| angling | (noun) fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole) | - |
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| annealing | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempering |
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| appalling | (noun) an experience that appalls | - |
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| assembling | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, collecting, collection |
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| babbling | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, lallation |
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| bawling | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: wailing |
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| beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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| befooling | (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: stultification |
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| belittling | (noun) the act of belittling | - |
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| (noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
| belling | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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| bicycling | (noun) riding a bicycle | - |
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| billing | (noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: charge |
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| birling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: logrolling |
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| bling | (noun) flashy, ostentatious jewelry | Synonyms: bling bling |
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| boiling | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: simmering, stewing |
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| (noun) the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas | - |
| bowling | (noun) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them | - |
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| (noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc | - |
| (noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | - |
| brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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| brisling | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: Clupea sprattus, sprat |
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| (noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: sprat |
| broiling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, grilling |
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| bundling | (noun) the act of binding something into a bundle | - |
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| (noun) the act of shoving hastily | - |
| (noun) a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing | - |
| calling | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: career, vocation |
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| caroling | (noun) singing joyful religious songs (especially at Christmas) | - |
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| castling | (noun) interchanging the positions of the king and a rook | Synonyms: castle |
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| catling | (noun) a long double-edged knife used for amputations | - |
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| ceiling | (noun) the overhead upper surface of a covered space | - |
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| (noun) (meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds | - |
| (noun) maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions) | - |
| (noun) an upper limit on what is allowed | Synonyms: cap, roof |
| changeling | (noun) a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy | - |
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| (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard |
| chilling | (noun) the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature | Synonyms: cooling, temperature reduction |
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| cling | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: clingstone |
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| cobbling | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: shoe repairing, shoemaking |
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| codling | (noun) young codfish | - |
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| compiling | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compilation |
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| concealing | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealment, hiding |
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| cooling | (noun) a mechanism for keeping something cool | Synonyms: cooling system |
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| (noun) the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature | Synonyms: chilling, temperature reduction |
| counseling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counselling, direction, guidance |
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| counselling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, direction, guidance |
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| coupling | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: conjugation, mating, pairing, sexual union, union |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects | Synonyms: coupler |
| (noun) a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together | Synonyms: yoke |
| cowling | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, hood |
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| crackling | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crepitation |
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| (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: greaves |
| crawling | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping |
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| cuddling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| curdling | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: clotting, coagulation |
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| curling | (noun) a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target | - |
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| cycling | (noun) the sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle | - |
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| cymling | (noun) squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white | Synonyms: pattypan squash |
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| dangling | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: hanging, suspension |
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| darling | (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
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| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| dawdling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, trifling |
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| dealing | (noun) method or manner of conduct in relation to others | - |
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| (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealings, transaction |
| detailing | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: particularisation, particularization |
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| dismantling | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantlement |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| doubling | (noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: double |
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| (noun) increase by a factor of two | - |
| doweling | (noun) fastening by dowels | - |
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| dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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| drilling | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: boring, oil production |
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| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: boring |
| duckling | (noun) young duck | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a young domestic duck | - |
| 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 | - |
| 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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| earthling | (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthman, tellurian, worldling |
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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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| failing | (noun) failure to reach a minimum required performance | Synonyms: flunk |
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| (noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: weakness |
| 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 |
| filing | (noun) preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc. | - |
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| (noun) the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object) | - |
| (noun) the entering of a legal document into the public record | - |
| (noun) a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file | - |
| filling | (noun) the act of filling something | - |
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| (noun) the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving | Synonyms: pick, weft, woof |
| (noun) (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth | - |
| (noun) a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc. | - |
| (noun) flow into something (as a container) | - |
| (noun) any material that fills a space or container | Synonyms: fill |
| fingerling | (noun) a young or small fish | - |
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| fingerspelling | (noun) an alphabet of manual signs | Synonyms: finger spelling |
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| fledgeling | (noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | Synonyms: fledgling |
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| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| fledgling | (noun) young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying | Synonyms: fledgeling |
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| (noun) any new participant in some activity | Synonyms: entrant, fledgeling, freshman, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, starter |
| fling | (noun) a brief indulgence of your impulses | Synonyms: spree |
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| (noun) a usually brief attempt | Synonyms: crack, go, offer, pass, whirl |
| (noun) the act of flinging | - |
| foiling | (noun) an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts | Synonyms: frustration, thwarting |
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| fondling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| forestalling | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: obviation, preclusion |
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| foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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| (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
| fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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| fosterling | (noun) a child who is raised by foster parents | Synonyms: foster-child, foster child |
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| foundling | (noun) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown | Synonyms: abandoned infant |
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| freestyling | (noun) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping. | - |
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| fueling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fuelling, refueling |
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| fuelling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fueling, refueling |
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| 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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| gosling | (noun) young goose | - |
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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 |
| greenling | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific | - |
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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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| 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 |
| 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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