Phrase Hound found 53 phrases and 28 compound words that contain killing. The most common are listed below. Open killing in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 53
- Killing FieldsA number of sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter of some 2,000,000 people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.
- honour killingA typically Middle Eastern and South Asian cultural practice whereby a family member, usually female, is murdered by other family members, the act being justified as retribution for a (usually sexual) slight upon the family's honour.
- make a killingTo win or earn a large amount of money.
- targeted killingThe intentional killing by a government or its agents of a civilian or "unlawful combatant" who is not in that government's custody, and who is taking part in an armed conflict or terrorism, whether by bearing arms or otherwise, and is …
- making a killingpresent participle and gerund of make a killing
- giant-killingThe slaying of a giant.
- honor killingAlternative spelling of honour killing: A typically Middle Eastern and South Asian cultural practice whereby a family member, usually female, is murdered by other family members, the act being justified as retribution for a (usually …
- killing fieldThe field of fire of a machine gun or artillery.
- twin killingA double play.
- killing spreeA number of murders in a short span of time; a rampage.
- contract killingThe act of hiring or procuring a contract killer.
- killing bottleSynonym of killing jar: A sealable container used by entomologists to kill captured insects quickly and with minimum damage.
- killing boxAn enclosure for killing an animal (by various means), as in an abattoir or a kill shelter.
- killing floorthat part of a slaughterhouse where the animals are killed and initial processing is carried out.
- Killing formA symmetric bilinear form that plays a basic role in the theories of Lie groups and Lie algebras.
- killing offpresent participle and gerund of kill off
- killing timeA time of the year when animals, especially pigs, are slaughtered.
- killing timesplural of killing time: A time of the year when animals, especially pigs, are slaughtered.
- lady-killingAlternative spelling of ladykilling: Womanizing, like a lady-killer.
- non-killingAlternative spelling of nonkilling: Not engaging in killing.
- serial killingpresent participle and gerund of serial kill
- crowd-killingpresent participle and gerund of crowd-kill
- Killing horizonA geometrical construct used in general relativity and its generalizations to delineate spacetime boundaries without reference to the dynamic Einstein field equations.
- surplus killingThe behaviour of a predator that kills more prey than it can immediately eat and then caches or abandons the remainder.
- mercy-killingAlternative form of mercy killing.
Compound words 28
- painkillingReducing or eliminating pain.
- nonkillingNot engaging in killing.
- killingryThe systems and institutions which lead to killing, considered collectively.
- antikillingOpposing killing.
- counterkillingA killing carried out in response to another killing.
- ladykillingWomanizing, like a lady-killer.
- photokillingkilling (especially of bacteria, or of cancer cells) by means of light
- semikillingPartial deoxidization of steel to avoid evolution of gas during solidification, but with some remaining carbon monoxide causing blowhole-type porosity.
- weedkillingThe destruction of weeds (unwanted plants).
- killingnessThe quality of being devastatingly attractive.