| abducting | (adjective) especially of muscles; drawing away from the midline of the body or from an adjacent part | Synonyms: abducent |
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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 | - |
| 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 |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| affecting | (adjective) arousing affect | Synonyms: poignant, touching |
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| aggravating | (adjective) making worse | Synonyms: exacerbating, exasperating |
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| agitating | (adjective) causing or tending to cause anger or resentment | Synonyms: agitative, provoking |
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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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| alternating | (adjective) (of a current) reversing direction | - |
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| (adjective) occurring by turns; first one and then the other | Synonyms: alternate |
| ameliorating | (adjective) tending to ameliorate | Synonyms: ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative |
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| animating | (adjective) giving spirit and vivacity | Synonyms: enlivening |
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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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| anointing | (noun) the act of applying oil or an oily liquid | Synonyms: anointment |
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| arresting | (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: sensational, stunning |
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| asphyxiating | (adjective) tending to deprive of oxygen | - |
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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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| assimilating | (adjective) capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilative, assimilatory |
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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 |
| babbitting | (noun) lining a surface or bearing with Babbitt metal | - |
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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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| backlighting | (noun) lighting from behind | - |
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| baiting | (noun) harassment especially of a tethered animal | - |
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| balloting | (noun) a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative | Synonyms: ballot, vote, voting |
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| banqueting | (noun) eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment) | Synonyms: feasting |
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| banting | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banteng, Bos banteng, tsine |
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| bareboating | (noun) boating by chartering a bareboat and providing your own crew and provisions | - |
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| basting | (noun) moistening a roast as it is cooking | - |
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| (noun) a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together | Synonyms: baste, basting stitch, tacking |
| batting | (noun) (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base | - |
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| (noun) stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber | Synonyms: batten |
| beating | (noun) the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows | Synonyms: drubbing, lacing, licking, thrashing, trouncing, whacking |
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| (noun) the act of overcoming or outdoing | Synonyms: whipping |
| befitting | (adjective) appropriate to | - |
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| belting | (noun) the material of which belts are made | - |
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| berating | (noun) a severe rebuke | Synonyms: blowing up |
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| betting | (adjective) preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance | Synonyms: card-playing, dissipated, gambling, sporting |
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| birdnesting | (noun) hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs | - |
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| biting | (adjective) causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold | Synonyms: bitter |
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| (adjective) capable of wounding | Synonyms: barbed, mordacious, nipping, pungent |
| blasting | (adjective) causing injury or blight; especially affecting with sudden violence or plague or ruin | Synonyms: ruinous |
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| (adjective) unpleasantly loud and penetrating | Synonyms: blaring |
| bloodletting | (noun) formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) | - |
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| (noun) indiscriminate slaughter | Synonyms: battue, bloodbath, bloodshed |
| boasting | (noun) speaking of yourself in superlatives | Synonyms: boast, jactitation, self-praise |
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| boating | (noun) water travel for pleasure | Synonyms: yachting |
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| broadcasting | (noun) taking part in a radio or tv program | - |
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| (noun) a medium that disseminates via telecommunications | Synonyms: broadcast medium |
| buffeting | (noun) repeated heavy blows | Synonyms: pounding |
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| bullfighting | (noun) the activity at a bullfight | Synonyms: tauromachy |
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| bunting | (noun) any of numerous seed-eating songbirds of Europe or North America | - |
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| (noun) a loosely woven fabric used for flags, etc. | - |
| calculating | (adjective) acting with a specific goal | Synonyms: calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd |
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| captivating | (adjective) capturing interest as if by a spell | Synonyms: bewitching, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating |
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| carpeting | (noun) floor covering consisting of a piece of thick heavy fabric (usually with nap or pile) | Synonyms: carpet, rug |
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| carting | (noun) the work of taking something away in a cart or truck and disposing of it | Synonyms: cartage |
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| casting | (noun) the act of creating something by casting it in a mold | Synonyms: molding |
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| (noun) the act of throwing a fishing line out over the water by means of a rod and reel | Synonyms: cast |
| (noun) the choice of actors to play particular roles in a play or movie | - |
| (noun) object formed by a mold | Synonyms: cast |
| chanting | (noun) the act of singing in a monotonous tone | Synonyms: intonation |
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| cheating | (adjective) violating accepted standards or rules | Synonyms: dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike |
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| (adjective) not faithful to a spouse or lover | Synonyms: adulterous, two-timing |
| (noun) a deception for profit to yourself | Synonyms: cheat |
| circulating | (adjective) passing from one to another | - |
