| abstinence | (noun) act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite | - |
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| (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstention |
| abstinent | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, nondrinker |
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| bastinado | (noun) a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels | Synonyms: falanga |
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| (noun) a cudgel used to give someone a beating on the soles of the feet | - |
| basting | (noun) moistening a roast as it is cooking | - |
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| (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting stitch, tacking |
| birdnesting | (noun) hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs | - |
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| bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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| boasting | (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, jactitation, self-praise |
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| broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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| (noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
| casting | (noun) the act of creating something by casting it in a mold | Synonyms: molding |
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| (noun) the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel | Synonyms: cast |
| (noun) the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie | - |
| (noun) object formed by a mold | Synonyms: cast |
| contradistinction | (noun) a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast | - |
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| costing | (noun) cost accounting | - |
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| cothromboplastin | (noun) a coagulation factor formed in the kidney under the influence of vitamin K | Synonyms: factor VII, proconvertin, stable factor |
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| cystine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid found in proteins (especially keratin); discovered in bladder stones | - |
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| destination | (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: terminus |
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| (noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: address, name and address |
| (noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: finish, goal |
| destiny | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: fate |
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| (noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: fate |
| (noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
| disgustingness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: distastefulness, nauseatingness, sickeningness, unsavoriness |
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| (noun) the property of being extremely unacceptable to the mind | Synonyms: unsavoriness |
| distinction | (noun) a distinguishing difference between similar things or people | - |
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| (noun) a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes | Synonyms: differentiation |
| (noun) an honor awarded to someone in recognition of achievement or superiority | - |
| (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: eminence, note, preeminence |
| distinctiveness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: disparateness |
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| (noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: peculiarity, speciality, specialness, specialty |
| distinctness | (noun) the quality of being sharp and clear | Synonyms: sharpness |
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| (noun) the quality of being not alike; being distinct or different from that otherwise experienced or known | Synonyms: otherness, separateness |
| (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: discreteness, separateness, severalty |
| distinguishability | (noun) Capability of being perceived as different or distinct. | - |
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| dustiness | (noun) the state of being covered with dust | - |
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| elastin | (noun) a fibrous scleroprotein found in elastic tissues such as the walls of arteries | - |
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| enlisting | (noun) the act of getting recruits; enlisting people for the army (or for a job or a cause etc.) | Synonyms: recruitment |
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| everlasting | (noun) any of various plants of various genera of the family Compositae having flowers that can be dried without loss of form or color | Synonyms: everlasting flower |
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| everlastingness | (noun) the property of lasting forever | - |
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| fasting | (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fast |
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| feasting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: banqueting |
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| feistiness | (noun) The quality or state of being tenacious, energetic, spunky. | Synonyms: scrappiness |
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| festination | (noun) involuntary shortening of stride and quickening of gait that occurs in some diseases (e.g., Parkinson's disease) | - |
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| forecasting | (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: foretelling, prediction, prognostication |
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| frostiness | (noun) coldness as evidenced by frost | - |
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| (noun) a silvery-white color | Synonyms: hoariness |
| frosting | (noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: ice, icing |
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| harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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| hastiness | (noun) hasty impulsiveness | - |
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| (noun) overly eager speed (and possible carelessness) | Synonyms: haste, hurriedness, hurry, precipitation |
| hustings | (noun) the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making) | - |
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| indistinctness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, softness |
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| indistinguishability | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, identity |
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| insisting | (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insistence |
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| instinct | (noun) inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli | Synonyms: inherent aptitude |
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| interestingness | (noun) the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) | Synonyms: interest |
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| intestine | (noun) the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus | Synonyms: bowel, gut |
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| investing | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment |
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| langoustine | (noun) caught in European waters; slenderer than American lobster | Synonyms: Norwegian lobster, scampo |
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| lastingness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, strength |
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| listing | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemisation, itemization |
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| (noun) a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) | Synonyms: list |
| lomustine | (noun) an antineoplastic drug often used to treat brain tumors or Hodgkin's disease | - |
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| lustiness | (noun) the property of being strong and healthy in constitution | Synonyms: hardiness, robustness |
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| mediastinum | (noun) the part of the thoracic cavity between the lungs that contains the heart and aorta and esophagus and trachea and thymus | - |
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| mistiness | (noun) cloudiness resulting from haze or mist or vapor | Synonyms: haziness, steaminess, vaporousness, vapourousness |
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| mustiness | (noun) the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy | Synonyms: moldiness, must |
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| nastiness | (noun) the quality of being highly unpleasant | - |
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| (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, cattiness, spite, spitefulness |
| (noun) a state characterized by foul or disgusting dirt and refuse | Synonyms: filth, filthiness, foulness |
| obstinacy | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinance, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinance, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| obstinance | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, stubbornness |
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| (noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
| ostinato | (noun) a musical phrase repeated over and over during a composition | - |
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| ousting | (noun) the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out | Synonyms: ouster |
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| overcasting | (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcast |
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| philistine | (noun) a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits | Synonyms: anti-intellectual, lowbrow |
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| philistinism | (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: materialism |
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| plastination | (noun) a process involving fixation and dehydration and forced impregnation and hardening of biological tissues; water and lipids are replaced by curable polymers (silicone or epoxy or polyester) that are subsequently hardened | - |
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| posting | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: mailing |
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| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, poster |
| (noun) (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records | - |
| predestinarian | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
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| predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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| predestination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predetermination, preordination |
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| (noun) previous determination as if by destiny or fate | - |
| predestinationist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinarian |
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| procrastination | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, shillyshally |
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| (noun) slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it | Synonyms: dilatoriness |
| procrastinator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: cunctator, postponer |
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| progestin | (noun) any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone | Synonyms: progestogen |
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| recasting | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: rephrasing, rewording |
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| roasting | (noun) cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added) | - |
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| rustiness | (noun) ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being coated or clogged with rust | - |
| rusting | (noun) the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water | Synonyms: rust |
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| sting | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle |
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| (noun) operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act | Synonyms: sting operation |
| (noun) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung | Synonyms: stinging |
| (noun) a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin | Synonyms: bite, insect bite |
| (noun) a mental pain or distress | Synonyms: pang |
| stinger | (noun) a sharp stinging blow | - |
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| (noun) a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland | - |
| (noun) a remark capable of wounding mentally | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy | - |
| stinginess | (noun) a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money | - |
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| stinging | (noun) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung | Synonyms: sting |
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| stingray | (noun) large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds | - |
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| stink | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench |
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| stinkbird | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoactzin, hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin |
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| stinker | (noun) an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory | Synonyms: lemon |
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| (noun) anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar) | - |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinkpot |
| stinkhorn | (noun) any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales | Synonyms: carrion fungus |
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| stinkiness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, rankness |
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| stinkpot | (noun) small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor | Synonyms: musk turtle |
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| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker |
| stinkweed | (noun) foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America | Synonyms: fanweed, field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, Thlaspi arvense |
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| stint | (noun) an individual's prescribed share of work | - |
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| (noun) smallest American sandpiper | Synonyms: Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper |
| (noun) an unbroken period of time during which you do something | Synonyms: stretch |
| stinter | (noun) an economizer who stints someone with something | - |
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| tastiness | (noun) a pleasing palatability | - |
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| tasting | (noun) a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds | Synonyms: taste |
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| (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring |
| (noun) a small amount (especially of food or wine) | - |
| telecasting | (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: television, TV, video |
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| testiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: tetchiness, touchiness |
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| testing | (noun) the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works | - |
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| (noun) the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned | Synonyms: examination |
| (noun) an examination of the characteristics of something | - |
| thirstiness | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, hungriness, thirst |
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| (noun) a physiological need to drink | Synonyms: thirst |
| (noun) a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) | Synonyms: aridity, aridness |
| thromboplastin | (noun) an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot | Synonyms: factor III, thrombokinase |
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| thrusting | (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrust |
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| toasting | (noun) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill | Synonyms: browning |
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| trustiness | (noun) the trait of deserving trust and confidence | Synonyms: trustworthiness |
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| trustingness | (noun) the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others | Synonyms: trust, trustfulness |
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| twisting | (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture |
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| (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twirl, twist, whirl |
| uninterestingness | (noun) inability to capture or hold one's interest | - |
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| untrustiness | (noun) the trait of not deserving trust or confidence | Synonyms: untrustworthiness |
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| vinblastine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division | Synonyms: Velban |
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