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Definition: Designing |
DesigningAdjective1. Concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger". Noun1. The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "designing" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
When applied to fine and applied arts, engineering, and other such creative efforts, design is both a noun and a verb. The verb is the process of originating and developing a plan for an artistic or engineered object, which may require countless hours of thought, modelling, iterative adjustment, and re-design. The noun is either the finalized plan of action, or the result of following that plan of action.
In philosophy, the abstract noun design refers to purpose/purposefulness, or teleology. Design is thus contrasted with purposelessness, randomness, or lack of complexity.
The traditional view is that design can only arise thanks to a sentient designer. Thus in the teleological argument, also known as the argument from design, the obvious presense of design in the world is thought to prove the existence of a designer, namely God.
In the past few decades, some at the intersection of philosophy and Neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory have proposed an alternative, in which it is meaningful to speak of design without always speaking of a sentient designer. It is seen as insightful to see see humans, gods, and certain impersonal forces, especially natural selection, as equally capable of giving rise to one unified phenomenon: design. Daniel C. Dennett (1995) offers perhaps the most comprehensive framework along these lines.
Note that others at the intersection of philosophy and evolutionary theory argue that the term design should still be reserved for cases involving a sentient designer. This implies that followers of the standard, biological, materialistic account of the origin of the species should not use design or designed in discussions of organisms or parts thereof; since these have no designer, they were not designed in the propper sense of the word. Proponents of this view include Richard Dawkins.
References and further reading
- Darwin's Dangerous Idea (1995) by Daniel C. Dennett. (philosophy)
External links
See also: Visual arts and design, Industrial design
- Buckminster Fuller Institute, http://www.bfi.org (anticipatory design)
- Design Council - About Design, http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/design
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Design."
Synonyms: DesigningSynonyms: scheming (adj), design (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cunning | Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff. |
Representation | Noun: representation, representment; imitation; illustration, delineation, depictment; imagery, portraiture, iconography; design, designing; art, fine arts; painting; sculpture; engraving; photography, cinematography; radiography, autoradiography, fluorography, sciagraphy. |
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Screenplays | Curly, you're a designing woman, you know that, don't you (Curly Top; writing credit: Arthur J. Beckhard; Patterson McNutt) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Designing Woman (1957) A Designing Woman (1916) Return of the Living Dead: Designing the Dead (2002) Ken Adam: Designing Bond (2000) Designing for the Sexes (1998) | |
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 | Figure 63. Marti's continuous recording sounder built by the French engineer Pierre Marti. In 1919, Marti began designing and describing sounding machines based on acoustic methods. This recording device allowed measuring time of sound emanation and time of reception, thus giving travel time which can be used to determine depth. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Mrs. Ryie Yoshizawa, teacher of fashion and designing, etc., Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California / photograph by Ansel Adams. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Consternation of the aesthetic young wife after designing a perfect color scheme. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Dog" by Jayanin Chittranukroh Commentary: "Good for web designing and more." | "Chichén Itza Ballcourt" by Luis Alves Commentary: "The Mayans were great sportsmen and build huge ballcourts to play their games. The Great Ballcourt of Chichén Itzá is 545 feet long and 225 feet wide overall. It has no vault, no discontinuity between the walls and is totally open to the sky. Each end has" |
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John Locke | 1690 | That if even that had been determined, yet the knowledge of which is the eldest line of Adam's posterity, being so long since utterly lost, that in the races of mankind and families of the world, there remains not to one above another, the least pretence to be the eldest house, and to have the right of inheritance: All these premises having, as I think, been clearly made out, it is impossible that the rulers now on earth should make any benefit, or derive any the least shadow of authority from that, which is held to be the fountain of all power, Adam's private dominion and paternal jurisdiction; so that he that will not give just occasion to think that all government in the world is the product only of force and violence, and that men live together by no other rules but that of beasts, where the strongest carries it, and so lay a foundation for perpetual disorder and mischief, tumult, sedition and rebellion, (things that the followers of that hypothesis so loudly cry out against) must of necessity find out another rise of government, another original of political power, and another way of designing and knowing the persons that have it, than what Sir Robert F[ilmer] hath taught us. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Health | Combination therapies present special challenges that must be overcome when designing clinical trials for promising therapies. (references) | |
Scientists engaged in designing and developing clinical trials to test potential treatments for AD face a number of challenges. (references) | ||
Contextual information is essential for designing tailored interventions that respond to the needs and preferences of people in particular communities. (references) | ||
Business | Indeed, Romania has the capability for designing and erecting complete plants. (references) | |
Local companies prevail in supplying the substantial volume of designing, engineering, and construction works. (references) | ||
Finally, participation in exhibitions and seminars will provide details for designing a market entry strategy. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | In 2000 government officials stated that companies should take the needs of persons with disabilities into account when building and designing buildings and reminded the public that persons with disabilities have rights that should be protected. (references) |
Economic History | Cyprus | Several Internet providers specialize in designing web pages. (references) |
Panama | Foreign consultants play an important role in designing and implementing these projects. (references) | |
Political Economy | GUATEMALA | The Fiscal Pact sought to address Guatemala's need for higher internal income by designing a new tax system. (references) |
Nigeria | The Niger Delta Development Commission, headquartered in Port Harcourt, was inaugurated in December 2000 and is currently designing an overall development plan for the region. (references) | |
Trade | Brazil | The Bank's activities include traditional cofinancing, World Bank guarantees, creating infrastructure funds to finance private project companies, and designing projects for future private sector participation. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | HEATHEN, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel. According to Professor Howison, of the California State University, Hebrews are heathens. "The Hebrews are heathens!" says Howison. He's A Christian philosopher. I'm A scurril agnostical chap, if you please, Addicted too much to the crime Of religious discussion in my rhyme. Though Hebrew and Howison cannot agree On a modus vivendi -- not they! -- Yet Heaven has had the designing of me, And I haven't been reared in a way To joy in the thick of the fray. For this of my creed is the soul and the gist, And the truth of it I aver: Who differs from me in his faith is an 'ist, And 'ite, an 'ie, or an 'er -- And I'm down upon him or her! Let Howison urge with perfunctory chin Toleration -- that's all very well, But a roast is "nuts" to his nostril thin, And he's running -- I know by the smell -- A secret and personal Hell! Bissell Gip |
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Grover Cleveland | 1885-1889; 1893-1897 | In the meantime, as the nation's wards, they should be promptly defended against the cupidity of designing men and shielded from every influence or temptation that retards their advancement. |
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| "Designing" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 93.43% of the time. "Designing" is used about 532 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) | 93.43% | 497 | 12,096 |
| Noun (singular) | 3.94% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.31% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 1.31% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 532 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
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Ending with "designing": re-designing. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "designing"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | projektues (designer, planner), projektim (engineering, projection, screening), përcaktues (adherent, determinant, determinative), konstruktim, intrigim. (various references) | |
