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Definition: Loading |
LoadingAdjective1. Designed for use in loading e.g. cargo; "a loading dock"; "a loading chute is used to drive cattle into a truck or other conveyance". Noun1. Weight to be borne or conveyed. 2. A quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads". 3. The ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift. 4. Goods carried by a large vehicle. 5. The labor of loading something; "the loading took 2 hours". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "loading" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemical Industry | The amount of preservative or other chemical absorbed by timber, generally expressed in lb/ft3 or kg/m3, of treated volume or, particularly in diffusion treatments, as a percentage of the oven-dry weight of the piece. Source: European Union. (references) |
Economics | The physical placing of cargo into a truck, a shipping container, or onto a vessel. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The act of placing material, i. e. the load, on a vehicle(animal or machine)for further transport. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | Increasing the weight of fabrics by the addition of deliquescent salts or starch, China clay, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Finely divided, normally white pigment which is added to the stock in order to e. g. raise the opacity and smoothness of the paper. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Insurance | The amount or percentages added to the pure (or in life insurance, net) premium to provide for expenses, contingencies, or profits, or to ajust the premium rate for special situations. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mathematics | The assigning of increased or decreased values to measures of items according to their relative importance of value. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | Deposition of chips, coolant and metal particles in the pores and on the surface of the grinding wheel. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | In ion exchange, sorption onto resins of metallic ions from a pregnantsolution in loading cycle. (references) |
Nuclear Energy & Physics | The introduction of nuclear fuel into a reactor. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | To load the machine, the cassette is fed horizontally into a carrier which is itself then pushed downwards into the machine. This action also opens the hinged front flap of the cassette. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In telecommunication, the term loading has the following meanings:1. The insertion of impedance into a circuit to change the characteristics of the circuit.
2. In multichannel communications systems, the insertion of white noise or equivalent dummy traffic at a specified level to simulate system traffic and thus enable analysis of system performance.
3. In telephone systems, the load, i.e. , power level, imposed by the busy hour traffic.
Note 1: The loading may be expressed as (a) the equivalent mean power and the peak power as a function of the number of voice channels or (b) the equivalent power of a multichannel complex or signal composite referred to zero transmission level point (0TLP).
Note 2: Loading is a function of the number of channels and the specified voice channel mean power.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Loading."
Synonyms: LoadingSynonyms: loading(a) (adj), burden (n), cargo (n), consignment (n), freight (n), lading (n), load (n), payload (n), shipment (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unloading (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) The seeds of war. They're loading a full cargo of death (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; writing credit: Jules Verne; Earl Felton) Now Sarge, what is the loading and firing procedure for the 75-millimeter cannon (1941; writing credit: Robert Zemeckis; Bob Gale) They just keep right on loading. Some of them come home with seven, eight bullets rammed up in the barrel, never fired a shot (Gettysburg; writing credit: Ronald F. Maxwell) | |
Clever | You're trailer trash when you think loading a dishwasher means getting your wife drunk. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Conveying It Across the Mountains and Loading It Into Boats Loading the Ice on Cars (1902) S.C. Loading a Vessel at Charleston (1902) Shipping Department. No. 2: Loading (1901) Loading Sugar Cane (1901) | |
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![]() | Electronics for loading Raydist tower. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. | ![]() | Loading a stripped down Piper Cub on the PIONEER Plane used to tend tide gages and do reconnaissance. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
![]() | Loading the salmon smolts aboard the JOHN N. COBB. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ![]() | Loading a weasel on "Goldie". Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
