Phrase Hound found 80 phrases and 32 compound words that contain hunting. The most common are listed below. Open hunting in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 80
- hunting groundAn area used for hunting.
- job huntingThe seeking of employment.
- hunting knifeA knife optimized for use in hunting animals, usually with a substantial belly and sometimes with a back edge that is partially serrated for sawing; fixed-blade and folding versions are both popular, and tasks such as field dressing …
- hunting hornA bugle, being either simply curved (especially in heraldry), or having from one (in e.g. some Roman horns) to three (in many modern musical horns) spirals, on which signals are blown during a hunt.
- Deer-hunting
- hunting lodgeA building used for the recreational use of hunting.
- house-huntingThe search for a suitable house to buy or rent.
- hunting pinkScarlet, as worn by fox-hunters.
- hunting-cropA hunting whip, without a thong, that can be used for opening gates.
- hunting downpresent participle and gerund of hunt down
- trophy huntingThe killing of a carefully selected animal, particularly big game, under or without government license to acquire a part of the animal, such as the head or skin, as a souvenir.
- fox huntingThe sport of hunting foxes across country with a pack of hounds by a group of people on foot and horseback, a traditional sport of the landed gentry now controversially banned in Great Britain.
- witch-huntingEngagement in a witch-hunt; searching for witches or for evidence against them.
- pixel huntingpresent participle and gerund of pixel hunt
- persistence huntingA type of hunting where the predator uses a combination of running and tracking to pursue the prey to exhaustion.
- happy hunting groundA Native American idea of the afterlife, conceived of as a paradise in which hunting is plentiful and game unlimited.
- head-huntingpresent participle and gerund of head-hunt
- hunting boxSynonym of shooting box (“small country house for the shooting season”).
- hunting capA deerstalker hat.
- hunting dogsplural of hunting dog: Any type of domestic dog that is used by humans as an aid in hunting; any individual of such a breed, especially one that does hunting work, but also any pet of such a breed.
- night huntingA traditional Bhutanese courtship custom in which a young man creeps through a girl's window at night to engage in sexual activity.
- still-huntingpresent participle and gerund of still-hunt
- trail huntingpresent participle and gerund of trail hunt
- hunting reactionA process of alternating vasoconstriction and vasodilation in extremities exposed to cold.
- polar bear huntingThe knockout game (form of assault) when perpetrated by black people against white people.
Compound words 32
- bowhuntingThe hunting of game using a bow and arrow.
- HuntingtownAn unincorporated community in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States.
- coolhuntingThe observation of emerging trends and styles, usually involving street fashion, as a form of market research.
- antihuntingOpposed to the practice of hunting animals for sport.
- ghosthuntingInvestigations that aim to track down ghosts.
- prehuntingPrior to the start of hunting
- manhuntingOrganized searching for a criminal or enemy.
- minehuntingThe process of seeking out mines in order to destroy them.
- nonhuntingNot involved in, or not pertaining to, the sport of hunting.
- pothuntingThe hunting of animals to be cooked as food.