| addict | (noun) someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance or activity | - |
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| (noun) someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction | Synonyms: freak, junkie, junky, nut |
| addiction | (noun) (Roman law) a formal award by a magistrate of a thing or person to another person (as the award of a debtor to his creditor); a surrender to a master | - |
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| (noun) an abnormally strong craving | - |
| (noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: dependance, dependence, dependency, habituation |
| addition | (noun) the arithmetic operation of summing; calculating the sum of two or more numbers | Synonyms: plus, summation |
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| (noun) the act of adding one thing to another | - |
| (noun) a component that is added to something to improve it | Synonyms: add-on, improver |
| (noun) a suburban area laid out in streets and lots for a future residential area | - |
| (noun) something added to what you already have | Synonyms: accession |
| (noun) a quantity that is added | Synonyms: gain, increase |
| additive | (noun) something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine | - |
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| baddie | (noun) the principal bad character in a film or work of fiction | Synonyms: villain |
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| bedding | (noun) coverings that are used on a bed | Synonyms: bed clothing, bedclothes |
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| (noun) material used to provide a bed for animals | Synonyms: bedding material, litter |
| bidding | (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: summons |
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| (noun) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, command, dictation |
| bobsledding | (noun) riding on a bobsled | - |
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| budding | (noun) reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent | - |
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| caddie | (noun) an attendant who carries the golf clubs for a player | Synonyms: golf caddie |
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| caddisworm | (noun) larva of the caddis fly; constructs a case of silk covered with sand or plant debris | Synonyms: strawworm |
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| cladding | (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: facing |
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| faddist | (noun) a person who subscribes to a variety of fads | - |
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| featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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| forbidding | (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbiddance |
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| gaddi | (noun) a cushion on a throne for a prince in India | - |
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| giddiness | (noun) an impulsive scatterbrained manner | Synonyms: silliness |
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| (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: dizziness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
| kiddie | (noun) informal term for a young child | Synonyms: kiddy |
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| laddie | (noun) a male child (a familiar term of address to a boy) | Synonyms: cub, lad, sonny, sonny boy |
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| muddiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: cloudiness, murkiness |
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| (noun) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior | Synonyms: confusedness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion |
| (noun) the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water | Synonyms: sloppiness, wateriness |
| oddity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, curiosity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity |
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| (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, queerness, quirk, quirkiness |
| (noun) eccentricity that is not easily explained | Synonyms: oddness |
| padding | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: cushioning |
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| plodding | (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, grind |
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| (noun) the act of walking with a slow heavy gait | Synonyms: plod |
| prodding | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, spur, spurring, urging |
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| pudding | (noun) any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed | - |
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| (noun) any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes | - |
| (noun) (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) | Synonyms: pud |
| puddingwife | (noun) bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil | Synonyms: Halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife |
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| quiddity | (noun) the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other | Synonyms: haecceity |
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| (noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections | Synonyms: cavil, quibble |
| reddishness | (noun) The quality of being somewhat red. | - |
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| ruddiness | (noun) a healthy reddish complexion | Synonyms: rosiness |
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| scudding | (noun) the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) | Synonyms: scud |
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| shedding | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: desquamation, peeling |
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| (noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: sloughing |
| shoddiness | (noun) the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction | Synonyms: flimsiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better | Synonyms: trashiness |
| sledding | (noun) the sport of riding on a sled or sleigh | - |
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| (noun) advancing toward a goal | Synonyms: going |
| wadding | (noun) any material used especially to protect something | Synonyms: packing, packing material |
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| wedding | (noun) the act of marrying; the nuptial ceremony | Synonyms: marriage, marriage ceremony |
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| (noun) the social event at which the ceremony of marriage is performed | Synonyms: hymeneals, nuptials, wedding ceremony |
| (noun) a party of people at a wedding | Synonyms: wedding party |