Synonyms of the word

thickening

• n. The process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous.
• n. A substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce.
• n. A thickened part of a structure.
• v. present participle of thicken.

complex

• adj. Made up of multiple parts; composite; not simple.
• adj. Not simple, easy, or straightforward; complicated.
• adj. (mathematics) Of a number, of the form a + bi, where a and b are real numbers and i is a square root of…
• adj. (geometry) A curve, polygon or other figure that crosses or intersects itself.
• n. A problem.
• n. A collection of buildings with a common purpose, such as a university or military base.
• n. An assemblage of related things; a collection.
• n. A psychological dislike or fear of a particular thing.
• n. An organized cluster of thunderstorms.
• n. (chemistry) A structure consisting of a central atom or molecule weakly connected to surrounding atoms…
• n. (mathematics) A complex number.
• v. (chemistry, intransitive) To form a complex with another substance.

condensation

• n. The act or process of condensing or of being condensed.
• n. The state of being condensed.
• n. (physics) The conversion of a gas to a liquid.
• n. The condensate so formed.
• n. (chemistry) The reaction of two substances with the simultaneous loss of water or other small molecule.

condensing

• v. present participle of condense.

convexity

• n. The state of being convex.
• n. A convex line or surface.
• n. A measure of the curvature in the relationship between the prices and yields of bonds.

deepening

• v. present participle of deepen.
• n. The act of becoming deeper.

inspissation

• n. The act of thickening. The process by which something is inspissated.

intensifying

• v. present participle of intensify.

knob

• n. A rounded protuberance, handle, or control switch.
• n. (geography) A prominent rounded hill.
• n. A rounded ornament on the hilt of an edged weapon; a pommel.
• n. A prominent, rounded bump along a mountain ridge.
• n. (plural) (slang) Breasts.
• n. (England, New Zealand, some parts of America, vulgar, slang) A penis.
• n. (slang, pejorative) A contemptible person.
• n. (cooking) A dollop, an amount just larger than a spoonful (usually referring to butter).
• n. A chunky branch-like piece, especially of a ginger rhizome.
• v. (Britain, slang, vulgar, of a man) To have sex with.

material

• adj. Having to do with matter; consisting of matter.
• adj. Worldly, as opposed to spiritual.
• adj. (law, accounting) Significant.
• n. Matter which may be shaped or manipulated, particularly in making something.
• n. Text written for a specific purpose.
• n. A sample or specimens for study.
• n. Cloth to be made into a garment.
• n. A person who is qualified for a certain position or activity.
• n. Related data of various kinds, especially if collected as the basis for a document or book.
• n. The substance that something is made or composed of.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To form from matter; to materialize.

node

• n. A knot, knob, protuberance or swelling.
• n. (astronomy) The point where the orbit of a planet, as viewed from the Sun, intersects the ecliptic. The…
• n. (botany) A stem node.
• n. (computer networking) A computer or other device attached to a network.
• n. (engineering) The point at which the lines of a funicular machine meet from different angular directions;…
• n. (geometry) The point at which a curve crosses itself, being a double point of the curve. See crunode,…
• n. (graph theory) A vertex or a leaf in a graph of a network, or other element in a data structure.
• n. (medicine) A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or…
• n. (physics) A point along a standing wave where the wave has minimal amplitude.
• n. (rare) The knot, intrigue, or plot of a dramatic work.
• n. (technical) A hole in the gnomon of a sundial, through which passes the ray of light which marks the hour…
• n. (linguistics) The word of interest in a KWIC, surrounded by left and right cotexts.

stuff

• n. Miscellaneous items; things; (with possessive) personal effects.
• n. The tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object.
• n. A material for making clothing; any woven textile, but especially a woollen fabric.
• n. Abstract substance or character.
• n. (informal) Used as placeholder, usually for material of unknown type or name.
• n. (slang, informal) Substitution for trivial details.
• n. (slang) Narcotic drugs, especially heroin.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
• n. (obsolete) A medicine or mixture; a potion.
• n. (obsolete) Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
• n. (nautical) A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship…
• n. Paper stock ground ready for use. When partly ground, it is called half stuff.
• v. (transitive) To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
• v. (transitive) To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
• v. (transitive, used in the passive) To sate.
• v. (transitive, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To break.
• v. (transitive, vulgar, Britain, Australia, New Zealand) To sexually penetrate.
• v. (transitive) To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing…
• v. To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
• v. (transitive) To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense…
• v. (transitive) To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
• v. (transitive, dated) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or…
• v. (transitive, computing) To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
• v. (takes a reflexive pronoun, idiomatic) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
• interj. (slang) A filler term used to dismiss explanation.

thickener

• n. Any substance added to something in order to thicken it; a thickening agent.