| alanine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins | - |
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| canavanine | (noun) an amino acid found in the jack bean | - |
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| canine | (noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles | Synonyms: canid |
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| (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
| caning | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: wicker, wickerwork |
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| cleaning | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleansing, cleanup |
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| dihydroxyphenylalanine | (noun) amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain | Synonyms: dopa |
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| guanine | (noun) a purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with cytosine | Synonyms: G |
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| guaranine | (noun) Guaranine is the name used to describe caffeine derived from the guarana plant. | - |
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| housecleaning | (noun) the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house | - |
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| (noun) (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions | - |
| leaning | (noun) the act of deviating from a vertical position | - |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, list, tilt |
| (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: proclivity, propensity |
| (noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: propensity, tendency |
| loaning | (noun) disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Synonyms: lending |
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| meaning | (noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: substance |
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| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, significance, signification |
| meaningfulness | (noun) the quality of having great value or significance | - |
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| meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
| melanin | (noun) insoluble pigments that account for the color of e.g. skin and scales and feathers | - |
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| mezzanine | (noun) intermediate floor just above the ground floor | Synonyms: entresol, mezzanine floor |
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| (noun) first or lowest balcony | Synonyms: first balcony |
| phenylalanine | (noun) an essential amino acid found in proteins and needed for growth of children and for protein metabolism in children and adults; abundant in milk and eggs; it is normally converted to tyrosine in the human body | - |
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| phycocyanin | (noun) blue pigment in algae | - |
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| picaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: piccaninny, pickaninny |
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| piccaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, pickaninny |
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| pickaninny | (noun) (ethnic slur) offensive term for a Black child | Synonyms: picaninny, piccaninny |
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| pyocyanin | (noun) a toxic blue crystalline antibiotic found in green pus | - |
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| saffranine | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: safranin, safranine |
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| safranin | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: saffranine, safranine |
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| safranine | (noun) any of a class of chiefly red organic dyes | Synonyms: saffranine, safranin |
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| sailplaning | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailing, soaring |
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| thioguanine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug used to treat acute leukemias | - |
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| tobogganing | (noun) riding on a long light sled with low handrails | - |
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| uraninite | (noun) a mineral consisting of uranium oxide and trace amounts of radium and thorium and polonium and lead and helium; uraninite in massive form is called pitchblende which is the chief uranium ore | Synonyms: pitchblende |
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| waning | (noun) a gradual decrease in magnitude or extent | - |
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| weaning | (noun) the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal | Synonyms: ablactation |
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