| grilling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, broiling |
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| groundling | (noun) in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section | - |
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| growling | (noun) a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal) | - |
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| (noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growl |
| grumbling | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
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| (noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumble, rumble, rumbling |
| gunslinger | (noun) a professional killer who uses a gun | Synonyms: gun, gun for hire, gunman, hired gun, hit man, hitman, shooter, torpedo, triggerman |
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| guzzling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, swilling |
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| haggling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, wrangle, wrangling |
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| handling | (noun) manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something | - |
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| (noun) the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means | Synonyms: manipulation |
| (noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: treatment |
| hatchling | (noun) any recently hatched animal (especially birds) | - |
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| hauling | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: truckage, trucking |
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| healing | (noun) the natural process by which the body repairs itself | - |
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| heckling | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: barracking |
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| hireling | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| howling | (noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howl, ululation |
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| hurdling | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdles |
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| hurling | (noun) a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each | - |
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| idling | (noun) having no employment | Synonyms: idleness, loafing |
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| inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
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| installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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| instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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| jostling | (noun) the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | Synonyms: jostle |
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| juggling | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggle |
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| (noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggle |
| killing | (noun) the act of terminating a life | Synonyms: kill, putting to death |
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| (noun) an event that causes someone to die | Synonyms: violent death |
| (noun) a very large profit | Synonyms: cleanup |
| kindling | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, lighting |
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| (noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood |
| kneeling | (noun) supporting yourself on your knees | Synonyms: kneel |
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| leveling | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, equalization |
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| (noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: demolishing, razing, tearing down |
| (noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: grading |
| ling | (noun) elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried | Synonyms: Molva molva |
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| (noun) American hakes | - |
| (noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, eelpout, Lota lota |
| (noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, heather, Scots heather |
| (noun) water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs | Synonyms: ling ko, Trapa bicornis |
| lingam | (noun) the Hindu phallic symbol of Siva | - |
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| lingberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingenberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| lingcod | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific related to greenlings | Synonyms: Ophiodon elongatus |
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| (noun) the lean flesh of a fish caught off the Pacific coast of the United States | - |
| lingenberry | (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingonberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
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| lingerer | (noun) someone who lingers aimlessly in or about a place | Synonyms: loiterer |
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| lingerie | (noun) women's underwear and nightclothes | Synonyms: intimate apparel |
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| lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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| lingo | (noun) a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) | Synonyms: argot, cant, jargon, patois, slang, vernacular |
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| lingonberry | (noun) tart red berries similar to American cranberries but smaller | Synonyms: cowberry, lowbush cranberry, mountain cranberry |
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| (noun) low evergreen shrub of high north temperate regions of Europe and Asia and America bearing red edible berries | Synonyms: cowberry, foxberry, lingberry, lingenberry, mountain cranberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea |
| lingua | (noun) a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity | Synonyms: clapper, glossa, tongue |
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| lingual | (noun) a consonant that is produced with the tongue and other speech organs | - |
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| linguica | (noun) a highly seasoned Portuguese pork sausage flavored with garlic and onions | - |
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| linguine | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguini |
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| linguini | (noun) pasta in long slender flat strips | Synonyms: linguine |
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| linguist | (noun) a person who speaks more than one language | Synonyms: polyglot |
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| (noun) a specialist in linguistics | Synonyms: linguistic scientist |
| linguistics | (noun) the scientific study of language | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: philology |
| logrolling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: birling |
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| (noun) act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects | - |
| mailing | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: posting |
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| (noun) mail sent by a sender at one time | - |
| malingerer | (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: shammer, skulker |
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| malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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| marbling | (noun) the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat | - |
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| marlingspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlinspike |
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| meddling | (noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: tampering |
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| middling | (noun) any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran) | - |
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| milling | (noun) corrugated edge of a coin | - |
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| mingling | (noun) the action of people mingling and coming into contact | - |
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| misspelling | (noun) a spelling that is incorrect | - |
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| modeling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modelling |
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| (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modelling, molding, moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modelling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
| modelling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modeling |
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| (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, molding, moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
| monolingual | (noun) a person who knows only one language | - |
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| motorcycling | (noun) riding a motorcycle | - |
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| mottling | (noun) the act of coloring with areas of different shades | - |
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| mudslinger | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: muckraker |
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| mumbling | (noun) ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) | Synonyms: gumming |
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| (noun) indistinct enunciation | - |
| nestling | (noun) young bird not yet fledged | Synonyms: baby bird |
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| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| neurolinguist | (noun) someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception | - |
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| neurolinguistics | (noun) the branch of linguistics that studies the relation between language and the structure and function of the nervous system | - |
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| nurseling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nursling, suckling |
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| nursling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nurseling, suckling |
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| paling | (noun) a fence made of upright pickets | Synonyms: picket fence |
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| palingenesis | (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: recapitulation |
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| paneling | (noun) a panel or section of panels in a wall or door | Synonyms: pane, panelling |
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| panelling | (noun) a panel or section of panels in a wall or door | Synonyms: pane, paneling |
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| parasailing | (noun) gliding in a parasail | Synonyms: paragliding |
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| parceling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parcelling |
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| parcelling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling |
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| pealing | (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, roll, rolling |
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| peddling | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, vending, vendition |
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| peeling | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: desquamation, shedding |
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| pigeonholing | (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: grouping |
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| piling | (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: pile, spile, stilt |
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| prickling | (noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: tingle, tingling |
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| princeling | (noun) a young prince | - |
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| (noun) a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality | - |
| profiling | (noun) recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people | - |
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| psycholinguist | (noun) a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language | - |
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| psycholinguistics | (noun) the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance | - |
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| pulling | (noun) the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | Synonyms: pull |
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| quadrupling | (noun) increase by a factor of four | - |
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| quelling | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, stifling, suppression |
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| quintupling | (noun) increasing by a factor of five | - |
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| quisling | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, collaborator |
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| quislingism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, collaborationism |
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| railing | (noun) a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports | Synonyms: rail |
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| (noun) material for making rails or rails collectively | - |
| rassling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, wrestling |
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| rattling | (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rale, rattle |
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| raveling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: ravelling |
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| ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
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| recycling | (noun) the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products | - |
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| (noun) used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products | - |
| refilling | (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: renewal, replacement, replenishment |
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| refueling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fueling, fuelling |
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| reshuffling | (noun) shuffling again | Synonyms: reshuffle |
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| retailing | (noun) the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers | - |
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| revealing | (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: disclosure, revelation |
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