Words that rhyme with convening

• 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
• cleaning 0
  n 1: the act of making something clean; "he gave his shoes a good cleaning" [syn: cleaning, cleansing, cleanup]
• 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]
• demeaning 0
  adj 1: causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying]
• 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"
• dreaming 0
  n 1: imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality" [syn: dream, dreaming] 2: a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night" [syn: dream, dreaming]
• greening 0
  n 1: the phenomenon of vitality and freshness being restored; "the annual rejuvenation of the landscape" [syn: rejuvenation, greening]
• intervening 0
  adj 1: occurring or falling between events or points in time; "so much had happened during the intervening years"
• leaning 0
  adj 1: departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted" [syn: atilt, canted, leaning, tilted, tipped] n 1: an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity" [syn: leaning, propensity, tendency] 2: a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration" [syn: proclivity, propensity, leaning] 3: the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right" [syn: tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning] 4: the act of deviating from a vertical position
• meaning 0
  adj 1: rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look" [syn: meaning(a), pregnant, significant] n 1: the message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous" [syn: meaning, significance, signification, import] 2: the idea that is intended; "What is the meaning of this proverb?" [syn: meaning, substance]
• screening 0
  n 1: the display of a motion picture [syn: screening, showing, viewing] 2: fabric of metal or plastic mesh 3: the act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it; "the cover concealed their guns from enemy aircraft" [syn: cover, covering, screening, masking] 4: testing objects or persons in order to identify those with particular characteristics
• 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]
• uncomplaining 0
  adj 1: not complaining; "uncomplaining courage" [ant: complaining(a), complaintive]
• weaning 0
  n 1: the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in the diet of a child or young mammal [syn: weaning, ablactation]
• winning 0
  adj 1: having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team" [syn: victorious, winning] 2: very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality" [syn: fetching, taking, winning] n 1: succeeding with great difficulty; "winning is not everything"
• canning 0
• careening 0
• contravening 0
• corning 0
• drowning 0
• gleaning 0
• keening 0
• machining 0
• preening 0
• twining 0
• underpinning 0
• beaning 0
• queening 0

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