| lapsing | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting |
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| limousine | (noun) large luxurious car; usually driven by a chauffeur | Synonyms: limo |
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| lisinopril | (noun) an ACE inhibiting drug (trade names Prinivil or Zestril) administered as an antihypertensive and after heart attacks | Synonyms: Prinivil, Zestril |
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| losings | (noun) something lost (especially money lost at gambling) | Synonyms: losses |
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| lousiness | (noun) the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions | Synonyms: loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, wickedness |
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| (noun) infestation with lice (Pediculus humanus) resulting in severe itching | Synonyms: pediculosis |
| lypressin | (noun) an antidiuretic and vasoconstrictor used to treat diabetes insipidus | - |
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| lysin | (noun) any substance (such as an antibody) or agent that can cause lysis | - |
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| lysine | (noun) an essential amino acid found in proteins; occurs especially in gelatin and casein | - |
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| lysinemia | (noun) an inborn error of metabolism in which the lack of certain enzymes leads to an inability to metabolize the amino acid lysine; characterized by muscular weakness and mental retardation | - |
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| marbleising | (noun) a texture like that of marble | Synonyms: marbleisation, marbleization, marbleizing |
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| maximising | (adjective) making as great as possible | Synonyms: maximizing |
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| merchandising | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: marketing, selling |
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| (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: advertising, publicizing |
| (noun) branded products meant to promote another product, especially films and pop groups | Synonyms: merchandise |
| messiness | (noun) the trait of being untidy and messy | Synonyms: untidiness |
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| (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, muss, mussiness |
| misinform | (verb) give false or misleading information to | Synonyms: mislead |
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| misinformation | (noun) information that is incorrect | - |
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| misinterpret | (verb) interpret wrongly | Synonyms: misread |
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| (verb) interpret in the wrong way | Synonyms: be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misunderstand |
| (verb) interpret falsely | - |
| misinterpretation | (noun) putting the wrong interpretation on | Synonyms: mistaking, misunderstanding |
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| missing | (adjective) not able to be found | - |
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| (adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: absent, lacking, wanting |
| mocassin | (noun) soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans | Synonyms: moccasin |
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| moccasin | (noun) soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans | Synonyms: mocassin |
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| multiprocessing | (noun) simultaneous processing by two or more processing units | Synonyms: parallel processing |
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| musing | (adjective) deeply or seriously thoughtful | Synonyms: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative |
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| (noun) a calm, lengthy, intent consideration | Synonyms: contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, thoughtfulness |
| musingly | (adverb) in a meditative manner | - |
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| mussiness | (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, messiness, muss |
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| myosin | (noun) the commonest protein in muscle; a globulin that combines with actin to form actomyosin | - |
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| narcotising | (adjective) inducing stupor or narcosis | Synonyms: narcotic, narcotizing |
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| neurolysin | (noun) any toxin that affects neural tissues | Synonyms: neurotoxin |
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| noisiness | (noun) the auditory effect characterized by loud and constant noise | Synonyms: racketiness |
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| nonenterprising | (adjective) lacking in enterprise; not bold or venturesome | Synonyms: unenterprising |
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| nonresinous | (adjective) not having resin | Synonyms: non-resinous, non-resiny, nonresiny |
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| nonresiny | (adjective) not having resin | Synonyms: non-resinous, non-resiny, nonresinous |
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| nosiness | (noun) offensive inquisitiveness | Synonyms: prying, snoopiness |
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| nursing | (noun) the work of caring for the sick or injured or infirm | - |
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| (noun) nourishing at the breast | Synonyms: breast feeding |
| (noun) the profession of a nurse | - |
| oleoresin | (noun) a naturally occurring mixture of a resin and an essential oil; obtained from certain plants | - |
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| opposing | (adjective) characterized by active hostility | Synonyms: opponent |
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| opsin | (noun) retinal protein formed by the action of light on rhodopsin | - |
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| overcrossing | (noun) a bridge designed for pedestrians | Synonyms: footbridge, pedestrian bridge |
