a mischief mischief-making mischievousness deviltry devilry devilment rascality roguery roguishness shenanigan ddd | reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others |
sexual love lovemaking making love love love life | sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people, his lovemaking disgusted her, he hadn't had any love in months, he has a very complicated love life |
lace making tatting | the act or art of making handmade lace |
devising fashioning making | the act that results in something coming to be, the devising of plans, the fashioning of pots and pans, the making of measurements, it was already in the making |
moviemaking movie making film making | the production of movies |
winemaking wine making | the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine |
slave-making ant slave-maker | an ant that attacks colonies of other ant species and carries off the young to be reared as slave ants |
making | (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something, the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake |
qualification making | an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something, her qualifications for the job are excellent, one of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree, she has the makings of fine musician |
decision making deciding | the cognitive process of reaching a decision, a good executive must be good at decision making |
informing making known | a speech act that conveys information |
leak wetting making water passing water | a euphemism for urination, he had to take a leak |
photomechanics photoplate making | the process whereby printing surfaces (plates or cylinders) are produced by photographic methods, photomechanics revolutionized the practice of printing |
Holocene Holocene epoch Recent Recent epoch | approximately the last , years |
Pleistocene Pleistocene epoch Glacial epoch | from two million to thousand years ago, extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere, the time of human evolution |
Pliocene Pliocene epoch | from million to million years ago, growth of mountains, cooling of climate, more and larger mammals |
Miocene Miocene epoch | from million to million years ago, appearance of grazing mammals |
Oligocene Oligocene epoch | frommillion to million years ago, appearance of sabertoothed cats |
Eocene Eocene epoch | from million tomillion years ago, presence of modern mammals |
Paleocene Paleocene epoch | from million to million years ago, appearance of birds and earliest mammals |
epoch | a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into ages |
era epoch | a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event |
ice age glacial period glacial epoch | any period of time during which glaciers covered a large part of the earth's surface, the most recent ice age was during the Pleistocene |
epoch date of reference | (astronomy) an arbitrarily fixed date that is the point in time relative to which information (as coordinates of a celestial body) is recorded |
nonprofit non-profit-making | not commercially motivated |
policy-making | concerned with policy, not administration |
epochal epoch-making | highly significant or important especially bringing about or marking the beginning of a new development or era, epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill, an epoch-making discovery |