bling: Prefix, Suffix and Derived words
Prefixes of bling
- enabling«Word Popularity Bar5/5
enabling
- adjective providing legal power or sanction
- an enabling resolution
- enabling power
- verb render capable or able for some task
enable.
- This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street
- The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain
- adjective providing legal power or sanction
- gambling5/5
gambling
- noun the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
play; gaming.
- his gambling cost him a fortune
- there was heavy play at the blackjack table
- verb take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
risk; take a chance; hazard; take chances; chance; adventure; gamble; run a risk.
- When you buy these stocks you are gambling
- noun the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)
- trembling5/5
trembling
- noun a shaky motion
quiver; quivering; vibration; palpitation; shakiness; shaking.
- the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe
- verb move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways
tremble.
- His hands were trembling when he signed the document
- noun a shaky motion
- disabling4/5
disabling
- adjective satellite that cripples or disables or incapacitates
crippling; incapacitating.
- a crippling injury
- verb make unable to perform a certain action
disenable; disable; incapacitate.
- disable this command on your computer
- adjective satellite that cripples or disables or incapacitates
- troubling4/5
troubling
- adjective satellite causing distress or worry or anxiety
distressing; distressful; perturbing; disturbing; worrying; worrisome.
- distressing (or disturbing) news
- lived in heroic if something distressful isolation
- a disturbing amount of crime
- a revelation that was most perturbing
- a new and troubling thought
- in a particularly worrisome predicament
- a worrying situation
- a worrying time
- verb move deeply
disturb; upset; trouble.
- This book upset me
- A troubling thought
- adjective satellite causing distress or worry or anxiety
- assembling4/5
assembling
- noun the act of gathering something together
collecting; aggregation; collection.
- verb create by putting components or members together
tack together; set up; tack; assemble; piece; put together.
- She pieced a quilt
- He tacked together some verses
- They set up a committee
- noun the act of gathering something together
- crumbling4/5
crumble
- verb fall apart
collapse; tumble; crumple; break down.
- the building crumbled after the explosion
- Negotiations broke down
- verb break or fall apart into fragments
fall apart.
- The cookies crumbled
- The Sphinx is crumbling
- verb fall apart
- doubling4/5
doubling
- noun increase by a factor of two
- doubling with a computer took no time at all
- noun raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
double.
- I decided his double was a bluff
- noun increase by a factor of two
- tumbling4/5
tumbling
- noun the gymnastic moves of an acrobat
acrobatics.
- verb fall down, as if collapsing
topple; tumble.
- The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it
- noun the gymnastic moves of an acrobat
- sibling4/5
sibling
- noun a person's brother or sister
sib.
- noun a person's brother or sister
- stumbling4/5
stumble
- noun an unsteady uneven gait
stagger; lurch.
- noun an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
trip-up; misstep; trip.
- he recited the whole poem without a single trip
- he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later
- confusion caused his unfortunate misstep
- noun an unsteady uneven gait
- resembling4/5
resemble
- verb appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to
- She resembles her mother very much
- This paper resembles my own work
- verb appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to
- scrambling3/5
scramble
- noun an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
scuffle.
- noun rushing about hastily in an undignified way
scamper; scurry.
- noun an unceremonious and disorganized struggle
- bubbling3/5
bubbling
- adjective satellite emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
bubbly; foaming; spumy; effervescing; foamy; frothy.
- bubbling champagne
- foamy (or frothy) beer
- verb form, produce, or emit bubbles
bubble.
- The soup was bubbling
- adjective satellite emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation
- humbling3/5
humbling
- adjective satellite causing awareness of your shortcomings
mortifying; humiliating; demeaning.
- golf is a humbling game
- verb cause to be unpretentious
humble.
- This experience will humble him
- adjective satellite causing awareness of your shortcomings
- cabling3/5
cable
- noun a telegram sent abroad
overseas telegram; cablegram.
- noun a conductor for transmitting electrical or optical signals or electric power
transmission line; line.
- noun a telegram sent abroad
- mumbling3/5
mumbling
- noun indistinct enunciation
- noun ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)
gumming.
- noun indistinct enunciation
- rambling3/5
rambling
- adjective satellite spreading out in different directions
sprawling; straggling; straggly.
- sprawling handwriting
- straggling branches
- straggly hair
- verb continue talking or writing in a desultory manner
ramble on; ramble; jog.
