| interpreting | (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, rendering, rendition |
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| inventorying | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventory, stock-taking, stocktaking |
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| investigating | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigation |
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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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| ironing | (noun) the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles | - |
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| (noun) garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed | - |
| issuing | (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issuance, issue |
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| itching | (noun) an irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch | Synonyms: itch, itchiness |
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| jabbering | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: gabble, jabber |
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| jabbing | (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, poke, poking, thrust, thrusting |
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| jag | (noun) a bout of drinking or drug taking | - |
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| (noun) a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing | Synonyms: dag |
| (noun) a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing | - |
| (noun) a sharp projection on an edge or surface | - |
| jamming | (noun) deliberate radiation or reflection of electromagnetic energy for the purpose of disrupting enemy use of electronic devices or systems | Synonyms: electronic jamming, jam |
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| jeering | (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
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| jerking | (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jolt, saccade |
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| jig | (noun) any of various old rustic dances involving kicking and leaping | - |
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| (noun) a device that holds a piece of machine work and guides the tools operating on it | - |
| (noun) a fisherman's lure with one or more hooks that is jerked up and down in the water | - |
| (noun) music in three-four time for dancing a jig | Synonyms: gigue |
| jitterbug | (noun) a jerky American dance that was popular in the 1940s | - |
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| jog | (noun) a slow pace of running | Synonyms: lope, trot |
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| (noun) a slight push or shake | Synonyms: nudge |
| (noun) a sharp change in direction | - |
| jogging | (noun) running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise | - |
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| joining | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
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| jostling | (noun) the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | Synonyms: jostle |
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| jotting | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jot |
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| journeying | (noun) the act of traveling from one place to another | Synonyms: journey |
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| judging | (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
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| jug | (noun) a large bottle with a narrow mouth | - |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a jug | Synonyms: jugful |
| 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 |
| jumping | (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition in which you must jump | - |
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| (noun) the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground | Synonyms: jump |
| junketing | (noun) taking an excursion for pleasure | - |
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| jutting | (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, projection, protrusion |
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| kalumpang | (noun) large tree of Old World tropics having foul-smelling orange-red blossoms followed by red pods enclosing oil-rich seeds sometimes used as food | Synonyms: Java olives, Sterculia foetida |
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| kampong | (noun) a native malay village | Synonyms: campong |
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| kaoliang | (noun) sorghums of China and Manchuria having small white or brown grains (used for food) and dry pithy stalks (used for fodder, fuel and thatching) | - |
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| keeping | (noun) the responsibility of a guardian or keeper | Synonyms: guardianship, safekeeping |
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| (noun) conformity or harmony | - |
| (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, retention |
| keg | (noun) small cask or barrel | - |
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| (noun) the quantity contained in a keg | Synonyms: kegful |
| kenning | (noun) conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry | - |
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| kg | (noun) one thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: kilo, kilogram |
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| kiang | (noun) wild ass of Tibet and Mongolia | Synonyms: Equus kiang |
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| kicking | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: boot, kick |
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| (noun) a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics | Synonyms: kick |
| kidnapping | (noun) (law) the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment | Synonyms: snatch |
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| 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 |
| king | (noun) (chess) the weakest but the most important piece | - |
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| (noun) one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king | - |
| (noun) a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward | - |
| (noun) a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom | Synonyms: male monarch, Rex |
| (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
| (noun) a male competitor who holds a preeminent position | - |
| (noun) the husband or widower of a queen | - |
| (noun) preeminence in a particular category or group or field | - |
| kissing | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| kitbag | (noun) a knapsack (usually for a soldier) | Synonyms: kit bag |
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| kneeling | (noun) supporting yourself on your knees | Synonyms: kneel |
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| knitting | (noun) creating knitted wear | - |
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| (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knit, knitwork |
| knocking | (noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) | Synonyms: knock |
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| knowing | (noun) a clear and certain mental apprehension | - |
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| kurrajong | (noun) widely distributed tree of eastern Australia yielding a tough durable fiber and soft light attractively grained wood; foliage is an important emergency food for cattle | Synonyms: Brachychiton populneus, currajong |
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| lacewing | (noun) any of two families of insects with gauzy wings (Chrysopidae and Hemerobiidae); larvae feed on insect pests such as aphids | Synonyms: lacewing fly |
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| lacing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment) | Synonyms: lace |
| (noun) a small amount of liquor added to a food or beverage | - |
| lading | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment |
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| ladybug | (noun) small round bright-colored and spotted beetle that usually feeds on aphids and other insect pests | Synonyms: lady beetle, ladybeetle, ladybird, ladybird beetle |
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| lag | (noun) the act of slowing down or falling behind | Synonyms: retardation, slowdown |
