| altering | (noun) the sterilization of an animal | Synonyms: fixing, neutering |
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| amethopterin | (noun) toxic antimetabolite that limits cellular reproduction by acting as an antagonist to folic acid; used to treat certain cancers and psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: methotrexate, methotrexate sodium |
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| badgering | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: bedevilment, torment, worrying |
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| ballerina | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: danseuse |
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| battering | (noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: banging |
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| beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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| bickering | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| bioengineering | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: biotechnology, ergonomics |
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| blistering | (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
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| buccaneering | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: piracy |
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| butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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| cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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| catering | (noun) providing food and services | - |
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| centering | (noun) (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back | Synonyms: centring, snap |
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| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centring, direction, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing |
| chattering | (noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chatter |
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| (noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chatter |
| cheering | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: shouting |
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| chincherinchee | (noun) South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | Synonyms: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, wonder flower |
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| cholesterin | (noun) an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues | Synonyms: cholesterol |
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| clustering | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
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| conquering | (noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquest, subjection, subjugation |
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| counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| covering | (noun) the act of protecting something by covering it | - |
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| (noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: application, coating |
| (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, masking, screening |
| (noun) an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) | - |
| (noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: cover, natural covering |
| culverin | (noun) a medieval musket | - |
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| (noun) a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
| cycloserine | (noun) an antibiotic that is especially active against the tubercle bacillus | - |
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| decentering | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentration |
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| dithering | (noun) the process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color | - |
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| domineeringness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: imperiousness, overbearingness |
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| eeriness | (noun) strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear | Synonyms: ghostliness |
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| electioneering | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, political campaign |
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| (noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, canvassing |
| engineering | (noun) the practical application of technical and scientific knowledge to commerce or industry | - |
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| (noun) a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located | Synonyms: engine room |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems | Synonyms: applied science, engineering science, technology |
| entering | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entrance, entry, incoming, ingress |
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| (noun) a movement into or inward | Synonyms: entrance |
| eringo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eryngo |
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| faltering | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, hesitation, waver |
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| featheriness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: downiness, fluffiness |
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| feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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| festering | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: maturation, suppuration |
| fieriness | (noun) the heat or the color of fire | Synonyms: red heat |
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| (noun) a passionate and quick-tempered nature | - |
| fingering | (noun) touching something with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument | - |
| flowering | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence |
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| (noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: unfolding |
| fluttering | (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, flutter |
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| fostering | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fosterage |
| foundering | (noun) (of a ship) sinking | Synonyms: going under |
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| gathering | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, assembly |
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| (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: assemblage |
| glimmering | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, inkling, intimation |
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| globigerina | (noun) marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes | - |
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| glycerin | (noun) a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | Synonyms: glycerine, glycerol |
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| glycerine | (noun) a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | Synonyms: glycerin, glycerol |
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| gorgerin | (noun) the molding at the top of a column | Synonyms: necking |
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| gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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| haemosiderin | (noun) a granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism | Synonyms: hemosiderin |
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| hammering | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, pound, pounding |
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| hankering | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: yen |
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| hemosiderin | (noun) a granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism | Synonyms: haemosiderin |
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| hollering | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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| ingathering | (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, solicitation |
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| jabbering | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: gabble, jabber |
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| jeering | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
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| jitteriness | (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jumpiness, nervousness, restiveness |
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| laundering | (noun) washing clothes and bed linens | - |
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| lemanderin | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, rangpur, rangpur lime |
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| lettering | (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: inscription |
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| lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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| lowering | (noun) the act of causing to become less | - |
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| (noun) the act of causing something to move to a lower level | Synonyms: letting down |
| luciferin | (noun) pigment occurring in luminescent organisms (as fireflies); emits heatless light when undergoing oxidation | - |
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| lumbering | (noun) the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber | - |
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| malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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| mastering | (noun) the act of making a master recording from which copies can be made | - |
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| (noun) becoming proficient in the use of something; having mastery of | - |
| meringue | (noun) sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar | - |
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| merino | (noun) white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality | Synonyms: merino sheep |
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| mountaineering | (noun) the activity of climbing a mountain | Synonyms: mountain climbing |
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| muttering | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter |
| neutering | (noun) the sterilization of an animal | Synonyms: altering, fixing |
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| newspapering | (noun) journalism practiced for the newspapers | - |
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| nitroglycerin | (noun) a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat) | Synonyms: glyceryl trinitrate, nitroglycerine, Nitrospan, Nitrostat, trinitroglycerin |
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| nitroglycerine | (noun) a heavy yellow poisonous oily explosive liquid obtained by nitrating glycerol; used in making explosives and medically as a vasodilator (trade names Nitrospan and Nitrostat) | Synonyms: glyceryl trinitrate, nitroglycerin, Nitrospan, Nitrostat, trinitroglycerin |
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| numbering | (noun) a numbered list | Synonyms: enumeration |
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| offering | (noun) the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity | Synonyms: oblation |
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| (noun) something offered (as a proposal or bid) | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) the verbal act of offering | Synonyms: offer |
| (noun) money contributed to a religious organization; item or items contributed to a religious organization for religious purposes | - |
| ordering | (noun) the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement | Synonyms: order |
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| (noun) logical or comprehensible arrangement of separate elements | Synonyms: order, ordination |
| orneriness | (noun) meanspirited disagreeable contrariness | Synonyms: cussedness |
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| overindulgence | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: excess |
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| overinterpretation | (noun) Excessive interpretation. | - |
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| paltering | (noun) a trivial act of lying or being deliberately unclear | Synonyms: fibbing |
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| pampering | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulgence, indulging |
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| papaverine | (noun) an alkaloid medicine (trade name Kavrin) obtained from opium; used to relax smooth muscles; it is nonaddictive | Synonyms: Kavrin |
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| papering | (noun) the application of wallpaper | Synonyms: paperhanging |
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| passerine | (noun) perching birds mostly small and living near the ground with feet having 4 toes arranged to allow for gripping the perch; most are songbirds; hatchlings are helpless | Synonyms: passeriform bird |
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| pepperiness | (noun) a hot spiciness | Synonyms: hotness |
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| perinatologist | (noun) an obstetrician specializing in perinatology | - |
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| perinatology | (noun) the branch of obstetrics concerned with the anatomy and physiology and diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the mother and the fetus or newborn baby during late pregnancy and childbirth and the puerperium | - |
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| perineotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the perineum | - |
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| perineum | (noun) the general region between the anus and the genital organs | - |
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| perineurium | (noun) the sheath of connective tissue that covers a bundle of nerve fibers | - |
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| piperin | (noun) derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper | Synonyms: piperine |
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| piperine | (noun) derived from pepper (especially black pepper); source of the hotness of black and white pepper | Synonyms: piperin |
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| plastering | (noun) the application of plaster | Synonyms: daubing |
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| plundering | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, pillaging |
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| powderiness | (noun) having a very fine texture | Synonyms: fineness |
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| proaccelerin | (noun) a coagulation factor | Synonyms: accelerator factor, factor V, prothrombin accelerator |
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