Words that rhyme with falling
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acting
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] -
appalling
adj 1: causing consternation; "appalling conditions" [syn: appalling, dismaying] n 1: an experience that appalls; "is it better to view the appalling or merely hear of it?" -
bawling
n 1: loud cries made while weeping [syn: wailing, bawling] -
calling
n 1: the particular occupation for which you are trained [syn: career, calling, vocation] -
crawling
n 1: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: crawl, crawling, creep, creeping] -
enthralling
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] -
forestalling
n 1: the act of preventing something by anticipating and disposing of it effectively [syn: obviation, forestalling, preclusion] -
galling
adj 1: causing irritation or annoyance; "tapping an annoying rhythm on his glass with his fork"; "aircraft noise is particularly bothersome near the airport"; "found it galling to have to ask permission"; "an irritating delay"; "nettlesome paperwork"; "a pesky mosquito"; "swarms of pestering gnats"; "a plaguey newfangled safety catch"; "a teasing and persistent thought annoyed him"; "a vexatious child"; "it is vexing to have to admit you are wrong" [syn: annoying, bothersome, galling, irritating, nettlesome, pesky, pestering, pestiferous, plaguy, plaguey, teasing, vexatious, vexing] -
hauling
n 1: the activity of transporting goods by truck [syn: hauling, trucking, truckage] -
installing
n 1: the act of installing something (as equipment); "the telephone installation took only a few minutes" [syn: installation, installing, installment, instalment] -
killing
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] -
marbling
n 1: the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat -
middling
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) -
morning
n 1: the time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands" [syn: morning, morn, morning time, forenoon] 2: a conventional expression of greeting or farewell [syn: good morning, morning] 3: 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] 4: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" [syn: dawn, morning] -
nestling
n 1: young bird not yet fledged [syn: nestling, baby bird] 2: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling] -
nursling
n 1: an infant considered in relation to its nurse [syn: nursling, nurseling, suckling] -
paling
n 1: a fence made of upright pickets [syn: picket fence, paling] -
peeling
n 1: loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales [syn: desquamation, peeling, shedding] -
quisling
n 1: someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force [syn: collaborator, collaborationist, quisling] -
railing
n 1: a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports [syn: railing, rail] 2: material for making rails or rails collectively -
ruling
adj 1: exercising power or authority [syn: regnant, reigning, ruling] n 1: the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself) [syn: opinion, ruling] -
rustling
adj 1: characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren [syn: murmurous, rustling, soughing, susurrous] n 1: the stealing of cattle 2: a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind [syn: rustle, rustling, whisper, whispering] -
sailing
n 1: the work of a sailor [syn: seafaring, navigation, sailing] 2: riding in a sailboat 3: the departure of a vessel from a port 4: the activity of flying a glider [syn: glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring, sailing] -
sampling
n 1: (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study 2: items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population [syn: sample distribution, sample, sampling] 3: measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form) -
sapling
n 1: young tree -
scantling
n 1: an upright in house framing [syn: scantling, stud] -
schilling
n 1: formerly the basic unit of money in Austria [syn: schilling, Austrian schilling] -
schooling
n 1: the act of teaching at school 2: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: school, schooling] 3: the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage) -
sprawling
adj 1: spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly] n 1: an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about [syn: sprawl, sprawling] -
stalling
n 1: a tactic used to mislead or delay [syn: stall, stalling] -
thinking
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] -
pauling
n 1: United States chemist who studied the nature of chemical bonding (1901-1994) [syn: Pauling, Linus Pauling, Linus Carl Pauling] -
balling
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befalling
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blackballing
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brawling
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circling
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clawing
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drawling
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fussing
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lolling
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recalling
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tallest
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walling
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dolling
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colling
See also falling definition and falling synonyms
