Words that rhyme with chanin

n 1: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn: ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding]

n 1: work made of interlaced slender branches (especially willow branches) [syn: wicker, wickerwork, caning]

adj 1: capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman" [syn: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating]

adj 1: agreeably diverting; "an entertaining puppet show"; "films should be entertaining"

n 1: an act of formulating a program for a definite course of action; "the planning was more fun than the trip itself" 2: the act or process of drawing up plans or layouts for some project or enterprise 3: the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening; "his planning for retirement was hindered by several uncertainties" [syn: planning, preparation, provision]

n 1: the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer 2: the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission

n 1: language expressed by visible hand gestures [syn: sign language, signing]

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]

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

n 1: process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light 2: beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment [syn: whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation] 3: making leather from rawhide

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]

n 1: the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" [syn: cutting, thinning]

n 1: (music) calibrating something (an instrument or electronic circuit) to a standard frequency

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