| abiding | (adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: enduring, imperishable |
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| abounding | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: galore |
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| according | (adjective) (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to') as reported or stated by | - |
| accordingly | (adverb) (sentence connectors) because of the reason given | Synonyms: consequently |
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| (adverb) in accordance with | - |
| acetophenetidin | (noun) a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic | Synonyms: acetphenetidin, phenacetin |
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| acetphenetidin | (noun) a white crystalline compound used as an analgesic and also as an antipyretic | Synonyms: acetophenetidin, phenacetin |
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| almandine | (noun) a purple variety of the ruby spinel | - |
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| (noun) a deep red garnet consisting of iron aluminum silicate | Synonyms: almandite |
| altitudinal | (adjective) pertaining to altitude | - |
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| altitudinous | (adjective) indefinitely high; lofty | - |
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| aptitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to aptitudes | - |
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| arundinaceous | (adjective) of or relating to or resembling reedlike plants of the genus Arundinaria | - |
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| ascending | (adjective) moving or going or growing upward | - |
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| (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
| astounding | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: dumbfounding, dumfounding |
| attending | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: ministrant |
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| (noun) the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) | Synonyms: attendance |
| (noun) the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others | Synonyms: attention |
| attitudinal | (adjective) of or relating to attitudes | - |
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| attitudinise | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinize |
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| attitudinize | (verb) assume certain affected attitudes | Synonyms: attitudinise |
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| autoloading | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: self-loading, semiautomatic |
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| awarding | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: award |
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| backgrounding | (noun) the execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system | Synonyms: background processing |
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| backsliding | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| badinage | (noun) frivolous banter | - |
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| balding | (adjective) getting bald | - |
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| banding | (noun) an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material | Synonyms: band, stripe |
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| (noun) a stripe or stripes of contrasting color | Synonyms: band, stria, striation |
| bawdiness | (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity |
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| beading | (noun) a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture | Synonyms: astragal, bead, beadwork |
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| (noun) ornamentation with beads | Synonyms: beadwork |
| bedding | (noun) coverings that are used on a bed | Synonyms: bed clothing, bedclothes |
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| (noun) material used to provide a bed for animals | Synonyms: bedding material, litter |
| beheading | (noun) killing by cutting off the head | Synonyms: decapitation |
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| (noun) execution by cutting off the victim's head | Synonyms: decapitation |
| beholding | (noun) perception by means of the eyes | Synonyms: seeing, visual perception |
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| bending | (noun) the act of bending something | - |
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| (noun) the property of being bent or deflected | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion |
| (noun) movement that causes the formation of a curve | Synonyms: bend |
| bidding | (noun) a request to be present | Synonyms: summons |
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| (noun) (bridge) the number of tricks a bridge player is willing to contract to make | Synonyms: bid |
| (noun) an authoritative direction or instruction to do something | Synonyms: bid, command, dictation |
| binding | (adjective) executed with proper legal authority | - |
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| (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, dressing |
| (noun) the protective covering on the front, back, and spine of a book | Synonyms: back, book binding, cover |
| (noun) strip sewn over or along an edge for reinforcement or decoration | - |
| (noun) one of a pair of mechanical devices that are attached to a ski and that will grip a ski boot; the bindings should release in case of a fall | Synonyms: ski binding |
| (noun) the capacity to attract and hold something | - |
| bleeding | (noun) the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel | Synonyms: haemorrhage, hemorrhage |
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| blending | (noun) a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades | Synonyms: shading |
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| (noun) the act of blending components together thoroughly | Synonyms: blend |
| blinding | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| blockading | (adjective) blocking entrance to and exit from seaports and harbors | - |
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| bloodiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodthirstiness |
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| (noun) the state of being bloody | - |
| boarding | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: embarkation, embarkment |
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| (noun) a structure of boards | - |
| boardinghouse | (noun) a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests | Synonyms: boarding house |
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| bobsledding | (noun) riding on a bobsled | - |
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| boding | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: foreboding, premonition, presentiment |
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| bodybuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, muscle building, musclebuilding |
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| bonding | (noun) fastening firmly together | Synonyms: soldering |
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| (noun) (dentistry) a technique for repairing a tooth; resinous material is applied to the surface of the tooth where it adheres to the tooth's enamel | - |
| (noun) a close personal relationship that forms between people (as between husband and wife or parent and child) | - |
| bookbinding | (noun) the craft of binding books | - |
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| braiding | (noun) trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains | Synonyms: braid, gold braid |
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| branding | (noun) the act of stigmatizing | Synonyms: stigmatisation, stigmatization |
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| breeding | (adjective) producing offspring or set aside especially for producing offspring | - |
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| (noun) the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring | Synonyms: facts of life, procreation, reproduction |
| (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
| (noun) the production of animals or plants by inbreeding or hybridization | - |
| (noun) the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior) | Synonyms: education, training |
| (noun) elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression | Synonyms: genteelness, gentility |
| brigandine | (noun) a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth | - |
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| brooding | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| (noun) persistent morbid meditation on a problem | Synonyms: pensiveness |
| (noun) sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body | Synonyms: incubation |
| budding | (adjective) beginning to develop | - |
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| (noun) reproduction of some unicellular organisms (such as yeasts) by growth and specialization followed by the separation by constriction of a part of the parent | - |
| building | (noun) the act of constructing something | Synonyms: construction |
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| (noun) the commercial activity involved in repairing old structures or constructing new ones | Synonyms: construction |
