| forbidding | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening |
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| (adjective) harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | Synonyms: dour, grim |
| (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbiddance |
| forbiddingly | (adverb) in an unpleasant or menacing manner | - |
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| fording | (noun) the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse | Synonyms: ford |
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| foreboding | (adjective) ominously prophetic | Synonyms: fateful, portentous |
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| (noun) an unfavorable omen | - |
| (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, premonition, presentiment |
| foregrounding | (noun) the execution of a program that preempts the use of the processing system | Synonyms: foreground processing |
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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 |
| 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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| freestanding | (adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything | Synonyms: separate |
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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 |
| gelding | (noun) castrated male horse | - |
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| gilding | (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilt |
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| gliding | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, sailing, sailplaning, soaring |
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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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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| guiding | (adjective) exerting control or influence | - |
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| (adjective) showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on | Synonyms: directing, directional, directive |
| hardinggrass | (noun) perennial grass of Australia and South Africa; introduced in North America as forage grass | Synonyms: Harding grass, Phalaris aquatica, Phalaris tuberosa, toowomba canary grass |
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| heading | (noun) a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine | Synonyms: drift, gallery |
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| (noun) a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about | Synonyms: head, header |
| (noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, bearing |
| heartrending | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartbreaking |
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| hiding | (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealing, concealment |
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| (noun) the state of being hidden | - |
| hoarding | (noun) large outdoor signboard | Synonyms: billboard |
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| holding | (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: keeping, retention |
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| (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: belongings, property |
| humdinger | (noun) someone of remarkable excellence | - |
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| impeding | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, hindering, obstructive |
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| impending | (adjective) close in time; about to occur | Synonyms: at hand, close at hand, imminent, impendent |
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| impounding | (noun) placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law | Synonyms: impoundment, internment, poundage |
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| inbreeding | (noun) the act of mating closely related individuals | - |
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| infolding | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: introversion, intussusception, invagination |
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| interbreeding | (noun) (genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids | Synonyms: cross, crossbreeding, crossing, hybridisation, hybridization, hybridizing |
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| (noun) reproduction by parents of different races (especially by white and non-white persons) | Synonyms: crossbreeding, miscegenation |
| intruding | (adjective) projecting inward | - |
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| invading | (adjective) involving invasion or aggressive attack | Synonyms: incursive, invasive |
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| lading | (noun) goods carried by a large vehicle | Synonyms: cargo, consignment, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment |
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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 | - |
| leading | (adjective) going or proceeding or going in advance; showing the way | - |
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| (adjective) greatest in importance or degree or significance or achievement | Synonyms: preeminent |
| (adjective) having the leading position or higher score in a contest | Synonyms: ahead, in the lead |
| (adjective) indicating the most important performer or role | Synonyms: prima, star, starring, stellar |
| (noun) thin strip of metal used to separate lines of type in printing | Synonyms: lead |
| (noun) the activity of leading | Synonyms: leadership |
| 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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| lipreading | (noun) perceiving what a person is saying by observing the movements of the lips | - |
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| 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 | - |
| longstanding | (adjective) having existed for a long time | Synonyms: long-standing |
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| marauding | (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: predatory, raiding |
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| (noun) Raiding and pillaging. | - |
| mending | (noun) the act of putting something in working order again | Synonyms: fix, fixing, fixture, mend, repair, reparation |
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| (noun) garments that must be repaired | - |
| misleading | (adjective) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently | Synonyms: deceptive |
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| misleadingly | (adverb) in a misleading way | Synonyms: deceivingly, deceptively |
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| misleadingness | (noun) The quality of being deceptive or tending to mislead or create a false impression. | - |
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| misreading | (noun) misinterpretation caused by inaccurate reading | - |
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| misunderstanding | (noun) an understanding of something that is not correct | Synonyms: misapprehension, mistake |
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| (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: misinterpretation, mistaking |
| molding | (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, modelling, moulding |
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| (noun) the act of creating something by casting it in a mold | Synonyms: casting |
| (noun) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge | Synonyms: border, moulding |
| (noun) a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing | Synonyms: moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, modelling, mold, mould, moulding |
| moulding | (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, modelling, molding |
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| (noun) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge | Synonyms: border, molding |
| (noun) a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing | Synonyms: molding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, modelling, mold, molding, mould |
| musclebuilding | (noun) exercise that builds muscles through tension | Synonyms: anaerobic exercise, bodybuilding, muscle building |
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| nodding | (adjective) having branches or flower heads that bend downward | Synonyms: cernuous, drooping, pendulous, weeping |
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| notwithstanding | (adverb) despite anything to the contrary (usually preceding a concession) | Synonyms: all the same, at the same time, even so, however, nevertheless, nonetheless, still, withal, yet |