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| pansinusitis | (noun) inflammation of all of the paranasal sinuses | - |
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| passing | (adjective) of advancing the ball by throwing it | Synonyms: pass |
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| (adjective) hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough | Synonyms: casual, cursory, perfunctory, superficial |
| (adjective) lasting a very short time | Synonyms: ephemeral, fugacious, short-lived, transient, transitory |
| (adjective) allowing you to pass (e.g., an examination or inspection) satisfactorily | - |
| (noun) going by something that is moving in order to get in front of it | Synonyms: overtaking |
| (noun) success in satisfying a test or requirement | Synonyms: pass, qualifying |
| (noun) (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate | Synonyms: pass, passing game, passing play |
| (noun) a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, release |
| (noun) the motion of one object relative to another | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) the end of something | - |
| (adverb) to an extraordinary degree | Synonyms: surpassingly |
| patronising | (adjective) (used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension | Synonyms: arch, condescending, patronizing |
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| patronisingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: condescendingly, patronizingly |
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| pepsin | (noun) an enzyme produced in the stomach that splits proteins into peptones | - |
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| pepsinogen | (noun) precursor of pepsin; stored in the stomach walls and converted to pepsin by hydrochloric acid in the stomach | - |
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| perusing | (noun) reading carefully with intent to remember | Synonyms: perusal, poring over, studying |
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| phrasing | (noun) the grouping of musical phrases in a melodic line | - |
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| (noun) the manner in which something is expressed in words | Synonyms: choice of words, diction, phraseology, verbiage, wording |
| pissing | (noun) informal terms for urination | Synonyms: pee, peeing, piss |
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| pleasing | (adjective) giving pleasure and satisfaction | - |
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| (adjective) pleasant or agreeable to the senses | - |
| (noun) the act of one who pleases | - |
| pleasingly | (adverb) in a pleasing manner | - |
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| pleasingness | (noun) the quality of giving pleasure to the senses | - |
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| posing | (noun) (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait) | Synonyms: sitting |
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| praising | (adjective) full of or giving praise | Synonyms: laudatory, praiseful |
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| prazosin | (noun) antihypertensive drug (trade name Minipress) | Synonyms: Minipress |
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| prepossessing | (adjective) creating a favorable impression | - |
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| pressing | (adjective) compelling immediate action | Synonyms: urgent |
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| (noun) the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure | Synonyms: press, pressure |
| (noun) a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press | - |
| pressingly | (adverb) in a pressing manner | - |
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| processing | (noun) preparing or putting through a prescribed procedure | - |
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| professing | (noun) an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion | Synonyms: profession |
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| promising | (adjective) likely to turn out well in the future | Synonyms: bright, hopeful |
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| (adjective) showing possibility of achievement or excellence | - |
| promisingly | (adverb) in a manner that gives hope | - |
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| prosiness | (noun) commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting | Synonyms: prosaicness |
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| psilotsin | (noun) a substituted tryptamine alkaloid and a serotonergic psychedelic substance, present in most psychedelic mushrooms together with its phosphorylated counterpart psilocybin. | Synonyms: psilocin, psilocine, psilocyn |
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| pulsing | (noun) (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients) | Synonyms: impulse, pulsation, pulse |
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| purchasing | (noun) the act of buying | Synonyms: buying |
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| queasiness | (noun) inability to rest or relax or be still | Synonyms: restlessness, uneasiness |
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| (noun) a mild state of nausea | Synonyms: qualm, squeamishness |
| raisin | (noun) dried grape | - |
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| raising | (adjective) increasing in quantity or value | - |
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| (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, rearing, upbringing |
| (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: nurture, rearing |
| (noun) the event of something being raised upward | Synonyms: elevation, lift |
| refocusing | (noun) focusing again | - |
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| relapsing | (noun) a failure to maintain a higher state | Synonyms: backsliding, lapse, lapsing, relapse, reversion, reverting |
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| releasing | (adjective) emotionally purging (of e.g. art) | Synonyms: cathartic |
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| rephrasing | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: recasting, rewording |
