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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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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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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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 |
kenning | (noun) conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry | - |
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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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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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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 | - |
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 |
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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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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lining | (noun) the act of attaching an inside lining (to a garment or curtain etc.) | - |
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(noun) providing something with a surface of a different material | Synonyms: facing |
(noun) a protective covering that protects an inside surface | Synonyms: liner |
(noun) a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment | Synonyms: liner |
lipreading | (noun) perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips | - |
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listening | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: hearing |
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listing | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemisation, itemization |
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(noun) a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) | Synonyms: list |
livelong | (noun) perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers | Synonyms: live-forever, orpin, orpine, Sedum telephium |
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living | (noun) the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities | Synonyms: life |
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(noun) people who are still living | - |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, support, sustenance |
(noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: aliveness, animation, life |
loading | (noun) the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc. | - |
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(noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, lading, load, payload, shipment |
(noun) weight to be borne or conveyed | Synonyms: burden, load |
(noun) a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time | Synonyms: load |
(noun) the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift | - |
loafing | (noun) having no employment | Synonyms: idleness, idling |
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loaning | (noun) disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Synonyms: lending |
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loathing | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, odium |
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locating | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, location, placement, position, positioning |
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(noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, localization, location |
locking | (noun) the act of locking something up to protect it | Synonyms: lockup |
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lockring | (noun) washer that prevents a nut from loosening | Synonyms: lock ring, lock washer |
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