| foundering | (noun) (of a ship) sinking | Synonyms: going under |
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| founding | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| foundling | (noun) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown | Synonyms: abandoned infant |
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| fracking | (noun) a well-stimulation technique in which rock is fractured by a pressurized liquid | - |
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| framing | (noun) formulation of the plans and important details | - |
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| (noun) a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror | Synonyms: frame |
| franking | (noun) device or marking such as postage stamp, printed or stamped impressions, codings, labels, manuscript writings, or any other authorized form of markings affixed or applied to mails to qualify them to be postally serviced. | Synonyms: frank |
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| freeing | (noun) the act of liberating someone or something | Synonyms: liberation, release |
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| freestanding | (adjective) standing apart; not attached to or supported by anything | Synonyms: separate |
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| freestyling | (noun) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping. | - |
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| freethinking | (noun) the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct | Synonyms: rationalism |
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| freewheeling | (adjective) cheerfully irresponsible | Synonyms: carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, harum-scarum, slaphappy |
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| (adjective) free of restraints or rules | - |
| freezing | (noun) the withdrawal of heat to change something from a liquid to a solid | Synonyms: freeze |
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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 |
| frisking | (noun) the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs | Synonyms: frisk |
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| frog | (noun) any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species | Synonyms: anuran, batrachian, salientian, toad, toad frog |
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| (noun) a decorative loop of braid or cord | - |
| (noun) a person of French descent | Synonyms: Gaul |
| (verb) hunt frogs for food | - |
| frosting | (noun) a flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes | Synonyms: ice, icing |
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| frothing | (adjective) producing or covered with lathery sweat or saliva from exhaustion or disease | Synonyms: foaming, foamy |
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| frowning | (adjective) showing displeasure or anger | - |
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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 |
| frying | (noun) cooking in fat or oil in a pan or griddle | Synonyms: sauteing |
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| fucking | (adjective) informal intensifiers | Synonyms: bally, blinking, bloody, blooming, crashing, flaming |
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| (noun) slang for sexual intercourse | Synonyms: ass, fuck, nookie, nooky, piece of ass, piece of tail, roll in the hay, screw, screwing, shag, shtup |
| (adverb) intensifier, very colloquial | - |
| fueling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fuelling, refueling |
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| fuelling | (noun) the activity of supplying or taking on fuel | Synonyms: fueling, refueling |
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| fug | (noun) (British informal) an airless smoky smelly atmosphere | - |
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| fulgurating | (adjective) sharp and piercing | - |
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| fumbling | (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, incompetent |
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| functioning | (adjective) performing or able to perform its regular function | - |
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| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: operation, performance |
| funding | (noun) the act of financing | Synonyms: financing |
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| (noun) financial resources provided to make some project possible | Synonyms: backing, financial backing, financial support, support |
| furlong | (noun) a unit of length equal to 220 yards | - |
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| furnishing | (noun) the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc. | - |
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| (noun) (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel | Synonyms: trappings |
| 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 | - |
| g | (noun) the 7th letter of the Roman alphabet | Synonyms: G |
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| (noun) a metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram | Synonyms: gm, gram, gramme |
| (noun) a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated | Synonyms: g-force, gee |
| gag | (noun) restraint put into a person's mouth to prevent speaking or shouting | Synonyms: muzzle |
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| (noun) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter | Synonyms: jape, jest, joke, laugh |
| (verb) struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake | Synonyms: choke, strangle, suffocate |
| (verb) make an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit | Synonyms: heave, retch |
| (verb) cause to retch or choke | Synonyms: choke |
| (verb) make jokes or quips | Synonyms: quip |
| (verb) be too tight; rub or press | Synonyms: choke, fret |
| (verb) tie a gag around someone's mouth in order to silence them | Synonyms: muzzle |
| (verb) prevent from speaking out | Synonyms: muzzle |
| galling | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| galvanising | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanizing |
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| galvanizing | (adjective) affected by emotion as if by electricity; thrilling | Synonyms: electric, galvanic, galvanising |
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| gambling | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: betting, card-playing, dissipated, sporting |
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| (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gaming, play |
| gamebag | (noun) a canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter | - |
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| gaming | (noun) the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize) | Synonyms: gambling, play |
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| gang | (noun) tool consisting of a combination of implements arranged to work together | - |
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| (noun) an organized group of workmen | Synonyms: crew, work party |
| (noun) an association of criminals | Synonyms: mob, pack, ring |
| (noun) an informal body of friends | Synonyms: bunch, crew, crowd |
| (verb) act as an organized group | Synonyms: gang up |
| gangling | (adjective) tall and thin and having long slender limbs | Synonyms: gangly, lanky, rangy |
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| (adjective) tall and thin | Synonyms: gangly, lanky |
| gaping | (adjective) with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe | Synonyms: agape |
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| gardening | (noun) the cultivation of plants | Synonyms: horticulture |
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| gasbag | (noun) the bag containing the gas in a balloon | Synonyms: envelope |
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| (noun) a boring person who talks a great deal about uninteresting topics | Synonyms: windbag |
| gassing | (noun) the deliberate act of poisoning some person or animal with gas | - |
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| (noun) the process of interacting with gas | - |
| 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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| geebung | (noun) any of numerous shrubs and small trees having hard narrow leaves and long-lasting yellow or white flowers followed by small edible but insipid fruits | - |
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| gelding | (noun) castrated male horse | - |
