| ATHETISING | • athetising v. Present participle of athetise. • ATHETISE v. in textual criticism, to reject (a passage) as spurious, also ATHETIZE. |
| GHASTLIEST | • ghastliest adj. Superlative form of ghastly: most ghastly. • GHASTLY adj. like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale. |
| HAUGHTIEST | • haughtiest adj. Superlative form of haughty: most haughty. • HAUGHTY adj. arrogant. |
| HESITATING | • hesitating v. Present participle of hesitate. • hesitating n. Hesitation. • HESITATE v. to hold back or delay. |
| NAUGHTIEST | • naughtiest adj. Superlative form of naughty: most naughty. • NAUGHTY adj. badly-behaved. |
| PAUGHTIEST | • PAUGHTY adj. (Scots) haughty. |
| SHATTERING | • shattering v. Present participle of shatter. • shattering n. The act of something that shatters; the shattered material. • SHATTERING adj. of e.g. news, devastating. |
| SPAGHETTIS | • spaghettis n. Plural of spaghetti. • spaghettis v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spaghetti. • SPAGHETTI n. (Italian) pasta in the form of long solid threads, between macaroni and vermicelli in thickness. |
| STEALTHING | • stealthing v. Present participle of stealth. • stealthing n. (Sexuality) The practice of removing a condom during sex, without a partner’s knowledge or consent. • STEALTHING n. the act of making e.g. a plane proof against radar. |
| STEAMTIGHT | • steamtight adj. So tightly made that steam cannot enter or escape. • STEAMTIGHT adj. impervious to steam. |
| STRAIGHTED | • straighted v. Simple past tense and past participle of straight. • STRAIGHT v. to lay out a corpse. |
| STRAIGHTEN | • straighten v. (Transitive) To cause to become straight. • straighten v. (Intransitive) To become straight. • straighten v. (Transitive) To put in order; to sort; to tidy up. |
| STRAIGHTER | • straighter adj. Comparative form of straight: more straight. • straighter n. (Slang) Synonym of straight (“a cigarette, particularly one containing tobacco instead of marijuana”). • STRAIGHT adj. uncurved, also STRAICHT, STRAUCHT, STRAUGHT. |
| TIGHTASSED | • tight-assed adj. (Informal, derogatory) Rigidly maintaining self-control; restricting oneself to generally accepted rules… • tight-assed adj. (Informal, derogatory) Excessively concerned with unimportant details; obsessively precise. • tight-assed adj. (Informal, derogatory) Reluctant to spend money. |
| TIGHTASSES | • tightasses n. Plural of tightass. • TIGHTASS n. (colloquial) an inhibited or excessively self-controlled person. |