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| offending | (adjective) offending against or breaking a law or rule | - |
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| outbuilding | (noun) a building that is subordinate to and separate from a main building | - |
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| outstanding | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: prominent, salient, spectacular, striking |
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| (adjective) of major significance or importance | Synonyms: great |
| (adjective) distinguished from others in excellence | - |
| (adjective) owed as a debt | Synonyms: owing, undischarged |
| outstandingly | (adverb) in an outstanding manner or to an outstanding degree | - |
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| overfeeding | (noun) excessive feeding | - |
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| overriding | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant, preponderating |
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| overshielding | (noun) excessive protection | Synonyms: momism, overprotection |
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| padding | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: cushioning |
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| paragliding | (noun) gliding in a parasail | Synonyms: parasailing |
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| pending | (adjective) awaiting conclusion or confirmation | - |
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| pleading | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: beseeching, imploring |
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| (noun) (law) a statement in legal and logical form stating something on behalf of a party to a legal proceeding | - |
| pleadingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, imploringly, importunately |
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| plodding | (adjective) (of movement) slow and laborious | Synonyms: leaden |
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| (noun) hard monotonous routine work | Synonyms: donkeywork, drudgery, grind |
| (noun) the act of walking with a slow heavy gait | Synonyms: plod |
| ploddingly | (adverb) in a plodding manner | - |
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| pounding | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, hammering, pound |
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| (noun) repeated heavy blows | Synonyms: buffeting |
| (noun) an instance of rapid strong pulsation (of the heart) | Synonyms: throb, throbbing |
| preceding | (adjective) existing or coming before | - |
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| (adjective) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office | Synonyms: past, retiring |
| pretending | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense, simulation |
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| proceeding | (noun) (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Synonyms: legal proceeding, proceedings |
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| proceedings | (noun) (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked | Synonyms: legal proceeding, proceeding |
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| (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: minutes, transactions |
| prodding | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, spur, spurring, urging |
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| protruding | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| pudding | (noun) any of various soft sweet desserts thickened usually with flour and baked or boiled or steamed | - |
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| (noun) any of various soft thick unsweetened baked dishes | - |
| (noun) (British) the dessert course of a meal (`pud' is used informally) | Synonyms: pud |
| puddingheaded | (adjective) stupid and confused | Synonyms: addlebrained, addlepated, muddleheaded |
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| puddingwife | (noun) bluish and bronze wrasse; found from Florida keys to Brazil | Synonyms: Halicoeres radiatus, pudding-wife |
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| pyramiding | (noun) a fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors selling to other distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated | - |
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| raiding | (adjective) characterized by plundering or pillaging or marauding | Synonyms: marauding, predatory |
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| railroading | (noun) the activity of designing and constructing and operating railroads | Synonyms: rail technology |
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| reading | (noun) the act of measuring with meters or similar instruments | Synonyms: meter reading |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of understanding a written linguistic message | - |
| (noun) a mental representation of the meaning or significance of something | Synonyms: interpretation, version |
| (noun) a datum about some physical state that is presented to a user by a meter or similar instrument | Synonyms: indication, meter reading |
| (noun) written material intended to be read | Synonyms: reading material |
| (noun) a particular interpretation or performance | - |
| (noun) a public instance of reciting or repeating (from memory) something prepared in advance | Synonyms: recital, recitation |
| rebuilding | (noun) building again | - |
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| receding | (adjective) (of a hairline e.g.) moving slowly back | - |
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| (noun) the act of becoming more distant | Synonyms: recession |
| (noun) a slow or gradual disappearance | Synonyms: fadeout |
| recoding | (noun) converting from one code to another | - |
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| recording | (noun) the act of making a record (especially an audio record) | Synonyms: transcription |
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| (noun) a signal that encodes something (e.g., picture or sound) that has been recorded | - |
| (noun) a storage device on which information (sounds or images) have been recorded | - |
| rending | (adjective) resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree | Synonyms: ripping, splitting |
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| resounding | (adjective) characterized by resonance | Synonyms: resonant, resonating, reverberating, reverberative |
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| resoundingly | (adverb) in a resounding manner | - |
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| rewarding | (adjective) providing personal satisfaction | - |
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| rewardingly | (adverb) in a rewarding manner | - |
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| rewording | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: recasting, rephrasing |
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| riding | (noun) travel by being carried on horseback | Synonyms: horseback riding |
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| (noun) the sport of sitting on the back of a horse while controlling its movements | Synonyms: equitation, horseback riding |
| rollerblading | (noun) skating using Rollerblades | - |
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| rounding | (noun) (mathematics) a miscalculation that results from rounding off numbers to a convenient number of decimals | Synonyms: rounding error |
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| scaffolding | (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: staging |
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| scolding | (noun) rebuking a person harshly | Synonyms: chiding, objurgation, tongue-lashing |
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| scudding | (noun) the act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale) | Synonyms: scud |
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| sending | (noun) the act of causing something to go (especially messages) | - |
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| shading | (noun) a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades | Synonyms: blending |
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| (noun) graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting | - |
| shareholding | (noun) a holding in the form of shares of corporations | - |
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| shedding | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: desquamation, peeling |
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| (noun) the process whereby something is shed | Synonyms: sloughing |