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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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| gig | (noun) a booking for musicians | - |
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| (noun) small two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage; with two seats and no hood | - |
| (noun) tender that is a light ship's boat; often for personal use of captain | - |
| (noun) long and light rowing boat; especially for racing | - |
| (noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, lance, spear |
| (noun) a cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting | - |
| gilding | (noun) a coating of gold or of something that looks like gold | Synonyms: gilt |
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| ginseng | (noun) Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers | Synonyms: nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng |
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| (noun) aromatic root of ginseng plants | - |
| giving | (adjective) given or giving freely | Synonyms: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, liberal, openhanded |
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| (noun) the act of giving | Synonyms: gift |
| (noun) disposing of property by voluntary transfer without receiving value in return | - |
| (noun) the imparting of news or promises etc. | - |
| glamping | (noun) Camping glamorously, i.e., with expensive equipment | - |
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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 |
| gleaming | (adjective) bright with a steady but subdued shining | Synonyms: agleam, nitid |
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| (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, glow, lambency |
| (noun) a flash of light (especially reflected light) | Synonyms: gleam, glimmer |
| gliding | (noun) the activity of flying a glider | Synonyms: glide, sailing, sailplaning, soaring |
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| glimmering | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, inkling, intimation |
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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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| glistening | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
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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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| gloaming | (noun) the time of day immediately following sunset | Synonyms: crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, nightfall, twilight |
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| gloating | (noun) malicious satisfaction | Synonyms: glee, gloat |
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| glogg | (noun) Scandinavian punch made of claret and aquavit with spices and raisins and orange peel and sugar | - |
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| glooming | (adjective) depressingly dark | Synonyms: gloomful, gloomy, sulky |
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| glowering | (adjective) showing a brooding ill humor | Synonyms: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| glowing | (adjective) highly enthusiastic | - |
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| (noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glow, radiance |
| glug | (verb) make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle | - |
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| goading | (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, prod, prodding, spur, spurring, urging |
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| going | (adjective) in full operation | - |
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| (noun) advancing toward a goal | Synonyms: sledding |
| (noun) the act of departing | Synonyms: departure, going away, leaving |
| (noun) euphemistic expressions for death | Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, loss, passing, release |
| goldbricking | (noun) the evasion of work or duty | Synonyms: goofing off, shirking, slacking, soldiering |
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| golfing | (noun) playing golf | - |
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| golliwog | (noun) a grotesque black doll | Synonyms: golliwogg |
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| golliwogg | (noun) a grotesque black doll | Synonyms: golliwog |
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| gong | (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a metal plate that is struck with a softheaded drumstick | Synonyms: tam-tam |
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| (noun) a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument | Synonyms: bell, chime |
| (verb) sound a gong | - |
| gosling | (noun) young goose | - |
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| gossiping | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossipmongering |
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| gossipmongering | (noun) a conversation that spreads personal information about other people | Synonyms: gossiping |
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| governing | (adjective) responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws | - |
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| (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governance, government, government activity |
| grading | (noun) the act of arranging in a graduated series | Synonyms: scaling |
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| (noun) evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score | Synonyms: marking, scoring |
| (noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: leveling |
| grafting | (noun) the act of grafting something onto something else | Synonyms: graft |
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| graining | (noun) a texture like that of wood | Synonyms: woodgraining |
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| grappling | (noun) the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat | Synonyms: grapple, hand-to-hand struggle, wrestle, wrestling |
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| (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: rassling, wrestling |
| grasping | (adjective) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth | Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, greedy, prehensile |
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| (noun) the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) | Synonyms: prehension, seizing, taking hold |
| (noun) understanding with difficulty | - |
| gratifying | (adjective) affording satisfaction or pleasure | Synonyms: enjoyable, pleasurable |
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| (adjective) pleasing to the mind or feeling | Synonyms: sweet |
| 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 |
| graylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag goose, greylag, greylag goose |
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| grazing | (noun) the act of brushing against while passing | Synonyms: shaving, skimming |
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| (noun) the act of grazing | Synonyms: graze |
| greening | (noun) the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored | Synonyms: rejuvenation |
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| greenling | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific | - |
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| greenwing | (noun) common teal of Eurasia and North America | Synonyms: Anas crecca, green-winged teal |
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| greeting | (noun) (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) | Synonyms: salutation |
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| greylag | (noun) common grey wild goose of Europe; ancestor of many domestic breeds | Synonyms: Anser anser, graylag, graylag goose, greylag goose |
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| grieving | (adjective) sorrowful through loss or deprivation | Synonyms: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, mourning, sorrowing |
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| grilling | (noun) cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) | Synonyms: broil, broiling |
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| grinding | (noun) a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears) | - |
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| (noun) material resulting from the process of grinding | - |
| (noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, detrition |