| (noun) a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place | Synonyms: edifice |
| (noun) the occupants of a building | - |
| calamondin | (noun) a fruit of the calamondin tree. | - |
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| cardinal | (adjective) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order | - |
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| (adjective) serving as an essential component | Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal |
| (noun) crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male | Synonyms: cardinal grosbeak, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird, Richmondena Cardinalis |
| (noun) a variable color averaging a vivid red | Synonyms: carmine |
| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes | - |
| (noun) the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order | Synonyms: cardinal number |
| cardinalate | (noun) the office of cardinal | Synonyms: cardinalship |
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| (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the body of all cardinals of the church; elects and advises the pope | Synonyms: College of Cardinals, Sacred College, Sacred College of Cardinals |
| cardinalfish | (noun) small red fishes of coral reefs and inshore tropical waters | - |
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| cardinality | (noun) (mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping) | - |
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| cardinalship | (noun) the office of cardinal | Synonyms: cardinalate |
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| ceding | (noun) the act of ceding | Synonyms: cession |
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| celandine | (noun) perennial herb with branched woody stock and bright yellow flowers | Synonyms: Chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallow wort, swallowwort |
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| (noun) North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil | Synonyms: Impatiens capensis, jewelweed, lady's earrings, orange balsam, touch-me-not |
| cephaloridine | (noun) a broad spectrum semisynthetic antibiotic produced by modifying cephalosporin | - |
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| chiding | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: objurgation, scolding, tongue-lashing |
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| chlorhexidine | (noun) a long-lasting liquid antiseptic; used by surgeons to wash their hands before performing surgery | - |
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| cimetidine | (noun) a drug (trade name Tagamet) used to treat peptic ulcers by decreasing the secretion of stomach acid | Synonyms: Tagamet |
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| cladding | (noun) a protective covering that protects the outside of a building | Synonyms: facing |
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| clonidine | (noun) an antihypertensive (trade name Catapres) that can be administered orally or via transdermal patches | Synonyms: Catapres |
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| cloudiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: muddiness, murkiness |
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| (noun) the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds | Synonyms: cloud cover, overcast |
| (noun) gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover | Synonyms: overcast |
| clouding | (noun) the process whereby water particles become visible in the sky | Synonyms: clouding up |
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| coding | (noun) act of writing in code or cipher | Synonyms: cryptography, secret writing, steganography |
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| coinciding | (adjective) occurring or operating at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrent, coincident, coincidental, concurrent, cooccurring, simultaneous |
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| commanding | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: dominating, overlooking |
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| compounding | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, combining |
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| conceding | (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: concession, yielding |
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| concluding | (adjective) occurring at or forming an end or termination | Synonyms: final, last, terminal |
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| condescending | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing |
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| condescendingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: patronisingly, patronizingly |
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| condescendingness | (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescension |
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| confiding | (adjective) willing to entrust personal matters | - |
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| confidingly | (adverb) with trust; in a trusting manner | Synonyms: trustfully, trustingly |
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| confounding | (adjective) that confounds or contradicts or confuses | Synonyms: contradictory |
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| consuetudinal | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinary |
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| consuetudinary | (noun) a manual describing the customs of a particular group (especially the ceremonial practices of a monastic order) | Synonyms: consuetudinal |
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| contadino | (noun) an Italian farmer | - |
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| coordinate | (adjective) of equal importance, rank, or degree | - |
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| (noun) a number that identifies a position relative to an axis | Synonyms: co-ordinate |
| (verb) bring order and organization to | Synonyms: organise, organize |
| (verb) bring (components or parts) into proper or desirable coordination correlation | Synonyms: align, ordinate |
| (verb) bring into common action, movement, or condition | - |
| (verb) be co-ordinated | - |
| coordinated | (adjective) being dexterous in the use of more than one set of muscle movements | Synonyms: co-ordinated |
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| (adjective) operating as a unit | Synonyms: co-ordinated, interconnected, unified |
| (adjective) intentionally matched | Synonyms: co-ordinated, matching |
| coordinately | (adverb) in a coordinated manner | - |
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| coordinating | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinative |
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| coordination | (noun) the regulation of diverse elements into an integrated and harmonious operation | - |
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| (noun) the skillful and effective interaction of movements | - |
| (noun) being of coordinate importance, rank, or degree | - |
| (noun) the grammatical relation of two constituents having the same grammatical form | - |
| coordinative | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinating |
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| coordinator | (noun) someone whose task is to see that work goes harmoniously | Synonyms: co-ordinator |
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| corresponding | (adjective) accompanying | - |
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| (adjective) conforming in every respect | Synonyms: comparable, like |
| (adjective) similar especially in position or purpose | - |
| correspondingly | (adverb) in a corresponding manner | - |
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| corroding | (noun) erosion by chemical action | Synonyms: corrosion, erosion |
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| crossbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing, interbreeding |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: interbreeding, miscegenation |
| crossheading | (noun) a heading of a subsection printed within the body of the text | Synonyms: crosshead |
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| crowdfunding | (noun) Funding from a large number of small backers | - |
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| crowding | (noun) a situation in which people or things are crowded together | - |
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| cuckolding | (noun) A sexual act where a married person has sex with another person while their spouse watches | - |
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| cyproheptadine | (noun) an antihistamine (trade name Periactin) used to treat some allergic reactions | Synonyms: Periactin |
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| cytidine | (noun) a nucleoside component of DNA; composed of cytosine and deoxyribose | Synonyms: deoxycytidine |
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| deciding | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: determinant, determinative, determining |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision | Synonyms: decision making |