awkwardly. | [noun] An act of incompetence or ineptitude. | [adjective] Incompetent or inept. BUNKOING (15) [verb] To swindle (someone). BURBLING (13) [verb] To bubble; to gurgle. | [verb] To babble; to speak in an excited rush. | [verb] To trouble or confuse. BURGLING (12) [verb] To commit burglary. | [verb] To take the ball legally from an opposing player. BURSTING (11) [verb] To break from internal pressure. | [verb] To cause to break from internal pressure. | [verb] To cause to break by any means. BUSTLING (11) [verb] To move busily and energetically with fussiness (often followed by about). | [verb] To teem or abound (usually followed by with); to exhibit an energetic and active abundance (of a thing). | [noun] A bustle; a busy stir. BYLINING (14) [verb] The present participle of "byline," meaning to write or publish under a byline (a line crediting the author of an article). | [noun] A line at the beginning or end of an article giving the author's name and sometimes other information. CABINING (13) [verb] To place in a cabin or other small space. | [verb] (by extension) To limit the scope of. | [verb] To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge. CACKLING (17) [verb] To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does. | [verb] To laugh with a broken sound similar to a hen's cry. | [verb] To talk in a silly manner; to prattle. CADDYING (16) [verb] To serve as a golf caddie. | [verb] To serve as a caddy, carrying golf clubs etc. CAGELING (12) CAJOLING (18) [verb] To persuade someone to do something which they are reluctant to do, especially by flattery or promises; to coax. | [noun] The act of one who cajoles CALQUING (20) [verb] To adopt (a word or phrase) from one language to another by semantic translation of its parts. | [noun] Loan translation CAMEOING (13) [verb] Making a brief appearance or cameo, typically used to describe an actor or celebrity appearing in a small role in a film, TV show, or other production. CANALING (11) [verb] Present participle of canal; creating or directing through a channel or canal. | [verb] Channeling or directing something through a narrow passage or route. CANDLING (12) [verb] To observe the growth of an embryo inside (an egg), using a bright light source. | [verb] To dry greenware prior to beginning of the firing cycle, setting the kiln at 200° Celsius until all water is removed from the greenware. | [verb] To check an item (such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye. CANDYING (15) [verb] To cook in, or coat with, sugar syrup. | [verb] To have sugar crystals form in or on. | [verb] To be formed into candy; to solidify in a candylike form or mass. CANOEING (11) [verb] To ride or paddle a canoe. | [noun] A water sport involving travelling or racing in canoes or kayaks. CAPERING (13) [verb] To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner. | [verb] To jump as part of a dance. | [verb] To engage in playful behaviour. CAPRIFIG (16) [noun] A wild fig tree or its fruit, used to pollinate cultivated figs through the fig wasp. | [noun] The fruit of this tree. CAROLING (11) [noun] A singing of carols. CAROMING (13) [verb] To make a carom (shot in billiards). | [verb] To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound. CARRYING (14) [verb] To lift (something) and take it to another place; to transport (something) by lifting. | [verb] To transfer from one place (such as a country, book, or column) to another. | [verb] To convey by extension or continuance; to extend. CASTLING (11) [noun] An abortion, or a premature birth. | [noun] The second or third swarm of bees which leaves a hive in a season. | [noun] A miniature cast or mould. | [verb] To house or keep in a castle. CATCHING (16) [verb] (heading) To capture, overtake. | [verb] (heading) To seize hold of. | [verb] (heading) To intercept. CATERING (11) [verb] To provide, particularly: | [verb] To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally. | [noun] The business of providing food and related services; foodservice. CAULKING (15) [verb] To drive oakum into the seams of a ship's wooden deck or hull to make it watertight. | [verb] To apply caulking to joints, cracks, or a juncture of different materials. | [verb] Fuck CAVILING (14) [verb] To criticise for petty or frivolous reasons. | [noun] Cavilation CENTRING (11) [verb] To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area. | [verb] To cause (some attribute, such as a mood or voltage) to be adjusted to a value which is midway between the extremes. | [verb] To give (something) a central basis. CHAFFING (20) [verb] To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter. | [verb] To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz. | [noun] The act by which somebody is chaffed; a teasing. CHAINING (14) [verb] To fasten something with a chain. | [verb] To link multiple items together. | [verb] To secure someone with fetters. CHAIRING (14) [verb] To act as chairperson at; to preside over. | [verb] To carry in a seated position upon one's shoulders, especially in celebration or victory. | [verb] To award a chair to (a winning poet) at a Welsh eisteddfod. CHALKING (18) [verb] To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue. | [verb] To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk. | [verb] To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field. CHAMPING (18) [verb] To bite or chew, especially noisily or impatiently. | [noun] The sound or action of one who champs. CHANCING (16) [verb] To happen by chance, to occur. | [verb] To befall; to happen to. | [verb] To try or risk. CHANGING (15) [verb] To become something different. | [verb] To make something into something else. | [verb] To replace. CHANTING (14) [verb] To sing, especially without instruments, and as applied to monophonic and pre-modern music. | [verb] To sing or intone sacred text. | [verb] To utter or repeat in a strongly rhythmical manner, especially as a group. CHAPPING (18) [verb] Of the skin, to split or flake due to cold weather or dryness. | [verb] To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough. | [verb] To strike, knock. CHARGING (15) [verb] To assign a duty or responsibility to | [verb] To assign (a debit) to an account | [verb] To pay on account, as by using a credit card CHARKING (18) [verb] The process of burning something to charcoal or reducing it to char. | [verb] In cooking, to sear the surface of food at high temperature to create a browned crust. CHARMING (16) [verb] To seduce, persuade or fascinate someone or something. | [verb] To use a magical charm upon; to subdue, control, or summon by incantation or supernatural influence. | [verb] To protect with, or make invulnerable by, spells, charms, or supernatural influences. CHARRING (14) [verb] To burn something to charcoal. | [verb] To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour. | [verb] To turn, especially away or aside. CHARTING (14) [verb] To draw a chart or map of. | [verb] To draw or figure out (a route or plan). | [verb] To record systematically. CHATTING (14) [verb] To be engaged in informal conversation. | [verb] To talk more than a few words. | [verb] To talk of; to discuss. CHEATING (14) [verb] To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation. | [verb] To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner. | [verb] To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely. CHECKING (20) [verb] To inspect; to examine. | [verb] To verify the accuracy of a text or translation, usually making some corrections (proofread) or many (copyedit). | [verb] (often used with "off") To mark items on a list (with a checkmark or by crossing them out) that have been chosen for keeping or removal or that have been dealt with (for example, completed or verified as correct or satisfactory). CHEEKING (18) [verb] To be impudent towards. | [verb] To pull a horse's head back toward the saddle using the cheek strap of the bridle. CHEEPING (16) [verb] Of a small bird, to make short, high-pitched sounds sounding like "cheep". | [verb] To express in a chirping tone. | [noun] The sound of a cheep. CHEERING (14) [verb] To gladden; to make cheerful; often with up. | [verb] To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort. | [verb] To applaud or encourage with cheers or shouts. CHEESING (14) [verb] To prepare curds for making cheese. | [verb] To make holes in a pattern of circuitry to decrease pattern density. | [verb] To smile excessively, as for a camera. CHEFFING (20) [noun] The actions of a chef. CHEVYING (20) [verb] To chase or hunt. | [verb] To vex or harass with petty attacks. | [verb] To maneuver or secure gradually. CHILDING (15) CHILIDOG (15) CHILLING (14) [verb] To lower the temperature of something; to cool | [verb] To become cold | [verb] To harden a metal surface by sudden cooling CHINKING (18) [verb] To fill an opening such as the space between logs in a log house with chinking; to caulk. | [verb] To crack; to open. | [verb] To cause to open in cracks or fissures. CHINNING (14) [verb] To talk. | [verb] To talk to or with (someone). | [verb] To perform a chin-up (exercise in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar). CHIPPING (18) [verb] To chop or cut into small pieces. | [verb] To break small pieces from. | [verb] To play a shot hitting the ball predominantly upwards rather than forwards. In association football specifically, when the shot is a shot on goal, the opposing goalkeeper may be the direct object of the verb, rather than the ball. | [noun] A fragment broken off a larger material. CHIRKING (18) [verb] To chirp or make a chirping sound. | [verb] To cheer or encourage. CHIRMING (16) CHIRPING (16) [verb] To make a short, sharp, cheerful note, as of small birds or crickets | [verb] To speak in a high-pitched staccato | [verb] (radar, sonar, radio telescopy etc.) To modify (a pulse of signal) so that it sweeps through a band of frequencies throughout its duration. CHIRRING (14) [verb] To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada). | [verb] To coo like a pigeon. | [noun] The sound of a chirr. CHITLING (14) [noun] The small intestine of a pig or other animal, especially when prepared as food. | [noun] A strip of fried pork intestine, a traditional soul food dish. CHIVYING (20) [verb] To chase or hunt. | [verb] To vex or harass with petty attacks. | [verb] To maneuver or secure gradually. CHOCKING (20) [verb] To stop or fasten, as with a wedge, or block; to scotch. | [verb] To fill up, as a cavity. | [verb] To insert a line in a chock. CHOIRING (14) [verb] Singing or performing as a member of a choir. CHOMPING (18) [verb] To bite or chew loudly or heavily. | [verb] (Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string) if it is a newline (or, less commonly, some other programmer-specified character). | [noun] The sound or action of one who chomps. CHOOSING (14) [verb] To pick; to make the choice of; to select. | [verb] To elect. | [verb] To decide to act in a certain way. CHOPPING (18) [verb] To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions. | [verb] To sever with an axe or similar implement. | [verb] To give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand. CHORDING (15) [verb] To write chords for. | [verb] To accord; to harmonize together. | [verb] To provide with musical chords or strings; to string; to tune. CHOUSING (14) [verb] Present participle of "chouse," meaning to cheat or swindle someone. CHOWSING (17) CHROMING (16) [verb] To plate with chrome. | [verb] To treat with a solution of potassium bichromate, as in dyeing. | [noun] The act of inhaling the fumes of substances such as glue or paint, usually by sniffing them from a paper bag or bottle, with the aim of getting intoxicated. CHUCKING (20) [verb] To place in a chuck, or hold by means of a chuck, as in turning. | [verb] To bore or turn (a hole) in a revolving piece held in a chuck. | [verb] To make a clucking sound. CHUFFING (20) [verb] To make noisy puffing sounds, as of a steam locomotive. | [verb] To break wind. | [verb] To intermittently extinguish and reignite a powder charge. CHUGALUG (15) [noun] A glugging sound, especially one made by a person drinking in large gulps | [verb] To swallow (a container of beer etc.) without pausing. | [adverb] In continuous gulps CHUGGING (16) [verb] To make dull explosive sounds. | [verb] To move or travel whilst making such sounds. | [verb] To drink a large amount (especially of beer) in a single action/without breathing; to chugalug. People usually chant this at the person who is drinking. CHUMMING (18) [verb] To share rooms with someone; to live together. | [verb] To lodge (somebody) with another person or people. | [verb] To make friends; to socialize. CHUMPING (18) CHUNKING (18) [verb] To break into large pieces or chunks. | [verb] To break down (language, etc.) into conceptual pieces of manageable size. | [verb] To throw. CHURNING (14) [verb] To agitate rapidly and repetitively, or to stir with a rowing or rocking motion; generally applies to liquids, notably cream. | [verb] To produce excessive and sometimes undesirable or unproductive activity or motion. | [verb] To move rapidly and repetitively with a rocking motion; to tumble, mix or shake. CHURRING (14) [verb] To make the prolonged trilling sound of an insect (e.g. a grasshopper, a cicada). | [verb] To make the low vocal sound of some birds. CINCHING (16) [verb] To bring to certain conclusion. | [verb] To tighten down. | [verb] In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five. CIRCLING (13) [verb] To travel around along a curved path. | [verb] To surround. | [verb] To place or mark a circle around. CLACKING (17) [verb] To make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. | [verb] To cause to make a sudden, sharp noise, or succession of noises; to click. | [verb] To chatter or babble; to utter rapidly without consideration. CLADDING (13) [verb] (past tense clad) To clothe. | [verb] (past tense clad or cladded) To cover (with insulation or another material); to surround, envelop. | [verb] (figuratively) To imbue (with a specified quality) CLAGGING (13) [verb] Present participle of "clag," meaning to stick or adhere, or to clog with sticky substance. | [verb] To hit or strike. CLAIMING (13) [verb] To demand ownership of. | [verb] To state a new fact, typically without providing evidence to prove it is true. | [verb] To demand ownership or right to use for land. CLAMMING (15) [verb] To dig for clams. | [verb] To produce, in bellringing, a clam or clangor; to cause to clang. | [verb] To be moist or glutinous; to stick; to adhere. CLAMPING (15) [verb] To fasten in place or together with (or as if with) a clamp. | [verb] To hold or grip tightly. | [verb] To modify (a numeric value) so it lies within a specific range. CLANGING (12) [verb] To strike (objects) together so as to produce a clang. | [verb] To give out a clang; to resound. | [noun] A noise that clangs. CLANKING (15) [verb] To make a clanking sound | [verb] To cause to sound with a clank. | [noun] A noise that clanks. CLAPPING (15) [verb] To strike the palms of the hands together, creating a sharp sound. | [verb] To applaud. | [verb] To slap with the hand in a jovial manner. CLASHING (14) [verb] To make a clashing sound. | [verb] To cause to make a clashing sound. | [verb] To come into violent conflict. CLASPING (13) [verb] To take hold of; to grasp; to grab tightly. | [verb] To shut or fasten together with, or as if with, a clasp. | [noun] The act by which something is clasped. CLASSING (11) [verb] To assign to a class; to classify. | [verb] To be grouped or classed. | [verb] To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes. CLEANING (11) [verb] To remove dirt from a place or object. | [verb] To tidy up, make a place neat. | [verb] To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed. CLEARING (11) [verb] To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from. | [verb] To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open. | [verb] To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent. CLEATING (11) [verb] The present participle of "cleat," meaning to furnish with cleats (small projections on shoes or equipment for traction) or to strike with a cleat. CLEAVING (14) [verb] To split or sever something with, or as if with, a sharp instrument. | [verb] To break a single crystal (such as a gemstone or semiconductor wafer) along one of its more symmetrical crystallographic planes (often by impact), forming facets on the resulting pieces. | [verb] To make or accomplish by or as if by cutting. CLEEKING (15) [verb] To strike a golf ball with a cleek, which is a type of golf club. | [noun] A golf club with an iron head, typically used for long-distance shots. CLEFTING (14) [verb] The present participle of "cleft," meaning to split or divide, or to describe the surgical procedure of repairing a cleft palate or cleft lip. CLERKING (15) [verb] To act as a clerk, to perform the duties or functions of a clerk CLICKING (17) [verb] To cause to make a click; to operate (a switch, etc) so that it makes a click. | [verb] To press and release (a button on a computer mouse). | [verb] To select a software item using, usually, but not always, the pressing of a mouse button. CLIMBING (15) [verb] To ascend; rise; to go up. | [verb] To mount; to move upwards on. | [verb] To scale; to get to the top of something. CLINGING (12) [verb] To hold very tightly, as to not fall off. | [verb] To adhere to an object, without being affixed, in such a way as to follow its contours. Used especially of fabrics and films. | [verb] To cause to adhere to, especially by twining round or embracing. CLINKING (15) [verb] To make a clinking sound; to make a sound of metal on metal or glass on glass; to strike materials such as metal or glass against one another. | [verb] To rhyme. | [noun] A noise that clinks. CLIPPING (15) [verb] To grip tightly. | [verb] To fasten with a clip. | [verb] To hug, embrace. CLIQUING (20) CLOAKING (15) [verb] To cover as with a cloak. | [verb] To hide or conceal. | [verb] To render or become invisible via futuristic technology. CLOCKING (17) [verb] To measure the duration of. | [verb] To measure the speed of. | [verb] To hit (someone) heavily. CLOGGING (13) [verb] To block or slow passage through (often with 'up'). | [verb] To encumber or load, especially with something that impedes motion; to hamper. | [verb] To burden; to trammel; to embarrass; to perplex. CLOMPING (15) [verb] To walk heavily or clumsily, as with clogs. | [verb] To make some object hit something, thereby producing a clomping sound. | [noun] The sound of walking with heavy footfalls. CLONKING (15) [verb] To make such a sound. CLOPPING (15) [verb] To make this sound; to walk so as to make this sound. | [noun] The sound or action of something that clops. | [noun] The act of masturbating to erotic fanart of My Little Pony characters. CLOTHING (14) [verb] To adorn or cover with clothing; to dress; to supply clothes or clothing. | [verb] To cover or invest, as if with a garment. | [noun] Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion. CLOTTING (11) [verb] To form a clot or mass. | [verb] To cause to clot or form into a mass. | [noun] Clotted material. CLOUDING (12) [verb] To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight. | [verb] To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds. | [verb] To make obscure. CLOURING (11) CLOUTING (11) [verb] To form a clot or mass. | [verb] To cause to clot or form into a mass. | [verb] To hit, especially with the fist. CLOWNING (14) [verb] To act in a silly or playful fashion. | [verb] To ridicule. | [noun] Clownish behaviour. CLUBBING (15) [verb] To hit with a club. | [verb] To join together to form a group. | [verb] To combine into a club-shaped mass. CLUCKING (17) [verb] To make such a sound. | [verb] To cause (the tongue) to make a clicking sound. | [verb] To call together, or call to follow, as a hen does her chickens. CLUMPING (15) [verb] To form clusters or lumps. | [verb] To gather in dense groups. | [verb] To walk with heavy footfalls. CLUNKING (15) [verb] To make such a sound | [noun] A sound that clunks. | [adjective] Clunky; awkward COACHING (16) [verb] To train. | [verb] To instruct; to train. | [verb] To study under a tutor. COACTING (13) [verb] Acting together with another or others; performing jointly or in cooperation. COAPTING (13) [verb] Present participle of "coapt," meaning to fit together or join precisely, especially in medical/anatomical contexts where surfaces are brought into close contact. COASTING (11) [verb] To glide along without adding energy; to allow a vehicle to continue moving forward after disengaging the engine or ceasing to apply motive power. | [verb] To sail along a coast. | [verb] To make a minimal effort; to continue to do something in a routine way, without initiative or effort. COBBLING (15) [verb] To make shoes (what a cobbler does). | [verb] To assemble in an improvised way. | [verb] To use cobblestones to pave a road, walkway, etc. COCKLING (17) [verb] To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker. | [noun] A young, small, or immature cock. CODDLING (13) [verb] To treat gently or with great care. | [verb] To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point. | [verb] To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect. COERCING (13) [verb] To restrain by force, especially by law or authority; to repress; to curb. | [verb] To use force, threat, fraud, or intimidation in an attempt to compel one to act against their will. | [verb] To force an attribute, normally of a data type, to take on the attribute of another data type. COFFLING (17) COHERING (14) [verb] To stick together physically, by adhesion. | [verb] To be consistent as part of a group, or by common purpose. COIFFING (17) [verb] To style or arrange hair. COIGNING (12) [verb] Present participle of "coign," meaning to provide with a coign (an external angle of a wall or building) or to make a corner/angle in masonry. COLLYING (14) COLORING (11) [verb] To give something color. | [verb] To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons. | [verb] (of a person or their face) To become red through increased blood flow. COMAKING (17) COMPTING (15) CONGAING (12) [verb] To dance the conga. COOEEING (11) [verb] To make such a call. COOEYING (14) [verb] Present participle of "cooey," an alternative spelling of "cooey" meaning to make a soft murmuring sound like a dove or to call to someone in a soft, coaxing manner. COOPTING (13) [verb] To elect as a fellow member of a group, such as a committee. | [verb] To commandeer, appropriate or take over. | [verb] To absorb or assimilate into an established group. COUCHING (16) [noun] The act of one who couches. COUGHING (15) [verb] To push air from the lungs in a quick, noisy explosion. | [verb] (sometimes followed by "up") To force something out of the throat or lungs by coughing. | [verb] To make a noise like a cough. COUNTING (11) [verb] To recite numbers in sequence. | [verb] To determine the number (of objects in a group). | [verb] To be of significance; to matter. COUPLING (13) [verb] To join (two things) together, or (one thing) to (another). | [verb] To join in wedlock; to marry. | [verb] To join in sexual intercourse; to copulate. COURSING (11) [verb] To run or flow (especially of liquids and more particularly blood). | [verb] To run through or over. | [verb] To pursue by tracking or estimating the course taken by one's prey; to follow or chase after. COURTING (11) [verb] To seek to achieve or win. | [verb] To risk (a consequence, usually negative). | [verb] To try to win a commitment to marry from. COVERING (14) [verb] To place something over or upon, as to conceal or protect. | [verb] To be over or upon, as to conceal or protect. | [verb] To be upon all of, so as to completely conceal. | [noun] That which covers or conceals; a cover; something spread or laid over or wrapped about another. COVETING (14) [verb] To wish for with eagerness; to desire possession of, often enviously. | [verb] To long for inordinately or unlawfully; to hanker after (something forbidden). | [verb] To yearn; to have or indulge an inordinate desire, especially for another's possession. COWERING (14) [verb] To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear. | [verb] To crouch in general. | [verb] To cause to cower; to frighten into submission. COZENING (20) [verb] To become cozy; (by extension) to become acquainted, comfortable, or familiar with. | [verb] To cheat; to defraud; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way. | [noun] Fraud; deception; the acts of one who cozens CRAALING (11) CRABBING (15) [verb] To fish for crabs. | [verb] To ruin. | [verb] To complain. CRACKING (17) [verb] To form cracks. | [verb] To break apart under pressure. | [verb] To become debilitated by psychological pressure. CRADLING (12) [verb] To contain in or as if in a cradle. | [verb] To rock (a baby to sleep). | [verb] To wrap protectively, to hold gently and protectively. CRAFTING (14) [verb] To make by hand and with much skill. | [verb] To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman). | [verb] To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine. CRAMMING (15) [verb] To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity. | [verb] To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. | [verb] To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination. CRAMPING (15) [verb] (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably. | [verb] To affect with cramps or spasms. | [verb] To prohibit movement or expression of. CRANKING (15) [verb] To turn by means of a crank. | [verb] To turn a crank. | [verb] (of a crank or similar) To turn. CRAPPING (15) [verb] To defecate. | [verb] To defecate in or on (clothing etc.). | [verb] To bullshit. CRASHING (14) [verb] To collide with something destructively, fall or come down violently. | [verb] To severely damage or destroy something by causing it to collide with something else. | [verb] (via gatecrash) To attend a social event without invitation, usually with unfavorable intentions. CRAWLING (14) [verb] To creep; to move slowly on hands and knees, or by dragging the body along the ground. | [verb] To move forward slowly, with frequent stops. | [verb] To act in a servile manner. CREAKING (15) [verb] To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances. | [verb] To produce a creaking sound with. | [verb] To suffer from strain or old age. CREAMING (13) [verb] To puree, to blend with a liquifying process. | [verb] To turn a yellowish white colour; to give something the color of cream. | [verb] To obliterate, to defeat decisively. CREASING (11) [verb] To make a crease in; to wrinkle. | [verb] To undergo creasing; to form wrinkles. | [verb] To lightly bloody; to graze. CREATING (11) [verb] To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:) | [verb] To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion. | [verb] To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute. CREELING (11) CREEPING (13) [verb] To move slowly with the abdomen close to the ground. | [verb] Of plants, to grow across a surface rather than upwards. | [verb] To move slowly and quietly in a particular direction. | [noun] The act of something that creeps. CRESTING (11) [verb] Particularly with reference to waves, to reach a peak. | [verb] To reach the crest of (a hill or mountain) | [verb] To furnish with, or surmount as, a crest; to serve as a crest for. CRIBBING (15) [verb] To place or confine in a crib. | [verb] To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp. | [verb] To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet. CRICKING (17) [verb] To develop a crick (cramp, spasm). | [verb] To cause to develop a crick; to create a crick in. | [verb] To twist, bend, or contort, especially in a way that produces strain. CRIMPING (15) [verb] To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. | [verb] To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. | [verb] To pinch and hold; to seize. CRINGING (12) [verb] To shrink, cower, tense or recoil, as in fear, disgust or embarrassment. | [verb] To bow or crouch in servility. | [verb] To contract; to draw together; to cause to shrink or wrinkle; to distort. CRISPING (13) [verb] To make crisp. | [verb] To become crisp. | [verb] To cause to curl or wrinkle (of the leaves or petals of plants, for example); to form into ringlets or tight curls (of hair). CROAKING (15) [verb] To make a croak. | [verb] To utter in a low, hoarse voice. | [verb] (of a frog, toad, raven, or various other birds or animals) To make its cry. CROCKING (17) [verb] To break something or injure someone. | [verb] (leatherworking) To transfer coloring through abrasion from one item to another. | [verb] To cover the drain holes of a planter with stones or similar material, in order to ensure proper drainage. CROOKING (15) [verb] To bend, or form into a hook. | [verb] To become bent or hooked. | [verb] To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. CROONING (11) [verb] To hum or sing softly or in a sentimental manner. | [verb] To say softly or gently | [verb] To soothe by singing softly. CROPPING (15) [verb] To remove the top end of something, especially a plant. | [verb] To mow, reap or gather. | [verb] To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short. CROSSING (11) [verb] To make or form a cross. | [verb] To move relatively. | [verb] (social) To oppose. CROWDING (15) [verb] To press forward; to advance by pushing. | [verb] To press together or collect in numbers | [verb] To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. CROWNING (14) [verb] To place a crown on the head of. | [verb] To formally declare (someone) a king, queen, emperor, etc. | [verb] To bestow something upon as a mark of honour, dignity, or recompense; to adorn; to dignify. | [noun] A coronation. CRUDDING (13) CRUISING (11) [verb] To sail about, especially for pleasure. | [verb] To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency. | [verb] To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom. CRUMBING (15) [verb] To cover with crumbs. | [verb] To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; to crumble. CRUMPING (15) [verb] To produce such a sound. | [verb] For one's health to decline rapidly (but not as rapidly as crash). CRUSHING (14) [verb] To press between two hard objects; to squeeze so as to alter the natural shape or integrity of it, or to force together into a mass. | [verb] To reduce to fine particles by pounding or grinding | [verb] To overwhelm by pressure or weight. CRUSTING (11) [verb] To cover with a crust. | [verb] To form a crust. | [noun] Encrusted material. CUDDLING (13) [verb] To embrace affectionately, lie together snugly. | [verb] To cradle in one's arms so as to give comfort, warmth. | [verb] To lie close or snug; to crouch; to nestle. CULLYING (14) CUPELING (13) [verb] To refine by means of a cupel. CURATING (11) [verb] To act as a curator for. | [verb] To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages. | [verb] To work or act as a curator. CURDLING (12) [verb] To form curds so that it no longer flows smoothly; to cause to form such curds. (usually said of milk) | [verb] To clot or coagulate; to cause to congeal, such as through cold. (metaphorically of blood) | [verb] To cause a liquid to spoil and form clumps so that it no longer flows smoothly CURRYING (14) [verb] To cook or season with curry powder. | [verb] To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb. | [verb] To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring. | [noun] The technique of transforming a function that