| adulterine | (adjective) conceived in adultery | - |
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| altering | (noun) the sterilization of an animal | Synonyms: fixing, neutering |
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| amethopterin | (noun) toxic antimetabolite that limits cellular reproduction by acting as an antagonist to folic acid; used to treat certain cancers and psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis | Synonyms: methotrexate, methotrexate sodium |
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| anoperineal | (adjective) relating to the anus and surrounding perineum | - |
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| anserine | (adjective) of or resembling a goose | - |
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| (adjective) having or revealing stupidity | Synonyms: dopey, dopy, foolish, gooselike, goosey, goosy, jerky |
| answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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| badgering | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: bedevilment, torment, worrying |
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| ballerina | (noun) a female ballet dancer | Synonyms: danseuse |
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| bantering | (adjective) cleverly amusing in tone | Synonyms: facetious, tongue-in-cheek |
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| banteringly | (adverb) in a bantering fashion | Synonyms: tongue-in-cheek |
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| battering | (noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: banging |
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| beleaguering | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: besieging, military blockade, siege |
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| bettering | (adjective) changing for the better | - |
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| bewilderingly | (adverb) in a bewildering and confusing manner | Synonyms: confusingly |
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| bickering | (noun) a quarrel about petty points | Synonyms: bicker, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff |
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| bioengineering | (noun) the branch of engineering science in which biological science is used to study the relation between workers and their environments | Synonyms: biotechnology, ergonomics |
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| blistering | (adjective) very fast; capable of quick response and great speed | Synonyms: hot, red-hot |
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| (adjective) hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters | Synonyms: blistery |
| (adjective) harsh or corrosive in tone | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic, acid, acrid, bitter, caustic, sulfurous, sulphurous, virulent, vitriolic |
| (noun) the formation of vesicles in or beneath the skin | Synonyms: vesication, vesiculation |
| blustering | (adjective) blowing in violent and abrupt bursts | Synonyms: blusterous, blustery |
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| buccaneering | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: piracy |
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| butchering | (noun) the business of a butcher | Synonyms: butchery |
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| cadaverine | (noun) a colorless toxic ptomaine with an unpleasant odor formed during the putrefaction of animal tissue | - |
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| cantering | (adjective) riding at a gait between a trot and a gallop | - |
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| catering | (noun) providing food and services | - |
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| centering | (noun) (American football) putting the ball in play by passing it (between the legs) to a back | Synonyms: centring, snap |
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| (noun) the concentration of attention or energy on something | Synonyms: centring, direction, focal point, focus, focusing, focussing |
| chattering | (noun) the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys) | Synonyms: chatter |
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| (noun) the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine | Synonyms: chatter |
| cheering | (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: comforting, satisfying |
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| (noun) encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators | Synonyms: shouting |
| chincherinchee | (noun) South African perennial with long-lasting spikes of white blossoms that are shipped in to Europe and America for use as winter cut flowers | Synonyms: Ornithogalum thyrsoides, wonder flower |
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| cholesterin | (noun) an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues | Synonyms: cholesterol |
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| clustering | (noun) a grouping of a number of similar things | Synonyms: bunch, clump, cluster |
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| conquering | (noun) the act of conquering | Synonyms: conquest, subjection, subjugation |
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| counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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| counterinsurgent | (adjective) of or relating or characteristic of actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | - |
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| counterintelligence | (noun) intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism | - |
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| counterintuitive | (adjective) contrary to what common sense would suggest | - |
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| counterintuitively | (adverb) in a counterintuitive manner | - |
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| covering | (noun) the act of protecting something by covering it | - |
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| (noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: application, coating |
| (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, masking, screening |
| (noun) an artifact that covers something else (usually to protect or shelter or conceal it) | - |
| (noun) a natural object that covers or envelops | Synonyms: cover, natural covering |
| culverin | (noun) a medieval musket | - |
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| (noun) a heavy cannon with a long barrel used in the 16th and 17th centuries | - |
| cycloserine | (noun) an antibiotic that is especially active against the tubercle bacillus | - |
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| decentering | (noun) Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others. | Synonyms: decentration |
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| dithering | (noun) the process of representing intermediate colors by patterns of tiny colored dots that simulate the desired color | - |
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| doddering | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddery, gaga, senile |
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| domineering | (adjective) tending to domineer | - |
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| domineeringly | (adverb) in a domineering manner | - |
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| domineeringness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: imperiousness, overbearingness |
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| eeriness | (noun) strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear | Synonyms: ghostliness |
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| electioneering | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: campaigning, candidacy, candidature, political campaign |
