16-letter words that end in ing
- counter-checking — a check that opposes or restrains.
- counterattacking — Present participle of counterattack.
- counterbalancing — Present participle of counterbalance.
- creative writing — Creative writing is writing such as novels, stories, poems, and plays.
- critical damping — the minimum amount of viscous damping that results in a displaced system returning to its original position without oscillation
- currency trading — the business of trading in different currencies in order to profit from exchange rate differentials
- data warehousing — the use of large amounts of data taken from multiple sources to create reports and for data analysis
- day of reckoning — If someone talks about the day of reckoning, they mean a day or time in the future when people will be forced to deal with an unpleasant situation which they have avoided until now.
- dead man walking — a condemned man walking from his prison cell to a place of execution
- dechristianizing — Present participle of dechristianize.
- deep-sea fishing — the activity of catching fish that live in the deep parts of the sea
- deficit spending — Deficit spending is an economic policy in which a government spends more money raised by borrowing than it receives in revenue.
- diamond drilling — drilling using a drill with a diamond-impregnated bit
- dinosaurs mating — (humour) The activity said to occur when yet another big iron merger or buy-out occurs; reflects a perception by hackers that these signal another stage in the long, slow dying of the mainframe industry. Also described as "elephants mating": lots of noise and action at a high level, with an eventual outcome in the somewhat distant future. In its glory days of the 1960s, it was "IBM and the Seven Dwarves": Burroughs, Control Data, General Electric, Honeywell, NCR, RCA, and Univac. Early on, RCA sold out to Univac and GE also sold out, and it was "IBM and the BUNCH" (an acronym for Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell) for a while. Honeywell was bought out by Bull. Univac in turn merged with Sperry to form Sperry/Univac, which was later merged (although the employees of Sperry called it a hostile takeover) with Burroughs to form Unisys in 1986 (this was when the phrase "dinosaurs mating" was coined). In 1991 AT&T absorbed NCR, only to spit it out again in 1996. Unisys bought Convergent Technologies in 1988 and later others. More such earth-shaking unions of doomed giants seem inevitable.
- direct marketing — marketing direct to the consumer, as by direct mail or coupon advertising.
- discombobulating — Present participle of discombobulate.
- discountenancing — Present participle of discountenance.
- disenfranchising — Present participle of disenfranchise.
- disincentivising — Present participle of disincentivise.
- disproportioning — Present participle of disproportion.
- district heating — a heating system in which centrally generated heat is distributed via ducts and pipes to multiple buildings or locations
- document imaging — the process of converting paper documents into an electronic or digital format
- double centering — a method of extending a survey line by taking the average of two foresights, one with the telescope direct and one with it inverted, made each time by transiting the telescope after a backsight.
- double-breasting — the practice of employing nonunion workers, especially in a separate division, to supplement the work of higher-paid union workers.
- double-clutching — (of a bird) to produce a second clutch of eggs after the first has been removed, usually for hatching in an incubator.
- drug trafficking — smuggling illegal drugs
- earth-shattering — earthshaking.
- electric welding — the process of welding together, through the use of the heat that is produced by an electric current, pieces of metal
- english-speaking — speaking English as a mother tongue
- equity weighting — the practice of assigning different values to currencies according to factors such as geographical location and climate
- ethnic cleansing — genocide
- extreme fighting — a combat sport incorporating techniques from a range of martial arts, with little if any regulation of the types of blows permissible
- faction fighting — dissension
- fair to middling — free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision; a fair judge.
- family balancing — the choosing of the sex of a future child on the basis of how many children of each sex a family already has
- filling knitting — a knitting process in which the yarn is knitted horizontally and in a circular form.
- financial doping — the situation in which a sports franchise borrows heavily in order to contract and pay high-performing players, jeopardizing their long-term financial future
- fisherman's ring — the signet ring worn by the pope.
- flower arranging — Flower arranging is the art or hobby of arranging cut flowers in a way which makes them look attractive.
- flutter tonguing — a method of sounding a wind instrument, esp the flute, with a rolling movement of the tongue
- forked lightning — Forked lightning is lightning that divides into two or more parts near the ground.
- formation flying — a formal arrangement of flying aircraft acting as a unit
- forward chaining — A data-driven technique used in constructing goals or reaching inferences derived from a set of facts. Forward chaining is the basis of production systems. Oppose backward chaining.
- forward planning — business: making future provisions
- forward-thinking — planning or tending to plan for the future; forward-looking.
- friction gearing — wheels or disks transmitting power by means of frictional contact.
- friction welding — a method of welding thermoplastics or metals by the heat generated by rubbing the members to be joined against each other under pressure.
- gender-profiling — the use of personal characteristics or behavior patterns to make generalizations about a person, as in gender profiling.
- good-for-nothing — worthless; of no use.
- greyhound racing — a sport in which a mechanically propelled dummy hare is pursued by greyhounds around a race track