Words that rhyme with granting

n 1: an official prohibition or edict against something [syn: ban, banning, forbiddance, forbidding]

n 1: the act of singing in a monotonous tone [syn: intonation, chanting]

adj 1: freeing from illusion or false belief [syn: disenchanting, disillusioning]

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]

n 1: graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface; "a small painting by Picasso"; "he bought the painting as an investment"; "his pictures hang in the Louvre" [syn: painting, picture] 2: creating a picture with paints; "he studied painting and sculpture for many years" 3: the act of applying paint to a surface; "you can finish the job of painting faster with a roller than with a brush" 4: the occupation of a house painter; "house painting was the only craft he knew" [syn: painting, house painting]

n 1: breathing heavily (as after exertion) [syn: panting, heaving] 2: any fabric used to make trousers [syn: panting, trousering]

n 1: the act of fixing firmly in place; "he ordered the planting of policemen outside every doorway" 2: a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area; "the landscape architect suggested a small planting in the northwest corner" 3: putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow; "the planting of corn is hard work"

n 1: a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion [syn: harangue, rant, ranting]

n 1: the process of translating photographs into a digital form that can be recognized by a computer 2: the act of systematically moving a finely focused beam of light or electrons over a surface in order to produce an image of it for analysis or transmission

adj 1: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping]

n 1: act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics [syn: supplanting, displacement]

n 1: process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light 2: beating with a whip or strap or rope as a form of punishment [syn: whipping, tanning, flogging, lashing, flagellation] 3: making leather from rawhide

n 1: the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location; "the transplant did not flower until the second year"; "too frequent transplanting is not good for families"; "she returned to Alabama because she could not bear transplantation" [syn: transplant, transplantation, transplanting]

n 1: Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941) [syn: Banting, F. G. Banting, Sir Frederick Grant Banting] 2: wild ox of the Malay Archipelago [syn: banteng, banting, tsine, Bos banteng]