Words that rhyme with giggling

n 1: fishing with a hook and line (and usually a pole)

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

n 1: riding a bicycle

adj 1: having a red face from embarrassment or shame or agitation or emotional upset; "the blushing boy was brought before the Principal"; "her blushful beau"; "was red-faced with anger" [syn: blushful, blushing(a), red-faced]

adj 1: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse [syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed]

n 1: a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing 2: the act of binding something into a bundle 3: the act of shoving hastily; "she complained about bundling the children off to school"

adj 1: showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" [syn: bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent] 2: lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands; "a bumbling mechanic"; "a bungling performance"; "ham-handed governmental interference"; "could scarcely empty a scuttle of ashes, so handless was the poor creature"- Mary H. Vorse [syn: bumbling, bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed]

n 1: giving a Christian name at baptism

n 1: the shoemaker's trade [syn: shoemaking, shoe repairing, cobbling]

n 1: a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment

n 1: something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action [syn: guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction]

adj 1: that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling injury" [syn: crippling, disabling, incapacitating]

n 1: the sport of traveling on a bicycle or motorcycle

n 1: the act of digging; "there's an interesting excavation going on near Princeton" [syn: excavation, digging, dig]

n 1: the propulsion of a ball by repeated taps or kicks [syn: dribble, dribbling]

adj 1: (of rain) falling lightly in very small drops; "a raw drizzing rain"

adj 1: gradually decreasing until little remains [syn: dwindling, tapering, tapering off] n 1: a becoming gradually less; "there is no greater sadness that the dwindling away of a family" [syn: dwindling, dwindling away]

adj 1: providing legal power or sanction; "an enabling resolution"; "enabling power" [ant: disabling, disqualifying]

adj 1: causing debilitation [syn: debilitative, enervating, enfeebling, weakening]

adj 1: investing with dignity or honor; "the dignifying effect of his presence"; "the ennobling influence of cultural surroundings" [syn: dignifying, ennobling] 2: tending to exalt; "an exalting eulogy"; "ennobling thoughts" [syn: ennobling, exalting]

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]

adj 1: in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion; "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this" 2: being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first" [syn: fitting, meet] n 1: making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances [syn: adjustment, accommodation, fitting] 2: a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system 3: (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) [syn: appointment, fitting] 4: putting clothes on to see whether they fit [syn: fitting, try-on, trying on]

n 1: affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) [syn: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling]

adj 1: showing lack of skill or aptitude; "a bungling workman"; "did a clumsy job"; "his fumbling attempt to put up a shelf" [syn: bungling, clumsy, fumbling, incompetent]

n 1: the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize); "his gambling cost him a fortune"; "there was heavy play at the blackjack table" [syn: gambling, gaming, play]

n 1: a foolish or nervous laugh v 1: laugh nervously; "The girls giggled when the rock star came into the classroom" [syn: giggle, titter]

adj 1: reflecting light; "glistening bodies of swimmers"; "the horse's glossy coat"; "lustrous auburn hair"; "saw the moon like a shiny dime on a deep blue velvet carpet"; "shining white enamel" [syn: glistening, glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shiny, shining]

n 1: the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; "they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully" [syn: wrestle, wrestling, grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle] 2: the sport of hand-to-hand struggle between unarmed contestants who try to throw each other down [syn: wrestling, rassling, grappling]

n 1: a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement [syn: smile, smiling, grin, grinning]

adj 1: totally submissive [syn: cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy]

adj 1: continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound; "the rumbling rolling sound of thunder" [syn: grumbling, rumbling] n 1: a loud low dull continuous noise; "they heard the rumbling of thunder" [syn: rumble, rumbling, grumble, grumbling] 2: a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone [syn: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering]

n 1: the drinking of large mouthfuls rapidly [syn: gulping, swilling, guzzling]

n 1: an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling]

n 1: manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something 2: the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means [syn: handling, manipulation] 3: the management of someone or something; "the handling of prisoners"; "the treatment of water sewage"; "the right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system" [syn: treatment, handling]

n 1: shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree [syn: heckling, barracking]

adj 1: causing awareness of your shortcomings; "golf is a humbling game" [syn: demeaning, humbling, humiliating, mortifying]

n 1: a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles [syn: hurdles, hurdling, hurdle race]

