| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| furring | (noun) strip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard | Synonyms: furring strip |
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| (noun) a furlike coating of matter as on the tongue | - |
| gambling | (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gaming, play |
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| gaming | (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gambling, play |
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| gardening | (noun) the cultivation of plants | Synonyms: horticulture |
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| gassing | (noun) the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas | - |
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| (noun) the process of interacting with gas | - |
| gathering | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, assembly |
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| (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: assemblage |
| gearing | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, geartrain, power train, train |
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| gelding | (noun) castrated male horse | - |
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| getting | (noun) the act of acquiring something | Synonyms: acquiring |
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| gilding | (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilt |
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| giving | (noun) the act of giving | Synonyms: gift |
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| (noun) disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return | - |
| (noun) the imparting of news or promises etc. | - |
| glamping | (noun) Camping glamorously, i.e., with expensive equipment | - |
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| gleaming | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, glow, lambency |
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| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, glimmer |
| gliding | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, sailing, sailplaning, soaring |
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| glimmering | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, inkling, intimation |
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| gloaming | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, nightfall, twilight |
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| gloating | (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: glee, gloat |
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| glowing | (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glow, radiance |
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| goading | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
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| going | (noun) advancing toward a goal | Synonyms: sledding |
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| (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going away, leaving |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, loss, passing, release |
| goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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| golfing | (noun) playing golf | - |
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| gosling | (noun) young goose | - |
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| gossiping | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossipmongering |
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| gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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| governing | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
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| grading | (noun) the act of arranging in a graduated series | Synonyms: scaling |
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| (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: marking, scoring |
| (noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: leveling |
| grafting | (noun) the act of grafting something onto something else | Synonyms: graft |
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| graining | (noun) a texture like that of wood | Synonyms: woodgraining |
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| grappling | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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| (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: rassling, wrestling |
| grasping | (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: prehension, seizing, taking hold |
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| (noun) understanding with difficulty | - |
| grating | (noun) a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air | Synonyms: grate |
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| (noun) a frame of iron bars to hold a fire | Synonyms: grate |
| (noun) optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum | Synonyms: diffraction grating |
| grazing | (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: shaving, skimming |
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| (noun) the act of grazing | Synonyms: graze |
| greening | (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: rejuvenation |
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| greenling | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific | - |
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| greenwing | (noun) common teal of Eurasia and North America | Synonyms: Anas crecca, green-winged teal |
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| greeting | (noun) (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) | Synonyms: salutation |
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| grilling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, broiling |
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| grinding | (noun) a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears) | - |
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| (noun) material resulting from the process of grinding | - |
| (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition |
| grinning | (noun) a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement | Synonyms: grin, smile, smiling |
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| griping | (noun) acute abdominal pain (especially in infants) | Synonyms: colic, gripes, intestinal colic |
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| grooming | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: dressing |
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| (noun) activity leading to skilled behavior | Synonyms: preparation, training |
| grooving | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: rifling |
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| groundbreaking | (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
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| grounding | (noun) fastening electrical equipment to earth | Synonyms: earthing |
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| (noun) education or instruction in the fundamentals of a field of knowledge | Synonyms: foundation |
| groundling | (noun) in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section | - |
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| grouping | (noun) any number of entities (members) considered as a unit | Synonyms: group |
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| (noun) the activity of putting things together in groups | - |
| (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: pigeonholing |
| growing | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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| (noun) (electronics) the production of (semiconductor) crystals by slow crystallization from the molten state | - |
| 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 |
| guessing | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guesswork, shot |
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| gulping | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: guzzling, swilling |
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| (noun) a spasmodic reflex of the throat made as if in swallowing | Synonyms: gulp |
| gumming | (noun) ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) | Synonyms: mumbling |
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| gunrunning | (noun) the smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally | - |
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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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| hairdressing | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, haircare |
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| (noun) a toiletry for the hair | Synonyms: hair grease, hair oil, hair tonic |
| hairsplitting | (noun) making too fine distinctions of little importance | Synonyms: word-splitting |
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| hairspring | (noun) a fine spiral spring that regulates the movement of the balance wheel in a timepiece | - |
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| hairweaving | (noun) the act of interweaving a hairpiece with your own hair | - |
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| hammering | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, pound, pounding |
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| hamming | (noun) poor acting by a ham actor | Synonyms: overacting |
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| hamstring | (noun) one of the tendons at the back of the knee | Synonyms: hamstring tendon |
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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 |
| handshaking | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, shake |
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| handspring | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again | - |
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| handwriting | (noun) the activity of writing by hand | - |
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| (noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, script |
| hanging | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: dangling, suspension |
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| (noun) a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead | - |
| (noun) decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window | Synonyms: wall hanging |
| hankering | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: yen |
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| happening | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: natural event, occurrence, occurrent |
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| hardening | (noun) the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact) | - |
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| (noun) the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization | Synonyms: curing, set, solidification, solidifying |
| (noun) abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue | - |
| harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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| hatching | (noun) shading consisting of multiple crossing lines | Synonyms: crosshatch, hachure, hatch |
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| (noun) the production of young from an egg | Synonyms: hatch |
| 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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| hawking | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: peddling, vending, vendition |
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| haying | (noun) the season for cutting and drying and storing grass as fodder | Synonyms: haying time |
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| (noun) the harvesting of hay | - |
| haymaking | (noun) cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
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| (noun) taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts | - |
| heading | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: drift, gallery |
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| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: head, header |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, bearing |
| headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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| headspring | (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: fountainhead, head |
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| healing | (noun) the natural process by which the body repairs itself | - |
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| hearing | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: listening |
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| (noun) (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence | - |
| (noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty | Synonyms: audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing |
| (noun) a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken | - |
| (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, earshot |
| (noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: audience |
| heartburning | (noun) intense resentment | - |
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| heating | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heat, heating plant, heating system |
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| (noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: warming |
| heaving | (noun) throwing something heavy (with great effort) | Synonyms: heave |
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| (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: panting |
| (noun) the act of lifting something with great effort | Synonyms: heave |
| (noun) an upward movement (especially a rhythmical rising and falling) | Synonyms: heave |
| heckling | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: barracking |
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| hedging | (noun) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement | Synonyms: hedge |
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| (noun) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change | Synonyms: hedge |
| helping | (noun) an individual quantity of food or drink taken as part of a meal | Synonyms: portion, serving |
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| hemstitching | (noun) a stitch in which parallel threads are drawn and exposed threads are caught together in groups | Synonyms: hemstitch |
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| herring | (noun) commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Clupea harangus |
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| (noun) valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled | - |
| hiding | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, concealment |
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| (noun) the state of being hidden | - |
| highjacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: hijacking |
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| highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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| hijacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: highjacking |
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| hiking | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hike, tramp |
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| hireling | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: pensionary |
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| hissing | (noun) a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval) | Synonyms: fizzle, hiss, hushing, sibilation |
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| hitting | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, striking |
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