covering (n.)
- bigness
- blanket
- border
- brooding
- burial
- burying
- circumference
- cloak
- clouding
- coat
- coating
- collop
- concealing
- concealment
- cortex
- counting
- cover
- coverage
- covert
- covertness
- cowl
- cowling
- crust
- curtain
- cut
- darkening
- deal
- deception
- defensive
- disk
- drape
- drapery
- embracing
- enclosing
- envelope
- epidermis
- exterior
- external
- facade
- face
- facet
- film
- flap
- foil
- fold
- fostering
- fresco
- fringe
- front
- gestation
- gilding
- glazing
- gravidity
- gravidness
- greatness
- guardian
- guise
- hanging
- heaviness
- hiddenness
- hiding
- hood
- housing
- incubation
- integument
- interment
- invisibility
- lamella
- lamina
- lap
- leaf
- mantle
- mask
- masking
- membrane
- mystification
- numbering
- occultation
- outline
- outside
- painting
- pall
- pane
- panel
- patina
- peel
- pellicle
- periphery
- plait
- plank
- plate
- plating
- ply
- plywood
- pregnancy
- preventive
- priming
- prophylactic
- rasher
- rind
- screen
- screening
- scum
- secrecy
- secretion
- shading
- sheathing
- sheet
- shell
- shelter
- shield
- shielding
- shroud
- sitting
- skin
- slab
- slat
- slice
- staining
- subterfuge
- superficies
- superstratum
- surface
- table
- tablet
- top
- uncommunicativeness
- veil
- veiling
- veneer
- vestment
- wafer
- wrapping
covering (adj.)
- assimilating
- blanket
- brooding
- concealing
- cover
- covert
- cowling
- custodial
- cut
- darkening
- deal
- defensive
- embracing
- encircling
- encompassing
- enveloping
- exterior
- external
- face
- fold
- fresco
- front
- hanging
- inclusive
- leaf
- mask
- outside
- parental
- ply
- preventive
- prophylactic
- protecting
- protective
- rind
- screen
- sitting
- staining
- surface
- table
- top
- tutelary
- vigilant
- watchful
