8-letter words that end in ing
- clouding — a visible collection of particles of water or ice suspended in the air, usually at an elevation above the earth's surface.
- clouting — Present participle of clout.
- clowning — clownish behaviour
- clubbing — Clubbing is the activity of going to night clubs.
- clucking — Present participle of cluck.
- clumping — a small, close group or cluster, especially of trees or other plants.
- clunking — a hard hit, especially on the head.
- coaching — the act of training a person or team of people in a particular sport
- coacting — Present participle of coact.
- coasting — the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.
- cobbling — to pave with cobblestones.
- cockling — Present participle of cockle.
- coddling — Act in a sissifying way.
- coercing — Present participle of coerce.
- coffling — Present participle of coffle.
- cofiring — combustion of two different types of fuel at the same time
- cohering — Present participle of cohere.
- coiffing — coiffure (defs 1, 3).
- coloring — The coloring of something is the color or colors that it is.
- comeling — (obsolete) A comer; (person) an arrival.
- conching — Present participle of conch.
- congaing — Present participle of conga.
- conkling — Roscoe, 1829–88, U.S. lawyer and politician: senator 1867–81.
- coopting — to elect into a body by the votes of the existing members.
- corkwing — a greenish or bluish European fish of the wrasse family, Ctenolabrus melops
- corpsing — Present participle of corpse.
- couching — a method of embroidery in which the thread is caught down at intervals by another thread passed through the material from beneath
- coughing — the action of expelling air or solid matter from the lungs abruptly and explosively through the partially closed vocal cords
- counting — Not counting a particular thing means not including that thing. Counting a particular thing means including that thing.
- coupling — A coupling is a device which is used to join two vehicles or pieces of equipment together.
- coursing — Coursing is a sport in which rabbits or hares are hunted with dogs.
- courting — Law. a place where justice is administered. a judicial tribunal duly constituted for the hearing and determination of cases. a session of a judicial assembly.
- covering — A covering is a layer of something that protects or hides something else.
- coveting — Present participle of covet.
- coveying — Present participle of covey.
- cowering — to crouch, as in fear or shame.
- cozening — Present participle of cozen.
- crabbing — Informal. an ill-tempered or grouchy person.
- cracking — You use cracking to describe something you think is very good or exciting.
- cradling — a framework of iron or wood, esp as used in the construction of a ceiling
- crafting — an art, trade, or occupation requiring special skill, especially manual skill: the craft of a mason.
- cramming — intensive study, esp in order to pass an exam
- cramping — cramp iron.
- cranking — Machinery. any of several types of arms or levers for imparting rotary or oscillatory motion to a rotating shaft, one end of the crank being fixed to the shaft and the other end receiving reciprocating motion from a hand, connecting rod, etc.
- crapping — (in craps) a losing throw, in which the total on the two dice is 2, 3, or 12.
- crashing — (intensifier) (esp in the phrase a crashing bore)
- crawling — a defect in freshly applied paint or varnish characterized by bare patches and ridging
- creaking — Present participle of creak.
- creaming — the fatty part of milk, which rises to the surface when the liquid is allowed to stand unless homogenized.
- creasing — Present participle of crease.