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| clotting | (noun) the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid | Synonyms: coagulation, curdling |
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| coating | (noun) the work of applying something | Synonyms: application, covering |
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| (noun) a thin layer covering something | Synonyms: coat |
| (noun) a heavy fabric suitable for coats | - |
| (noun) a decorative texture or appearance of a surface (or the substance that gives it that appearance) | Synonyms: finish, finishing |
| cockfighting | (noun) participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight | - |
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| coexisting | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexistent |
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| collecting | (noun) the act of gathering something together | Synonyms: aggregation, assembling, collection |
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| comforting | (adjective) affording comfort or solace | Synonyms: consolatory, consoling |
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| (adjective) providing freedom from worry | Synonyms: cheering, satisfying |
| commemorating | (adjective) intended as a commemoration | Synonyms: commemorative |
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| communicating | (noun) the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information | Synonyms: communication |
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| commuting | (noun) the travel of a commuter | Synonyms: commutation |
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| completing | (adjective) acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) | Synonyms: complemental, complementary |
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| computing | (noun) the procedure of calculating; determining something by mathematical or logical methods | Synonyms: calculation, computation |
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| (noun) the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures | Synonyms: computer science |
| conducting | (noun) the way of administering a business | - |
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| (noun) the direction of an orchestra or choir | - |
| conflicting | (adjective) in disagreement | Synonyms: at odds, contradictory, self-contradictory |
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| (adjective) on bad terms | - |
| congregating | (noun) the act of congregating | Synonyms: congregation |
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| consenting | (adjective) having given consent | - |
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| constricting | (adjective) (of circumstances) tending to constrict freedom | Synonyms: constrictive, narrowing |
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| contaminating | (adjective) spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination | Synonyms: dirty |
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| (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: corrupting |
| contracting | (noun) becoming infected | Synonyms: catching |
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| contrasting | (adjective) strikingly different; tending to contrast | Synonyms: contrastive |
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| contributing | (adjective) tending to bring about; being partly responsible for | Synonyms: conducive, contributive, contributory, tributary |
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| coordinating | (adjective) serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction | Synonyms: coordinative |
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| corrupting | (adjective) that infects or taints | Synonyms: contaminating |
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| (adjective) harmful to the mind or morals | Synonyms: degrading |
| (adjective) seducing into corrupt practices | - |
| costing | (noun) cost accounting | - |
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| counting | (noun) the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order | Synonyms: count, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally |
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| courting | (noun) a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage) | Synonyms: courtship, suit, wooing |
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| crocheting | (noun) creating a garment of needlework | - |
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| (noun) needlework done by interlocking looped stitches with a hooked needle | Synonyms: crochet |
| cutting | (adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp | Synonyms: bleak, raw |
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| (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing |
| (adjective) (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character | Synonyms: edged, stinging |
| (noun) the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends | Synonyms: cut, cutting off |
| (noun) the act of cutting something into parts | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film | Synonyms: film editing |
| (noun) the act of diluting something | Synonyms: thinning |
| (noun) removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape | Synonyms: carving |
| (noun) the division of a deck of cards before dealing | Synonyms: cut |
| (noun) an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine | Synonyms: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting |
| (noun) a piece cut off from the main part of something | - |
| (noun) a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting | Synonyms: slip |
| dating | (noun) use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens | Synonyms: geological dating |
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| daunting | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: intimidating |
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| debilitating | (adjective) impairing the strength and vitality | - |
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| delegating | (noun) authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions | Synonyms: delegation, deputation, relegating, relegation |
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| denigrating | (adjective) (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign | Synonyms: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous |
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| departing | (adjective) that is going out or leaving | Synonyms: outbound, outward-bound, outward |
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| depicting | (noun) a representation by picture or portraiture | Synonyms: depiction, portrayal, portraying |
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| deprecating | (adjective) tending to diminish or disparage | Synonyms: belittling, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting |
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| depreciating | (adjective) tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value | Synonyms: depreciative, depreciatory |
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| deregulating | (noun) the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) | Synonyms: deregulation |
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| detecting | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detection, detective work, sleuthing |
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| devastating | (adjective) physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination | Synonyms: crushing |
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| (adjective) making light of | Synonyms: annihilating, withering |
| (adjective) wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction | Synonyms: annihilating, annihilative, withering |