contrailing

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A form of contrail — An artificial cloud made by the exhaust of jet aircraft or wingtip vortices that precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of contrail
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