![]() | Loading frozen bait from Point Judith, Rhode Island, on a swordfish boat. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | Stone crab fishermen loading their traps on board. Credit: Fisheries. |
![]() | Another view of the crane loading rock into the truck. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | A barge-mounted crane loading rock at the construction site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Crew loading supplies on the METEOR; officers and scientific party of the METEOR. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Native "commercial" fishermen fishing for tuna off the phosphate loading docks at Aqaba. Credit: Small World. |
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| "Loading dock" by Taylor Dixson Commentary: "Old abondoned loading dock." | "BOEING 747 UNITED AIRLINES" by Brad David Commentary: "A Boeing 747-400 United Airlines at DIA (Denver International Airport) Loading Up. ." |
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Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Goods in transit may be placed under seal or in the custody of customs agents; the loading and unloading of goods, and the embarkation and disembarkation of passengers, shall only take place in the ports specified by Germany. (reference) |
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Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | They were nearly finished loading when a guard moved near, carrying his shotgun across his crooked arm. |
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Business | This change causes a problem with loading capacity. (references) | |
For medium commercial vehicles loading capacity is calculated for sheet covering. (references) | ||
All IEAT industrial estates have central wastewater treatment facilities for organic loading. (references) | ||
Economic History | Finland | Finland has a total of 60 ports and loading places. (references) |
Finland | Ports are secure and automated; loading and unloading operations are consistently quick and trouble free. (references) | |
Greece | The Business Software Alliance (BSA) faces hard disk loading and sales of counterfeit products throughout Greece. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Venezuela | However, the Caracas city government and the Metropolitan Police maintained a policy of forcing the Warao to return to the delta by rounding them up and loading them onto buses. (references) |
Political Economy | HONG KONG | In 1999, Hong Kong courts handed down a first conviction for unauthorized dealer hard-disk loading. (references) |
BRAZIL | The Brazilians recognize that many of its ports, loading and unloading as well as customs clearance need increased efficiency. (references) | |
Trade | Bulgaria | The dutiable value is CIF, consisting of the purchase price, transportation costs, insurance charges, commissions, royalties, license fees and all other expenditures associated with the transport (e.g., loading and unloading) for delivery to the Bulgarian border. (references) |
Taiwan | On April 16, 1997, the Legislative Yuan passed these new regulations, which became effective upon presidential promulgation on May 8, 1997. Industries accommodated in the zones have been expanded from manufacturing to include large warehouses, transshipment firms, loading, unloading, and repair services. (references) | |
Slovak Rep | Slovakia is a member of the WTO and is bound by the GATT Agreement on Implementation of Article VII GATT 1994. In keeping with this, the basis for calculating the import duty is the customs value of the goods, including transportation costs and insurance from the point of loading to the border of Slovakia. (references) | |
Travel | Taiwan | The Kaohsiung Harbor is the world's third largest in terms of loading and unloading volumes. (references) |
Worker Rights | Peru | Other children reportedly are employed at times in dangerous occupations or in high-risk environments, such as informal gold mining, garbage collection, loading and unloading produce in markets, brick making, coca cultivation, or work in stone quarries and fireworks factories, among others. (references) |
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| "Loading" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 69.67% of the time. "Loading" is used about 389 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 69.67% | 271 | 17,854 |
| Noun (singular) | 17.22% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.54% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.57% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 389 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "loading". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Amos | N/A | Biblical | Loading |
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Expressions using "loading": administrative loading ♦ aircraft loading table ♦ asymmetric loading ♦ bridge response to dynamic loading ♦ buckling loading ♦ carbo loading ♦ carbohydrate loading ♦ cease loading ♦ channel loading ♦ chimney loading ♦ combat loading ♦ commercial loading ♦ commodity loading ♦ compressive loading ♦ convoy loading ♦ dead loading ♦ difraction loading ♦ disc loading ♦ distributed loading ♦ downline loading ♦ drag loading ♦ eccentric loading ♦ elliptic loading ♦ excentric loading ♦ final loading ♦ gear motor with pressure loading ♦ gross loading ♦ heavy loading ♦ horizontal loading ♦ international loading gauge ♦ live loading ♦ loading agent ♦ loading and unloading siding ♦ loading and weight distribution ♦ loading area ♦ loading bank ♦ loading belt ♦ loading capacity ♦ loading center ♦ loading dock ♦ loading dose ♦ loading factor of channel ♦ loading factor of line ♦ loading gauge ♦ loading machine ♦ loading plan ♦ loading point ♦ loading port ♦ loading program ♦ loading ramp ♦ loading routine ♦ loading site ♦ loading stand ♦ loading track ♦ loading tripod ♦ loading zone ♦ maximum permissible loading ♦ muzzle loading gun ♦ muzzle loading rifle ♦ net loading ♦ nett loading ♦ particulate loading ♦ passenger loading bridge ♦ pinwheel loading ♦ place of loading on a rail vehicle ♦ place of loading on inland waterways transport vessel ♦ place of loading on IWT vessel ♦ power loading ♦ preload loading ♦ railway loading ramp ♦ selective loading ♦ separate loading ammunition ♦ span loading ♦ surface loading ♦ tactical loading ♦ trickle loading ♦ unit loading ♦ vertical loading ♦ wing loading. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "loading": loading-bay, loading-doors, loading-up. | |
Ending with "loading": off-loading. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "loading"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pp e foljes load, ngarkim (assignment, lading, shipment, shipping), ngarkesë (arrival, batch, burden, cargo, charge, consignment, freightage, goods, haul, lading, load, shipment, stowage, tote, weight), mbushje (admission, charge, dressing, fill, filling, packing, pad, padding, pervasion, stuffing, suffusion). (various references) | |
Arabic | حمولة (burden, capacity, cargo, freight, lading, load, tonnage, weight), حشوة (fill, filling, padding, stuffing, wad, wadding), حشو (charging, dressing, filling, pleonasm, redundance, redundancy, stuffing, tautology), تحميل, المحمل. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | товарене (embarkation, lading), товар (bulk, burden, burthen, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, freightage, goods, imposition, lading, load, tax, tie, tote, weight), натоварващ, натоварване (lading, load, stowage, stress), зареждащ, зареждане (charge, priming), пълнене (priming, stuffing), пупинизация, претоварващ. (various references) | |
Chinese | 装货 (lading). (various references) | |
Czech | nakládání (treatment). (various references) | |
Danish | ladning (blasting charge, cargo, charge, cycle, electric charge, electricity, explosive charge, freight, load, round, round of charges), læsning (cargo, reading), laesning (on-loading), lastning (cargo, freight, lading, load), load (load), optagelse (absorption, admission, incorporation, intake, retention, shot, uptake), påfyldning (back-filling, construction of an embankment, delivery, embankment, fill, fill embankment, filling, forming of an embankment, nursing, supply), tilstopning (blinding, blockage of the filter, blocking, choking, clogging, fouling, obstruction, occlusion, plugging, sticking), vægt (scales, weight), vognlæs (cart load), vejning (weighing, weight, weighting), belastning (demand, electric load, load, machine effort, pull, recharge, strain, stress, traction), indsætning (carburising, carburize, carburizing, case hardening, cementation), indlaegning indspaending og opretning (clamping and aligning), indladning, indlæsning (entry, input, input process), fyldstof (ballast, bulk, bulking agent, encrusting substance, extender, extender pigment, filler, incrusting substance, padding, size, sizing), besvære, bestrygning (coating, filler), isætning. (various references) | |
Dutch | lading (burden, cargo, charge, load), laden (burden, charge, load), vracht (burden, cargo, charge, load), verzwaren (aggravate), smeren (anoint, smear, spread), opname (acceptance, acceptation, admission, photograph), weging (weight, weighting), vulstof (extender, extender pigment, filler), absorptie (absorption), inklemmen (clamping and aligning, crimp, to build-in, to fix, to restrain), dichtsmeren (luting, sealing), belasting (tax), belasten (burden, load, tax), belading (cargo, charging, filling, freight, lading, load, on-loading, to charge, to fill), inleggen (deposit, insert, pickle, preserve, put away, put in, stow). (various references) | |
Finnish | lataus (charging), lastaus (on-loading), kuormaus (on-loading). (various references) | |
French | chargement (load), charge (load). (various references) | |
