| adenine | (noun) (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA | Synonyms: A |
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| agglutinin | (noun) an antibody that causes agglutination of a specific antigen | - |
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| alanine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid that occurs in many proteins | - |
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| aligning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: positioning |
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| angiotonin | (noun) any of several vasoconstrictor substances (trade name Hypertensin) that cause narrowing of blood vessels | Synonyms: angiotensin, Hypertensin |
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| antivenin | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenene |
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| apportioning | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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| arginine | (noun) a bitter tasting amino acid found in proteins and necessary for nutrition; its absence from the diet leads to a reduced production of spermatozoa | - |
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| asinine | (adjective) extremely silly or stupid | Synonyms: fatuous, inane |
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| asininity | (noun) the quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness | - |
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| assigning | (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assignment |
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| awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
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| awning | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: sunblind, sunshade |
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| awninged | (adjective) covered with an awning | - |
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| ballooning | (noun) flying in a balloon | - |
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| banning | (noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, forbiddance, forbidding |
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| bargaining | (noun) the negotiation of the terms of a transaction or agreement | - |
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| beginning | (adjective) serving to begin | Synonyms: first |
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| (noun) the act of starting something | Synonyms: commencement, start |
| (noun) the first part or section of something | - |
| (noun) the event consisting of the start of something | - |
| (noun) the place where something begins, where it springs into being | Synonyms: origin, root, rootage, source |
| (noun) the time at which something is supposed to begin | Synonyms: commencement, first, get-go, kickoff, offset, outset, showtime, start, starting time |
| blackening | (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: darkening |
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| boniness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
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| brawniness | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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| brininess | (noun) the relative proportion of salt in a solution | Synonyms: salinity |
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| broadening | (noun) the action of making broader | - |
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| (noun) the act of making something wider | Synonyms: widening |
| (noun) an increase in width | Synonyms: widening |
| browning | (noun) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill | Synonyms: toasting |
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| burgeoning | (adjective) very lively and profitable | Synonyms: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving |
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| burning | (adjective) of immediate import | - |
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| (noun) the act of burning something | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) execution by electricity | Synonyms: electrocution |
| (noun) execution by fire | Synonyms: burning at the stake |
| (noun) a form of torture in which cigarettes or cigars or other hot implements are used to burn the victim's skin | - |
| (noun) a process in which a substance reacts with oxygen to give heat and light | Synonyms: combustion |
| (noun) pain that feels hot as if it were on fire | Synonyms: burn |
| buteonine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
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| (noun) any hawk of the genus Buteo | - |
| calcitonin | (noun) thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone | Synonyms: thyrocalcitonin |
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| campaigning | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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| canavanine | (noun) an amino acid found in the jack bean | - |
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| canine | (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of members of the family Canidae | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to a pointed conical tooth | Synonyms: laniary |
| (noun) any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles | Synonyms: canid |
| (noun) one of the four pointed conical teeth (two in each jaw) located between the incisors and the premolars | Synonyms: canine tooth, cuspid, dogtooth, eye tooth, eyetooth |
| caning | (noun) work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) | Synonyms: wicker, wickerwork |
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| caravanning | (noun) the practice of taking holidays in a caravan | - |
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| carrageenin | (noun) a colloidal extract from carrageen seaweed and other red algae | Synonyms: carrageenan |
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| cerebromeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: encephalomeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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| chastening | (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastisement, correction |
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| cholecystokinin | (noun) a gastrointestinal hormone that stimulates the secretion of pancreatic enzymes and the contraction and emptying of the gall bladder; its release is stimulated by the presence of fatty acids and amino acids in the small intestine | - |
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| choriomeningitis | (noun) a cerebral meningitis with cellular infiltration of the meninges | - |
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| christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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| churning | (adjective) (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence | Synonyms: roiled, roiling, roily, turbulent |
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| (adjective) moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation | Synonyms: churned-up |
| cinchonine | (noun) an alkaloid derivative of the bark of cinchona trees that is used as an antimalarial drug | - |
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| cleaning | (noun) the act of making something clean | Synonyms: cleansing, cleanup |
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| cloning | (noun) a general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (a gene or organism or cell) | - |
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| clowning | (noun) acting like a clown or buffoon | Synonyms: buffoonery, frivolity, harlequinade, japery, prank |
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| (noun) a comic incident or series of incidents | Synonyms: comedy, drollery, funniness |
| cocooning | (noun) retreating to the seclusion of your home (as for privacy or escape) | - |
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| combining | (noun) the act of combining things to form a new whole | Synonyms: combination, compounding |
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| (noun) an occurrence that results in things being united | Synonyms: combine |
| commissioning | (noun) the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | Synonyms: commission |
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| complaining | (adjective) expressing pain or dissatisfaction of resentment | Synonyms: complaintive |
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| complainingly | (adverb) with complaints | - |
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| condemning | (adjective) containing or imposing condemnation or censure | Synonyms: condemnatory |
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| conditioning | (noun) a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment | - |
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| confining | (adjective) crowded | Synonyms: close |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
| constraining | (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constrictive, limiting, restricting |
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| convening | (noun) the act of convening | Synonyms: convention |
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| crooning | (noun) the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner | - |
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| (noun) singing in a soft low tone | - |
| crowning | (adjective) forming or providing a crown or summit | - |
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| (adjective) representing a level of the highest possible achievement or attainment | - |
| cunning | (adjective) showing inventiveness and skill | Synonyms: clever, ingenious |
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| (adjective) marked by skill in deception | Synonyms: crafty, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily |
| (adjective) attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness | Synonyms: cute |
| (noun) crafty artfulness (especially in deception) | - |
| (noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, craftiness, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
| cunningly | (adverb) in an subtle, cunning manner | Synonyms: artfully, craftily, foxily, knavishly, slyly, trickily |
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| (adverb) in an attractive manner | Synonyms: cutely |
| cushioning | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: padding |
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| cytokinin | (noun) any of a class of plant hormones that promote cell division and delay the senescence of leaves | Synonyms: kinin |
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| damning | (adjective) threatening with damnation | Synonyms: damnatory |
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| dampening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: moistening |
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| darkening | (adjective) becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over | - |
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| (noun) changing to a darker color | Synonyms: blackening |
| darning | (noun) the act of mending a hole in a garment with crossing threads | - |
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| dawning | (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup |
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| deadening | (adjective) so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness | Synonyms: boring, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome |
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| (noun) the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) | Synonyms: constipation, impairment, stultification |
| deafening | (adjective) loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss | Synonyms: earsplitting, thunderous, thundery |
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| deepening | (adjective) accumulating and becoming more intense | Synonyms: thickening |
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| (noun) a process of becoming deeper and more profound | - |
| defining | (noun) any process serving to define the shape of something | Synonyms: shaping |
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| demeaning | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: humbling, humiliating, mortifying |
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| demeaningly | (adverb) in a humiliating manner | Synonyms: humiliatingly |
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| designing | (adjective) concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest | Synonyms: scheming |
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| (noun) the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) | Synonyms: design |
| determining | (adjective) having the power or quality of deciding | Synonyms: deciding, determinant, determinative |
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| dihydroxyphenylalanine | (noun) amino acid that is formed in the liver and converted into dopamine in the brain | Synonyms: dopa |
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| dimensioning | (adjective) indicating or determining size and position in space | - |
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| dining | (noun) the act of eating dinner | - |
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| discerning | (adjective) having or revealing keen insight and good judgment | - |
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| (adjective) able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive | - |
| (adjective) quick to understand | Synonyms: apprehensive |
| (adjective) unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic | Synonyms: discreet |
| disheartening | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting |
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| disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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| disowning | (noun) refusal to acknowledge as one's own | Synonyms: disownment |
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| downiness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: featheriness, fluffiness |
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| draining | (adjective) having a debilitating effect | Synonyms: exhausting |
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| droning | (noun) an unchanging intonation | Synonyms: drone, monotone |
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| earnings | (noun) something that remunerates | Synonyms: pay, remuneration, salary, wage |
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| (noun) the excess of revenues over outlays in a given period of time (including depreciation and other non-cash expenses) | Synonyms: lucre, net, net income, net profit, profit, profits |
| encephalomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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| enjoining | (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoinment, injunction |
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| enlightening | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: illuminating, informative |
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| (adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: edifying |
| enlivening | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: animating |
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| entertaining | (adjective) agreeably diverting | - |
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| entertainingly | (adverb) in an entertaining manner | - |
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| envisioning | (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: picturing |
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| evening | (noun) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) | Synonyms: eve, even, eventide |
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| (noun) a later concluding time period | - |
| (noun) the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way | - |
| eveningwear | (noun) attire to wear on formal occasions in the evening | Synonyms: evening clothes, evening dress, formalwear |
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| falconine | (adjective) relating to or resembling a falcon | - |
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| fashioning | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, making |
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| fastening | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: attachment |
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| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast |
| fattening | (adjective) subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter | - |
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| fawning | (adjective) attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, obsequious, sycophantic, toadyish |
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| (adjective) attempting to win favor by flattery | Synonyms: bootlicking, sycophantic, toadyish |
| feigning | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: pretence, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, pretence, pretense |
| feminine | (adjective) associated with women and not with men | - |
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| (adjective) female (of grammatical gender) | - |
| (adjective) befitting or characteristic of a woman especially a mature woman | Synonyms: womanly |
| (adjective) (music or poetry) ending on an unaccented beat or syllable | - |
| (noun) a gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to females or to objects classified as female | - |