| droning | (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, monotone |
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| drubbing | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) a sound defeat | Synonyms: debacle, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
| drug | (noun) a substance that is used as a medicine or narcotic | - |
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| drugging | (noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug | Synonyms: sedation |
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| drumming | (noun) the act of playing drums | - |
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| dubbing | (noun) a new soundtrack that is added to a film | - |
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| ducking | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, immersion, submersion |
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| (noun) hunting ducks | Synonyms: duck hunting |
| duckling | (noun) young duck | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a young domestic duck | - |
| dug | (noun) an udder or breast or teat | - |
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| dugong | (noun) sirenian tusked mammal found from eastern Africa to Australia; the flat tail is bilobate | Synonyms: Dugong dugon |
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| dumping | (noun) selling goods abroad at a price below that charged in the domestic market | - |
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| dumpling | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumplings |
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| (noun) dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry | - |
| dung | (noun) fecal matter of animals | Synonyms: droppings, muck |
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| dustrag | (noun) a piece of cloth used for dusting | Synonyms: dustcloth, duster |
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| dwelling | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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| dwindling | (noun) a becoming gradually less | Synonyms: dwindling away |
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| dyeing | (noun) the use of dye to change the color of something permanently | - |
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| dying | (noun) the time when something ends | Synonyms: death, demise |
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| earplug | (noun) a plug of cotton, wax, or rubber that is fitted into the ear canal for protection against the entry of water or loud noise | - |
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| (noun) an earphone that is inserted into the ear canal | - |
| earring | (noun) jewelry to ornament the ear; usually clipped to the earlobe or fastened through a hole in the lobe | - |
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| earthing | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: grounding |
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| earthling | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthman, tellurian, worldling |
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| earwig | (noun) any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen | - |
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| easing | (noun) the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Synonyms: alleviation, easement, relief |
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| (noun) a change for the better | Synonyms: moderation, relief |
| eating | (noun) the act of consuming food | Synonyms: feeding |
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| ebbing | (noun) a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) | Synonyms: ebb, wane |
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| edging | (noun) border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug) | - |
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| editing | (noun) putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form | Synonyms: redaction |
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| egg | (noun) animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds | - |
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| (noun) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens | Synonyms: ball, ballock, bollock, nut, orchis, testicle, testis |
| (noun) oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food | Synonyms: eggs |
| eggnog | (noun) a punch made of sweetened milk or cream mixed with eggs and usually alcoholic liquor | - |
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| elbowing | (noun) jostling with the elbows | - |
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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 |
| eluding | (noun) the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning) | Synonyms: elusion, slip |
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| embracing | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracement |
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| emphasizing | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, accentuation |
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| emptying | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: evacuation, voidance |
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| enclosing | (noun) the act of enclosing something inside something else | Synonyms: enclosure, envelopment, inclosure |
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| encoding | (noun) the activity of converting data or information into code | Synonyms: encryption |
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| ending | (noun) the act of ending something | Synonyms: conclusion, termination |
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| (noun) the end of a word (a suffix or inflectional ending or final morpheme) | Synonyms: termination |
| (noun) the last section of a communication | Synonyms: close, closing, conclusion, end |
| (noun) event whose occurrence ends something | Synonyms: conclusion, finish |
| (noun) the point in time at which something ends | Synonyms: end |
| energizing | (noun) the activity of causing to have energy and be active | Synonyms: activating, activation |
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| enfolding | (noun) the action of enfolding something | Synonyms: involution |
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| 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 |
| engraving | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: etching |
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| (noun) a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved | - |
| (noun) a print made from an engraving | - |
| enjoining | (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoinment, injunction |
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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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| entering | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entrance, entry, incoming, ingress |
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| (noun) a movement into or inward | Synonyms: entrance |
| envisioning | (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: picturing |
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| epilog | (noun) a short passage added at the end of a literary work | Synonyms: epilogue |
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| (noun) a short speech (often in verse) addressed directly to the audience by an actor at the end of a play | Synonyms: epilogue |
| equating | (noun) the act of regarding as equal | Synonyms: equation |
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| equipping | (noun) the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war | Synonyms: armament, arming |
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| erecting | (noun) the act of building or putting up | Synonyms: erection |
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| erg | (noun) a cgs unit of work or energy; the work done by a force of one dyne acting over a distance of one centimeter | - |
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| eroding | (noun) (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively | Synonyms: eating away, erosion, wearing, wearing away |
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| etching | (noun) making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them | Synonyms: engraving |
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| (noun) an etched plate made with the use of acid | - |
| (noun) an impression made from an etched plate | - |
