Words that rhyme with abhorring

adj 1: showing adoration [syn: adoring, worshipful] 2: extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent; "adoring grandparents"; "deceiving her preoccupied and doting husband with a young captain"; "hopelessly spoiled by a fond mother" [syn: adoring, doting, fond]

adj 1: (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain [ant: nonbearing] n 1: relevant relation or interconnection; "those issues have no bearing on our situation" 2: the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies [syn: bearing, heading, aim] 3: dignified manner or conduct [syn: bearing, comportment, presence, mien] 4: characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture" [syn: carriage, bearing, posture] 5: heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield [syn: charge, bearing, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing] 6: a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily

adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome] n 1: the act of drilling [syn: drilling, boring] 2: the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum [syn: boring, drilling, oil production]

adj 1: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit" [syn: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous] 2: radically new or original; "an avant-garde theater piece" [syn: avant-garde, daring] n 1: a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he could never refuse a dare" [syn: dare, daring] 2: the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart" [syn: boldness, daring, hardiness, hardihood] [ant: timidity, timorousness]

n 1: the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent" [syn: floor, flooring] 2: building material used in laying floors

n 1: German politician in Nazi Germany who founded the Gestapo and mobilized Germany for war (1893-1946) [syn: Goring, Goering, Hermann Goring, Hermann Goering, Hermann Wilhelm Goring]

n 1: valuable flesh of fatty fish from shallow waters of northern Atlantic or Pacific; usually salted or pickled 2: commercially important food fish of northern waters of both Atlantic and Pacific [syn: herring, Clupea harangus]

adj 1: begging [syn: beseeching, pleading, imploring] [ant: imperative]

n 1: a place where a craft can be made fast [syn: mooring, moorage, berth, slip] 2: (nautical) a line that holds an object (especially a boat) in place [syn: mooring, mooring line]

n 1: the time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands" [syn: morning, morn, morning time, forenoon] 2: a conventional expression of greeting or farewell [syn: good morning, morning] 3: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow] [ant: sundown, sunset] 4: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" [syn: dawn, morning]

n 1: a natural flow of ground water [syn: spring, fountain, outflow, outpouring, natural spring] 2: a sudden rapid flow (as of water); "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words" [syn: flush, gush, outpouring] 3: the pouring forth of a fluid [syn: discharge, outpouring, run] 4: the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written); "a barrage of questions"; "a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake" [syn: barrage, bombardment, outpouring, onslaught] 5: a large flow [syn: flood, overflow, outpouring]

n 1: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union] 2: the act of grouping things or people in pairs

n 1: a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something [syn: paring, sliver, shaving] 2: (usually plural) a part of a fruit or vegetable that is pared or cut off; especially the skin or peel; "she could peel an apple with a single long paring"

adj 1: flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood waters" [syn: gushing, pouring]

adj 1: (usually followed by `to') full of eagerness; "impatient to begin"; "raring to go" [syn: impatient(p), raring(p)]

adv 1: extremely; "roaring drunk" adj 1: very lively and profitable; "flourishing businesses"; "a palmy time for stockbrokers"; "a prosperous new business"; "doing a roaring trade"; "a thriving tourist center"; "did a thriving business in orchids" [syn: booming, flourishing, palmy, prospering, prosperous, roaring, thriving] n 1: a deep prolonged loud noise [syn: boom, roar, roaring, thunder] 2: a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway" [syn: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl]

n 1: evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do" [syn: marking, grading, scoring]

n 1: removing by cutting off or clipping

n 1: a beam or timber that is propped against a structure to provide support [syn: shore, shoring] 2: the act of propping up with shores [syn: shoring, shoring up, propping up]

n 1: the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound [syn: snore, snoring, stertor]

adj 1: ascending to a level markedly higher than the usual; "soaring prices" 2: of imposing height; especially standing out above others; "an eminent peak"; "lofty mountains"; "the soaring spires of the cathedral"; "towering icebergs" [syn: eminent, lofty, soaring, towering] n 1: the activity of flying a glider [syn: glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring, sailing]

adj 1: avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally" [syn: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting]

adj 1: producing exhaustion; "an exhausting march"; "the visit was especially wearing" [syn: exhausting, tiring, wearing, wearying] n 1: (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) [syn: erosion, eroding, eating away, wearing, wearing away] 2: the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment; "she bought it for everyday wear" [syn: wear, wearing]