Words that rhyme with burning

• awakening 0
  n 1: the act of waking; "it was an early awakening"; "it was the waking up he hated most" [syn: awakening, wakening, waking up]
• awning 0
  n 1: a canopy made of canvas to shelter people or things from rain or sun [syn: awning, sunshade, sunblind]
• beginning 0
  adj 1: serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse" [syn: beginning(a), first] n 1: the event consisting of the start of something; "the beginning of the war" [ant: conclusion, ending, finish] 2: the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her" [syn: beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset] [ant: end, ending, middle] 3: the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story" [ant: end, middle] 4: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source] 5: the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" [syn: beginning, start, commencement] [ant: finish, finishing]
• christening 0
  n 1: giving a Christian name at baptism
• churning 0
  adj 1: moving with or producing or produced by vigorous agitation; "winds whipped the piled leaves into churning masses"; "a car stuck in the churned-up mud" [syn: churning, churned-up] 2: (of a liquid) agitated vigorously; in a state of turbulence; "the river's roiling current"; "turbulent rapids" [syn: churning, roiling, roiled, roily, turbulent]
• cunning 0
  adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn: cunning, cute] 2: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily] 3: showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem" [syn: clever, cunning, ingenious] n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness] 2: crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
• dawning 0
  n 1: 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]
• designing 0
  adj 1: concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger" [syn: designing, scheming] n 1: the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument" [syn: design, designing]
• discerning 0
  adj 1: having or revealing keen insight and good judgment; "a discerning critic"; "a discerning reader" [ant: undiscerning] 2: unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic; "a discerning editor"; "a discreet silence" [syn: discerning, discreet] 3: quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: apprehensive, discerning] 4: able to make or detect effects of great subtlety; sensitive; "discerning taste"; "a discerning eye for color"
• governing 0
  adj 1: responsible for making and enforcing rules and laws; "governing bodies" n 1: the act of governing; exercising authority; "regulations for the governing of state prisons"; "he had considerable experience of government" [syn: government, governing, governance, government activity, administration]
• happening 0
  n 1: an event that happens [syn: happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event]
• heartburning 0
  n 1: intense resentment; "his promotion caused much heartburning among his rivals"
• learning 0
  n 1: the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; "the child's acquisition of language" [syn: learning, acquisition] 2: profound scholarly knowledge [syn: eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship, encyclopedism, encyclopaedism]
• lightning 0
  n 1: abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light 2: the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
• mourning 0
  adj 1: sorrowful through loss or deprivation; "bereft of hope" [syn: bereaved, bereft, grief-stricken, grieving, mourning(a), sorrowing(a)] n 1: state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one [syn: mourning, bereavement] 2: the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief [syn: lamentation, mourning]
• returning 0
  adj 1: tending to return to an earlier state [syn: returning, reverting] 2: tending to be turned back [syn: returning(a), reversive]
• signing 0
  n 1: language expressed by visible hand gestures [syn: sign language, signing]
• stiffening 0
  n 1: the act of becoming stiff; "stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance" 2: the process of becoming stiff or rigid [syn: stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification]
• sweetening 0
  n 1: something added to foods to make them taste sweeter [syn: sweetening, sweetener] 2: an improvement that makes something more agreeable [syn: enhancement, sweetening] 3: the act of adding a sweetener to food
• thickening 0
  adj 1: accumulating and becoming more intense; "the deepening gloom"; "felt a deepening love"; "the thickening dusk" [syn: deepening(a), thickening(a)] 2: becoming more intricate or complex; "a thickening plot" n 1: any material used to thicken; "starch is used in cooking as a thickening" [syn: thickening, thickener] 2: any thickened enlargement [syn: node, knob, thickening] 3: the act of thickening [syn: thickening, inspissation]
• thinning 0
  n 1: the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" [syn: cutting, thinning]
• turning 0
  n 1: the act of changing or reversing the direction of the course; "he took a turn to the right" [syn: turn, turning] 2: act of changing in practice or custom; "the law took many turnings over the years" 3: a shaving created when something is produced by turning it on a lathe 4: a movement in a new direction; "the turning of the wind" [syn: turning, turn] 5: the end-product created by shaping something on a lathe 6: the activity of shaping something on a lathe
• twinning 0
  adj 1: producing two offspring at a time [syn: biparous, twinning]
• warning 0
  adj 1: serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an exemplary jail sentence" [syn: admonitory, cautionary, exemplary, monitory, warning(a)] n 1: a message informing of danger; "a warning that still more bombs could explode" 2: cautionary advice about something imminent (especially imminent danger or other unpleasantness); "a letter of admonition about the dangers of immorality"; "the warning was to beware of surprises"; "his final word of advice was not to play with matches" [syn: admonition, monition, warning, word of advice] 3: notification of something, usually in advance; "they gave little warning of their arrival"; "she had only had four days' warning before leaving Berlin"
• yearning 0
  n 1: prolonged unfulfilled desire or need [syn: longing, yearning, hungriness]
• lynching 0
  n 1: putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law
• adjourning 0
• afterburning 0
• canning 0
• concerning 0
• corning 0
• drowning 0
• earning 0
• patterning 0
• plummeting 0
• sharpening 0
• spawning 0
• spurning 0
• squirming 0
• twining 0
• kerning 0
• berning 0
• durning 0
• werning 0

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