Arabic | مولع بالتآمر, ماكر (artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deep, disingenuous, feline, foxlike, foxy, furtive, guileful, malicious, pawky, politic, scheming, sharper, slick, slim, sly, smart, subtle, trick, vulpine, wily), تصميم (design, drawing, format, idea, intention, layout, mock up, modelling, planning, purpose, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, styling, will), تخطيط (delimitation, delineation, design, lineation, planning, plotter, projection, striation), رسم تصوير (delimitation, drawing, painting, picture, sketch, tracing). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хитър (acute, arch, artful, calculating, catty, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, disingenuous, dodgy, foxy, guileful, insidious, knowing, leery, long-headed, parlous, patent, pawky, politic, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sleek, slim, sly, smart, supple, wary, wide, wily, wordly-wise), който проектира, който планира, лукав (astute, crafty, feline, furtive, guileful, parlous, pawky, serpentine, sly, snaky, subtle, tricky, underhand, wicked, wily), предвидлив (farsighted, forehanded, foreseeing, foresighted, perspicacious, provident), интригантски (intriguing), дизайнерство. (various references) | |
Chinese | 设计 (design, Designed, Engineered, Projet). (various references) | |
Czech | vychytralý (artful, astute, devious, shrewd, shrewish, sly, wily), pletichářský, lstivý (crafty, cunning, deceitful, leery, politic, subtle, tricky, underhand, wily), intrikánský. (various references) | |
Danish | patientspecifikke recepter (designing patient-specific prescriptions), mikropublikation (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer). (various references) | |
Dutch | desktop publishing (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer), micro-uitgeverij (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer), grafisch publikatiesysteem (designing page layouts, desktop publishing, drawing illustrations, editing text, incorporating photographs, it implies writing text, printing a finished document with a relatively inexpensive computer and laser printer). (various references) | |
Finnish | vehkeilevä (scheming), mallinpiirustus. (various references) | |
French | dessin (delineation, design), dessein (design), rusé (deep), intrigant, création, conception (design). (various references) | |
German | entwerfend (charting, conceptualizing). (various references) | |
Greek | ραδιούργοσ (intriguer), σχέδιο (concept, course of action, design, draff, drawing, layout, pattern, plan, plat, project, prospectus, scheme), σχεδίασμα (planning, projection, sketch), πανούργοσ (arch, artful, astute, canny, crafty, cunning, parlous, pawky, sharp, shrewd, sly, slyish, subtile, subtle, vulpine, wily), υστερόβουλοσ (insincere), δολόπλοκοσ. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תכנון (planning, projection). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tervezés (cast, contemplation, design, planning, projection, scheming, shaping), szerkesztés (combining, compilation, construction, contriving, design, drawing up, editing, engrossment, framing, redaction), számító (anticipatory, calculating, cunning, scrounging). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pendisainan. (various references) | |
Italian | intrigante (busybody, intrigant, intriguant, intriguing, machinator, meddler, piquant, schemer, scheming). (various references) | |
Korean | 디자인 (design). (various references) | |
Manx | kiaddey (coinage, coining, design, fashion, father, form, formation, model, modelling, shape), cummee. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | esigningday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desenho (design, draft, draftsmanship, draught, draughtsmanship, drawing, illustration, lithograph, litho-print, picture, print, scale, scheme, tracing), planta (design, diagram, map, plan, plane, plant, sole, survey, veronica), plano (cadre, champaign, concoction, design, device, diagram, dodge, dodgery, draught, even, flat, frame, framing, game, groundwork, idea, layout, level, line, plain, plan, plane, project, proposition, scheme, smattering, smooth, surface, system), manhoso (cagey, jesuitic, jesuitical, machiavellian, pawky, sharp, shifty, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wily), intrigante (intrigant, intriguant, intriguing, schemer, telltale), criação (breeding, chicken, creation, foundation, genesis, making, nurture, origination), astuto (acute, adroit, arch, artful, astucious, astute, canny, clearheaded, clever, crafty, cunning, guileful, jesuitic, jesuitical, leery, longheaded, machiavellian, perspicacious, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, sophisticated, subtil, subtile, subtle, tricksy, tricky, vulpine, wily), artificioso (artful, skilful, skillful). (various references) | |
Romanian | desen (depiction, design, draft, draught, drawing, free hand, pad, pattern, sketch), uneltire (conspiracy, intrigue, manoeuvre, mine, noise), proiect (contemplation, counsel, design, device, draft, draught, idea, plan, project, projection, proposal, scheme, scheming), intrigant (designer, intrigant, intriguer, intriguing, manoeuvrer, mischief maker, plotter, scandal monger, schemer, scheming, wire puller), intrigã (action, cabal, intrigue, machination, noise, plot, scheme, scheming). (various references) | |
