Words that rhyme with backbiting

adj 1: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious] 2: causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind" [syn: biting, bitter]

n 1: the activity at a bullfight [syn: bullfighting, tauromachy]

adj 1: creating or arousing excitement; "an exciting account of her trip" [ant: unexciting] 2: stimulating interest and discussion; "an exciting novel"

adj 1: engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces" [syn: active, combat-ready, fighting(a)] n 1: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" [syn: fight, fighting, combat, scrap]

adj 1: attractive and tempting; "an inviting offer" [ant: uninviting]

n 1: having abundant light or illumination; "they played as long as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good" [syn: light, lighting] [ant: dark, darkness] 2: apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film 3: the craft of providing artificial light; "an interior decorator must understand lighting" 4: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]

n 1: editing that involves writing something again [syn: rewriting, revising]

n 1: the act of observing; "several sightings of enemy troops were reported"

adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting]

n 1: the combination of two or more commercial companies [syn: amalgamation, merger, uniting] 2: the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays" [syn: union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure] [ant: disunion]

n 1: flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe 2: flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America 3: a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish 4: any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters 5: found off Atlantic coast of North America [syn: silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis, whiting] 6: a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus [syn: whiting, Merlangus merlangus, Gadus merlangus]

n 1: the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" [syn: writing, authorship, composition, penning] 2: the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing" [syn: writing, written material, piece of writing] 3: (usually plural) the collected work of an author; "the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings" 4: letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible" 5: the activity of putting something in written form; "she did the thinking while he did the writing" [syn: writing, committal to writing]

adj 1: not stimulating [syn: unstimulating, unexciting] [ant: stimulating] 2: not exciting; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life" [ant: exciting]

adj 1: neither attractive nor tempting [ant: inviting] 2: not tempting [syn: uninviting, untempting]