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NOURISHING |
Sustaining |
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NUTRITIONAL |
Sustaining (of food) |
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SUSTAINMENT |
The act of sustaining; maintenance; support. |
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SUSTENTACULAR |
Supporting; sustaining; as, a sustentacular tissue. |
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SLING |
A contrivance for sustaining anything by suspension |
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AGENT |
Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action. |
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HOLDING |
The act or state of sustaining, grasping, or retaining. |
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SUPPORT |
The act, state, or operation of supporting, upholding, or
sustaining. |
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BUOYANT |
Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by
being specifically heavier. |
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APYROUS |
Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without
alteration of form or properties. |
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SUSTENTATION |
The act of sustaining, or the state of being
sustained; preservation from falling; support; sustenance; maintenance. |
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SUSTENANCE |
The act of sustaining; support; maintenance;
subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life. |
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HANGING |
Adapted for sustaining a hanging object; as, the hanging
post of a gate, the post which holds the hinges. |
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RIPRAP |
A foundation or sustaining wall of stones thrown together
without order, as in deep water or on a soft bottom. |
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ARMATURE |
Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a
building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. |
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ATLAS |
The first vertebra of the neck, articulating immediately
with the skull, thus sustaining the globe of the head, whence the name. |
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KITEFLYING |
A mode of raising money, or sustaining one's credit, by
the use of paper which is merely nominal; -- called also kiting. |
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DESERT |
A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population,
but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary
place. |
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ABORTION |
The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the
expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of
sustaining life; miscarriage. |
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ROD |
A member used in tension, as for sustaining a suspended
weight, or in tension and compression, as for transmitting
reciprocating motion, etc.; a connecting bar. |
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HOOK |
...or bent into
a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything;
as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a... |
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DEPENDENT |
...port;
not able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything, without
the will, power, or aid of something else; not self-sustaining;
c... |
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BITTS |
...ts are used for belaying
(belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch
bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the... |