| BACKSTARTING | • BACKSTARTING n. a marketing technique in publishing, whereby new customers are sent back issues of magazines or journals as part of their subscription. |
| BESCATTERING | • bescattering v. Present participle of bescatter. • BESCATTER v. (archaic) to scatter over. |
| BESPATTERING | • bespattering v. Present participle of bespatter. • bespattering n. The action or result of something being bespattered. • BESPATTER v. to soil by spattering. |
| BOGTROTTINGS | • BOGTROTTING n. the practice of wandering round bogs, ascribed to Irishmen. |
| BRATTISHINGS | • brattishings n. Plural of brattishing. • BRATTISHING n. work in the form of brattices; cresting or ornamental work along a ridge. |
| BURNETTISING | • BURNETTISE v. to subject (wood, fabrics, etc.) to a process of saturation in a solution of chloride of zinc, to prevent decay, also BURNETTIZE. |
| DISTRIBUTING | • distributing v. Present participle of distribute. • DISTRIBUTE v. to divide among several or many. |
| EMBITTERINGS | • embitterings n. Plural of embittering. • EMBITTERING n. the act of making bitter. |
| FROSTBITINGS | • FROSTBITING n. the act of frostbiting. |
| GREENBOTTLES | • greenbottles n. Plural of greenbottle. • GREENBOTTLE n. a metallic-green fly. |
| MASTURBATING | • masturbating v. Present participle of masturbate. • MASTURBATE v. to practice masturbation. |
| OVERBETTINGS | • OVERBETTING n. betting to excess. |
| RESUBMITTING | • resubmitting v. Present participle of resubmit. • RESUBMIT v. to submit again. |
| STROBILATING | • strobilating v. Present participle of strobilate. • STROBILATE v. to undergo strobilation. |
| SUBSTRACTING | • substracting v. Present participle of substract. • SUBSTRACT v. to subtract; to withdraw, also SUBTRACT. |
| SUBSTRUCTING | • substructing v. Present participle of substruct. • SUBSTRUCT v. to build beneath; to lay as a foundation. |
| SURREBUTTING | • surrebutting v. Present participle of surrebut. • SURREBUT v. to reply to a rebutter. |
| TRUSTBUSTING | • trustbusting n. (US) The breaking up of trusts or monopolies. • TRUSTBUSTING n. the dissolution of corporate trusts. |