| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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 | - |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| 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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| 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 |
| seeking | (noun) the act of searching for something | Synonyms: quest |
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| (noun) an attempt to acquire or gain something | - |
| 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 |
| 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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| shrieking | (noun) sharp piercing cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
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| (noun) a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry | Synonyms: scream, screaming, screech, screeching, shriek |
| shrinking | (noun) the act of becoming less | - |
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| (noun) process or result of becoming less or smaller | Synonyms: shrinkage |
| sinking | (noun) a descent as through liquid (especially through water) | - |
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| (noun) a slow fall or decline (as for lack of strength) | - |
| (noun) a feeling caused by uneasiness or apprehension | Synonyms: sinking feeling |
| skulking | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: malingering |
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| slacking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goldbricking, goofing off, shirking, soldiering |
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| sleepwalking | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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| smacking | (noun) the act of smacking something; a blow delivered with an open hand | Synonyms: slap, smack |
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| smocking | (noun) embroidery consisting of ornamental needlework on a garment that is made by gathering the cloth tightly in stitches | - |
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| smoking | (adjective) emitting smoke in great volume | - |
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| (noun) the act of smoking tobacco or other substances | Synonyms: smoke |
| (noun) a hot vapor containing fine particles of carbon being produced by combustion | Synonyms: smoke |
| sneaking | (adjective) not openly expressed | Synonyms: unavowed |
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| sneakingly | (adverb) in a sneaky manner | - |
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| soaking | (noun) washing something by allowing it to soak | Synonyms: soak |
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| (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: drenching, souse, sousing |
| (noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid) | Synonyms: soak, soakage |
| (adverb) extremely wet | Synonyms: dripping, sopping |
| spanking | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, zippy |
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| (noun) the act of slapping on the buttocks | - |
| speaking | (adjective) capable of or involving speech or speaking | - |
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| (adjective) capable of speech | Synonyms: speech-endowed |
| (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speechmaking |
| (noun) the utterance of intelligible speech | Synonyms: speech production |
| speechmaking | (noun) delivering an address to a public audience | Synonyms: oral presentation, public speaking, speaking |
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| squeaking | (adjective) having or making a high-pitched sound such as that made by a mouse or a rusty hinge | Synonyms: screaky, screechy, squeaky, squealing |
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| stalking | (noun) the act of following prey stealthily | Synonyms: stalk |
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| (noun) a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush | Synonyms: stalk, still hunt |
| sticking | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking out |
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| stinking | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky |
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| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly |
| stocking | (noun) the activity of supplying a stock of something | - |
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| (noun) close-fitting hosiery to cover the foot and leg; come in matched pairs (usually used in the plural) | - |
| stockinged | (adjective) wearing stockings | - |
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| stocktaking | (noun) making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand | Synonyms: inventory, inventorying, stock-taking |
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| (noun) reappraisal of a situation or position or outlook | Synonyms: stock-taking |
| strikebreaking | (noun) confrontational activities intended to break up a strike by workers | - |
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| striking | (adjective) having a quality that thrusts itself into attention | Synonyms: outstanding, prominent, salient, spectacular |
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| (adjective) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect | Synonyms: dramatic, spectacular |
| (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, hitting |
| (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, impinging |
| strikingly | (adverb) in a striking manner | - |
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| strikingness | (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: boldness |
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| (noun) the state of being salient | Synonyms: salience, saliency |
| stroking | (noun) a light touch with the hands | Synonyms: stroke |
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| subkingdom | (noun) (biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom | - |
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| sucking | (noun) the act of sucking | Synonyms: suck, suction |
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| tacking | (noun) (nautical) the act of changing tack | Synonyms: tack |
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| (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting, basting stitch |
| taking | (adjective) very attractive; capturing interest | Synonyms: fetching, winning |
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| (noun) the act of someone who picks up or takes something | Synonyms: pickings |
| takings | (noun) the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property | Synonyms: issue, payoff, proceeds, return, take, yield |
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| talking | (noun) an exchange of ideas via conversation | Synonyms: talk |
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| teleworking | (noun) employment at home while communicating with the workplace by phone or fax or modem | Synonyms: telecommuting |
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| thinking | (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: intelligent, reasoning |
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| (noun) the process of using your mind to consider something carefully | Synonyms: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thought, thought process |
| ticking | (noun) a strong fabric used for mattress and pillow covers | - |
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| (noun) a metallic tapping sound | Synonyms: tick |
| tracking | (noun) the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind | Synonyms: trailing |
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| trucking | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: hauling, truckage |
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| unblinking | (adjective) not shrinking from danger | Synonyms: unflinching, unintimidated, unshrinking |
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| (adjective) showing no visible emotion | - |
| unblinkingly | (adverb) showing no emotion | - |
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| undertaking | (noun) any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted | Synonyms: labor, labour, project, task |
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| (noun) the trade of a funeral director | - |
| unmasking | (noun) the exposure of an impostor or a fraud | Synonyms: expose |
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| unprovoking | (adjective) not provocative | Synonyms: unprovocative |
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| unshrinking | (adjective) not shrinking from danger | Synonyms: unblinking, unflinching, unintimidated |
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| unthinking | (adjective) without care or thought for others | Synonyms: thoughtless, uncaring |
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| (adjective) mentally sluggish | Synonyms: lumpen, lumpish |
| (adjective) not exhibiting or characterized by careful thought | Synonyms: unreflective, unthoughtful |
| (adverb) in a thoughtless manner | Synonyms: thoughtlessly, unthinkingly |
| unthinkingly | (adverb) in a thoughtless manner | Synonyms: thoughtlessly, unthinking |
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