(chiefly philosophy) The act or process by which something becomes.
verb
present participle of become
belching
belching
noun
The act of producing a belch.
verb
present participle of belch
benching
benching
noun
An instance of a person being removed temporarily from an active role in a group or team activity.
verb
present participle of bench
bengalic
bigoniac
bigoniac
adj
Synonym of bigonial
biogenic
biogenic
adj
essential for the maintenance of life
produced by living organisms, or by a biological process
birching
birching
noun
A beating with a birch.
verb
present participle of birch
bitching
bitching
adj
(slang) Excellent; outstanding.
(slang, less common) Awful, terrible.
noun
(vulgar, colloquial) A spiteful criticism or complaint.
verb
present participle of bitch
blachong
blacking
blacking
noun
A boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
A preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating.
Shoe polish.
verb
present participle of black
blocking
blocking
noun
(computing) A feature that prevents a keyboard from registering multiple simultaneous keypresses that would cause ghosting.
Blocks used to support (a building, etc.) temporarily.
The act by which something is blocked; an obstruction.
The precise movement and positioning of actors in order to facilitate a performance (originally planned using miniature blocks).
verb
present participle of block
bongrace
bongrace
noun
(obsolete) A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion.
(obsolete) A wide-brimmed hat.
botching
botching
verb
present participle of botch
bouncing
bouncing
adj
(obsolete, informal) Excessively big; whopping.
Healthy; vigorous.
noun
The act of something that bounces.
verb
present participle of bounce
bracings
bracings
noun
plural of bracing
bracking
bricking
bricking
noun
The act of pelting with bricks.
verb
present participle of brick
buckling
buckling
adj
Wavy; curly, as hair.
noun
(geology) A folding into hills and valleys.
A young male domestic goat of between one and two years.
Smoked herring.
The act of fastening a buckle.
The action of collapsing under pressure or stress.
verb
present participle of buckle
bunching
bunching
noun
(countable) An arrangement of items in a bunch.
(uncountable) The illegitimate supplying of laboratory animals that are actually kidnapped pets or illegally trapped strays.
verb
present participle of bunch
buncoing
buncoing
verb
present participle of bunco
busching
cabbling
cabbling
noun
The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, so that the pieces can be reheated and wrought into bar iron.
cabining
cabining
verb
present participle of cabin
carbungi
carbungi
noun
An Australian cattail (Typha angustifolia)
caribing
climbing
climbing
adj
(botany, of a plant) That climbs; that grows upwards by gripping onto a surface.
noun
(countable) Climb; ascent.
(uncountable) The sport of climbing, ascending a wall or a rock or another object using available holds, generally with the safety of a rope and belayer.
verb
present participle of climb
clubbing
clubbing
noun
(countable) An instance of using a club.
(countable, medicine) A thickening of the ends of fingers and toes.
(uncountable) The practice of frequenting nightclubs.
The development of clubroot in a plant.
verb
present participle of club
cobbling
cobbling
noun
The process of cobbling something together; improvised assembly.
The work of a cobbler; shoemaking.
verb
present participle of cobble
combings
combings
noun
Fragments of hair etc. removed with a comb.
conglobe
conglobe
verb
(transitive, intransitive, poetic, archaic) To collect (something) into a round mass; to conglobate.
crabbing
crabbing
noun
(falconry) The fighting of hawks with each other.
(wool manufacture) A process of scouring cloth between rolls in a machine.
The act or art of catching crabs.
verb
present participle of crab
cribbing
cribbing
noun
(ethology, equestrianism) A self-injurious tendency of certain horses to swallow air while slobbering and biting onto objects in and about their enclosure; cribbing and windsucking are regarded as equine forms of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
An act of plagiarism.
As a whole, the heavy structure built to support an existing structure from underneath, as with a mineshaft or when raising a building off its foundation, as for moving to another location,
The cribbing used to support anything from below or on a side, as with a retaining wall, or to prop up a piece of heavy machinery.
The members used to build a (structural) crib, usually of timbers or logs, but also of concrete, steel or even plastic; cribwork.
verb
present participle of crib
crumbing
crumbing
verb
present participle of crumb
cubangle
cungeboi
curbings
curbings
noun
plural of curbing
cymbling
cymbling
noun
Alternative form of cymling
dungbeck
pinchbug
scabbing
scabbing
verb
present participle of scab
scribing
scribing
noun
(dated) Something scribed; an inscription.
verb
present participle of scribe
wingback
wingback
noun
(American football) A running back who is in formation near the line of scrimmage and outside the tackles, a slotback.
(soccer) A player who doubles on either side of the center as a defender when their team is defending, and a winger when they are attacking.
A wingback chair.
One of the projecting side pieces on a wingback chair.