takes multiple arguments into a function that takes a single argument (the first of the arguments to the original function) and returns a new function that takes the remainder of the arguments and returns the result. CUTTLING (11) CYMBLING (18) DABBLING (14) [verb] To make slightly wet or soiled by spattering or sprinkling a liquid (such as water, mud, or paint) on it; to bedabble. | [verb] To cause splashing by moving a body part like a bill or limb in soft mud, water, etc., often playfully; to play in shallow water; to paddle. | [verb] To participate or have an interest in an activity in a casual or superficial way. DADDLING (12) DAGGLING (12) DAIRYING (13) [noun] The business of owning and operating a dairy. DALLYING (13) [verb] To waste time in trivial activities, or in idleness; to trifle. | [verb] To caress, especially of a sexual nature; to fondle or pet | [verb] To delay unnecessarily; to while away. DAMAGING (13) [verb] To impair the soundness, goodness, or value of; to harm or cause destruction. | [verb] To undergo damage. | [noun] An act of causing damage. DANDLING (11) [verb] To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, as an infant. | [verb] To treat with fondness, as if a child; to fondle; to toy with; to pet. | [verb] To play with; to put off or delay by trifles; to wheedle. DANGLING (11) [verb] To hang loosely with the ability to swing. | [verb] The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string. | [verb] To hang or trail something loosely. DAPPLING (14) [verb] To mark or become marked with mottling or spots. | [noun] A dappled pattern. DARKLING (14) [noun] A creature that lives in the dark. | [adverb] In the dark; in obscurity. | [verb] To be dark; to be visible only darkly. DARTLING (10) DAUNTING (10) [verb] To discourage, intimidate. | [verb] To overwhelm. | [noun] Present participle of daunt. DAVENING (13) [verb] To recite the Jewish liturgy; to pray DAWDLING (14) [verb] To spend time idly and unfruitfully, to waste time. | [verb] To spend (time) without haste or purpose. | [verb] To move or walk lackadaisically. DAZZLING (28) [verb] To confuse the sight of by means of excessive brightness. | [verb] To render incapable of thinking clearly; to overwhelm with showiness or brilliance. | [verb] To be overpowered by light; to be confused by excess of brightness. DEAIRING (10) DEASHING (13) DEBASING (12) [verb] To lower in character, quality, or value; to degrade. | [verb] To lower in position or rank. | [verb] To lower the value of (a currency) by reducing the amount of valuable metal in the coins. DEBATING (12) [verb] To participate in a debate; to dispute, argue, especially in a public arena. | [verb] To fight. | [verb] To engage in combat for; to strive for. DEBITING (12) [verb] To make an entry on the debit side of an account. | [verb] To record a receivable in the bookkeeping. | [noun] The act of making a debit in accounting. DEBONING (12) [verb] To remove the bones from. DEBUTING (12) [verb] To formally introduce, as to the public | [verb] To make one's initial formal appearance DECAYING (15) [verb] To deteriorate, to get worse, to lose strength or health, to decline in quality. | [verb] (of organic material) To rot, to go bad. | [verb] (of an unstable atom) To change by undergoing fission, by emitting radiation, or by capturing or losing one or more electrons. DECIDING (13) [verb] To resolve (a contest, problem, dispute, etc.); to choose, determine, or settle | [verb] To make a judgment, especially after deliberation | [verb] To cause someone to come to a decision DECODING (13) [verb] To convert from an encrypted form to plain text. | [verb] To figure out something difficult to interpret. | [noun] An instance of the translation of something into a form more suitable for subsequent processing. DECOYING (15) [verb] To lead into danger by artifice; to lure into a net or snare; to entrap. | [verb] To act as, or use, a decoy. | [noun] The act of one who decoys. DECRYING (15) [verb] To denounce as harmful. | [verb] To blame for ills. | [noun] A decrial. DEDUCING (13) [verb] To reach a conclusion by applying rules of logic to given premises. | [verb] To take away; to deduct; to subtract. | [verb] (Latinism) To lead forth. DEFACING (15) [verb] To damage or vandalize something, especially a surface, in a visible or conspicuous manner. | [verb] To void or devalue; to nullify or degrade the face value of. | [verb] (flags) To alter a coat of arms or a flag by adding an element to it. DEFAMING (15) [verb] To disgrace; to bring into disrepute. | [verb] To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence. | [verb] To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage. DEFILING (13) [verb] To make unclean, dirty, or impure; soil; befoul. | [verb] To vandalize or add inappropriate contents to something considered sacred or special; desecrate | [verb] To deprive or ruin someone's (sexual) purity or chastity, often not consensually; stain; tarnish; mar; rape DEFINING (13) [verb] To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly. | [verb] To settle, decide (an argument etc.) | [verb] To express the essential nature of something. DEFUSING (13) [verb] To remove the fuse from (a bomb, etc.). | [verb] To make less dangerous, tense, or hostile. | [verb] To disorder; to make shapeless. DEFUZING (22) DEIFYING (16) [verb] To make a god of (something or someone). | [verb] To treat as worthy of worship; to regard as a deity. DEIGNING (11) [verb] To condescend; to do despite a perceived affront to one's dignity. | [verb] To condescend to give; to do something. | [verb] To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice. DELATING (10) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DELAYING (13) [verb] To put off until a later time; to defer. | [verb] To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time. | [verb] To allay; to temper. DELETING (10) [verb] To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device. DELIMING (12) DELUDING (11) [verb] To deceive into believing something which is false; to lead into error; to dupe. | [verb] To frustrate or disappoint. DELUGING (11) [verb] To flood with water. | [verb] To overwhelm. DEMISING (12) [verb] To give. | [verb] To convey, as by will or lease. | [verb] To transmit by inheritance. DEMOTING (12) [verb] To lower the rank or status of. | [verb] To relegate. DENOTING (10) [verb] To indicate; to mark. | [verb] To make overt. | [verb] To refer to literally; to convey as meaning. DENUDING (11) [verb] To divest of all covering; to make bare or naked; to strip. DEPONING (12) [verb] To testify, especially in the form of a deposition. | [verb] To take the deposition of; to depose. | [verb] To lay, as a stake; to wager. DEPOSING (12) [verb] To put down; to lay down; to deposit; to lay aside; to put away. | [verb] To remove (a leader) from (high) office, without killing the incumbent. | [verb] To give evidence or testimony, especially in response to interrogation during a deposition DEPUTING (12) [verb] To assign (someone or something) to or for something | [verb] To delegate (a task, etc.) to a subordinate | [verb] To deputize (someone), appoint as deputy DERATING (10) [verb] To lower the rated capability of any rated equipment or material. | [noun] The act by which something is derated. DERIDING (11) [verb] To harshly mock; ridicule. DERIVING (13) [verb] To obtain or receive (something) from something else. | [verb] To deduce (a conclusion) by reasoning. | [verb] To find the derivation of (a word or phrase). DESEXING (17) [verb] To remove another's sexual characteristics or functions, often physical sterilization. DESIRING (10) [verb] To want; to wish for earnestly. | [verb] To put a request to (someone); to entreat. | [verb] To want emotionally or sexually. DETOXING (17) [verb] To detoxify, especially from alcohol or recreational drugs. DEVELING (13) DEVILING (13) [verb] To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil. | [verb] To annoy or bother. | [verb] To work as a ‘devil’; to work for a lawyer or writer without fee or recognition. | [noun] A young devil. DEVISING (13) [verb] To use one's intellect to plan or design (something). | [verb] To leave (property) in a will. | [verb] To form a scheme; to lay a plan; to contrive; to consider. DEVOTING (13) [verb] To give one's time, focus one's efforts, commit oneself, etc. entirely for, on, or to a certain matter | [verb] To consign over; to doom | [verb] To execrate; to curse DEWAXING (20) [verb] To remove wax from a material or from a surface. | [noun] A process in which wax is removed from a material or a surface. DIALLING (10) [verb] To control or select something with a dial, or (figuratively) as if with a dial. | [verb] To select a number, or to call someone, on a telephone. | [verb] To use a dial or a telephone. DIBBLING (14) [verb] To make holes or plant seeds using, or as if using, a dibble. | [verb] To use a dibble; to make holes in the soil. | [verb] To dib or dip frequently, as in angling. DIDDLING (12) [verb] To cheat; to swindle. | [verb] To have sex with. | [verb] To masturbate (especially of women). DIGHTING (14) [verb] To deal with, handle. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To dispose, put (in a given state or condition). DILATING (10) [verb] To enlarge; to make bigger. | [verb] To become wider or larger; to expand. | [verb] To speak largely and copiously; to dwell in narration; to enlarge; with "on" or "upon". DILUTING (10) [verb] To make thinner by adding solvent to a solution, especially by adding water. | [verb] To weaken, especially by adding a foreign substance. | [verb] To cause the value of individual shares or the stake of a shareholder to decrease by increasing the total number of shares. DIMPLING (14) [verb] To create a dimple in. | [verb] To create a dimple in one's face by smiling. | [verb] To form dimples; to sink into depressions or little inequalities. DINDLING (11) DINGDONG (12) [noun] An idiot. | [noun] A penis. | [noun] A woman's breast. DIRTYING (13) [verb] To make (something) dirty. | [verb] To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor. | [verb] To debase by distorting the real nature of (something). DISCOING (12) [verb] To dance disco-style dances. | [verb] To go to discotheques. DISUSING (10) DITCHING (15) [verb] To smear, daub, plaster, or impregnate, especially with dirt which becomes hard and ingrained. | [verb] To discard or abandon. | [verb] To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. DITTOING (10) DIVIDING (14) [verb] To split or separate (something) into two or more parts. | [verb] To share (something) by dividing it. | [verb] (with by) To calculate the number (the quotient) by which you must multiply one given number (the divisor) to produce a second given number (the dividend). DIVINING (13) [verb] To foretell (something), especially by the use of divination. | [verb] To guess or discover (something) through intuition or insight. | [verb] To search for (underground objects or water) using a divining rod. DIVVYING (19) [verb] To divide into portions. DIZENING (19) DIZZYING (31) [verb] To make dizzy, to bewilder. | [adjective] Tending to make one (actually or metaphorically) dizzy or confused, as of great speed or height. DOLLYING (13) [verb] To hit a dolly. | [verb] To move (an object) using a dolly. | [verb] To wash (laundry) in a tub using the stirring device called a dolly. DONATING (10) [verb] To make a donation; to give away something of value to support or contribute towards a cause or for the benefit of another. DOODLING (11) [verb] To draw or scribble aimlessly. | [verb] To drone like a bagpipe. | [noun] Something doodled; a careless sketch. DOUBLING (12) [verb] To multiply by two. | [verb] To fold over so as to make two folds. | [verb] To be the double of; to exceed by twofold; to contain or be worth twice as much as. DOUBTING (12) [verb] To be undecided about; to lack confidence in; to disbelieve, to question. | [verb] To harbour suspicion about; suspect. | [verb] To anticipate with dread or fear; to apprehend. DOUCHING (15) [verb] To administer a douche to; to shower; to douse | [verb] To use a douche. | [noun] A washing or irrigation with a douche. DOVENING (13) DOWELING (13) [verb] To fasten together with dowels. | [verb] To furnish with dowels. | [noun] A dowel. DOWERING (13) [verb] To give a dower or dowry. | [verb] To endow. DOZENING (19) DRABBING (14) DRAFTING (13) [verb] To write a first version, make a preliminary sketch. | [verb] To draw in outline; to make a draught, sketch, or plan of, as in architectural and mechanical drawing. | [verb] To write a law. DRAGGING (12) [verb] To pull along a surface or through a medium, sometimes with difficulty. | [verb] To move onward heavily, laboriously, or slowly; to advance with weary effort; to go on lingeringly. | [verb] To act or proceed slowly or without enthusiasm; to be reluctant. DRAINING (10) [verb] To lose liquid. | [verb] To flow gradually. | [verb] To cause liquid to flow out of. DRAMMING (14) DRATTING (10) DRAWLING (13) [verb] To drag on slowly and heavily; to while or dawdle away time indolently. | [verb] To utter or pronounce in a dull, spiritless tone, as if by dragging out the utterance. | [verb] To move slowly and heavily; move in a dull, slow, lazy manner. DREADING (11) [verb] To fear greatly. | [verb] To anticipate with fear. | [verb] To be in dread, or great fear. DREAMING (12) [verb] To see imaginary events in one's mind while sleeping. | [verb] To hope, to wish. | [verb] To daydream. DREDGING (12) [verb] To make a channel deeper or wider using a dredge. | [verb] To bring something to the surface with a dredge. | [verb] (Usually with up) to unearth. DRESSING (10) [noun] Material applied to a wound for protection or therapy. | [noun] A sauce, especially a cold one for salads. | [noun] Something added to the soil as a fertilizer etc. | [verb] To fit out with the necessary clothing; to clothe, put clothes on (something or someone). DRIBBING (14) DRIFTING (13) [verb] To move slowly, especially pushed by currents of water, air, etc. | [verb] To move haphazardly without any destination. | [verb] To deviate gently from the intended direction of travel. DRILLING (10) [verb] To create (a hole) by removing material with a drill (tool). | [verb] To practice, especially in (or as in) a military context. | [verb] To cause to drill (practice); to train in military arts. | [noun] A long firearm with three (or rarely, four) barrels. | [noun] A heavy, twilled fabric of linen or cotton; drill. DRINKING (14) [verb] To consume (a liquid) through the mouth. | [verb] (metonymic) To consume the liquid contained within (a bottle, glass, etc.). | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages. DRIPPING (14) [verb] To fall one drop at a time. | [verb] To leak slowly. | [verb] To let fall in drops. DROLLING (10) DROOLING (10) [verb] To secrete saliva, especially in anticipation of food. | [verb] To secrete any substance in a similar way. | [verb] To react to something with uncontrollable desire. DROOPING (12) [verb] To hang downward; to sag. | [verb] To slowly become limp; to bend gradually. | [verb] To lose all energy, enthusiasm or happiness; to flag. DROPPING (14) [verb] To fall in droplets (of a liquid). | [verb] To drip (a liquid). | [verb] Generally, to fall (straight down). DROUKING (14) DROWNING (13) [verb] To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid. | [verb] To kill by suffocating in water or another liquid. | [verb] To be flooded: to be inundated with or submerged in (literally) water or (figuratively) other things; to be overwhelmed. DROWSING (13) [verb] To be sleepy and inactive. | [verb] To nod off; to fall asleep. | [verb] To advance drowsily. (Used especially in the phrase "drowse one's way" ⇒ sleepily make one's way.) DRUBBING (14) [verb] To beat (someone or something) with a stick. | [verb] To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. | [verb] To forcefully teach something. DRUDGING (12) [verb] To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. DRUGGING (12) [verb] To administer intoxicating drugs to, generally without the recipient's knowledge or consent. | [verb] To add intoxicating drugs to with the intention of drugging someone. | [verb] To prescribe or administer drugs or medicines. DRUMMING (14) [noun] The act of beating a drum. | [noun] A noise resembling that of a drum being beaten. | [noun] In many species of catfish, the sound produced by contraction of specialized sonic muscles with subsequent reverberation through the swim bladder. DUCKLING (16) [noun] A young duck. DUELLING (10) [verb] To engage in a battle. | [noun] Act of taking part in a duel. DUETTING (10) [noun] The singing or playing of a duet. DUMMYING (17) [verb] To make a mock-up or prototype version of something, without some or all off its intended functionality. | [verb] To feint. DUMPLING (14) [noun] A ball of dough that is cooked and may have a filling and/or additional ingredients in the dough. | [noun] (familiar) A term of endearment. | [noun] (mildly) A piece of excrement. DWARFING (16) [verb] To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version). | [verb] To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny. | [verb] To make appear insignificant. DWELLING (13) [noun] A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home. | [verb] To live; to reside. | [verb] To linger (on) a particular thought, idea etc.; to remain fixated (on). EARTHING (12) [verb] To connect electrically to the earth. | [verb] To bury. | [verb] To burrow. | [noun] The act or process of placing (something) in the earth; planting; burying EDIFYING (16) [verb] To build, construct. | [verb] To instruct or improve morally or intellectually. | [noun] Edification EFFACING (17) [verb] To erase (as anything impressed or inscribed upon a surface); to render illegible or indiscernible. | [verb] To cause to disappear as if by rubbing out or striking out. | [verb] To make oneself inobtrusive as if due to modesty or diffidence. EFFUSING (15) [verb] To emit; to give off | [verb] To gush; to be excitedly talkative and enthusiastic about something | [verb] To pour out like a stream or freely; to cause to exude; to shed. EGESTING (10) [verb] To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces). EJECTING (18) [verb] To compel (a person or persons) to leave. | [verb] To throw out or remove forcefully. | [verb] To compel (a sports player) to leave the field because of inappropriate behaviour. ELAPSING (11) [verb] (of time) To pass or move by. ELBOWING (14) [verb] To push with the elbow. | [verb] (by extension) To nudge, jostle or push. | [noun] A nudge or jostle with the elbow. ELECTING (11) [verb] To choose or make a decision (to do something) | [verb] To choose (a candidate) in an election ELOINING (9) EMBAYING (16) [verb] To bathe; to steep. | [verb] To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay. EMBOWING (16) EMBRUING (13) [verb] To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.). EMCEEING (13) [verb] To act as the master of ceremonies (for). | [verb] To rap as part of a hip-hop performance. EMENDING (12) [verb] To correct and revise (text or a document). EMERGING (12) [verb] To come into view. | [verb] To come out of a situation, object or a liquid. | [verb] To become known. EMITTING (11) [verb] To send out or give off EMPALING (13) EMPTYING (16) [noun] The sediment of beer, cider, etc. | [noun] A type of yeast obtained from the remains of the brewing process. | [verb] To make empty; to void; to remove the contents of. ENABLING (11) [verb] To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. | [verb] To affirm; to make firm and strong. | [verb] To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for. ENACTING (11) [verb] To make (a bill) into law | [verb] To act the part of; to play | [verb] To do; to effect ENCAGING (12) [verb] To lock inside a cage; to imprison. ENCASING (11) [verb] To enclose, as in a case. | [noun] That which encases; an outer cover. ENCODING (12) [verb] To convert (plain text) into code. | [verb] (communication) To convert source information into another form. | [verb] To constitute the code necessary for the biosynthesis of a protein by means of a matrix so as to transcribe DNA material. ENCORING (11) [verb] To call for an extra performance or repetition of, or by. | [verb] To call for an encore. | [verb] To perform an encore. ENDITING (10) ENDOWING (13) [verb] To provide with a dower or a dowry. | [verb] To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits. | [verb] Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality. ENDURING (10) [verb] To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist. | [verb] To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant. | [verb] To last. ENFACING (14) ENGAGING (11) [verb] (heading) To interact socially. | [verb] (heading) To interact antagonistically. | [verb] (heading) To interact contractually. ENGINING (10) ENISLING (9) [verb] To make into an island. | [verb] (by extension) To isolate. ENJOYING (19) [verb] To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something | [verb] To have the use or benefit of something. | [verb] To be satisfied or receive pleasure. ENLACING (11) [verb] To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace | [verb] (by extension) To entangle. ENRAGING (10) [verb] To fill with rage; to provoke to frenzy or madness; to make furious. ENROBING (11) [verb] To invest or adorn with a robe or vestment; to attire. | [verb] To coat or cover. ENSILING (9) [verb] To preserve (forage) in a silo. ENSKYING (16) ENSURING (9) [verb] To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. | [verb] To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). ENTERING (9) [verb] To go or come into an enclosed or partially enclosed space. | [verb] To cause to go (into), or to be received (into); to put in; to insert; to cause to be admitted. | [verb] To go or come into (a state or profession). ENTICING (11) [verb] To lure; to attract by arousing desire or hope. | [noun] Enticement; temptation | [adjective] That entices; alluring; attractive; charming EPOXYING (21) [verb] To glue with epoxy. EQUALING (18) [verb] To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to. | [verb] To make equivalent to; to cause to match. | [verb] To have as its consequence. EQUATING (18) [verb] To consider equal or equivalent. | [verb] To set as equal. | [noun] The act by which things are equated; the evaluation of things as equivalent. ERECTING (11) [verb] To put up by the fitting together of materials or parts. | [verb] To cause to stand up or out. | [verb] To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise. ERUCTING (11) [verb] To burp or belch. ERUPTING (11) [verb] To eject something violently (such as lava or water, as from a volcano or geyser). | [verb] To burst forth; to break out. | [verb] To spontaneously release pressure or tension. ESCAPING (13) [verb] To get free; to free oneself. | [verb] To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. | [verb] To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. ESCOTING (11) ESSAYING (12) [verb] To try. | [verb] To move forth, as into battle. | [noun] An attempt; a try. ESTATING (9) EUCHRING (14) [verb] To deceive or outwit. EVENSONG (12) [noun] A religious service, most commonly seen in the Anglican or Episcopal Church, that takes place in the early hours of the evening. EVERTING (12) [verb] To turn inside out (like a pocket being emptied) or outwards. | [verb] To move (someone or something) out of the way. | [verb] To turn upside down; to overturn. EVICTING (14) [verb] To expel (one or more people) from their property; to force (one or more people) to move out. EVINCING (14) [verb] To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest. EVOLVING (15) [verb] To move in regular procession through a system. | [verb] To change; transform. | [verb] To come into being; develop. EXACTING (18) [verb] To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way. | [verb] To make desirable or necessary. | [verb] To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce. EXALTING (16) [verb] To honor; to hold in high esteem. | [verb] To raise in rank, status etc., to elevate. | [verb] To elate, or fill with the joy of success. EXCIDING (19) EXCISING (18) [verb] To impose an excise tax on something. | [verb] To cut out; to remove. EXCITING (18) [verb] To stir the emotions of. | [verb] To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. | [verb] To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. EXCUSING (18) [verb] To forgive; to pardon. | [verb] To allow to leave, or release from any obligation. | [verb] To provide an excuse for; to explain, with the aim of alleviating guilt or negative judgement. EXERTING (16) [verb] To put in vigorous action. | [verb] To make use of, to apply, especially of something non-material. EXHALING (19) [verb] To expel air from the lungs through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm, to breathe out. | [verb] To expel (something, such as tobacco smoke) from the lungs by action of the diaphragm. | [verb] To pass off in the form of vapour; to emerge. EXHUMING (21) [verb] To dig out of the ground; to take out of a place of burial; to disinter. | [verb] To uncover; to bring to light. EXISTING (16) [verb] (stative) to be; have existence; have being or reality | [adjective] That exists, or has existence, especially that exists now. EXPIRING (18) [verb] To die. | [verb] To lapse and become invalid. | [verb] To exhale; to breathe out. EXPOSING (18) [verb] To reveal, uncover, make visible, bring to light, introduce to. | [verb] To subject photographic film to light thereby recording an image. | [verb] To abandon, especially an unwanted baby in the wilderness. EXULTING (16) [verb] To rejoice; to be very happy, especially in triumph. | [noun] Exultation | [adjective] Showing exultation. FACETING (14) FAGOTING (13) [verb] To make a fagot of; to bind together in a fagot or bundle. | [noun] A decoration of a fabric achieved by removing threads and tying others into bunches. | [noun] The joining of hemmed edges of fabric with crisscrossed threads. FAINTING (12) [verb] To lose consciousness through a lack of oxygen or nutrients to the brain, usually as a result of suddenly reduced blood flow (may be caused by emotional trauma, loss of blood or various medical conditions). | [verb] To sink into dejection; to lose courage or spirit; to become depressed or despondent. | [verb] To decay; to disappear; to vanish. FAITHING (15) FANCYING (17) [verb] To appreciate without jealousy or greed. | [verb] Would like | [verb] To be sexually attracted to. FARTHING (15) [noun] Former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny; or a coin representing this. | [noun] A very small quantity or value; the least possible amount. | [noun] A division of land. FAUBOURG (14) [noun] An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris. FAULTING (12) [verb] To criticize, blame or find fault with something or someone. | [verb] To fracture. | [verb] To commit a mistake or error. FAVORING (15) [verb] To look upon fondly; to prefer. | [verb] To encourage, conduce to | [verb] To do a favor [noun sense 1] for; to show beneficence toward. FEASTING (12) [verb] To partake in a feast, or large meal. | [verb] To dwell upon (something) with delight. | [verb] To hold a feast in honor of (someone). FEIGNING (13) [verb] To make a false show or pretence of; to counterfeit or simulate. | [verb] To imagine; to invent; to pretend. | [verb] To make an action as if doing one thing, but actually doing another, for example to trick an opponent. FEINTING (12) [verb] To make a feint, or mock attack. FEOFFING (18) FERRYING (15) [verb] To carry; transport; convey. | [verb] To move someone or something from one place to another, usually repeatedly. | [verb] To carry or transport over a contracted body of water, as a river or strait, in a boat or other floating conveyance plying between opposite shores. FERULING (12) FETCHING (17) [verb] To retrieve; to bear towards; to go and get. | [verb] To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. | [verb] To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. | [noun] The act by which something is fetched. FETTLING (12) [verb] To sort out, to fix, to mend, to repair. | [verb] To make preparations; to put things in order; to do trifling business. | [verb] To line the hearth of a furnace with sand prior to pouring molten metal. FEVERING (15) [verb] To put into a fever; to affect with fever. | [verb] To become fevered. FIDDLING (14) [verb] To play aimlessly. | [verb] To adjust or manipulate for deception or fraud. | [verb] To play traditional tunes on a violin in a non-classical style. FIELDING (13) [verb] To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it. | [verb] (and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it. | [verb] To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game. FIGHTING (16) [verb] To contend in physical conflict, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To contend in physical conflict with each other, either singly or in war, battle etc. | [verb] To strive for something; to campaign or contend for success. | [noun] The act or process of contending; violence or conflict. FIGURING (13) [verb] To calculate, to solve a mathematical problem. | [verb] To come to understand. | [verb] To think, to assume, to suppose, to reckon. FILCHING (17) [verb] To illegally take possession of (especially items of low value); to pilfer, to steal. | [noun] The act of one who filches; theft. FILETING (12) FINIKING (16) FIREFANG (15) FIREPLUG (14) [noun] A fire hydrant. FIXATING (19) [verb] To make something fixed and stable; to fix. | [verb] To stare fixedly at something. | [verb] To attend to something to the exclusion of all others; used with on. FIZZLING (30) [verb] To sputter or hiss. | [verb] To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped. | [noun] The sound of something that fizzles. FLACKING (18) [verb] To flutter; palpitate. | [verb] To hang loosely; flag. | [verb] To beat by flapping. FLAGGING (14) [verb] To furnish or deck out with flags. | [verb] To mark with a flag, especially to indicate the importance of something. | [verb] (often with down) To signal to, especially to stop a passing vehicle etc. FLAILING (12) [verb] To beat using a flail or similar implement. | [verb] To wave or swing vigorously | [verb] To thresh. FLAMMING (16) FLANGING (13) [noun] A flange. | [noun] A time-based audio effect produced when two identical signals are mixed together, but with one signal time-delayed by a small and gradually changing amount, usually smaller than 20 milliseconds. FLANKING (16) [verb] To attack the flank(s) of. | [verb] To defend the flank(s) of. | [verb] To place to the side(s) of. FLAPPING (16) [noun] An instance where one flaps. | [noun] A phonological process found in many dialects of English, especially American English and Canadian English, by which intervocalic /t/ and /d/ surface as the alveolar flap /ɾ/ before an unstressed syllable, so that words such as "metal" and "medal" are pronounced similarly or identically. | [noun] The situation where a resource, a network destination, etc., is advertised as being available and then unavailable (or available by different routes) in rapid succession. FLASHING (15) [verb] To cause to shine briefly or intermittently. | [verb] To blink; to shine or illuminate intermittently. | [verb] To be visible briefly. FLATLING (12) FLATLONG (12) FLATTING (12) [verb] To make a flat call; to call without raising. | [verb] To become flat or flattened; to sink or fall to an even