Nouns denoting acts or actions
- banking game
- any gambling game in which bets are laid against the gambling house or the dealer
- Secession
- the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
- loading
- the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.
- radiophotography
- transmission of photographs by radio waves
- detachment
- the act of releasing from an attachment or connection
- deerstalking
- stalking deer
- bowdlerization
- the act of deleting or modifying all passages considered to be indecent
- drive
- (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)
- sponge bath
- you wash your body with a sponge or washcloth instead of in a bathtub
- centering
- (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back
- fold
- the act of folding
- nightwork
- work to be done at night
- contra danse
- a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line
- plateletpheresis
- platelets are separated from whole blood and the rest is returned to the donor
- lap
- touching with the tongue
- icing
- (ice hockey) the act of shooting the puck from within your own defensive area the length of the rink beyond the opponent's goal
- rendition
- handing over prisoners to the country in which a crime was committed
- touristry
- the business of providing services to tourists
- aftercare
- care and treatment of a convalescent patient
- pivot shot
- a one-handed basketball shot made while whirling on the pivot foot
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