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 |
flute flute glass champagne flute | a tall narrow wineglass |
making | (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something, the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake |
winery wine maker | distillery where wine is made |
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 |
twinkle scintillation sparkling | a rapid change in brightness, a brief spark or flash |
sparkling wine | effervescent wine |
champagne bubbly | a white sparkling wine either produced in Champagne or resembling that produced there |
champagne cup | a punch containing a sparkling wine |
soda water carbonated water club soda seltzer sparkling water | effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide |
Champagne Champagne-Ardenne | a region of northeastern France |
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 |
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 |
sparkling effervescent | used of wines and waters, charged naturally or artificially with carbon dioxide, sparkling wines, sparkling water |
sparkling | shining with brilliant points of light like stars, sparkling snow, sparkling eyes |