- This novel rambles on and jogs
- adjective satellite spreading out in different directions
- rumbling3/5
rumbling
- noun a loud low dull continuous noise
rumble; grumble; grumbling.
- they heard the rumbling of thunder
- verb make a low noise
rumble; grumble.
- rumbling thunder
- noun a loud low dull continuous noise
- grumbling3/5
grumbling
- noun a loud low dull continuous noise
rumble; rumbling; grumble.
- they heard the rumbling of thunder
- noun a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone
murmuring; grumble; muttering; mutter; murmur.
- noun a loud low dull continuous noise
- fumbling3/5
fumbling
- adjective satellite showing lack of skill or aptitude
clumsy; bungling; incompetent.
- a bungling workman
- did a clumsy job
- his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf
- verb feel about uncertainly or blindly
grope; fumble.
- She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom
- adjective satellite showing lack of skill or aptitude
- babbling3/5
babbling
- noun gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
babble; lallation.
- verb utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way
babble.
- The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention
- noun gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
- scribbling3/5
scribble
- noun poor handwriting
scratch; scrawl; cacography.
- noun an aimless drawing
scrabble; doodle.
- noun poor handwriting
- nibbling3/5
nibble
- noun a small byte
nybble.
- noun gentle biting
- noun a small byte
- dribbling3/5
dribbling
- noun the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks
dribble.
- verb run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream
filter; trickle; dribble.
- water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose
- reports began to dribble in
- noun the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks
- marbling2/5
marbling
- noun the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat
- verb paint or stain like marble
marble.
- marble paper
- noun the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat
- wobbling2/5
wobbling
- adjective satellite (of sound) fluctuating unsteadily
- a low-pitched wobbling sound
- verb move unsteadily
wobble; coggle.
- His knees wobbled
- The old cart wobbled down the street
- adjective satellite (of sound) fluctuating unsteadily
- dissembling2/5
dissembling
- noun pretending with intention to deceive
pretence; pretense; feigning.
- noun the act of deceiving
deceit; dissimulation; deception.
- noun pretending with intention to deceive
- tabling2/5
table
- noun a set of data arranged in rows and columns
tabular array.
- see table 1
- noun a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs
- it was a sturdy table
- noun a set of data arranged in rows and columns
- redoubling2/5
redouble
- verb double in magnitude, extent, or intensity
- The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio
- verb double again
- The noise doubled and redoubled
- verb double in magnitude, extent, or intensity
- stabling2/5
stabling
- noun accommodation for animals (especially for horses)
- verb shelter in a stable
stable.
- stable horses
- noun accommodation for animals (especially for horses)
- ennobling2/5
ennobling
- adjective satellite investing with dignity or honor
dignifying.
- the dignifying effect of his presence
- the ennobling influence of cultural surroundings
- verb confer dignity or honor upon
dignify; ennoble.
- He was dignified with a title
- adjective satellite investing with dignity or honor
- hobbling2/5
hobble
- noun a shackle for the ankles or feet
fetter.
- noun the uneven manner of walking that results from an injured leg
limp; hitch.
- noun a shackle for the ankles or feet
- bumbling2/5
bumbling
- adjective satellite lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
butterfingered; handless; ham-handed; bungling; left-handed; ham-fisted; heavy-handed.
- a bumbling mechanic
- a bungling performance
- ham-handed governmental interference
- could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse
- verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin
muck up; foul up; blow; botch up; botch; bollix; fumble; mishandle; bollocks; bumble; ball up; bobble; bollocks up; spoil; bollix up; fuck up; fluff; flub; bodge; muff; louse up; mess up; screw up; bungle.
- I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
- the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
- adjective satellite lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
- dabbling2/5
dabble
- verb dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
- verb play in or as if in water, as of small children
splash around; paddle.
- verb dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
- gobbling2/5
gobble
- noun the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
- verb eat hastily without proper chewing
bolt.
- Don't bolt your food!
- noun the characteristic sound made by a turkey cock
- reassembling2/5
reassemble
- verb assemble once again, after taking something apart
- verb assemble once again, after taking something apart
- disassembling2/5
disassemble
- verb take apart into its constituent pieces
take apart; break up; dismantle; break apart.
- verb take apart into its constituent pieces
- roebling2/5
roebling
- noun United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869)
John Augustus Roebling; John Roebling.
