| overtaking | (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: passing |
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| overworking | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overwork |
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| packing | (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: boxing |
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| (noun) carrying something in a pack on the back | Synonyms: backpacking |
| (noun) any material used especially to protect something | Synonyms: packing material, wadding |
| packinghouse | (noun) a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products | Synonyms: packing plant |
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| (noun) a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed | - |
| painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
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| pannikin | (noun) a small pan or cup (usually of tin) | - |
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| papermaking | (noun) the craft of making paper | - |
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| parking | (noun) the act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily | - |
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| (noun) space in which vehicles can be parked | - |
| patrikin | (noun) one related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib |
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| perkiness | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, impertinence, pertness, sauciness |
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| (noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: buoyancy |
| pharmacokinetics | (noun) the study of the action of drugs in the body: method and rate of excretion, duration of effect, etc. | - |
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| picking | (noun) the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.) | - |
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| (noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: pick |
| pickings | (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: taking |
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| pigskin | (noun) leather from the skin of swine | - |
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| pigsticking | (noun) the sport of hunting wild boar with spears | - |
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| planking | (noun) the work of covering an area with planks | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship) | - |
| (noun) planks collectively; a quantity of planks | - |
| pluckiness | (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: gutsiness, pluck |
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| poking | (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, thrust, thrusting |
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| pricking | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: prick |
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| printmaking | (noun) artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens | - |
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| psychokinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: telekinesis |
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| puking | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting |
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| pumpkin | (noun) usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn | - |
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| (noun) a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes | Synonyms: autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo, pumpkin vine |
| pumpkinseed | (noun) small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | Synonyms: Lepomis gibbosus |
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| quirkiness | (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirk |
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| rainmaking | (noun) activity intended to produce rain | - |
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| ramekin | (noun) a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions | Synonyms: ramequin |
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| (noun) a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes | Synonyms: ramequin |
| ranking | (noun) position on a scale in relation to others in status or rank or achievement | - |
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| ransacking | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: rummage |
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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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| riskiness | (noun) a state of danger involving risk | Synonyms: peril |
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| rockiness | (noun) the quality of abounding in rocks and stones | - |
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| sacking | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack |
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| (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: bagging |
| sealskin | (noun) a garment (as a jacket or coat or robe) made of sealskin | - |
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| (noun) the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal | Synonyms: seal |
| seeking | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: quest |
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| (noun) an attempt to acquire or gain something | - |
| 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 |
| sharkskin | (noun) a smooth crisp fabric | - |
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| sheepskin | (noun) a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study | Synonyms: diploma |
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| (noun) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing | Synonyms: fleece |
| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, parchment |
| shirking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, slacking, soldiering |
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| shoemaking | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: cobbling, shoe repairing |
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| shrieking | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
| shrinking | (noun) the act of becoming less | - |
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| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinkage |
| silkiness | (noun) the smooth feel of silk fabric | Synonyms: sleekness |
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| sinking | (noun) a descent as through liquid (especially through water) | - |
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| (noun) a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength) | - |
| (noun) a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension | Synonyms: sinking feeling |
| siskin | (noun) small yellow-and-black Eurasian finch with a sharp beak | Synonyms: Carduelis spinus |
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| skin | (noun) body covering of a living animal | Synonyms: hide, pelt |
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| (noun) an outer surface (usually thin) | - |
| (noun) a bag serving as a container for liquids; it is made from the hide of an animal | - |
| (noun) a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch | Synonyms: cutis, tegument |
| (noun) the rind of a fruit or vegetable | Synonyms: peel |
| (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skinhead |
| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skinhead |
| (noun) a person's skin regarded as their life | - |
| skincare | (noun) care for the skin | Synonyms: skin care |
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| skinflint | (noun) a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend | Synonyms: churl, niggard, scrooge |
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| skinful | (noun) a quantity of alcoholic drink sufficient to make you drunk | - |
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| skinhead | (noun) a member of any of several British or American groups consisting predominantly of young people who shave their heads; some engage in white supremacist and anti-immigrant activities and this leads to the perception that all skinheads are racist and violent | Synonyms: skin |
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| (noun) a person whose head is bald or shaved | Synonyms: baldhead, baldpate, baldy, skin |
| skinheads | (noun) a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism | Synonyms: bootboys |
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| skink | (noun) alert agile lizard with reduced limbs and an elongated body covered with shiny scales; more dependent on moisture than most lizards; found in tropical regions worldwide | Synonyms: scincid, scincid lizard |
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| skinner | (noun) a person who prepares or deals in animal skins | - |
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| (noun) a worker who drives mules | Synonyms: mule driver, mule skinner, muleteer |
| skinniness | (noun) the bodily property of lacking flesh | Synonyms: scrawniness |
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| skinny | (noun) confidential information about a topic or person | - |
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| skulking | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: malingering |
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| slacking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, soldiering |
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| sleepwalking | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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| smacking | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: slap, smack |
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| smocking | (noun) embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches | - |
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| smoking | (noun) the act of smoking tobacco or other substances | Synonyms: smoke |
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| (noun) a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion | Synonyms: smoke |
| 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 |
| spanking | (noun) the act of slapping on the buttocks | - |
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| 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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| spillikin | (noun) a thin strip of wood used in playing the game of jackstraws | Synonyms: jackstraw |
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| spillikins | (noun) a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others | Synonyms: jackstraws |
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| squeakiness | (noun) the state of tending to produce a high-pitched sound or squeak. | - |
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| stalking | (noun) the act of following prey stealthily | Synonyms: stalk |
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| (noun) a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush | Synonyms: stalk, still hunt |
| stickiness | (noun) the property of sticking to a surface | - |
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| stinkiness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, rankness |
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| stockiness | (noun) The quality of being compact, sturdy, and relatively thick in build. | - |
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| stockinet | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinette |
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| stockinette | (noun) knit used especially for infants' wear and undergarments | Synonyms: stockinet |
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| stocking | (noun) the activity of supplying a stock of something | - |
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| (noun) close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural) | - |
| 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 |
| streptokinase | (noun) an enzyme produced by some strains of streptococcus that can liquefy blood clots by converting plasminogen to plasmin; used medicinally in some cases of myocardial infarction and pulmonary embolism | - |
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| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| striking | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, hitting |
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| (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, impinging |
| strikingness | (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: boldness |
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| (noun) the state of being salient | Synonyms: salience, saliency |
| stroking | (noun) a light touch with the hands | Synonyms: stroke |
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| subkingdom | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom | - |
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| sucking | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: suck, suction |
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| sulkiness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: moroseness, sourness, sullenness |
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| (noun) a feeling of sulky resentment | Synonyms: huffishness |
| (noun) a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal | Synonyms: sulk |
| tackiness | (noun) tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar | Synonyms: cheapness, sleaze, tat |
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| (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, viscidity, viscidness |
| tacking | (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tack |
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| (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting, basting stitch |
| 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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| talking | (noun) an exchange of ideas via conversation | Synonyms: talk |
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| telekinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: psychokinesis |
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| teleworking | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: telecommuting |
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| thinking | (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thought, thought process |
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| thrombokinase | (noun) an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot | Synonyms: factor III, thromboplastin |
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| ticking | (noun) a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers | - |
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| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: tick |
| tracking | (noun) the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind | Synonyms: trailing |
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| trickiness | (noun) the quality of being a slippery rascal | Synonyms: rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness |
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| (noun) the quality of requiring skill or caution | - |