14-letter words that end in ing
- grammaticizing — Present participle of grammaticize.
- grandfathering — Present participle of grandfather.
- granny dumping — the abandonment of an elderly person, especially a relative, at a hospital, bus station, etc.
- graph coloring — graph colouring
- great renaming — (history) The flag day in 1986 on which all of the non-local groups on the Usenet had their names changed from the net.- format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme. Used especially in discussing the history of newsgroup names. "The oldest sources group is comp.sources.misc; before the Great Renaming, it was net.sources."
- groundbreaking — the act or ceremony of breaking ground for a new construction project.
- groundskeeping — The activity of tending an area of land for aesthetic or functional purposes; typically as an employee of a person or institution.
- grouse-beating — hunting for grouse by trying to drive them towards hunters using flags, sticks, and other devices
- guided writing — In language teaching, when students do guided writing activities, they are given an outline in words or pictures to help them write.
- hair-splitting — the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
- half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
- hand-lettering — to print by hand: She hand-lettered a “for sale” sign.
- happy slapping — the practice of attacking, esp slapping, an unsuspecting passer-by and filming it with a mobile camera phone, footage of which is then circulated for the amusement of others
- have it coming — Usually, haves. an individual or group that has wealth, social position, or other material benefits (contrasted with have-not).
- health warning — a message indicating the dangers to the consumer's health of consuming a particular product printed on the packaging for the product
- heart-stopping — A heart-stopping moment is one that makes you anxious or frightened because it seems that something bad is likely to happen.
- heartwrenching — Having a painful emotional impact; causing grief or distress.
- heat lightning — lightning too distant for thunder to be heard, observed as diffuse flashes near the horizon on summer evenings.
- high-achieving — (of a person) dynamic, ambitious, and successful
- highland fling — fling (def 17).
- home schooling — Home schooling is the practice of educating your child at home rather than in a school.
- honour killing — a murder committed by a male on a female relative considered to have brought dishonour to the family, usually through sexual activity forbidden by religion or tradition
- horse vaulting — gymnastics performed on horseback
- hot gospelling — aggressive evangelizing of religious belief
- house-cleaning — the act of cleaning a house, room, etc., and its furnishings, especially the act of cleaning thoroughly and completely.
- huckleberrying — the activity of gathering huckleberries
- huffman coding — (algorithm) A data compression technique which varies the length of the encoded symbol in proportion to its information content, that is the more often a symbol or token is used, the shorter the binary string used to represent it in the compressed stream. Huffman codes can be properly decoded because they obey the prefix property, which means that no code can be a prefix of another code, and so the complete set of codes can be represented as a binary tree, known as a Huffman tree. Huffman coding was first described in a seminal paper by D.A. Huffman in 1952.
- hybrid testing — (testing) A combination of top-down testing with bottom-up testing of prioritised or available components.
- hyperextending — Present participle of hyperextend.
- hyperthreading — (computing) A form of microprocessor parallelization where each physical processor is treated as two virtual processors.
- hypertrophying — abnormal enlargement of a part or organ; excessive growth.
- illegitimizing — illegitimatize.
- image-building — improving the brand image or public image of something or someone by good public relations, advertising, etc
- immunoblotting — The use of immunoblots to analyse proteins.
- immunostaining — (uncountable, immunology) Any of several staining techniques that are used to detect specific proteins.
- impulse buying — the buying of retail merchandise prompted by a whim on seeing the product displayed
- in the morning — every morning
- in the running — the act of a person, animal, or thing that runs.
- incapacitating — to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength; make incapable or unfit; disable.
- indian pudding — a sweet baked pudding made of cornmeal, molasses, milk, and various spices.
- indigo bunting — a North American bunting, Passerina cyanea, the male of which is indigo.
- indoctrinating — Present participle of indoctrinate.
- interdepending — Present participle of interdepend.
- interfingering — (of sedimentary rocks) to change laterally from one type to another in a zone where the two types form interpenetrating wedges.
- intermediating — to act as an intermediary; intervene; mediate.
- interwreathing — Present participle of interwreathe.
- inward-looking — person
- island-hopping — to travel from island to island, especially to visit a series of islands in the same chain or area.
- jerry-building — the act of building (houses, flats, etc) badly using cheap materials
- kelp greenling — a food and game fish, Hexagrammos decagrammus, living among the kelp along the Pacific coast of North America.