| fleetingness | (noun) the property of lasting for a very short time | Synonyms: ephemerality, ephemeralness |
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| flirting | (noun) playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest | Synonyms: coquetry, dalliance, flirt, flirtation, toying |
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| floating | (adjective) borne up by or suspended in a liquid | - |
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| (adjective) inclined to move or be moved about | - |
| (adjective) not definitely committed to a party or policy | - |
| (adjective) (of a part of the body) not firmly connected; movable or out of normal position | - |
| (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: aimless, drifting, vagabond, vagrant |
| (noun) the act of someone who floats on the water | Synonyms: natation |
| fluctuating | (adjective) having unpredictable ups and downs | - |
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| fluting | (noun) a groove or furrow in cloth etc (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column) | Synonyms: flute |
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| footing | (noun) a place providing support for the foot in standing or climbing | Synonyms: foothold |
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| (noun) a relation that provides the foundation for something | Synonyms: basis, ground |
| (noun) status with respect to the relations between people or groups | Synonyms: terms |
| forecasting | (noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: foretelling, prediction, prognostication |
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| formatting | (noun) the organization of information according to preset specifications (usually for computer processing) | Synonyms: data format, data formatting, format |
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| frosting | (noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: ice, icing |
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| fruiting | (adjective) capable of bearing fruit | - |
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| frustrating | (adjective) discouraging by hindering | - |
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| (adjective) preventing realization or attainment of a desire | Synonyms: frustrative, thwarting |
| fulgurating | (adjective) sharp and piercing | - |
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| gesticulating | (adjective) making gestures while speaking | - |
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| getting | (noun) the act of acquiring something | Synonyms: acquiring |
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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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| gloating | (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: glee, gloat |
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| gloatingly | (adverb) in a gloating manner | - |
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| grafting | (noun) the act of grafting something onto something else | Synonyms: graft |
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| grating | (adjective) unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound | Synonyms: gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy |
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| (noun) a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air | Synonyms: grate |
| (noun) a frame of iron bars to hold a fire | Synonyms: grate |
| (noun) optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum | Synonyms: diffraction grating |
| gratingly | (adverb) in a harsh and grating manner | Synonyms: harshly, raspingly |
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| greeting | (noun) (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) | Synonyms: salutation |
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| hairsplitting | (adjective) developed in excessively fine detail | Synonyms: finespun |
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| (noun) making too fine distinctions of little importance | Synonyms: word-splitting |
| hallucinating | (adjective) experiencing delirium | Synonyms: delirious |
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| halting | (adjective) fragmentary or halting from emotional strain | - |
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| (adjective) disabled in the feet or legs | Synonyms: crippled, game, gimpy, halt, lame |
| haltingly | (adverb) in a halting manner | - |
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| handwriting | (noun) the activity of writing by hand | - |
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| (noun) something written by hand | Synonyms: hand, script |
| harvesting | (noun) the gathering of a ripened crop | Synonyms: harvest, harvest home |
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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 |
| heating | (noun) utility to warm a building | Synonyms: heat, heating plant, heating system |
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| (noun) the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature | Synonyms: warming |
| hesitating | (adjective) lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly | Synonyms: hesitant |
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| hesitatingly | (adverb) with hesitation; in a hesitant manner | Synonyms: hesitantly |
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| hibernating | (adjective) in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation | Synonyms: dormant, torpid |
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| highfaluting | (adjective) affectedly genteel; to carry an air of affected importance; to be snobbish and haughty | Synonyms: grandiose, hifalutin, highfalutin, hoity-toity, la-di-da |
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| highlighting | (noun) an area of lightness in a picture | Synonyms: highlight |
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| hitting | (noun) the act of contacting one thing with another | Synonyms: hit, striking |
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| humiliating | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humbling, mortifying |
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| humiliatingly | (adverb) in a humiliating manner | Synonyms: demeaningly |
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| 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 |
| hurting | (noun) a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder | Synonyms: pain |
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| hustings | (noun) the activities involved in political campaigning (especially speech making) | - |
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| illuminating | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, informative |
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| imparting | (noun) the transmission of information | Synonyms: conveyance, impartation |
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| importing | (noun) the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country | Synonyms: importation |
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| imprinting | (noun) a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established | - |
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| incapacitating | (adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates | Synonyms: crippling, disabling |
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| incriminating | (adjective) charging or suggestive of guilt or blame | Synonyms: criminative, criminatory, incriminatory |
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| incriminatingly | (adverb) in an incriminating manner | - |
