Words that rhyme with balling

n 1: the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively [syn: obviation, forestalling, preclusion]

n 1: the activity of transporting goods by truck [syn: hauling, trucking, truckage]

adj 1: causing consternation; "appalling conditions" [syn: appalling, dismaying] n 1: an experience that appalls; "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?"

n 1: the particular occupation for which you are trained [syn: career, calling, vocation]

n 1: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: crawl, crawling, creep, creeping]

adj 1: decreasing in amount or degree; "falling temperature" 2: becoming lower or less in degree or value; "a falling market"; "falling incomes" [ant: rising] 3: coming down freely under the influence of gravity; "the eerie whistle of dropping bombs"; "falling rain" [syn: dropping, falling]

adj 1: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing]

n 1: the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn: installation, installing, installment, instalment]

n 1: the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat

adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably] adj 1: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling] n 1: any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)

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: young bird not yet fledged [syn: nestling, baby bird] 2: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling]

n 1: an infant considered in relation to its nurse [syn: nursling, nurseling, suckling]

n 1: a fence made of upright pickets [syn: picket fence, paling]

n 1: loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales [syn: desquamation, peeling, shedding]

n 1: someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force [syn: collaborator, collaborationist, quisling]

n 1: a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports [syn: railing, rail] 2: material for making rails or rails collectively

adj 1: exercising power or authority [syn: regnant, reigning, ruling] n 1: the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself) [syn: opinion, ruling]

adj 1: characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren [syn: murmurous, rustling, soughing, susurrous] n 1: the stealing of cattle 2: a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind [syn: rustle, rustling, whisper, whispering]

n 1: the work of a sailor [syn: seafaring, navigation, sailing] 2: riding in a sailboat 3: the departure of a vessel from a port 4: the activity of flying a glider [syn: glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring, sailing]

n 1: (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study 2: items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population [syn: sample distribution, sample, sampling] 3: measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)

n 1: young tree

n 1: an upright in house framing [syn: scantling, stud]

n 1: formerly the basic unit of money in Austria [syn: schilling, Austrian schilling]

n 1: the act of teaching at school 2: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: school, schooling] 3: the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)

adj 1: spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly] n 1: an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about [syn: sprawl, sprawling]

n 1: a tactic used to mislead or delay [syn: stall, stalling]

n 1: United States chemist who studied the nature of chemical bonding (1901-1994) [syn: Pauling, Linus Pauling, Linus Carl Pauling]