| lambkin | (noun) a very young lamb | - |
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| lambskin | (noun) the skin of a lamb with the wool still on | - |
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| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: parchment, sheepskin |
| lankiness | (noun) a tall and thin physique | - |
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| lawmaking | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: legislating, legislation |
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| leakiness | (noun) the condition of permitting leaks or leakage | - |
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| licking | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: beating, drubbing, lacing, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest | Synonyms: defeat |
| liking | (noun) a feeling of pleasure and enjoyment | - |
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| limpkin | (noun) wading bird of Florida, Cuba and Jamaica having a drooping bill and a distinctive wailing call | Synonyms: Aramus pictus |
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| locking | (noun) the act of locking something up to protect it | Synonyms: lockup |
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| looking | (adjective) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms | Synonyms: sounding |
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| (noun) the act of searching visually | Synonyms: looking for |
| (noun) the act of directing the eyes toward something and perceiving it visually; look | Synonyms: look, looking at |
| lovemaking | (noun) sexual activities (often including sexual intercourse) between two people | Synonyms: love, love life, making love, sexual love |
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| luckiness | (noun) an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes | Synonyms: good fortune, good luck |
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| lymphokine | (noun) a cytokine secreted by helper T cells in response to stimulation by antigens and that acts on other cells of the immune system (as by activating macrophages) | - |
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| mackinaw | (noun) a heavy woolen cloth heavily napped and felted, often with a plaid design | - |
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| (noun) a flat-bottomed boat used on upper Great Lakes | Synonyms: Mackinaw boat |
| (noun) a thick plaid blanket formerly used in the northwestern United States | Synonyms: Mackinaw blanket |
| (noun) a short plaid coat made of made of thick woolen material | Synonyms: Mackinaw coat |
| mackintosh | (noun) a lightweight waterproof (usually rubberized) fabric | Synonyms: macintosh |
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| (noun) a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric | Synonyms: mac, macintosh, mack |
| making | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, fashioning |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something | - |
| (noun) an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something | Synonyms: qualification |
| manakin | (noun) any of numerous small bright-colored birds of Central America and South America having short bills and elaborate courtship behavior | - |
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| (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manikin, mannequin, mannikin, model |
| manikin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, mannequin, mannikin |
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| (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: homunculus, mannikin |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, mannequin, mannikin, model |
| mankind | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humanity, humankind, humans, man, world |
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| mannikin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, manikin, mannequin |
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| (noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: homunculus, manikin |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, model |
| mapmaking | (noun) the making of maps and charts | Synonyms: cartography |
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| marking | (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: grading, scoring |
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| (noun) the act of making a visible mark on a surface | - |
| (noun) a pattern of marks | - |
| (noun) a distinguishing symbol | Synonyms: mark, marker |
| masking | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, covering, screening |
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| (noun) scenery used to block the audience's view of parts of the stage that should not be seen | Synonyms: masking piece |
| (noun) the blocking of one sensation resulting from the presence of another sensation | - |
| matchmaking | (noun) mediation in order to bring about a marriage between others | - |
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| matrikin | (noun) one related on the mother's side | Synonyms: enate, matrilineal kin, matrilineal sib, matrisib |
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| meatpacking | (noun) wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers) | Synonyms: meat-packing business, meat packing |
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| merrymaking | (noun) a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity | Synonyms: conviviality, jollification |
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| metalworking | (noun) the activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner | Synonyms: metalwork |
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| mistaking | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: misinterpretation, misunderstanding |
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| mocking | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, jeering, taunting |
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| (adjective) playfully vexing (especially by ridicule) | Synonyms: quizzical, teasing |
| mockingbird | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | Synonyms: Mimus polyglotktos, mocker |
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| mockingly | (adverb) in a disrespectful and mocking manner | Synonyms: derisively, derisorily, scoffingly |
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| (adverb) in a disrespectful jeering manner | Synonyms: gibingly, jeeringly |
| moleskin | (noun) a durable cotton fabric with a velvety nap | - |
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| moneymaking | (adjective) profit oriented | Synonyms: commercial, mercantile, mercenary |
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| (adjective) producing a sizeable profit | Synonyms: lucrative, remunerative |
| (noun) the act of making money (and accumulating wealth) | - |
| moviemaking | (noun) the production of movies | Synonyms: film making, movie making |
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| muckraking | (noun) the exposure of scandal (especially about public figures) | - |
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| murkiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: cloudiness, muddiness |
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| (noun) an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance | Synonyms: fog, fogginess, murk |
| muskiness | (noun) having the olfactory properties of musk | - |
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| mutchkin | (noun) a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to 0.9 United States pint | - |
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| napkin | (noun) a small piece of table linen that is used to wipe the mouth and to cover the lap in order to protect clothing | Synonyms: serviette, table napkin |
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| (noun) garment consisting of a folded cloth drawn up between the legs and fastened at the waist; worn by infants to catch excrement | Synonyms: diaper, nappy |
| necking | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| (noun) the molding at the top of a column | Synonyms: gorgerin |
| nonspeaking | (adjective) not capable of or especially not involving speech or spoken lines | Synonyms: walk-on |
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| oilskin | (noun) a macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof | Synonyms: slicker |
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| onionskin | (noun) a thin strong lightweight translucent paper used especially for making carbon copies | Synonyms: flimsy |
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| overlooking | (adjective) used of a height or viewpoint | Synonyms: commanding, dominating |
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| overtaking | (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: passing |
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| overworking | (noun) the act of working too much or too long | Synonyms: overwork |
