| abducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducent |
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| abiding | (adjective) lasting a long time | Synonyms: enduring, imperishable |
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| abounding | (adjective) existing in abundance | Synonyms: galore |
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| absorbing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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| accenting | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accentuation, emphasizing |
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| accepting | (adjective) tolerating without protest | - |
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| accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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| (adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
| accompanying | (adjective) occurring with or following as a consequence | Synonyms: attendant, collateral, concomitant, consequent, ensuant, incidental, resultant, sequent |
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| according | (adjective) (followed by `to') in agreement with or accordant with | - |
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| (adjective) (followed by `to') as reported or stated by | - |
| accounting | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accountancy |
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| (noun) a system that provides quantitative information about finances | - |
| (noun) a convincing explanation that reveals basic causes | - |
| (noun) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance | Synonyms: account, account statement |
| (noun) a bookkeeper's chronological list of related debits and credits of a business; forms part of a ledger of accounts | Synonyms: accounting system, method of accounting |
| accusing | (adjective) containing or expressing accusation | Synonyms: accusative, accusatory, accusive |
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| aching | (adjective) causing a dull and steady pain | Synonyms: achy |
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| (noun) a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain | Synonyms: ache |
| acquiring | (noun) the act of acquiring something | Synonyms: getting |
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| acting | (adjective) serving temporarily especially as a substitute | - |
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| (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: performing, playacting, playing |
| activating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: actuating |
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| (noun) the activity of causing to have energy and be active | Synonyms: activation, energizing |
| actuating | (adjective) causing motion or action or change | Synonyms: activating |
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| adducing | (noun) citing as evidence or proof | - |
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| adducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; bringing together or drawing toward the midline of the body or toward an adjacent part | Synonyms: adducent, adductive |
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| admonishing | (adjective) expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective | Synonyms: admonitory, reproachful, reproving |
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| adoring | (adjective) extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent | Synonyms: doting, fond |
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| (adjective) showing adoration | Synonyms: worshipful |
| adulterating | (adjective) making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials | Synonyms: adulterant |
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| adulting | (noun) acting like an adult | - |
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| advancing | (adjective) moving forward | Synonyms: forward-moving, forward |
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| advertising | (noun) the business of drawing public attention to goods and services | Synonyms: merchandising, publicizing |
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| (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertizement, advertizing |
| advertizing | (noun) a public promotion of some product or service | Synonyms: ad, advert, advertisement, advertising, advertizement |
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| affecting | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: poignant, touching |
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| ageing | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: aging, senescent |
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| (noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: aging, senescence |
| (noun) acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time | Synonyms: aging, ripening |
| agelong | (adjective) lasting through all time | - |
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| aggravating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: exacerbating, exasperating |
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| 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 |
| agitating | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitative, provoking |
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| agonising | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonizing, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| agonizing | (adjective) extremely painful | Synonyms: agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturesome, torturing, torturous |
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| ailing | (adjective) somewhat ill or prone to illness | Synonyms: indisposed, peaked, poorly, seedy, sickly, under the weather, unwell |
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| airing | (noun) the act of supplying fresh air and getting rid of foul air | Synonyms: ventilation |
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| (noun) a short excursion (a walk or ride) in the open air | - |
| (noun) the opening of a subject to widespread discussion and debate | Synonyms: dissemination, public exposure, spreading |
| alarming | (adjective) frightening because of an awareness of danger | - |
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| alerting | (noun) a warning serves to make you more alert to danger | Synonyms: alert |
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| (noun) a state of readiness to respond | Synonyms: alertness |
| alienating | (adjective) causing hostility or loss of friendliness | - |
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| aligning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: positioning |
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| alluring | (adjective) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire | Synonyms: beguiling, enticing, tempting |
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| almsgiving | (noun) making voluntary contributions to aid the poor | Synonyms: alms-giving |
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| along | (adverb) in accompaniment or as a companion | - |
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| (adverb) with a forward motion | Synonyms: on |
| (adverb) in addition (usually followed by `with') | - |
| (adverb) to a more advanced state | - |
| (adverb) in line with a length or direction (often followed by `by' or `beside') | - |
| altering | (noun) the sterilization of an animal | Synonyms: fixing, neutering |
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| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| amazing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing |
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| (adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: astonishing |
| ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| amusing | (adjective) arousing or provoking laughter | Synonyms: comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible |
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| (adjective) providing enjoyment; pleasantly entertaining | Synonyms: amusive, diverting |
| anglewing | (noun) nymphalid butterfly having angular notches on the outer edges of the forewings | - |
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| angling | (noun) fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole) | - |
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| animating | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: enlivening |
