| aging | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, senescent |
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| (noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: ageing, senescence |
| (noun) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | Synonyms: ageing, ripening |
| arranging | (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, transcription |
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| bagging | (noun) coarse fabric used for bags or sacks | Synonyms: sacking |
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| bandaging | (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: binding, dressing |
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| banging | (adjective) (used informally) very large | Synonyms: humongous, thumping, walloping, whopping |
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| (noun) the act of subjecting to strong attack | Synonyms: battering |
| (noun) a continuing very loud noise | - |
| begging | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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| belonging | (noun) happiness felt in a secure relationship | - |
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| besieging | (noun) the action of an armed force that surrounds a fortified place and isolates it while continuing to attack | Synonyms: beleaguering, military blockade, siege |
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| bootlegging | (noun) the act of making or transporting alcoholic liquor for sale illegally | - |
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| (noun) the act of selling illegally or without permission | - |
| bragging | (adjective) exhibiting self-importance | Synonyms: big, boastful, braggart, braggy, cock-a-hoop, crowing, self-aggrandising, self-aggrandizing |
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| (noun) an instance of boastful talk | Synonyms: brag, crow, crowing, gasconade, line-shooting, vaporing |
| bringing | (noun) the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) | Synonyms: delivery |
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| bulging | (adjective) curving or bulging outward | Synonyms: convex |
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| (adjective) curving outward | Synonyms: bellied, bellying, bulbous, bulgy, protuberant |
| carpetbagging | (adjective) presumptuously seeking success or a position in a new locality | Synonyms: carpetbag |
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| challenging | (adjective) requiring full use of your abilities or resources | Synonyms: ambitious |
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| (adjective) disturbingly provocative | Synonyms: intriguing |
| (adjective) stimulating interest or thought | Synonyms: thought-provoking |
| changing | (adjective) marked by continuous change or effective action | Synonyms: ever-changing |
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| clanging | (adjective) having a loud resonant metallic sound | Synonyms: clangorous |
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| clogging | (adjective) preventing movement | Synonyms: hindering, impeding, obstructive |
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| converging | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergence, convergency |
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| cringing | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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| damaging | (adjective) designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions | Synonyms: negative |
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| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury | Synonyms: detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious |
| digging | (noun) the act of digging | Synonyms: dig, excavation |
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| discouraging | (adjective) depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action | - |
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| (adjective) expressing disapproval in order to dissuade | - |
| disobliging | (adjective) intentionally unaccommodating | Synonyms: uncooperative |
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| disparaging | (adjective) expressive of low opinion | Synonyms: derogative, derogatory |
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| diverging | (adjective) tending to move apart in different directions | Synonyms: divergent |
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| dodging | (noun) nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do | Synonyms: escape, evasion |
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| (noun) deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening | Synonyms: avoidance, shunning, turning away |
| (noun) a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery | Synonyms: dodge, scheme |
| dogging | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: persisting |
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| dragging | (adjective) marked by a painfully slow and effortful manner | - |
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| drudging | (adjective) doing arduous or unpleasant work | Synonyms: laboring, labouring, toiling |
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| drugging | (noun) the administration of a sedative agent or drug | Synonyms: sedation |
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| edging | (noun) border consisting of anything placed on the edge to finish something (such as a fringe on clothing or on a rug) | - |
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| emerging | (adjective) coming to maturity | Synonyms: rising |
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| (adjective) coming into existence | Synonyms: emergent |
| encouraging | (adjective) giving courage or confidence or hope | - |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: supporting |
| engaging | (adjective) attracting or delighting | Synonyms: piquant |
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| estranging | (adjective) making one feel out of place or alienated | - |
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| expunging | (noun) deletion by an act of expunging or erasing | Synonyms: erasure, expunction |
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| flagging | (adjective) weak from exhaustion | Synonyms: drooping |
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| (noun) a walk of flagstones | - |
| (noun) flagstones collectively | - |
| flogging | (noun) beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment | Synonyms: flagellation, lashing, tanning, whipping |
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| foraging | (noun) the act of searching for food and provisions | Synonyms: forage |
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| forging | (noun) shaping metal by heating and hammering | - |
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| grudging | (adjective) petty or reluctant in giving or spending | Synonyms: niggardly, scrimy |
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| (adjective) of especially an attitude | - |
| hanging | (noun) the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely) | Synonyms: dangling, suspension |
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| (noun) a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead | - |
| (noun) decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window | Synonyms: wall hanging |
| hedging | (noun) an intentionally noncommittal or ambiguous statement | Synonyms: hedge |
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| (noun) any technique designed to reduce or eliminate financial risk; for example, taking two positions that will offset each other if prices change | Synonyms: hedge |
| hugging | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| imaging | (noun) (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | Synonyms: tomography |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imagination, mental imagery |
