Grinding is a process of reducing materials into smaller pieces by using ABRASIVE tools or machinery. The crossword solutions for the term grinding include HARD (4 letters), breaking (8 letters), CRUSHING (8 letters), ANNOYING (8 letters), GRATING (7 letters), RASPING (7 letters), RUBBING (7 letters), ATTRITION (9 letters), SEVERE (6 letters), RUB (3 letters), NOISY (5 letters), MOLAR (5 letters), BITING (6 letters), BORING (6 letters), filing (6 letters), IRKING (6 letters), jobbing (6 letters), PACING (6 letters), razing (6 letters), STROKE (6 letters), VEXING (6 letters), BEATING (7 letters), braying (7 letters), chawing (7 letters), CHEWING (7 letters), eroding (7 letters), gnawing (7 letters), gulping (7 letters), gumming (7 letters), HACKING (7 letters), hitting (7 letters), JARRING (7 letters), jobbing (7 letters), JOLTING (7 letters), mashing (7 letters), MILLING (7 letters), MINCING (7 letters), moiling (7 letters), ONEROUS (7 letters), RAUCOUS (7 letters), razeing (7 letters), rending (7 letters), ROLLING (7 letters), rutting (7 letters), sanding (7 letters), SHAPING (7 letters), slaving (7 letters), tasking (7 letters), toiling (7 letters), WEARING (7 letters), WORKING (7 letters), ABRADING (8 letters), ABRASIVE (8 letters), and ALTERING (8 letters). These words all describe different aspects of grinding, from the physical process of breaking down materials to the more figurative meanings of being ANNOYING or irksome.