German | laden (boot, boot up, bootstrap, boutique, burden, charge, download, downloading, invite, joint, load, load up, outfit, shop, show, shutter, store, summon, take on, to bootstrap, to download, upload), verladung (embarkation, emplaning, entrainment), ladend, belastung (burden, burdening, charge, encumbrance, incrimination, liabilities, load, load capacity, pressure, putting weight on, strain, stress, tax, tie, trial, weight), aufladend. (various references) | |
Greek | φόρτωση (freighting, lading, shipment, shipping). (various references) | |
Hebrew | עמיסה, העמסה, הטענה (lading), טעינה (charge, charging, load). (various references) | |
Hungarian | terhelés (allowable load, charging, encumbrance, load, strain), rakodás (lading, stowage), megterhelés (burden, charging, encumbrance, handicap, imposition, strain), berakodás (embarkation, lading). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemuatan. (various references) | |
Italian | caricamento (capping, charge, charging, feeding, filling, lading, packing, to charge, to fill). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 積載 (carrying, lading). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうか (Buddhist temple, family in mourning, flower, flower arrangement, flowering plant, homeless, streetwalker), そうだん (collection of stories, consultation, discussion), さいせき (broken stone, carrying, quarrying, rubble), さいか (accident, approval, calamity, catastrophe, load, mistake, remarriage, sanction, the lowest, the worst), つみこみ, にづみ, せきさい (carrying, lading), じゅうてん (colon, emphasis, fill, filling, important point, lay stress on, plug, replenish). (various references) | |
Korean | 선적 (shipment). (various references) | |
Manx | lughtey (burden, freight, lade, load, weigh down), lughtaghey (charging, fill, filling, freight, lading, stow, stowage, write down). (various references) | |
Norwegian | lasting, lading. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oadinglay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | carregamento (ammunition, burden, cargo, charge, draught, freight, lading, load, shipment), carga (batch, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, cloud-burst, downfall, fardel, freight, freightage, job, lading, load, refill, rush, task, weight). (various references) | |
Romanian | prima suplimentarã, încãrcare (embarkation), încãrcãturã (burden, cargo, charge, freight, goods, load, shipment, weight). (various references) | |
Russian | утяжеление, грузовой (freight), груз (bulk, burden, cargo, consignment, embarkation, freight, incubus, jetsam, lading, load, plate, stowage, weight, weighting), нагрузка (burden, charge, filling, lading, load, thrust, weight, workload), заряжающий (charger), заряжание, зарядка (daily dozen sport, physical drill, physical jerks, push-up), загрузка (batch, charge), загружать загрузка (load, uploading), погрузка (lading, shipment, shipping), погрузочный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | utovar (load on, shipping), ukrcavanje (embarkation, shipping), udeo premije u troškovima poslovanja, punjenje (charge, fill, filler, load, padding, stuffing), koji tovari. (various references) | |
Spanish | solicitación (appeal, application, canvass, request, solicitation), sobreprima, sobrecarga (levy, overburden, overcharge, overfreight, overload, overprint, surcharge), ponderación (consideration, high praise, steadiness, weighing), colocación de las piezas para el soldeo (clamping and aligning), carro (Barrow, car, carriage, cart, chariot, motor, motorcar, shopping cart, tank, truck, waggon, wagon), carretonaje (cart load), carretada (carload, cartload), cargue (filling, mucking, power-loading), cargado (airless, charged, charges, encumbered, encumbers, frowsty, laded, laden, loaded, stuffy), carga de un carro (cart load), carga de impregnación (absorption, retention, uptake), carga (barge, buck, bulk, burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, freight, imposition, liability, load, onus, shipment, tax, weight), Absorción (absorbing, absorption, absorptivity). (various references) | |
Swedish | last (burden, cargo, freight, freightage, load, vice), laddning (charge, load), belastning (affliction, charge, dead weight, debit, encumbrance, imposition, liability, strain, stress, tax, weight). (various references) | |
Turkish | yükleme (ascription, charge, embarkation, imposition, lading, predication, shipment), yük (bulk, burden, cargo, charge, encumbrance, fardel, freight, goods, haul, impedimenta, imposition, impost, incident, lading, load, onus, pile, plummet, shipload, shipment, stowage, strain, sumpter, tax, weight), film takma, doldurma (charging, filling, refill, springing). (various references) | |
Turkmen | zarяadka (r) (drill, exercise). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | вантаження (heaving, shipment, shipping), навантаження (capacity, charge, filling, load). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "loading": loadings. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "loading": autoloading, downloading, freeloading, offloading, overloading, reloading, unloading, uploading. (additional references) | |
