VBA How to Exclude Words from Macro

[VorLag]

This macro is actually in Word, but the functions shouldn't be too different. What I want to do is to highlight all words ending in -ing but excluding some words like bing (as in the cherry), thing, and being. I figured out how to get the macro to skip over 3 and 4 letter words, but I am not sure how to tweak this to also skip 5 letter words.

I would prefer to have a word list that the macro excludes.

How do you do that? Here is the macro so far:

Sub HighlightING()

Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim HlLt As Long
HlLt = Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
With ActiveDocument.Range.Find
  .ClearFormatting
  .Replacement.ClearFormatting
  .Text = "<[!^09-^13 ][!^09-^13 ]@ing>"
  .Replacement.Highlight = True
  .Replacement.Text = "^&"
  .Forward = True
  .Wrap = wdFindStop
  .Format = True
  .MatchWildcards = True
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = HlLt
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub