Words that rhyme with blessing

  • caressing
    n 1: affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) [syn: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling]
  • coalescing
    adj 1: growing together, fusing; "coalescent tradititions"; "coalescent bones" [syn: coalescent, coalescing]
  • compressing
    n 1: applying pressure [syn: compression, compressing] [ant: decompressing, decompression]
  • decompressing
    n 1: relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) [syn: decompression, decompressing] [ant: compressing, compression]
  • depressing
    adj 1: causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" [syn: depressing, cheerless, uncheerful] [ant: cheerful]
  • destined
    adj 1: headed or intending to head in a certain direction; often used as a combining form as in `college-bound students'; "children bound for school"; "a flight destined for New York" [syn: bound, destined] 2: (usually followed by `to') governed by fate; "bound to happen"; "an old house destined to be demolished"; "he is destined to be famous" [syn: bound(p), destined]
  • distressing
    adj 1: causing distress or worry or anxiety; "distressing (or disturbing) news"; "lived in heroic if something distressful isolation"; "a disturbing amount of crime"; "a revelation that was most perturbing"; "a new and troubling thought"; "in a particularly worrisome predicament"; "a worrying situation"; "a worrying time" [syn: distressing, distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying] 2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
  • dressing
    n 1: savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type [syn: dressing, salad dressing] 2: a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables [syn: stuffing, dressing] 3: making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure [syn: fertilization, fertilisation, fecundation, dressing] 4: a cloth covering for a wound or sore [syn: dressing, medical dressing] 5: processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather 6: the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes [syn: dressing, grooming] 7: the act of applying a bandage [syn: dressing, bandaging, binding]
  • guessing
    n 1: an estimate based on little or no information [syn: guess, guesswork, guessing, shot, dead reckoning]
  • missing
    adj 1: not able to be found; "missing in action"; "a missing person" 2: nonexistent; "the thumb is absent"; "her appetite was lacking" [syn: lacking, absent, missing, wanting]
  • pressing
    adj 1: compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair" [syn: pressing, urgent] n 1: the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure; "he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding"; "at the pressing of a button" [syn: press, pressure, pressing] 2: a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press
  • professing
    n 1: an open avowal (true or false) of some belief or opinion; "a profession of disagreement" [syn: profession, professing]
  • repressing
    adj 1: restrictive of action; "a repressive regime"; "an overly strict and inhibiting discipline" [syn: inhibitory, repressive, repressing]
  • sing
    v 1: deliver by singing; "Sing Christmas carols" 2: produce tones with the voice; "She was singing while she was cooking"; "My brother sings very well" 3: to make melodious sounds; "The nightingale was singing" 4: make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound; "the kettle was singing"; "the bullet sang past his ear" [syn: whistle, sing] 5: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth]
  • testing
    n 1: the act of subjecting to experimental test in order to determine how well something works; "they agreed to end the testing of atomic weapons" 2: an examination of the characteristics of something; "there are laboratories for commercial testing"; "it involved testing thousands of children for smallpox" 3: the act of giving students or candidates a test (as by questions) to determine what they know or have learned [syn: examination, testing]
  • lessing
    n 1: German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781) [syn: Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing] 2: English author of novels and short stories who grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) (born in 1919) [syn: Lessing, Doris Lessing, Doris May Lessing]
  • stressing
  • accessing
  • acquiescing
  • addressing
  • assessing
  • confessing
  • digressing
  • expressing
  • freshmen
  • impressing
  • messing
  • oppressing
  • possessing
  • progressing
  • reassessing
  • recessing
  • redressing
  • regressing
  • resting
  • suppressing
  • transgressing
  • blaesing
  • hessing
  • obsessing
  • texting

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