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| annealing | (noun) hardening something by heat treatment | Synonyms: tempering |
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| annihilating | (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilative, devastating, withering |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: devastating, withering |
| annotating | (noun) the act of adding notes | Synonyms: annotation |
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| annoying | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (noun) the act of troubling or annoying someone | Synonyms: annoyance, irritation, vexation |
| anointing | (noun) the act of applying oil or an oily liquid | Synonyms: anointment |
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| answering | (adjective) replying | Synonyms: respondent |
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| antialiasing | (noun) (computer graphics) a technique that is used to smooth jagged distortions in curves and diagonal lines so they appear smoother | - |
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| antiknocking | (adjective) suppressing or eliminating engine knock in combustion engines | Synonyms: antiknock |
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| appalling | (adjective) causing consternation | Synonyms: dismaying |
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| (noun) an experience that appalls | - |
| appealing | (adjective) able to attract interest or draw favorable attention | - |
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| (adjective) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings | Synonyms: likable, likeable, sympathetic |
| appearing | (noun) formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action | Synonyms: appearance, coming into court |
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| appeasing | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: placating, placative, placatory |
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| appetising | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetizing |
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| appetizing | (adjective) appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma | Synonyms: appetising |
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| apportioning | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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| appraising | (adjective) exercising or involving careful evaluations | Synonyms: evaluative |
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| approaching | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: coming, forthcoming, upcoming |
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| (noun) the act of drawing spatially closer to something | Synonyms: approach, coming |
| (noun) the temporal property of becoming nearer in time | Synonyms: approach, coming |
| (noun) the event of one object coming closer to another | Synonyms: approach |
| approving | (adjective) expressing or manifesting praise or approval | Synonyms: affirmative, approbative, approbatory, plausive |
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| (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, blessing |
| aqualung | (noun) a device (trade name Aqua-Lung) that lets divers breathe under water; scuba is an acronym for self-contained underwater breathing apparatus | Synonyms: Aqua-Lung, scuba |
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| arching | (adjective) forming or resembling an arch | Synonyms: arced, arched, arciform, arcuate, bowed |
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| arguing | (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: argument, contention, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
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| arming | (noun) the act of equipping with weapons in preparation for war | Synonyms: armament, equipping |
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| arranging | (noun) the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music | Synonyms: arrangement, transcription |
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| arresting | (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: sensational, stunning |
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| artlang | (noun) a constructed language designed for aesthetic pleasure. | Synonyms: artistic language |
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| ascending | (adjective) moving or going or growing upward | - |
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| (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
| asking | (noun) the verbal act of requesting | Synonyms: request |
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| asphyxiating | (adjective) tending to deprive of oxygen | - |
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| aspiring | (adjective) desiring or striving for recognition or advancement | Synonyms: aspirant, wishful |
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| assembling | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, collecting, collection |
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| assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
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| (noun) agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) | Synonyms: accession |
| asserting | (adjective) relating to the use of or having the nature of a declaration | Synonyms: declarative, declaratory |
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| assigning | (noun) the act of distributing something to designated places or persons | Synonyms: assignment |
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| assimilating | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilative, assimilatory |
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| assuming | (adjective) excessively forward | Synonyms: assumptive, presumptuous |
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| assuring | (adjective) giving confidence | - |
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| astonishing | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astounding, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) surprising greatly | Synonyms: amazing |
| astounding | (adjective) so surprisingly impressive as to stun or overwhelm | Synonyms: astonishing, staggering, stupefying |
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| (adjective) bewildering or striking dumb with wonder | Synonyms: dumbfounding, dumfounding |
| attacking | (adjective) disposed to attack | Synonyms: assaultive |
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| attending | (adjective) giving practical help to | Synonyms: ministrant |
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| (noun) the act of being present (at a meeting or event etc.) | Synonyms: attendance |
| (noun) the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others | Synonyms: attention |
| autoloading | (adjective) (of firearms) capable of automatic loading and firing continuously | Synonyms: self-loading, semiautomatic |
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| autosexing | (noun) (especially of domestic fowl) breeding to reveal differential sex characteristics at hatching | - |
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| averting | (noun) the act of preventing something from occurring | - |
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| (noun) the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away | Synonyms: aversion |
| awakening | (noun) the act of waking | Synonyms: wakening, waking up |
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| awarding | (noun) a grant made by a law court | Synonyms: award |
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| awing | (adjective) inspiring awe or admiration or wonder | Synonyms: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful |
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| awning | (noun) a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun | Synonyms: sunblind, sunshade |
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| babbitting | (noun) lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal | - |
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| babbling | (noun) gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby | Synonyms: babble, lallation |
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| babysitting | (noun) the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home | Synonyms: baby sitting |
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