| austenite | (noun) a solid solution of ferric carbide or carbon in iron; cools to form pearlite or martensite | - |
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| austenitic | (adjective) composed of austenite | - |
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| chastening | (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastisement, correction |
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| christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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| ctenidium | (noun) comb-like respiratory structure serving as the gill of certain mollusks | - |
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| disheartening | (adjective) destructive of morale and self-reliance | Synonyms: demoralising, demoralizing, dispiriting |
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| enlightening | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: illuminating, informative |
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| (adjective) enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement | Synonyms: edifying |
| fastening | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: attachment |
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| (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast |
| fattening | (adjective) subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter | - |
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| frightening | (adjective) causing fear or dread or terror | Synonyms: awful, dire, direful, dread, dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, horrendous, horrific, terrible |
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| (noun) the act of inspiring with fear | Synonyms: terrorisation, terrorization |
| frighteningly | (adverb) in a terrifying manner | Synonyms: scarily |
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| glistening | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
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| heartening | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: inspiriting |
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| heightening | (adjective) reaching a higher intensity | - |
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| kittenish | (adjective) playful like a lively kitten | Synonyms: frisky |
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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 | - |
| listening | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: hearing |
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| lutenist | (noun) a musician who plays the lute | Synonyms: lutanist, lutist |
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| moistening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: dampening |
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| neotenic | (adjective) of or relating to or characterized by neoteny | Synonyms: neotenous |
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| relistening | (noun) the act of hearing again | Synonyms: rehearing |
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| shortening | (noun) act of decreasing in length | - |
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| (noun) fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods | - |
| 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 | - |
| sweetening | (noun) the act of adding a sweetener to food | - |
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| (noun) an improvement that makes something more agreeable | Synonyms: enhancement |
| (noun) something added to foods to make them taste sweeter | Synonyms: sweetener |
| tenia | (noun) a narrow headband or strip of ribbon worn as a headband | Synonyms: fillet, taenia |
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| threatening | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister |
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| (adjective) darkened by clouds | Synonyms: heavy, lowering, sullen |
| threateningly | (adverb) in a menacing manner | Synonyms: menacingly |
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| tightening | (noun) the act of making something tighter | - |
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| unenlightening | (adjective) failing to inform or clarify | Synonyms: unilluminating |
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| (adjective) not edifying | Synonyms: unedifying |
| unfastening | (noun) loosening the ties that fasten something | Synonyms: undoing, untying |
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| unthreatening | (adjective) not unfriendly or threatening | Synonyms: well-meaning |
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| whitening | (noun) changing to a lighter color | Synonyms: lightening |
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