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| packing | (noun) the enclosure of something in a package or box | Synonyms: boxing |
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| (noun) carrying something in a pack on the back | Synonyms: backpacking |
| (noun) any material used especially to protect something | Synonyms: packing material, wadding |
| packinghouse | (noun) a plant where livestock are slaughtered and processed and packed as meat products | Synonyms: packing plant |
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| (noun) a building where foodstuffs are processed and packed | - |
| painstaking | (adjective) characterized by extreme care and great effort | Synonyms: conscientious, scrupulous |
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| painstakingly | (adverb) in a fastidious and painstaking manner | Synonyms: fastidiously |
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| painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
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| pannikin | (noun) a small pan or cup (usually of tin) | - |
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| papermaking | (noun) the craft of making paper | - |
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| parking | (noun) the act of maneuvering a vehicle into a location where it can be left temporarily | - |
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| (noun) space in which vehicles can be parked | - |
| patrikin | (noun) one related on the father's side | Synonyms: agnate, patrilineal kin, patrilineal sib, patrisib |
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| perkiness | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, impertinence, pertness, sauciness |
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| (noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: buoyancy |
| pharmacokinetics | (noun) the study of the action of drugs in the body: method and rate of excretion, duration of effect, etc. | - |
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| picking | (noun) the act of picking (crops or fruit or hops etc.) | - |
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| (noun) the quantity of a crop that is harvested | Synonyms: pick |
| pickings | (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: taking |
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| pigskin | (noun) leather from the skin of swine | - |
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| pigsticking | (noun) the sport of hunting wild boar with spears | - |
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| planking | (noun) the work of covering an area with planks | - |
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| (noun) (nautical) a covering or flooring constructed of planks (as on a ship) | - |
| (noun) planks collectively; a quantity of planks | - |
| pluckiness | (noun) the trait of showing courage and determination in spite of possible loss or injury | Synonyms: gutsiness, pluck |
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| poking | (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, thrust, thrusting |
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| pricking | (noun) the act of puncturing with a small point | Synonyms: prick |
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| printmaking | (noun) artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens | - |
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| provoking | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitating, agitative |
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| provokingly | (adverb) in a provocative manner | Synonyms: provocatively |
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| psychokinesis | (noun) the power to move something by thinking about it without the application of physical force | Synonyms: telekinesis |
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| psychokinetic | (adjective) moving an object without apparent use of physical means | - |
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| puking | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, emesis, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting |
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| pumpkin | (noun) usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn | - |
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| (noun) a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes | Synonyms: autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo, pumpkin vine |
| pumpkinseed | (noun) small brilliantly colored North American sunfish | Synonyms: Lepomis gibbosus |
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| quirkiness | (noun) a strange attitude or habit | Synonyms: crotchet, oddity, queerness, quirk |
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| racking | (adjective) causing great physical or mental suffering | Synonyms: wrenching |
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| rainmaking | (noun) activity intended to produce rain | - |
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| ramekin | (noun) a small fireproof dish used for baking and serving individual portions | Synonyms: ramequin |
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| (noun) a cheese dish made with egg and bread crumbs that is baked and served in individual fireproof dishes | Synonyms: ramequin |
| ranking | (adjective) having a higher rank | Synonyms: higher-ranking, superior |
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| (noun) position on a scale in relation to others in status or rank or achievement | - |
| ransacking | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: rummage |
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| rebukingly | (adverb) in the manner of someone delivering a rebuke | - |
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| reeking | (adjective) giving off a strong unpleasant smell | - |
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| (adjective) wet with secreted or exuded moisture such as sweat or tears | Synonyms: watery |
| rekindle | (verb) arouse again | - |
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| (verb) kindle anew, as of a fire | - |
| remaking | (noun) creation that is created again or anew | Synonyms: remake |
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| retaking | (noun) the act of taking something back | Synonyms: recapture |
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| riskiness | (noun) a state of danger involving risk | Synonyms: peril |
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| rockiness | (noun) the quality of abounding in rocks and stones | - |
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| rollicking | (adjective) given to merry frolicking | Synonyms: coltish, frolicky, frolicsome, sportive |
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| rollickingly | (adverb) in a carefree manner | Synonyms: boisterously |
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| sacking | (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, firing, liberation, release, sack |
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| (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: bagging |
| sealskin | (noun) a garment (as a jacket or coat or robe) made of sealskin | - |
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| (noun) the pelt or fur (especially the underfur) of a seal | Synonyms: seal |
| seeking | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: quest |
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| (noun) an attempt to acquire or gain something | - |
| shakiness | (noun) the quality of being unstable and insecure | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shaking, trembling, vibration |
| shaking | (noun) the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements | - |
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| (noun) a shaky motion | Synonyms: palpitation, quiver, quivering, shakiness, trembling, vibration |
| sharkskin | (noun) a smooth crisp fabric | - |
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| sheepskin | (noun) a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study | Synonyms: diploma |
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| (noun) tanned skin of a sheep with the fleece left on; used for clothing | Synonyms: fleece |
| (noun) skin of a sheep or goat prepared for writing on | Synonyms: lambskin, parchment |
| shirking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, slacking, soldiering |
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| shocking | (adjective) giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to reputation | Synonyms: disgraceful, scandalous, shameful |
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| (adjective) glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism | Synonyms: lurid |
| shockingly | (adverb) to a shocking degree | - |
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| (adverb) so as to shock the feelings | - |
| (adverb) very badly | - |
| shoemaking | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: cobbling, shoe repairing |
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