| developing | (adjective) relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply | Synonyms: underdeveloped |
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| drooping | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: droopy, sagging |
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| (adjective) weak from exhaustion | Synonyms: flagging |
| (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, nodding, pendulous, weeping |
| dropping | (adjective) coming down freely under the influence of gravity | Synonyms: falling |
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| enveloping | (adjective) surrounding and closing in on or hemming in | - |
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| gaping | (adjective) with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe | Synonyms: agape |
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| grasping | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile |
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| gripping | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, riveting |
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| groping | (adjective) acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence | - |
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| napping | (adjective) not prepared or vigilant | Synonyms: off-guard, off guard, off her guard, off his guard, off one's guard, off your guard |
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| nipping | (adjective) pleasantly cold and invigorating | Synonyms: crisp, frosty, nippy, snappy |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, biting, mordacious, pungent |
| nontelescoping | (adjective) not telescopic | Synonyms: nontelescopic |
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| peacekeeping | (adjective) of or relating to the preservation of peace between hostile groups by international military forces | - |
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| plumping | (adjective) very large; of exceptional size for its kind | - |
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| rasping | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: grating, gravelly, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| ripping | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: rending, splitting |
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| (adjective) very good; of the highest quality | Synonyms: excellent, fantabulous, first-class, mean, splendid |
| seeping | (adjective) leaking out slowly | Synonyms: oozing, oozy |
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| shaping | (adjective) forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning | Synonyms: formative, plastic |
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| sleeping | (adjective) lying with head on paws as if sleeping | Synonyms: dormant |
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| slipping | (adjective) moving as on a slippery surface | Synonyms: slithering |
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| sloping | (adjective) having a slanting form or direction | - |
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| (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped |
| stooping | (adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: crooked, hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped |
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| strapping | (adjective) muscular and heavily built | Synonyms: beefy, buirdly, burly, husky |
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| sweeping | (adjective) ignoring distinctions | Synonyms: wholesale |
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| (adjective) taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination | - |
| thumping | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, humongous, walloping, whopping |
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| topping | (adjective) excellent; best possible | Synonyms: top-flight, top-hole |
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| tripping | (adjective) moving easily and quickly; nimble | Synonyms: light, lightsome |
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| (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swinging, swingy |
| unsleeping | (adjective) fully awake | Synonyms: wide-awake |
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| walloping | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, humongous, thumping, whopping |
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| weeping | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful |
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| (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous |
| whipping | (adjective) smart and fashionable | Synonyms: snappy |
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| whopping | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: banging, humongous, thumping, walloping |
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