surface. | [verb] To fall from the pitch. FLECKING (18) [verb] To mark with small spots | [noun] A flecked pattern. FLEDGING (14) [verb] To care for a young bird until it is capable of flight. | [verb] To grow, cover or be covered with feathers. | [verb] To decorate with feathers. FLEECING (14) [verb] To con or trick (someone) out of money. | [verb] To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal). | [verb] To cover with, or as if with, wool. FLEERING (12) [verb] To make a wry face in contempt, or to grin in scorn | [verb] To grin with an air of civility; to leer. | [noun] Scorn; derision FLEETING (12) [verb] To float. | [verb] To pass over rapidly; to skim the surface of. | [verb] To hasten over; to cause to pass away lightly, or in mirth and joy. FLEISHIG (15) FLENSING (12) [verb] To strip the blubber or skin from, as from a whale, seal, etc. | [noun] The act of one who flenses; the operation of stripping off blubber. FLESHING (15) [verb] To reward (a hound, bird of prey etc.) with flesh of the animal killed, to excite it for further hunting; to train (an animal) to have an appetite for flesh. | [verb] To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh. | [verb] To inure or habituate someone in or to a given practice. FLICKING (18) [verb] To move or hit (something) with a short, quick motion. | [noun] The act by which something is flicked. FLINGING (13) [verb] To move (oneself) abruptly or violently; to rush or dash. | [verb] To throw with violence or quick movement; to hurl. | [verb] To throw; to wince; to flounce. FLINTING (12) FLIPPING (16) [verb] To throw so as to turn over. | [verb] To put into a quick revolving motion through a snap of the thumb and index finger. | [verb] To win a state (or county) won by another party in the preceding elections FLIRTING (12) [verb] To throw (something) with a jerk or sudden movement; to fling. | [verb] To jeer at; to mock. | [verb] To dart about; to move with quick, jerky motions. FLITTING (12) [verb] To move about rapidly and nimbly. | [verb] To move quickly from one location to another. | [verb] To unpredictably change state for short periods of time. FLOATING (12) [verb] Of an object or substance, to be supported by a liquid of greater density than the object so as that part of the object or substance remains above the surface. | [verb] To cause something to be suspended in a liquid of greater density. | [verb] To be capable of floating. FLOCCING (16) FLOCKING (18) [verb] To congregate in or head towards a place in large numbers. | [verb] To flock to; to crowd. | [verb] To treat a pool with chemicals to remove suspended particles. FLOGGING (14) [verb] To whip or scourge someone or something as punishment. | [verb] To use something to extreme; to abuse. | [verb] To sell. FLOODING (13) [verb] To overflow, as by water from excessive rainfall. | [verb] To cover or partly fill as if by a flood. | [verb] To provide (someone or something) with a larger number or quantity of something than can easily be dealt with. FLOORING (12) [verb] To cover or furnish with a floor. | [verb] To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down. | [verb] (driving) To accelerate rapidly. FLOPPING (16) [verb] To fall heavily due to lack of energy. | [verb] To cause to drop heavily. | [verb] To fail completely; not to be successful at all (of a movie, play, book, song etc.). FLOSSING (12) [verb] To clean the area between the teeth using floss. | [verb] To show off, especially by exhibiting one's wealth or talent. | [verb] To perform the floss dance move. FLOURING (12) [verb] To apply flour to something; to cover with flour. | [verb] To reduce to flour. | [verb] To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process. FLOUTING (12) [verb] To express contempt for (laws, rules, etc.) by word or action. | [verb] To scorn. | [noun] The act by which something is flouted. FLUBBING (16) [verb] To goof, fumble, or err in the performance of an action. FLUFFING (18) [verb] To make something fluffy. | [verb] To become fluffy, puff up. | [verb] To move lightly like fluff. FLUMPING (16) [verb] To move or fall heavily, or with a dull sound. | [verb] To drop something heavily or with a dull sound. FLUNKING (16) [verb] Of a student, to fail a class; to not pass. | [verb] Of a teacher, to deny a student a passing grade. | [verb] To shirk (a task or duty). FLUSHING (15) [verb] To cause to take flight from concealment. | [verb] To take suddenly to flight, especially from cover. | [verb] To cleanse by flooding with generous quantities of a fluid. | [noun] The act by which something is flushed. | [noun] A heavy, coarse cloth manufactured from shoddy. FOCUSING (14) [verb] (followed by on or upon) To concentrate one's attention. | [verb] To cause (rays of light, etc) to converge at a single point. | [verb] To adjust (a lens, an optical instrument) in order to position an image with respect to the focal plane. FOISTING (12) [verb] To introduce or insert surreptitiously or without warrant. | [verb] To force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit. | [verb] To pass off as genuine or worthy. FOLIOING (12) FONDLING (13) [noun] A foolish person. | [noun] A pet or person who is fondled; someone who is much loved. | [verb] To touch or stroke lovingly. FOOTLING (12) [verb] To waste time; to trifle. | [verb] To talk nonsense. | [adjective] Trivial, silly and irritating. | [noun] A fetus oriented so that, at birth, its foot will emerge first. A type of breech birth. FOOTSLOG (12) [noun] An instance of footslogging. | [verb] To walk heavily over a long distance or in a weary manner; to trudge FOOZLING (21) [verb] To do something clumsily or awkwardly; to bungle. FORAGING (13) [verb] To search for and gather food for animals, particularly cattle and horses. | [verb] To rampage through, gathering and destroying as one goes. | [verb] To rummage. FORAYING (15) [verb] To scour (an area or place) for food, treasure, booty etc. | [verb] To pillage; to ravage. FORDOING (13) [verb] To kill, destroy. | [verb] To annul, abolish, cancel. | [verb] To do away with, undo; to ruin. FOREWING (15) [noun] (in an insect) Either member of the pair of wings closest to the head. FORGOING (13) [verb] To let pass, to leave alone, to let go. | [verb] To do without, to abandon, to renounce. | [verb] To refrain from, to abstain from, to pass up, to withgo. FOUNDING (13) [verb] To start (an institution or organization). | [verb] To begin building. | [verb] To melt, especially of metal in an industrial setting. FRAGGING (14) [verb] To deliberately kill (one's superior officer) with a fragmentation grenade. | [verb] To hit with the explosion of a fragmentation grenade. | [verb] To kill. FRANKING (16) [verb] To place a frank on an envelope. | [verb] To exempt from charge for postage, as a letter, package, or packet, etc. | [verb] To send by public conveyance free of expense. FRAPPING (16) [verb] To draw together tightly; to secure by many turns of a lashing. | [verb] To strike. | [noun] (usually plural) Rope lashed tightly over the rigging or other area. FREAKING (16) [verb] To make greatly distressed and/or a discomposed appearance | [verb] To be placed or place someone under the influence of a psychedelic drug | [verb] To streak; to variegate FREEZING (21) [verb] Especially of a liquid, to become solid due to low temperature. | [verb] To lower something's temperature to the point that it freezes or becomes hard. | [verb] To drop to a temperature below zero degrees celsius, where water turns to ice. FRESHING (15) FRETTING (12) [verb] Especially when describing animals: to consume, devour, or eat. | [verb] To chafe or irritate; to worry. | [verb] To make rough, to agitate or disturb; to cause to ripple. FRIGGING (14) [verb] To fidget, to wriggle around | [verb] To masturbate | [verb] To fuck (misapplied euphemism) FRILLING (12) [verb] To make into a frill. | [verb] To become wrinkled. | [verb] To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits. FRINGING (13) [verb] To decorate with fringe. | [verb] To serve as a fringe. | [noun] A fringe or border. FRISKING (16) [verb] To frolic, gambol, skip, dance, leap. | [verb] To search somebody by feeling his or her body and clothing. | [noun] The action or motion of one who frisks; a gambol. FRITTING (12) [verb] To add frit to a glass or ceramic mixture | [verb] To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially. | [noun] The formation of frit or slag by heat with only incipient fusion. FRIZZING (30) [verb] Of hair, to form into a mass of tight curls. | [verb] To curl; to make frizzy. | [verb] To form into little burs, knobs, or tufts, as the nap of cloth. FROCKING (18) FROGGING (14) [verb] To hunt or trap frogs. | [verb] To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate. | [verb] To spatchcock (a chicken). FRONTING (12) [verb] To face (on, to); to be pointed in a given direction. | [verb] To face, be opposite to. | [verb] To face up to, to meet head-on, to confront. FROSTING (12) [verb] To cover with frost. | [verb] To become covered with frost. | [verb] To coat (something, e.g. a cake) with icing to resemble frost. FROTHING (15) [verb] To create froth in (a liquid). | [verb] (of a liquid) To bubble. | [verb] To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. FROWNING (15) [verb] To have a frown on one's face. | [verb] To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavour or threateningly. | [verb] To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look. FRUGGING (14) [noun] The process whereby a product marketer falsely purports to be a market researcher conducting a statistical survey, when in reality the "researcher" is attempting to solicit a donation. FRUITING (12) [verb] To produce fruit, seeds, or spores. | [noun] Fruiting body | [noun] The act of producing fruit, seeds, or spores; fructification. FUDDLING (14) [verb] To confuse or befuddle. | [verb] To intoxicate. | [verb] To become intoxicated; to get drunk. FUELLING (12) [verb] To provide with fuel. | [verb] To exacerbate, to cause to grow or become greater. | [noun] The act or process by which something is fueled. FUMBLING (16) [verb] To handle nervously or awkwardly. | [verb] To grope awkwardly in trying to find something | [verb] To blunder uncertainly. GABBLING (14) [verb] To talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning. | [verb] To utter inarticulate sounds with rapidity. | [noun] Rapid, confused speech. GAGGLING (12) GALLYING (13) GALOPING (12) GAMBLING (14) [verb] To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome. | [verb] To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain. | [verb] To risk (something) for potential gain. GANGBANG (13) [noun] Sexual intercourse involving more than two persons, especially with a high proportion of men. | [noun] Gang rape. | [noun] The act of a street gang attacking random people on the streets and/or committing gang crimes. GANGLING (11) [adjective] Awkwardly tall and thin, ungraceful. | [noun] A member of a gang. GARAGING (11) [verb] To store in a garage. | [noun] The act of parking a vehicle in a garage. GARBLING (12) [verb] To pick out such parts (of a text) as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert | [verb] To make false by mutilation or addition | [verb] To sift or bolt, to separate the fine or valuable parts of from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt GARGLING (11) [verb] To clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs | [verb] To make a sound like the one made while gargling | [verb] To clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth) GAROTING (10) GAVELING (13) [verb] To divide or distribute according to the gavel system. | [verb] To use a gavel. GELATING (10) GENTLING (10) [verb] To become gentle | [verb] To ennoble | [verb] (animal husbandry) to break; to tame; to domesticate GHOSTING (13) [verb] To haunt; to appear to in the form of an apparition. | [verb] To die; to expire. | [verb] To ghostwrite. GIDDYING (15) [verb] To make dizzy or unsteady. | [verb] To reel; to whirl. GIGGLING (12) [verb] To laugh gently or in a high-pitched voice; to laugh in a silly or giddy way. | [noun] The act of producing giggles; high-pitched laughter GILLYING (13) GIPSYING (15) GIRDLING (11) [verb] To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means. | [verb] To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark. GIRTHING (13) [verb] To bind as if with a girth or band. GLACEING (12) GLADDING (12) [verb] To make glad GLAIRING (10) GLANCING (12) [verb] To look briefly (at something). | [verb] To graze a surface. | [verb] To sparkle. GLASSING (10) [verb] To apply fibreglass to. | [verb] To fit with glass; to glaze. | [verb] To enclose in glass. GLEAMING (12) [verb] To shine; to glitter; to glisten. | [verb] To be briefly but strongly apparent. | [verb] To disgorge filth, as a hawk. GLEANING (10) [verb] To collect (grain, grapes, etc.) left behind after the main harvest or gathering. | [verb] To gather what is left in (a field or vineyard). | [verb] To gather information in small amounts, with implied difficulty, bit by bit. GLEEKING (14) GLEETING (10) GLINTING (10) [verb] To flash or gleam briefly. | [verb] To glance; to peep forth, as a flower from the bud; to glitter. | [verb] To cause to flash or gleam; to reflect. GLOAMING (12) [noun] Twilight, as at early morning (dawn) or (especially) early evening; dusk. | [noun] Sullenness; melancholy. GLOATING (10) [verb] To exhibit a conspicuous (sometimes malevolent) pleasure or sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune. | [verb] To triumph, crow, relish, glory, revel. | [noun] The act of one who gloats. GLOMMING (14) [verb] To steal, to grab. | [verb] To stare. | [verb] To attach. GLOOMING (12) [verb] To be dark or gloomy. | [verb] To look or feel sad, sullen or despondent. | [verb] To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken. | [noun] Twilight of morning or evening; the gloaming. GLOPPING (14) [verb] To stare in amazement. | [verb] To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily. | [verb] To swallow greedily. GLORYING (13) [verb] To exult with joy; to rejoice. | [verb] To boast; to be proud. | [verb] To shine radiantly. GLOSSING (10) [verb] To give a gloss or sheen to. | [verb] To make (something) attractive by deception | [verb] To become shiny. GLOUTING (10) GLUGGING (12) [verb] To flow in noisy bursts. | [verb] To quickly swallow liquid. | [noun] A sound that glugs. GLUTTING (10) [verb] To fill to capacity; to satisfy all demand or requirement; to sate. | [verb] To eat gluttonously or to satiety. | [noun] The act by which something is glutted; a satiation. GNARLING (10) GNARRING (10) GNASHING (13) [verb] To grind (one's teeth) in pain or in anger. | [verb] To grind between the teeth. | [verb] To run away. GOBBLING (14) [verb] To eat hastily or greedily; to scoff or scarf (often used with up) | [verb] To make the sound of a turkey. | [noun] The act of eating greedily and noisily. GOGGLING (12) [verb] To stare (at something) with wide eyes. | [verb] To roll the eyes. | [noun] A stare of curiosity or amazement. GOLLIWOG (13) [noun] A rag doll or mascot in the form of a caricature of a black minstrel. | [noun] (racist) A black person. | [noun] A hairy caterpillar. GOLLYWOG (16) GRABBING (14) [verb] To grip suddenly; to seize; to clutch. | [verb] To make a sudden grasping or clutching motion (at something). | [verb] To restrain someone; to arrest. GRAFTING (13) [verb] To insert (a graft) in a branch or stem of another tree; to propagate by insertion in another stock; also, to insert a graft upon. | [verb] To insert scions (grafts) from one tree, or kind of tree, etc., into another; to practice grafting. | [verb] To implant a portion of (living flesh or akin) in a lesion so as to form an organic union. GRAINING (10) [verb] To feed grain to. | [verb] To make granular; to form into grains. | [verb] To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate. | [noun] A small European freshwater fish (Leuciscus leuciscus); the dobule or dace. GRANTING (10) [verb] (ditransitive) to give (permission or wish) | [verb] (ditransitive) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give. | [verb] To agree with (someone) on (something); to accept (something) for the sake of argument; to admit to (someone) that (something) is true. GRAPHING (15) [verb] To draw a graph. | [verb] To draw a graph of a function. GRASPING (12) [verb] To grip; to take hold, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To understand. | [verb] To take advantage of something, to seize, to jump at a chance. GRASSING (10) [verb] To lay out on the grass; to knock down (an opponent etc.). | [verb] To act as a grass or informer, to betray; to report on (criminals etc) to the authorities. | [verb] To cover with grass or with turf. GRAYLING (13) [noun] Any freshwater fish of the genus Thymallus or specifically Thymallus thymallus, of the salmon family, having a large dorsal fin. | [noun] Other similar fish | [noun] A species of butterfly, Hipparchia semele, of the family Nymphalidae. GREASING (10) [verb] To put grease or fat on something, especially in order to lubricate. | [verb] To bribe. | [verb] To cause to go easily; to facilitate. GREENBUG (12) GREENING (10) [verb] To make (something) green, to turn (something) green. | [verb] To become or grow green in colour. | [verb] To add greenspaces to (a town, etc.). GREETING (10) [verb] To welcome in a friendly manner, either in person or through another means e.g. writing or over the phone/internet | [verb] To arrive at or reach, or meet (talking of something which brings joy) | [verb] To accost; to address. GRIEVING (13) [verb] To cause sorrow or distress to. | [verb] To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for. | [verb] To experience grief. GRIFTING (13) [verb] To obtain illegally, as by con game. | [verb] To obtain money illegally. | [verb] To obtain money immorally or through deceitful means. GRILLING (10) [verb] To cook (food) on a grill; to barbecue. | [verb] To cook food under the element of a stove or only under the top element of an oven – broil, salamander. | [verb] To interrogate; to question aggressively or harshly. GRINDING (11) [verb] To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion. | [verb] To shape with the force of friction. | [verb] To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface. GRINNING (10) [verb] To smile, parting the lips so as to show the teeth. | [verb] To express by grinning. | [verb] To show the teeth, like a snarling dog. GRIPPING (14) [verb] To take hold of, particularly with the hand. | [verb] To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense. | [verb] To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief. GRITTING (10) [verb] Apparently only in grit one's teeth: to clench, particularly in reaction to pain or anger. | [verb] To cover with grit. | [verb] To give forth a grating sound, like sand under the feet; to grate; to grind. GROANING (10) [verb] To make a groan. | [verb] To strive after earnestly, as if with groans. | [noun] A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil. GROINING (10) GROOMING (12) [verb] To attend to one's appearance and clothing. | [verb] To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them. | [verb] To prepare (someone) for election or appointment. GROOVING (13) [verb] To cut a groove or channel in; to form into channels or grooves; to furrow. | [verb] To perform, dance to, or enjoy rhythmic music. | [noun] A groove; a long indentation. GROSSING (10) [verb] To earn money, not including expenses. GROUPING (12) [verb] To put together to form a group. | [verb] To come together to form a group. | [noun] A collection of things or people united as a group. GROUSING (10) [verb] To seek or shoot grouse. | [verb] To complain or grumble. | [noun] Peevish complaining. GROUTING (10) [verb] To insert mortar between tiles. | [noun] An application of grout. GROWLING (13) [verb] To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. | [verb] Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound. | [verb] To send a user a message via the Growl software library. GRUBBING (14) [verb] To scavenge or in some way scrounge, typically for food. | [verb] To dig; to dig up by the roots; to root out by digging; often followed by up. | [verb] To supply with food. GRUDGING (12) [verb] To be unwilling to give or allow (someone something). | [verb] To grumble, complain; to be dissatisfied. | [verb] To hold or harbour with malicious disposition or purpose; to cherish enviously. GRUELING (10) [noun] (racing) A race in which the animal being raced finishes in a state of physical exhaustion. | [noun] A gruelling ordeal. | [adjective] So difficult or taxing as to make one exhausted; backbreaking. GRUFFING (16) GRUMPING (14) [verb] To complain. | [verb] To be grumpy. GRUNTING (10) [verb] (of a person) To make a grunt or grunts. | [verb] (of a pig) To make a grunt or grunts. | [verb] To break wind; to fart. GUARDING (11) [verb] To protect from danger; to secure against surprise, attack, or injury; to keep in safety; to defend. | [verb] To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like. | [verb] To watch by way of caution or defense; to be caution; to be in a state or position of defense or safety. GUESSING (10) [noun] The act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight. | [verb] To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion. | [verb] To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly. GUESTING (10) [verb] To appear as a guest, especially on a broadcast | [verb] As a musician, to play as a guest, providing an instrument that a band/orchestra does not normally have in its line up (for instance, percussion in a string band) | [verb] To receive or entertain hospitably. GUGGLING (12) GULLYING (13) [verb] To flow noisily. | [verb] To wear away into a gully or gullies. GUNNYBAG (15) GURGLING (11) [verb] To flow with a bubbling sound. | [verb] To make such a sound. | [noun] A gurgling sound. GUSSYING (13) [verb] To dress up or decorate in a showy way GUTTLING (10) GUZZLING (28) [verb] To drink or eat quickly, voraciously, or to excess; to gulp down; to swallow greedily, continually, or with gusto. | [verb] To consume alcoholic beverages, especially frequently or habitually. | [verb] (by extension) To consume anything quickly, greedily, or to excess, as if with insatiable thirst. GYPSYING (18) GYRATING (13) [verb] To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve. HABITING (14) HACKLING (18) [verb] To dress (flax or hemp) with a hackle; to prepare fibres of flax or hemp for spinning. | [verb] To separate, as the coarse part of flax or hemp from the fine, by drawing it through the teeth of a hackle or hatchel. | [verb] To tear asunder; to break into pieces. HAGGLING (14) [verb] To argue for a better deal, especially over prices with a seller. | [verb] To hack (cut crudely) | [verb] To stick at small matters; to chaffer; to higgle. HALLOING (12) [verb] To shout, or to call with a loud voice. | [verb] To chase while shouting "hallo!" | [verb] To cry "hallo" (to someone). HANDLING (13) [noun] A touching, controlling, managing, using, take care of, etc., with the hand or hands, or as with the hands. | [noun] The mode of using the pencil or brush; style of touch. | [noun] A criminal offence, the trade in stolen goods. | [verb] To touch; to feel or hold with the hand(s). HARRYING (15) [verb] To plunder, pillage, assault. | [verb] To make repeated attacks on an enemy. | [verb] To strip, lay waste, ravage. HASSLING (12) [verb] To trouble, to bother, to annoy. | [verb] To pick a fight or start an argument. HATCHING (17) [verb] To close with a hatch or hatches. | [verb] (of young animals) To emerge from an egg. | [verb] (of eggs) To break open when a young animal emerges from it. HAUNTING (12) [verb] To inhabit, or visit frequently (most often used in reference to ghosts). | [verb] To make uneasy, restless. | [verb] To stalk, to follow HAVENING (15) HAVERING (15) [verb] To hem and haw | [verb] To talk foolishly; to chatter. | [adjective] Hesitant; indecisive. HEADLONG (13) [verb] To precipitate. | [adjective] Precipitous. | [adjective] Plunging downwards head foremost. HEARSING (12) HEARTING (12) [verb] To be fond of. Often bracketed or abbreviated with a heart symbol. | [verb] To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage. | [verb] To fill an interior with rubble, as a wall or a breakwater. HECKLING (18) [verb] To question harshly in an attempt to find or reveal weaknesses. | [verb] To insult, tease, make fun of or badger. | [verb] To prepare flax for spinning using special combs called hackles HEDGEHOG (17) [noun] A small mammal, of the family Erinaceidae or subfamily Erinaceinae (spiny hedgehog, the latter characterized by their spiny back and often by the habit of rolling up into a ball when attacked.) | [noun] Any of several spiny mammals, such as the porcupine, that are similar to the hedgehog. | [noun] A type of moveable military barricade made from crossed logs or steel bars, laced with barbed wire, used to damage or impede tanks and vehicles; Czech hedgehog. HEDGEPIG (16) HEISTING (12) [verb] To steal, rob or hold up (something). HELLOING (12) [verb] To greet with "hello". HENNAING (12) [verb] To dye or tattoo with henna. HERRYING (15) HIGGLING (14) [verb] To hawk or peddle provisions. | [verb] To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle. | [noun] Haggling HIGHTING (16) HILLOING (12) HINNYING (15) HIRELING (12) [noun] (usually derogatory) An employee who is hired, often to perform unpleasant tasks with little independence. | [noun] (usually derogatory) Someone who does a job purely for money, rather than out of interest in the work itself. | [noun] A horse for hire. HIRPLING (14) [verb] To walk with a limp, to drag a limb, to walk lamely; to move with a gait somewhere between walking and crawling. HIRSLING (12) HITCHING (17) [verb] To pull with a jerk. | [verb] To attach, tie or fasten. | [verb] To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched. HOARDING (13) [noun] A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public. | [noun] A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them. | [noun] A billboard. | [verb] To amass, usually for one's own private collection. HOBBLING (16) [verb] To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles. | [verb] To walk lame, or unevenly. | [verb] To move roughly or irregularly. HOCUSING (14) [verb] To play a trick on, to trick (someone); to hoax; to cheat. | [verb] To stupefy (someone) with drugged liquor (especially in order to steal from them). | [verb] To drug (liquor). HOGTYING (16) [verb] To tie an animal's or someone's feet together; originally all four legs of a quadruped. | [verb] To render helpless. HOICKING (18) [noun] The process of gathering mucous and phlegm in the mouth and spitting it out. | [verb] To play such a shot. | [verb] To lift (a heavy object) carelessly; hoist. HOISTING (12) [verb] To raise; to lift; to elevate (especially, to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle or pulley, said of a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight). | [verb] To lift a trophy or similar prize into the air in celebration of a victory. | [verb] To lift someone up to be flogged. HOLLAING (12) HOLLOING (12) HOMAGING (15) HOMERING (14) [verb] To hit a homer; to hit a home run. HONDLING (13) HONEYING (15) HONORING (12) [verb] To think of highly, to respect highly; to show respect for; to recognise the importance or spiritual value of | [verb] To conform to, abide by, act in accordance with (an agreement, treaty, promise, request, or the like) | [verb] To confer (bestow) an honour or privilege upon (someone) HOPPLING (16) [verb] To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble. | [verb] To entangle; to hamper. HOTCHING (17) [verb] To move irregularly up and down. | [verb] To swarm (with). HOUNDING (13) [verb] To persistently harass. | [verb] To urge on against; to set (dogs) upon in hunting. | [noun] Pursuit, especially when persistent or relentless. HOVELING (15) HOVERING (15) [verb] To float in the air. | [verb] To linger or hang in one place, especially in an uncertain manner. | [verb] To waver, or be uncertain. HOWDYING (19) HUDDLING (14) [verb] To crowd together. | [verb] To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb. | [verb] To get together and discuss a topic. HULLOING (12) [verb] To greet with "hello". HUMBLING (16) [verb] To defeat or reduce the power, independence, or pride of | [verb] To make humble or lowly; to make less proud or arrogant; to make meek and submissive. | [noun] An event which causes humbleness; a set-down. HUMORING (14) [verb] To pacify by indulging. HUMPHING (19) HUNCHING (17) [verb] To bend the top of one's body forward while raising one's shoulders. | [verb] To raise (one's shoulders) (while lowering one's head or bending the top of one's body forward); to curve (one's body) forward (sometimes followed by up). | [verb] To walk (somewhere) while hunching one's shoulders. HURDLING (13) [verb] To jump over something while running. | [verb] To compete in the track and field events of hurdles (e.g. high hurdles). | [verb] To overcome an obstacle. HURRYING (15) [verb] To do things quickly. | [verb] Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something. | [verb] To cause to be done quickly. HURTLING (12) [verb] To move rapidly, violently, or without control. | [verb] To meet with violence or shock; to clash; to jostle. | [verb] To make a threatening sound, like the clash of arms; to make a sound as of confused clashing or confusion; to resound. HUSTLING (12) [verb] To push someone roughly, to crowd, to jostle. | [verb] To rush or hurry. | [verb] To bundle; to stow something quickly. HUTCHING (17) HUZZAING (30) [verb] To cheer with a huzzah sound. HYDRAGOG (17) IDEATING (10) [verb] To apprehend in thought so as to fix and hold in the mind; to memorize. | [verb] To generate an idea. IGNITING (10) [verb] To set fire to (something), to light (something) | [verb] To spark off (something), to trigger | [verb] To commence burning. IGNORING (10) [verb] To deliberately not listen or pay attention to. | [verb] To pretend to not notice someone or something. | [verb] Fail to notice. ILLUMING (11) [verb] To throw or spread light upon; to make light or bright IMBIBING (15) [verb] To drink (used frequently of alcoholic beverages). | [verb] To take in; absorb. | [noun] The act by which something is imbibed. IMBRUING (13) [verb] To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.). IMMIXING (20) IMMURING (13) [verb] To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls. | [verb] To put or bury within a wall. | [verb] (of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring. IMPALING (13) [verb] To pierce (something) with any long, pointed object. | [verb] To place two coats of arms side by side on the same shield (often those of two spouses upon marriage). | [verb] To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. IMPEDING (14) [verb] To get in the way of; to hinder. IMPLYING (16) [verb] (of a proposition) to have as a necessary consequence | [verb] (of a person) to suggest by logical inference | [verb] (of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement IMPONING (13) IMPOSING (13) [verb] To establish or apply by authority. | [verb] To be an inconvenience (on or upon) | [verb] To enforce: compel to behave in a certain way IMPUTING (13) [verb] To attribute or ascribe (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source. | [verb] To ascribe (sin or righteousness) to someone by substitution. | [verb] To take into account. INARMING (11) INCAGING (12) INCASING (11) [verb] To enclose, as in a case. INCISING (11) [verb] To cut in or into with a sharp instrument; to carve; to engrave. INCITING (11) [verb] To stir up or excite; to rouse or goad into action. INCOMING (13) [noun] The act of coming in; arrival. | [noun] Enemy fire directed at oneself. | [adjective] Coming (or about to come) in; arriving. INCUSING (11) [verb] To hammer or press (usually onto a coin) INDEXING (17) [verb] To arrange an index for something, especially a long text. | [verb] To inventory, to take stock. | [verb] To normalise in order to account for inflation; to correct for inflation by linking to a price index in order to maintain real levels. INDITING (10) [verb] To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe. | [verb] To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose. | [verb] To dictate; to prompt. INDOWING (13) INDUCING (12) [verb] To lead by persuasion or influence; incite or prevail upon. | [verb] To cause, bring about, lead to. | [verb] To cause or produce (electric current or a magnetic state) by a physical process of induction. INFIXING (19) [verb] To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in. | [verb] To instill. | [verb] To insert a morpheme inside an existing word. INFUSING (12) [verb] To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill. | [verb] To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal). | [verb] To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with). INGOTING (10) INHALING (12) [verb] To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm. | [verb] To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form of aerosols/smoke -sometimes stemming from a medicament) into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm. | [verb] To eat very quickly. INHERING (12) [verb] To be inherent; to be an essential or intrinsic part of; to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something INHUMING (14) [verb] To bury in a grave. INJURING (16) [verb] To wound or cause physical harm to a living creature. | [verb] To damage or impair. | [verb] To do injustice to. INLACING (11) INLAYING (12) [verb] To place (pieces of a foreign material) within another material to form a decorative design. | [verb] To place an inlay in a tooth. | [noun] An inlaid pattern. INSURING (9) [verb] To make a pledge to (someone); to promise, guarantee (someone of something); to assure. | [verb] To make sure or certain of something (usually some future event or condition). | [verb] To provide for compensation if some specified risk occurs. Often agreed by policy (contract) to offer financial compensation in case of an accident, theft or other undesirable event. INTONING (9) [verb] To give tone or variety of tone to; to vocalize. | [verb] To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to speak or recite with singing voice; to chant. | [verb] To utter a tone; utter a protracted sound. INURNING (9) [verb] To place (the remains of a person who has died) in an urn or other container. | [verb] To hold or contain (the remains of a person who has died). INVADING (13) [verb] To move into. | [verb] To enter by force in order to conquer. | [verb] To infest or overrun. INVITING (12) [verb] To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. | [verb] To request formally. | [verb] To encourage. INVOKING (16) [verb] To call upon (a person, a god) for help, assistance or guidance. | [verb] To solicit, petition for, appeal to a favorable attitude. | [verb] To call to mind (something) for some purpose. IODATING (10) IODISING (10) [verb] To treat or react with iodine. IODIZING (19) [verb] To treat or react with iodine. IONISING (9) [verb] To dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged species; to be thus dissociated. | [adjective] Capable of producing ions. IONIZING (18) [verb] To dissociate atoms or molecules into electrically charged species; to be thus dissociated. | [adjective] Capable of producing ions. JANGLING (17) [verb] To make a rattling metallic sound. | [verb] To cause something to make a rattling metallic sound. | [verb] To irritate. JAUNCING (18) JAUNTING (16) [verb] To ramble here and there; to stroll; to make an excursion. | [verb] To ride on a jaunting car. | [verb] To jolt; to jounce. JELLYING (19) [verb] To wiggle like jelly. | [verb] To make jelly. JELUTONG (16) [noun] Dyera costulata, a tree of the oleander subfamily. | [noun] The resin derived from this tree, once sometimes used in the production of rubber. JEMMYING (23) [verb] To shoehorn, to cram. | [verb] To pry (something, especially a lock) open with or as if with a crowbar. JETTYING (19) JEWELING (19) JIGGLING (18) [verb] To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle. | [verb] To shake, rattle, or wiggle. | [noun] A motion that jiggles. JIMMYING (23) [verb] To pry (something, especially a lock) open with or as if with a crowbar. JINGLING (17) [verb] To make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself. | [verb] To cause to make a noise of metal or glass clattering against itself. | [verb] To rhyme or sound with a jingling effect. JOGGLING (18) [verb] To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog. | [verb] To shake or totter; to slip out of place. | [verb] To jog or run while juggling. | [noun] The act of juggling while jogging. JOINTING (16) [verb] To unite by a joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together | [verb] To join; to connect; to unite; to combine. | [verb] To provide with a joint or joints; to articulate. JOISTING (16) JOLLYING (19) [verb] To amuse or divert. | [noun] The act of one who jollies; amusement; diversion. JOSTLING (16) [verb] To bump into or brush against while in motion; to push aside. | [verb] To move through by pushing and shoving. | [verb] To be close to or in physical contact with. JOUNCING (18) [verb] To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions. | [noun] A motion that jounces. JOUSTING (16) [verb] To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. | [verb] To engage in verbal sparring over an important issue. (used of two people, both of whom participate more or less equally) | [verb] To touch penises while engaging in a sex act, especially oral sex. JUGGLING (18) [verb] To manipulate objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. Juggling may also include assorted other circus skills such as the diabolo, devil sticks, hat, and cigar box manipulation as well. | [verb] To handle or manage many tasks at once. | [verb] To deceive by trick or artifice. | [noun] The art of moving objects, such as balls, clubs, beanbags, rings, etc. in an artful or artistic manner. JUMBLING (20) [verb] To mix or confuse. | [verb] To meet or unite in a confused way. | [noun] The act by which something is jumbled or confused. JUSTLING (16) JUTTYING (19) KAOLIANG (13) [noun] A sorghum-based variety of baijiu. | [noun] Any of various Chinese varieties of sorghum. KAYAKING (20) [verb] To use a kayak, to travel or race in a kayak. | [verb] To traverse (a body of water) by kayak. | [noun] A water sport involving racing, or doing tricks in, a kayak KECKLING (19) KIBBLING (17) KINDLING (14) [verb] To start (a fire) or light (a torch, a match, coals, etc.). | [verb] To arouse or inspire (a passion, etc). | [verb] To begin to grow or take hold. KITTLING (13) [verb] To tickle, to touch lightly. | [verb] To bring forth young, as a cat; to kitten; to litter. | [noun] Any young animal, especially a kitten; kit. KNACKING (19) KNAPPING (17) [verb] To shape a brittle material having conchoidal fracture, usually a mineral (flint, obsidian, chert etc.), by breaking away flakes, often forming a sharp edge or point. | [verb] To rap or strike sharply. | [verb] To bite; to bite off; to break short. KNEADING (14) [verb] To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc. | [verb] To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat. | [verb] (of cats) To make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws. KNEELING (13) [verb] To rest on one's bent knees, sometimes only one; to move to such a position. | [verb] To cause to kneel. | [verb] To rest on (one's) knees | [noun] The act by which someone kneels. KNELLING (13) [verb] To ring a bell slowly, especially for a funeral; to toll. | [verb] To signal or proclaim something (especially a death) by ringing a bell. | [verb] To summon by, or as if by, ringing a bell. KNITTING (13) [verb] To turn thread or yarn into a piece of fabric by forming loops that are pulled through each other. This can be done by hand with needles or by machine. | [verb] To join closely and firmly together. | [verb] To become closely and firmly joined; become compacted. KNOCKING (19) [verb] To strike for admittance; to rap upon, as a door. | [verb] To criticize verbally; to denigrate; to undervalue. | [verb] To kick a ball towards another player; to pass. KNOLLING (13) [verb] To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell. | [verb] To sound, like a bell; to knell. | [verb] To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles. KNOTTING (13) [verb] To form into a knot; to tie with a knot or knots. | [verb] To form wrinkles in the forehead, as a sign of concentration, concern, surprise, etc. | [verb] To unite closely; to knit together. KNOUTING (13) [verb] To flog or beat with a knout. | [noun] A leather scourge. | [noun] A flogging with a knout. KNURLING (13) KOTOWING (16) KRAALING (13) [verb] To enclose (livestock) within a kraal or stockade. LABELING (11) [verb] To put a label (a ticket or sign) on (something). | [verb] (ditransitive) To give a label to (someone or something) in order to categorise that person or thing. | [verb] To replace specific atoms by their isotope in order to track the presence or movement of this isotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway or cell. LABORING (11) [noun] The act of one who labors; toil; work done. | [verb] To toil, to work. | [verb] To belabour, to emphasise or expand upon (a point in a debate, etc). LACEWING (14) [noun] Any of a number of gauzy-winged insects of certain families within the order Neuroptera. | [noun] Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Cethosia. LADENING (10) LAGERING (10) LALLYGAG (13) [noun] Horseplay, fooling around. | [noun] A layabout, one who lallygags. | [verb] (See lollygag.) To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort. LASSOING (9) [verb] To catch with a lasso. | [noun] The act of catching something with a lasso. LATCHING (14) [verb] To close or lock as if with a latch. | [verb] To catch; lay hold of. | [verb] To smear; to anoint. LATENING (9) LAUGHING (13) [verb] To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter. | [verb] To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport. | [verb] (followed by "at") To make an object of laughter or ridicule; to make fun of; to deride; to mock. LAYERING (12) [verb] To cut or divide (something) into layers | [verb] To arrange (something) in layers. | [noun] A structure made up of layers. LEACHING (14) [verb] To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid. | [verb] To part with soluble constituents by percolation. | [noun] The process by which something is leached. LEAGUING (10) [verb] To form an association; to unite in a league or confederacy; to combine for mutual support. LEAPFROG (14) [noun] (games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until he or she reaches the front of the line, whereupon he also bends over. The process is then repeated. | [noun] (usually attributive) The process by which a case is appealed or allowed to be appealed directly to a supreme court, bypassing an intermediate appellate court. | [verb] To jump over some obstacle, as in the game of leapfrog. LEARNING (9) [verb] To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something. | [verb] To attend a course or other educational activity. | [verb] To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve. LEASHING (12) [verb] To fasten or secure with a leash. | [verb] To curb, restrain LEECHING (14) [verb] To apply a leech medicinally, so that it sucks blood from the patient. | [verb] To drain (resources) without giving back. | [verb] To treat, cure or heal. LEFTWING (15) [noun] The more left-wing faction of a group or party. | [noun] The left-hand side of a sports field. | [noun] The offensive player who plays to the center's left. LEGATING (10) LETCHING (14) [verb] To purge a soluble matter out of something by the action of a percolating fluid. | [verb] To part with soluble constituents by percolation. LEVEEING (12) LEVELING (12) [verb] To adjust so as to make as flat or perpendicular to the ground as possible. | [verb] To destroy by reducing to ground level; to raze. | [verb] To progress to the next level. LEVERING (12) [verb] To move with a lever. | [verb] To use, operate or move (something) like a lever (physically). | [verb] To use (something) like a lever (in an abstract sense). LIAISING (9) [verb] To establish a liaison. | [verb] To act between parties with a view to reconciling differences. | [verb] To cooperate, consult and discuss in order to come to a common solution. LIBELING (11) [verb] To defame someone, especially in a manner that meets the legal definition of libel. | [verb] To proceed against (a ship, goods, etc.) by filing a libel. LICHTING (14) LIFELONG (12) [adjective] Extending for the entire duration of life. LIGATING (10) [verb] To bind with a ligature or bandage. | [verb] To connect text characters with a ligature. LIGHTING (13) [verb] To start (a fire). | [verb] To set fire to; to set burning. | [verb] To illuminate; to provide light for when it is dark. LIKENING (13) [verb] (followed by to or unto) To compare; to state that (something) is like (something else). | [noun] The act by which things are likened; a comparison. LIMITING (11) [verb] To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound, to set boundaries. | [verb] To have a limit in a particular set. | [verb] To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region. LITHOING (12) [verb] To lithograph. LIVELONG (12) [noun] The orpine, Sedum telephium | [adjective] Total, complete, whole | [adjective] Lasting; durable. LIVENING (12) [verb] To cause to be more lively, or to become more lively. LOATHING (12) [verb] To detest, hate, revile. | [noun] Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike. LOBBYING (16) [verb] To attempt to influence (a public official or decision-maker) in favor of a specific opinion or cause. | [noun] The act of one who lobbies. LOCATING (11) [verb] To place; to set in a particular spot or position. | [verb] To find out where something is located. | [verb] To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of (Note: the designation may be purely descriptive: it need not be prescriptive.) LOLLYGAG (13) [noun] Silliness, nonsense. | [verb] To dawdle; to be lazy or idle; to avoid necessary work or effort. | [verb] (19th-20th centuries) To fool around, especially sexually. LONGEING (10) [verb] To work (a horse) in a circle at the end of a long line or rope. LORDLING (10) [noun] An unimportant or petty lord. | [noun] A young lord. LOUNGING (10) [verb] To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner. | [noun] The act of one who lounges. LOWERING (12) [noun] The act of one who, or that which, lours. | [adjective] (of sky or environment) Dark and menacing. | [adjective] That lowers or frowns. | [verb] To frown; to look sullen. LUNCHING (14) [verb] To eat lunch. | [verb] To treat to lunch. | [noun] The act of eating lunch. LURCHING (14) [verb] To make such a sudden, unsteady movement. | [verb] To swallow or eat greedily; to devour; hence, to swallow up. | [verb] To leave someone in the lurch; to cheat. LUSTRING (9) [noun] A glossy silk fabric; lutestring. LUXATING (16) [verb] To dislocate. LYNCHING (17) [verb] To execute (somebody) without a proper legal trial or procedure, especially by hanging and backed by a mob. | [noun] Execution of a person by mob action without due process of law, especially by hanging. MACKLING (17) MACULING (13) MAHJONGG (22) [noun] A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits. | [noun] A solitaire game using the same tiles, where the player wins by removing pairs of matching exposed tiles until none remain. MAJORING (18) [verb] To concentrate on a particular area of study as a student in a college or university MAMBOING (15) [verb] To perform this dance. MANAGING (12) [verb] To direct or be in charge of. | [verb] To handle or control (a situation, job). | [verb] To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.). MANGLING (12) [verb] To change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. | [verb] To modify (an identifier from source code) so as to produce a unique identifier for internal use by the compiler, etc. | [verb] To wring laundry. MANTLING (11) [verb] To cover or conceal (something); to cloak; to disguise. | [verb] To become covered or concealed. | [verb] To spread like a mantle (especially of blood in the face and cheeks when a person flushes). MANURING (11) [verb] To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. | [verb] To apply manure (as fertilizer or soil improver). | [noun] An application of manure. MARBLING (13) [verb] To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly. | [verb] To get or have the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example due to the incomplete mixing of viscous ingredients, or the uneven application of paint or other colorants. | [verb] To cause meat, usually beef, pork, or lamb, to be interlaced with fat so that its appearance resembles that of marble. MARCHING (16) [verb] To walk with long, regular strides, as a soldier does. | [verb] To cause someone to walk somewhere. | [verb] To go to war; to make military advances. MARRYING (14) [verb] To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. | [verb] (in passive) To be joined to (someone) as spouse according to law or custom. | [verb] To arrange for the marriage of; to give away as wife or husband. MASONING (11) [verb] (normally with a preposition) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons MATCHING (16) [verb] To agree; to be equal; to correspond. | [verb] To agree with; to be equal to; to correspond to. | [verb] To make a successful match or pairing. MATURING (11) [verb] To proceed toward maturity: full development or completion (either of concrete or of abstract things, e.g. plans, judgments, qualities). | [verb] (of food, especially fruit) To attain maturity, to become mature or ripe. | [verb] To bring (something) to maturity, full development or completion. MEALYBUG (16) [noun] Any of various insects of the family Pseudococcidae, which secrete a powdery wax and are pests of fruit trees. MEDALING (12) [verb] To win a medal. | [verb] To award a medal to. MEDDLING (13) [verb] To interfere in or with; to concern oneself with unduly. | [verb] To interest or engage oneself; to have to do (with), in a good sense. | [verb] To mix (something) with some other substance; to commingle, combine, blend. MENACING (13) [verb] To make threats against (someone); to intimidate. | [verb] To threaten (an evil to be inflicted). | [verb] To endanger (someone or something); to imperil or jeopardize. MERITING (11) [verb] To deserve, to earn. | [verb] To be deserving or worthy. | [verb] To reward. METALING (11) METERING (11) [verb] To measure with a metering device. | [verb] To imprint a postage mark with a postage meter. | [verb] To regulate the flow of or to deliver in regulated amounts (usually of fluids but sometimes of other things such as anticipation or breath). MIAOUING (11) MIAOWING (14) [verb] Of a cat, to make its cry. | [noun] The act of uttering a meow. MIAULING (11) [verb] To give the cry of a cat. | [noun] The cry of a cat. MIDDLING (13) [noun] Something of intermediate or average size, position, or quality. | [adjective] Of intermediate or average size, position, or quality; mediocre. | [adjective] In fairly good health. MIMEOING (13) MINGLING (12) [verb] To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product | [verb] To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship | [verb] To cause or allow to intermarry MINORING (11) [verb] To choose or have an area of secondary concentration as a student in a college or university. MINUTING (11) [verb] Of an event, to write in a memo or the minutes of a meeting. | [verb] To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of. MISCUING (13) [verb] To give an incorrect cue. | [verb] To mishit, strike incorrectly. | [noun] An instance of something being miscued; a miscue. MISDOING (12) [verb] To do evil. | [verb] To do (something) incorrectly or improperly. | [verb] To do harm to; to injure, mistreat. MISLYING (14) MISUSING (11) [verb] To use (something) incorrectly. | [verb] To abuse or mistreat (something or someone). | [verb] To rape (a woman); later more generally, to sexually abuse (someone). MITERING (11) [verb] To adorn with a mitre. | [verb] To unite at an angle of 45°. MIZZLING (29) [verb] To rain in very fine drops. | [verb] To abscond, scram, flee. | [verb] To yield. MODELING (12) [verb] To display for others to see, especially in regard to wearing clothing while performing the role of a fashion model | [verb] To use as an object in the creation of a forecast or model | [verb] To make a miniature model of MONEYBAG (16) MOOCHING (16) [verb] To wander around aimlessly, often causing irritation to others. | [verb] To beg, cadge, or sponge; to exploit or take advantage of others for personal gain. | [verb] To steal or filch. MOSEYING (14) [verb] To set off, get going; to start a journey. | [verb] To go off quickly: to hurry up. | [verb] To amble; to walk or proceed in a leisurely manner. MOTIVING (14) MOTORING (11) [verb] To make a journey by motor vehicle; to drive. | [verb] To move at a brisk pace. | [verb] To leave. MOTTLING (11) [verb] To mark with blotches of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. | [noun] Spots or blotches of different shades or colours MOUCHING (16) MOULDING (12) [verb] To shape in or on a mold; to form into a particular shape; to give shape to. | [verb] To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence | [verb] To fit closely by following the contours of. MOULTING (11) [verb] To shed or lose a covering of hair or fur, feathers, skin, horns, etc, and replace it with a fresh one. | [verb] To shed in such a manner. | [noun] A moult; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc. MOUNDING (12) [verb] To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to. | [verb] To force or pile into a mound or mounds. | [noun] A mound of material. MOUNTING (11) [verb] To get upon; to ascend; to climb. | [verb] To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride. | [verb] To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding. MOURNING (11) [verb] To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death). | [verb] To utter in a sorrowful manner. | [verb] To wear mourning. MOUSSING (11) [verb] To apply mousse (styling cream). MOUTHING (14) [verb] To speak; to utter. | [verb] To make the actions of speech, without producing sound. | [verb] To utter with a voice that is overly loud or swelling. MUDDLING (13) [verb] To mix together, to mix up; to confuse. | [verb] To mash slightly for use in a cocktail. | [verb] To dabble in mud. MUDDYING (16) [verb] To get mud on (something). | [verb] To make a mess of, or create confusion with regard to; to muddle. | [noun] The process of making something muddy or obscure. MUFFLING (17) [verb] To wrap (a person, face etc.) in fabric or another covering, for warmth or protection; often with up. | [verb] To wrap up or cover (a source of noise) in order to deaden the sound. | [verb] To mute or deaden (a sound etc.). MULCHING (16) [verb] To apply mulch. | [verb] To turn into mulch. | [noun] The act of preparing/applying a mulch. MULCTING (13) [verb] To impose such a fine or penalty. | [verb] To swindle (someone) out of money. | [noun] The imposition of a fine or penalty. MUMBLING (15) [verb] To speak unintelligibly or inaudibly; to fail to articulate. | [verb] To chew something gently with closed lips. | [noun] An act in which someone mumbles something MUMMYING (18) MUNCHING (16) [verb] To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, and with the mouth closed — often used with on. | [verb] To eat vigorously or with excitement. | [noun] The sound or action of one who munches. MUSCLING (13) [verb] To use force to make progress, especially physical force. | [noun] Muscles in the body, meant collectively | [noun] The process of muscle formation or growth MUTATING (11) [verb] To undergo mutation. | [verb] To cause mutation. | [adjective] Causing or tending to cause mutation. MUTINING (11) MUZZLING (29) [verb] To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting. | [verb] To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor. | [verb] To veil, mask, muffle. MYSTAGOG (15) NAETHING (12) NEEDLING (10) [noun] A needy person. | [verb] To pierce with a needle, especially for sewing or acupuncture. | [verb] To tease in order to provoke; to poke fun at. NEGATING (10) [verb] To deny the existence, evidence, or truth of; to contradict. | [verb] To nullify or cause to be ineffective. | [verb] To be negative; bring or cause negative results. NEIGHING (13) [verb] (of a horse) To make its cry. | [verb] To make a sound similar to a horse's cry. | [verb] To scoff or sneer. NESTLING (9) [noun] A small, young bird that is still confined to the nest. | [noun] A nest; a receptacle. | [verb] To settle oneself comfortably and snugly. NETTLING (9) [verb] Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone. | [verb] To pique, irritate, vex or provoke. | [noun] (ropemaking) A process, resembling splicing, by which two ropes are joined so as to form one rope. NIBBLING (13) [verb] To eat with small, quick bites. | [verb] To bite lightly. | [verb] To consume gradually. NICKLING (15) NIDERING (10) NIGGLING (11) [verb] To trifle with; to deceive; to mock. | [verb] To use, spend, or do in a petty or trifling manner. | [verb] To dwell too much on minor points or on trifling details. NOBBLING (13) [verb] To injure or obstruct intentionally. | [verb] To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation. | [verb] To steal. NODDLING (11) [verb] To nod repeatedly. | [verb] To think or ponder. | [verb] To fiddle, play with, or mess around. NONBEING (11) [noun] Nonexistence | [noun] That which is not a being; a potential entity that does not exist. NONCLING (11) NONUSING (9) NOODGING (11) NOODLING (10) [verb] To think or ponder. | [verb] To fiddle, play with, or mess around. | [verb] To improvise music. NORTHING (12) [verb] To turn or move toward the north. | [noun] The distance north of a standard reference latitude. | [noun] A distance traveled northward. NOTATING (9) [verb] To mark with spots or lines, which are often colored. | [verb] To add notes to; to annotate | [verb] To create notation (i.e. music); to record/put down in the form of notation NOTCHING (14) [verb] To cut a notch in (something). | [verb] To record (a score or similar) by making notches on something. | [verb] To join by means of notches. NOTICING (11) [verb] To remark upon; to mention. | [verb] To become aware of; to observe. | [verb] To lavish attention upon; to treat (someone) favourably. NUDZHING (22) NURSLING (9) [noun] A young child or animal being nursed. NUTATING (9) NUZZLING (27) [verb] (of animals, lovers, etc) To touch someone or something with the nose. | [verb] To nurse; to foster; to bring up. | [verb] To nestle; to house, as in a nest. OBLIGING (12) [verb] To constrain someone by force or by social, moral or legal means. | [verb] To do (someone) a service or favour (hence, originally, creating an obligation). | [verb] To be indebted to someone. OCHERING (14) OFFERING (15) [verb] To propose or express one's willingness (to do something). | [verb] To present in words; to proffer; to make a proposal of; to suggest. | [verb] To place at someone’s disposal; to present (something) to be either accepted or turned down. OMITTING (11) [verb] To leave out or exclude. | [verb] To fail to perform. | [verb] To neglect or take no notice of. ONCOMING (13) [verb] To arrive; come to; come on. | [noun] Approach, onset | [adjective] Approaching; coming closer OPAQUING (20) OPIATING (11) [verb] To treat with an opiate drug. OPPOSING (13) [verb] To attempt to stop the progression of; to resist or antagonize by physical means, or by arguments, etc.; to contend against. | [verb] To object to. | [verb] To present or set up in opposition; to pose. ORBITING (11) [verb] To circle or revolve around another object. | [verb] To move around the general vicinity of something. | [verb] To place an object into an orbit around a planet. ORDERING (10) [verb] To set in some sort of order. | [verb] To arrange, set in proper order. | [verb] To issue a command to. OSMOSING (11) [verb] To diffuse by osmosis. | [verb] To cause to diffuse by osmosis. OSNABURG (11) [noun] A plain, coarse textile fabric made from flax, tow or jute yarns. OUGHTING (13) OUTDOING (10) [verb] To excel; go beyond in performance; surpass. | [noun] The act by which one person outdoes another. OUTGOING (10) [verb] To go out, to set forth. | [verb] To go further; to exceed or surpass; go beyond. | [verb] To overtake; to travel faster than. OUTLYING (12) [noun] A region relatively remote from a central location. | [adjective] Relatively remote from some central location. | [adjective] Located outside of some boundary or limit. OUTVYING (15) [verb] To outdo a competitor or rival. OVERHANG (15) [noun] The volume that tips the balance between the demand and the supply toward demand lagging supply. | [noun] That portion of the roof structure that extends beyond the exterior walls of a building. | [noun] A fatty roll of pubis flab that hangs over one's genitals; a FUPA. OVERHUNG (15) [verb] To hang over (something). | [verb] To impend. | [adjective] Covered over; ornamented with hangings. OVERLONG (12) [adjective] Too long. | [adverb] Too long, for an excessively long time. PADDLING (13) [verb] To propel something through water with a paddle, oar, hands, etc. | [verb] To row a boat with less than one's full capacity. | [verb] To spank with a paddle. | [noun] The act of using a paddle. PAINTING (11) [verb] To apply paint to. | [verb] To apply in the manner that paint is applied. | [verb] To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint. PALSYING (14) [verb] To paralyse, either completely or partially. PANDYING (15) PANELING (11) [noun] The panels with which a surface (especially an indoor wall) is covered, considered collectively. PAPERING (13) [verb] To apply paper to. | [verb] To document; to memorialize. | [verb] To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats. PARADING (12) [verb] To march in or as if in a procession. | [verb] To cause (someone) to march in or as if in a procession; to display or show (something) during a procession. | [verb] To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner. PARASANG (11) PARAWING (14) [noun] A flexible type of airfoil. PARCHING (16) [verb] To burn the surface of, to scorch. | [verb] To roast, as dry grain. | [verb] To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat. PAROLING (11) [verb] To release (a prisoner) on the understanding that s/he checks in regularly and obeys the law. PARRYING (14) [verb] To avoid, deflect, or ward off (an attack, a blow, an argument, etc.). | [noun] The act of one who parries. PARTYING (14) [verb] To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself. | [verb] To