Russian | разрабатывать проектирование, коварный (catty, conniving, crafty, guileful, insidious, jesuitic, jesuitical, subtle, treacherous, vulpine, wily), конструирование, проектирование (construction of the project, design, design engineering, engineering, graphics), интригующий (intriguing). (various references) | |
Scottish | tì (any one, designing to, intention, intention : air tì a ghlacadh, nm.ind. any human being, tea). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | projektovanje (planning), lukav (arch, artful, astute, cagey, cagy, canny, captious, crafty, cunning, insidious, leery, perfidious, shrewd, sleeky, sly, tricky, vulpine, wily), konstruisanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | diseño (design, pattern, plan), dibujo (design, drawing, figure, pattern, picture, sketch), intrigante (intriguant, intriguing, machinator, schemer, scheming), artero (tricky). (various references) | |
Swedish | design (design), slug (artful, astute, cagey, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, foxy, knowing, leery, sharp, shifty, shrewd, sly, smart, tricky, wily), konstruktion (construct, construction, design, erection, fabric, fabrication, framework), formgivning (design, figuration, shaping), beräknande (calculating, scheming). (various references) | |
Turkish | düzenbaz (bilker, crafty, cross, deceitful, deceiver, falsifier, gadgety, impostor, intriguer, intriguing, left handed, pettifogging, racketeer, rogue, roguish, serpentine, shammer, shyster, tartar, trickster, tricky), kurnaz (arch, artful, astute, cagey, calculating, canny, cattish, catty, coon, crafty, cunning, cute, dodger, dodgy, downy, feline, Fox, foxy, hard boiled, heady, knowing, leery, politic, quirky, roguish, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slim, sly, sly old fox, slyboots, smart, subtile, tricky, vulpine, weasel, wheeler dealer, wide awake, wily, wise guy), becerikli (adept, adroit, agile, capable, clever, deft, dexterous, dextrous, efficient, facile, gifted, handsome, ingenious, knowing, light-handed, neat, nimble-fingered, performing, practical, pushful, pushing, ready, resourceful, shifty, skilful, skilled, skillful, skilly, slick, smart, versatile, wise). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | що проектує, що планує, конструювання, проектування (graphics, planning, projection), планування (mapping, planning, scheming). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | xảo quyệt (artful, crafty, cunning, machiavellian, politic, politically, slim, tricky), sự vẽ kiểu, sự trình bày (development, statement), sự thiết kế, sự phác hoạ (adumbration), lắm thủ đoạn (trickish, tricky), lắm mưu kế, gian ngoan (artifice). (various references) | |
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| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 7, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | H de gunh sunanta autw eidoV ecousa pornikon h poiei newn exiptasqai kardiaV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et ecce mulier occurrit illi ornatu meretricio praeparata ad capiendas animas garrula et vaga |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And lo! a womman ayen cam to hym, with strumpet aray befor maad redi to the soulis to be desceyued, a chaterere, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And behold, there met him a woman with the attire of a harlot, and subtil of heart. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart; |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 7, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Ug, ania karon, may mitagbo kaniya nga usa ka babaye Sa pamisti sa usa ka babayeng bigaon, ug malimbongon sa kasingkasing. |
| Croatian | i gle, susrete ga žena, bludno odjevena i s prijevarom u srcu. |
| Danish | Og se, da møder Kvinden ham i Skøgedragt, underfundig i Hjertet; |
| Dutch | En ziet, een vrouw ontmoette hem in hoerenversiersel, en met het hart op haar hoede; |
| Finnish | Ja katso, nainen tulee häntä vastaan, porton puvussa, kavala sydämeltä. |
| French | Et voici, il fut abordé par une femme Ayant la mise d`une prostituée et la ruse dans le coeur. |
| German | Und siehe, da begegnete ihm ein Weib im Hurenschmuck, listig, |
| Haitian Creole | Madanm lan menm vin kontre li. Li te abiye tankou yon jennès, ak tout plan l' dèyè tèt li. |
| Hungarian | És ímé, egy asszony eleibe jõ, paráznának öltözetében, álnok az õ elméjében. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Wanita itu wanita yang tidak betah tinggal di rumahnya. Sebentar-sebentar ia berada di tepi jalan, kemudian di lapangan, atau berdiri menunggu di persimpangan. Tingkah lakunya berani dan tidak kenal malu. Kulihat ia keluar dengan berpakaian seperti pelacur, dan menemui pemuda itu dengan rencana yang licik. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu bertemulah ia dengan seorang perempuan yang berpakaikan perhiasan sundal dan hatinya pandai menipu. |
| Italian | Ecco farglisi incontro una donna, in vesti di prostituta e la dissimulazione nel cuore. |
| Maori | Na, kua tutaki tetahi wahine ki a ia, he kakahu puremu tona, he ngakau hianga. |
