| antiknocking | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknock |
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| asking | (noun) the verbal act of requesting | Synonyms: request |
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| attacking | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: assaultive |
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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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| 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 |
| backpacking | (noun) carrying something in a pack on the back | Synonyms: packing |
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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. | - |
| balking | (adjective) refusing to proceed, act or work | Synonyms: balky |
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| 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. | - |
| barracking | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: heckling |
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| bivouacking | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: camping, encampment, tenting |
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| blacking | (noun) a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear | Synonyms: shoe polish |
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| blinking | (adjective) closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly | Synonyms: winking |
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| (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming, fucking |
| (noun) a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly | Synonyms: blink, eye blink, nictation, nictitation, wink, winking |
| blocking | (noun) the act of obstructing or deflecting someone's movements | Synonyms: block |
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| bloodsucking | (adjective) drawing blood from the body of another | - |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: leechlike, parasitic, parasitical |
| bluestocking | (noun) a woman having literary or intellectual interests | Synonyms: bas bleu |
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| booking | (noun) the act of reserving (a place or passage) or engaging the services of (a person or group) | Synonyms: reservation |
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| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: engagement |
| bootlicking | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: fawning, sycophantic, toadyish |
| breaking | (noun) the act of breaking something | Synonyms: break, breakage |
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| breathtaking | (adjective) tending to cause suspension of regular breathing | Synonyms: breathless |
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| bushwhacking | (adjective) lying in ambush | - |
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| cabinetmaking | (noun) the craft of a joiner | Synonyms: joinery |
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| carjacking | (noun) the violent theft of an occupied car | - |
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| caulking | (noun) a waterproof filler and sealant that is used in building and repair to make watertight | Synonyms: caulk |
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| choking | (adjective) causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat | Synonyms: smothering, suffocating, suffocative |
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| (noun) the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe | Synonyms: strangling, strangulation, throttling |
| (noun) a condition caused by blocking the airways to the lungs (as with food or swelling of the larynx) | - |
| chunking | (noun) (psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units | Synonyms: unitisation, unitization |
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| clanking | (adjective) having a hard nonresonant metallic sound | - |
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| clerking | (noun) the activity of recording business transactions | Synonyms: bookkeeping |
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| clinking | (adjective) like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped | - |
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| clocking | (noun) the time taken to traverse a measured course | - |
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| clucking | (noun) the sound made by a hen (as in calling her chicks) | Synonyms: cluck |
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| clunking | (noun) the sound of a horse's hoofs hitting on a hard surface | Synonyms: clip-clop, clippety-clop, clop, clopping, clumping |
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| cooking | (noun) the act of preparing something (as food) by the application of heat | Synonyms: cookery, preparation |
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| corking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| cornhusking | (noun) the act of removing the husks from ears of corn | - |
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| (noun) a social gathering for the purpose of husking corn | Synonyms: husking bee |
| cracking | (adjective) excellent | Synonyms: bang-up, bully, corking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad, old, peachy, slap-up, smashing, swell |
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| (noun) the act of cracking something | Synonyms: crack, fracture |
| (noun) a sudden sharp noise | Synonyms: crack, snap |
| (noun) the process whereby heavy molecules of naphtha or petroleum are broken down into hydrocarbons of lower molecular weight (especially in the oil-refining process) | - |
| creaking | (noun) a squeaking sound | Synonyms: creak |
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| creakingly | (adverb) in a creaky manner | Synonyms: creakily, screakily |
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| croaking | (noun) a harsh hoarse utterance (as of a frog) | Synonyms: croak |
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| debunking | (noun) the exposure of falseness or pretensions | Synonyms: repudiation |
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| deerstalking | (noun) stalking deer | - |
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| docking | (noun) the act of securing an arriving vessel with ropes | Synonyms: dockage, moorage, tying up |
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| dressmaking | (noun) the craft of making dresses | - |
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| drinking | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: imbibing, imbibition |
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| (noun) the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: boozing, crapulence, drink, drunkenness |
| ducking | (noun) the act of wetting something by submerging it | Synonyms: dousing, immersion, submersion |
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| (noun) hunting ducks | Synonyms: duck hunting |
| earthshaking | (adjective) loud enough to shake the very earth | - |
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| (adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world | Synonyms: world-shaking, world-shattering |
| forking | (noun) the act of branching out or dividing into branches | Synonyms: branching, fork, ramification |
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| (noun) the place where something divides into branches | Synonyms: furcation |
| forsaking | (noun) the act of giving something up | Synonyms: abandonment, desertion |
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| (noun) the act of forsaking | Synonyms: giving up |
| fracking | (noun) a well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid | - |
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| franking | (noun) device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced. | Synonyms: frank |
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| freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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| frisking | (noun) the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs | Synonyms: frisk |
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| fucking | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming |
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| (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
| (adverb) intensifier, very colloquial | - |
| goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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| groundbreaking | (adjective) being or producing something like nothing done or experienced or created before | Synonyms: innovational, innovative |
