| insinuating | (adjective) calculated to please or gain favor | Synonyms: ingratiating, ingratiatory |
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| insisting | (noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insistence |
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| inspiriting | (adjective) cheerfully encouraging | Synonyms: heartening |
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| insulting | (adjective) expressing extreme contempt | Synonyms: contemptuous, disdainful, scornful |
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| integrating | (noun) the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community | Synonyms: desegregation, integration |
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| interesting | (adjective) arousing or holding the attention | - |
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| interpreting | (noun) an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious | Synonyms: interpretation, rendering, rendition |
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| intersecting | (adjective) crossed or intersected in the form of an X | Synonyms: decussate, intersectant |
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| intimidating | (adjective) discouraging through fear | Synonyms: daunting |
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| intoxicating | (adjective) causing intoxication | Synonyms: intoxicant |
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| (adjective) extremely exciting as if by alcohol or a narcotic | Synonyms: heady |
| invalidating | (adjective) establishing as invalid or untrue | Synonyms: disconfirming |
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| investigating | (noun) the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically | Synonyms: investigation |
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| investing | (noun) the act of investing; laying out money or capital in an enterprise with the expectation of profit | Synonyms: investment |
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| invigorating | (adjective) imparting strength and vitality | - |
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| inviting | (adjective) attractive and tempting | - |
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| iodinating | (adjective) combining or causing to combine with iodine | - |
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| irritating | (adjective) causing irritation or annoyance | Synonyms: annoying, bothersome, galling, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguey, plaguy, teasing, vexatious, vexing |
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| (adjective) (used of physical stimuli) serving to stimulate or excite | Synonyms: irritative |
| (adjective) causing physical discomfort | Synonyms: painful |
| isolating | (adjective) relating to or being a language in which each word typically expresses a distinct idea and part of speech and syntactical relations are determined almost exclusively by word order and particles | - |
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| jesting | (adjective) characterized by jokes and good humor | Synonyms: jocose, jocular, joking |
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| jetting | (adjective) propelled violently in a usually narrow stream | Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting |
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| jolting | (adjective) causing or characterized by jolts and irregular movements | Synonyms: bumpy, jolty, jumpy, rocky, rough |
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| jotting | (noun) a brief (and hurriedly handwritten) note | Synonyms: jot |
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| junketing | (noun) taking an excursion for pleasure | - |
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| jutting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| (noun) the act of projecting out from something | Synonyms: jut, projection, protrusion |
| knitting | (noun) creating knitted wear | - |
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| (noun) needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine | Synonyms: knit, knitwork |
| lactating | (adjective) producing or secreting milk | Synonyms: wet |
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| lamenting | (adjective) vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression | Synonyms: wailful, wailing |
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| lancinating | (adjective) painful as if caused by a sharp instrument | Synonyms: cutting, keen, knifelike, lancinate, piercing, stabbing |
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| lasting | (adjective) continuing or enduring without marked change in status or condition or place | Synonyms: permanent |
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| (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: persistent |
| (adjective) existing for a long time | Synonyms: durable, long-lasting, long-lived |
| (adjective) lasting a long time without change | - |
| legislating | (noun) the act of making or enacting laws | Synonyms: lawmaking, legislation |
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| letting | (noun) property that is leased or rented out or let | Synonyms: lease, rental |
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| lighting | (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, inflammation, kindling |
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| (noun) the craft of providing artificial light | - |
| (noun) apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film | - |
| (noun) having abundant light or illumination | Synonyms: light |
| lilting | (adjective) characterized by a buoyant rhythm | Synonyms: swinging, swingy, tripping |
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| limiting | (adjective) strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase | - |
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| (adjective) restricting the scope or freedom of action | Synonyms: confining, constraining, constrictive, restricting |
| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: modification, qualifying |
| listing | (noun) the act of making a list of items | Synonyms: itemisation, itemization |
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| (noun) a database containing an ordered array of items (names or topics) | Synonyms: list |
| locating | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| (noun) a determination of the place where something is | Synonyms: fix, localisation, localization, location |
| looting | (noun) plundering during riots or in wartime | Synonyms: robbery |
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| luting | (noun) a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid | Synonyms: lute |
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| marketing | (noun) the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money | Synonyms: merchandising, selling |
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| (noun) shopping at a market | - |
| (noun) the commercial processes involved in promoting and selling and distributing a product or service | - |
| mating | (noun) the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes | Synonyms: conjugation, coupling, pairing, sexual union, union |
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| matting | (noun) a covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp) | - |
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| (noun) mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture | Synonyms: mat |
| meeting | (noun) the social act of assembling for some common purpose | Synonyms: coming together, congress |
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| (noun) the act of joining together as one | Synonyms: coming together, merging |
| (noun) a casual or unexpected convergence | Synonyms: encounter |
| (noun) a formally arranged gathering | Synonyms: group meeting |
| (noun) a small informal social gathering | Synonyms: get together |
| (noun) a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers) | Synonyms: confluence |
| melting | (adjective) becoming liquid | Synonyms: liquescent |
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| (noun) the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid | Synonyms: melt, thaw, thawing |
| misdating | (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: anachronism, mistiming |
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| moderating | (adjective) lessening in intensity or strength | - |
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| molting | (noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles | Synonyms: ecdysis, molt, moult, moulting |
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| motivating | (adjective) impelling to action | Synonyms: motivative, motive |
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| (noun) the act of motivating; providing incentive | Synonyms: motivation |
| moulting | (noun) periodic shedding of the cuticle in arthropods or the outer skin in reptiles | Synonyms: ecdysis, molt, molting, moult |
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| mounting | (noun) framework used for support or display | - |
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| (noun) an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) | Synonyms: climb, climbing |
