| forging | (noun) shaping metal by heating and hammering | - |
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| forgoing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forswearing, renunciation |
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| forking | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: branching, fork, ramification |
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| (noun) the place where something divides into branches | Synonyms: furcation |
| formatting | (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, format |
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| forsaking | (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the act of forsaking | Synonyms: giving up |
| forswearing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, renunciation |
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| fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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| forwarding | (noun) the act of sending on to another destination | - |
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| (noun) the advancement of some enterprise | Synonyms: furtherance, promotion |
| fostering | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fosterage |
| fosterling | (noun) a child who is raised by foster parents | Synonyms: foster-child, foster child |
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| foundering | (noun) (of a ship) sinking | Synonyms: going under |
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| founding | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| foundling | (noun) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown | Synonyms: abandoned infant |
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| fracking | (noun) a well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid | - |
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| framing | (noun) formulation of the plans and important details | - |
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| (noun) a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror | Synonyms: frame |
| franking | (noun) device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced. | Synonyms: frank |
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| freeing | (noun) the act of liberating someone or something | Synonyms: liberation, release |
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| freestyling | (noun) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping. | - |
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| freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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| freezing | (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freeze |
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| frightening | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization |
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| frisking | (noun) the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs | Synonyms: frisk |
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| frosting | (noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: ice, icing |
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| frying | (noun) cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle | Synonyms: sauteing |
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| fucking | (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
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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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| functioning | (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: operation, performance |
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| funding | (noun) the act of financing | Synonyms: financing |
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| (noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, support |
| furlong | (noun) a unit of length equal to 220 yards | - |
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| 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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| gang | (noun) tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together | - |
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| (noun) an organized group of workmen | Synonyms: crew, work party |
| (noun) an association of criminals | Synonyms: mob, pack, ring |
| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crew, crowd |
| 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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| geebung | (noun) any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits | - |
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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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| ginseng | (noun) Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers | Synonyms: nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng |
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| (noun) aromatic root of ginseng plants | - |
| 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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| gong | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick | Synonyms: tam-tam |
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| (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: bell, chime |
| 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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