8-letter words that end in ing
- amercing — Present participle of amerce.
- amissing — missing
- anch'ing — a city in S Anhui province, in E China, on the Chang Jiang: former capital of Anhui.
- angeling — one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).
- angering — a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
- annexing — Present participle of annex.
- annoying — Someone or something that is annoying makes you feel fairly angry and impatient.
- antiking — a person who declares himself king in opposition to an established monarch
- anything — You use anything in statements with negative meaning to indicate in a general way that nothing is present or that an action or event does not or cannot happen.
- appaling — Misspelling of appalling.
- appeling — Present participle of appel.
- applying — to make use of as relevant, suitable, or pertinent: to apply a theory to a problem.
- apposing — Present participle of appose.
- arcading — An arrangement of arcades.
- arousing — causing sexual excitement
- arraying — Present participle of array.
- arriving — to come to a certain point in the course of travel; reach one's destination: He finally arrived in Rome.
- arrowing — Present participle of arrow.
- aspiring — If you use aspiring to describe someone who is starting a particular career, you mean that they are trying to become successful in it.
- assaying — to examine or analyze: to assay a situation; to assay an event.
- assuming — You use assuming or assuming that when you are considering a possible situation or event, so that you can think about the consequences.
- assuring — to declare earnestly to; inform or tell positively; state with confidence to: She assured us that everything would turn out all right.
- atheling — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a prince of any of the royal dynasties
- attiring — Present participle of attire.
- attuning — Present participle of attune.
- auditing — the act of inspecting, correcting, and certifying (accounts, etc)
- auguring — an excessively talkative person.
- availing — to be of use or value to; profit; advantage: All our efforts availed us little in trying to effect a change.
- avenging — taking vengeance on someone or something for a wrong done
- averring — to assert or affirm with confidence; declare in a positive or peremptory manner.
- averting — Present participle of avert.
- aviating — Present participle of aviate.
- avoiding — Present participle of avoid.
- awaiting — waiting
- awanting — missing or in want of
- awarding — Present participle of award.
- b-boying — a style of acrobatic dancing that combines intricate footwork with spinning and tumbling, usually to funk or hip-hop music.
- babbling — inarticulate or imperfect speech.
- baffling — impossible to understand; perplexing; bewildering; puzzling
- bandying — to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- bantling — a young child; brat
- banxring — a small tree-dwelling and insectivorous animal, Tupaia, resembling a squirrel, native to Java and Sumatra
- bardling — an inexperienced, and thus usually inferior, poet
- batching — a quantity or number coming at one time or taken together: a batch of prisoners.
- batswing — in the form of the wing of a bat
- battling — a hostile encounter or engagement between opposing military forces: the battle of Waterloo.
- baulking — to stop, as at an obstacle, and refuse to proceed or to do something specified (usually followed by at): He balked at making the speech.
- be dying — to be eager or desperate (for something or to do something)
- be going — to intend or be about to start (to do or be doing something): often used as an alternative future construction
- beaching — an expanse of sand or pebbles along a shore.