| intervening | (adjective) occurring or falling between events or points in time | - |
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| ironing | (noun) the work of using heat to smooth washed clothes in order to remove any wrinkles | - |
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| (noun) garments (clothes or linens) that are to be (or have been) ironed | - |
| joining | (noun) the act of bringing two things into contact (especially for communication) | Synonyms: connection, connexion |
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| kenning | (noun) conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry | - |
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| leaning | (adjective) departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal | Synonyms: atilt, canted, tilted, tipped |
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| (noun) the act of deviating from a vertical position | - |
| (noun) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical | Synonyms: inclination, lean, list, tilt |
| (noun) a natural inclination | Synonyms: proclivity, propensity |
| (noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: propensity, tendency |
| learning | (noun) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge | Synonyms: acquisition |
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| (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, scholarship |
| leavening | (noun) an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something | Synonyms: leaven |
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| (noun) a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid | Synonyms: leaven |
| lengthening | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: perpetuation, prolongation, protraction |
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| leptomeninges | (noun) the two innermost layers of the meninges; cerebrospinal fluid circulates between these innermost layers | - |
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| leptomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the leptomeninges | - |
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| lessening | (noun) a change downward | Synonyms: decrease, drop-off |
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| lightening | (noun) changing to a lighter color | Synonyms: whitening |
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| (noun) descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped | - |
| lightning | (noun) the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more | - |
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| (noun) abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light | - |
| likening | (noun) the act of comparing similarities | - |
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| limning | (noun) a drawing of the outlines of forms or objects | Synonyms: delineation, depiction, line drawing |
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| lining | (noun) the act of attaching an inside lining (to a garment or curtain etc.) | - |
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| (noun) providing something with a surface of a different material | Synonyms: facing |
| (noun) a protective covering that protects an inside surface | Synonyms: liner |
| (noun) a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment | Synonyms: liner |
| listening | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: hearing |
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| loaning | (noun) disposing of money or property with the expectation that the same thing (or an equivalent) will be returned | Synonyms: lending |
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| loosening | (noun) the act of making something less tight | Synonyms: laxation |
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| (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: relaxation, slackening |
| maddening | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: exasperating, infuriating, vexing |
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| malfunctioning | (adjective) not performing or able to perform its regular function | Synonyms: nonfunctional |
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| meaning | (adjective) rich in significance or implication | Synonyms: pregnant, significant |
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| (noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: substance |
| (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, significance, signification |
| meaningful | (adjective) having a meaning or purpose | - |
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| meaningfully | (adverb) in a meaningful manner; so as to be meaningful | - |
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| meaningfulness | (noun) the quality of having great value or significance | - |
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| meaningless | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: nonmeaningful |
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| (adjective) producing no result or effect | Synonyms: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing |
| meaninglessness | (noun) the quality of having no value or significance | - |
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| (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, nonsense, nonsensicality |
| meningeal | (adjective) relating to the meninges | - |
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| meninges | (noun) a membrane (one of 3) that envelops the brain and spinal cord | Synonyms: meninx |
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| meningioma | (noun) a tumor arising in the meninges which surround the brain and spinal cord; usually slow growing and sometimes malignant | - |
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| meningism | (noun) symptoms that mimic those of meningitis but without inflammation of the meninges | - |
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| meningitis | (noun) infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the meninges (the tissues that surround the brain or spinal cord) usually caused by a bacterial infection; symptoms include headache and stiff neck and fever and nausea | - |
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| meningocele | (noun) a congenital anomaly of the central nervous system in which a sac protruding from the brain or the spinal meninges contains cerebrospinal fluid (but no nerve tissue) | - |
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| meningoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, encephalomeningitis |
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| microphoning | (noun) the transduction of sound waves into electrical waves (by a microphone) | - |
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| mining | (noun) the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth | Synonyms: excavation |
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| (noun) laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment | Synonyms: minelaying |
| misreckoning | (noun) a mistake in calculating | Synonyms: miscalculation, misestimation |
