| accenting | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accentuation, emphasizing |
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| accounting | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accountancy |
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| (noun) a system that provides quantitative information about finances | - |
| (noun) a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes | - |
| (noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account, account statement |
| (noun) a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts | Synonyms: accounting system, method of accounting |
| adamantine | (adjective) consisting of or having the hardness of adamant | - |
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| (adjective) having the hardness of a diamond | - |
| (adjective) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason | Synonyms: adamant, inexorable, intransigent |
| andantino | (adjective) (of tempo) moderately fast | - |
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| anointing | (noun) the act of applying oil or an oily liquid | Synonyms: anointment |
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| antineoplastic | (adjective) used in the treatment of cancer | Synonyms: anticancer, antitumor, antitumour |
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| (noun) any of several drugs that control or kill neoplastic cells; used in chemotherapy to kill cancer cells; all have unpleasant side effects that may include nausea and vomiting and hair loss and suppression of bone marrow function | Synonyms: antineoplastic drug, cancer drug |
| antineutrino | (noun) the antiparticle of a neutrino | - |
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| antineutron | (noun) the antiparticle of a neutron | - |
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| antinode | (noun) (physics) the point of maximum displacement in a periodic system | - |
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| antinomasia | (noun) substitution of a title for a name | - |
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| antinomian | (adjective) relating to or influenced by antinomianism | - |
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| (noun) a follower of the doctrine of antinomianism | - |
| antinomianism | (noun) the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture) | - |
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| antinomy | (noun) a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable | - |
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| argentine | (noun) any of various small silver-scaled salmon-like marine fishes | - |
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| argentinosaur | (noun) huge herbivorous dinosaur of Cretaceous found in Argentina | - |
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| assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
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| (noun) agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) | Synonyms: accession |
| banting | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banteng, Bos banteng, tsine |
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| bisontine | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of bison | - |
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| brigantine | (noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast | Synonyms: hermaphrodite brig |
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| brilliantine | (noun) a pomade to make the hair manageable and lustrous | - |
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| bunting | (noun) any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America | - |
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| (noun) a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. | - |
| chanting | (noun) the act of singing in a monotonous tone | Synonyms: intonation |
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| clementine | (noun) a mandarin orange of a deep reddish orange color and few seeds | - |
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| (noun) a variety of mandarin orange that is grown around the Mediterranean and in South Africa | Synonyms: clementine tree |
| consenting | (adjective) having given consent | - |
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| continence | (noun) the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters | Synonyms: continency |
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| (noun) voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge | - |
| continency | (noun) the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters | Synonyms: continence |
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| continent | (adjective) having control over urination and defecation | - |
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| (adjective) abstaining from sexual intercourse | Synonyms: celibate |
| (noun) one of the large landmasses of the earth | - |
| continental | (adjective) being or concerning or limited to a continent especially the continents of North America or Europe | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or characteristic of a continent | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to or concerning the American colonies during and immediately after the American Revolutionary War | - |
| contingence | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingency, eventuality |
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| contingency | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, eventuality |
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| (noun) the state of being contingent on something | - |
| contingent | (adjective) being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow | Synonyms: contingent on, contingent upon, dependant on, dependant upon, dependent on, dependent upon, depending on |
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| (adjective) possible but not certain to occur | - |
| (adjective) uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances | - |
| (noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: detail |
| (noun) a gathering of persons representative of some larger group | - |
| continual | (adjective) recurring regularly or frequently in a prolonged and closely spaced series | - |
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| (adjective) having no interruptions | - |
| continually | (adverb) seemingly without interruption | - |
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| continuance | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuation |
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| (noun) the property of enduring or continuing in time | Synonyms: duration |
| (noun) the period of time during which something continues | Synonyms: duration |
| continuant | (adjective) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') | Synonyms: fricative, sibilant, spirant, strident |
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| (noun) consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract | Synonyms: continuant consonant |
| continuation | (noun) the act of continuing an activity without interruption | Synonyms: continuance |
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| (noun) the consequence of being lengthened in duration | Synonyms: lengthiness, prolongation, protraction |
| (noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that there is an innate tendency to perceive a line as continuing its established direction | Synonyms: good continuation, law of continuation |
| (noun) a part added to a book or play that continues and extends it | Synonyms: sequel |
| continuative | (noun) an uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences | Synonyms: conjunction, conjunctive, connective |
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| continue | (verb) exist over a prolonged period of time | - |
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| (verb) continue talking | Synonyms: carry on, go on, proceed |
| (verb) move ahead; travel onward in time or space | Synonyms: go forward, move ahead, proceed |
| (verb) allow to remain in a place or position or maintain a property or feature | Synonyms: keep, keep on, retain |
| (verb) keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last | Synonyms: bear on, carry on, preserve, uphold |
| (verb) continue a certain state, condition, or activity | Synonyms: go along, go on, keep, proceed |
| (verb) span an interval of distance, space or time | Synonyms: cover, extend |
| (verb) continue in a place, position, or situation | Synonyms: remain, stay, stay on |
| (verb) continue after an interruption | - |
| (verb) do something repeatedly and showing no intention to stop | Synonyms: persist in |
| continued | (adjective) without stop or interruption | - |
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| continuing | (adjective) remaining in force or being carried on without letup | - |
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| (adjective) persisting for a long time | Synonyms: chronic |
| continuity | (noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: persistence |
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| (noun) a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot | - |
| (noun) uninterrupted connection or union | - |
| continuo | (noun) a bass part written out in full and accompanied by numbers to indicate the chords to be played | Synonyms: basso continuo, figured bass, thorough bass |
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| continuous | (adjective) continuing in time or space without interruption | Synonyms: uninterrupted |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; extending without break or irregularity | - |
| continuously | (adverb) at every point | - |
