Words that rhyme with admitting

n 1: the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating, whipping] 2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking]

adj 1: appropriate to; "behavior befitting a father"

n 1: formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) 2: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered" [syn: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue]

adj 1: showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur" [ant: indiscriminating, undiscriminating] 2: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp]

adj 1: in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion; "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this" 2: being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first" [syn: fitting, meet] n 1: making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances [syn: adjustment, accommodation, fitting] 2: a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system 3: (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) [syn: appointment, fitting] 4: putting clothes on to see whether they fit [syn: fitting, try-on, trying on]

n 1: the act of acquiring something; "I envied his talent for acquiring"; "he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving" [syn: acquiring, getting]

n 1: the act of contacting one thing with another; "repeated hitting raised a large bruise"; "after three misses she finally got a hit" [syn: hit, hitting, striking]

n 1: needlework created by interlacing yarn in a series of connected loops using straight eyeless needles or by machine [syn: knit, knitting, knitwork] 2: creating knitted wear

n 1: the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion [syn: pitting, roughness, indentation]

adj 1: (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks; "the seated Madonna"; "the audience remained seated" [syn: seated, sitting] [ant: standing] 2: not moving and therefore easy to attack; "a sitting target" n 1: (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait); "he wanted his portrait painted but couldn't spare time for the sitting" [syn: sitting, posing] 2: the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position; "he read the mystery at one sitting" 3: a meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor" [syn: seance, sitting, session] 4: a session as of a legislature or court

n 1: the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva) [syn: spit, spitting, expectoration]

adj 1: resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree; "the tree split with a great ripping sound"; "heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward" [syn: rending, ripping, splitting]

adj 1: causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless" [syn: smothering, suffocating, suffocative]

adj 1: having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured; "the phenol resins and plastics were the original synthetic thermosetting materials" [syn: thermosetting, thermoset] [ant: thermoplastic]

n 1: the act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted [syn: transmission, transmittal, transmitting]

adj 1: uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting]

adj 1: not done with purpose or intent; "an unintended slight"; "an unintentional pun"; "the offense was unintentional"; "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked" [syn: unintentional, unplanned, unwitting] 2: not aware or knowing; "an unwitting subject in an experiment" [ant: witting] 3: unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge; "he was completely ignorant of the circumstances"; "an unknowledgeable assistant"; "his rudeness was unwitting" [syn: ignorant, unknowledgeable, unknowing, unwitting]

adj 1: aware or knowing; "a witting tool of the Communists" [ant: unwitting] 2: intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy" [syn: conscious, witting]