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| moistening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: dampening |
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| morning | (noun) a conventional expression of greeting or farewell, used to wish someone a good morning | Synonyms: good morning |
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| (noun) the earliest period | Synonyms: dawn |
| (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: forenoon, morn, morning time |
| (noun) the first light of day | Synonyms: aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawn, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, sunrise, sunup |
| mourning | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, sorrowing |
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| (noun) the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief | Synonyms: lamentation |
| (noun) state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one | Synonyms: bereavement |
| myelomeningocele | (noun) a congenital defect of the central nervous system in which a sac containing part of the spinal cord and its meninges protrude through a gap in the vertebral column; frequently accompanied by hydrocephalus and mental retardation | - |
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| noncombining | (adjective) not able to combine | - |
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| nonmeaningful | (adjective) having no meaning or direction or purpose | Synonyms: meaningless |
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| nonopening | (adjective) not open; not opening | - |
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| opening | (adjective) first or beginning | - |
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| (noun) a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess | Synonyms: chess opening |
| (noun) the act of opening something | - |
| (noun) becoming open or being made open | - |
| (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, initiative, opening move |
| (noun) a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made | - |
| (noun) an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship | Synonyms: hatchway, scuttle |
| (noun) an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity | Synonyms: orifice, porta |
| (noun) a possible alternative | Synonyms: possibility, possible action |
| (noun) the initial part of the introduction | - |
| (noun) the first performance (as of a theatrical production) | Synonyms: curtain raising, opening night |
| (noun) a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise | - |
| (noun) an open or empty space in or between things | Synonyms: gap |
| (noun) opportunity especially for employment or promotion | - |
| overreckoning | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overrating |
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| overweening | (adjective) presumptuously arrogant | Synonyms: uppity |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: excessive, extravagant, exuberant |
| partitioning | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partition, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
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| (noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: breakdown |
| penning | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, composition, writing |
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| pining | (noun) a feeling of deep longing | - |
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| pinning | (noun) a mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin | - |
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| planning | (noun) an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action | - |
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| (noun) the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise | - |
| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: preparation, provision |
| poisoning | (noun) the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill | - |
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| (noun) the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance | Synonyms: intoxication, toxic condition |
| positioning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: aligning |
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| (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position |
| prizewinning | (adjective) holding first place in a contest | Synonyms: champion |
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| pruning | (noun) the act of trimming a plant | - |
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| (noun) something that has been pruned off of a plant | - |
| punning | (noun) a humorous play on words | Synonyms: paronomasia, pun, wordplay |
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| questioning | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: inquisitive, speculative, wondering |
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| (adjective) marked by or given to doubt | Synonyms: doubting, sceptical, skeptical |
| (adjective) perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know) | Synonyms: quizzical |
| (noun) a request for information | Synonyms: inquiring |
| questioningly | (adverb) in a curious and questioning manner | Synonyms: wonderingly |
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| (adverb) in a quizzical and questioning manner | Synonyms: quizzically |
| quickening | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: acceleration, speedup |
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| (noun) the process of showing signs of life | - |
| (noun) the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus | - |
| raining | (adjective) falling in drops or as if falling like rain | - |
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| rationing | (noun) the act of rationing | - |
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| ravening | (adjective) excessively greedy and grasping | Synonyms: rapacious, voracious |
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| (adjective) living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey | Synonyms: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, vulturine, vulturous |
| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravenous, voracious, wolfish |
| reasoning | (adjective) endowed with the capacity to reason | Synonyms: intelligent, thinking |
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| (noun) thinking that is coherent and logical | Synonyms: abstract thought, logical thinking |
| reckoning | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, counting, enumeration, numeration, tally |
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| (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, figuring |
| (noun) a bill for an amount due | Synonyms: tally |
| reclining | (noun) the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position | - |
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| refining | (noun) the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) | Synonyms: purification, refinement |
