footling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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forestalling | (noun) the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively | Synonyms: obviation, preclusion |
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foretelling | (noun) the art or gift of prophecy (or the pretense of prophecy) by supernatural means | Synonyms: divination, fortune telling, soothsaying |
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(noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, prediction, prognostication |
fortunetelling | (noun) the practice of predicting people's futures (usually for payment) | - |
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fosterling | (noun) a child who is raised by foster parents | Synonyms: foster-child, foster child |
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foundling | (noun) a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown | Synonyms: abandoned infant |
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freestyling | (noun) A form of rapping in which the emcee makes up lyrics while rapping. | - |
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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 | - |
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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fumbling | (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, incompetent |
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galling | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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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 |
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 |
gosling | (noun) young goose | - |
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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 |
greenling | (noun) food fish of the northern Pacific | - |
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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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groundling | (noun) in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section | - |
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groveling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, grovelling, wormlike, wormy |
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grovelling | (adjective) totally submissive | Synonyms: cringing, groveling, wormlike, wormy |
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growling | (noun) a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal) | - |
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(noun) the sound of growling (as made by animals) | Synonyms: growl |
grueling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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gruelling | (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome |
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grumbling | (adjective) continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound | Synonyms: rumbling |
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(noun) a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone | Synonyms: grumble, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
(noun) a loud low dull continuous noise | Synonyms: grumble, rumble, rumbling |
guzzling | (noun) the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly | Synonyms: gulping, swilling |
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haggling | (noun) an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) | Synonyms: haggle, wrangle, wrangling |
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handling | (noun) manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something | - |
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(noun) the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means | Synonyms: manipulation |
(noun) the management of someone or something | Synonyms: treatment |
hatchling | (noun) any recently hatched animal (especially birds) | - |
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hauling | (noun) the activity of transporting goods by truck | Synonyms: truckage, trucking |
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healing | (adjective) tending to cure or restore to health | Synonyms: alterative, curative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic |
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(noun) the natural process by which the body repairs itself | - |
heckling | (noun) shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree | Synonyms: barracking |
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hireling | (noun) a person who works only for money | Synonyms: pensionary |
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howling | (adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, rattling, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
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(noun) a long loud emotional utterance | Synonyms: howl, ululation |
humbling | (adjective) causing awareness of your shortcomings | Synonyms: demeaning, humiliating, mortifying |
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hurdling | (noun) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles | Synonyms: hurdle race, hurdles |
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hurling | (noun) a traditional Irish game resembling hockey; played by two teams of 15 players each | - |
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idling | (noun) having no employment | Synonyms: idleness, loafing |
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impelling | (adjective) markedly effective as if by emotional pressure | - |
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indwelling | (adjective) existing or residing as an inner activating spirit or force or principle | - |
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inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
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installing | (noun) the act of installing something (as equipment) | Synonyms: installation, installment, instalment |
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instilling | (noun) teaching or impressing upon the mind by frequent instruction or repetition | Synonyms: inculcation, ingraining |
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jangling | (adjective) like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together | Synonyms: jangly |
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jingling | (adjective) having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells | Synonyms: jingly |
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jostling | (noun) the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) | Synonyms: jostle |
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juggling | (noun) throwing and catching several objects simultaneously | Synonyms: juggle |
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(noun) the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression | Synonyms: juggle |
killing | (adjective) very funny | Synonyms: sidesplitting |
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(noun) the act of terminating a life | Synonyms: kill, putting to death |
(noun) an event that causes someone to die | Synonyms: violent death |
(noun) a very large profit | Synonyms: cleanup |
kindling | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, lighting |
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(noun) material for starting a fire | Synonyms: punk, spunk, tinder, touchwood |
kneeling | (noun) supporting yourself on your knees | Synonyms: kneel |
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leveling | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalisation, equalization |
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(noun) complete destruction of a building | Synonyms: demolishing, razing, tearing down |
(noun) changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface | Synonyms: grading |
ling | (noun) elongated marine food fish of Greenland and northern Europe; often salted and dried | Synonyms: Molva molva |
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(noun) American hakes | - |
(noun) elongate freshwater cod of northern Europe and Asia and North America having barbels around its mouth | Synonyms: burbot, cusk, eelpout, Lota lota |
(noun) common Old World heath represented by many varieties; low evergreen grown widely in the Northern Hemisphere | Synonyms: broom, Calluna vulgaris, heather, Scots heather |
(noun) water chestnut whose spiny fruit has two rather than 4 prongs | Synonyms: ling ko, Trapa bicornis |
