| imparting | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, impartation |
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| importing | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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| imprinting | (noun) a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established | - |
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| infighting | (noun) boxing at close quarters | - |
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| (noun) conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) | - |
| inoculating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: vaccinating |
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| insisting | (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insistence |
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| integrating | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integration |
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| interpreting | (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, rendering, rendition |
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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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| jotting | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jot |
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| 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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| 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 |
| legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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| letting | (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: lease, rental |
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| 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 |
| limiting | (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: modification, qualifying |
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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 |
| 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 |
| looting | (noun) plundering during riots or in wartime | Synonyms: robbery |
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| luting | (noun) a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid | Synonyms: lute |
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| marketing | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: merchandising, selling |
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| (noun) shopping at a market | - |
| (noun) the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service | - |
| mating | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, pairing, sexual union, union |
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| matting | (noun) a covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp) | - |
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| (noun) mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture | Synonyms: mat |
| meeting | (noun) the social act of assembling for some common purpose | Synonyms: coming together, congress |
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| (noun) the act of joining together as one | Synonyms: coming together, merging |
| (noun) a casual or unexpected convergence | Synonyms: encounter |
| (noun) a formally arranged gathering | Synonyms: group meeting |
| (noun) a small informal social gathering | Synonyms: get together |
| (noun) a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) | Synonyms: confluence |
| melting | (noun) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | Synonyms: melt, thaw, thawing |
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| misdating | (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: anachronism, mistiming |
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| molting | (noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles | Synonyms: ecdysis, molt, moult, moulting |
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| motivating | (noun) the act of motivating; providing incentive | Synonyms: motivation |
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| moulting | (noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles | Synonyms: ecdysis, molt, molting, moult |
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| mounting | (noun) framework used for support or display | - |
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| (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, climbing |
| netting | (noun) creating nets | - |
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| (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: gauze, veiling |
| neuromarketing | (noun) marketing based on studies of consumers' sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective responses | Synonyms: neuro-marketing |
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| officiating | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiation, refereeing, umpirage |
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| ousting | (noun) the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out | Synonyms: ouster |
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| outfitting | (noun) the act of renovating and fitting out a ship | - |
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| outing | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, junket, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (noun) a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering | Synonyms: field day, picnic |
| overacting | (noun) poor acting by a ham actor | Synonyms: hamming |
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| overcasting | (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcast |
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| overcoating | (noun) an additional protective coating (as of paint or varnish) | Synonyms: overcoat |
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| overeating | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gluttony, gula |
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| overheating | (noun) excessive heating | - |
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| overrating | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overreckoning |
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| painting | (noun) creating a picture with paints | - |
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| (noun) the occupation of a house painter | Synonyms: house painting |
| (noun) the act of applying paint to a surface | - |
| (noun) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface | Synonyms: picture |
| panting | (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: heaving |
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| (noun) any fabric used to make trousers | Synonyms: trousering |
| parachuting | (noun) descent with a parachute | Synonyms: jump |
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| pargeting | (noun) ornamental plastering | Synonyms: pargetting |
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| (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargetry, pargetting |
| (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: parget, pargetting |
| pargetting | (noun) ornamental plastering | Synonyms: pargeting |
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| (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetry |
| (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: parget, pargeting |
| parting | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, leave |
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| (noun) a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions | Synonyms: part |
| pelting | (noun) anything happening rapidly or in quick successive | Synonyms: rain |
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| petting | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, smooching, snuggling |
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| piloting | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: navigation, pilotage |
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| (noun) the occupation of a pilot | Synonyms: pilotage |
| pipefitting | (noun) fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together | Synonyms: pipe fitting |
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| pitting | (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, roughness |
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| planting | (noun) the act of fixing firmly in place | - |
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| (noun) putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow | - |
| (noun) a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area | - |
| plating | (noun) the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis) | - |
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| (noun) a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface | Synonyms: metal plating |
| playacting | (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, performing, playing |
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| pleating | (noun) the act of folding in parallel folds | Synonyms: plication |
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| posting | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: mailing |
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| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, poster |
| (noun) (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records | - |
| printing | (noun) the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution | - |
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| (noun) reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication | Synonyms: printing process |
| (noun) text handwritten in the style of printed matter | - |
| (noun) all the copies of a work printed at one time | Synonyms: impression |
| prompting | (noun) persuasion formulated as a suggestion | Synonyms: suggestion |
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| (noun) a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken) | Synonyms: prompt |
| punting | (noun) (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground | Synonyms: punt |
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| putting | (noun) hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter | Synonyms: putt |
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| quilting | (noun) a material used for making a quilt, or a quilted fabric | - |
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| (noun) stitching through layers of fabric and a filling so as to create a design | - |
| ranting | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: harangue, rant |
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| rating | (noun) act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of | Synonyms: evaluation |
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| (noun) an appraisal of the value of something | Synonyms: evaluation, valuation |
| (noun) standing or position on a scale | - |
| (noun) rank in a military organization | Synonyms: military rank, military rating, paygrade |
| ratting | (noun) to furnish incriminating evidence to an officer of the law (usually in return for favors) | Synonyms: informing |
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| recasting | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: rephrasing, rewording |
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| recounting | (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: relation, telling |
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| regulating | (noun) the act of controlling or directing according to rule | Synonyms: regulation |
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| relegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegating, delegation, deputation, relegation |
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| renting | (noun) the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car) | Synonyms: rental |
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| repeating | (noun) the act of doing or performing again | Synonyms: repetition |
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| reporting | (noun) the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television | Synonyms: coverage, reportage |
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| repositing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: reposition, storage, warehousing |
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| reprinting | (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reissue, reprint |
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| reverting | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion |
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| rewriting | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: revising |
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| rioting | (noun) a state of disorder involving group violence | Synonyms: riot |
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| roasting | (noun) cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added) | - |
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| rooting | (noun) the process of putting forth roots and beginning to grow | - |
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| rotting | (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, decomposition, putrefaction, rot |
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| rusting | (noun) the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water | Synonyms: rust |
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| salting | (noun) the act of adding salt to food | - |
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| scouting | (noun) exploring in order to gain information | Synonyms: exploratory survey, reconnoitering, reconnoitring |
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| seating | (noun) the service of ushering people to their seats | - |
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| (noun) an area that includes places where several people can sit | Synonyms: seating area, seating room, seats |
| setting | (noun) a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place | Synonyms: mount |
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| (noun) arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted | Synonyms: mise en scene, stage setting |
| (noun) a table service for one person | Synonyms: place setting |
| (noun) the context and environment in which something is set | Synonyms: scene |
| (noun) the physical position of something | - |
| (noun) the state of the environment in which a situation exists | Synonyms: background, scope |
| (noun) the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event | Synonyms: circumstance, context |
| sexting | (noun) sending sexual messages using a mobile phone or computer | - |
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| sheeting | (noun) fabric from which bed sheets are made | - |
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| shifting | (noun) the act of moving from one place to another | Synonyms: shift |
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| shirting | (noun) any of various fabrics used to make men's shirts | - |
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| shitting | (noun) the elimination of fecal waste through the anus | Synonyms: defecation, laxation |
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| shooting | (noun) the act of firing a projectile | Synonyms: shot |
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| (noun) killing someone by gunfire | - |
| shoplifting | (noun) the act of stealing goods that are on display in a store | Synonyms: shrinkage |
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| shouting | (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: cheering |
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| (noun) uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement | Synonyms: yelling |
| shutting | (noun) the act of closing something | Synonyms: closing |
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| sifting | (noun) the act of separating grain from chaff | Synonyms: winnow, winnowing |
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| sighting | (noun) the act of observing | - |
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| sitting | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position | - |
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| (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: posing |
| (noun) a session as of a legislature or court | - |
| (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: seance, session |