take recreational drugs. | [verb] To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats. PATCHING (16) [verb] To mend by sewing on a piece or pieces of cloth, leather, or the like | [verb] To mend with pieces; to repair by fastening pieces on. | [verb] To make out of pieces or patches, like a quilt. PATINING (11) PEACHING (16) [verb] To inform on someone; turn informer. | [verb] To inform against. PEARLING (11) [verb] (sometimes figurative) To set or adorn with pearls, or with mother-of-pearl. | [verb] To cause to resemble pearls in shape; to make into small round grains. | [verb] To cause to resemble pearls in lustre or iridescence. PEBBLING (15) PEDALING (12) [verb] To operate a pedal attached to a wheel in a continuous circular motion. | [verb] To operate a bicycle. | [noun] The set of pedal movements to be performed when playing a piano or organ. PEDDLING (13) [verb] To sell things, especially door to door or in insignificant quantities. | [verb] To sell illegal narcotics. | [verb] To spread or cause to spread. PEOPLING (13) [verb] To stock with people or inhabitants; to fill as with people; to populate. | [verb] To become populous or populated. | [verb] To inhabit; to occupy; to populate. PERCHING (16) [verb] To rest on (or as if on) a perch; to roost. | [verb] To stay in an elevated position. | [verb] To place something on (or as if on) a perch. | [noun] Inspection of cloth before finishing. PERILING (11) [verb] To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk. PERUSING (11) [verb] To examine or consider with care. | [verb] To read completely. | [verb] To look over casually; to skim. PESTLING (11) [verb] To pound, crush, rub or grind, as in a mortar with a pestle. PETERING (11) [verb] In whist, to play a blue peter. | [verb] (most often used in the phrase peter out) To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing. PETTIFOG (14) [verb] To quibble over trivial matters; nitpick. | [verb] To do a petty business as a lawyer, or carry out law business in a petty or tricky way. PETTLING (11) PHILABEG (16) PHILIBEG (16) [noun] A little kilt. PHONYING (17) PHOTOING (14) [verb] To take a photograph of. PHRASING (14) [verb] To express (an action, thought or idea) by means of particular words. | [verb] To perform a passage with the correct phrasing. | [verb] To divide into melodic phrases. PIAFFING (17) [verb] To strut pretentiously, to parade about. | [verb] To trot a horse with a high, slow, step, lifting the feet but without moving forward significantly. | [verb] To ride a horse in this way. PICKLING (17) [verb] To preserve food (or sometimes other things) in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution. | [verb] To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid. | [verb] (in the Python programming language) To serialize. PICOTING (13) PIDDLING (13) [verb] To eat with small, quick bites. | [verb] To bite lightly. | [verb] To consume gradually. PIERCING (13) [verb] To puncture; to break through | [verb] To create a hole in the skin for the purpose of inserting jewelry | [verb] To break or interrupt abruptly PIFFLING (17) [verb] To act or speak in a futile, ineffective, or nonsensical manner. | [verb] To waste, to fritter away. | [verb] To be squeamish or delicate. PILOTING (11) [verb] To control (an aircraft or watercraft). | [verb] To guide (a vessel) through coastal waters. | [verb] To test or have a preliminary trial of (an idea, a new product, etc.) PINCHBUG (18) PINCHING (16) [verb] To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt. | [verb] To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger. | [verb] To squeeze between two objects. PINDLING (12) PIRATING (11) [verb] To appropriate by piracy, plunder at sea. | [verb] (intellectual property) To create and/or sell an unauthorized copy of | [verb] (intellectual property) To knowingly obtain an unauthorized copy of PITCHING (16) [verb] To cover or smear with pitch. | [verb] To darken; to blacken; to obscure. | [verb] To throw. PIVOTING (14) [verb] To turn on an exact spot. | [verb] To make a sudden or swift change in strategy, policy, etc. | [noun] A motion by which something pivots. PLAGUING (12) [verb] To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly. | [verb] To afflict with a disease or other calamity. | [noun] Annoyance; harassment PLAINING (11) [verb] To complain. | [verb] To lament, bewail. | [verb] To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface. PLAITING (11) [verb] To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat | [verb] To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid | [noun] Plaited material PLANKING (15) [verb] To cover something with planking. | [verb] To bake (fish, etc.) on a piece of cedar lumber. | [verb] To lay down, as on a plank or table; to stake or pay cash. PLANNING (11) [verb] To design (a building, machine, etc.). | [verb] To create a plan for. | [verb] To intend. PLANTING (11) [verb] To place (a seed or plant) in soil or other substrate in order that it may live and grow. | [verb] To place (an object, or sometimes a person), often with the implication of intending deceit. | [verb] To place or set something firmly or with conviction. PLASHING (14) [verb] To splash. | [verb] To cause a splash. | [verb] To splash or sprinkle with colouring matter. PLATTING (11) [verb] To create a plat; to lay out property lots and streets; to map. | [verb] (obsolete except regional England) To braid, to plait. | [noun] Plaited strips of bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like. PLEADING (12) [verb] To present (an argument or a plea), especially in a legal case. | [verb] To beg, beseech, or implore. | [verb] To offer by way of excuse. PLEASING (11) [verb] To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to. | [verb] To desire; to will; to be pleased by. | [adjective] Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification. | [noun] Pleasure or satisfaction, as in the phrase "to my pleasing." PLEATING (11) [verb] To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment. | [verb] To plait. | [noun] An action or arrangement in which something is pleated. PLEDGING (13) [verb] To make a solemn promise (to do something). | [verb] To deposit something as a security; to pawn. | [verb] To give assurance of friendship by the act of drinking; to drink to one's health. PLINKING (15) [verb] To make a plink sound. | [verb] (with "out") To play a song or a portion of a song, usually on a percussion instrument such as a piano. | [verb] To take part in the sport of plinking. PLODDING (13) [verb] To walk or move slowly and heavily or laboriously (+ on, through, over). | [verb] To trudge over or through. | [verb] To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently. PLONKING (15) [verb] To set or toss (something) down carelessly. | [verb] To automatically ignore a particular poster. | [noun] A noise that plonks. PLOPPING (15) [verb] To make the sound of an object dropping into a body of liquid. | [verb] To land heavily or loosely. | [verb] To defecate; derived from the "plop" sound made when excrement hits water in a toilet. PLOTTING (11) [verb] To conceive (a crime, etc). | [verb] To trace out (a graph or diagram). | [verb] To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc). PLOTZING (20) [verb] To flop down wearily. | [verb] To faint. | [verb] To fall down dead. PLUCKING (17) [verb] To pull something sharply; to pull something out | [verb] To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. | [verb] To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. PLUGGING (13) [verb] To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole. | [verb] To blatantly mention a particular product or service as if advertising it. | [verb] To persist or continue with something. PLUMBING (15) [noun] The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps and other fixtures of a water, gas or sewage system in a house or other building. | [noun] The trade or occupation of a plumber. | [noun] A system of vessels or ducts in the human body, especially the genitourinary system. PLUMPING (15) [verb] To grow plump; to swell out. | [verb] To make plump; to fill (out) or support; often with up. | [verb] To cast or let drop all at once, suddenly and heavily. PLUNGING (12) [verb] To thrust into liquid, or into any penetrable substance; to immerse. | [verb] To cast, stab or throw into some thing, state, condition or action. | [verb] To baptize by immersion. PLUNKING (15) [verb] To drop or throw something heavily onto or into something else, so that it makes a dull sound. | [verb] To land suddenly or heavily; to plump down. | [verb] To intentionally hit the batter with a pitch. POACHING (16) [verb] To cook something in simmering liquid. | [verb] To be cooked in simmering liquid | [verb] To become soft or muddy. POINDING (12) [verb] To seize property in this manner | [noun] A poind. POINTING (11) [verb] To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it. | [verb] To draw attention to something or indicate a direction. | [verb] To face in a particular direction. POLICING (13) [verb] To enforce the law and keep order among (a group). | [verb] To clean up an area. | [verb] To enforce norms or standards upon. POLKAING (15) [verb] To dance the polka. POLLIWOG (14) [noun] A tadpole. POLLYWOG (17) [noun] A polliwog. | [noun] A sailor who has not yet crossed the equator. | [noun] A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent (Poly + wog). POMADING (14) [verb] To anoint with pomade; to use pomade to style (hair). POOCHING (16) [verb] To distend, to swell or extend beyond normal limits; usually used with out. POPPLING (15) [verb] Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner. | [verb] To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water. POSITING (11) [verb] Assume the existence of; to postulate. | [verb] Propose for consideration or study; to suggest. | [verb] Put (something somewhere) firmly; to place or position. POSTDRUG (12) POUCHING (16) [verb] To enclose within a pouch. | [verb] To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch. | [verb] (of fowls and fish) To swallow. POUNCING (13) [verb] To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder. | [verb] To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something. | [verb] To attack suddenly by leaping. POUNDING (12) [verb] To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound. | [verb] To strike hard, usually repeatedly. | [verb] To crush to pieces; to pulverize. POWERING (14) [verb] To provide power for (a mechanical or electronic device). | [verb] To hit or kick something forcefully. | [verb] To enable or provide the impetus for. PRAISING (11) [verb] To give praise to; to commend, glorify, or worship. | [noun] An act of giving praise. PRANCING (13) [verb] (of a horse) To spring forward on the hind legs. | [verb] To strut about in a showy manner. | [noun] The act of one who prances. PRANGING (12) [verb] To crash an aeroplane. | [verb] To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle. | [verb] To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle). PRANKING (15) [verb] To perform a practical joke on; to trick. | [verb] To call someone's phone and promptly hang up | [verb] To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously. PRAWNING (14) PREENING (11) [verb] To pin; fasten. | [verb] (of birds) To groom; to trim or dress with the beak, as the feathers. | [verb] To show off, posture, or smarm. PREPPING (15) [verb] To prepare. PRESSING (11) [verb] To exert weight or force against, to act upon with force or weight; to exert pressure upon. | [verb] To activate a button or key by exerting a downward or forward force on it, and then releasing it. | [verb] To compress, squeeze. PREVUING (14) PRICKING (17) [verb] To pierce or puncture slightly. | [verb] To form by piercing or puncturing. | [verb] To mark or denote by a puncture; to designate by pricking; to choose; to mark. PRIGGING (13) PRILLING (11) PRIMMING (15) [verb] To make affectedly precise or proper. | [verb] To dress or act smartly. PRIMPING (15) [verb] To spend time improving one's appearance, often in front of a mirror. | [verb] To dress in an affected manner. | [noun] The act of one who primps. PRINKING (15) [verb] To give a wink; to wink. | [verb] To look, gaze. | [verb] To dress finely, primp, preen, spruce up. PRINTING (11) [verb] To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off. | [verb] To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image. | [verb] To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive. PRISSING (11) PRODDING (13) [verb] To poke, to push, to touch. | [verb] To encourage, to prompt. | [verb] To prick with a goad. PROGGING (13) PRONGING (12) [verb] To pierce or poke with, or as if with, a prong PROOFING (14) [verb] To proofread. | [verb] To make resistant, especially to water. | [verb] To allow yeast-containing dough to rise. PROPPING (15) [verb] (sometimes figurative) To support or shore up something. | [verb] To play rugby in the prop position | [verb] (usually with "up" - see prop up) To position the feet of (a person) while sitting, lying down, or reclining so that the knees are elevated at a higher level. PROWLING (14) [verb] To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; especially, to search in, as for prey or booty. | [verb] To idle; to go about aimlessly. | [verb] To collect by plunder. PSALMING (13) PSHAWING (17) [verb] To express disgust or contempt. PSYCHING (19) [verb] To put (someone) into a required psychological frame of mind. | [verb] To intimidate (someone) emotionally using psychology. | [verb] To treat (someone) using psychoanalysis. PUDDLING (13) [verb] To form a puddle. | [verb] To play or splash in a puddle. | [verb] Of butterflies, to congregate on a puddle or moist substance to pick up nutrients. PUMICING (15) [verb] To abrade or roughen with pumice. PUNCHING (16) [verb] To strike with one's fist. | [verb] (of cattle) To herd. | [verb] To operate (a device or system) by depressing a button, key, bar, or pedal, or by similar means. PUNGLING (12) PUPATING (13) [verb] To become a pupa. PUREEING (11) [verb] To crush or grind food into a puree. PURFLING (14) [verb] To decorate (wood, cloth etc.) with a purfle or ornamental border; to border. | [verb] To ornament with a bordure of ermines, furs, etc. or with gold studs or mountings. | [noun] Two or more very narrow strips of black wood enclosing a lighter-coloured strip of wood set close to the edge of the top and back of a string instrument such as a violin, cello or a guitar, following its outline, or this effect simulated with paint. PURPLING (13) [verb] To turn purple in colour. | [verb] To dye purple. | [verb] To clothe in purple. PURSUING (11) [verb] To follow urgently, originally with intent to capture or harm; to chase. | [verb] To follow, travel down (a particular way, course of action etc.). | [verb] To aim for, go after (a specified objective, situation etc.). PUTTYING (14) [verb] To fix or fill using putty. PUZZLING (29) [verb] To perplex (someone). | [verb] To think long and carefully, in bewilderment. | [verb] To make intricate; to entangle. QUACKING (24) [verb] To make a noise like a duck. | [verb] To practice or commit quackery (fraudulent medicine). | [verb] To make vain and loud pretensions. QUADDING (20) QUAFFING (24) [verb] To drink or imbibe with vigour or relish; to drink copiously; to swallow in large draughts. | [noun] The act by which something is quaffed; a drinking. QUAILING (18) [verb] To waste away; to fade, to wither | [verb] To daunt or frighten (someone) | [verb] To lose heart or courage; to be daunted or fearful. QUANDANG (19) QUANDONG (19) [noun] Any of several species of Santalum: | [noun] Any of many species of Elaeocarpus: | [noun] Highroot quandong (Aceratium concinnum) QUANTING (18) QUANTONG (18) QUASHING (21) [verb] To defeat decisively. | [verb] To crush or dash to pieces. | [verb] To void or suppress (a subpoena, decision, etc.). QUEENING (18) [verb] To make a queen. | [verb] To act the part of a queen; to queen it. | [verb] To promote a pawn, usually to a queen. QUEERING (18) [verb] To render an endeavor or agreement ineffective or null. | [verb] To puzzle. | [verb] To ridicule; to banter; to rally. QUELLING (18) [verb] To subdue, to put down; to silence or force (someone) to submit. | [verb] To suppress, to put an end to (something); to extinguish. | [verb] To kill. QUERYING (21) [verb] To ask a question. | [verb] To ask, inquire. | [verb] To question or call into doubt. QUESTING (18) [verb] To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job. | [verb] To search for; to examine. | [verb] (of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal. QUEUEING (18) [verb] To put oneself or itself at the end of a waiting line. | [verb] To arrange themselves into a physical waiting queue. | [verb] To add to a queue data structure. QUIETING (18) [verb] To become quiet, silent, still, tranquil, calm. | [verb] To cause someone to become quiet. | [noun] The act of making something quiet. QUILLING (18) [verb] To pierce or be pierced with quills. | [verb] To write. | [verb] To form fabric into small, rounded folds. QUILTING (18) [verb] To construct a quilt. | [verb] To construct something, such as clothing, using the same technique. | [noun] A layer or layers of quilted padding. QUIPPING (22) [verb] To make a quip. | [verb] To taunt; to treat with quips. QUIRKING (22) [verb] To move with a wry jerk. | [verb] To furnish with a quirk or channel. | [verb] To use verbal tricks or quibbles QUIRTING (18) [verb] To strike with a quirt. QUISLING (18) [noun] A traitor who collaborates with the enemy. QUITTING (18) [verb] To pay (a debt, fine etc.). | [verb] To repay (someone) for (something). | [verb] To repay, pay back (a good deed, injury etc.). QUIZZING (36) [verb] To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions. | [verb] To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly. | [verb] To question closely, to interrogate. QUOINING (18) [verb] To wedge or steady with quoins. | [noun] The architectural elements, such as stone or brick, that form a quoin QUOITING (18) [verb] To play quoits. | [verb] To throw as with a quoit. RABBLING (13) RADDLING (11) [verb] To mark with raddle; to daub something red. | [verb] To interweave or twist together. | [verb] To do work in a slovenly way. RADIOING (10) [verb] To use two-way radio to transmit (a message) (to another radio or other radio operator). | [verb] To order or assist (to a location), using telecommunications. RAFFLING (15) [verb] To award something by means of a raffle or random drawing, often used with off. | [verb] To participate in a raffle. RALLYING (12) [verb] To collect, and reduce to order, as troops dispersed or thrown into confusion; to gather again; to reunite. | [verb] To come into orderly arrangement; to renew order, or united effort, as troops scattered or put to flight; to assemble; to unite. | [verb] To collect one's vital powers or forces; to regain health or consciousness; to recuperate. RALPHING (14) [verb] To vomit. RAMBLING (13) [verb] To move about aimlessly, or on a winding course | [verb] To walk for pleasure; to amble or saunter. | [verb] To talk or write incessantly, unclearly, or incoherently, with many digressions. RANCHING (14) [verb] To operate a ranch; engage in ranching. | [verb] To work on a ranch | [noun] The business or activity of operating a ranch, of farming or raising livestock. RANKLING (13) [verb] To cause irritation or deep bitterness. | [verb] To fester. | [noun] A sensation that rankles. RASSLING (9) [verb] To contend, with an opponent, by grappling and attempting to throw, immobilize or otherwise defeat him, depending on the specific rules of the contest | [verb] To struggle or strive | [verb] To take part in a wrestling match with someone RATTLING (9) [verb] To create a rattling sound by shaking or striking. | [verb] To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve. | [verb] To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking. | [noun] The rope or similar material used to make cross-ropes on a ship. RAVAGING (13) [verb] To devastate or destroy something. | [verb] To pillage or sack something, to lay waste to something. | [verb] To wreak destruction. RAVELING (12) [verb] To tangle; entangle; entwine confusedly, become snarled; thus to involve; perplex; confuse. | [verb] To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle or clarify. | [verb] To pull apart (especially cloth or a seam); unravel. RAVENING (12) [noun] Predation (of an animal); voracious eating or consumption. | [noun] Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. | [adjective] Voracious and greedy. RAVINING (12) RAZEEING (18) RAZORING (18) [verb] To shave with a razor. REACHING (14) [verb] To extend, stretch, or thrust out (for example a limb or object held in the hand). | [verb] To give to someone by stretching out a limb, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another person; to hand over. | [verb] To stretch out the hand. | [noun] The action of one who reaches; an attempt to grasp something by stretching. REACTING (11) [verb] To act or perform a second time; to do over again; to reenact. | [verb] To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force | [verb] To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition. READDING (11) READYING (13) [verb] To prepare; to make ready for action. REARMING (11) [verb] To replace or restore the weapons or arms of a previously defeated, or disarmed army, country, person or other body. REBATING (11) [verb] To deduct or return an amount from a bill or payment | [verb] To diminish or lessen something | [verb] To beat to obtuseness; to deprive of keenness; to blunt; to turn back the point of, as a lance used for exercise. REBORING (11) [noun] The process of modifying the bore of an engine. | [verb] To bore through an existing hole, generally to correct its shape. REBUKING (15) [verb] To criticise harshly; to reprove. | [noun] The act of giving a rebuke. REBUYING (14) RECANING (11) RECEDING (12) [verb] To move back; to retreat; to withdraw. | [verb] To cede back; to grant or yield again to a former possessor. | [verb] To take back. RECITING (11) [verb] To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience. | [verb] To list or enumerate something. | [verb] To deliver a recitation. RECODING (12) [verb] To code again or differently. | [noun] The act or result of coding again or differently. RECUSING (11) [verb] To refuse or reject (a judge); to declare that the judge shall not try the case or is disqualified from acting. | [verb] (of a judge) To refuse to act as a judge; to declare oneself disqualified from acting. REDATING (10) REDDLING (11) REDRYING (13) REDUCING (12) [verb] To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower. | [verb] To lose weight. | [verb] To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote. REDYEING (13) REEDLING (10) [noun] A bird, the bearded reedling or bearded tit. REESTING (9) REFACING (14) [verb] To replace the face or surface of something; to create a new outer layer. REFILING (12) REFINING (12) [verb] To purify; reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities. | [verb] To become pure; to be cleared of impure matter. | [verb] To purify of coarseness, vulgarity, inelegance, etc.; to polish. REFIRING (12) REFIXING (19) [verb] To fix again. REFLYING (15) REFRYING (15) REFUGING (13) REFUSING (12) [verb] To decline (a request or demand). | [verb] To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission. | [verb] To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular alignment when troops are about to engage the enemy. REFUTING (12) [verb] To prove (something) to be false or incorrect. | [verb] To deny the truth or correctness of (something). REGALING (10) [verb] To please or entertain (someone). | [verb] To provide hospitality for (someone); to supply with abundant food and drink. | [verb] To feast (on, with something). REGIVING (13) REGLUING (10) REHIRING (12) [verb] To hire again. | [noun] The act of hiring somebody again. REIFYING (15) [verb] To regard something abstract as if it were a concrete material thing REIGNING (10) [verb] To exercise sovereign power, to rule as a monarch. | [verb] To reign over (a country) | [verb] To be the winner of the most recent iteration of a competition. REINKING (13) REKEYING (16) [verb] To enter information into a device, such as a keyboard or keypad, after it has been done at least once before. | [verb] To modify (a lock or its cylinder) to change which keys will open it. | [verb] To change the key or tenor of; to reframe. RELACING (11) RELATING (9) [verb] To tell in a descriptive way. | [verb] To bring into a relation, association, or connection (between one thing and another). | [verb] To have a connection. RELAXING (16) [verb] To calm down. | [verb] To make something loose. | [verb] To become loose. RELAYING (12) [verb] To lay (for example, flooring or railroad track) again. | [verb] To release a new set of hounds. | [verb] To place (people or horses) in relays, such that one can take over from another. RELINING (9) [verb] To add new lines to. | [verb] To add a new lining to. RELIVING (12) [verb] To experience (something) again; to live over again. | [verb] To bring back to life; to revive, resuscitate. | [verb] To come back to life. RELUMING (11) [verb] To rekindle; to relight (literally or figuratively). | [verb] To make clear or bright again. REMAKING (15) [verb] To make again. | [verb] To make a new, especially updated, version of (a film, video game, etc.). | [noun] Recreation; reconstruction REMATING (11) REMISING (11) [verb] To send or give back. | [verb] To surrender all interest in a property by executing a deed, to quitclaim. REMIXING (18) [verb] To mix again. | [verb] To create a remix. | [verb] To rearrange or radically alter (a particular piece of music). REMOVING (14) [verb] To move something from one place to another, especially to take away. | [verb] To murder. | [verb] To dismiss a batsman. RENAMING (11) [verb] To give a new name to. | [noun] (gerund of rename) An act in which something is renamed RENEGING (10) [verb] To break a promise or commitment; to go back on one's word. | [verb] In a card game, to break one's commitment to follow suit when capable. | [verb] To deny; to renounce RENEWING (12) [verb] To make (something) new again; to restore to freshness or original condition. | [verb] To replace (something which has broken etc.); to replenish (something which has been exhausted), to keep up a required supply of. | [verb] To make new spiritually; to regenerate. REOILING (9) REPAVING (14) REPAYING (14) [verb] To pay back. REPINING (11) [verb] To fail; to wane. | [verb] To complain; to regret. | [noun] The act of fretting or feeling discontent or of murmuring. REPLYING (14) [verb] To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer. | [verb] To act or gesture in response. | [verb] To repeat something back; to echo. REPOSING (11) [verb] To lie at rest; to rest. | [verb] To lie; to be supported. | [verb] To lay, to set down. REPUTING (11) [verb] To attribute or credit something to something; to impute. | [verb] To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something RERISING (9) RESAWING (12) RESAYING (12) RESCUING (11) [verb] To save from any violence, danger or evil. | [verb] To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint. | [verb] To recover forcibly. RESEEING (9) RESEWING (12) RESIDING (10) [verb] To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time. | [verb] To have a seat or fixed position; to inhere; to lie or be as in attribute or element. | [verb] To sink; to settle, as sediment. RESILING (9) [verb] To start back; to recoil; to recede from a purpose. | [verb] To spring back; rebound; resume the original form or position, as an elastic body. RESINING (9) [verb] To apply resin to. RESITING (9) [verb] To move to another site or place. RESIZING (18) [verb] To alter the size of something. | [verb] To change in size. RESOLING (9) [verb] To replace or reattach the sole of an article of footwear. | [noun] The act of fitting a new sole to a shoe. RESOWING (12) RESPRANG (11) RESPRING (11) RESPRUNG (11) RESTRING (9) [verb] To string again. RESTRUNG (9) [verb] To string again. RESUMING (11) [verb] To take back possession of (something). | [verb] To summarise. | [verb] To start (something) again that has been stopped or paused from the point at which it was stopped or paused; continue, carry on. RETAKING (13) [verb] To take something again | [verb] To take something back | [verb] To capture or occupy somewhere again RETAPING (11) RETAXING (16) RETCHING (14) [verb] To make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; to strain, as in vomiting. | [verb] To reck | [verb] To reach RETILING (9) [verb] To tile again; to replace with new tiles RETIMING (11) [verb] To reschedule for another time. | [verb] To change the timing or duration of. RETIRING (9) [verb] To stop working on a permanent basis, usually because of old age or illness. | [verb] (sometimes reflexive) To withdraw; to take away. | [verb] To cease use or production of something. RETRYING (12) [verb] To try or attempt again. | [verb] To try judicially a second time. RETUNING (9) [verb] To tune again. | [noun] The act by which something is retuned; a subsequent tuning. RETYPING (14) [verb] To re-enter (text) using a keyboard. REVELING (12) [verb] To make merry; to have a happy, lively time. | [verb] To take delight (in something). | [noun] A revel. REVERING (12) [verb] To regard someone or something with great awe or devotion. | [verb] To honour in a form lesser than worship, e.g. a saint, or an idol REVILING (12) [verb] To attack (someone) with abusive language. | [noun] Reproach; abuse; vilification REVISING (12) [verb] To look at again, to reflect on. | [verb] To review, alter and amend, especially of written material. | [verb] To look over again (something previously written or learned), especially in preparation for an examination. REVIVING (15) [verb] To return to life; to become reanimated or reinvigorated. | [verb] To return to life; to cause to recover life or strength; to cause to live anew. | [verb] To recover from a state of oblivion, obscurity, neglect, or depression. REVOKING (16) [verb] To cancel or invalidate by withdrawing or reversing. | [verb] To fail to follow suit in a game of cards when holding a card in that suit. | [verb] To call or bring back. REVOTING (12) REWAKING (16) REWAXING (19) REWIRING (12) [verb] To replace or reconnect the wires of a device or installation. | [verb] To change the functionality of something by altering the parameters or logic. | [noun] A new wiring REZONING (18) [verb] To change the zoning assigned to a piece of property by the planning and zoning commission of a government that determines proper and legal use for land. | [noun] The act, process or result of being rezoned RIDDLING (11) [verb] To speak ambiguously or enigmatically. | [verb] To solve, answer, or explicate a riddle or question. | [verb] To put something through a riddle or sieve, to sieve, to sift. RIDGLING (11) RIESLING (9) [noun] A variety of grape grown especially in Germany and other relatively cool areas. | [noun] A white wine made from this grape (often slightly sweet). RIFFLING (15) [verb] To flow over a swift, shallow part of a stream. | [verb] To ruffle with a rippling action. | [verb] To skim or flick through the pages of a book. RIGHTING (13) [verb] To correct. | [verb] To set upright. | [verb] To return to normal upright position. RIMPLING (13) RIPENING (11) [verb] To grow ripe; to become mature (said of grain, fruit, flowers etc.) | [verb] To approach or come to perfection. | [verb] To cause to mature; to make ripe RIPPLING (13) [verb] To move like the undulating surface of a body of water; to undulate. | [verb] To propagate like a moving wave. | [verb] To make a sound as of water running gently over a rough bottom, or the breaking of ripples on the shore. RIVALING (12) [verb] To oppose or compete with. | [verb] To be equal to, or match, or to surpass another. | [verb] To strive to equal or excel; to emulate. RIVETING (12) [verb] To attach or fasten parts by using rivets. | [verb] To install rivets. | [verb] To command the attention of. ROACHING (14) ROASTING (9) [verb] To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering, resulting in a crisp, possibly even slightly charred appearance. | [verb] To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc. | [verb] To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat ROCKLING (15) [noun] Any of various fishes of the Lotidae family. | [noun] Any of certain fishes from other families. RODEOING (10) [verb] To perform in a rodeo show. ROGUEING (10) ROOSTING (9) [verb] (of birds or bats) To settle on a perch in order to sleep or rest | [verb] To spend the night | [noun] The place or period where a creature roosts. ROSESLUG (9) ROSINING (9) [verb] To apply rosin to (something); to rub or cover with rosin. ROTATING (9) [verb] To spin, turn, or revolve. | [verb] To advance through a sequence; to take turns. | [verb] (of aircraft) To lift the nose, just prior to takeoff. ROUGHING (13) [verb] To create in an approximate form. | [verb] To commit the offense of roughing, i.e. to punch another player. | [verb] To render rough; to roughen. ROUGHLEG (13) ROUNDING (10) [verb] To shape something into a curve. | [verb] To become shaped into a curve. | [verb] (with "out") To finish; to complete; to fill out. ROUSTING (9) [verb] To rout out of bed; to rouse | [verb] To harass, to treat in a rough way. | [verb] To arrest ROWELING (12) [verb] To use a rowel on (something), especially to drain fluid. | [verb] To fit with spurs. | [verb] To apply the spur to. RUBBLING (13) RUCKLING (15) [verb] To crease or wrinkle. | [verb] To make a rattling noise in the throat. RUDDLING (11) RUFFLING (15) [verb] To make a ruffle in; to curl or flute, as an edge of fabric. | [verb] To disturb; especially, to cause to flutter. | [verb] To grow rough, boisterous, or turbulent. RUMBAING (13) [verb] To dance the rumba RUMBLING (13) [verb] To make a low, heavy, continuous sound. | [verb] To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour. | [verb] To move while making a rumbling noise. RUMORING (11) [verb] (usually used in the passive voice) To tell a rumor about; to gossip. RUMPLING (13) [verb] To make wrinkled, particularly fabric. | [verb] To muss; to tousle. | [noun] The act by which something is rumpled. RUNKLING (13) RUSTLING (9) [verb] To move (something) with a soft crackling sound. | [verb] To make or obtain in a lively, energetic way. | [verb] To steal (cattle or other livestock). | [noun] A series of rustles. SABERING (11) [verb] To strike or kill with a sabre. SADDLING (11) [verb] To put a saddle on (an animal). | [verb] To get into a saddle. | [verb] To burden or encumber. SAINTING (9) [verb] To canonize, to formally recognize someone as a saint. SALADANG (10) SALLYING (12) [verb] To make a sudden attack (e.g. on an enemy from a defended position). | [verb] To set out on an excursion; venture; depart (often followed by "forth.") | [verb] To venture off the beaten path. SALUTING (9) [verb] To make a gesture in honor of (someone or something). | [verb] To act in thanks, honor, or tribute; to thank or extend gratitude; to praise. | [verb] To wave, to acknowledge an acquaintance. SALVOING (12) SAMBAING (13) [verb] To dance the samba. SAMPLING (13) [verb] To take or to test a sample or samples of. | [verb] To reduce a continuous signal (such as a sound wave) to a discrete signal. | [verb] To reuse a portion of (an existing sound recording) in a new piece of music. SANDLING (10) SAUTEING (9) [verb] To cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat, allowing the food to brown and form a crust stopping it from sticking to the pan as it cooks. SAVAGING (13) [verb] To attack or assault someone or something ferociously or without restraint. | [verb] To criticise vehemently. | [verb] (of an animal) To attack with the teeth. SAVORING (12) [noun] The act by which something is savored. | [verb] To possess a particular taste or smell, or a distinctive quality. | [verb] To appreciate, enjoy or relish something. SAVVYING (18) [verb] To understand. SCABBING (15) [verb] To become covered by a scab or scabs. | [verb] To form into scabs and be shed, as damaged or diseased skin. | [verb] To remove part of a surface (from). SCALAWAG (14) [noun] A scrawny cow. | [noun] A rascal. | [noun] Any white Southerner who supported the federal plan of Reconstruction after the American Civil War or who joined with the black freedmen and the carpetbaggers in support of Republican Party policies. SCALDING (12) [verb] To burn with hot liquid. | [verb] To heat almost to boiling. | [noun] An instance of scalding: a burn. | [noun] 3,5-methoxy-4-ethoxyphenethylamine, a psychedelic drug and entheogen of the phenethylamine class. SCALPING (13) [verb] To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident. | [verb] To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally. | [verb] On an open outcry exchange trading floor, to buy and sell rapidly for one's own account, aiming to buy from a seller and a little later sell to a buyer, making a small profit from the difference (roughly the amount of the bid/offer spread, or less). | [noun] The action by which someone is scalped. SCAMMING (15) [verb] To defraud or embezzle. SCAMPING (15) [verb] To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion. SCANNING (11) [verb] To examine sequentially, carefully, or critically; to scrutinize; to behold closely. | [verb] To look about for; to look over quickly. | [verb] To create a digital copy of an image using a scanner. SCANTING (11) [verb] To limit in amount or share; to stint. | [verb] To fail, or become less; to scantle. SCARFING (14) [verb] To throw on loosely; to put on like a scarf. | [verb] To dress with a scarf, or as with a scarf; to cover with a loose wrapping. | [verb] To shape by grinding. SCARPING (13) [verb] (earth science) to cut, scrape, erode, or otherwise make into a scarp or escarpment | [noun] A scarp (cliff caused by erosion). SCARRING (11) [verb] To mark the skin permanently. | [verb] To form a scar. | [verb] To affect deeply in a traumatic manner. SCARTING (11) SCATHING (14) [verb] To injure or harm. | [verb] To blast; scorch; wither. | [adjective] Harshly or bitterly critical; vitriolic SCATTING (11) [verb] To sing an improvised melodic solo using nonsense syllables, often onomatopoeic or imitative of musical instruments. | [verb] To leave quickly (often used in the imperative). | [verb] An imperative demand, often understood by speaker and listener as impertinent. SCENDING (12) [verb] To heave upward. SCENTING (11) [verb] To detect the scent of; to discern by the sense of smell. | [verb] To have a suspicion of. | [verb] To impart an odour to. SCHEMING (16) [verb] To plot, or contrive a plan. | [verb] To plan; to contrive. | [adjective] Tending to scheme; forming underhand plots. | [noun] The activity or practice of making secret or underhanded plans. SCOFFING (17) [verb] To jeer; to laugh with contempt and derision. | [verb] To mock; to treat with scorn. | [verb] To eat food quickly. SCOLDING (12) [verb] To burn with hot liquid. | [verb] To heat almost to boiling. | [verb] To rebuke angrily. SCONCING (13) SCOOPING (13) [verb] To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop. | [verb] To make hollow; to dig out. | [verb] To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else). SCOOTING (11) [verb] To walk fast; to go quickly; to run away hastily. | [verb] To ride on a scooter. | [verb] (of an animal) To move with the forelegs while sitting, so that the floor rubs against its rear end. SCORNING (11) [verb] To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise. | [verb] To reject, turn down. | [verb] To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself. SCOURING (11) [verb] To clean, polish, or wash something by rubbing and scrubbing it vigorously, frequently with an abrasive or cleaning agent. | [verb] To remove debris and dirt by purging; to sweep along or off (by a current of water). | [verb] To clear the digestive tract by administering medication that induces defecation or vomiting; to purge. SCOUTING (11) [noun] The act of one who scouts. | [noun] The Scout Movement. | [noun] The activities of boy scouts and girl scouts. SCOWLING (14) [verb] To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. | [verb] (by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower. | [verb] To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown. SCRAPING (13) [noun] The sound or action of something being scraped. | [noun] What has been removed when something has been scraped. | [verb] To draw (an object, especially a sharp or angular one), along (something) while exerting pressure. SCREWING (14) [verb] To connect or assemble pieces using a screw. | [verb] To have sexual intercourse with. | [verb] To cheat someone or ruin their chances in a game or other situation. SCRIBING (13) [verb] To write. | [verb] To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. | [verb] To record. SCRIVING (14) SCUDDING (13) [verb] To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds). | [verb] To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set. | [verb] To hit or slap. SCUFFING (17) [verb] To scrape the feet while walking. | [verb] To hit lightly, to brush against. | [verb] To mishit (a shot on a ball) due to poor contact with the ball. SCULKING (15) SCULLING (11) [verb] To row a boat using a scull or sculls. | [verb] To skate while keeping both feet in contact with the ground or ice. | [verb] To drink the entire contents of (a drinking vessel) without pausing. SCULPING (13) [verb] (sometimes humorous) To sculpture; to carve or engrave. | [verb] To flay. SCUMMING (15) [noun] The accumulation of sticky ink on a plate. | [noun] (chiefly in the plural) That which is scummed off; skimmings; scum. | [noun] The strategy of collecting easy rewards in unchallenging areas, e.g. when a high-level character visits levels suitable for low-level characters in roguelike games. SCUPPAUG (15) SCYTHING (17) [verb] To use a scythe. | [verb] To cut with a scythe. | [verb] To cut off as with a scythe; to mow. SEAGOING (10) [adjective] Travelling out to sea. | [adjective] Made for, or used on the high seas. | [adjective] Fit for sailing on the high seas. SECEDING (12) [verb] To split from or to withdraw from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. | [verb] To split or to withdraw one or more constituent entities from membership of a political union, an alliance or an organisation. SECURING (11) [verb] To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect. | [verb] To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against or from, or formerly with of. | [verb] To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping. SEDATING (10) [verb] To calm or put (a person) to sleep using a sedative drug. | [verb] To make tranquil. SEDUCING (12) [verb] To beguile or lure (someone) away from duty, accepted principles, or proper conduct; to lead astray. | [verb] To entice or induce (someone) to engage in a sexual relationship. | [verb] (by extension) To have sexual intercourse with. SEEDLING (10) [noun] A young plant grown from seed. | [noun] Any young plant, especially: SEETHING (12) [verb] To boil. | [verb] (of a liquid) To boil vigorously. | [verb] (of a liquid) To foam in an agitated manner, as if boiling. SEGUEING (10) [verb] To move smoothly from one state or subject to another. | [verb] To make a smooth transition from one theme to another. | [verb] (of a disk jockey) To play a sequence of records with no talk between them. SELADANG (10) [noun] The Malayan gaur. SERRYING (12) SETTLING (9) [verb] To conclude or resolve (something): | [verb] To place or arrange in(to) a desired (especially: calm) state, or make final disposition of (something). | [verb] To become calm, quiet, or orderly; to stop being agitated. SEVERING (12) [verb] To cut free. | [verb] To suffer disjunction; to be parted or separated. | [verb] To make a separation or distinction; to distinguish. SEWERING (12) SHAFTING (15) [verb] To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery. | [verb] To equip with a shaft. | [verb] To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with. SHAGGING (14) [verb] To make hairy or shaggy; to roughen. | [verb] To hang in shaggy clusters. | [verb] To shake, wiggle around. SHAMMING (16) [verb] To deceive, cheat, lie. | [verb] To obtrude by fraud or imposition. | [verb] To assume the manner and character of; to imitate; to ape; to feign. SHANKING (16) [verb] To travel on foot. | [verb] To stab, especially with an improvised blade. | [verb] To remove another's trousers, especially in jest; to depants. SHANTUNG (12) [noun] A heavy fabric, with a rough surface, made from wild silk. | [noun] A fabric of some other material having the same characteristics. SHARKING (16) [verb] To fish for sharks. | [verb] To steal or obtain through fraud. | [verb] To play the petty thief; to practice fraud or trickery; to swindle. SHARPING (14) [verb] To raise the pitch of a note half a step making a natural note a sharp. | [verb] To play tricks in bargaining; to act the sharper. | [verb] To sharpen. SHAULING (12) SHAWLING (15) SHEAFING (15) [verb] To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves | [verb] To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves. SHEALING (12) [noun] An area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc. | [noun] A shepherd's hut or shack. SHEARING (12) [verb] To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears. | [verb] To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping. | [verb] To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions. SHEAVING (15) [verb] To gather and bind into a sheaf. SHEDDING (14) [verb] To part, separate or divide. | [verb] To part with, separate from, leave off; cast off, let fall, be divested of. | [verb] To pour; to make flow. SHEENING (12) [verb] To shine; to glisten. SHEEPDOG (15) [noun] A breed of dog, used for herding sheep. | [noun] A breed of dog used for guarding sheep. | [noun] A chaperon; an adult who accompanies other people in a supervisory role. SHEERING (12) [verb] To swerve from a course. | [verb] To shear. SHEETING (12) [verb] To cover or wrap with cloth, or paper, or other similar material. | [verb] To form into sheets. | [verb] Of rain, or other precipitation, to pour heavily. SHELLING (12) [verb] To remove the outer covering or shell of something. | [verb] To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery. | [verb] To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out). SHELVING (15) [verb] To place on a shelf. | [verb] To set aside; to quit or postpone. | [verb] To furnish with shelves. SHENDING (13) SHIELING (12) [noun] An area of summer pasture used for cattle, sheep etc. | [noun] A shepherd's hut or shack. SHIFTING (15) [verb] (sometimes figurative) To move from one place to another; to redistribute. | [verb] To change in form or character; swap. | [verb] To change position. SHILLING (12) [noun] A coin formerly used in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Australia, New Zealand and many other Commonwealth countries. | [noun] The currency of Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda. | [noun] A currency in the United States, differing in value between states. | [verb] To promote or endorse in return for payment, especially dishonestly. SHIMMING (16) [verb] To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery. | [verb] To adjust something by using shims. | [verb] To intercept and modify calls to (an API), usually for compatibility purposes. SHINNING (12) [verb] (as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like. | [verb] To strike with the shin. | [verb] To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment. SHIPPING (16) [noun] The transportation of goods. | [noun] The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry. | [noun] Passage or transport on a ship. | [verb] To send by water-borne transport. SHIRKING (16) [verb] To avoid, especially a duty, responsibility, etc.; to stay away from. | [verb] To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty, as by running away. | [verb] To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation. SHIRRING (12) [verb] To make gathers in textiles by drawing together parallel threads. | [verb] To bake (a raw egg removed from its shell) in a baking dish. | [noun] Two or more rows of gathers used to decorate parts of garments, usually the sleeves, bodice and yoke. SHIRTING (12) [noun] Any fabric used to make shirts. | [noun] Shirts collectively. SHITTING (12) [verb] To defecate. | [verb] To excrete (something) through the anus. | [verb] To fool or try to fool someone; to be deceitful. SHOALING (12) [verb] To arrive at a shallow (or less deep) area. | [verb] To cause a shallowing; to come to a more shallow part of. | [verb] To become shallow. SHOCKING (18) [verb] To cause to be emotionally shocked, to cause (someone) to feel surprised and upset. | [verb] To give an electric shock to. | [verb] To meet with a shock; to collide in a violent encounter. SHOGGING (14) SHOOLING (12) SHOOTING (12) [verb] To launch a projectile. | [verb] To move or act quickly or suddenly. | [verb] To act or achieve. SHOPPING (16) [verb] To visit stores or shops to browse or explore merchandise, especially with the intention of buying such merchandise. | [verb] To purchase products from (a range or catalogue, etc.). | [verb] To report the criminal activities or whereabouts of someone to an authority. SHORTING (12) [verb] To cause a short circuit in (something). | [verb] Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit. | [verb] To shortchange. SHOTTING (12) SHOUTING (12) [verb] To utter a sudden and loud cry, as in joy, triumph, exultation or anger, or to attract attention, to animate others, etc. | [verb] To utter with a shout; to cry; to shout out | [verb] To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others. SHOWRING (15) SHREWING (15) SHRINING (12) [verb] To enshrine; to place reverently, as if in a shrine. SHRIVING (15) [verb] To hear or receive a confession (of sins etc.) | [verb] To prescribe penance or absolution. | [verb] To confess, and receive absolution. SHUCKING (18) [verb] To remove the shuck from (walnuts, oysters, etc.). | [verb] To remove (any outer covering). | [verb] To fool; to hoax. SHUNNING (12) [verb] To avoid, especially persistently. | [verb] To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc). | [verb] To screen, hide. SHUNTING (12) [verb] To cause to move (suddenly), as by pushing or shoving; to give a (sudden) start to. | [verb] To divert to a less important place, position, or state. | [verb] To provide with a shunt. SHUSHING (15) [verb] To be quiet; to keep quiet. | [verb] To ask someone to be quiet, especially by saying shh. | [noun] The act of making a shush sound to silence somebody. SHUTTING (12) [verb] To close, to stop from being open. | [verb] To close, to stop being open. | [verb] To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed. SICKLING (15) SIDELING (10) SIDELONG (10) [adjective] Directed to the side; sideways. | [adjective] Slanting or sloping; oblique. | [adjective] Indirect; suggestive; not straightforward. SIGHTING (13) [verb] To register visually. | [verb] To get sight of (something). | [verb] To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight. SINEWING (12) SINGEING (10) [verb] To burn slightly. | [verb] To remove the nap of (cloth), by passing it rapidly over a red-hot bar, or over a flame, preliminary to dyeing it. | [verb] To remove the hair or down from (a plucked chicken, etc.) by passing it over a flame. | [noun] The act or process of slightly burning. SINGLING (10) [verb] To identify or select one member of a group from the others; generally used with out, either to single out or to single (something) out. | [verb] To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base. | [verb] To thin out. SINGSONG (10) [noun] A piece of verse with a simple, song-like rhythm. | [noun] An informal gathering at which songs are sung; a singing session. | [noun] Bad singing or poetry. SIZZLING (27) [verb] To make the sound of water hitting a hot surface. | [verb] To be exciting or dazzling. | [noun] Such a hissing sound. SKEINING (13) SKELPING (15) [verb] To beat or slap. | [verb] To move briskly along. | [verb] To form (a plate or bar of metal, etc.) into a skelp. SKIDDING (15) [verb] To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard. | [verb] To protect or support with a skid or skids. | [verb] To cause to move on skids. SKILLING (13) [verb] To set apart; separate. | [verb] To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to). | [verb] To know; to understand. | [noun] A Scandinavian monetary unit and coin up to the 19th century. (A subdivision of the Swedish riksdaler, the Danish and Norwegian rigsdaler and speciedaler). | [noun] A bay of a barn. SKIMMING (17) [verb] To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface. | [verb] To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of. | [verb] To hasten along with superficial attention. SKIMPING (17) [verb] To mock, deride, scorn, scold, make fun of. | [verb] To slight; to do carelessly; to scamp. | [verb] To make insufficient allowance for; to scant; to scrimp. SKINKING (17) SKINNING (13) [verb] To injure the skin of. | [verb] To remove the skin and/or fur of an animal or a human. | [verb] To high five. SKIORING (13) SKIPPING (17) [verb] To move by hopping on alternate feet. | [verb] To leap about lightly. | [verb] To skim, ricochet or bounce over a surface. SKIRLING (13) [verb] To make a shrill sound, as of bagpipes. | [noun] A small trout or salmon. | [noun] A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl. SKIRRING (13) [verb] To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound | [verb] To make a whirring sound. | [verb] To search about in, scour SKIRTING (13) [verb] To be on or form the border of. | [verb] To move around or along the border of; to avoid the center of. | [verb] To cover with a skirt; to surround. SKOALING (13) SKULKING (17) [verb] To stay where one cannot be seen, conceal oneself (often in a cowardly way or with the intent of doing harm). | [verb] To move in a stealthy or furtive way; to come or go while trying to avoid detection. | [verb] To avoid an obligation or responsibility. SKUNKING (17) [verb] To defeat so badly as to prevent any opposing points. | [verb] To win by 30 or more points. | [verb] (of beer) To go bad, to spoil. SLABBING (13) [verb] To make something into a slab. SLACKING (15) [verb] To slacken. | [verb] To mitigate; to reduce the strength of. | [verb] To lose cohesion or solidity by a chemical combination with water; to slake. SLAGGING (11) [verb] To produce slag | [verb] To become slag; to agglomerate when heated below the fusion point | [verb] To reduce to slag SLAMMING (13) [verb] To shut with sudden force so as to produce a shock and noise. | [verb] To put in or on a particular place with force and loud noise. (Often followed by a preposition such as down, against or into.) | [verb] To strike forcefully with some implement. SLANGING (10) [verb] To vocally abuse, or shout at. | [verb] To sell (especially illegal drugs). SLANTING (9) [verb] To lean, tilt or incline. | [verb] To bias or skew. | [verb] To lie or exaggerate. SLAPPING (13) [verb] To give a slap to. | [verb] To cause something to strike soundly. | [verb] To strike soundly against something. SLASHING (12) [verb] To cut or attempt to cut, particularly: | [verb] To strike violently and randomly, particularly: | [verb] To move quickly and violently. SLATTING (9) SLEAVING (12) SLEDDING (11) [verb] To ride a sled. | [verb] To convey on a sled. | [noun] The act of sliding downhill, or transporting something, on a sled. SLEDGING (11) [verb] To hit with a sledgehammer. | [verb] To drag or draw a sledge. | [verb] To ride, travel with or transport in a sledge. SLEEKING (13) [verb] To make smooth or glossy; to polish or cause to be attractive. | [noun] A process of making smooth or glossy. SLEEPING (11) [verb] To rest in a state of reduced consciousness. | [verb] (of a spinning top or yo-yo) To spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. | [verb] To cause (a spinning top or yo-yo) to spin on its axis with no other perceptible motion. SLEETING (9) [verb] (of the weather) To be in a state in which sleet is falling. SLEEVING (12) [verb] To fit a sleeve to | [verb] (magic tricks) To hide something up one's sleeve. | [noun] Hollow flexible tube used as insulation for wires and cables. SLICKING (15) [verb] To make slick. | [noun] A narrow vein of ore. | [noun] A whipping with a hickory switch. SLIMMING (13) [verb] To lose weight in order to achieve slimness. | [verb] To make slimmer; to reduce in size. | [noun] The process of making or becoming slimmer. SLINGING (10) [verb] To throw with a circular or arcing motion. | [verb] To throw with a sling. | [verb] To pass a rope around (a cask, gun, etc.) preparatory to attaching a hoisting or lowering tackle. SLINKING (13) [verb] To sneak about furtively. | [verb] To give birth to an animal prematurely. | [noun] The act of one who slinks. SLIPPING (13) [verb] To lose one’s traction on a slippery surface; to slide due to a lack of friction. | [verb] To err. | [verb] To accidentally reveal a secret or otherwise say something unintentional. SLITTING (9) [verb] To cut a narrow opening. | [verb] To split into strips by lengthwise cuts. | [verb] To cut; to sever; to divide. SLOGGING (11) [verb] To walk slowly, encountering resistance. | [verb] (by extension) To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task. | [verb] To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat. SLOPPING (13) [verb] To spill or dump liquid, especially over the rim of a container when it moves. | [verb] To spill liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid. | [verb] In the game of pool or snooker to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot. SLOSHING (12) [verb] (of a liquid) To shift chaotically; to splash noisily. | [verb] (of a liquid) To cause to slosh | [verb] To make a sloshing sound. SLOTTING (9) [verb] To bar, bolt or lock a door or window. | [verb] To shut with violence; to slam. | [verb] To put something (such as a coin) into a slot (narrow aperture) SLUBBING (13) [verb] To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning. SLUFFING (15) SLUGGING (11) [verb] To drink quickly; to gulp; to down. | [verb] To take part in casual carpooling; to form ad hoc, informal carpools for commuting, essentially a variation of ride-share commuting and hitchhiking. | [verb] (of a bullet) To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel. SLUICING (11) [verb] To emit by, or as by, flood gates. | [verb] To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice | [verb] To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice. SLUMMING (13) [verb] To visit a neighborhood of a status below one's own. | [noun] A period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own. SLUMPING (13) [verb] To collapse heavily or helplessly. | [verb] To decline or fall off in activity or performance. | [verb] To slouch or droop. SLURPING (11) [verb] To eat or drink noisily. | [verb] To make a loud sucking noise. | [noun] A sound or motion that slurps. SLURRING (9) [verb] To insult or slight. | [verb] To run together; to articulate poorly. | [verb] To play legato or without separate articulation; to connect (notes) smoothly. SLUSHING (12) [verb] To smear with slushy liquid or grease. | [verb] To slosh or splash; to move as, or through, a slushy or liquid substance. | [verb] To paint with a mixture of white lead and lime. SMACKING (17) [verb] To get the flavor of. | [verb] To indicate or suggest something; used with of. | [verb] To have a particular taste; used with of. SMARTING (11) [verb] To hurt or sting. | [verb] To cause a smart or sting in. | [verb] To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; be punished severely; to feel the sting of evil. SMASHING (14) [verb] To break (something brittle) violently. | [verb] To be destroyed by being smashed. | [verb] To hit extremely hard. SMEARING (11) [verb] To spread (a substance, especially one that colours or is dirty) across a surface by rubbing. | [verb] To have a substance smeared on (a surface). | [verb] To damage someone's reputation by slandering, misrepresenting, or otherwise making false accusations about an individual, their statements, or their actions. SMEEKING (15) SMELLING (11) [verb] To sense a smell or smells. | [verb] Followed by like or of if descriptive: to have a particular smell, whether good or bad. | [verb] (without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink. SMELTING (11) [verb] To fuse or melt two things into one, especially in order to extract metal from ore; to meld | [noun] The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore. SMERKING (15) SMIRKING (15) [verb] To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous. | [noun] The act of one who smirks. SMOCKING (17) [verb] To provide with, or clothe in, a smock or a smock frock. | [verb] To apply smocking. | [noun] An embroidery technique in which the fabric is gathered and then embroidered with decorative stitches to hold the gathers in place; the product of the use of this embroidery technique. SMUDGING (13) [verb] To obscure by blurring; to smear. | [verb] To soil or smear with dirt. | [verb] To use dense smoke to protect from insects. SMUTTING (11) SNACKING (15) [verb] To eat a light meal. | [verb] To eat between meals. | [verb] To snatch. SNAFUING (12) [verb] To screw up or foul up. SNAGGING (11) [verb] To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection. | [verb] To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface. | [verb] To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target. SNAILING (9) SNAPPING (13) [verb] To fracture or break apart suddenly. | [verb] To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack. | [verb] To attempt to seize with the teeth or bite. SNARLING (9) [verb] To entangle; to complicate; to involve in knots. | [verb] To become entangled. | [verb] To place in an embarrassing situation; to ensnare; to make overly complicated. SNEAKING (13) [verb] To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen. | [verb] To take something stealthily without permission. | [verb] (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something. SNEAPING (11) SNEDDING (11) [verb] To lop. SNEERING (9) [verb] To raise a corner of the upper lip slightly, especially in scorn | [verb] To utter with a grimace or contemptuous expression; to say sneeringly. | [noun] The act of one who sneers. SNEEZING (18) [verb] To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose. | [verb] To expel air as if the nose were irritated. | [noun] The act of producing a sneeze. SNELLING (9) [verb] To tie a hook to the end of a fishing line with a snell knot. SNIBBING (13) [verb] To latch (a door, window etc.). SNICKING (15) [verb] To latch, to lock. | [verb] To cut. | [verb] To