| ailing | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| angling | (noun) fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole) | - |
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| annealing | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempering |
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| appalling | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: dismaying |
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| (noun) an experience that appalls | - |
| appallingly | (adverb) to an appalling extent | - |
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| appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
| appealingly | (adverb) in an appealing manner | - |
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| appealingness | (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, charm |
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| assembling | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, collecting, collection |
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| babbling | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, lallation |
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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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| bawling | (noun) loud cries made while weeping | Synonyms: wailing |
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| beagling | (noun) hunting rabbits with beagles | - |
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| beetling | (adjective) jutting or overhanging | Synonyms: beetle |
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| befooling | (noun) derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent | Synonyms: stultification |
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| 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 |
| 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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| bicycling | (noun) riding a bicycle | - |
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| bilingual | (adjective) using or knowing two languages | - |
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| (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingualist |
| bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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| bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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| bilingually | (adverb) in a bilingual manner | - |
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| billing | (noun) request for payment of a debt | Synonyms: charge |
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| billingsgate | (noun) foul-mouthed or obscene abuse | Synonyms: scurrility |
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| birling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: logrolling |
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| bling | (noun) flashy, ostentatious jewelry | Synonyms: bling bling |
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| bloodcurdling | (adjective) extremely alarming | Synonyms: hair-raising, nightmarish |
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| boiling | (noun) cooking in a liquid that has been brought to a boil | Synonyms: simmering, stewing |
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| (noun) the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas | - |
| (adverb) passionately or agitatedly | - |
| bowling | (noun) a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them | - |
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| (noun) the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc | - |
| (noun) (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman | - |
| brambling | (noun) Eurasian finch | Synonyms: Fringilla montifringilla |
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| brisling | (noun) small herring processed like a sardine | Synonyms: Clupea sprattus, sprat |
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| (noun) small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines | Synonyms: sprat |
| broiling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, grilling |
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| bubbling | (adjective) emitting or filled with bubbles as from carbonation or fermentation | Synonyms: bubbly, effervescing, foaming, foamy, frothy, spumy |
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| (adjective) marked by high spirits or excitement | Synonyms: effervescent, frothy, scintillating, sparkly |
| bumbling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| bundling | (noun) the act of binding something into a bundle | - |
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| (noun) the act of shoving hastily | - |
| (noun) a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing | - |
| bungling | (adjective) lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands | Synonyms: bumbling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed |
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| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: clumsy, fumbling, incompetent |
| burbling | (adjective) uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm | Synonyms: burbly, effusive, gushing |
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| bustling | (adjective) full of energetic and noisy activity | - |
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| cajolingly | (adverb) in a cajoling manner | Synonyms: coaxingly |
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| calling | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: career, vocation |
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| caroling | (noun) singing joyful religious songs (especially at Christmas) | - |
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| castling | (noun) interchanging the positions of the king and a rook | Synonyms: castle |
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| catling | (noun) a long double-edged knife used for amputations | - |
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| ceiling | (noun) the overhead upper surface of a covered space | - |
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| (noun) (meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds | - |
| (noun) maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions) | - |
| (noun) an upper limit on what is allowed | Synonyms: cap, roof |
| ceilinged | (adjective) provided with a ceiling especially the overhead interior surface | - |
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| changeling | (noun) a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy | - |
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| (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron, retard |
| chilling | (adjective) provoking fear or terror | Synonyms: scary, shivery, shuddery |
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| (noun) the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature | Synonyms: cooling, temperature reduction |
| chitlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlins, chitterlings |
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| chitterlings | (noun) small intestines of hogs prepared as food | Synonyms: chitlings, chitlins |
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| cling | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: clingstone |
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| (verb) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation | Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cohere, stick |
| (verb) hold on tightly or tenaciously | Synonyms: hang |
| (verb) to remain emotionally or intellectually attached | - |
| clingfilm | (noun) a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself; used for wrapping food | Synonyms: cling film, Saran Wrap |
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| clingfish | (noun) very small (to 3 inches) flattened marine fish with a sucking disc on the abdomen for clinging to rocks etc. | - |
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| clingstone | (noun) fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit | Synonyms: cling |