| impinging | (noun) the physical coming together of two or more things | Synonyms: contact, striking |
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| indulging | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulgence, pampering |
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| jogging | (noun) running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise | - |
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| judging | (noun) the cognitive process of reaching a decision or drawing conclusions | Synonyms: judgement, judgment |
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| lagging | (noun) insulation used to wrap around pipes or boilers or laid in attics to prevent loss of heat | - |
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| legging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, leging |
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| leging | (noun) a garment covering the leg (usually extending from the knee to the ankle) | Synonyms: leg covering, legging |
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| leveraging | (noun) investing with borrowed money as a way to amplify potential gains (at the risk of greater losses) | Synonyms: leverage |
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| lodging | (noun) the act of lodging | - |
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| (noun) structures collectively in which people are housed | Synonyms: housing, living accommodations |
| (noun) the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily | Synonyms: lodgement, lodgment |
| logging | (noun) the work of cutting down trees for timber | - |
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| longing | (noun) prolonged unfulfilled desire or need | Synonyms: hungriness, yearning |
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| luging | (noun) riding a light one-man toboggan | - |
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| merging | (adjective) flowing together | Synonyms: confluent |
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| (noun) a flowing together | Synonyms: confluence, conflux |
| (noun) the act of joining together as one | Synonyms: coming together, meeting |
| messaging | (noun) the sending and processing of e-mail by computer | Synonyms: electronic messaging |
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| mugging | (noun) assault with intent to rob | - |
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| nagging | (adjective) continually complaining or faultfinding | Synonyms: shrewish |
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| nogging | (noun) rough brick masonry used to fill in the gaps in a wooden frame | - |
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| obliging | (adjective) showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others | Synonyms: complaisant |
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| packaging | (noun) the business of packing | - |
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| (noun) material used to make packages | - |
| (noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: promo, promotion, promotional material, publicity |
| paging | (noun) calling out the name of a person (especially by a loudspeaker system) | - |
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| (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, pagination |
| paperhanging | (noun) the application of wallpaper | Synonyms: papering |
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| pillaging | (noun) the act of stealing valuable things from a place | Synonyms: pillage, plundering |
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| purging | (adjective) serving to purge or rid of sin | Synonyms: purgatorial, purifying |
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| (noun) an act of removing by cleansing; ridding of sediment or other undesired elements | Synonyms: purge |
| (noun) the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge | Synonyms: purgation, purge |
| raging | (adjective) very severe | - |
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| (adjective) (of the elements) as if showing violent anger | Synonyms: angry, furious, tempestuous, wild |
| (adjective) characterized by violent and forceful activity or movement; very intense | Synonyms: hot |
| ranging | (adjective) wandering freely | - |
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| ravaging | (adjective) ruinously destructive and wasting | - |
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| (noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: devastation |
| rigging | (noun) gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails | Synonyms: tackle |
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| (noun) formation of masts, spars, sails, etc., on a vessel | Synonyms: rig |
| ringing | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| (noun) the giving of a ring as a token of engagement | - |
| (noun) the sound of a bell ringing | Synonyms: ring, tintinnabulation |
| sagging | (adjective) hanging down (as from exhaustion or weakness) | Synonyms: drooping, droopy |
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| singing | (adjective) smooth and flowing | Synonyms: cantabile |
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| (noun) the act of singing vocal music | Synonyms: vocalizing |
| (noun) disclosing information or giving evidence about another | Synonyms: tattle, telling |
| slinging | (noun) throwing with a wide motion (as if with a sling) | - |
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| snogging | (noun) (British informal) cuddle and kiss | - |
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| staging | (noun) travel by stagecoach | - |
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| (noun) getting rid of a stage of a multistage rocket | - |
| (noun) a system of scaffolds | Synonyms: scaffolding |
| (noun) the production of a drama on the stage | Synonyms: theatrical production |
| 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 |
| submerging | (noun) sinking until covered completely with water | Synonyms: immersion, submergence, submersion |
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| surging | (adjective) characterized by great swelling waves or surges | Synonyms: billowing, billowy |
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| swinging | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: lilting, swingy, tripping |
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| (noun) changing location by moving back and forth | Synonyms: swing, vacillation |
| unchanging | (adjective) conforming to the same principles or course of action over time | - |
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| (adjective) showing little if any change | Synonyms: stable, static |
| unencouraging | (adjective) not encouraging | - |
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| unflagging | (adjective) tireless | Synonyms: unfailing |
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| (adjective) showing sustained enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality | Synonyms: indefatigable, tireless, unwearying |
| ungrudging | (adjective) without envy or reluctance | - |
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| unobliging | (adjective) not accommodating | Synonyms: unaccommodating |
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| upbringing | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, nurture, raising, rearing |
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| (noun) properties acquired during a person's formative years | - |
| urging | (noun) the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging | - |
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| (noun) a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something | Synonyms: goad, goading, prod, prodding, spur, spurring |
| (noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: importunity, urgency |
| wigging | (noun) British slang for a scolding | Synonyms: wig |
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