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| (adverb) with unflagging resolve | Synonyms: ceaselessly, endlessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly |
| continuousness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, incessancy, incessantness |
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| continuum | (noun) a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts | - |
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| counting | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| countinghouse | (noun) office used by the accountants of a business | - |
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| daintiness | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: delicacy, fineness |
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| daunting | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: intimidating |
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| dauntingly | (adverb) to a degree or in a manner that daunts | - |
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| dentin | (noun) bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth | Synonyms: dentine |
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| (noun) a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth | Synonyms: dentine |
| dentine | (noun) bone (calcified tissue) surrounding the pulp cavity of a tooth | Synonyms: dentin |
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| (noun) a calcareous material harder and denser than bone that comprises the bulk of a tooth | Synonyms: dentin |
| diamantine | (adjective) consisting of diamonds or resembling diamonds | - |
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| disappointing | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: dissatisfactory, unsatisfying |
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| disappointingly | (adverb) in a disappointing manner | - |
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| discontinuance | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuation |
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| discontinuation | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuance |
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| discontinue | (verb) prevent completion | Synonyms: break, break off, stop |
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| (verb) put an end to a state or an activity | Synonyms: cease, give up, lay off, quit, stop |
| (verb) come to or be at an end | - |
| discontinued | (adjective) stopped permanently or temporarily | - |
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| discontinuity | (noun) lack of connection or continuity | - |
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| discontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: noncontinuous |
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| (adjective) of a function or curve; possessing one or more discontinuities | - |
| disenchanting | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disillusioning |
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| disorienting | (adjective) causing loss of physical or intellectual bearings | - |
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| dissenting | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissentient, dissident |
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| eglantine | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
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| elephantine | (adjective) of great mass; huge and bulky | Synonyms: gargantuan, giant, jumbo |
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| enchanting | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, captivating, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| enchantingly | (adverb) in a bewitching manner | Synonyms: bewitchingly, captivatingly, enthrallingly |
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| enchantingness | (noun) Quality of having the ability to enchant; being charming, delightful. | - |
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| fermenting | (noun) a process in which an agent causes an organic substance to break down into simpler substances; especially, the anaerobic breakdown of sugar into alcohol | Synonyms: ferment, fermentation, zymolysis, zymosis |
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| fingerpointing | (noun) the imputation of blame | Synonyms: finger-pointing |
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| fingerprinting | (noun) the procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints for the purpose of identification | - |
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| gabapentin | (noun) an anticonvulsant (trade name Neurontin) used to control some types of seizures in the treatment of epilepsy; also used to manage neuralgia caused by shingles | Synonyms: Neurontin |
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| galantine | (noun) boned poultry stuffed then cooked and covered with aspic; served cold | - |
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| glinting | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| haunting | (adjective) having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect | - |
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| (adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: persistent |
| hunting | (noun) the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts | Synonyms: hunt |
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| (noun) the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport | Synonyms: hunt |
| (noun) the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone | Synonyms: hunt, search |
| imprinting | (noun) a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established | - |
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| incontinence | (noun) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures | Synonyms: dissoluteness, self-gratification |
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| (noun) involuntary urination or defecation | Synonyms: incontinency |
| incontinency | (noun) involuntary urination or defecation | Synonyms: incontinence |
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| incontinent | (adjective) not having control over urination and defecation | - |
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| intercontinental | (adjective) extending or taking place between or among continents | - |
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| jauntiness | (noun) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance | Synonyms: dapperness, nattiness, rakishness |
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| (noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: breeziness |
| lamenting | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: wailful, wailing |
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| mintiness | (noun) The state or condition of having a flavour or essence of mint. | - |
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| mounting | (noun) framework used for support or display | - |
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| (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, climbing |
| noncontinuous | (adjective) not continuing without interruption in time or space | Synonyms: discontinuous |
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| orienting | (adjective) positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually | Synonyms: orientating |
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| painting | (noun) creating a picture with paints | - |
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| (noun) the occupation of a house painter | Synonyms: house painting |
| (noun) the act of applying paint to a surface | - |
| (noun) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface | Synonyms: picture |
| panting | (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: heaving |
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| (noun) any fabric used to make trousers | Synonyms: trousering |
| planting | (noun) the act of fixing firmly in place | - |
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| (noun) putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow | - |
| (noun) a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area | - |
| printing | (noun) the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution | - |
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| (noun) reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication | Synonyms: printing process |
| (noun) text handwritten in the style of printed matter | - |
| (noun) all the copies of a work printed at one time | Synonyms: impression |
| punting | (noun) (football) a kick in which the football is dropped from the hands and kicked before it touches the ground | Synonyms: punt |
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| quarantine | (noun) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease | - |
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| (noun) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease | - |
| (verb) place into enforced isolation, as for medical reasons | - |
| quarantined | (adjective) under forced isolation especially for health reasons | Synonyms: isolated |
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| ranting | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: harangue, rant |
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| recounting | (noun) an act of narration | Synonyms: relation, telling |
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| renting | (noun) the act of paying for the use of something (as an apartment or house or car) | Synonyms: rental |
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| reprinting | (noun) a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale | Synonyms: reissue, reprint |
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