| BACKWINDING | • backwinding v. Present participle of backwind. • BACKWIND v. to deflect airflow into the back of a sail. |
| DISALLOWING | • disallowing v. Present participle of disallow. • DISALLOW v. to refuse to allow. |
| DISHWASHING | • dishwashing n. The act of cleaning the dishware. |
| HANDWRITING | • handwriting n. The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed. • handwriting n. Text that was written by hand. • handwriting n. The characteristic writing of a particular person. |
| MISAWARDING | • misawarding v. Present participle of misaward. • MISAWARD v. to award wrongly. |
| MISDRAWINGS | • misdrawings n. Plural of misdrawing. • MISDRAWING n. the act of misdrawing. |
| SANDWICHING | • sandwiching v. Present participle of sandwich. • SANDWICH v. to place between two objects. |
| TIDEWAITERS | • tidewaiters n. Plural of tidewaiter. • tide␣waiters n. Plural of tide waiter. • TIDEWAITER n. (formerly) a customs officer who boarded and inspected incoming ships. |
| WELDABILITY | • weldability n. The ability of a metal or other material to be welded under specified conditions. • WELDABILITY n. the quality of being weldable. |
| WILDCATTING | • wildcatting v. Present participle of wildcat. • WILDCATTING n. the practice of drilling an experimental well in search of oil, gas etc. |
| WINDJAMMING | • windjamming n. Excessive talking; loquaciousness. • windjamming n. Sailing a windjammer. • windjamming n. Playing a wind instrument, possibly badly. |
| WINDLASSING | • windlassing v. Present participle of windlass. • WINDLASS v. to raise with a hoist. |
| WINDLOADING | Sorry, definition not available. |
| WIREDRAWING | • wiredrawing n. Gerund of wiredraw: the stretching of words, etc. to suit one’s own purposes. • wiredrawing v. Present participle of wiredraw. • WIREDRAWING n. drawing wire by pulling through successively smaller holes in a hard steel die-block. |
| WITHDRAWING | • withdrawing v. Present participle of withdraw. • withdrawing n. Withdrawal. • WITHDRAW v. to move away. |
| WIZARDLIEST | • WIZARDLY adj. like a wizard, a man who practises witchcraft or magic. |