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| regaining | (noun) getting something back again | Synonyms: restitution, restoration, return |
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| reigning | (adjective) exercising power or authority | Synonyms: regnant, ruling |
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| relistening | (noun) the act of hearing again | Synonyms: rehearing |
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| remaining | (adjective) not used up | Synonyms: left, left over, leftover, odd, unexpended |
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| repositioning | (noun) the act of placing in a new position | - |
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| retraining | (noun) training for a new occupation | - |
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| returning | (adjective) tending to be turned back | Synonyms: reversive |
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| (adjective) tending to return to an earlier state | Synonyms: reverting |
| ripening | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, maturement |
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| (noun) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
| ruining | (noun) destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined | Synonyms: laying waste, ruin, ruination, wrecking |
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| running | (adjective) of advancing the ball by running | - |
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| (adjective) executed or initiated by running | - |
| (adjective) (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream | - |
| (adjective) continually repeated over a period of time | - |
| (adjective) (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing | Synonyms: functional, operative, working |
| (adjective) measured lengthwise | Synonyms: linear |
| (noun) the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track | Synonyms: track |
| (noun) the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace | Synonyms: run |
| (noun) the act of administering or being in charge of something | - |
| (noun) (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team | Synonyms: run, running game, running play |
| (noun) the state of being in operation | - |
| sailplaning | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, gliding, sailing, soaring |
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| sanctioning | (adjective) implying sanction or serving to sanction | Synonyms: sanctionative |
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| scanning | (noun) the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission | - |
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| (noun) the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer | - |
| screening | (noun) the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it | Synonyms: cover, covering, masking |
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| (noun) testing objects or persons in order to identify those with particular characteristics | - |
| (noun) fabric of metal or plastic mesh | - |
| (noun) the display of a motion picture | Synonyms: showing, viewing |
| seasoning | (noun) the act of adding a seasoning to food | - |
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| (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, flavouring, seasoner |
| shining | (adjective) marked by exceptional merit | - |
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| (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny |
| (adjective) made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow | Synonyms: bright, burnished, lustrous, shiny |
| (noun) the work of making something smooth and shiny by rubbing or waxing it | Synonyms: polishing |
| shortening | (noun) act of decreasing in length | - |
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| (noun) fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods | - |
| shunning | (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: avoidance, dodging, turning away |
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| sickening | (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseating, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, vile |
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| sickeningly | (adverb) in a disgusting manner or to a disgusting degree | Synonyms: disgustingly, distastefully, revoltingly |
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| sickeningness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, distastefulness, nauseatingness, unsavoriness |
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| signing | (noun) language expressed by visible hand gestures | Synonyms: sign language |
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| sinning | (adjective) transgressing a moral or divine law | - |
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| (noun) an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will | Synonyms: sin |
| slackening | (noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: loosening, relaxation |
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| softening | (adjective) having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin | Synonyms: demulcent, emollient, salving |
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| (noun) the process of becoming softer | - |
| spinning | (noun) creating thread | - |
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| staining | (noun) (histology) the use of a dye to color specimens for microscopic study | - |
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| (noun) the act of spotting or staining something | Synonyms: maculation, spotting |
| stiffening | (noun) the act of becoming stiff | - |
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| (noun) the process of becoming stiff or rigid | Synonyms: rigidification, rigidifying |
| stoning | (noun) the act of pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death) | Synonyms: lapidation |
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| straining | (adjective) taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance | Synonyms: arduous, strenuous |
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| (noun) the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean | Synonyms: distortion, overrefinement, torture, twisting |
| (noun) an intense or violent exertion | Synonyms: strain |
| strengthening | (noun) the act of increasing the strength of something | - |
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| (noun) becoming stronger | - |
| stunning | (adjective) strikingly beautiful or attractive | - |
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| (adjective) causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility | - |
| (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: arresting, sensational |
| (adjective) causing great astonishment and consternation | - |
| stunningly | (adverb) in a spectacular manner | Synonyms: spectacularly |
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