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| (noun) one of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket | Synonyms: stave |
| (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, meantime, meanwhile |
| lagging | (noun) insulation used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat | - |
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| landholding | (noun) a holding in the form of land | - |
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| (noun) ownership of land; the state or fact of owning land | - |
| landing | (noun) the act of coming to land after a voyage | - |
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| (noun) the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface) | - |
| (noun) structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods | Synonyms: landing place |
| (noun) an intermediate platform in a staircase | - |
| landscaping | (noun) working as a landscape gardener | Synonyms: landscape gardening |
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| (noun) a garden laid out for esthetic effect | - |
| lapdog | (noun) a dog small and tame enough to be held in the lap | - |
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| lapping | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: imbrication, overlapping |
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| lapsing | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| lapwing | (noun) large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs | Synonyms: green plover, peewit, pewit |
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| lashing | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, flogging, tanning, whipping |
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| (noun) rope that is used for fastening something to something else | - |
| latchstring | (noun) opener consisting of a string that can be passed through a hole in a door for raising the latch from outside | - |
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| launching | (noun) the act of propelling with force | Synonyms: launch |
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| (noun) the act of beginning something new | Synonyms: debut, entry, first appearance, introduction, unveiling |
| (noun) the act of moving a newly built vessel into the water for the first time | - |
| laundering | (noun) washing clothes and bed linens | - |
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| lawmaking | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: legislating, legislation |
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| laying | (noun) the production of eggs (especially in birds) | Synonyms: egg laying |
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| leaching | (noun) the process of leaching | Synonyms: leach |
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| leading | (noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: lead |
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| (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leadership |
| leafing | (noun) (botany) the process of forming leaves | Synonyms: foliation |
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| leaning | (noun) the act of deviating from a vertical position | - |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, list, tilt |
| (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: proclivity, propensity |
| (noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: propensity, tendency |
| leapfrog | (noun) a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over | - |
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| (noun) advancing as if in the child's game, by leaping over obstacles or competitors | - |
| leaping | (noun) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards | Synonyms: bounce, bound, leap, saltation, spring |
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| learning | (noun) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge | Synonyms: acquisition |
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| (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, scholarship |
| leavening | (noun) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something | Synonyms: leaven |
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| (noun) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid | Synonyms: leaven |
| leaving | (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going, going away |
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| lecturing | (noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) | Synonyms: lecture |
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| leg | (noun) a section or portion of a journey or course | Synonyms: stage |
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| (noun) (nautical) the distance traveled by a sailing vessel on a single tack | - |
| (noun) a cloth covering consisting of the part of a pair of trousers that covers a person's leg | - |
| (noun) one of the supports for a piece of furniture | - |
| (noun) a prosthesis that replaces a missing leg | Synonyms: peg, pegleg, wooden leg |
| (noun) a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle | - |
| (noun) a structure in animals that is similar to a human leg and used for locomotion | - |
| (noun) the limb of an animal used for food | - |
| (noun) a part of a forked or branching shape | Synonyms: branch, ramification |
| legging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, leging |
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| leging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, legging |
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| legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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| lemming | (noun) any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution | - |
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| lending | (noun) disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Synonyms: loaning |
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| lengthening | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: perpetuation, prolongation, protraction |
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| lessening | (noun) a change downward | Synonyms: decrease, drop-off |
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| lettering | (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: inscription |
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| letting | (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: lease, rental |
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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 |
| leveraging | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leverage |
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| licking | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: defeat |
| lifesaving | (noun) saving the lives of drowning persons | - |
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| lightening | (noun) changing to a lighter color | Synonyms: whitening |
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| (noun) descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped | - |
| lighting | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, kindling |
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| (noun) the craft of providing artificial light | - |
| (noun) apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film | - |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: light |
| lightning | (noun) the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more | - |
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| (noun) abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light | - |
| likening | (noun) the act of comparing similarities | - |
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| liking | (noun) a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment | - |
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| limiting | (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: modification, qualifying |
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| limning | (noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, depiction, line drawing |
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| limping | (noun) disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet | Synonyms: claudication, gameness, gimp, gimpiness, lameness |
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| 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 |
| lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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