| advertising | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: merchandising, publicizing |
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| (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertizement, advertizing |
| agonising | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appetisingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetizingness |
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| appraising | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: evaluative |
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| braising | (noun) cooking slowly in fat in a closed pot with little moisture | - |
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| bruising | (adjective) brutally forceful and compelling | - |
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| (adjective) causing mental or emotional injury | - |
| centralising | (adjective) tending to draw to a central point | Synonyms: centralizing |
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| compromising | (adjective) making or willing to make concessions | Synonyms: conciliatory, flexible |
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| (adjective) vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion | - |
| cuisine | (noun) the practice or manner of preparing food or the food so prepared | Synonyms: culinary art |
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| decentralising | (adjective) tending away from a central point | Synonyms: decentralizing |
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| demoralising | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralizing, disheartening, dispiriting |
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| desensitising | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitizing |
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| despising | (noun) a feeling of scornful hatred | Synonyms: despisal |
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| devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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| disincarnate | (verb) make immaterial; remove the real essence of | - |
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| disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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| disinclination | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance |
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| (noun) that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike | - |
| disincline | (verb) make unwilling | Synonyms: indispose |
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| disinclined | (adjective) unwilling because of mild dislike or disapproval | - |
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| disinfect | (verb) destroy microorganisms or pathogens by cleansing | - |
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| disinfectant | (adjective) preventing infection by inhibiting the growth or action of microorganisms | Synonyms: bactericidal, germicidal |
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| (noun) an agent (as heat or radiation or a chemical) that destroys microorganisms that might carry disease | Synonyms: antimicrobial, antimicrobic, germicide |
| disinfection | (noun) treatment to destroy harmful microorganisms | - |
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| disinfector | (noun) an apparatus for applying disinfectants. | - |
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| disinfest | (verb) rid of vermin | - |
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| disinfestation | (noun) the activity of getting rid of vermin | - |
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| disinflation | (noun) a reduction of prices intended to improve the balance of payments | - |
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| disinformation | (noun) misinformation that is deliberately disseminated in order to influence or confuse rivals (foreign enemies or business competitors etc.) | - |
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| disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness | Synonyms: artful |
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| disingenuously | (adverb) in a disingenuous manner | Synonyms: artfully |
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| disingenuousness | (noun) the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor | - |
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| disinherit | (verb) prevent deliberately (as by making a will) from inheriting | Synonyms: disown |
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| disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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| disinherited | (adjective) deprived of your rightful heritage | - |
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| disintegrable | (adjective) capable of melting | Synonyms: meltable |
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| disintegrate | (verb) break into parts or components or lose cohesion or unity | - |
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| (verb) lose a stored charge, magnetic flux, or current | Synonyms: decay, decompose |
| (verb) cause to undergo fission or lose particles | - |
| disintegration | (noun) total destruction | Synonyms: annihilation |
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| (noun) separation into component parts | Synonyms: dissolution |
| (noun) the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation | Synonyms: decay, radioactive decay |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: decomposition |
| (noun) a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system | - |
| disintegrative | (adjective) tending to cause breakup into constituent elements or parts | - |
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| disinter | (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies | Synonyms: exhume |
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| disinterest | (noun) tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement | Synonyms: neutrality |
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| (noun) lack of interest | - |
| disinterested | (adjective) unaffected by self-interest | - |
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| disinterestedly | (adverb) without bias; without selfish motives | - |
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| disinterestedness | (noun) freedom from bias or from selfish motives | - |
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| disinterment | (noun) the act of digging something up out of the ground (especially a corpse) where it has been buried | Synonyms: digging up, exhumation |
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| disinvest | (verb) remove (someone's or one's own) clothes | Synonyms: divest, strip, undress |
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| (verb) reduce or dispose of; cease to hold (an investment) | Synonyms: divest |
| (verb) deprive of status or authority | Synonyms: divest |
| disinvestment | (noun) the withdrawal of capital from a country or corporation | - |
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| disinvolve | (verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disentangle |
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| energising | (adjective) supplying motive force | Synonyms: energizing, kinetic |
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| enterprising | (adjective) marked by imagination, initiative, and readiness to undertake new projects | - |
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| enterprisingly | (adverb) in an enterprising manner | - |
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| enterprisingness | (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, go-ahead, initiative |