| etymologizing | (noun) (historical linguistics) an explanation of the historical origins of a word or phrase | Synonyms: derivation, deriving |
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| evening | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, eventide |
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| (noun) a later concluding time period | - |
| (noun) the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way | - |
| evensong | (noun) (Anglican Church) a daily evening service with prayers prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer | Synonyms: Evening Prayer |
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| (noun) the sixth of the seven canonical hours of the divine office; early evening; now often made a public service on Sundays | Synonyms: vespers |
| 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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| everting | (noun) the act of turning inside out | Synonyms: eversion, inversion |
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| everything | (noun) all things that are of importance to a person | - |
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| evildoing | (noun) the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle | Synonyms: transgression |
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| exclaiming | (noun) an abrupt excited utterance | Synonyms: exclamation |
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| excreting | (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: elimination, evacuation, excretion, voiding |
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| executing | (noun) putting a condemned person to death | Synonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, execution |
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| exercising | (noun) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | Synonyms: exercise, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout |
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| expelling | (noun) any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body | Synonyms: discharge, emission |
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| expending | (noun) the act of spending money for goods or services | Synonyms: expenditure |
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| exporting | (noun) the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country | Synonyms: exportation |
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| expounding | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: exposition |
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| expunging | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunction |
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| extinguishing | (noun) the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning | Synonyms: extinction, quenching |
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| facing | (noun) providing something with a surface of a different material | Synonyms: lining |
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| (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: cladding |
| (noun) a lining applied to the edge of a garment for ornamentation or strengthening | - |
| (noun) an ornamental coating to a building | Synonyms: veneer |
| factoring | (noun) (mathematics) the resolution of an expression into factors such that when multiplied together they give the original expression | Synonyms: factorisation, factorization |
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| fading | (noun) weakening in force or intensity | Synonyms: attenuation |
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| fag | (noun) finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking | Synonyms: butt, cigaret, cigarette, coffin nail |
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| (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: faggot, fagot, fairy, nance, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
| faggoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: fagoting |
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| fagoting | (noun) embroidery in which groups of parallel threads are tied together with fagot stitches | Synonyms: faggoting |
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| failing | (noun) failure to reach a minimum required performance | Synonyms: flunk |
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| (noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: weakness |
| falsifying | (noun) the act of determining that something is false | Synonyms: disproof, falsification, refutal, refutation |
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| faltering | (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, hesitation, waver |
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| fang | (noun) hollow or grooved tooth of a venomous snake; used to inject its poison | - |
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| (noun) canine tooth of a carnivorous animal; used to seize and tear its prey | - |
| (noun) an appendage of insects that is capable of injecting venom; usually evolved from the legs | - |
| farming | (noun) the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock | Synonyms: agriculture, husbandry |
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| (noun) agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life | Synonyms: land |
| farrowing | (noun) the production of a litter of pigs | Synonyms: farrow |
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| farthing | (noun) a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny | - |
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| farting | (noun) a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus | Synonyms: breaking wind, fart, flatus, wind |
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| fashioning | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, making |
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| fastening | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: attachment |
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| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast |
| fasting | (noun) abstaining from food | Synonyms: fast |
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| faubourg | (noun) a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city | - |
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| faultfinding | (noun) persistent petty and unjustified criticism | Synonyms: carping |
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| faulting | (noun) (geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other | Synonyms: break, fault, fracture, geological fault, shift |
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| feasting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: banqueting |
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| featherbedding | (noun) the practice (usually by a labor union) of requiring an employer to hire more workers than are required | - |
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| feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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| feedbag | (noun) a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse); covers the muzzle and fastens at the top of the head | Synonyms: nosebag |
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| feeding | (noun) the act of consuming food | Synonyms: eating |
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| (noun) the act of supplying food and nourishment | Synonyms: alimentation |
| feeling | (noun) the experiencing of affective and emotional states | - |
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| (noun) an intuitive understanding of something | Synonyms: intuitive feeling |
| (noun) a physical sensation that you experience | - |
| (noun) the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin | Synonyms: tactile sensation, tactual sensation, touch, touch sensation |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, impression, notion, opinion |
| (noun) the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people | Synonyms: feel, flavor, flavour, look, smell, spirit, tone |
| feigning | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, pretence, pretense |
| fencing | (noun) the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules) | - |
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| (noun) a barrier that serves to enclose an area | Synonyms: fence |
| (noun) material for building fences | Synonyms: fencing material |
| fermenting | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, zymolysis, zymosis |
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