| falteringly | (adverb) in an unsteady manner | Synonyms: uncertainly, unsteadily |
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| feathering | (noun) turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls | Synonyms: feather |
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| festering | (noun) a fluid product of inflammation | Synonyms: ichor, purulence, pus, sanies, suppuration |
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| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: maturation, suppuration |
| figuring | (noun) problem solving that involves numbers or quantities | Synonyms: calculation, computation, reckoning |
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| fingering | (noun) touching something with the fingers | - |
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| (noun) the placement of the fingers for playing different notes (or sequences of notes) on a musical instrument | - |
| firing | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: ignition, inflammation, kindling, lighting |
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| (noun) the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) | Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, dismission, liberation, release, sack, sacking |
| (noun) the act of discharging a gun | Synonyms: discharge, firing off |
| (noun) the act of firing weapons or artillery at an enemy | Synonyms: fire |
| flaring | (adjective) streaming or flapping or spreading wide as if in a current of air | Synonyms: aflare |
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| flattering | (adjective) showing or representing to advantage | - |
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| (adjective) obsequiously complimentary | Synonyms: adulatory |
| flavoring | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavourer, flavouring, seasoner, seasoning |
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| flavouring | (noun) something added to food primarily for the savor it imparts | Synonyms: flavorer, flavoring, flavourer, seasoner, seasoning |
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| flickering | (adjective) shining unsteadily | Synonyms: aflicker |
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| flooring | (noun) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure) | Synonyms: floor |
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| (noun) building material used in laying floors | - |
| flowering | (adjective) when a plant is in a state of possessing one or multiple flowers and/or blooms | - |
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| (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, inflorescence |
| (noun) a developmental process | Synonyms: unfolding |
| fluttering | (noun) the motion made by flapping up and down | Synonyms: flap, flapping, flutter |
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| forbearing | (adjective) showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment | Synonyms: longanimous |
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| forswearing | (noun) the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.) | Synonyms: forgoing, renunciation |
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| fostering | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, nurture, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) encouragement; aiding the development of something | Synonyms: fosterage |
| foundering | (noun) (of a ship) sinking | Synonyms: going under |
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| fringe | (noun) an ornamental border consisting of short lengths of hanging threads or tassels | - |
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| (noun) a border of hair that is cut short and hangs across the forehead | Synonyms: bang |
| (noun) a social group holding marginal or extreme views | - |
| (noun) a part of the city far removed from the center | Synonyms: outskirt |
| (noun) one of the light or dark bands produced by the interference and diffraction of light | Synonyms: interference fringe |
| (noun) the outside boundary or surface of something | Synonyms: outer boundary, periphery |
| (verb) decorate with or as if with a surrounding fringe | - |
| (verb) adorn with a fringe | - |
| fringed | (adjective) having a decorative edging of hanging cords or strips | - |
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| (adjective) surrounded as with a border or fringe; sometimes used in combination | - |
| (adjective) having edges irregularly and finely slashed | Synonyms: laciniate |
| fringepod | (noun) annual herb having pinnatifid basal leaves and slender racemes of small white flowers followed by one-seeded winged silicles | Synonyms: lacepod |
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| fringy | (adjective) at or constituting a border or edge | Synonyms: marginal |
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| furring | (noun) strip used to give a level surface for attaching wallboard | Synonyms: furring strip |
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| (noun) a furlike coating of matter as on the tongue | - |
| gathering | (noun) the social act of assembling | Synonyms: assemblage, assembly |
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| (noun) the act of gathering something | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) sewing consisting of small folds or puckers made by pulling tight a thread in a line of stitching | Synonyms: gather |
| (noun) a group of persons together in one place | Synonyms: assemblage |
| gearing | (noun) wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed | Synonyms: gear, geartrain, power train, train |
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| glaring | (adjective) shining intensely | Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glary |
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| (adjective) conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | Synonyms: crying, egregious, flagrant, gross, rank |
| glaringly | (adverb) in a glaring manner | - |
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| glimmering | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, inkling, intimation |
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| glistering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glittering | (adjective) having brief brilliant points or flashes of light | Synonyms: aglitter, coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly |
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| glowering | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| gloweringly | (adverb) in a glowering manner | - |
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| gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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| gringo | (noun) a Latin American (disparaging) term for foreigners (especially Americans and Englishmen) | - |
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| hairspring | (noun) a fine spiral spring that regulates the movement of the balance wheel in a timepiece | - |
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| hammering | (noun) the act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows) | Synonyms: hammer, pound, pounding |
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| hamstring | (noun) one of the tendons at the back of the knee | Synonyms: hamstring tendon |
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| (verb) cripple by cutting the hamstring | - |
| (verb) make ineffective or powerless | - |
| handspring | (noun) an acrobatic feat in which a person goes from a standing position to a handstand and back again | - |
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| hankering | (noun) a yearning for something or to do something | Synonyms: yen |
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| headspring | (noun) the source of water from which a stream arises | Synonyms: fountainhead, head |
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| hearing | (adjective) able to perceive sound | - |
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| (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: listening |
| (noun) (law) a proceeding (usually by a court) where evidence is taken for the purpose of determining an issue of fact and reaching a decision based on that evidence | - |
| (noun) the ability to hear; the auditory faculty | Synonyms: audition, auditory modality, auditory sense, sense of hearing |
| (noun) a session (of a committee or grand jury) in which witnesses are called and testimony is taken | - |
| (noun) the range within which a voice can be heard | Synonyms: earreach, earshot |
| (noun) an opportunity to state your case and be heard | Synonyms: audience |
| heartstrings | (noun) your deepest feelings of love and compassion | - |
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| herring | (noun) commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific | Synonyms: Clupea harangus |
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| (noun) valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled | - |
| herringbone | (noun) a twilled fabric with a herringbone pattern | - |