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| exercising | (noun) the activity of exerting your muscles in various ways to keep fit | Synonyms: exercise, physical exercise, physical exertion, workout |
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| familiarising | (adjective) serving to make familiar | Synonyms: familiarizing |
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| galvanising | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanizing |
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| isinglass | (noun) any of various minerals consisting of hydrous silicates of aluminum or potassium etc. that crystallize in forms that allow perfect cleavage into very thin leaves; used as dielectrics because of their resistance to electricity | Synonyms: mica |
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| lisinopril | (noun) an ACE inhibiting drug (trade names Prinivil or Zestril) administered as an antihypertensive and after heart attacks | Synonyms: Prinivil, Zestril |
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| marbleising | (noun) a texture like that of marble | Synonyms: marbleisation, marbleization, marbleizing |
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| maximising | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximizing |
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| merchandising | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, selling |
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| (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, publicizing |
| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandise |
| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| misinformation | (noun) information that is incorrect | - |
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| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| misinterpretation | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: mistaking, misunderstanding |
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| narcotising | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotizing |
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| noisiness | (noun) the auditory effect characterized by loud and constant noise | Synonyms: racketiness |
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| nonenterprising | (adjective) lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome | Synonyms: unenterprising |
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| patronising | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, condescending, patronizing |
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| patronisingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: condescendingly, patronizingly |
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| praising | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: laudatory, praiseful |
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| promising | (adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: bright, hopeful |
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| (adjective) showing possibility of achievement or excellence | - |
| promisingly | (adverb) in a manner that gives hope | - |
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| raisin | (noun) dried grape | - |
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| raising | (adjective) increasing in quantity or value | - |
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| (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, rearing, upbringing |
| (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: nurture, rearing |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: elevation, lift |
| revising | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: rewriting |
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| revitalising | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalizing, reviving |
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| rising | (adjective) advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status | - |
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| (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: acclivitous, uphill |
| (adjective) coming to maturity | Synonyms: emerging |
| (adjective) newly come into prominence | - |
| (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising |
| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
| sensitising | (adjective) making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: sensitizing |
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| (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitization, sensitizing |
| socialising | (noun) the act of meeting for social purposes | Synonyms: socialisation, socialization, socializing |
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| stabilising | (adjective) causing to become stable | Synonyms: stabilizing |
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| supervising | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, superintendence, supervision |
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| surprising | (adjective) causing surprise or wonder or amazement | - |
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| surprisingly | (adverb) in a surprising manner | - |
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| (adverb) in an amazing manner; to everyone's surprise | Synonyms: amazingly, astonishingly |
| surprisingness | (noun) extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected | Synonyms: unexpectedness |
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| symbolising | (noun) the act of representing something with a symbol | Synonyms: symbolizing |
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| synchronising | (noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronisation, synchronization, synchronizing |
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| tantalising | (adjective) very pleasantly inviting | Synonyms: tantalizing, tempting |
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| (adjective) arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach | Synonyms: tantalizing |
| tranquilising | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilizing, tranquillising, tranquillizing |
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| tranquillising | (adjective) tending to soothe or tranquilize | Synonyms: ataractic, ataraxic, sedative, tranquilising, tranquilizing, tranquillizing |
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| unappetising | (adjective) not appetizing in appearance, aroma, or taste | Synonyms: unappetizing |
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| unappetisingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetizingness |
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| uncompromising | (adjective) not making concessions | Synonyms: inflexible, sturdy |
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| uncompromisingly | (adverb) in an uncompromising manner | - |
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| unenterprising | (adjective) lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome | Synonyms: nonenterprising |
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| unpromising | (adjective) unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment | - |
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| unsurprising | (adjective) not causing surprise | - |
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| unsympathising | (adjective) not showing or expressing sympathy | Synonyms: unsympathizing |
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| uprising | (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, rising |
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