| AFFREIGHTMENT | • affreightment n. (Nautical) The act of hiring, or the contract for use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo. • AFFREIGHTMENT n. hiring of a vessel. |
| AFFRIGHTMENTS | • AFFRIGHTMENT n. sudden fear. |
| 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. |
| CERTIFICATING | • certificating v. Present participle of certificate. • CERTIFICATE v. to testify to or authorize by a certificate. |
| ENGRAFTATIONS | • engraftations n. Plural of engraftation. • ENGRAFTATION n. the act of engrafting. |
| FIANCHETTOING | • fianchettoing v. Present participle of fianchetto. • FIANCHETTO v. to develop the bishop. |
| FITTINGNESSES | • fittingnesses n. Plural of fittingness. • FITTINGNESS n. the state of being fitting. |
| FORTNIGHTLIES | • fortnightlies n. Plural of fortnightly. • FORTNIGHTLY n. a publication appearing once every two weeks. |
| FRAGMENTATING | • fragmentating v. Present participle of fragmentate. • FRAGMENTATE v. to reduce to fragments. |
| FRAGMENTATION | • fragmentation n. The act of fragmenting or something fragmented; disintegration. • fragmentation n. The process by which fragments of an exploding bomb scatter. • fragmentation n. (Computing) The breaking up and dispersal of a file into non-contiguous areas of a disk. |
| FRONTOGENETIC | • frontogenetic adj. (Meteorology) Tending to maintain or intensify horizontal temperature gradients, which are associated… • FRONTOGENETIC adj. relating to the creation of a weather front by the meeting of air currents. |
| INTERGRAFTING | • intergrafting v. Present participle of intergraft. • INTERGRAFT v. to graft between. |
| LIGHTFASTNESS | • lightfastness n. The quality or degree of being lightfast. • LIGHTFAST n. of a fabric, that doesn't fade on exposure to light. |
| PETTIFOGGINGS | • pettifoggings n. Plural of pettifogging. • PETTIFOGGING n. the act of pettifogging. |
| PREFORMATTING | • preformatting v. Present participle of preformat. • PREFORMAT v. to format in advance. |
| RETROFITTINGS | • retrofittings n. Plural of retrofitting. • RETROFITTING n. the act of retrofitting. |
| SUPERFETATING | • superfetating v. Present participle of superfetate. • SUPERFETATE v. to conceive when a fetus is already in the uterus. |
| WEIGHTLIFTING | • weightlifting n. A form of exercise in which weights are lifted. • weightlifting n. (Sports) A sport in which competitors lift heavy weights in two events: the snatch and the clean and jerk. • weight-lifting v. Present participle of weight-lift. |