| nauseating | (adjective) causing or able to cause nausea | Synonyms: loathsome, nauseous, noisome, offensive, queasy, sickening, vile |
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| netting | (noun) creating nets | - |
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| (noun) a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave | Synonyms: gauze, veiling |
| neuromarketing | (noun) marketing based on studies of consumers' sensorimotor, cognitive, and affective responses | Synonyms: neuro-marketing |
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| nonconducting | (adjective) not able to conduct heat or electricity or sound | Synonyms: non-conducting, nonconductive |
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| nonintersecting | (adjective) (of lines, planes, or surfaces) never meeting or crossing | Synonyms: nonconvergent |
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| nonreciprocating | (adjective) not moving alternately forward and backward | - |
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| nonreflecting | (adjective) not capable of physical reflection | Synonyms: nonreflective |
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| obviating | (adjective) made impossible | Synonyms: preclusive |
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| officiating | (noun) the act of umpiring | Synonyms: officiation, refereeing, umpirage |
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| operating | (adjective) involved in a kind of operation | - |
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| (adjective) being in effect or operation | Synonyms: in operation, operational |
| orientating | (adjective) positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually | Synonyms: orienting |
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| orienting | (adjective) positioning with respect to a reference system or determining your bearings physically or intellectually | Synonyms: orientating |
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| oscillating | (adjective) having periodic vibrations | Synonyms: oscillatory |
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| ousting | (noun) the act of ejecting someone or forcing them out | Synonyms: ouster |
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| outfitting | (noun) the act of renovating and fitting out a ship | - |
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| outing | (noun) a journey taken for pleasure | Synonyms: excursion, expedition, jaunt, junket, pleasure trip, sashay |
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| (noun) a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering | Synonyms: field day, picnic |
| overacting | (noun) poor acting by a ham actor | Synonyms: hamming |
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| overcasting | (noun) a long whipstitch or overhand stitch overlying an edge to prevent raveling | Synonyms: overcast |
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| overcoating | (noun) an additional protective coating (as of paint or varnish) | Synonyms: overcoat |
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| overeating | (noun) eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins) | Synonyms: gluttony, gula |
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| overheating | (noun) excessive heating | - |
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| overrating | (noun) a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high | Synonyms: overestimate, overestimation, overreckoning |
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| painting | (noun) creating a picture with paints | - |
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| (noun) the occupation of a house painter | Synonyms: house painting |
| (noun) the act of applying paint to a surface | - |
| (noun) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface | Synonyms: picture |
| palpitating | (adjective) having a slight and rapid trembling motion | Synonyms: palpitant |
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| panting | (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: heaving |
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| (noun) any fabric used to make trousers | Synonyms: trousering |
| parachuting | (noun) descent with a parachute | Synonyms: jump |
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| pargeting | (noun) ornamental plastering | Synonyms: pargetting |
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| (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargetry, pargetting |
| (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: parget, pargetting |
| pargetting | (noun) ornamental plastering | Synonyms: pargeting |
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| (noun) ornamental plasterwork | Synonyms: pargeting, pargetry |
| (noun) plaster used to coat outer walls and line chimneys | Synonyms: parget, pargeting |
| participating | (adjective) taking part in an activity | Synonyms: active |
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| parting | (noun) the act of departing politely | Synonyms: farewell, leave-taking, leave |
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| (noun) a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions | Synonyms: part |
| pelting | (noun) anything happening rapidly or in quick successive | Synonyms: rain |
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| penetrating | (adjective) having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions | Synonyms: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrative, piercing, sharp |
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| (adjective) tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing | Synonyms: penetrative |
| perambulating | (adjective) strolling or walking around | - |
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| permeating | (adjective) spreading or spread throughout | Synonyms: permeant, permeative, pervasive |
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| persisting | (adjective) relentless and indefatigable in pursuit or as if in pursuit | Synonyms: dogging |
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| petting | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, smooching, snuggling |
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| piloting | (noun) the guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place | Synonyms: navigation, pilotage |
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| (noun) the occupation of a pilot | Synonyms: pilotage |
| pipefitting | (noun) fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together | Synonyms: pipe fitting |
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| pitting | (noun) the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion | Synonyms: indentation, roughness |
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| placating | (adjective) intended to pacify by acceding to demands or granting concessions | Synonyms: appeasing, placative, placatory |
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| planting | (noun) the act of fixing firmly in place | - |
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| (noun) putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow | - |
| (noun) a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area | - |
| plating | (noun) the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis) | - |
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| (noun) a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface | Synonyms: metal plating |
| playacting | (noun) the performance of a part or role in a drama | Synonyms: acting, performing, playing |
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| pleating | (noun) the act of folding in parallel folds | Synonyms: plication |
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| posting | (noun) the transmission of a letter | Synonyms: mailing |
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| (noun) a sign posted in a public place as an advertisement | Synonyms: bill, card, notice, placard, poster |
| (noun) (bookkeeping) a listing on the company's records | - |
| precipitating | (adjective) bringing on suddenly or abruptly | - |
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| preexisting | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexistent |
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| preponderating | (adjective) having superior power and influence | Synonyms: overriding, paramount, predominant, predominate, preponderant |
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| printing | (noun) the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution | - |
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| (noun) reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication | Synonyms: printing process |
| (noun) text handwritten in the style of printed matter | - |
| (noun) all the copies of a work printed at one time | Synonyms: impression |
| projecting | (adjective) extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary | Synonyms: jutting, projected, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out |
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| prompting | (noun) persuasion formulated as a suggestion | Synonyms: suggestion |
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| (noun) a cue given to a performer (usually the beginning of the next line to be spoken) | Synonyms: prompt |