| linguistic | (adjective) consisting of or related to language | Synonyms: lingual |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the scientific study of language | - |
| linguistically | (adverb) with respect to language | Synonyms: lingually |
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| (adverb) with respect to the science of linguistics | - |
| linguistics | (noun) the scientific study of language | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of language and literature | Synonyms: philology |
| lingulate | (adjective) shaped like a tongue | Synonyms: tongue-shaped |
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| logrolling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: birling |
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| (noun) act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects | - |
| mailing | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: posting |
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| (noun) mail sent by a sender at one time | - |
| malinger | (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: skulk |
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| malingerer | (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: shammer, skulker |
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| malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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| marbling | (noun) the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat | - |
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| marlingspike | (noun) a pointed iron hand tool that is used to separate strands of a rope or cable (as in splicing) | Synonyms: marlinespike, marlinspike |
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| meddling | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, officious |
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| (noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: tampering |
| middling | (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, fair, mediocre |
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| (noun) any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran) | - |
| (adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, jolly, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat |
| milling | (noun) corrugated edge of a coin | - |
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| mingling | (noun) the action of people mingling and coming into contact | - |
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| misspelling | (noun) a spelling that is incorrect | - |
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| modeling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modelling |
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| (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modelling, molding, moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modelling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
| modelling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modeling |
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| (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, molding, moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
| monolingual | (adjective) using or knowing only one language | - |
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| (noun) a person who knows only one language | - |
| monolingually | (adverb) in a monolingual manner | - |
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| motorcycling | (noun) riding a motorcycle | - |
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| mottling | (noun) the act of coloring with areas of different shades | - |
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| mudslinger | (noun) one who spreads real or alleged scandal about another (usually for political advantage) | Synonyms: muckraker |
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| multilingual | (adjective) using or knowing more than one language | - |
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| mumbling | (noun) ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) | Synonyms: gumming |
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| (noun) indistinct enunciation | - |
| nestling | (noun) young bird not yet fledged | Synonyms: baby bird |
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| (noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
| neurolinguist | (noun) someone trained in neuroscience and linguistics who studies brain processes during language production and reception | - |
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| neurolinguistics | (noun) the branch of linguistics that studies the relation between language and the structure and function of the nervous system | - |
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| niggling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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| nonlinguistic | (adjective) not consisting of or related to language | - |
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| nurseling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nursling, suckling |
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| nursling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nurseling, suckling |
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| paling | (noun) a fence made of upright pickets | Synonyms: picket fence |
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| palingenesis | (noun) emergence during embryonic development of various characters or structures that appeared during the evolutionary history of the strain or species | Synonyms: recapitulation |
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| palingenetic | (adjective) of or relating to palingenesis | - |
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| paneling | (noun) a panel or section of panels in a wall or door | Synonyms: pane, panelling |
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| panelling | (noun) a panel or section of panels in a wall or door | Synonyms: pane, paneling |
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| parasailing | (noun) gliding in a parasail | Synonyms: paragliding |
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| parceling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parcelling |
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| parcelling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling |
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| pealing | (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, roll, rolling |
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| peddling | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, vending, vendition |
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| peeling | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: desquamation, shedding |
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| piddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piffling, trivial |
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| piffling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, trivial |
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| pigeonholing | (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: grouping |
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| piling | (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: pile, spile, stilt |
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| prevailing | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevalent, rife |
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| prickling | (noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: tingle, tingling |
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| princeling | (noun) a young prince | - |
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| (noun) a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality | - |
| profiling | (noun) recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people | - |
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| propelling | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propulsive |
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| psycholinguist | (noun) a person (usually a psychologist but sometimes a linguist) who studies the psychological basis of human language | - |
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| psycholinguistic | (adjective) of or relating to the psychology of language | - |
