Words that rhyme with clawing

adj 1: serving temporarily especially as a substitute; "the acting president" n 1: the performance of a part or role in a drama [syn: acting, playing, playacting, performing]

adj 1: inspiring awe or admiration or wonder; "New York is an amazing city"; "the Grand Canyon is an awe-inspiring sight"; "the awesome complexity of the universe"; "this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath"- Melville; "Westminster Hall's awing majesty, so vast, so high, so silent" [syn: amazing, awe-inspiring, awesome, awful, awing]

n 1: an illustration that is drawn by hand and published in a book, magazine, or newspaper; "it is shown by the drawing in Fig. 7" 2: a representation of forms or objects on a surface by means of lines; "drawings of abstract forms"; "he did complicated pen- and-ink drawings like medieval miniatures" 3: the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams; "he learned drawing from his father" [syn: drawing, draftsmanship, drafting] 4: players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots [syn: lottery, drawing] 5: act of getting or draining something such as electricity or a liquid from a source; "the drawing of water from the well" [syn: drawing, drawing off] 6: the act of moving a load by drawing or pulling [syn: draft, draught, drawing]

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: very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics" [syn: killing, sidesplitting] n 1: an event that causes someone to die [syn: killing, violent death] 2: the act of terminating a life [syn: killing, kill, putting to death] 3: a very large profit [syn: killing, cleanup]

adj 1: diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation; "a probing inquiry"; "a searching investigation of their past dealings" [syn: inquisitory, probing, searching] 2: having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect; "searching insights"; "trenchant criticism" [syn: searching, trenchant] 3: exploring thoroughly

n 1: the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds" [syn: quest, seeking] 2: an attempt to acquire or gain something

n 1: the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; "the power failure caused a refrigerator melt that was a disaster"; "the thawing of a frozen turkey takes several hours" [syn: thaw, melt, thawing, melting] 2: warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt; "they welcomed the spring thaw" [syn: thaw, thawing, warming]

adj 1: endowed with the capacity to reason [syn: intelligent, reasoning(a), thinking(a)] n 1: the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought" [syn: thinking, thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation]