Words that rhyme with knighting

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]

n 1: the activity at a bullfight [syn: bullfighting, tauromachy]

n 1: participation in the sport of matching gamecocks in a cockfight

adj 1: engaged in or ready for military or naval operations; "on active duty"; "the platoon is combat-ready"; "review the fighting forces" [syn: active, combat-ready, fighting(a)] n 1: the act of fighting; any contest or struggle; "a fight broke out at the hockey game"; "there was fighting in the streets"; "the unhappy couple got into a terrible scrap" [syn: fight, fighting, combat, scrap]

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]

n 1: the act of observing; "several sightings of enemy troops were reported"

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: 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]