n 1: having no employment [syn: idleness, idling, loafing]

adj 1: arriving at a place or position; "incoming class"; "incoming mail" [ant: outgoing] 2: entering upon a position of office vacated by another; "the incoming president" [ant: outgoing] n 1: the act of entering; "she made a grand entrance" [syn: entrance, entering, entry, ingress, incoming]

adj 1: arousing or holding the attention [ant: uninteresting]

adj 1: like the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together; "cowboys with jangling spurs" [syn: jangling, jangly]

adj 1: having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells; "jingling sleigh bells" [syn: jingling, jingly]

n 1: the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) [syn: jostle, jostling]

n 1: the act of rearranging things to give a misleading impression [syn: juggle, juggling] 2: throwing and catching several objects simultaneously [syn: juggle, juggling]

adj 1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting] 2: strictly limiting the reference of a modified word or phrase; "the restrictive clause in `Each made a list of the books that had influenced him' limits the books on the list to only those particular ones defined by the clause" n 1: the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase [syn: modification, qualifying, limiting]

n 1: the act of hearing attentively; "you can learn a lot by just listening"; "they make good music--you should give them a hearing" [syn: listening, hearing]

adj 1: pertaining to living persons; "within living memory" 2: true to life; lifelike; "the living image of her mother" 3: (informal) absolute; "she is a living doll"; "scared the living daylights out of them"; "beat the living hell out of him" 4: still in existence; "the Wollemi pine found in Australia is a surviving specimen of a conifer thought to have been long extinct and therefore known as a living fossil"; "the only surviving frontier blockhouse in Pennsylvania" [syn: surviving, living] 5: still in active use; "a living language" 6: (used of minerals or stone) in its natural state and place; not mined or quarried; "carved into the living stone"; n 1: the experience of being alive; the course of human events and activities; "he could no longer cope with the complexities of life" [syn: life, living] 2: people who are still living; "save your pity for the living" [ant: dead] 3: the condition of living or the state of being alive; "while there's life there's hope"; "life depends on many chemical and physical processes" [syn: animation, life, living, aliveness] 4: the financial means whereby one lives; "each child was expected to pay for their keep"; "he applied to the state for support"; "he could no longer earn his own livelihood" [syn: support, keep, livelihood, living, bread and butter, sustenance]

n 1: the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat

adj 1: intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business" [syn: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied] n 1: the act of altering something secretly or improperly [syn: meddling, tampering]

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)

n 1: the action of people mingling and coming into contact; "all the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties"

n 1: a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied [syn: modeling, modelling, molding, moulding] 2: the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) [syn: model, modelling, modeling]

n 1: the act of coloring with areas of different shades

n 1: indistinct enunciation 2: ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) [syn: mumbling, gumming]

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]

n 1: a panel or section of panels in a wall or door [syn: paneling, panelling, pane]

n 1: the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan; "the apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives is based on the relative population of each state" [syn: allotment, apportionment, apportioning, allocation, parceling, parcelling, assignation]

n 1: an analysis into mutually exclusive categories [syn: breakdown, partitioning] 2: the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart [syn: division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation]

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]

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]

adj 1: causing to fall into line or into position [syn: aligning, positioning] n 1: the act of putting something in a certain place [syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement]

adj 1: not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries" [syn: enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling] 2: lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement" [syn: confusing, perplexing, puzzling]

n 1: increase by a factor of four

n 1: the process of showing signs of life; "the quickening of seed that will become ripe grain" 2: the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus 3: the act of accelerating; increasing the speed [syn: acceleration, quickening, speedup] [ant: deceleration]

adj 1: spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly] 2: (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that" [syn: digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling] 3: of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road" [syn: meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), winding]

adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling] adj 1: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous] 2: quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy] n 1: a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle" [syn: rattle, rattling, rale]

n 1: a bit of fiber that has become separated from woven fabric [syn: raveling, ravelling]

n 1: the act of processing used or abandoned materials for use in creating new products

n 1: the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm [syn: grooving, rifling]

n 1: a small wave on the surface of a liquid [syn: ripple, rippling, riffle, wavelet]

adj 1: capable of arousing and holding the attention; "a fascinating story" [syn: absorbing, engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting]

