forecasting (root: forecast)

• POS: Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: fore=cast=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

forecasting, n. 

 The process of calculating and predicting future events, usually based on extrapolation from past experience, and with varying degress of uncertainty.  [WordNet 1.5]

THESAURUS

forecasting

actuarial prediction, aerography, aerology, anemology, apocalypse, barometry, climatography, climatology, foreboding, forecast, foreshowing, foresight, foretelling, guesswork, improbability, long-range forecasting, meteorology, microclimatology, nephology, omen, pneumatics, prediction, prefiguration, prefigurement, prefiguring, presage, presaging, presentiment, preshowing, presignifying, probability, prognosis, prognostication, promise, prophecy, prophesying, prospectus, soothsay, speculation, statistical prediction, vaticination, weatherology