| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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| bloodline | (noun) ancestry of a purebred animal | Synonyms: pedigree |
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| (noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
| breadline | (noun) a queue of people waiting for free food | Synonyms: bread line |
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| bundling | (noun) the act of binding something into a bundle | - |
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| (noun) the act of shoving hastily | - |
| (noun) a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing | - |
| codling | (noun) young codfish | - |
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| cowardliness | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardice |
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| cuddling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| curdling | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: clotting, coagulation |
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| dastardliness | (noun) despicable cowardice | - |
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| dawdling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, trifling |
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| deadline | (noun) the point in time at which something must be completed | - |
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| deadliness | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: lethality |
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| dwindling | (adjective) gradually decreasing until little remains | Synonyms: tapering, tapering off |
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| (noun) a becoming gradually less | Synonyms: dwindling away |
| fiddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| fondling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| foundling | (noun) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown | Synonyms: abandoned infant |
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| friendliness | (noun) a friendly disposition | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their company | - |
| godliness | (noun) piety by virtue of being a godly person | - |
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| groundling | (noun) in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section | - |
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| handline | (noun) a fishing line managed principally by hand | Synonyms: hand line |
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| (noun) (climbing) a line that can be hung onto with hands while climbing up or down a steep or slick section for limited protection. | - |
| handling | (noun) manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something | - |
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| (noun) the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means | Synonyms: manipulation |
| (noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: treatment |
| hardline | (adjective) firm and uncompromising | Synonyms: hard-line |
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| hardliner | (noun) a conservative who is uncompromising | - |
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| headline | (noun) the heading or caption of a newspaper article | Synonyms: newspaper headline |
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| (verb) publicize widely or highly, as if with a headline | - |
| (verb) provide (a newspaper page or a story) with a headline | - |
| headliner | (noun) a performer who receives prominent billing | Synonyms: star |
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| headlinese | (noun) using the abbreviated style of headline writers | - |
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| hurdling | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdles |
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| idling | (noun) having no employment | Synonyms: idleness, loafing |
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| kindliness | (noun) friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition | Synonyms: helpfulness |
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| 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 |
| landline | (noun) a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits | Synonyms: land line |
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| lordliness | (noun) formality in bearing and appearance | Synonyms: dignity, gravitas |
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| (noun) overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors | Synonyms: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness |
| maudlin | (adjective) effusively or insincerely emotional | Synonyms: bathetic, drippy, hokey, kitschy, mawkish, mushy, sappy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy |
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| meddling | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, officious |
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| (noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: tampering |
| middling | (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, fair, mediocre |
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| (noun) any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran) | - |
| (adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, jolly, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat |
| midline | (noun) the median plane of the body (or some part of the body) | Synonyms: midplane |
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| niggardliness | (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: closeness, meanness, minginess, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
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| oldline | (adjective) long-established | Synonyms: old-line |
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| (adjective) adhering to conservative or reactionary principles | Synonyms: old-line |
| otherworldliness | (noun) concern with things of the spirit | Synonyms: spiritism, spiritualism, spirituality |
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| peddling | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, vending, vendition |
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| piddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piffling, trivial |
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| redline | (verb) discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood | - |
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| seedling | (noun) young plant or tree grown from a seed | - |
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| unfriendliness | (noun) an unfriendly disposition | - |
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| (noun) dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness | - |
| ungodliness | (noun) impiety by virtue of not being a godly person | Synonyms: godlessness |
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| wheedling | (noun) the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery | Synonyms: blandishment |
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| worldliness | (noun) the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment | Synonyms: mundaneness, mundanity, sophistication |
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| (noun) concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs | - |
| worldling | (noun) a person absorbed by the concerns and interests and pleasures of the present world | - |
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| (noun) an inhabitant of the earth | Synonyms: earthling, earthman, tellurian |