| BIRDWATCHING | • birdwatching n. Observing or identifying wild birds in their natural environment. • birdwatching n. (Slang) The hobby of watching rocket launches. • bird␣watching n. Alternative spelling of birdwatching. |
| BOWDLERISING | • bowdlerising v. Present participle of bowdlerise. • BOWDLERISE v. to expurgate a book or writing, by removing whatever might be considered indelicate, esp. to do so unnecessarily, also BOWDLERIZE. |
| BOWDLERIZING | • bowdlerizing v. Present participle of bowdlerize. • Bowdlerizing v. Present participle of Bowdlerize. • BOWDLERIZE v. to purge literature of all possibly offensive or morally impure material, also BOWDLERISE. |
| BREADWINNING | • breadwinning n. The earning of a household’s primary income. • BREADWINNING n. the act of earning a living. |
| CHILDCROWING | • child-crowing n. (Medicine, archaic) A nervous affection with spasm of the muscles closing the glottis. • CHILDCROWING n. a nervous affection with spasm of the muscles closing the glottis. |
| HANDWRITINGS | • handwritings n. Plural of handwriting. • HANDWRITING n. writing, script; one's style of writing. |
| INDUSTRYWIDE | • industrywide adj. Extending throughout a particular industry. • industrywide adv. Extending throughout a particular industry. • INDUSTRYWIDE adj. throughout industry. |
| INTERTWISTED | • intertwisted v. Simple past tense and past participle of intertwist. • INTERTWIST v. to twist together one with another. |
| INTERWINDING | • interwinding v. Present participle of interwind. • INTERWIND v. to wind in among. |
| PROVINCEWIDE | • provincewide adj. Throughout a province. • PROVINCEWIDE adj. extending throughout a province. |
| UNDERWIRINGS | • UNDERWIRING n. support with wire underneath. |
| UNDERWRITING | • underwriting v. Present participle of underwrite. • underwriting n. The act of something being underwritten financially. • UNDERWRITING n. the act of underwriting. |
| WHODUNITRIES | • WHODUNITRY n. the genre of whodunit writing, also WHODUNNITRY. |
| WINDPROOFING | • windproofing v. Present participle of windproof. • WINDPROOF v. to make a fabric etc. proof against the wind. |
| WINDSURFINGS | • WINDSURFING n. the sport of surfing on a sailboard. |
| WINTERKILLED | • winterkilled v. Simple past tense and past participle of winterkill. • winter-killed adj. (US) Of crops, having been killed by winter weather. • WINTERKILL v. to kill by exposure to cold. |
| WIREDRAWINGS | • wiredrawings n. Plural of wiredrawing. • WIREDRAWING n. drawing wire by pulling through successively smaller holes in a hard steel die-block. |