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| (noun) the ceremonial breaking of the ground to formally begin a construction project | Synonyms: groundbreaking ceremony |
| handshaking | (noun) grasping and shaking a person's hand (as to acknowledge an introduction or to agree on a contract) | Synonyms: handclasp, handshake, shake |
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| hardworking | (adjective) characterized by hard work and perseverance | Synonyms: industrious, tireless, untiring |
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| hawking | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: peddling, vending, vendition |
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| haymaking | (noun) cutting grass and curing it to make hay | - |
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| (noun) taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts | - |
| headshaking | (noun) the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement | Synonyms: headshake |
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| heartbreaking | (adjective) causing or marked by grief or anguish | Synonyms: grievous, heartrending |
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| highjacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: hijacking |
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| hijacking | (noun) robbery of a traveller or vehicle in transit or seizing control of a vehicle by the use of force | Synonyms: highjacking |
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| hiking | (noun) a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure | Synonyms: hike, tramp |
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| homemaking | (noun) the management of a household | - |
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| hooking | (noun) a golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer | Synonyms: draw, hook |
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| hopsacking | (noun) a loosely woven coarse fabric of cotton or linen; used in clothing | Synonyms: hopsack |
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| housebreaking | (noun) trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent | Synonyms: break-in, breaking and entering |
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| hulking | (adjective) of great size and bulk | Synonyms: hulky |
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| husking | (noun) the removal of covering | Synonyms: baring, denudation, stripping, uncovering |
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| hydrocracking | (noun) the process whereby hydrocarbon molecules of petroleum are broken down into kerosene and gasolene by the addition of hydrogen under high pressure in the presence of a catalyst | - |
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| interlinking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlocking, interwoven |
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| interlocking | (adjective) linked or locked closely together as by dovetailing | Synonyms: interlacing, interlinking, interwoven |
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| (noun) the act of interlocking or meshing | Synonyms: interlock, mesh, meshing |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: engagement, mesh, meshing |
| jerking | (adjective) lacking a steady rhythm | Synonyms: arrhythmic, jerky |
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| (noun) an abrupt spasmodic movement | Synonyms: jerk, jolt, saccade |
| joking | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jesting, jocose, jocular |
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| jokingly | (adverb) in jest | Synonyms: jestingly |
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| (adverb) not seriously | Synonyms: facetiously, tongue-in-cheek |
| kicking | (noun) the act of delivering a blow with the foot | Synonyms: boot, kick |
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| (noun) a rhythmic thrusting movement of the legs as in swimming or calisthenics | Synonyms: kick |
| king | (noun) (chess) the weakest but the most important piece | - |
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| (noun) one of the four playing cards in a deck bearing the picture of a king | - |
| (noun) a checker that has been moved to the opponent's first row where it is promoted to a piece that is free to move either forward or backward | - |
| (noun) a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom | Synonyms: male monarch, Rex |
| (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoon |
| (noun) a male competitor who holds a preeminent position | - |
| (noun) the husband or widower of a queen | - |
| (noun) preeminence in a particular category or group or field | - |
| kingbird | (noun) large American flycatcher | Synonyms: Tyrannus tyrannus |
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| kingbolt | (noun) bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle | Synonyms: kingpin, swivel pin |
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| kingcup | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, butterflower, crowfoot, goldcup |
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| (noun) swamp plant of Europe and North America having bright yellow flowers resembling buttercups | Synonyms: Caltha palustris, cowslip, marsh marigold, May blob, meadow bright, water dragon |
| kingdom | (noun) a basic group of natural objects | - |
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| (noun) a monarchy with a king or queen as head of state | - |
| (noun) the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia | - |
| (noun) the domain ruled by a king or queen | Synonyms: realm |
| (noun) a country with a king as head of state | - |
| (noun) a domain in which something is dominant | Synonyms: land, realm |
| kingfish | (noun) any of several food and game fishes of the drum family indigenous to warm Atlantic waters of the North American coast | - |
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| (noun) large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters | Synonyms: cero, pintado, Scomberomorus regalis |
| (noun) small silvery marine food fish found off California | Synonyms: chenfish, Genyonemus lineatus, white croaker |
| (noun) large game fish of Australia and New Zealand | Synonyms: Seriola grandis |
| (noun) the lean flesh of any of several fish caught off the Atlantic coast of the United States | - |
| kingfisher | (noun) nonpasserine large-headed bird with a short tail and long sharp bill; usually crested and bright-colored; feed mostly on fish | - |
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| kinglet | (noun) small birds resembling warblers but having some of the habits of titmice | - |
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| kinglike | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king | Synonyms: kingly |
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| kingly | (adjective) having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king | Synonyms: kinglike |
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| kingmaker | (noun) an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence | - |
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| kingpin | (noun) bolt that provides a steering joint in a motor vehicle | Synonyms: kingbolt, swivel pin |
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| (noun) the front bowling pin in the triangular arrangement of ten pins | Synonyms: headpin |
| (noun) the most important person in a group or undertaking | Synonyms: bigwig, top banana |
| kingship | (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a king | - |
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| kingsnake | (noun) any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors; feed on other snakes and small mammals | Synonyms: king snake |
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| kingwood | (noun) Brazilian tree yielding a handsome cabinet wood | Synonyms: Dalbergia cearensis, kingwood tree |
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| (noun) handsome violet-streaked wood of the kingwood tree; used especially in cabinetwork | - |
| knocking | (noun) the sound of knocking (as on a door or in an engine or bearing) | Synonyms: knock |
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| lacking | (adjective) inadequate in amount or degree | Synonyms: deficient, wanting |
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| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, missing, wanting |
| lawmaking | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: legislating, legislation |
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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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| 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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