Thickening

What do we mean by thickening?

The act or process of making or becoming thick. noun

Material used to thicken. noun

A thickened part. noun

The act or process of making or becoming thick. noun

A substance used in making thick; specifically, in dyeing and calico-printing, same as thickener. noun

That which has become thick. noun

Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. noun

The process of making something, or becoming, thick or viscous noun

A substance, usually a source of starch, used to thicken a sauce noun

A thickened part of a structure noun

Simple past tense and past participle of thicken. verb

Accumulating and becoming more intense adjective

The act of thickening noun

Any thickened enlargement noun

Becoming more intricate or complex adjective

Any material used to thicken noun

To make thicker (in the sense of wider).

To make thicker (in the sense of more viscous).

To become thicker (in the sense of wider).

To become thicker (in the sense of more viscous).

To strengthen; to confirm.

To make more frequent.

Words that are spelled similarly to thickening:
thickening, chickening, sickening, quickening, ticketing, whickering, chickering, thickenings.

Words that rhyme with thickening:
sickening, quickening, chickening.

Adjectives that are often used to describe thickening:
intimal, diffuse, pleural, fibrous, slight, marked, cortical, secondary, mucosal, irregular, considerable, inflammatory, focal, synovial, nodular, like, local, chronic, septal, progressive, pericardial, crustal, abnormal, periosteal, hyaline, gradual, systolic, bronchial, extensive, spiral, medial, interstitial, mild, shear, endocardial, uniform, characteristic, permanent, peribronchial, retinal, epithelial, moderate, gross, significant, fibrotic, shaped, generalized, soft, apparent, epidermal, palpable, concentric, arterial, localized, bony, capillary, severe, distinct, excessive, neointimal, enormous, wall, minimal, circumferential, prominent, regional, myocardial, muscular, endometrial, fold, dense, massive, asymmetric, extreme, bilateral, apical, subsequent, capsular, rapid, meningeal, pronounced, peculiar, glomerular, smooth, circumscribed, eccentric, definite.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective thickening:
wedge, behavior, fluids, layers, fog, layer, power, cloud, process, stream, crowd, folds, mist, accession, effect, fluid, masses, plot, atmosphere, ring, agents, tank, smoke, mass, behaviour, form, darkness, extension, forest, clouds, mantle, wall, tanks, traffic, web, agent, rumours, snow, circle, dusk, blanket, woods, intricacies, transition, veil, haze, plate, sassafras, processes, shadow, wedges, air, vegetation, stage, gloom, jungle, numbers, systems, test, crowds, bands, ridges, materials, liquids, collapse, density, crust, mechanism, curtain, stone, properties, ranks, cover, analysis, carapace, lines, facilities, succession, trees, applications, effects, dust, matter.

Words that sound like thickening:
thickening, sickening, chickening, tokening, thickens, reckoning, thicken, thinning, thickened, succumbing, cocooning, thickener, weakening, quickening, wakening, likening, taken in, uncunning, beckoning, the king, the shining, the kitchen, becoming, thumbing, skinning, thick and thin, thrumming, kicking in, beaconing, sectioning, throning, seconding, suctioning, oncoming, mckinnon, mackinnon, mckennon, the come up, awakening, accounting, tickling, scanning, incoming, regaining, slackening, kickin it, chicken wing, moening, ticketing, harkening, missioning, hearkening, lycoming, seconal, scumming, outgunning, wagoning, beginning, threatening, thickness, thiamine, thiamin, the gun, the beginning, makinen, the can, the meaning, the count, arcanum, thinking, skimming, visioning, thronging, toughening, theming, taking in, nick cannon, reckonings, duck hunting, threonine, heavening, this evening, thevenin, thickety, thymin, becalming, secundum, tregoning.