| apportioning | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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| assigning | (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assignment |
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| awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
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| awning | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: sunblind, sunshade |
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| ballooning | (noun) flying in a balloon | - |
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| banning | (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, forbiddance, forbidding |
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| bargaining | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | - |
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| beginning | (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: commencement, start |
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| (noun) the first part or section of something | - |
| (noun) the event consisting of the start of something | - |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| blackening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: darkening |
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| broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
| (noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
| browning | (noun) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill | Synonyms: toasting |
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| burning | (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: combustion |
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| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: electrocution |
| (noun) execution by fire | Synonyms: burning at the stake |
| (noun) a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin | - |
| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burn |
| campaigning | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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| caning | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: wicker, wickerwork |
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| caravanning | (noun) the practice of taking holidays in a caravan | - |
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| chastening | (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastisement, correction |
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| christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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| cleaning | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleansing, cleanup |
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| cloning | (noun) a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell) | - |
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| clowning | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: comedy, drollery, funniness |
| cocooning | (noun) retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape) | - |
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| combining | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, compounding |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combine |
| commissioning | (noun) the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | Synonyms: commission |
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| conditioning | (noun) a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment | - |
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| convening | (noun) the act of convening | Synonyms: convention |
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| crooning | (noun) the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner | - |
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| (noun) singing in a soft low tone | - |
| cunning | (noun) crafty artfulness (especially in deception) | - |
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| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| cushioning | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: padding |
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| dampening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: moistening |
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| darkening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
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| darning | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | - |
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| dawning | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| deadening | (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
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| deepening | (noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
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| defining | (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: shaping |
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| designing | (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: design |
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| dining | (noun) the act of eating dinner | - |
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| disowning | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disownment |
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| droning | (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, monotone |
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| 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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| envisioning | (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: picturing |
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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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| forewarning | (noun) an early warning about a future event | Synonyms: premonition |
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| frightening | (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization |
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| functioning | (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: operation, performance |
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| gardening | (noun) the cultivation of plants | Synonyms: horticulture |
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| governing | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
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| graining | (noun) a texture like that of wood | Synonyms: woodgraining |
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| greening | (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: rejuvenation |
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| 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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| gunrunning | (noun) the smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally | - |
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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 | - |
| heartburning | (noun) intense resentment | - |
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| housecleaning | (noun) the act of cleaning the rooms and furnishings of a house | - |
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| (noun) (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions | - |
| inclining | (noun) the act of inclining; bending forward | Synonyms: inclination |
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| ingraining | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, instilling |
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| inning | (noun) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat | Synonyms: frame |
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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 | - |
| joining | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
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| kenning | (noun) conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry | - |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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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| limning | (noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, depiction, line drawing |
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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 |
| listening | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: hearing |
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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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| loosening | (noun) the act of making something less tight | Synonyms: laxation |
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| (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: relaxation, slackening |
| meaning | (noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: substance |
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| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, significance, signification |
| microphoning | (noun) the transduction of sound waves into electrical waves (by a microphone) | - |
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| mining | (noun) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth | Synonyms: excavation |
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| (noun) laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment | Synonyms: minelaying |
| misreckoning | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: miscalculation, misestimation |
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| moistening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: dampening |
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| morning | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good morning | Synonyms: good morning |
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| (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: dawn |
| (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: forenoon, morn, morning time |
| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, sunrise, sunup |
| mourning | (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: lamentation |
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| (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: bereavement |
| opening | (noun) a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess | Synonyms: chess opening |
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| (noun) the act of opening something | - |
| (noun) becoming open or being made open | - |
| (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, initiative, opening move |
| (noun) a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made | - |
| (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: hatchway, scuttle |
| (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: orifice, porta |
| (noun) a possible alternative | Synonyms: possibility, possible action |
| (noun) the initial part of the introduction | - |
| (noun) the first performance (as of a theatrical production) | Synonyms: curtain raising, opening night |
| (noun) a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise | - |
| (noun) an open or empty space in or between things | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) opportunity especially for employment or promotion | - |
| overreckoning | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overrating |
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| partitioning | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partition, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
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| (noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: breakdown |
| penning | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, composition, writing |
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| pining | (noun) a feeling of deep longing | - |
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| pinning | (noun) a mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin | - |
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| planning | (noun) an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action | - |
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| (noun) the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise | - |
| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: preparation, provision |
| poisoning | (noun) the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill | - |
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| (noun) the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | Synonyms: intoxication, toxic condition |
| positioning | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position |
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| pruning | (noun) the act of trimming a plant | - |
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| (noun) something that has been pruned off of a plant | - |
| punning | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: paronomasia, pun, wordplay |
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| questioning | (noun) a request for information | Synonyms: inquiring |
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| quickening | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: acceleration, speedup |
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| (noun) the process of showing signs of life | - |
| (noun) the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus | - |
| rationing | (noun) the act of rationing | - |
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| reasoning | (noun) thinking that is coherent and logical | Synonyms: abstract thought, logical thinking |
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| reckoning | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, numeration, tally |
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| (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, figuring |
| (noun) a bill for an amount due | Synonyms: tally |