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| psycholinguistics | (noun) the branch of cognitive psychology that studies the psychological basis of linguistic competence and performance | - |
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| pulling | (noun) the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | Synonyms: pull |
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| puzzling | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, enigmatical |
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| (adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, perplexing |
| quadrupling | (noun) increase by a factor of four | - |
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| quelling | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, stifling, suppression |
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| quintupling | (noun) increasing by a factor of five | - |
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| quisling | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, collaborator |
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| quislingism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, collaborationism |
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| railing | (noun) a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports | Synonyms: rail |
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| (noun) material for making rails or rails collectively | - |
| rambling | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: meandering, wandering, winding |
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| (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, excursive |
| (adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: sprawling, straggling, straggly |
| ramblingly | (adverb) in a rambling manner | Synonyms: discursively |
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| rassling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, wrestling |
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| rattling | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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| (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
| (noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rale, rattle |
| (adverb) used to give emphasis | Synonyms: real, really, very |
| raveling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: ravelling |
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| ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
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| reconciling | (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| recycling | (noun) the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products | - |
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| (noun) used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products | - |
| refilling | (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: renewal, replacement, replenishment |
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| refueling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fueling, fuelling |
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| repelling | (adjective) highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust | Synonyms: disgustful, disgusting, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellant, repellent, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky |
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| repellingly | (adverb) in a repellent manner | Synonyms: repellently |
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| reshuffling | (noun) shuffling again | Synonyms: reshuffle |
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| retailing | (noun) the activities involved in selling commodities directly to consumers | - |
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| revealing | (adjective) showing or making known | - |
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| (adjective) disclosing unintentionally something concealed | Synonyms: telling, telltale |
| (noun) the speech act of making something evident | Synonyms: disclosure, revelation |
| ridgeling | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgil, ridgling |
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| ridgling | (noun) a colt with undescended testicles | Synonyms: ridgel, ridgeling, ridgil |
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| rifling | (noun) the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm | Synonyms: grooving |
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| rippling | (noun) a small wave on the surface of a liquid | Synonyms: riffle, ripple, wavelet |
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| roiling | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: churning, roiled, roily, turbulent |
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| rolling | (adjective) uttered with a trill | Synonyms: rolled, trilled |
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| (noun) propelling something on wheels | Synonyms: wheeling |
| (noun) the act of robbing a helpless person | - |
| (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, pealing, roll |
| rosemaling | (noun) a Scandinavian style of carved or painted decoration (as on furniture or walls or dinnerware) consisting of floral motifs | - |
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| ruling | (adjective) exercising power or authority | Synonyms: regnant, reigning |
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| (noun) the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself) | Synonyms: opinion |
| rumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: grumbling |
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| (noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, rumble |
| rustling | (adjective) characterized by soft sounds | Synonyms: murmurous, soughing, susurrous |
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| (noun) the stealing of cattle | - |
| (noun) a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind | Synonyms: rustle, whisper, whispering |
| sailing | (noun) riding in a sailboat | - |
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| (noun) the work of a sailor | Synonyms: navigation, seafaring |
| (noun) the departure of a vessel from a port | - |
| (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring |
| sampling | (noun) (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study | - |
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| (noun) measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form) | - |
| (noun) items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population | Synonyms: sample, sample distribution |
| sanderling | (noun) small sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and migrates southward along sandy coasts in most of world | Synonyms: Crocethia alba |
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| sapling | (noun) young tree | - |
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| scaling | (noun) act of measuring or arranging or adjusting according to a scale | - |
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| (noun) the act of arranging in a graduated series | Synonyms: grading |
| (noun) ascent by or as if by a ladder | - |
| scantling | (noun) an upright in house framing | Synonyms: stud |
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| scheduling | (noun) setting an order and time for planned events | Synonyms: programing, programming |
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| schilling | (noun) formerly the basic unit of money in Austria | Synonyms: Austrian schilling |
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| schooling | (noun) the act of teaching at school | - |
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| (noun) the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage) | - |
| (noun) the process of being formally educated at a school | Synonyms: school |
| scowling | (adjective) sullen or unfriendly in appearance | Synonyms: beetle-browed |
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| sculling | (noun) rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell | - |
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| sealing | (noun) the act of treating something to make it repel water | Synonyms: waterproofing |
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