| illuminating | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, informative |
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| incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
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| incriminating | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminatory |
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| indiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: undiscriminating |
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| infuriating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: exasperating, maddening, vexing |
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| ingratiating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiatory, insinuating |
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| (adjective) capable of winning favor | - |
| inheriting | (adjective) having the legal right to inherit | - |
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| insinuating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, ingratiatory |
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| inspiriting | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: heartening |
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| insulting | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, disdainful, scornful |
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| interesting | (adjective) arousing or holding the attention | - |
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| intersecting | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersectant |
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| intimidating | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: daunting |
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| intoxicating | (adjective) causing intoxication | Synonyms: intoxicant |
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| (adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: heady |
| invalidating | (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: disconfirming |
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| invigorating | (adjective) imparting strength and vitality | - |
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| inviting | (adjective) attractive and tempting | - |
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| iodinating | (adjective) combining or causing to combine with iodine | - |
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| irritating | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritative |
| (adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: painful |
| isolating | (adjective) relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles | - |
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| jesting | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jocose, jocular, joking |
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| jetting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting |
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| jolting | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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| jutting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| lactating | (adjective) producing or secreting milk | Synonyms: wet |
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| lamenting | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: wailful, wailing |
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| lancinating | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, piercing, stabbing |
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| lasting | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: permanent |
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| (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: persistent |
| (adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: durable, long-lasting, long-lived |
| (adjective) lasting a long time without change | - |
| lilting | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: swinging, swingy, tripping |
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| limiting | (adjective) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting |
| melting | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: liquescent |
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| moderating | (adjective) lessening in intensity or strength | - |
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| motivating | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivative, motive |
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| nauseating | (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
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| nonconducting | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconductive |
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| nonintersecting | (adjective) (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing | Synonyms: nonconvergent |
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| nonreciprocating | (adjective) not moving alternately forward and backward | - |
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| nonreflecting | (adjective) not capable of physical reflection | Synonyms: nonreflective |
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| obviating | (adjective) made impossible | Synonyms: preclusive |
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| operating | (adjective) involved in a kind of operation | - |
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| (adjective) being in effect or operation | Synonyms: in operation, operational |
| orientating | (adjective) positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually | Synonyms: orienting |
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| orienting | (adjective) positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually | Synonyms: orientating |
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| oscillating | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillatory |
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| palpitating | (adjective) having a slight and rapid trembling motion | Synonyms: palpitant |
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| participating | (adjective) taking part in an activity | Synonyms: active |
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| penetrating | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrative |
| perambulating | (adjective) strolling or walking around | - |
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| permeating | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeative, pervasive |
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| persisting | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: dogging |
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| placating | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placative, placatory |
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| precipitating | (adjective) bringing on suddenly or abruptly | - |
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| preexisting | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexistent |
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| preponderating | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant |
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| projecting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| protecting | (adjective) shielding (or designed to shield) against harm or discomfort | - |
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| radiating | (adjective) diverging from a common point | - |
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| reflecting | (adjective) causing reflection or having a device that reflects | - |
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| refrigerating | (adjective) causing cooling or freezing | Synonyms: refrigerant |
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| regenerating | (adjective) that are generating anew | - |
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| resonating | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resounding, reverberating, reverberative |
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| restricting | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting |
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| reverberating | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberative |
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| reverting | (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: returning |
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| revolting | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, repelling, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| riveting | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping |
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| scintillating | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, sparkly |
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| (adjective) brilliantly clever | - |
| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: bubbling, effervescent, frothy, sparkly |
| semiconducting | (adjective) having characteristics of a semiconductor; that is having electrical conductivity greater than insulators but less than good conductors | Synonyms: semiconductive |
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| shifting | (adjective) (of soil) unstable | Synonyms: unfirm |
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| (adjective) changing position or direction | Synonyms: shifty |
| (adjective) continuously varying | - |
| sidesplitting | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: killing |
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| sitting | (adjective) (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks | Synonyms: seated |
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| (adjective) not moving and therefore easy to attack | - |
| skirting | (adjective) being all around the edges; enclosing | Synonyms: encircling |
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| slanting | (adjective) having an oblique or slanted direction | Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, sloped, sloping |
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| slighting | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory |
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| splitting | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: rending, ripping |
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| sporting | (adjective) relating to or used in sports | - |
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| (adjective) involving risk or willingness to take a risk | - |
| (adjective) exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play | Synonyms: clean, sportsmanlike, sporty |
| (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, gambling |
| spouting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spurting, squirting |
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| spurting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, squirting |
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| squinting | (adjective) having eyes half closed in order to see better | Synonyms: squinched |
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| squirting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: jetting, spouting, spurting |
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| starting | (adjective) appropriate to the beginning or start of an event | - |
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| (adjective) (especially of eyes) bulging or protruding as with fear | - |
| stimulating | (adjective) rousing or quickening activity or the senses | - |
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| (adjective) making lively and cheerful | Synonyms: exhilarating |
| (adjective) that stimulates | Synonyms: stimulant |
| stinting | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing |
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| subordinating | (adjective) serving to connect a subordinate clause to a main clause | Synonyms: subordinative |
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| substantiating | (adjective) serving to support or corroborate | Synonyms: collateral, confirmative, confirmatory, confirming, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying |
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| suffocating | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: choking, smothering, suffocative |
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| supporting | (adjective) capable of bearing a structural load | Synonyms: load-bearing |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: encouraging |
| taunting | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking |
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| tempting | (adjective) very pleasantly inviting | Synonyms: tantalising, tantalizing |
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| (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, beguiling, enticing |
| thermosetting | (adjective) having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured | Synonyms: thermoset |
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| thwarting | (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrating, frustrative |
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| tightfitting | (adjective) fitting snugly | Synonyms: skinny, tight-fitting, tight fitting, tightly fitting |
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| titillating | (adjective) giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing | Synonyms: erotic |
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| (adjective) pleasantly and superficially exciting | - |
| (adjective) exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements | Synonyms: tickling, tingling |
| trendsetting | (adjective) initiating or popularizing a trend | Synonyms: trend-setting |
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| trusting | (adjective) inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust | Synonyms: trustful |
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| twisting | (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: tortuous, twisty, voluminous, winding |
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| unaccommodating | (adjective) not accommodating | Synonyms: unobliging |
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| (adjective) offering no assistance | - |
| unaffecting | (adjective) not arousing affect | - |
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| unbefitting | (adjective) not befitting | - |
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| uncontaminating | (adjective) not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: clean |
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| undeviating | (adjective) going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside | Synonyms: unswerving |
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| (adjective) used of values and principles; not subject to change; steady | - |