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| (noun) persuasion of voters in a political campaign | Synonyms: bell ringing, canvassing |
| engineering | (noun) the practical application of technical and scientific knowledge to commerce or industry | - |
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| (noun) a room (as on a ship) in which the engine is located | Synonyms: engine room |
| (noun) the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems | Synonyms: applied science, engineering science, technology |
| entering | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entrance, entry, incoming, ingress |
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| (noun) a movement into or inward | Synonyms: entrance |
| eringo | (noun) any plant of the genus Eryngium | Synonyms: eryngo |
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| faltering | (adjective) unsteady in speech or action | - |
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| (noun) the act of pausing uncertainly | Synonyms: falter, hesitation, waver |
| falteringly | (adverb) in an unsteady manner | Synonyms: uncertainly, unsteadily |
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| featheriness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: downiness, fluffiness |
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| feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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| ferine | (adjective) wild and menacing | Synonyms: feral, savage |
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| festering | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: maturation, suppuration |
| fieriness | (noun) the heat or the color of fire | Synonyms: red heat |
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| (noun) a passionate and quick-tempered nature | - |
| fingering | (noun) touching something with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument | - |
| flattering | (adjective) showing or representing to advantage | - |
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| (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: adulatory |
| flickering | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: aflicker |
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| flowering | (adjective) when a plant is in a state of possessing one or multiple flowers and/or blooms | - |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence |
| (noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: unfolding |
| fluttering | (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, flutter |
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| fostering | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fosterage |
| foundering | (noun) (of a ship) sinking | Synonyms: going under |
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| gathering | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, assembly |
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| (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: assemblage |
| glimmering | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, inkling, intimation |
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| glistering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glittering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| globigerina | (noun) marine protozoan having a rounded shell with spiny processes | - |
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| glowering | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| gloweringly | (adverb) in a glowering manner | - |
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| glycerin | (noun) a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | Synonyms: glycerine, glycerol |
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| glycerine | (noun) a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils | Synonyms: glycerin, glycerol |
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| gorgerin | (noun) the molding at the top of a column | Synonyms: necking |
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| gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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| haemosiderin | (noun) a granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism | Synonyms: hemosiderin |
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| hammering | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, pound, pounding |
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| hankering | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: yen |
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| hemosiderin | (noun) a granular brown substance composed of ferric oxide; left from the breakdown of hemoglobin; can be a sign of disturbed iron metabolism | Synonyms: haemosiderin |
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| hindering | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, impeding, obstructive |
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| hinderingly | (adverb) in an obstructive manner | Synonyms: obstructively |
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| hollering | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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| ingathering | (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, solicitation |
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| interfering | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| intrauterine | (adjective) within the womb | - |
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| jabbering | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: gabble, jabber |
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| jeering | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, mocking, taunting |
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| (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
| jeeringly | (adverb) in a disrespectful jeering manner | Synonyms: gibingly, mockingly |
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| jitteriness | (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jumpiness, nervousness, restiveness |
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| jittering | (adjective) undergoing small rapid variations | - |
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| laundering | (noun) washing clothes and bed linens | - |
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| leering | (adjective) showing sly or knowing malice in a glance | - |
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| (adjective) (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious | - |
| lemanderin | (noun) hybrid between mandarin orange and lemon having very acid fruit with orange peel | Synonyms: Citrus limonia, rangpur, rangpur lime |
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| lettering | (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: inscription |
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| lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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| lingeringly | (adverb) in a slow, leisurely or prolonged way | Synonyms: protractedly |
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| lowering | (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, sullen, threatening |
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| (noun) the act of causing to become less | - |
| (noun) the act of causing something to move to a lower level | Synonyms: letting down |
| loweringly | (adverb) in a menacing or scowling way | - |
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| luciferin | (noun) pigment occurring in luminescent organisms (as fireflies); emits heatless light when undergoing oxidation | - |
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| lumbering | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, ponderous |
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| (noun) the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber | - |