Words that rhyme with crippling

• appealing 0
  adj 1: able to attract interest or draw favorable attention; "He added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology"- Vincent Starrett; "an appealing sense of humor"; "the idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing" [ant: unappealing] 2: (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play" [syn: sympathetic, appealing, likeable, likable] [ant: unappealing, unlikable, unlikeable, unsympathetic]
• babbling 0
  n 1: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: babble, babbling, lallation]
• belittling 0
  adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting] n 1: a belittling comment [syn: denigration, belittling] 2: the act of belittling
• bicycling 0
  n 1: riding a bicycle
• brisling 0
  n 1: small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines [syn: sprat, brisling] 2: small herring processed like a sardine [syn: brisling, sprat, Clupea sprattus]
• calling 0
  n 1: the particular occupation for which you are trained [syn: career, calling, vocation]
• ceiling 0
  n 1: the overhead upper surface of a covered space; "he hated painting the ceiling" 2: (meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds 3: an upper limit on what is allowed; "he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"; "there was a roof on salaries"; "they established a cap for prices" [syn: ceiling, roof, cap] 4: maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions)
• coupling 0
  n 1: a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together [syn: yoke, coupling] 2: a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects [syn: coupling, coupler] 3: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union]
• cowling 0
  n 1: protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine" [syn: hood, bonnet, cowl, cowling]
• crackling 0
  n 1: the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered [syn: greaves, crackling] 2: the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackle, crackling, crepitation]
• darling 0
  adj 1: dearly loved [syn: beloved, darling, dear] n 1: a special loved one [syn: darling, favorite, favourite, pet, dearie, deary, ducky] 2: an Australian river; tributary of the Murray River [syn: Darling, Darling River]
• dribbling 0
  n 1: the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks [syn: dribble, dribbling]
• fiddling 0
  adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
• middling 0
  adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably] adj 1: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling] n 1: any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
• niggling 0
  adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
• piddling 0
  adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
• rippling 0
  n 1: a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet]
• sibling 0
  n 1: a person's brother or sister [syn: sibling, sib]
• stripling 0
  n 1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen]
• tripling 0
  n 1: increase by a factor of three
• unappealing 0
  adj 1: (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings; "all the characters were peculiarly unsympathetic" [syn: unsympathetic, unappealing, unlikeable, unlikable] [ant: appealing, likable, likeable, sympathetic] 2: not able to attract favorable attention; "they have made the place as unappealing as possible"; "was forced to talk to his singularly unappealing hostess" [ant: appealing]
• unavailing 0
  adj 1: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing]
• underling 0
  n 1: an assistant subject to the authority or control of another [syn: subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier]
• unfailing 0
  adj 1: not liable to failure; "a foolproof identification system"; "the unfailing sign of an amateur"; "an unfailing test" [syn: foolproof, unfailing] 2: always able to supply more; "an unfailing source of good stories"; "a subject of unfailing interest" 3: unceasing; "unfailing loyalty"; "unfailing good spirits"; "unflagging courtesy" [syn: unfailing, unflagging]
• unfeeling 0
  adj 1: devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch" [syn: hardhearted, stonyhearted, unfeeling] 2: devoid of feeling or sensation; "unfeeling trees"
• unsmiling 0
  adj 1: not smiling
• unwilling 0
  adj 1: not disposed or inclined toward; "an unwilling assistant"; "unwilling to face facts" [ant: willing] 2: in spite of contrary volition
• veiling 0
  n 1: a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave [syn: gauze, netting, veiling]
• wailing 0
  adj 1: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: lamenting, wailing, wailful] n 1: loud cries made while weeping [syn: wailing, bawling]
• weakling 0
  n 1: a person who is physically weak and ineffectual [syn: weakling, doormat, wuss]
• wheeling 0
  n 1: a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river 2: propelling something on wheels [syn: wheeling, rolling]
• darkling 0
  adj 1: uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure; "a darkling glance"; "secret operatives and darkling conspiracies"-Archibald MacLeish 2: (poetic) occurring in the dark or night; "a darkling journey"
• kipling 0
  n 1: English author of novels and poetry who was born in India (1865-1936) [syn: Kipling, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Rudyard Kipling]
• dabbling 0
• doodling 0
• giggling 0
• jiggling 0
• nibbling 0
• pickling 0
• quibbling 0
• scribbling 0
• stippling 0
• tippling 0
• trickling 0
• twiddling 0
• unrevealing 0
• weanling 0
• wiggling 0
• wildfowling 0

See also crippling definition and crippling synonyms