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| repressing | (adjective) restrictive of action | Synonyms: inhibitory, repressive |
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| resin | (noun) any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules | Synonyms: rosin |
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| resinate | (verb) impregnate with resin to give a special flavor to | - |
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| resinated | (adjective) impregnated or flavored with resin | - |
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| resinlike | (adjective) resembling resin in properties or texture | - |
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| resinoid | (noun) a plastic containing resins | - |
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| resinous | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resiny, tarry |
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| resiny | (adjective) having the characteristics of pitch or tar | Synonyms: pitchy, resinous, tarry |
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| retsina | (noun) Greek wine flavored with resin | - |
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| revising | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: rewriting |
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| revitalising | (adjective) tending to impart new life and vigor to | Synonyms: renewing, restorative, revitalizing, reviving |
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| rhodopsin | (noun) a red photopigment in the retinal rods of vertebrates; dissociates into retinene by light | Synonyms: retinal purple, visual purple |
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| rinsing | (noun) the removal of soap with clean water in the final stage of washing | Synonyms: rinse |
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| rising | (adjective) advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status | - |
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| (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: acclivitous, uphill |
| (adjective) coming to maturity | Synonyms: emerging |
| (adjective) newly come into prominence | - |
| (noun) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another | Synonyms: insurrection, rebellion, revolt, uprising |
| (noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
| rosin | (noun) any of a class of solid or semisolid viscous substances obtained either as exudations from certain plants or prepared by polymerization of simple molecules | Synonyms: resin |
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| (verb) rub rosin onto | - |
| rosiness | (noun) a healthy reddish complexion | Synonyms: ruddiness |
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| (noun) a dusty pink color | Synonyms: rose |
| (noun) a rosy color (especially in the cheeks) taken as a sign of good health | Synonyms: bloom, blush, flush |
| rosinweed | (noun) North American perennial having a resinous odor and yellow flowers | Synonyms: Silphium laciniatum |
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| (noun) any of various western American plants of the genus Grindelia having resinous leaves and stems formerly used medicinally; often poisonous to livestock | Synonyms: gum plant, gumweed, tarweed |
| rousing | (adjective) rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading | - |
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| (adjective) capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement | Synonyms: stirring |
| (noun) the act of arousing | Synonyms: arousal |
| sannyasin | (noun) a Hindu religious mendicant | Synonyms: sannyasi, sanyasi |
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| sarcosine | (noun) a sweetish crystalline amino acid | - |
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| sassing | (noun) an impudent or insolent rejoinder | Synonyms: back talk, backtalk, lip, mouth, sass |
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| sensing | (noun) becoming aware of something via the senses | Synonyms: perception |
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| (noun) the perception that something has occurred or some state exists | Synonyms: detection |
| sensitising | (adjective) making susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: sensitizing |
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| (noun) rendering an organism sensitive to a serum by a series of injections | Synonyms: sensitisation, sensitization, sensitizing |
| sightsing | (verb) sing from a score without having seen it before | Synonyms: sight-sing |
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| sin | (noun) an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will | Synonyms: sinning |
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| (noun) estrangement from god | Synonyms: sinfulness, wickedness |
| (noun) the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet | - |
| (noun) ratio of the length of the side opposite the given angle to the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle | Synonyms: sine |
| (verb) commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law | Synonyms: transgress, trespass |
| (verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake | Synonyms: blunder, boob, drop the ball, goof |
| sinapism | (noun) a plaster containing powdered black mustard; applied to the skin as a counterirritant or rubefacient | Synonyms: mustard plaster |
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| sincere | (adjective) open and genuine; not deceitful | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions | Synonyms: earnest, solemn |
| sincerely | (adverb) with sincerity; without pretense | Synonyms: truly, unfeignedly |
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| (adverb) written formula for ending a letter | Synonyms: sincerely yours |
| sincerity | (noun) the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being serious | Synonyms: earnestness, serious-mindedness, seriousness |
| (noun) a quality of naturalness and simplicity | Synonyms: unassumingness |
| (noun) an earnest and sincere feeling | Synonyms: earnestness, seriousness |
| sinciput | (noun) the front part of the head or skull (including the forehead) | - |
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