Words that rhyme with boeding

n 1: a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" [syn: foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding]

n 1: act of writing in code or cipher [syn: cryptography, coding, secret writing, steganography]

n 1: the activity of making clear or converting from code into plain text; "a secret key or password is required for decryption" [syn: decoding, decryption, decipherment]

n 1: the activity of converting data or information into code [syn: encoding, encryption]

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]

adj 1: ominously prophetic [syn: fateful, foreboding(a), portentous] n 1: a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case" [syn: foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding] 2: an unfavorable omen

n 1: a verbalization that encourages you to attempt something; "the ceaseless prodding got on his nerves" [syn: goad, goading, prod, prodding, urging, spur, spurring]

n 1: weight to be borne or conveyed [syn: load, loading, burden] 2: a quantity that can be processed or transported at one time; "the system broke down under excessive loads" [syn: load, loading] 3: the ratio of the gross weight of an airplane to some factor determining its lift 4: goods carried by a large vehicle [syn: cargo, lading, freight, load, loading, payload, shipment, consignment] 5: the labor of putting a load of something on or in a vehicle or ship or container etc.; "the loading took 2 hours" [ant: unloading]

n 1: a system of scaffolds [syn: scaffolding, staging]

n 1: rebuking a person harshly [syn: chiding, scolding, objurgation, tongue-lashing]

n 1: graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting 2: a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades [syn: shading, blending]

n 1: the construction of ships [syn: shipbuilding, ship building]

n 1: a short stretch of railroad track used to store rolling stock or enable trains on the same line to pass [syn: siding, railroad siding, turnout, sidetrack] 2: material applied to the outside of a building to make it weatherproof

n 1: a piece of land under 50 acres that is sold or let to someone for cultivation

adj 1: appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high- sounding talk" [syn: looking, sounding] 2: having volume or deepness; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth 3: making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form; "harsh-sounding" n 1: a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line 2: the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)

adj 1: having a supporting base; "a standing lamp" 2: not created for a particular occasion; "a standing committee" 3: (of fluids) not moving or flowing; "mosquitoes breed in standing water" [ant: running(a)] 4: executed in or initiated from a standing position; "race from a standing start"; "a standing jump"; "a standing ovation" [ant: running(a)] 5: (of persons) on the feet; having the torso in an erect position supported by straight legs; "standing room only" [ant: seated, sitting] 6: permanent; "a standing army" n 1: social or financial or professional status or reputation; "of equal standing"; "a member in good standing" 2: an ordered listing of scores or results showing the relative positions of competitors (individuals or teams) in a sporting event 3: the act of assuming or maintaining an erect upright position

n 1: a heading of a subdivision of a text [syn: subheading, subhead]

adj 1: closely encircling; "encompassing mountain ranges"; "the surrounding countryside" [syn: encompassing(a), surrounding(a), circumferent]

adj 1: lacking understanding; "tried to explain to her uncomprehending husband"

adj 1: characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy; "an understanding friend" n 1: the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" [syn: understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy] 2: the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises; "they had an agreement that they would not interfere in each other's business"; "there was an understanding between management and the workers" [syn: agreement, understanding] 3: an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding" [syn: sympathy, understanding] 4: the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil" [syn: reason, understanding, intellect]

adj 1: continuing forever or indefinitely; "the ageless themes of love and revenge"; "eternal truths"; "life everlasting"; "hell's perpetual fires"; "the unending bliss of heaven" [syn: ageless, aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unending, unceasing]

adj 1: of an imaginary flower that never fades [syn: amaranthine, unfading]

adj 1: marked by or paying little heed or attention; "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics"--Franklin D. Roosevelt; "heedless of danger"; "heedless of the child's crying" [syn: heedless, unheeding] [ant: attentive, heedful, paying attention, thoughtful]

n 1: the labor of taking a load of something off of or out of a vehicle or ship or container etc. [ant: loading]

adj 1: not ostentatious; "his unostentatious office"; "unostentatious elegance" [syn: unostentatious, unpretentious, unpretending] [ant: ostentatious, pretentious]

adj 1: not rewarding; not providing personal satisfaction [ant: rewarding]

adj 1: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding] 2: resistant to physical force or pressure; "an unyielding head support"