adj 1: continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound; "the rumbling rolling sound of thunder" [syn: grumbling, rumbling] n 1: a loud low dull continuous noise; "they heard the rumbling of thunder" [syn: rumble, rumbling, grumble, grumbling]

adj 1: (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream; "as mountain stream with freely running water"; "hovels without running water" [ant: standing(a)] 2: continually repeated over a period of time; "a running joke among us" 3: of advancing the ball by running; "the team's running plays worked better than its pass plays" [ant: pass(a), passing(a)] 4: executed or initiated by running; "running plays worked better than pass plays"; "took a running jump"; "a running start" [ant: standing(a)] 5: measured lengthwise; "cost of lumber per running foot" [syn: linear, running(a)] 6: (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes" [syn: running(a), operative, functional, working(a)] n 1: (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team; "the defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the coach put great emphasis on running" [syn: run, running, running play, running game] 2: the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit" [syn: run, running] 3: the state of being in operation; "the engine is running smoothly" 4: the act of administering or being in charge of something; "he has responsibility for the running of two companies at the same time" 5: the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track [syn: track, running]

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]

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)

n 1: setting an order and time for planned events [syn: scheduling, programming, programing]

n 1: rowing by a single oarsman in a racing shell

n 1: a gradual sinking to a lower level [syn: settling, subsiding, subsidence]

n 1: walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" [syn: shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling]

n 1: (geology) sediment in which flat pebbles are uniformly tilted in the same direction 2: the laying on of shingles; "shingling is a craft very different from carpentry"

n 1: walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" [syn: shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling] 2: the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: shuffle, shuffling, make]

n 1: a person's brother or sister [syn: sibling, sib]

adj 1: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]

adj 1: smooth and flowing [syn: cantabile, singing] n 1: the act of singing vocal music [syn: singing, vocalizing] 2: disclosing information or giving evidence about another [syn: tattle, singing, telling]

adj 1: hot enough to burn with or as if with a hissing sound; "a sizzling steak"; "a sizzling spell of weather" 2: characterized by intense emotion or interest or excitement; "a red-hot speech"; "sizzling political issues" [syn: red- hot, sizzling]

adj 1: smiling with happiness or optimism; "Come to my arms, my beamish boy!"- Lewis Carroll; "a room of smiling faces"; "a round red twinkly Santa Claus" [syn: beamish, smiling(a), twinkly] n 1: a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement [syn: smile, smiling, grin, grinning]

n 1: secretly importing prohibited goods or goods on which duty is due

adj 1: liable to sniffle [syn: sniffly, snuffling, snuffly]

n 1: affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) [syn: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling]

n 1: a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly; "the first scatterings of green"; "a sprinkling of grey at his temples" [syn: scattering, sprinkling] 2: a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby [syn: scattering, sprinkle, sprinkling] 3: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: aspersion, sprinkling] 4: the act of sprinkling or splashing water; "baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over the malt" [syn: sprinkle, sprinkling, sparge]

n 1: accommodation for animals (especially for horses)

adj 1: so remarkably different or sudden as to cause momentary shock or alarm; "Sydney's startling new Opera House"; "startling news"; "startling earthquake shocks"

n 1: the act of becoming stiff; "stiffening his shoulders, he prepared to advance" 2: the process of becoming stiff or rigid [syn: stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification]

adj 1: characterized by oppressive heat and humidity; "the summer was sultry and oppressive"; "the stifling atmosphere"; "the sulfurous atmosphere preceding a thunderstorm" [syn: sultry, stifling, sulfurous, sulphurous] n 1: forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority; "the suppression of heresy"; "the quelling of the rebellion"; "the stifling of all dissent" [syn: suppression, crushing, quelling, stifling]

adj 1: spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly]

n 1: the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused" [syn: choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling]

n 1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen]

adj 1: engaged in a struggle to overcome especially poverty or obscurity; "a financially struggling theater"; "struggling artists"

adj 1: filled or brimming with tears; "swimming eyes"; "sorrow made the eyes of many grow liquid" [syn: liquid, swimming] 2: applied to a fish depicted horizontally [syn: naiant, swimming] n 1: the act of swimming; "it was the swimming they enjoyed most": "they took a short swim in the pool" [syn: swimming, swim]

adj 1: prone to communicate confidential information [syn: blabbermouthed, leaky, talebearing(a), tattling(a)]