Phrase Hound found 71 phrases and 18 compound words that contain raising. The most common are listed below. Open raising in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 71
- fund-raisingAlternative spelling of fundraising: The process of collecting money by requesting donations from individuals and businesses.
- raising the barpresent participle and gerund of raise the bar
- raising the deadpresent participle of raise the dead: To resurrect a dead person, or dead people in general; to reanimate the corpse of someone, rendering them undead.
- raising the roofpresent participle and gerund of raise the roof
- Raising Awareness
- raising the devilpresent participle and gerund of raise the devil
- raising the stakespresent participle and gerund of raise the stakes
- Raising Children
- raising the alarmpresent participle and gerund of raise the alarm
- raising simA life simulation game in which the player acts as the custodian of a subordinate non-player character (typically a child, student, pet, etc.) and manages and develops this character's stats with the goal of achieving a specific outcome.
- hair-raisingCausing fear or anxiety; scary.
- fire-raisingAlternative form of fireraising: arson; deliberate setting of fires
- raising a fingerpresent participle and gerund of raise a finger
- raising a flagpresent participle and gerund of raise a flag
- Canadian raisingThe phenomenon in some dialects of English, especially Canadian English, in which /aɪ/ is realized as [ʌɪ] and/or /aʊ/ is realized as [ʌʊ] or [ɛʊ] before underlying unvoiced consonants.
- hand-raisingpresent participle and gerund of hand-raise
- house-raisingAlternative form of houseraising: The setting up of the frame of a house.
- negative raisingSynonym of neg-raising: The phenomenon by which certain negated predicates (e.g. think, believe, expect) can give rise to a reading where the negation seems to take scope from an embedded clause.
- raising agentA leavening agent.
- raising agentsplural of raising agent: A leavening agent.
- raising hellpresent participle and gerund of raise hell
- raising plateA horizontal timber supporting the heels of rafters.
- self-raising flourA type of flour that contains an agent, such as baking powder, which makes baked goods expand and rise when cooked.
- raising steampresent participle and gerund of raise steam
- raising the antepresent participle and gerund of raise the ante
Compound words 18
- fundraisingThe process of collecting money by requesting donations from individuals and businesses.
- barnraisingThe collective construction of a barn by members of a community, common in 18th- and 19th-century rural North America, and present-day Mennonite and Amish communities.
- hellraisingWild, wanton behavior.
- stockraisingThe raising of livestock.
- childraisingchildrearing
- cropraisingThe raising of crops
- fireraisingarson; deliberate setting of fires
- houseraisingThe setting up of the frame of a house.
- appraisingpresent participle and gerund of appraise
- dispraisingServing to dispraise; critical; disparaging.