logrolling | (noun) rotating a log rapidly in the water (as a competitive sport) | Synonyms: birling |
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(noun) act of exchanging favors for mutual gain; especially trading of influence or votes among legislators to gain passage of certain projects | - |
mailing | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: posting |
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(noun) mail sent by a sender at one time | - |
marbling | (noun) the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat | - |
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meddling | (adjective) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner | Synonyms: busy, busybodied, interfering, meddlesome, officious |
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(noun) the act of altering something secretly or improperly | Synonyms: tampering |
middling | (adjective) lacking exceptional quality or ability | Synonyms: average, fair, mediocre |
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(noun) any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran) | - |
(adverb) to certain extent or degree | Synonyms: fairly, jolly, moderately, passably, pretty, reasonably, somewhat |
milling | (noun) corrugated edge of a coin | - |
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mingling | (noun) the action of people mingling and coming into contact | - |
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misspelling | (noun) a spelling that is incorrect | - |
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modeling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modelling |
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(noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modelling, molding, moulding |
(noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modelling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
modelling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modeling |
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(noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, molding, moulding |
(noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
motorcycling | (noun) riding a motorcycle | - |
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mottling | (noun) the act of coloring with areas of different shades | - |
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mumbling | (noun) ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) | Synonyms: gumming |
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(noun) indistinct enunciation | - |
nestling | (noun) young bird not yet fledged | Synonyms: baby bird |
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(noun) a young person of either sex | Synonyms: child, fry, kid, minor, nipper, shaver, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, youngster |
niggling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, petty, picayune, piddling, piffling, trivial |
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nurseling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nursling, suckling |
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nursling | (noun) an infant considered in relation to its nurse | Synonyms: nurseling, suckling |
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paling | (noun) a fence made of upright pickets | Synonyms: picket fence |
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paneling | (noun) a panel or section of panels in a wall or door | Synonyms: pane, panelling |
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panelling | (noun) a panel or section of panels in a wall or door | Synonyms: pane, paneling |
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parasailing | (noun) gliding in a parasail | Synonyms: paragliding |
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parceling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parcelling |
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parcelling | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportioning, apportionment, assignation, parceling |
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pealing | (noun) a deep prolonged sound (as of thunder or large bells) | Synonyms: peal, roll, rolling |
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peddling | (noun) the act of selling goods for a living | Synonyms: hawking, vending, vendition |
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peeling | (noun) loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | Synonyms: desquamation, shedding |
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piddling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piffling, trivial |
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piffling | (adjective) (informal) small and of little importance | Synonyms: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, petty, picayune, piddling, trivial |
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pigeonholing | (noun) a system for classifying things into groups | Synonyms: grouping |
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piling | (noun) a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure | Synonyms: pile, spile, stilt |
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prevailing | (adjective) most frequent or common | Synonyms: dominant, predominant, prevalent, rife |
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prickling | (noun) a somatic sensation as from many tiny stings | Synonyms: tingle, tingling |
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princeling | (noun) a young prince | - |
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(noun) a petty or insignificant prince who rules some unimportant principality | - |
profiling | (noun) recording a person's behavior and analyzing psychological characteristics in order to predict or assess their ability in a certain sphere or to identify a particular group of people | - |
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propelling | (adjective) tending to or capable of propelling | Synonyms: propellant, propellent, propulsive |
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pulling | (noun) the act of pulling; applying force to move something toward or with you | Synonyms: pull |
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puzzling | (adjective) not clear to the understanding | Synonyms: enigmatic, enigmatical |
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(adjective) lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity | Synonyms: confusing, perplexing |
quadrupling | (noun) increase by a factor of four | - |
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quelling | (noun) forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority | Synonyms: crushing, stifling, suppression |
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quintupling | (noun) increasing by a factor of five | - |
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quisling | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborationist, collaborator |
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railing | (noun) a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports | Synonyms: rail |
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(noun) material for making rails or rails collectively | - |
rambling | (adjective) of a path e.g. | Synonyms: meandering, wandering, winding |
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(adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: digressive, discursive, excursive |
(adjective) spreading out in different directions or distributed irregularly | Synonyms: sprawling, straggling, straggly |
rassling | (noun) the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down | Synonyms: grappling, wrestling |
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rattling | (adjective) quick and energetic | Synonyms: alert, brisk, lively, merry, snappy, spanking, zippy |
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(adjective) extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers | Synonyms: fantastic, grand, howling, marvellous, marvelous, phenomenal, terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous |
(noun) a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders) | Synonyms: rale, rattle |
(adverb) used to give emphasis | Synonyms: real, really, very |
raveling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: ravelling |
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ravelling | (noun) a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric | Synonyms: raveling |
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reconciling | (adjective) tending to reconcile or accommodate; bringing into harmony | Synonyms: accommodative |
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