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Showing words for WHALING using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Whaling

whaling

6 Letter Words for Whaling

haglin, haling, hawing, lawing, waling

5 Letter Words for Whaling

ahing, algin, align, anigh, awing, ghain, ignaw, inlaw, laigh, langi, lawin, liang, ligan, linga, linha, liwan, whang, whing, wigan, wilga

4 Letter Words for Whaling

agin, agni, alin, anil, awin, gail, gain, gali, gawn, gila, glia, gnaw, hagi, hail, hain, hang, hani, hila, hing, hwan, inga, lain, lang, lawn, lina, ling, nagi, naig, nail, ngai, nigh, wagh, wail, wain, wali, wang, whan, whig, whin, wing

3 Letter Words for Whaling

ahi, ail, ain, alg, aln, alw, awl, awn, gal, gan, gaw, gin, hag, han, haw, hia, hin, ign, ing, iwa, lag, lah, lai, lan, law, lig, lin, nag, nah, naw, nig, nil, wag, wah, wan, wha, wig, win

Definitions for Whaling

[1] the work or industry of capturing and rendering whales; whale fishing.
[2] any of the larger marine mammals of the order Cetacea, especially as distinguished from the smaller dolphins and porpoises, having a fishlike body, forelimbs modified into flippers, and a head that is horizontally flattened.
[3] Informal . something big, great, or fine of its kind: I had a whale of a time in Europe.
[4] (initial capital letter ) Astronomy . the constellation Cetus.
[5] to engage in whaling or whale fishing.
[6] to hit, thrash, or beat soundly.
[7] the work or industry of hunting and processing whales for food, oil, etc
[8] informal (intensifier) a whaling good time
[9] any of the larger cetacean mammals, excluding dolphins, porpoises, and narwhals. They have flippers, a streamlined body, and a horizontally flattened tail and breathe through a blowhole on the top of the head Related adjective: cetacean
[10] any cetacean mammal See also toothed whale, whalebone whale
[11] slang a gambler who has the capacity to win and lose large sums of money in a casino
[12] a whale of a informal an exceptionally large, fine, etc, example of a (person or thing) we had a whale of a time on holiday
[13] (tr) to beat or thrash soundly

Words related to Whaling

huge, enormous, hulking, colossal, big, monstrous, humongous, immense, mammoth, vast, jumbo, gigantic, gargantuan, whipping, drubbing, rout, annihilation, debacle, conquest, beating

Words nearby Whaling

whalen, whaler, whaler shark, whales, whalesucker, whaling, whaling port, wham, whammo, whammy, whanau

Origin of Whaling

e2First recorded in 1780–90; origin uncertain

Words that may be confused with Whaling

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, whalewail, whale

Other words from Whaling

an·ti·whal·ing , adjective
non·whal·ing , adjective

Word origin for Whaling

eC18: variant of wale 1

Synonyms for Whaling

Bunyanesque, behemoth, big, blimp, brobdingnagian, colossal, cyclopean, elephantine, enormous, gargantuan, gigantesque, gigantic, gross, herculean, heroic, huge, hulking, humongous, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive, mastodonic, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, prodigious, pythonic, stupendous, super-duper, titanic, tremendous, vast, whale of a