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| clingy | (adjective) excessively emotional and attached | - |
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| cobbling | (noun) the shoemaker's trade | Synonyms: shoe repairing, shoemaking |
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| codling | (noun) young codfish | - |
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| coiling | (adjective) in the shape of a coil | Synonyms: helical, spiral, spiraling, spiralling, turbinate, volute, voluted, whorled |
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| compelling | (adjective) tending to persuade by forcefulness of argument | - |
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| (adjective) driving or forcing | - |
| compiling | (noun) the act of compiling (as into a single book or file or list) | Synonyms: compilation |
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| concealing | (adjective) covering or hiding | - |
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| (noun) the activity of keeping something secret | Synonyms: concealment, hiding |
| consoling | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: comforting, consolatory |
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| consolingly | (adverb) in a comforting or consoling manner | Synonyms: comfortingly |
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| controlling | (adjective) able to control or determine policy | - |
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| cooling | (noun) a mechanism for keeping something cool | Synonyms: cooling system |
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| (noun) the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature | Synonyms: chilling, temperature reduction |
| counseling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counselling, direction, guidance |
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| counselling | (noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, direction, guidance |
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| coupling | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: conjugation, mating, pairing, sexual union, union |
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| (noun) a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects | Synonyms: coupler |
| (noun) a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together | Synonyms: yoke |
| cowling | (noun) protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine | Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, hood |
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| crackling | (noun) the sharp sound of snapping noises | Synonyms: crackle, crepitation |
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| (noun) the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered | Synonyms: greaves |
| cracklings | (noun) the crisp residue left after lard has been rendered | - |
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| crawling | (noun) a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body | Synonyms: crawl, creep, creeping |
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| crippling | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: disabling, incapacitating |
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| cuddling | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| cunnilingus | (noun) oral stimulation of the vulva or clitoris | Synonyms: cunnilinctus |
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| curdling | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: clotting, coagulation |
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| curling | (adjective) (of hair) making curls or having been made to curl | Synonyms: curled |
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| (noun) a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target | - |
| cycling | (noun) the sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle | - |
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| cymling | (noun) squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white | Synonyms: pattypan squash |
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| dangling | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: hanging, suspension |
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| darkling | (adjective) (poetic) occurring in the dark or night | - |
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| (adjective) uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure | - |
| darling | (adjective) dearly loved | Synonyms: beloved, dear |
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| (noun) a special loved one | Synonyms: dearie, deary, ducky, favorite, favourite, pet |
| (noun) a beloved person; used as terms of endearment | Synonyms: baby, beloved, dear, dearest, dearie, deary, honey, love, sweetheart, sweetie |
| dawdling | (noun) the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working | Synonyms: dalliance, trifling |
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| dazzling | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, fulgent, glaring, glary |
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| (adjective) amazingly impressive; suggestive of the flashing of lightning | Synonyms: eye-popping, fulgurant, fulgurous |
| dazzlingly | (adverb) in a manner or to a degree that dazzles the beholder | - |
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| dealing | (noun) method or manner of conduct in relation to others | - |
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| (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealings, transaction |
| dealings | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, transaction |
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| (noun) social or verbal interchange (usually followed by `with') | Synonyms: traffic |
| (noun) mutual dealings or connections or communications among persons or groups | Synonyms: relations |
| detailing | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: particularisation, particularization |
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| disabling | (adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified | Synonyms: disqualifying |
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| (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, incapacitating |
| dismantling | (noun) the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) | Synonyms: disassembly, dismantlement |
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| dissembling | (noun) the act of deceiving | Synonyms: deceit, deception, dissimulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense |
| doubling | (noun) raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2 | Synonyms: double |
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| (noun) increase by a factor of two | - |
| doweling | (noun) fastening by dowels | - |
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| dribbling | (noun) the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks | Synonyms: dribble |
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| drilling | (noun) the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum | Synonyms: boring, oil production |
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| (noun) the act of drilling | Synonyms: boring |
| drizzling | (adjective) (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops | - |
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| duckling | (noun) young duck | - |
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| (noun) flesh of a young domestic duck | - |
| dumpling | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumplings |
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| (noun) dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry | - |
| dumplings | (noun) small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough | Synonyms: dumpling |
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| dwelling | (noun) housing that someone is living in | Synonyms: abode, domicile, dwelling house, habitation, home |
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