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"Loading" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: liadin, liganding, loadeing, lodin, loding, londini, luding, oading. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "loading" (pronounced lō"ding) |
| 5 | l ō" d i ng | exploding, imploding, unloading. |
| 4 | -ō" d i ng | coding, decoding, encoding, eroding, foreboding, goading. |
| 3 | -d i ng | applauding, apprehending, abounding, acceding, according, abiding, adding, affording, aiding, alluding, amending, ascending, astounding, attending, avoiding, awarding, backsliding, balding, banding, bedding, beheading, beholding, bending, bidding, biding, binding, bleeding, blending, blinding, blockading, boarding, bombarding, bonding, bounding, braiding, branding, breading, breeding, brooding, budding, building, cascading, ceding, cheerleading, chiding, clouding, codding, coinciding, colliding, colluding, commanding, commending, compounding, comprehending, conceding, concluding, condescending, confiding, confounding, contending, cording, corresponding, crowding, crusading, deciding, defending, defrauding, defunding, degrading, deluding, demanding, denuding, depending, deriding, descending, disbanding, discarding, disregarding, dividing, downgrading, downloading, dreading, eluding, ending, evading, exceeding, excluding, expanding, expending, expounding, extending, extruding, fading, featherbedding, feeding, fending, feuding, Fielding, finding, flooding, folding, forbidding, forwarding, founding, freestanding, funding, gadding, gilding, girding, Gladding, gliding, Godding, grading, grandstanding, grinding, grounding, guarding, guiding, handholding, handing, heading, heeding, heralding, herding, hiding, hoarding, holding, hounding, impeding, impending, inbreeding, including, intending, interceding, intruding, invading, joyriding, kidding, kneading, lading, landholding, landing, lauding, leading, lending, longstanding, madding, marauding, masquerading, masterminding, Melding, mending, minding, misleading, misreading, misspending, misunderstanding, molding, moulding, needing, nodding, nonbinding, nonbuilding, notwithstanding, offending, outbidding, outspending, outstanding, overbuilding, overcrowding, overextending, overfunding, overloading, overriding, overspending, padding, parading, pending, persuading, pervading, pleading, plodding, portending, pounding, preceding, precluding, presiding, pretending, proceeding, prodding, proofreading, protruding, providing, pudding, punctuating, raiding, railroading, reading, rebounding, rebuilding, receding, recommending, recording, Redding, Reding, refunding, regarding, relending, reminding, rending, rereading, rescinding, residing, resounding, responding, retarding, retreading, rewarding, ridding, riding, rodding, rounding, safeguarding, sanding, scaffolding, scalding, scolding, seceding, seeding, sending, serenading, shading, shedding, shepherding, shielding, shipbuilding, shredding, shrouding, siding, skateboarding, skidding, sledding, sliding, sounding, spearheading, speeding, spellbinding, spending, spreading, stampeding, standing, stranding, striding, subsiding, succeeding, superseding, surrounding, suspending, tending, threading, tiding, trading, transcending, treading, trending, unbending, underfunding, understanding, unending, unfolding, unwinding, unyielding, upgrading, upholding, upstanding, vending, voiding, wading, warding, wedding, weeding, welding, wending, wielding, Wilding, winding, withholding, withstanding, Wooding, wording, wounding, yielding. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-o" | |
-1 letter: algoid, dialog, doling, ganoid, lading, ladino, ligand. | |
-2 letters: algid, algin, align, aloin, along, danio, dingo, doing, donga, gland, gonad, gonia, indol, liang, ligan, linga, lingo, logan, logia, nidal, nodal. | |
-3 letters: agin, agio, agon, anil, dago, dang, dial, ding, diol, dona, dong, gadi, gain, gaol, gild, glad, glia, goad, goal, gold, idol, laid, lain. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-g-i-l-n-o" | |
+1 letter: diagonal, gonadial, gonidial, loadings. | |
+2 letters: adoringly, alongside, coleading, diagonals, dialoging, genocidal, girandole, glissando, reloading, unloading, uploading. | |
+3 letters: analogized, blockading, boldfacing, canoodling, delegation, desolating, diagonally, dialoguing, diplomaing, fanfolding, gadolinite, gadolinium, girandoles, glissandos, holidaying, intaglioed, landowning, longhaired, modulating, nonaligned, offloading, overlading, padlocking, pollarding, sloganized. | |
+4 letters: accordingly, autoloading, deadlocking, decollating, defoliating, delegations, diabolizing, diagnosable, diagonalize, diphthongal, disallowing, dislocating, dovetailing, downloading, downplaying, downscaling, dragonflies, freeloading, gadolinites, gadoliniums, ganglioside, goaltending, gradational, grandiflora, grandiosely, handholding, landholding, landownings, manifolding, outdazzling, overloading, postlanding, railroading, roadholding, scaffolding. | |
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