| posting | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: mailing |
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| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, poster |
| (noun) (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records | - |
| predestinarian | (adjective) of or relating to predestination; holding the doctrine of predestination | - |
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| (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinationist |
| predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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| predestinate | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestined |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestine |
| predestination | (noun) (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind) | Synonyms: foreordination, predetermination, preordination |
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| (noun) previous determination as if by destiny or fate | - |
| predestinationist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinarian |
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| predestine | (verb) foreordain or determine beforehand | Synonyms: foreordain, preordain |
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| (verb) foreordain by divine will or decree | Synonyms: foreordain, predestinate |
| (verb) decree or determine beforehand | - |
| predestined | (adjective) established or prearranged unalterably | Synonyms: foreordained, predestinate |
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| preexisting | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexistent |
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| pristine | (adjective) immaculately clean and unused | - |
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| (adjective) completely free from dirt or contamination | - |
| procrastinate | (verb) postpone doing what one should be doing | Synonyms: dilly-dally, dillydally, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, stall |
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| (verb) postpone or delay needlessly | - |
| procrastination | (noun) the act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or deferring an action to a later time | Synonyms: cunctation, shillyshally |
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| (noun) slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it | Synonyms: dilatoriness |
| procrastinator | (noun) someone who postpones work (especially out of laziness or habitual carelessness) | Synonyms: cunctator, postponer |
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| progestin | (noun) any of a group of steroid hormones that have the effect of progesterone | Synonyms: progestogen |
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| recasting | (noun) changing a particular word or phrase | Synonyms: rephrasing, rewording |
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| roasting | (noun) cooking (meat) by dry heat in an oven (usually with fat added) | - |
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| rustiness | (noun) ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice | - |
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| (noun) the condition of being coated or clogged with rust | - |
| rusting | (noun) the formation of reddish-brown ferric oxides on iron by low-temperature oxidation in the presence of water | Synonyms: rust |
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| sting | (noun) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property | Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle |
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| (noun) operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act | Synonyms: sting operation |
| (noun) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung | Synonyms: stinging |
| (noun) a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin | Synonyms: bite, insect bite |
| (noun) a mental pain or distress | Synonyms: pang |
| (verb) saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous | Synonyms: stick |
| (verb) deliver a sting to | Synonyms: bite, prick |
| (verb) cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging | - |
| (verb) cause a stinging pain | Synonyms: prick, twinge |
| (verb) cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort | Synonyms: bite, burn |
| stinger | (noun) a sharp stinging blow | - |
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| (noun) a sharp organ of offense or defense (as of a wasp or stingray or scorpion) often connected with a poison gland | - |
| (noun) a remark capable of wounding mentally | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) a cocktail made of made of creme de menthe and brandy | - |
| stingily | (adverb) in a stingy manner | Synonyms: cheaply, chintzily |
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| stinginess | (noun) a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money | - |
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| stinging | (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: cutting, edged |
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| (noun) a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung | Synonyms: sting |
| stingless | (adjective) without a sting | - |
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| stingray | (noun) large venomous ray with large barbed spines near the base of a thin whiplike tail capable of inflicting severe wounds | - |
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| stingy | (adjective) unwilling to spend (money, time, resources, etc.) | Synonyms: ungenerous |
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| (adjective) deficient in amount or quality or extent | Synonyms: meager, meagerly, meagre, scrimpy |
| stink | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stench |
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| (verb) smell badly and offensively | Synonyms: reek |
| (verb) be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance | - |
| stinkbird | (noun) crested ill-smelling South American bird whose young have claws on the first and second digits of the wings | Synonyms: hoactzin, hoatzin, Opisthocomus hoazin |
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| stinker | (noun) an artifact (especially an automobile) that is defective or unsatisfactory | Synonyms: lemon |
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| (noun) anything that gives off an offensive odor (especially a cheap cigar) | - |
| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinkpot |
| stinkhorn | (noun) any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales | Synonyms: carrion fungus |
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| stinkiness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, rankness |
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| stinking | (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinky |
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| (adjective) offensively malodorous | Synonyms: fetid, foetid, foul-smelling, foul, funky, ill-scented, noisome, smelly |
| stinkpot | (noun) small freshwater turtle having a strong musky odor | Synonyms: musk turtle |
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| (noun) a person who is deemed to be despicable or contemptible | Synonyms: bum, crumb, dirty dog, git, lowlife, puke, rat, rotter, scum bag, scumbag, skunk, so-and-so, stinker |
| stinkweed | (noun) foetid Eurasian weed having round flat pods; naturalized throughout North America | Synonyms: fanweed, field pennycress, French weed, mithridate mustard, penny grass, Thlaspi arvense |
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| stinky | (adjective) having an unpleasant smell | Synonyms: ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling |
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| (adjective) very bad | Synonyms: crappy, icky, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking |
| stint | (noun) an individual's prescribed share of work | - |
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| (noun) smallest American sandpiper | Synonyms: Erolia minutilla, least sandpiper |
| (noun) an unbroken period of time during which you do something | Synonyms: stretch |
| (verb) subsist on a meager allowance | Synonyms: scrimp, skimp |
| (verb) supply sparingly and with restricted quantities | Synonyms: scant, skimp |
| stinter | (noun) an economizer who stints someone with something | - |
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| stinting | (adjective) avoiding waste | Synonyms: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing |
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| tastiness | (noun) a pleasing palatability | - |
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| tasting | (noun) a kind of sensing; distinguishing substances by means of the taste buds | Synonyms: taste |
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| (noun) taking a small amount into the mouth to test its quality | Synonyms: degustation, relishing, savoring, savouring |
| (noun) a small amount (especially of food or wine) | - |
| telecasting | (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: television, TV, video |
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| testiness | (noun) feeling easily irritated | Synonyms: tetchiness, touchiness |
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| testing | (noun) the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works | - |
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| (noun) the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned | Synonyms: examination |
| (noun) an examination of the characteristics of something | - |
| thirstiness | (noun) strong desire for something (not food or drink) | Synonyms: hunger, hungriness, thirst |
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| (noun) a physiological need to drink | Synonyms: thirst |
| (noun) a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) | Synonyms: aridity, aridness |
| thromboplastin | (noun) an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot | Synonyms: factor III, thrombokinase |
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| thrusting | (noun) a sharp hand gesture (resembling a blow) | Synonyms: jab, jabbing, poke, poking, thrust |
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| toasting | (noun) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill | Synonyms: browning |
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| trustiness | (noun) the trait of deserving trust and confidence | Synonyms: trustworthiness |
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| trusting | (adjective) inclined to believe or confide readily; full of trust | Synonyms: trustful |
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| trustingly | (adverb) with trust; in a trusting manner | Synonyms: confidingly, trustfully |
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| trustingness | (noun) the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others | Synonyms: trust, trustfulness |
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| twisting | (adjective) marked by repeated turns and bends | Synonyms: tortuous, twisty, voluminous, winding |
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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, straining, torture |
| (noun) the act of rotating rapidly | Synonyms: spin, twirl, twist, whirl |
| undistinguishable | (adjective) not capable of being distinguished or differentiated | Synonyms: indistinguishable |
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| undistinguished | (adjective) not special in any way; lacking distinction | Synonyms: mine run, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine, unexceptional |
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| uninteresting | (adjective) arousing no interest or attention or curiosity or excitement | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic or suggestive of an institution especially in being uniform or dull or unimaginative | Synonyms: institutional |
| uninterestingly | (adverb) in an uninteresting manner | - |
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| uninterestingness | (noun) inability to capture or hold one's interest | - |
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| unresisting | (adjective) offering no resistance, passively accepting of a situation | Synonyms: resistless |
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| unstinted | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinting |
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| unstinting | (adjective) very generous | Synonyms: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted |
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| unstintingly | (adverb) in an unstinting manner | - |
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| untrustiness | (noun) the trait of not deserving trust or confidence | Synonyms: untrustworthiness |
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| untrusting | (adjective) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide | Synonyms: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, wary |
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| vinblastine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Velban) that disrupts cell division | Synonyms: Velban |
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| vincristine | (noun) periwinkle plant derivative used as an antineoplastic drug (trade name Oncovin); used to treat cancer of the lymphatic system | Synonyms: Oncovin |
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| wasting | (noun) a decrease in size of an organ caused by disease or disuse | Synonyms: atrophy, wasting away |
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| (noun) any general reduction in vitality and strength of body and mind resulting from a debilitating chronic disease | Synonyms: cachexia, cachexy |