Words that rhyme with grouting

n 1: the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating, whipping] 2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking]

n 1: formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) 2: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered" [syn: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue]

adj 1: showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur" [ant: indiscriminating, undiscriminating] 2: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp]

adj 1: marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener" [syn: doubting, questioning, skeptical, sceptical]

adj 1: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary]

adj 1: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" [syn: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy] n 1: a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air [syn: grate, grating] 2: a frame of iron bars to hold a fire [syn: grate, grating] 3: optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum [syn: diffraction grating, grating]

n 1: (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) [syn: greeting, salutation]

n 1: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay] 2: a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering [syn: field day, outing, picnic]

n 1: exploring in order to gain information; "scouting in enemy territory is very dangerous" [syn: scouting, exploratory survey, reconnoitering, reconnoitring]

n 1: encouragement in the form of cheers from spectators; "it's all over but the shouting" [syn: cheering, shouting] 2: uttering a loud inarticulate cry as of pain or excitement [syn: yelling, shouting]

n 1: thin layers of rock used for roofing [syn: slate, slating] 2: a severely critical attack; "the reviewers gave his book a sound slating" 3: the act of laying slates for a roof

adj 1: propelled violently in a usually narrow stream [syn: jetting, spouting, spurting, squirting]

n 1: the process whereby seeds or spores sprout and begin to grow [syn: germination, sprouting]

adj 1: rousing or quickening activity or the senses; "a stimulating discussion" [ant: unexciting, unstimulating] 2: that stimulates; "stimulant phenomena" [syn: stimulant, stimulating] 3: making lively and cheerful; "the exhilarating effect of mountain air" [syn: exhilarating, stimulating]

adj 1: causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless" [syn: smothering, suffocating, suffocative]

adj 1: having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured; "the phenol resins and plastics were the original synthetic thermosetting materials" [syn: thermosetting, thermoset] [ant: thermoplastic]

adj 1: going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside; "some people see evolution as an undeviating upward march from simple organisms to the very complex"; "a straight and narrow tree-lined road unswerving across the lowlands" [syn: undeviating, unswerving] 2: used of values and principles; not subject to change; steady; "undeviating loyalty"

adj 1: not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior" [syn: inappropriate, incompatible, out or keeping(p), unfitting]

adj 1: characterized by quickness and firmness; "his reply was unhesitating" [syn: unhesitating, resolute]

adj 1: uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting]

adj 1: not done with purpose or intent; "an unintended slight"; "an unintentional pun"; "the offense was unintentional"; "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked" [syn: unintentional, unplanned, unwitting] 2: not aware or knowing; "an unwitting subject in an experiment" [ant: witting] 3: unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge; "he was completely ignorant of the circumstances"; "an unknowledgeable assistant"; "his rudeness was unwitting" [syn: ignorant, unknowledgeable, unknowing, unwitting]

n 1: (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance [syn: weight, weighting]

n 1: the act of making something wet 2: a euphemism for urination; "he had to take a leak" [syn: leak, wetting, making water, passing water]

adj 1: aware or knowing; "a witting tool of the Communists" [ant: unwitting] 2: intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy" [syn: conscious, witting]