| Norwegian | Da kom en kvinne ham i møte i en skjøges klær og med svikefullt hjerte. |
| Portuguese | e eis que uma mulher lhe saiu ao encontro, ornada à moda das prostitutas, e astuta de coração. |
| Rumanian | Wi, iatq cq, i -a alergat knainte o femeie kmbrqcatq ca o curvq wi cu inima wireatq. |
| Swedish | Se, då kom där en kvinna honom till mötes; hennes dräkt var en skökas, och hennes hjärta illfundigt. |
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Derivations | |
Words ending with "designing": codesigning, outdesigning, overdesigning, redesigning, undesigning. (additional references) | |
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"Designing" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: designning, desining. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "designing" (pronounced duzī"ning) |
| 7 | d u z ī" n i ng | redesigning. |
| 6 | -u z ī" n i ng | resigning. |
| 4 | -ī" n i ng | aligning, assigning, brining, combining, confining, declining, defining, dining, divining, fining, lining, mining, opining, pining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, refining, shining, signing, twining, Vining, whining, wining. |
| 3 | -n i ng | apportioning, abstaining, abandoning, adjoining, adjourning, ascertaining, attaining, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, awning, ballooning, banning, bargaining, battening, beckoning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, blackening, bludgeoning, boning, branning, brightening, broadening, Browning, burdening, burgeoning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, captioning, careening, cartooning, cautioning, chaining, championing, chaperoning, cheapening, christening, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, coarsening, cocooning, coining, commissioning, complaining, concerning, conditioning, condoning, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, dawning, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, demeaning, Denning, detaining, determining, Dinning, discerning, disciplining, disdaining, disheartening, disillusioning, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, enlightening, entertaining, envisioning, evening, examining, explaining, fanning, fashioning, fastening, fattening, fawning, feigning, finning, flattening, freshening, frightening, frowning, functioning, gaining, gardening, ginning, glistening, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, happening, hardening, hastening, headlining, heartening, heightening, honing, Horning, housecleaning, imagining, imprisoning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, jettisoning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, lightning, likening, listening, loaning, loosening, machining, maddening, maintaining, malfunctioning, Manning, margining, meaning, mentioning, midmorning, moaning, morning, motioning, mourning, obtaining, opening, ordaining, orphaning, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, pardoning, partitioning, penning, pertaining, petitioning, phoning, pinning, planning, poisoning, positioning, postponing, preening, preplanning, provisioning, pruning, quarantining, questioning, quickening, raining, rationing, reasoning, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, redlining, reexamining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, reopening, repositioning, rerunning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, ripening, ruining, running, saddening, sanctioning, scanning, screening, seasoning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, shunning, sickening, sinning, siphoning, slackening, softening, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stationing, stiffening, stoning, straightening, straining, streamlining, strengthening, stunning, summoning, sunning, sustaining, sweetening, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thickening, thinning, threatening, tightening, toning, toughening, training, tuning, turning, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unquestioning, unreasoning, vacationing, waning, warning, weakening, weaning, whitening, widening, winning, worsening, yawning, yearning, zoning. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-g-g-i-i-n-n-s" | |
-1 letter: deigning, indigens, singeing. | |
-2 letters: dingies, dinging, edgings, endings, ginseng, indigen, insigne, seining, sending, sieging, signing, singing. | |
-3 letters: deigns, design, dieing, dinges, dining, edging, ending, ensign, gieing, ginned, indies, indign, inside, niding, siding, signed, singed, sinned. | |
-4 letters: deign, dines, dinge, dings, genii, indie, inned, nides, nines, nisei, segni, sengi, singe, snide. | |
-5 letters: deni, dens, dies, digs. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-g-g-i-i-n-n-s" | |
+2 letters: codesigning, designating, disengaging, redesigning, undesigning. | |
+3 letters: outdesigning. | |
+4 letters: disentangling, overdesigning. | |
+5 letters: digitoxigenins, disintegrating, predesignating. | |
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