cut or snip. SNIFFING (15) [verb] To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something. | [verb] To say something while sniffing, for example in case of illness or unhappiness, or in contempt. | [verb] To perceive vaguely SNIPPING (13) [verb] To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors. | [verb] To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip. | [verb] To break off; to snatch away. SNOGGING (11) [verb] To kiss passionately. SNOODING (10) SNOOKING (13) SNOOLING (9) SNOOPING (11) [verb] To be devious and cunning so as not to be seen. | [verb] To secretly spy on or investigate, especially into the private personal life of others. | [noun] A secret spying or investigation. SNOOTING (9) SNOOZING (18) [verb] To sleep, especially briefly; to nap, doze. | [verb] To pause; to postpone for a short while. SNORTING (9) [verb] To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose. | [verb] To express or force out by snorting. | [verb] To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose. SNOUTING (9) SNUBBING (13) [verb] To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone. | [verb] To turn down; to dismiss. | [verb] To check; to reprimand. SNUFFING (15) [verb] To inhale through the nose. | [verb] To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence. | [verb] To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated. SNUGGING (11) [verb] To make secure or snug. | [verb] To snuggle or nestle. | [verb] To make smooth. SOBERING (11) [verb] (often with up) To make or become sober. | [verb] (often with up) To overcome or lose a state of intoxication. | [verb] To moderate one's feelings SOLACING (11) [verb] To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console. | [verb] To allay or assuage. | [verb] To take comfort; to be cheered. SOLATING (9) SOOCHONG (14) SOOTHING (12) [verb] To restore to ease, comfort, or tranquility; relieve; calm; quiet; refresh. | [verb] To allay; assuage; mitigate; soften. | [verb] To smooth over; render less obnoxious. SOPITING (11) SOUCHONG (14) [noun] Any of several varieties of aromatic black tea from China. SOUGHING (13) [verb] To make a soft rustling or murmuring sound. | [verb] To drain. | [noun] A rushing, rustling sound. SOUNDING (10) [verb] To produce a sound. | [verb] To convey an impression by one's sound. | [verb] To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. | [noun] Test made with a probe or sonde. SOURCING (11) [verb] To obtain or procure: used especially of a business resource. | [verb] To find information about (a quotation)'s source (from which it comes): to find a citation for. | [noun] The process by which something is sourced, or obtained from another place. SOUTHING (12) [verb] To turn or move toward the south; to veer toward the south. | [verb] To come to the meridian; to cross the north and south line. | [noun] A distance traveled southward. SPALLING (11) [verb] To break into fragments or small pieces. | [verb] To reduce, as irregular blocks of stone, to an approximately level surface by hammering. | [noun] The process of reducing (stone blocks, etc.) to an approximately level surface by hammering. SPANKING (15) [verb] To beat, smack or slap a person's buttocks, with the bare hand or other object, as punishment, gesture, or form of sexual interaction. | [verb] To soundly defeat, to trounce. | [verb] To hit very hard SPANNING (11) [verb] To extend through the distance between or across. | [verb] To extend through (a time period). | [verb] To measure by the span of the hand with the fingers extended, or with the fingers encompassing the object. SPARGING (12) [verb] To sprinkle or spray. | [verb] To introduce bubbles into (a liquid). SPARKING (15) [verb] To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc). | [verb] To light; to kindle. | [verb] To give off a spark or sparks. SPARLING (11) [noun] The European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus). | [noun] A young salmon. | [noun] A tern. SPARRING (11) [verb] To bolt, bar. | [verb] To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars. | [verb] To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat. SPATTING (11) [verb] To spawn. Used of shellfish as above. | [verb] To quarrel or argue briefly. | [verb] To strike with a spattering sound. SPAWNING (14) [verb] To produce or deposit (eggs) in water. | [verb] To generate, bring into being, especially non-mammalian beings in very large numbers. | [verb] To bring forth in general. SPEAKING (15) [adjective] Used in speaking. | [adjective] Expressive; eloquent. | [adjective] Involving speaking. | [noun] One's ability to communicate vocally in a given language. | [verb] To communicate with one's voice, to say words out loud. SPEANING (11) SPEARING (11) [verb] To pierce with a spear. | [verb] (by extension) To penetrate or strike with, or as if with, any long narrow object; to make a thrusting motion that catches an object on the tip of a long device. | [verb] To shoot into a long stem, as some plants do. SPECCING (15) [verb] To specify, especially in a formal specification document. SPECKING (17) [verb] To mark with specks; to speckle. SPEEDING (12) [verb] To succeed; to prosper, be lucky. | [verb] To help someone, to give them fortune; to aid or favour. | [verb] To go fast. SPEELING (11) SPEERING (11) SPEILING (11) SPEIRING (11) SPELLING (11) [verb] To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm. | [verb] To read (something) as though letter by letter; to peruse slowly or with effort. | [verb] (sometimes with “out”) To write or say the letters that form a word or part of a word. SPENDING (12) [noun] Present participle of spend, expenditure. | [noun] An amount that has been, or is planned to be spent. | [verb] To pay out (money). SPHERING (14) [noun] The practice of humans traveling in a sphere, generally made of transparent plastic, usually for fun. SPIELING (11) [verb] To talk at length. | [verb] To give a sales pitch; to promote by speaking. SPIERING (11) SPIFFING (17) [verb] (usually with up or out) To make spiffy (attractive, polished, or up-to-date) | [verb] To reward (a salesperson) with a spiff or bonus. | [verb] To attach a spiff or bonus to the selling of (a product) SPILLING (11) [verb] To drop something so that it spreads out or makes a mess; to accidentally pour. | [verb] To spread out or fall out, as above. | [verb] To drop something that was intended to be caught. SPINNING (11) [verb] To rotate, revolve, gyrate (usually quickly); to partially or completely rotate to face another direction. | [verb] To make yarn by twisting and winding fibers together. | [verb] To present, describe, or interpret, or to introduce a bias or slant, so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance. SPIRTING (11) [verb] To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet. | [verb] To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet. | [verb] To make a strong effort for a short period of time. SPITTING (11) [verb] To impale on a spit; to pierce with a sharp object. | [verb] To use a spit to cook; to attend to food that is cooking on a spit. | [verb] To evacuate (saliva or another substance) from the mouth, etc. SPLAYING (14) [verb] To spread; spread out. | [verb] To dislocate, as a shoulder bone. | [verb] To turn on one side; to render oblique; to slope or slant, as the side of a door, window etc. SPLICING (13) [verb] To unite, as two ropes, or parts of a rope, by a particular manner of interweaving the strands, -- the union being between two ends, or between an end and the body of a rope. | [verb] To unite, as spars, timbers, rails, etc., by lapping the two ends together, or by applying a piece which laps upon the two ends, and then binding, or in any way making fast. | [verb] To unite in marriage. SPLINING (11) [verb] To smooth (a curve or surface) by means of a spline. | [verb] To fit with a spline. | [verb] To fasten to or together with a spline. SPOILING (11) [verb] To strip (someone who has been killed or defeated) of their arms or armour. | [verb] To strip or deprive (someone) of their possessions; to rob, despoil. | [verb] To plunder, pillage (a city, country etc.). SPONGING (12) [verb] To take advantage of the kindness of others. | [verb] To get by imposition; to scrounge. | [verb] To deprive (somebody) of something by imposition. SPOOFING (14) [verb] To gently satirize. | [verb] To deceive. | [verb] To falsify. SPOOKING (15) [verb] To frighten or make nervous (especially by startling). | [verb] To become frightened (by something startling). | [verb] To haunt. SPOOLING (11) [verb] To wind on a spool or spools. | [verb] To send files to a device or a program (a spooler or a daemon that puts them in a queue for processing at a later time). | [noun] The operation of placing something in temporary storage, i.e. a spool. SPOONING (11) [verb] To sail briskly with the wind astern, with or without sails hoisted. | [verb] To serve using a spoon; to transfer (something) with a spoon. | [verb] To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously. SPOORING (11) [verb] To track an animal by following its spoor SPORTING (11) [verb] To amuse oneself, to play. | [verb] To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with. | [verb] To display; to have as a notable feature. SPOTTING (11) [verb] To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify. | [verb] To loan a small amount of money to someone. | [verb] To stain; to leave a spot (on). SPOUSING (11) SPOUTING (11) [noun] The process or result of something being spouted; that which is spouted. | [noun] A gutter under the eaves of a building; guttering. | [adjective] (of a liquid) That is propelled in a narrow stream or jet. SPRAYING (14) [verb] To project a liquid in a dispersive manner toward something. | [verb] To project in a dispersive manner. | [verb] To project many small items dispersively. SPRUCING (13) [verb] (usually with up) To arrange neatly; tidy up. | [verb] (usually with up) To make oneself spruce (neat and elegant in appearance). | [verb] To tease. SPUDDING (13) [verb] (drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit. | [verb] (roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping. | [verb] (camping) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups. SPUNKING (15) SPURNING (11) [verb] To reject disdainfully; contemn; scorn. | [verb] To reject something by pushing it away with the foot. | [verb] To waste; fail to make the most of (an opportunity) SPURRING (11) [verb] To ask, to inquire | [verb] To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig. | [verb] To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object SPURTING (11) [verb] To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet. | [verb] To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet. | [verb] To make a strong effort for a short period of time. SQUARING (18) [verb] To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; in particular: | [verb] To resolve or reconcile; to suit or fit. | [verb] To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something. SQUIRING (18) [verb] To attend as a squire. | [verb] To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection. STABBING (13) [verb] To pierce or to wound (somebody) with a pointed tool or weapon, especially a knife or dagger. | [verb] To thrust in a stabbing motion. | [verb] To recklessly hit with the tip of a pointed object, such as a weapon or finger (often used with at). STABLING (11) [verb] To put or keep (an animal) in a stable. | [verb] To dwell in a stable. | [verb] To park (a rail vehicle). STACKING (15) [verb] To arrange in a stack, or to add to an existing stack. | [verb] To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner. | [verb] To take all the money another player currently has on the table. STAFFING (15) [verb] To supply (a business, volunteer organization, etc.) with employees or staff members. | [noun] The practice of hiring and firing staff | [noun] The personnel required for some project STAGGING (11) [verb] To act as a "stag", an irregular dealer in stocks. | [verb] To watch; to dog, or keep track of. STAINING (9) [verb] To discolour. | [verb] To taint or tarnish someone's character or reputation | [verb] To coat a surface with a stain STALKING (13) [verb] To approach slowly and quietly in order not to be discovered when getting closer. | [verb] To (try to) follow or contact someone constantly, often resulting in harassment.Wp | [verb] To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner. | [noun] The act of going stealthily. | [noun] The removal of stalks from bunches of grapes prior to winemaking. STALLING (9) [verb] To put (an animal, etc.) in a stall. | [verb] To fatten. | [verb] To come to a standstill. STAMPING (13) [verb] To step quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly. | [verb] To move (the foot or feet) quickly and heavily, once or repeatedly. | [verb] To strike, beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward. STANDING (10) [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned physically. | [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned mentally. | [verb] (heading) To position or be positioned socially. | [noun] Position or reputation in society or a profession. STANGING (10) STAPLING (11) [verb] To sort according to its staple. | [verb] To secure with a staple. | [noun] The act by which something is stapled. STARLING (9) [noun] A family, Sturnidae, of passerine birds. | [noun] A structure of pilings that protects the piers of a bridge. | [noun] A California fish, the rock trout, Hexagrammos, especially, Hexagrammos decagrammus, the boregat or bodieron. STARRING (9) [verb] To appear as a featured performer or headliner, especially in an entertainment program. | [verb] To feature (a performer or a headliner), especially in a movie or an entertainment program. | [verb] To mark with a star or asterisk. STARTING (9) [verb] To begin, commence, initiate. | [verb] To begin an activity. | [verb] To have its origin (at), begin. STARVING (12) [verb] To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. | [verb] To die because of lack of food or of not eating. | [verb] To be very hungry. STASHING (12) [verb] To hide or store away for later use. STEADING (10) [verb] To help, support, benefit or assist; to be helpful or noteful. | [verb] To fill stead or place of. | [noun] A farmhouse and outer buildings such as barns, stables, cattle-sheds, etc.; a farmstead; a homestead, an onstead, an estate STEALING (9) [verb] To take illegally, or without the owner's permission, something owned by someone else. | [verb] (of ideas, words, music, a look, credit, etc.) To appropriate without giving credit or acknowledgement. | [verb] To get or effect surreptitiously or artfully. STEAMING (11) [verb] To cook with steam. | [verb] To expose to the action of steam; to apply steam to for softening, dressing, or preparing. | [verb] To produce or vent steam. STEEKING (13) STEELING (9) [verb] To edge, cover, or point with steel. | [verb] To harden or strengthen; to nerve or make obdurate; to fortify against. | [verb] (of mirrors) To back with steel. STEEPING (11) [verb] (middle voice) To soak or wet thoroughly. | [verb] To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in. | [noun] An instance of something being steeped; a wetting. | [noun] A 13th-century coin circulated in Ireland as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under King Edward I. STEERING (9) [verb] To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). | [verb] To guide the course of a vessel, vehicle, aircraft etc. (by means of a device such as a rudder, paddle, or steering wheel). | [verb] To be directed and governed; to take a direction, or course; to obey the helm. STEEVING (12) [verb] To project upward, or make an angle with the horizon or with the line of a vessel's keel; said of the bowsprit, etc. | [verb] To stow, as bales in a vessel's hold, by means of a steeve. STEMMING (13) [verb] To remove the stem from. | [verb] To be caused or derived; to originate. | [verb] To descend in a family line. STEPPING (13) [verb] To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession. | [verb] To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance. | [verb] To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely. STERLING (9) [noun] The currency of the United Kingdom; especially the pound. | [noun] Former British gold or silver coinage of a standard fineness: for gold 0.91666 and for silver 0.925. | [noun] Sterling silver, or articles made from this material. STETTING (9) [verb] To let (edited material) stand, or remain as it was. STICKING (15) [verb] To cut a piece of wood to be the stick member of a cope-and-stick joint. | [verb] To compose; to set, or arrange, in a composing stick. | [verb] To furnish or set with sticks. STIFFING (15) [verb] To fail to pay that which one owes (implicitly or explicitly) to another, especially by departing hastily. | [verb] To cheat someone | [verb] To tip ungenerously STIFLING (12) [verb] To interrupt or cut off. | [verb] To repress, keep in or hold back. | [verb] To smother or suffocate. STILLING (9) [verb] To calm down, to quiet | [verb] To trickle, drip. | [verb] To cause to fall by drops. | [noun] A stillion. STILTING (9) STIMYING (14) STINGING (10) [verb] To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both. | [verb] (of an insect) To bite. | [verb] (sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain. STINKBUG (15) [noun] Any of several insects, usually shield-shaped, possessing a gland that produces a foul-smelling liquid, usually containing aldehydes which they use to discourage predators. | [noun] A common name applied to various insects of the Hemiptera order (the "true bugs"), in the Heteroptera suborder, principally in the superfamilies Pentatomoidea and Coreoidea. | [noun] (US Southwest) A pinacate beetle or stink beetle (genus Eleodes) that releases a pungent odor when threatened. STINKING (13) [verb] To have a strong bad smell. | [verb] To be greatly inferior; to perform badly. | [verb] To give an impression of dishonesty or untruth. | [noun] The emission of a foul smell. STINTING (9) [verb] To stop (an action); cease, desist. | [verb] To stop speaking or talking (of a subject). | [verb] To be sparing or mean. STIRRING (9) [verb] To incite to action | [verb] To disturb the relative position of the particles of, as of a liquid, by passing something through it; to agitate. | [verb] To agitate the content of (a container), by passing something through it. STOBBING (13) STOCKING (15) [noun] A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear. | [noun] A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped. | [noun] A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting. | [verb] To have on hand for sale. STODGING (11) STOMPING (13) [verb] To trample heavily. | [verb] To severely beat someone physically or figuratively. | [noun] The act of one who stomps. STOOGING (10) [verb] To act as a straight man. STOOKING (13) [verb] To make stooks. STOOLING (9) [verb] To produce stool: to defecate. | [verb] To cut down (a plant) until its main stem is close to the ground, resembling a stool, to promote new growth. | [verb] To ramify; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. STOOPING (11) [verb] To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch. | [verb] To lower oneself; to demean or do something below one's status, standards, or morals. | [verb] Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey. STOPPING (13) [verb] To cease moving. | [verb] To not continue. | [verb] To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing. STORMING (11) [verb] (with adverbial of direction) To move quickly and noisily like a storm, usually in a state of uproar or anger. | [verb] To rage or fume; to be in a violent temper. | [verb] To assault (a stronghold or fortification) with military forces. STORYING (12) STRAFING (12) [verb] To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft. | [verb] To sidestep; to move sideways without turning (a core mechanic of most first-person shooters). | [noun] The act of one who strafes. STRAVAIG (12) [verb] To stroll, meander STRAWING (12) STRAYING (12) [verb] To wander, as from a direct course; to deviate, or go out of the way. | [verb] To wander from one's limits; to rove or roam at large; to go astray. | [verb] To wander from the path of duty or rectitude; to err. STREWING (12) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STRIDING (10) [verb] To walk with long steps. | [verb] To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. | [verb] To pass over at a step; to step over. | [noun] The act of one who strides; a long step. STRIKING (13) [verb] (sometimes with out or through) To delete or cross out; to scratch or eliminate. | [verb] (physical) To have a sharp or sudden effect. | [verb] To thrust in; to cause to enter or penetrate. STRIPING (11) [verb] To mark with stripes. | [verb] To lash with a whip or strap. | [verb] To distribute data across several separate physical disks to reduce the time to read and write. STRIVING (12) [noun] Effort; the act of one who strives. STROKING (13) [verb] To move one's hand or an object (such as a broom) along (a surface) in one direction. | [verb] To hit the ball with the bat in a flowing motion. | [verb] To give a finely fluted surface to. STROWING (12) [verb] (archaic except strewn) To distribute objects or pieces of something over an area, especially in a random manner. | [verb] (archaic except strewn) To cover, or lie upon, by having been scattered. | [verb] To spread abroad; to disseminate. STROYING (12) STUBBING (13) [verb] To remove most of a tree, bush, or other rooted plant by cutting it close to the ground. | [verb] To remove a plant by pulling it out by the roots. | [verb] To jam, hit, or bump, especially a toe. STUDDING (11) [verb] To set with studs; to furnish with studs. | [verb] To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals. | [verb] To set (something) over a surface at intervals. STUDYING (13) [verb] (usually academic) To review materials already learned in order to make sure one does not forget them, usually in preparation for an examination. | [verb] (academic) To take a course or courses on a subject. | [verb] To acquire knowledge on a subject with the intention of applying it in practice. STUFFING (15) [verb] To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess. | [verb] To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner. | [verb] To fill with seasoning. STUMMING (13) [verb] To ferment. | [verb] To renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation. | [verb] To fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur. STUMPING (13) [verb] To stop, confuse, or puzzle. | [verb] To baffle; to make unable to find an answer to a question or problem. | [verb] To campaign. STUNNING (9) [verb] To incapacitate; especially by inducing disorientation or unconsciousness. | [verb] To shock or surprise. | [verb] To hit the cue ball so that it slides without topspin or backspin (and with or without sidespin) and continues at a natural angle after contact with the object ball | [noun] The act by which a person or animal is physically stunned. STUNTING (9) [verb] (cheerleading) To perform a stunt. | [verb] To show off; to posture. | [verb] To check or hinder the growth or development of. STYMYING (17) SUBDUING (12) [verb] To overcome, quieten, or bring under control. | [verb] To bring (a country) under control by force. SUCKLING (15) [noun] An infant that is still being breastfed (being suckled) by its mother. | [noun] A young mammal not yet weaned and still being fed milk by its mother. | [verb] To give suck to; to nurse at the breast, udder, or dugs. SUGARING (10) [verb] To add sugar to; to sweeten with sugar. | [verb] To make (something unpleasant) seem less so. | [verb] In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling down the syrup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach or reach the state of granulation; with the preposition off. SULLYING (12) [verb] To soil or stain; to dirty. | [verb] To corrupt or damage. | [verb] (intransitive ) To become soiled or tarnished. SUPERING (11) SUPPLING (13) [verb] To make or become supple. | [verb] To make compliant, submissive, or obedient. SUTURING (9) [verb] To sew up or join by means of a suture. SVEDBERG (15) [noun] A non-SI unit of sedimentation rate (symbol S or Sv), the rate at which particles of a given size and shape travel to the bottom of a tube under centrifugal force. SWABBING (16) [verb] To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab. | [noun] The act of one who swabs. SWAGGING (14) [verb] To (cause to) sway. | [verb] To droop; to sag. | [verb] To decorate (something) with loops of draped fabric. SWAMPING (16) [verb] To drench or fill with water. | [verb] To overwhelm; to make too busy, or overrun the capacity of. | [verb] To plunge into difficulties and perils; to overwhelm; to ruin; to wreck. SWANKING (16) [verb] To swagger, to show off. SWANNING (12) [verb] To travel or move about in an aimless, idle, or pretentiously casual way. | [verb] To declare (chiefly in first-person present constructions). SWAPPING (16) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. SWARDING (13) SWARMING (14) [verb] To move as a swarm. | [verb] To teem, or be overrun with insects, people, etc. | [verb] To fill a place as a swarm. SWASHING (15) [verb] To swagger; to bluster and brag. | [verb] To dash or flow noisily; to splash. | [verb] To fall violently or noisily. SWATHING (15) [verb] To bind with a swathe, band, bandage, or rollers | [noun] A wrapping. SWATTING (12) [verb] To beat off, as insects; to bat, strike, or hit. | [verb] To illegitimately provoke a SWAT assault upon (someone). | [noun] A motion or gesture that swats; a swat. SWEARING (12) [verb] To take an oath, to promise. | [verb] To use offensive, profane, or obscene language. | [verb] To be lazy; rest for a short while during working hours. SWEATING (12) [verb] To emit sweat. | [verb] To cause to excrete moisture through skin. | [verb] To work hard. SWEEPING (14) [verb] To clean (a surface) by means of a stroking motion of a broom or brush. | [verb] To move through a (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke. | [verb] To search (a place) methodically. SWEETING (12) [verb] To sweeten. | [noun] A sweet apple. | [noun] A darling; term of endearment. SWELLING (12) [verb] To become bigger, especially due to being engorged. | [verb] To cause to become bigger. | [verb] To grow gradually in force or loudness. SWERVING (15) [verb] To stray; to wander; to rove. | [verb] To go out of a straight line; to deflect. | [verb] To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate. SWIGGING (14) [verb] To drink (usually by gulping or in a greedy or unrefined manner); to quaff. | [verb] To suck. | [verb] To take up the last bit of slack in rigging by taking a single turn around a cleat, then hauling on the line above and below the cleat while keeping tension on the line. SWILLING (12) [verb] To drink (or, rarely, eat) greedily or to excess. | [verb] To wash (something) by flooding with water. | [verb] To move (a liquid or liquid-filled vessel) in a circular motion. SWIMMING (16) [noun] The act or art of sustaining and propelling the body in water. | [noun] The state of being dizzy or in vertigo. | [verb] To move through the water, without touching the bottom; to propel oneself in water by natural means. SWINGING (13) [verb] To rotate about an off-centre fixed point. | [verb] To dance. | [verb] To ride on a swing. SWINKING (16) SWIRLING (12) [verb] To twist or whirl, as an eddy. | [verb] To be arranged in a twist, spiral or whorl. | [verb] To circulate. SWISHING (15) [verb] To make a rustling sound while moving. | [verb] To flourish with a swishing sound. | [verb] To flog; to lash. SWOBBING (16) [verb] To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab. SWOONING (12) [verb] To faint, to lose consciousness. | [verb] (by extension) To be overwhelmed by emotion, especially infatuation. | [verb] To make a moan, sigh, or some other sound expressing infatuation or affection. SWOOPING (14) [verb] To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive. | [verb] To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something. | [verb] To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing. SWOPPING (16) [verb] To exchange or give (something) in an exchange (for something else). | [verb] To hit, to strike. | [verb] To beat the air, or ply the wings, with a sweeping motion or noise; to flap. SWOTTING (12) [verb] To study with effort or determination (object of study indicated by "up on"). SWOUNING (12) SYNCHING (17) [verb] To synchronize, especially in the senses of data synchronization, time synchronization, or synchronizing music with video. | [verb] To flush all pending I/O operations to disk. TABBYING (16) TABERING (11) TABOOING (11) [verb] To mark as taboo. | [verb] To ban. | [verb] To avoid. TABORING (11) TACKLING (15) [verb] To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into him or her. | [verb] To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down. | [verb] To attempt to take away a ball. TAGALONG (10) TAINTING (9) [verb] To contaminate or corrupt (something) with an external agent, either physically or morally. | [verb] To spoil (food) by contamination. | [verb] To be infected or corrupted; to be touched by something corrupting. TALCKING (15) TALLYING (12) [verb] To count something. | [verb] To record something by making marks. | [verb] To make things correspond or agree with each other. TANGLING (10) [verb] To become mixed together or intertwined | [verb] To enter into an argument, conflict, dispute, or fight | [verb] To mix together or intertwine TANGOING (10) [verb] To dance the tango. | [verb] To mingle or interact (with each other). TAPERING (11) [verb] To make thinner or narrower at one end. | [verb] To diminish gradually. | [noun] A tapered shape. TARRYING (12) [verb] To delay; to be late or tardy in beginning or doing anything. | [verb] To linger in expectation of something or until something is done or happens. | [verb] To abide, stay or wait somewhere, especially if longer than planned. TATTLING (9) [verb] To chatter; to gossip. | [verb] Often said of children: to report incriminating information about another person, or a person's wrongdoing; to tell on somebody. | [verb] To speak like a baby or young child; to babble, to prattle; to speak haltingly; to stutter. TAUNTING (9) [verb] To make fun of (someone); to goad (a person) into responding, often in an aggressive manner. | [noun] The act of one who taunts. TEACHING (14) [noun] Something taught by a religious or philosophical authority. | [noun] The profession of educating people. | [verb] To show (someone) the way; to guide, conduct; to point, indicate. TEAZLING (18) [verb] To raise the nap on cloth; to tease; to card. TEETHING (12) [verb] To grow teeth. | [verb] To bite on something to relieve discomfort caused by growing teeth. | [noun] The eruption, through the gums, of the milk teeth; dentition. TELEXING (16) [verb] To send (a message) by telex. TEMPTING (13) [verb] To provoke someone to do wrong, especially by promising a reward; to entice. | [verb] To attract; to allure. | [verb] To provoke something; to court. TENONING (9) [verb] To make into a tenon. | [verb] To fit with tenons. THACKING (18) THANKING (16) [verb] To express gratitude or appreciation toward. | [verb] To feel gratitude or appreciation toward. | [verb] To credit or hold responsible. THIEVING (15) [verb] To commit theft. | [noun] The action of