- noun United States engineer (born in Germany) who designed and began construction of the Brooklyn bridge (1806-1869)
- squabbling2/5
squabble
- noun a quarrel about petty points
fuss; bicker; pettifoggery; bickering; tiff; spat.
- verb argue over petty things
niggle; pettifog; bicker; brabble; quibble.
- Let's not quibble over pennies
- noun a quarrel about petty points
- ambling2/5
amble
- noun a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
promenade; perambulation; saunter; stroll.
- verb walk leisurely
mosey.
- noun a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
- warbling2/5
warble
- noun a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly
- verb sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
quaver; trill.
- noun a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly
- scrabbling2/5
scrabble
- noun an aimless drawing
scribble; doodle.
- noun a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game
- noun an aimless drawing
- shambling2/5
shambling
- noun walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
shuffle; shamble; shuffling.
- from his shambling I assumed he was very old
- verb walk by dragging one's feet
shuffle; scuffle; shamble.
- he shuffled out of the room
- We heard his feet shuffling down the hall
- noun walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet
- quibbling2/5
quibble
- noun an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
cavil; quiddity.
- verb evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections
- noun an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
- timetabling2/5
timetable
- noun a schedule listing events and the times at which they will take place
- noun a schedule of times of arrivals and departures
- noun a schedule listing events and the times at which they will take place
- jumbling1/5
jumble
- noun a confused multitude of things
welter; muddle; smother; clutter; mare's nest; fuddle.
- noun small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie
jumbal.
- noun a confused multitude of things
- unscrambling1/5
unscramble
- verb make intelligible
- Can you unscramble the message?
- verb become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of
untangle; unpick; unravel; unknot.
- unravel the thread
- verb make intelligible
- cobbling1/5
cobbling
- noun the shoemaker's trade
shoe repairing; shoemaking.
- verb pave with cobblestones
cobblestone; cobble.
- noun the shoemaker's trade
- enfeebling1/5
enfeebling
- adjective satellite causing debilitation
debilitative; enervating; weakening.
- verb make weak
debilitate; enfeeble; drain.
- Life in the camp drained him
- adjective satellite causing debilitation
- trebling1/5
treble
- noun the pitch range of the highest female voice
soprano.
- verb sing treble
- noun the pitch range of the highest female voice
- dibbling1/5
dibble
- noun a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs
dibber.
- verb plant with a wooden hand tool
- dibble Spring bulbs
- noun a wooden hand tool with a pointed end; used to make holes in the ground for planting seeds or bulbs
- burbling1/5
burbling
- adjective satellite uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm
burbly; effusive; gushing.
- a novel told in burbly panting tones
- verb flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise
babble; burble; guggle; ripple; bubble; gurgle.
- babbling brooks
- adjective satellite uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm
- garbling1/5
garble
- verb make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
warp; falsify; distort.
- verb make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
- bobbling1/5
bobble
- noun the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball
- the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out
- verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin
muck up; foul up; blow; botch up; botch; bollix; fumble; mishandle; bollocks; bumble; ball up; bollocks up; spoil; bollix up; fuck up; fluff; flub; bodge; muff; louse up; mess up; screw up; bungle.
- I botched the dinner and we had to eat out
- the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement
- noun the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball
- gabbling1/5
gabble
- noun rapid and indistinct speech
jabber; jabbering.
- verb speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
prate; chatter; tattle; piffle; blab; gibber; clack; tittle-tattle; prattle; maunder; palaver; blabber; twaddle.
- noun rapid and indistinct speech
- brambling1/5
brambling
- noun Eurasian finch
Fringilla montifringilla.
- noun Eurasian finch
- antigambling1/5
- scumbling1/5
scumble
- noun the application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture
- noun the application of very thin coat of color over the surface of a picture
- descrambling1/5
- hambling1/5
- wabbling1/5
wabble
To move staggeringly or unsteadily from one side to the other; to vacillate; to move the manner of a rotating disk when the axis of rotation is inclined to that of the disk; -- said of a turning or whirling body; as, a top .wabbles ; a buzz sawwabbles now replaced by wobble.
- fabling1/5
fable
- noun a deliberately false or improbable account
fabrication; fiction.
- noun a short moral story (often with animal characters)
parable; allegory; apologue.
- noun a deliberately false or improbable account
- thumbling1/5
- pebbling1/5
pebble
- noun a small smooth rounded rock
- noun a small smooth rounded rock
- abling1/5
able
- adjective (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something
- able to swim
- she was able to program her computer
- we were at last able to buy a car
- able to get a grant for the project
- adjective satellite have the skills and qualifications to do things well
capable.
- able teachers
- a capable administrator
- children as young as 14 can be extremely capable and dependable
- adjective (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something
Derived words of bling
- siblings«Word Popularity Bar4/5
sibling
- noun a person's brother or sister
sib.
- noun a person's brother or sister
- doublings2/5
doubling
- noun increase by a factor of two
- doubling with a computer took no time at all
- noun raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2
double.
- I decided his double was a bluff
- noun increase by a factor of two
- rumblings2/5
rumbling
- noun a loud low dull continuous noise
rumble; grumble; grumbling.
- they heard the rumbling of thunder
- verb make a low noise
rumble; grumble.
- rumbling thunder
- noun a loud low dull continuous noise
- ramblings2/5
ramble
- noun an aimless amble on a winding course
meander.
- verb continue talking or writing in a desultory manner
ramble on; jog.
- This novel rambles on and jogs
- noun an aimless amble on a winding course
- sublingual2/5
sublingual
- adjective beneath the tongue
- adjective beneath the tongue
- tremblingly2/5
trembling
- noun a shaky motion
quiver; quivering; vibration; palpitation; shakiness; shaking.
- the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe
- verb move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways
tremble.
- His hands were trembling when he signed the document
- noun a shaky motion
- mumblings1/5
mumbling
- noun indistinct enunciation
- noun ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth)
gumming.
- noun indistinct enunciation
- scribblings1/5
scribble
- noun poor handwriting
scratch; scrawl; cacography.
- noun an aimless drawing
scrabble; doodle.
- noun poor handwriting
- grumblings1/5
grumbling
- noun a loud low dull continuous noise
rumble; rumbling; grumble.
- they heard the rumbling of thunder
- noun a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone
murmuring; grumble; muttering; mutter; murmur.
- noun a loud low dull continuous noise
- tremblings1/5
trembling
- noun a shaky motion
quiver; quivering; vibration; palpitation; shakiness; shaking.
- the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe
- verb move or jerk quickly and involuntarily up and down or sideways
tremble.
- His hands were trembling when he signed the document
- noun a shaky motion
- babblings1/5
babbling
- noun gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
babble; lallation.
- verb utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way
babble.
- The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention
- noun gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby
- dabblings1/5
dabble
- verb dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
- verb play in or as if in water, as of small children
splash around; paddle.
- verb dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid
- warblings1/5
warble
- noun a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly
- verb sing or play with trills, alternating with the half note above or below
quaver; trill.
- noun a lumpy abscess under the hide of domestic mammals caused by larvae of a botfly or warble fly
- sublingually1/5
- troublingly1/5
troubling
- adjective satellite causing distress or worry or anxiety
distressing; distressful; perturbing; disturbing; worrying; worrisome.
- distressing (or disturbing) news
- lived in heroic if something distressful isolation
- a disturbing amount of crime
- a revelation that was most perturbing
- a new and troubling thought
- in a particularly worrisome predicament
- a worrying situation
- a worrying time
- verb move deeply
disturb; upset; trouble.
- This book upset me
- A troubling thought
- adjective satellite causing distress or worry or anxiety
- stumblingly1/5
stumble
- noun an unsteady uneven gait
stagger; lurch.
- noun an unintentional but embarrassing blunder
trip-up; misstep; trip.
- he recited the whole poem without a single trip
- he arranged his robes to avoid a trip-up later
- confusion caused his unfortunate misstep
- noun an unsteady uneven gait
- grumblingly1/5
grumbling
- noun a loud low dull continuous noise
rumble; rumbling; grumble.
- they heard the rumbling of thunder
- noun a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone
murmuring; grumble; muttering; mutter; murmur.
- noun a loud low dull continuous noise
- fumblingly1/5
fumbling
- adjective satellite showing lack of skill or aptitude
clumsy; bungling; incompetent.
- a bungling workman
- did a clumsy job
- his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf
- verb feel about uncertainly or blindly
grope; fumble.
- She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom
- adjective satellite showing lack of skill or aptitude
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About Prefix and Suffix Words
This page lists all the words created by adding prefixes, suffixes to the word `bling`. For each word, youwill notice a blue bar below the word. The longer the blue bar below a word, the more common/popular the word. Very short blue bars indicate rare usage.
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