| CHILDBEARING | • childbearing n. The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition. • childbearing adj. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for childbirth. • child-bearing adj. (With "years" or "age") Pertaining to the time between puberty and menopause when a woman is able to bear children. |
| 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. |
| CHILDMINDING | • childminding n. The act of looking after a child or children. • childminding v. Present participle of childmind. • child-minding v. Present participle of child-mind. |
| CHLORIDATING | • chloridating v. Present participle of chloridate. • CHLORIDATE v. to treat or prepare with a chloride, as a plate with chloride of silver, for the purposes of photography. |
| CHLORIDISING | • chloridising v. Present participle of chloridise. • CHLORIDISE v. to convert into a chloride, also CHLORIDIZE. |
| CHLORIDIZING | • chloridizing v. Present participle of chloridize. • CHLORIDIZE v. to convert into a chloride, also CHLORIDISE. |
| DAYLIGHTINGS | • DAYLIGHTING n. illuminating by daylight. |
| DEPLENISHING | • deplenishing v. Present participle of deplenish. • DEPLENISH v. to deprive of contents, such as furniture, stock, etc. |
| DISHALLOWING | • dishallowing v. Present participle of dishallow. • DISHALLOW v. to make unholy; to profane. |
| DISHEVELLING | • dishevelling v. Present participle of dishevel. • DISHEVEL v. to make the hair untidy. |
| DISRELISHING | • disrelishing v. Present participle of disrelish. • DISRELISH v. to dislike, not relish. |
| MISHANDLINGS | • mishandlings n. Plural of mishandling. • MISHANDLING n. e act of handling wrongly. |
| PHILANDERING | • philandering v. Present participle of philander. • philandering n. The action of one who philanders. • PHILANDERING n. engaging in a frivolous love of women. |
| SHIPBUILDING | • shipbuilding n. (Uncountable) The construction of ships. • shipbuilding n. A construction of a ship. • ship-building n. Alternative spelling of shipbuilding. |
| TITLEHOLDING | • titleholding adj. Holding a rank or title. • TITLEHOLDING adj. holding a title. |
| WITHHOLDINGS | • withholdings n. Plural of withholding. |