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| (noun) a pattern of columns of short parallel lines with all the lines in one column sloping one way and lines in adjacent columns sloping the other way; it is used in weaving, masonry, parquetry, embroidery | Synonyms: herringbone pattern |
| hindering | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: clogging, impeding, obstructive |
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| hinderingly | (adverb) in an obstructive manner | Synonyms: obstructively |
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| hollering | (noun) a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal) | Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl |
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| honoring | (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honouring, observance |
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| honouring | (noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, observance |
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| humoring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humouring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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| humouring | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering |
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| imploring | (adjective) begging | Synonyms: beseeching, pleading |
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| imploringly | (adverb) in a beseeching manner | Synonyms: beseechingly, entreatingly, importunately, pleadingly |
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| incurring | (noun) acquiring or coming into something (usually undesirable) | - |
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| infringe | (verb) advance beyond the usual limit | Synonyms: encroach, impinge |
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| (verb) go against, as of rules and laws | Synonyms: conflict, contravene, run afoul |
| infringement | (noun) a crime less serious than a felony | Synonyms: infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation |
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| (noun) an act that disregards an agreement or a right | Synonyms: violation |
| ingathering | (noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, solicitation |
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| inpouring | (adjective) pouring inward | - |
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| (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inrush |
| inquiring | (adjective) given to inquiry | - |
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| (noun) a request for information | Synonyms: questioning |
| inquiringly | (adverb) in an inquiring manner | Synonyms: enquiringly |
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| inspiring | (adjective) stimulating or exalting to the spirit | - |
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| interfering | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, meddlesome, meddling, officious |
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| jabbering | (noun) rapid and indistinct speech | Synonyms: gabble, jabber |
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| jarring | (adjective) making or causing a harsh and irritating sound | - |
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| jarringly | (adverb) in a manner that jars and irritates | - |
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| jeering | (adjective) abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule | Synonyms: derisive, gibelike, mocking, taunting |
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| (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, mockery, scoff, scoffing |
| jeeringly | (adverb) in a disrespectful jeering manner | Synonyms: gibingly, mockingly |
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| jittering | (adjective) undergoing small rapid variations | - |
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| laboring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, labouring, toiling |
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| labouring | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: drudging, laboring, toiling |
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| latchstring | (noun) opener consisting of a string that can be passed through a hole in a door for raising the latch from outside | - |
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| laundering | (noun) washing clothes and bed linens | - |
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| lecturing | (noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) | Synonyms: lecture |
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| leering | (adjective) showing sly or knowing malice in a glance | - |
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| (adjective) (of a glance) sidelong and slyly lascivious | - |
| lettering | (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: inscription |
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| lingering | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: tarriance |
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| lingeringly | (adverb) in a slow, leisurely or prolonged way | Synonyms: protractedly |
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| lockring | (noun) washer that prevents a nut from loosening | Synonyms: lock ring, lock washer |
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| lowering | (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, sullen, threatening |
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| (noun) the act of causing to become less | - |
| (noun) the act of causing something to move to a lower level | Synonyms: letting down |
| loweringly | (adverb) in a menacing or scowling way | - |
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| lumbering | (adjective) slow and laborious because of weight | Synonyms: heavy, ponderous |
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| (noun) the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber | - |
| mainspring | (noun) the most important spring in a mechanical device (especially a clock or watch); as it uncoils it drives the mechanism | - |
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| malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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| manufacturing | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacture |
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| mastering | (noun) the act of making a master recording from which copies can be made | - |
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| (noun) becoming proficient in the use of something; having mastery of | - |
| meandering | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: rambling, wandering, winding |
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| meanderingly | (adverb) in a meandering manner | - |
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| measuring | (noun) the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule | Synonyms: measure, measurement, mensuration |
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| meringue | (noun) sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar | - |
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| monitoring | (noun) the act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it) | - |
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| mooring | (noun) (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place | Synonyms: mooring line |
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| (noun) a place where a craft can be made fast | Synonyms: berth, moorage, slip |
| motoring | (noun) the act of driving an automobile | - |
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| mountaineering | (noun) the activity of climbing a mountain | Synonyms: mountain climbing |
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| mudspringer | (noun) found in tropical coastal regions of Africa and Asia; able to move on land on strong pectoral fins | Synonyms: mudskipper |
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| murmuring | (adjective) making a low continuous indistinct sound | Synonyms: susurrant, whispering |
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| (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, mutter, muttering |
| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, mussitation, mutter, muttering |
| muttering | (noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter |
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| (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mussitation, mutter |
| myringa | (noun) the membrane in the ear that vibrates to sound | Synonyms: eardrum, tympanic membrane, tympanum |
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| myringectomy | (noun) surgical removal of the eardrum | - |
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| myringoplasty | (noun) surgical repair of a perforated eardrum with a tissue graft | - |
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| myringotomy | (noun) surgical incision into the eardrum (to relieve pressure or release pus from the middle ear) | - |
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