assuring | (adjective) giving confidence | - |
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astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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(adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
astonishingly | (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, surprisingly |
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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 |
astringe | (verb) become constricted or compressed | - |
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(verb) constrict or bind or draw together | - |
astringence | (noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringency |
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astringency | (noun) the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids | Synonyms: stypsis |
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(noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringence |
astringent | (adjective) tending to draw together or constrict soft organic tissue | - |
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(adjective) sour or bitter in taste | Synonyms: acerb, acerbic |
(noun) a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals | Synonyms: astringent drug, styptic |
attacking | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: assaultive |
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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 |
autoloading | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: self-loading, semiautomatic |
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autosexing | (noun) (especially of domestic fowl) breeding to reveal differential sex characteristics at hatching | - |
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averting | (noun) the act of preventing something from occurring | - |
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(noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: aversion |
awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
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awarding | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: award |
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awing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
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awning | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: sunblind, sunshade |
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awninged | (adjective) covered with an awning | - |
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babbitting | (noun) lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal | - |
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babbling | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, lallation |
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babysitting | (noun) the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home | Synonyms: baby sitting |
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backbreaking | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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backflowing | (noun) a flow that returns toward its source | Synonyms: backflow |
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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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backing | (noun) the act of providing approval and support | Synonyms: backup, championship, patronage |
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(noun) something forming a back that is added for strengthening | Synonyms: mount |
(noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: financial backing, financial support, funding, support |
backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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backpacking | (noun) carrying something in a pack on the back | Synonyms: packing |
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backsliding | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: lapse, lapsing, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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badgering | (noun) the act of harassing someone | Synonyms: bedevilment, torment, worrying |
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baffling | (adjective) making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe | Synonyms: elusive, knotty, problematic, problematical, tough |
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bagging | (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: sacking |
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baiting | (noun) harassment especially of a tethered animal | - |
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baking | (adjective) as hot as if in an oven | Synonyms: baking hot |
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(noun) cooking by dry heat in an oven | - |
(noun) making bread or cake or pastry etc. | - |
balancing | (noun) getting two things to correspond | Synonyms: reconciliation |
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balding | (adjective) getting bald | - |
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balking | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balky |
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ballooning | (noun) flying in a balloon | - |
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balloting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, vote, voting |
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bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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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 |
banging | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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(noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: battering |
(noun) a continuing very loud noise | - |
banking | (noun) transacting business with a bank; depositing or withdrawing funds or requesting a loan etc. | - |
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(noun) engaging in the business of keeping money for savings and checking accounts or for exchange or for issuing loans and credit etc. | - |
banning | (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, forbiddance, forbidding |
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banqueting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: feasting |
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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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banting | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banteng, Bos banteng, tsine |
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barbecuing | (noun) roasting a large piece of meat on a revolving spit out of doors over an open fire | - |
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bareboating | (noun) boating by chartering a bareboat and providing your own crew and provisions | - |
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bargaining | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | - |
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baring | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: denudation, husking, stripping, uncovering |
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barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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barring | (noun) the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto | Synonyms: blackball |
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basting | (noun) moistening a roast as it is cooking | - |
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(noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting stitch, tacking |
bathing | (noun) immersing the body in water or sunshine | - |
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(noun) the act of washing yourself (or another person) | Synonyms: washup |
battering | (noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: banging |
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batting | (noun) (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base | - |
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(noun) stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: batten |
batwing | (adjective) formed or shaped like a bat's wing | - |
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(noun) one of a pair of swinging doors (as at the entrance to a western saloon) | - |
bawling | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: wailing |
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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 |
beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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beaming | (adjective) radiating or as if radiating light | Synonyms: beamy, effulgent, radiant, refulgent |
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(adjective) cheerful and bright | Synonyms: glad |
(adjective) pleased and proud | - |
bearing | (adjective) (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain | - |
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(noun) a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily | - |
(noun) heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield | Synonyms: armorial bearing, charge, heraldic bearing |
(noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: comportment, mien, presence |
(noun) characteristic way of bearing one's body | Synonyms: carriage, posture |
(noun) the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies | Synonyms: aim, heading |
(noun) relevant relation or interconnection | - |
beating | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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(noun) the act of overcoming or outdoing | Synonyms: whipping |
becoming | (adjective) displaying or setting off to best advantage | - |
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(adjective) according with custom or propriety | Synonyms: comely, comme il faut, decorous, seemly |
becomingly | (adverb) in a becoming manner | - |
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becomingness | (noun) the quality of being becoming | - |
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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 |
bedspring | (noun) (usually in the plural) one of the springs holding up the mattress of a bed | - |
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beekeeping | (noun) the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey | Synonyms: apiculture |
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beetling | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetle |
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befitting | (adjective) appropriate to | - |
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befittingly | (adverb) in accordance with what is appropriate or suitable for the circumstances | Synonyms: appropriately, duly, fitly, fittingly, properly, suitably |
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befooling | (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: stultification |
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begging | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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beginning | (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: first |
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(noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: commencement, start |
(noun) the first part or section of something | - |
(noun) the event consisting of the start of something | - |
(noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source |
(noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
beguiling | (adjective) misleading by means of pleasant or alluring methods | - |
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(adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: alluring, enticing, tempting |
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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being | (noun) a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently | Synonyms: organism |
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(noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: beingness, existence, face of the earth |
beingness | (noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, existence, face of the earth |
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belching | (noun) a reflex that expels gas noisily from the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: belch, burp, burping, eructation |
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(noun) the forceful expulsion of something from inside | - |
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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believing | (noun) the cognitive process that leads to convictions | - |
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believingly | (adverb) in a credulous manner | Synonyms: credulously |
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belittling | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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(noun) the act of belittling | - |
(noun) a belittling comment | Synonyms: denigration |
belling | (noun) a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple | Synonyms: callathump, callithump, charivari, chivaree, shivaree |
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bellowing | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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bellying | (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bulbous, bulging, bulgy, protuberant |
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belonging | (noun) happiness felt in a secure relationship | - |
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belongings | (noun) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone | Synonyms: holding, property |
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belting | (noun) the material of which belts are made | - |
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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 |
berating | (noun) a severe rebuke | Synonyms: blowing up |
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beseeching | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: imploring, pleading |
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beseechingly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: entreatingly, imploringly, importunately, pleadingly |
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beseechingness | (noun) The state or quality of one who begs or implores. | - |
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besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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bettering | (adjective) changing for the better | - |
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betting | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: card-playing, dissipated, gambling, sporting |
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