| BACKSTARTINGS | • BACKSTARTING n. a marketing technique in publishing, whereby new customers are sent back issues of magazines or journals as part of their subscription. |
| BOOTSTRAPPING | • bootstrapping v. Present participle of bootstrap. • bootstrapping n. The process by which something is bootstrapped. • BOOTSTRAP v. to prepare (a computer) for operation by causing an operating system to be loaded into its memory. |
| BUTTERFINGERS | • butterfingers n. Someone who tends to drop things; (more generally) someone who is clumsy or uncoordinated; a klutz. • butterfingers n. One’s fingers which tend to drop things, or are clumsy or uncoordinated. • butterfingers n. A tendency to drop things, or to be clumsy or uncoordinated. |
| DEATTRIBUTING | • deattributing v. Present participle of deattribute. • DEATTRIBUTE v. to withdraw the attribution of e.g. a work of art or literature to a particular artist, writer, etc. |
| GLOBETROTTING | • globetrotting v. Present participle of globetrot. • globetrotting n. Worldwide travel. • globe-trotting adj. That globetrots. |
| INTEGRABILITY | • integrability n. (Mathematical analysis) The quality of being integrable (having an antidifference or antiderivative). • INTEGRABILITY n. the state of being integrable. |
| INTURBIDATING | • inturbidating v. Present participle of inturbidate. • INTURBIDATE v. to render turbid. |
| JITTERBUGGING | • jitterbugging v. Present participle of jitterbug. • JITTERBUG v. to dance a jazz dance featuring vigorous acrobatic feats. |
| LETTERBOXINGS | • LETTERBOXING n. showing a film on television in its original wide screen format. |
| MOTORBOATINGS | • MOTORBOATING n. travelling by motorboat. |
| OBSTRUCTINGLY | • obstructingly adv. So as to obstruct. • OBSTRUCTINGLY adv. in an obstructing manner. |
| OBTEMPERATING | • obtemperating v. Present participle of obtemperate. • OBTEMPERATE v. to obey (a judgment or decree), also OBTEMPER. |
| OUTBLUSTERING | • outblustering v. Present participle of outbluster. • OUTBLUSTER v. to surpass in bluster. |
| PROTUBERATING | • protuberating v. Present participle of protuberate. • PROTUBERATE v. to bulge out. |
| REATTRIBUTING | • reattributing v. Present participle of reattribute. • REATTRIBUTE v. to attribute again. |
| STRESSBUSTING | • stressbusting n. (Informal) The use of techniques that work against mental stress. • STRESSBUSTING adj. designed to reduce stress. |
| TOOTHBRUSHING | • toothbrushing v. Present participle of toothbrush. • toothbrushing n. An act of brushing the teeth. • TOOTHBRUSHING n. the action of using a toothbrush to clean teeth. |
| TRUSTBUSTINGS | • TRUSTBUSTING n. the dissolution of corporate trusts. |