Asking is a form of communication in which one person or group poses a question to another. The term can be broken down into three parts: BID (3 letters), WHOS (4 letters), and REQUESTING (10 letters). BID is an offer or proposal, WHOS is a possessive pronoun meaning 'whose, ' and REQUESTING is the act of making a formal request. Together, these three words form the term ASKING, which is used to describe the act of posing a question.