| akinesia | (noun) motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis | Synonyms: akinesis |
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| akinesis | (noun) motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis | Synonyms: akinesia |
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| baking | (noun) cooking by dry heat in an oven | - |
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| (noun) making bread or cake or pastry etc. | - |
| breaking | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breakage |
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| cabinetmaking | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: joinery |
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| creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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| croaking | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croak |
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| diakinesis | (noun) the final stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| flakiness | (noun) having or breaking into thin crisp flakes | - |
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| (noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: craziness, daftness |
| forsaking | (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the act of forsaking | Synonyms: giving up |
| groundbreaking | (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
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| handshaking | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, shake |
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| haymaking | (noun) cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
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| (noun) taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts | - |
| headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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| homemaking | (noun) the management of a household | - |
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| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| lawmaking | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: legislating, legislation |
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| leakiness | (noun) the condition of permitting leaks or leakage | - |
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| lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
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| making | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, fashioning |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something | - |
| (noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | Synonyms: qualification |
| manakin | (noun) any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior | - |
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| (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, model |
| mapmaking | (noun) the making of maps and charts | Synonyms: cartography |
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| matchmaking | (noun) mediation in order to bring about a marriage between others | - |
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| merrymaking | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, jollification |
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| mistaking | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: misinterpretation, misunderstanding |
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| moneymaking | (noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
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| moviemaking | (noun) the production of movies | Synonyms: film making, movie making |
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| muckraking | (noun) the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures) | - |
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| overtaking | (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: passing |
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| painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
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| papermaking | (noun) the craft of making paper | - |
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| printmaking | (noun) artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens | - |
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| rainmaking | (noun) activity intended to produce rain | - |
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| remaking | (noun) creation that is created again or anew | Synonyms: remake |
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| retaking | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: recapture |
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| shakiness | (noun) the quality of being unstable and insecure | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| shaking | (noun) the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, trembling, vibration |
| shoemaking | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: cobbling, shoe repairing |
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| sneakiness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: furtiveness, stealthiness |
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| soaking | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soak |
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| (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, souse, sousing |
| (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soakage |
| speaking | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking |
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| (noun) the utterance of intelligible speech | Synonyms: speech production |
| speechmaking | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speaking |
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| squeakiness | (noun) the state of tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak. | - |
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| stocktaking | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventory, inventorying, stock-taking |
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| (noun) reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook | Synonyms: stock-taking |
| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| takin | (noun) large heavily built goat antelope of eastern Himalayan area | Synonyms: Budorcas taxicolor, gnu goat |
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| taking | (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: pickings |
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| takings | (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, yield |
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| undertaking | (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, project, task |
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| (noun) the trade of a funeral director | - |
| waking | (noun) the state of remaining awake | - |
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| winemaking | (noun) the craft and science of growing grapes and making wine | Synonyms: wine making |
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