| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| backflowing | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflow |
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| batwing | (noun) one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon) | - |
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| bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| bitewing | (noun) a dental X-ray film that can be held in place by the teeth during radiography | - |
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| blowing | (noun) processing that involves blowing a gas | - |
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| bluewing | (noun) American teal | Synonyms: Anas discors, blue-winged teal |
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| borrowing | (noun) obtaining funds from a lender | - |
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| (noun) the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source | Synonyms: adoption |
| bowing | (noun) managing the bow in playing a stringed instrument | - |
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| (noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, obeisance |
| brewing | (noun) the production of malt beverages (as beer or ale) from malt and hops by grinding and boiling them and fermenting the result with yeast | - |
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| chewing | (noun) biting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow | Synonyms: chew, manduction, mastication |
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| crowing | (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, bragging, crow, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
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| downswing | (noun) a swing downward of a golf club | - |
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| (noun) a worsening of business or economic activity | Synonyms: downturn |
| drawing | (noun) the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams | Synonyms: drafting, draftsmanship |
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| (noun) act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source | Synonyms: drawing off |
| (noun) players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots | Synonyms: lottery |
| (noun) the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling | Synonyms: draft, draught |
| (noun) a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines | - |
| (noun) an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper | - |
| elbowing | (noun) jostling with the elbows | - |
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| farrowing | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrow |
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| flowing | (noun) the motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases) | Synonyms: flow |
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| following | (noun) the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture | Synonyms: chase, pursual, pursuit |
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| (noun) a group of followers or enthusiasts | Synonyms: followers |
| foreshadowing | (noun) the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand | Synonyms: adumbration, prefiguration |
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| forewing | (noun) either of the anterior pair of wings on an insect that has four wings | Synonyms: fore-wing, fore wing |
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| glowing | (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glow, radiance |
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| greenwing | (noun) common teal of Eurasia and North America | Synonyms: Anas crecca, green-winged teal |
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| growing | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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| (noun) (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state | - |
| knowing | (noun) a clear and certain mental apprehension | - |
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| lacewing | (noun) any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphids | Synonyms: lacewing fly |
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| lapwing | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, peewit, pewit |
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| mellowing | (noun) the process of becoming mellow | - |
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| narrowing | (noun) the act of making something narrower | - |
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| (noun) an instance of becoming narrow | - |
| (noun) a decrease in width | - |
| plowing | (noun) tilling the land with a plow | Synonyms: ploughing |
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| redwing | (noun) small European thrush having reddish flanks | Synonyms: Turdus iliacus |
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| (noun) North American blackbird with scarlet patches on the wings | Synonyms: Agelaius phoeniceus, red-winged blackbird |
| rowing | (noun) the act of rowing as a sport | Synonyms: row |
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| screwing | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, fucking, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, shag, shtup |
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| sewing | (noun) joining or attaching by stitches | Synonyms: stitching |
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| (noun) needlework on which you are working with needle and thread | Synonyms: stitchery |
| shadowing | (noun) the act of following someone secretly | Synonyms: tailing |
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| showing | (noun) something shown to the public | Synonyms: display, exhibit |
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| (noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: screening, viewing |
| slowing | (noun) a decrease in rate of change | Synonyms: deceleration, retardation |
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| stewing | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: boiling, simmering |
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| (noun) an extreme state of worry and agitation | - |
| stowing | (noun) the act of packing or storing away | Synonyms: stowage |
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| strewing | (noun) the act of scattering | Synonyms: scatter, scattering |
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| swing | (noun) changing location by moving back and forth | Synonyms: swinging, vacillation |
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| (noun) in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball | Synonyms: baseball swing, cut |
| (noun) the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it | Synonyms: golf shot, golf stroke |
| (noun) a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them | - |
| (noun) a sweeping blow or stroke | - |
| (noun) mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth | - |
| (noun) a jaunty rhythm in music | Synonyms: lilt |
| (noun) a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz | Synonyms: jive, swing music |
| (noun) a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity | - |
| thawing | (noun) warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt | Synonyms: thaw, warming |
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| (noun) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | Synonyms: melt, melting, thaw |
| underwing | (noun) moth having dull forewings and brightly colored hind wings | - |
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| unknowing | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, nescience, unknowingness |
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| viewing | (noun) a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial | Synonyms: wake |
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| (noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: screening, showing |
| waxwing | (noun) brown velvety-plumaged songbirds of the Northern Hemisphere having crested heads and red waxy wing tips | - |
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| wing | (noun) a movable organ for flying (one of a pair) | - |
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| (noun) one of the horizontal airfoils on either side of the fuselage of an airplane | - |
| (noun) an addition that extends a main building | Synonyms: annex, annexe, extension |
| (noun) a barrier that surrounds the wheels of a vehicle to block splashing water or mud | Synonyms: fender |
| (noun) a stage area out of sight of the audience | Synonyms: backstage, offstage |
| (noun) the wing of a fowl | - |
| (noun) a unit of military aircraft | - |
| (noun) the side of military or naval formation | Synonyms: flank |
| (noun) a group within a political party or legislature or other organization that holds distinct views or has a particular function | - |
| (noun) (in flight formation) a position to the side and just to the rear of another aircraft | - |
| (noun) a hockey player stationed in a forward position on either side | - |
| winnowing | (noun) the act of separating grain from chaff | Synonyms: sifting, winnow |
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