Words that rhyme with fighting

  • lightning
    n 1: abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light 2: the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
  • rewriting
    n 1: editing that involves writing something again [syn: rewriting, revising]
  • sighting
    n 1: the act of observing; "several sightings of enemy troops were reported"
  • biting
    adj 1: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious] 2: causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind" [syn: biting, bitter]
  • bullfighting
    n 1: the activity at a bullfight [syn: bullfighting, tauromachy]
  • cockfighting
    n 1: participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight
  • crying
    adj 1: demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need" [syn: clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant] 2: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank] n 1: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: crying, weeping, tears]
  • exciting
    adj 1: creating or arousing excitement; "an exciting account of her trip" [ant: unexciting] 2: stimulating interest and discussion; "an exciting novel"
  • flying
    adj 1: moving swiftly; "fast-flying planes"; "played the difficult passage with flying fingers" [syn: fast- flying, flying] 2: hurried and brief; "paid a flying visit"; "took a flying glance at the book"; "a quick inspection"; "a fast visit" [syn: flying, quick, fast] n 1: an instance of traveling by air; "flying was still an exciting adventure for him" [syn: flight, flying]
  • frightening
    adj 1: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible] n 1: the act of inspiring with fear [syn: terrorization, terrorisation, frightening]
  • inviting
    adj 1: attractive and tempting; "an inviting offer" [ant: uninviting]
  • lighting
    n 1: having abundant light or illumination; "they played as long as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good" [syn: light, lighting] [ant: dark, darkness] 2: apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film 3: the craft of providing artificial light; "an interior decorator must understand lighting" 4: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]
  • slighting
    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]
  • uniting
    n 1: the combination of two or more commercial companies [syn: amalgamation, merger, uniting] 2: the act of making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays" [syn: union, unification, uniting, conjugation, jointure] [ant: disunion]
  • whiting
    n 1: flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe 2: flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America 3: a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish 4: any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters 5: found off Atlantic coast of North America [syn: silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis, whiting] 6: a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus [syn: whiting, Merlangus merlangus, Gadus merlangus]
  • writing
    n 1: the act of creating written works; "writing was a form of therapy for him"; "it was a matter of disputed authorship" [syn: writing, authorship, composition, penning] 2: the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing" [syn: writing, written material, piece of writing] 3: (usually plural) the collected work of an author; "the idea occurs with increasing frequency in Hemingway's writings" 4: letters or symbols that are written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language; "he turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible" 5: the activity of putting something in written form; "she did the thinking while he did the writing" [syn: writing, committal to writing]
  • unexciting
    adj 1: not stimulating [syn: unstimulating, unexciting] [ant: stimulating] 2: not exciting; "an unexciting novel"; "lived an unexciting life" [ant: exciting]
  • uninviting
    adj 1: neither attractive nor tempting [ant: inviting] 2: not tempting [syn: uninviting, untempting]
  • alighting
  • assassinating
  • citing
  • copyrighting
  • delighting
  • igniting
  • inciting
  • kiting
  • reciting
  • reuniting
  • spiting
  • underwriting
  • blighting
  • plighting
  • siting
  • vikings
  • backbiting
  • indicting
  • nonbiting
  • reigniting

See also fighting definition and fighting synonyms