theft. | [adjective] That thieves; that steals; inclined to steal THINKING (16) [noun] Thought; gerund of think. | [verb] To ponder, to go over in one's head. | [verb] To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem. THINNING (12) [verb] To make thin or thinner. | [verb] To become thin or thinner. | [verb] To dilute. THIRLING (12) THORNING (12) THRAWING (15) THRIVING (15) [verb] To grow or increase stature; to grow vigorously or luxuriantly, to flourish. | [verb] To increase in wealth or success; to prosper, be profitable. | [noun] The action of the verb to thrive. THRONING (12) [verb] To place on a royal seat; to enthrone. | [verb] To place in an elevated position; to give sovereignty or dominion to; to exalt. | [verb] To be in, or sit upon, a throne; to be placed as if upon a throne. THROWING (15) [verb] To change place. | [verb] To change in state or status | [verb] To move through time. THUDDING (14) [verb] To make the sound of a dull impact. | [noun] A dull banging sound; a thud. THUMBING (16) [verb] To touch or cover with the thumb. | [verb] (with through) To turn the pages of (a book) in order to read it cursorily. | [verb] (travel) To hitchhike THUMPING (16) [verb] To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump. | [verb] To cause to make a thumping sound. | [verb] To thud or pound. THUNKING (16) [verb] To strike against something, without breakage, making a "thunk" sound. | [verb] (functional programming) To delay (a computation). | [verb] To map (machine data) from one system-specific form to another. TICKLING (15) [verb] To touch repeatedly or stroke delicately in a manner which causes laughter, pleasure and twitching. | [verb] To unexpectedly touch or stroke delicately in a manner which causes displeasure or withdrawal. | [verb] (of a body part) To feel as if the body part in question is being tickled. TINCTING (11) TINGEING (10) [verb] To add a small amount of colour; to tint; (by extension) to add a small amount of some other thing. | [verb] To affect or alter slightly, particularly due to the actual or metaphorical influence of some element or thing. | [verb] To change slightly in shade due to the addition of colour; (by extension) to change slightly in quality due to the addition of some other thing. TINGLING (10) [verb] To feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation. | [verb] To cause to feel a prickling or mildly stinging sensation. | [verb] To ring, to tinkle. TINKLING (13) [verb] To make light metallic sounds, rather like a very small bell. | [verb] To cause to tinkle. | [verb] To indicate, signal, etc. by tinkling. TIPPLING (13) [verb] To sell alcoholic liquor by retail. | [verb] To drink too much alcohol. | [verb] To drink alcohol regularly or habitually, but not to excess. TISSUING (9) TOADYING (13) [verb] (construed with to) To behave like a toady (to someone). TOASTING (9) [verb] To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source. | [verb] To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster | [verb] To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something. TODDLING (11) [verb] To walk unsteadily, as a small child does. | [verb] To walk in a carefree manner. | [noun] The unsteady walking of a child. TOGGLING (11) [verb] To alternate between two positions using a single switch or lever. | [verb] To switch between alternate states. | [verb] To fix like a toggle iron; to fix fast. TOKENING (13) TONGUING (10) [verb] On a wind instrument, to articulate a note by starting the air with a tap of the tongue, as though by speaking a 'd' or 't' sound (alveolar plosive). | [verb] To manipulate with the tongue, as in kissing or oral sex. | [verb] To protrude in relatively long, narrow sections. TOOTHING (12) [verb] To provide or furnish with teeth. | [verb] To indent; to jag. | [verb] To lock into each other, like gear wheels. TOOTLING (9) [verb] To make a soft toot sound. | [verb] To play (a musical instrument) making such a sound. | [verb] To go (somewhere); to amble aimlessly. TOPPLING (13) [verb] To push, throw over, overturn or overthrow something | [verb] To totter and fall, or to lean as if about to do so | [noun] The act by which something is toppled. TORCHING (14) [verb] To set fire to, especially by use of a torch (flaming stick). | [noun] An act of arson. | [noun] A way of catching fish at night with torchlight and spear. TORQUING (18) [verb] To twist or turn something. TOTALING (9) [verb] To add up; to calculate the sum of. | [verb] To equal a total of; to amount to. | [verb] To demolish; to wreck completely. (from total loss) TOUCHING (14) [adjective] Provoking sadness and pity; that can cause sadness or heartbreak among witnesses to a sad event or situation. | [preposition] Regarding; concerning. | [noun] The act by which something is touched. TOUGHING (13) [verb] To endure. | [verb] To toughen. TOUSLING (9) [verb] To put into disorder; to tumble; to touse; to muss. TOUZLING (18) TOWELING (12) [verb] To hit with a towel. | [verb] To dry by using a towel. | [verb] To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug. TOWERING (12) [verb] To be very tall. | [verb] To be high or lofty; to soar. | [verb] To soar into. TRACKING (15) [verb] To continue over time. | [verb] To follow the tracks of. | [verb] To make tracks on. TRAIKING (13) TRAILING (9) [verb] To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something). | [verb] To drag (something) behind on the ground. | [verb] To leave (a trail of). TRAINING (9) [verb] To practice an ability. | [verb] To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone). | [verb] To improve one's fitness. TRAMMING (13) TRAMPING (13) [verb] To walk with heavy footsteps. | [verb] To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain). | [verb] To hitchhike. TRANCING (11) [verb] To (cause to) be in a trance; to entrance. | [verb] To create in or via a trance. | [verb] (obsolete outside Britain) To walk heavily or with some difficulty; to tramp, to trudge. TRAPPING (13) [verb] To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap. | [verb] To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. | [verb] To provide with a trap. | [noun] An ornamental covering or harness for a horse; caparison. TRASHING (12) [verb] To discard. | [verb] To make into a mess. | [verb] To beat soundly in a game. TRAVELOG (12) [noun] A description of someone's travels, given in the form of narrative, public lecture, slide show or motion picture. TRAWLING (12) [verb] To take (fish or other marine animals) with a trawl. | [verb] To fish from a slow-moving boat. | [verb] To make an exhaustive search for something within a defined area. TREADING (10) [verb] To step or walk (on or over something); to trample. | [verb] To step or walk upon. | [verb] To beat or press with the feet. TREATING (9) [verb] To negotiate, discuss terms, bargain (for or with). | [verb] To discourse; to handle a subject in writing or speaking; to conduct a discussion. | [verb] To discourse on; to represent or deal with in a particular way, in writing or speaking. TREBLING (11) [verb] To multiply by three; to make into three parts, layers, or thrice the amount. | [verb] To become multiplied by three or increased threefold. | [verb] To make a shrill or high-pitched noise. TREKKING (17) [verb] To make a slow or arduous journey. | [verb] To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas. | [verb] To travel by ox wagon. TRENDING (10) [verb] To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend. | [verb] To cause to turn; to bend. | [verb] To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting. | [noun] A trend, or inclination in a particular direction. TRIAGING (10) [verb] To assess or sort according to quality or some other aspect. TRICKING (15) [verb] To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive. | [verb] To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words). | [verb] To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out. TRIFLING (12) [noun] The act of one who trifles; frivolous behaviour. | [adjective] Trivial, or of little importance. | [adjective] Idle or frivolous. TRIGGING (11) [verb] To stop (a wheel, barrel, etc.) by placing something under it; to scotch; to skid. | [verb] To fill; to stuff; to cram. TRILLING (9) [verb] To create a trill sound; to utter trills or a trill; to play or sing in tremulous vibrations of sound; to have a trembling sound; to quaver. | [verb] To impart the quality of a trill to; to utter as, or with, a trill. | [verb] To trickle. | [noun] A compound crystal consisting of three individuals. TRIMMING (13) [verb] To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess. | [verb] To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree. | [verb] (of an aircraft) To adjust pitch using trim tabs. TRIPLING (11) [verb] To multiply by three | [verb] To get a three-base hit | [verb] To become three times as large TRIPPING (13) [verb] To fall over or stumble over an object as a result of striking it with one's foot | [verb] (sometimes followed by "up") to cause (a person or animal) to fall or stumble by knocking their feet from under them | [verb] To be guilty of a misstep or mistake; to commit an offence against morality, propriety, etc TRITHING (12) TROAKING (13) TROCKING (15) TROLLING (9) [verb] To saunter. | [verb] To trundle, to roll from side to side. | [verb] To draw someone or something out, to entice, to lure as if with trailing bait. TROMPING (13) [verb] To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot. | [verb] To utterly defeat an opponent. TROOPING (11) [verb] To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops. | [verb] To march on; to go forward in haste. | [verb] To move or march as if in a crowd. TROTHING (12) TROTTING (9) [verb] To move along briskly; specifically, to move at a pace between a walk and a run. | [verb] (of a horse) To move at a gait between a walk and a canter. | [verb] To cause to move, as a horse or other animal, in the pace called a trot; to cause to run without galloping or cantering. TROUPING (11) TRUCKING (15) [verb] To drive a truck: Generally a truck driver's slang. | [verb] To convey by truck. | [verb] To travel or live contentedly. TRUDGING (11) [verb] To walk wearily with heavy, slow steps. | [verb] To trudge along or over a route etc. | [noun] The act of one who trudges, or walks slowly and heavily. TRUMPING (13) [verb] To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump. | [verb] To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump. | [verb] To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor. TRUSSING (9) [verb] To tie up a bird before cooking it. | [verb] To secure or bind with ropes. | [verb] To support. TRUSTING (9) [verb] To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or have faith, in. | [verb] To give credence to; to believe; to credit. | [verb] To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object) TRYSTING (12) [verb] To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place. | [verb] To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.). | [verb] To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time. TUMBLING (13) [verb] To fall end over end; to roll over and over. | [verb] To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings. | [verb] To drop rapidly. TURTLING (9) TUSSLING (9) [verb] To have a tussle. | [noun] The act of one who tussles; a struggle. TUTORING (9) [verb] To instruct or teach, especially an individual or small group. | [verb] To treat with authority or sternness. | [noun] Tuition TWANGING (13) [verb] To produce or cause to produce a sharp vibrating sound, like a tense string pulled and suddenly let go. | [verb] To have a nasal sound. | [verb] To have a trace of a regional or foreign accent. TWEAKING (16) [verb] To pinch and pull with a sudden jerk and twist; to twitch. | [verb] To adjust slightly; to fine-tune. | [verb] To twit or tease. TWEETING (12) [verb] To make a short high-pitched sound, like that of certain birds. | [verb] To post an update to Twitter. | [noun] A noise that tweets. TWEEZING (21) [verb] To pluck or grasp using tweezers. | [verb] To shape by plucking out hairs with tweezers. | [verb] To pluck out hairs using tweezers. TWIGGING (14) [verb] To beat with twigs. | [verb] To realise something; to catch on; to recognize someone or something. | [verb] To understand the meaning of (a person); to comprehend. TWILLING (12) TWINGING (13) [verb] To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak. | [verb] To affect with a sharp, sudden pain; to torment with pinching or sharp pains. | [verb] To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain. TWINNING (12) [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To separate, divide. | [verb] (obsolete outside Scotland) To split, part; to go away, depart. | [verb] (usually in the passive) To join, unite; to form links between (now especially of two places in different countries). TWIRLING (12) [verb] To perform a twirl. | [verb] To rotate rapidly. | [verb] To twist round. TWISTING (12) [noun] A twisting force. | [noun] Anything twisted, or the act of twisting. | [noun] The form given in twisting. TWITTING (12) [verb] To reproach, blame; to ridicule or tease. | [verb] To ignore or killfile (a user on a bulletin board system). | [noun] The act of one who twits or teases. ULCERING (11) UMBERING (13) UMPIRING (13) [verb] To act as an umpire in a game. | [verb] To decide as an umpire. UNAGEING (10) UNARMING (11) [verb] To disarm, to remove the armour and weapons from. | [verb] To remove one's armour. UNBOXING (18) [verb] To remove from a box. | [verb] To retrieve (a value of a primitive type) from the object in which it is boxed. | [noun] The removal of something from its box; an unpacking. UNCAGING (12) [verb] To take out of or release from a cage. | [verb] (by extension) To unleash; to remove from restraints. UNCAKING (15) UNCARING (11) [noun] Lack or absence of caring | [adjective] Characterized by a lack of care; not caring. UNCASING (11) [verb] To take out of a case or covering; to uncover. | [verb] To strip; to flay. | [verb] To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body. UNDARING (10) UNDERDOG (11) [noun] A competitor thought unlikely to win. | [noun] Somebody at a disadvantage. | [noun] A high swing wherein the person pushing the swing runs beneath the swing while the person being pushed is at the forward limit of the arc. UNENDING (10) [adjective] Not ending; having no end. UNERRING (9) [adjective] Consistently accurate; not missing a target. UNFADING (13) [adjective] Not fading; not losing its color or intensity, or being forgotten. UNFIXING (19) UNGLUING (10) UNIFYING (15) [verb] Cause to become one; make into a unit; consolidate; merge; combine. | [verb] Become one. | [noun] Unification UNLACING (11) [verb] To remove the knot from laces; to undo laces. | [verb] To loosen the clothing of (a person). | [verb] To remove (film) from a projector. UNLADING (10) [verb] To unload. | [verb] To disburden; take the burden from; relieve. | [verb] To discharge the cargo from. UNLAYING (12) [verb] To untwist. UNLIVING (12) [adjective] Not living; unalive, dead, inanimate. UNLOVING (12) [verb] To lose one's love (for someone or something). | [adjective] Not loving. UNMAKING (15) [verb] To destroy or take apart; to cause (a made article) to lose its nature. | [noun] The act by which something is unmade. UNMEWING (14) UNMIXING (18) UNMOVING (14) [adjective] Not moving; still; static. | [adjective] Not emotionally moving or rousing; failing to inspire the emotions. UNPAYING (14) UNPILING (11) UNROBING (11) [verb] To disrobe, to undress. UNSAYING (12) [verb] To withdraw, retract (something said). | [verb] To not have said (since this is physically impossible, usually in the subjunctive). UNSEEING (9) [adjective] Blind | [adjective] Not aware of what is visible. UNSEWING (12) UNSEXING (16) [verb] To deprive of sexual attributes or characteristics. | [verb] To sterilize (deprive of the ability to procreate); to castrate. UNSPRUNG (11) [adjective] Not sprung. UNSTRING (9) [verb] To remove the string or strings from. | [verb] To shake the nerves of; to cause anxiety or panic in. | [verb] To defuse or relax. UNSTRUNG (9) [verb] To remove the string or strings from. | [verb] To shake the nerves of; to cause anxiety or panic in. | [verb] To defuse or relax. UNTIRING (9) [adjective] Not able to be tired; inexhaustible. | [adjective] Unfailing; resolute. UNTUNING (9) UNWANING (12) UNYOKING (16) [verb] To release something from a yoke or harness. | [verb] To disconnect, unlink. | [verb] To liberate, deliver from oppression. UPCOMING (15) [noun] The act of coming up. | [noun] Comeuppance; deserts | [adjective] Happening or appearing in the relatively near future. UPDATING (12) [verb] To bring (a thing) up to date. | [verb] To bring (a person) up to date: to inform (a person) about recent developments. | [noun] The act by which something is updated. UPDIVING (15) UPDRYING (15) UPENDING (12) [verb] To end up; to set on end. | [verb] To tip or turn over. | [verb] To destroy, invalidate, overthrow, or defeat. UPGAZING (21) UPPILING (13) UPRATING (11) [verb] To give something a higher rating | [noun] The assignment of a higher rating. | [noun] An upgrade. UPRISING (11) [verb] To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon. | [verb] To have an upward direction or inclination | [verb] To rebel or revolt; to take part in an uprising. UPSPRANG (13) UPSPRING (13) UPSPRUNG (13) USHERING (12) [verb] To guide people to their seats. | [verb] To accompany or escort (someone). | [verb] To precede; to act as a forerunner or herald. USURPING (11) [verb] To seize power from another, usually by illegitimate means. | [verb] To use and assume the coat of arms of another person. | [verb] To take the place rightfully belonging to someone or something else. UTTERING (9) [verb] To produce (speech or other sounds) with one's voice. | [verb] To reveal or express (an idea, thought, desire, etc.) with speech. | [verb] To produce (a noise) (of an inanimate object). VACATING (14) [verb] To move out of a dwelling, either by choice or by eviction. | [verb] To leave an office or position. | [verb] To have a court judgement set aside; to annul. VALETING (12) [verb] To serve (someone) as a valet. | [verb] To clean and service (a car), as a valet does. | [verb] To leave (a car) with a valet to park it. VAMOSING (14) VAPORING (14) [verb] To become vapor; to be emitted or circulated as vapor. | [verb] To turn into vapor. | [verb] To emit vapor or fumes. VAULTING (12) [verb] To build as, or cover with a vault. | [verb] To jump or leap over. | [noun] The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction. VAUNTING (12) [noun] Boasting | [adjective] Boastful VELURING (12) VENOMING (14) VIALLING (12) VISITING (12) [verb] To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) | [verb] To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability. | [verb] Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.) VISORING (12) VITTLING (12) VIZORING (21) VOGUEING (13) [adjective] Fashionable, prevailing VOLUMING (14) VOMITING (14) [verb] To regurgitate or eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth; puke. | [verb] To regurgitate and discharge (something swallowed); to spew. | [verb] To eject from any hollow place; to belch forth; to emit. VOUCHING (17) [verb] To take responsibility for; to express confidence in; to witness; to obtest. | [verb] To warrant; to maintain by affirmations | [verb] To back; to support; to confirm. VOYAGING (16) [verb] To go on a long journey. | [noun] Act of travelling or going on a voyage. VROOMING (14) [verb] To move with great speed; to zoom. WABBLING (16) WADDLING (14) [verb] To walk with short steps, tilting the body from side to side. | [noun] The act of one who waddles. WADDYING (17) WAFERING (15) [verb] To seal or fasten with a wafer. WAFFLING (18) [verb] To smash. | [verb] (of birds) To move in a side-to-side motion and descend (lose altitude) before landing. Cf wiffle, whiffle. | [verb] To speak or write vaguely and evasively. WAGERING (13) [verb] To bet something; to put it up as collateral | [verb] To suppose; to dare say. | [noun] An amount wagered. WAGGLING (14) [verb] To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble. | [verb] To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle. | [noun] The act of something being waggled. WAGONING (13) WAISTING (12) WAKENING (16) [verb] To wake or rouse from sleep. | [verb] To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir. | [noun] The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. WALTZING (21) [verb] To dance the waltz (with). | [verb] (usually with in, into, around, etc.) To move briskly and unhesitatingly, especially in an inappropriately casual manner, or when unannounced or uninvited. | [verb] To accomplish a task with little effort. WAMBLING (16) WANGLING (13) [verb] To obtain through manipulative or deceitful methods. | [verb] To falsify, as records. | [verb] To achieve through contrivance or cajolery. WARBLING (14) [verb] To modulate a tone's frequency. | [verb] To sing like a bird, especially with trills. | [verb] To cause to quaver or vibrate. WARSLING (12) WATCHDOG (18) [noun] A guard dog | [noun] An individual or group that monitors the activities of another entity (such as an individual, corporation, non-profit group, or governmental organization) on behalf of the public to ensure that entity does not behave illegally or unethically. | [verb] To perform a function analogous to that of a watchdog; to guard and warn. WATCHING (17) [verb] To look at, see, or view for a period of time. | [verb] To observe over a period of time; to notice or pay attention. | [verb] To mind, attend, or guard. WATERDOG (13) [noun] A mudpuppy. | [noun] The mature larva of an ambystomid salamander, particularly that of the tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum). | [noun] An axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum). WATERING (12) [verb] To pour water into the soil surrounding (plants). | [verb] To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate. | [verb] To provide (animals) with water for drinking. WATERLOG (12) [verb] To saturate with water. WATTLING (12) [noun] An interwoven mesh of twigs; wattle. | [noun] The act of making such a mesh. WAVERING (15) [verb] To sway back and forth; to totter or reel. | [verb] To flicker, glimmer, quiver, as a weak light. | [verb] To fluctuate or vary, as commodity prices or a poorly sustained musical pitch. WAYGOING (16) WEAKLING (16) [noun] A person of weak or even sickly physical constitution | [noun] A person of weak character, lacking in courage and/or moral strength. | [adjective] Weak, either physically, morally or mentally WEANLING (12) [noun] Any young mammal that has been recently weaned. | [noun] Specifically, a human child that has been recently weaned. | [noun] Specifically, a young horse that has been weaned from its mother, but is less than one year old (usually 5-12 months old). WEARYING (15) [verb] To make or to become weary. WEDELING (13) WEEKLONG (16) [adjective] Lasting for (approximately) one week. WEIGHING (16) [verb] To determine the weight of an object. | [verb] Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale. | [verb] To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate. WELCHING (17) [verb] To fail to repay a small debt. | [verb] To fail to fulfill an obligation. WELSHING (15) [verb] To swindle someone by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt. WENCHING (17) [verb] To frequent prostitutes; to whore; also, to womanize. WHACKING (21) [verb] To hit, slap or strike. | [verb] To kill, bump off. | [verb] To share or parcel out; often with up. WHAMMING (19) [verb] To strike or smash (into) something with great force or impact WHANGING (16) [verb] (chiefly of an object) To make a noise like something moving quickly through the air. | [verb] To throw with a rapid slamming motion. | [verb] To whack or beat. WHAPPING (19) [verb] To strike hard and suddenly. | [verb] To throw oneself quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly. WHARFING (18) WHEELING (15) [verb] To roll along on wheels. | [verb] To transport something or someone using any wheeled mechanism, such as a wheelchair. | [verb] To ride a bicycle or tricycle. WHEEPING (17) WHEEZING (24) [verb] To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma. | [noun] The quality or symptom of breathing with an audible wheeze WHELMING (17) [verb] To bury, to cover; to engulf, to submerge. | [verb] To throw (something) over a thing so as to cover it. | [verb] To ruin or destroy. WHELPING (17) [verb] (of she-dog, she-wolf, vixen, etc.) To give birth. WHETTING (15) [verb] To hone or rub on with some substance, as a piece of stone, for the purpose of sharpening – see whetstone. | [verb] To stimulate or make more keen. | [verb] To preen. WHIDDING (17) WHIFFING (21) [verb] To waft. | [verb] To sniff. | [verb] To strike out. WHINGING (16) [verb] To move with great force or speed. | [verb] To complain, especially in an annoying or persistent manner. | [verb] To whine. WHIPPING (19) [verb] To hit with a whip. | [verb] (by extension) To hit with any flexible object. | [verb] To defeat, as in a contest or game. WHIRLING (15) [verb] To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. | [verb] To have a sensation of spinning or reeling. | [verb] To make something or someone whirl. WHIRRING (15) [verb] To move or vibrate (something) with a buzzing sound. | [verb] To make a sibilant buzzing or droning sound. | [verb] To cause (something) to make such a sound. WHISHING (18) WHISKING (19) [verb] To move something with quick light sweeping motions. | [verb] In cooking, to whip e.g. eggs or cream. | [verb] To move something rapidly and with no warning. WHISTING (15) WHIZBANG (26) [noun] A type of firework that made a whiz before exploding | [noun] A small artillery shell | [noun] (by extension) Someone or something that holds an explosive amount of success, skill or effectiveness. WHIZZING (33) [verb] To make a whirring or hissing sound, similar to that of an object speeding through the air. | [verb] To rush or move swiftly with such a sound. | [verb] To throw or spin rapidly. WHOMPING (19) [verb] Hit extremely hard. WHOOFING (18) WHOOPING (17) [verb] To make a whoop. | [verb] To shout, to yell. | [verb] To cough or breathe with a sonorous inspiration, as in whooping cough. WHOPPING (19) [verb] To throw or move (something) quickly, usually with an impact. | [verb] To administer corporal punishment | [noun] A beating. WHUMPING (19) [verb] To strike something with a whump. WIDDLING (14) [verb] To urinate. | [verb] To play guitar (especially the electric guitar) quickly. WIDENING (13) [verb] To become wide or wider. | [verb] To make wide or wider. | [verb] To let out clothes to a larger size. WIDOWING (16) [verb] To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of. | [verb] To strip of anything valued. | [verb] To endow with a widow's right. WIELDING (13) [verb] To command, rule over; to possess or own. | [verb] To control, to guide or manage. | [verb] To handle with skill and ease, especially a weapon or tool. WIGGLING (14) [verb] To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle. | [noun] The motion of something that wiggles. WILDLING (13) [noun] A wild, i.e. not cultivated, plant | [noun] A wild animal WILLYING (15) WIMBLING (16) WIMPLING (16) WINCHING (17) [verb] To use a winch | [verb] To wince; to shrink | [verb] To kick with impatience or uneasiness. WINDLING (13) WINGDING (14) [noun] A fit or spasm. | [noun] A party. WINKLING (16) [verb] To extract. WINTLING (12) WITCHING (17) [verb] To practise witchcraft. | [verb] To bewitch. | [verb] To dowse for water. | [noun] An act of witchcraft. WIZENING (21) WOBBLING (16) [verb] To move with an uneven or rocking motion, or unsteadily to and fro. | [verb] To tremble or quaver. | [verb] To vacillate in one's opinions. WOMANING (14) WOOPSING (14) WOOSHING (15) [verb] To make a breathy sound like a whoosh. WORRYING (15) [verb] To be troubled; to give way to mental anxiety or doubt. | [verb] Disturb the peace of mind of; afflict with mental agitation or distress. | [verb] To harass; to irritate or distress. | [noun] The act of worrying or harassing somebody. WORSTING (12) [verb] To make worse. | [verb] To grow worse; to deteriorate. | [verb] To outdo or defeat, especially in battle. WORTHING (15) WOUNDING (13) [verb] To hurt or injure (someone) by cutting, piercing, or tearing the skin. | [verb] To hurt (a person's feelings). | [noun] The act of inflicting a wound. WRACKING (18) [verb] To place in or hang on a rack. | [verb] To torture (someone) on the rack. | [verb] To cause (someone) to suffer pain. WRAPPING (16) [noun] The material in which something is wrapped. | [verb] To enclose (an object) completely in any flexible, thin material such as fabric or paper. | [verb] To enclose or coil around an object or organism, as a form of grasping. WRATHING (15) WREAKING (16) [verb] To cause something harmful; to afflict; to inflict; to harm or injury; to let out something harmful; . | [verb] To chasten, or chastise/chastize, or castigate, or punish, or smite. | [verb] To inflict or take vengeance on. WRECKING (18) [verb] To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless. | [verb] To ruin or dilapidate. | [verb] To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts. WRESTING (12) [verb] To pull or twist violently. | [verb] To obtain by pulling or violent force. | [verb] To seize. WRICKING (18) WRINGING (13) [verb] To squeeze or twist (something) tightly so that liquid is forced out. See also wring out. | [verb] To extract (a liquid) from something wet, especially cloth, by squeezing and twisting it. | [verb] To obtain (something from or out of someone or something) by force. WRITHING (15) [verb] To twist, to wring (something). | [verb] To contort (a part of the body). | [verb] To twist or contort the body; to be distorted. WRONGING (13) [verb] To treat unjustly; to injure or harm. | [verb] To deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice. | [verb] To slander; to impute evil to unjustly. XEROXING (23) [verb] To make a paper copy or copies by means of a photocopier. YACHTING (17) [verb] To sail, voyage, or race in a yacht. | [noun] A physical activity involving boats, be it racing sailing boats, cruising to distant shores, or day-sailing along a coast. YEANLING (12) YEARLING (12) [noun] An animal that is between one and two years old; one that is in its second year (but not yet two full years old). | [noun] A racehorse that is considered to be one year old until a subsequent January 1st. | [noun] A sophomore at West Point military academy. YEARLONG (12) [adjective] Lasting one year; of a timespan of one year. | [adjective] Which lasts throughout every year; which is not seasonal | [adverb] (chiefly farming) Per year. YEARNING (12) [verb] To long, have a strong desire (for something). | [verb] To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically. | [verb] To have strong feelings of love, sympathy, affection, etc. (toward someone). | [noun] Rennet (an enzyme to curdle milk in order to make cheese). YEASTING (12) YIELDING (13) [verb] To pay, give in payment; repay, recompense; reward; requite. | [verb] To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. | [verb] To give way; to allow another to pass first. | [noun] A concession. YODELING (13) [verb] To sing (a song) in such a way that the voice fluctuates rapidly between the normal chest voice and falsetto. | [noun] The act of one who yodels. ZINCKING (24) ZIZZLING (36)