"thickening" is a correct word and can be used in written English.
It means the process or act of making something thicker or the state of being thicker. Example: The sauce requires a further 5 minutes of thickening to reach the desired consistency.
The poem grew from and alludes to a long evening of increasingly drunk conversation between me, Iain and a publishing colleague, with cigarette smoke thickening the air and blearing the one eye each of us kept on the television news updates, the night Chernobyl burned.
She sticks to the government line, triggering his fury at her betrayal, and thickening the plot.
They are also constantly bombarded with unrelated bits and pieces a poke from a friend one moment, the latest Greek financial tragedy the next.The data fog is thickening at a time when companies are trying to squeeze ever more out of their workers.
The story circles and circles its theme, thickening out in detail as it goes, in a relentlessly desolate piece of self-searching.
Now, once again, says Mr Shukla, India has been "thickening" its presence in Arunachal Pradesh and in Aksai Chin, with more soldiers, weaponry and infrastructure.So China may feel India is exploiting both the inexperience of its new leaders who took over last November, and the pressure China is under on other fronts.
Instead, with no real deadline, a long, slow, thickening of the treacle looks a likelier outcome.
Connecting them, across thousands of kilometres, are incipient industrial corridors, thickening ribbons of roadside development.
Previous attempts to make vaginal microbicide gels that block the passage of HIV have involved long-chain molecules called carrageenans, thickening agents found in seaweed.
Certainly, there have been heavily publicised cases suggesting that excessive use can sometimes have nasty consequences cyclists suffering heart attacks, perhaps because of the oxygen-storage boosting but blood-thickening steroid EPO, or drug-expanded body-builders who are deeply depressed though these examples are isolated, and may not be entirely as they appear.
This flows like a liquid when poured yet, if hit with a spoon, reacts like a solid.Researchers at the University of Delaware developed shear-thickening fluids for use as liquid armour almost ten years ago.
If these tests are successful, liquid armour could furnish soldiers with protective clothing that is more comfortable and less cumbersome than existing body armour, and provides them with greater protection.Liquid armour relies on the properties of materials called shear-thickening fluids.