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| indiscriminating | (adjective) not discriminating | Synonyms: undiscriminating |
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| indistinguishability | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, identity |
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| indistinguishable | (adjective) not capable of being distinguished or differentiated | Synonyms: undistinguishable |
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| (adjective) exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different | Synonyms: identical |
| inextinguishable | (adjective) difficult or impossible to extinguish | - |
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| infighting | (noun) boxing at close quarters | - |
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| (noun) conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) | - |
| infuriating | (adjective) extremely annoying or displeasing | Synonyms: exasperating, maddening, vexing |
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| ingratiating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiatory, insinuating |
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| (adjective) capable of winning favor | - |
| ingratiatingly | (adverb) in a flattering and ingratiating manner | - |
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| inheriting | (adjective) having the legal right to inherit | - |
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| inoculating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: vaccinating |
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| insinuating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, ingratiatory |
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| insinuatingly | (adverb) in an insinuating manner | - |
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| insisting | (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insistence |
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| inspiriting | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: heartening |
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| insulting | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, disdainful, scornful |
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| insultingly | (adverb) in an unfair and insulting manner | Synonyms: foully |
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| (adverb) in a disrespectful and insulting manner | - |
| integrating | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integration |
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| interesting | (adjective) arousing or holding the attention | - |
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| interestingly | (adverb) in an interesting manner | - |
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| interestingness | (noun) the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.) | Synonyms: interest |
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| interpreting | (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, rendering, rendition |
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| intersecting | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersectant |
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| intimidating | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: daunting |
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| intoxicating | (adjective) causing intoxication | Synonyms: intoxicant |
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| (adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: heady |
| invalidating | (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: disconfirming |
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| investigating | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigation |
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| investing | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment |
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| invigorating | (adjective) imparting strength and vitality | - |
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| inviting | (adjective) attractive and tempting | - |
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| invitingly | (adverb) in a tantalizing manner | Synonyms: tantalizingly |
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| iodinating | (adjective) combining or causing to combine with iodine | - |
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| irritating | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritative |
| (adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: painful |
| irritatingly | (adverb) in an irritating manner | - |
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| isolating | (adjective) relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles | - |
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| jesting | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jocose, jocular, joking |
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| jestingly | (adverb) in jest | Synonyms: jokingly |
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| jetting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting |
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| jolting | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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| jotting | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jot |
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| junketing | (noun) taking an excursion for pleasure | - |
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| jutting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, projection, protrusion |
| knitting | (noun) creating knitted wear | - |
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| (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knit, knitwork |
| lactating | (adjective) producing or secreting milk | Synonyms: wet |
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| lamenting | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: wailful, wailing |
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| lancinating | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, piercing, stabbing |
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| lasting | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: permanent |
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| (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: persistent |
| (adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: durable, long-lasting, long-lived |
| (adjective) lasting a long time without change | - |
| lastingly | (adverb) in an enduring or permanent manner | - |
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| lastingness | (noun) permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force | Synonyms: durability, enduringness, strength |
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| legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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| letting | (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: lease, rental |
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| lighting | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, kindling |
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| (noun) the craft of providing artificial light | - |
| (noun) apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film | - |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: light |
| lilting | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: swinging, swingy, tripping |
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| limiting | (adjective) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting |
| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: modification, qualifying |