Words that rhyme with mating

• actuating 0
  adj 1: causing motion or action or change [syn: activating(a), actuating(a)]
• adulterating 0
  adj 1: making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials; "the adulterating effect of extraneous materials" [syn: adulterating, adulterant] [ant: purifying]
• aggravating 0
  adj 1: making worse [syn: aggravating, exacerbating, exasperating]
• agitating 0
  adj 1: causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; "a provoking delay at the airport" [syn: agitative, agitating, provoking]
• alienating 0
  adj 1: causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden alienating aloofness"
• alternating 0
  adj 1: (of a current) reversing direction; "alternating current" [ant: direct] 2: occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate" [syn: alternate(a), alternating(a)]
• ameliorating 0
  adj 1: tending to ameliorate [syn: ameliorating(a), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative]
• animating 0
  adj 1: giving spirit and vivacity [syn: animating, enlivening]
• annihilating 0
  adj 1: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: annihilative, annihilating, devastating, withering] 2: making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: annihilating, devastating, withering]
• annotating 0
  n 1: the act of adding notes [syn: annotation, annotating]
• assimilating 0
  adj 1: capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution; "an assimilative substance [syn: assimilating, assimilative, assimilatory]
• baiting 0
  n 1: harassment especially of a tethered animal
• batting 0
  n 1: (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base 2: stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber [syn: batting, batten]
• berating 0
  n 1: a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him" [syn: berating, blowing up]
• calculating 0
  adj 1: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd]
• captivating 0
  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]
• circulating 0
  adj 1: passing from one to another; "circulating bills and coins"
• commemorating 0
  adj 1: intended as a commemoration; "a commemorative plaque" [syn: commemorative, commemorating]
• communicating 0
  n 1: the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow" [syn: communication, communicating]
• congregating 0
  n 1: the act of congregating [syn: congregation, congregating]
• contaminating 0
  adj 1: spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" [syn: dirty, contaminating] [ant: clean, uncontaminating] 2: that infects or taints [syn: corrupting, contaminating]
• coordinating 0
  adj 1: serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction; "`and' in `John and Mary' or in `John walked and Mary rode' is a coordinating conjunction; and so is `or' in `will you go or stay?'" [syn: coordinating(a), coordinative] [ant: subordinating(a), subordinative]
• dating 0
  n 1: use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens [syn: dating, geological dating]
• debilitating 0
  adj 1: impairing the strength and vitality [ant: invigorating]
• delegating 0
  n 1: authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions [syn: delegating, delegation, relegating, relegation, deputation]
• denigrating 0
  adj 1: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]
• deprecating 0
  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]
• depreciating 0
  adj 1: tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value; "a depreciating currency"; "depreciatory effects on prices" [syn: depreciating, depreciative, depreciatory]
• devastating 0
  adj 1: making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: annihilating, devastating, withering] 2: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: annihilative, annihilating, devastating, withering] 3: physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing" [syn: crushing, devastating]
• discriminating 0
  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]
• dominating 0
  adj 1: most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe" [syn: ascendant, ascendent, dominating] 2: used of a height or viewpoint; "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom" [syn: commanding, dominating, overlooking] 3: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner" [syn: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and- mighty, magisterial, peremptory]
• elating 0
  adj 1: making lively and joyful [syn: elating, exhilarating]
• equating 0
  n 1: the act of regarding as equal [syn: equation, equating]
• frustrating 0
  adj 1: discouraging by hindering 2: preventing realization or attainment of a desire [syn: frustrating, frustrative, thwarting]
• grating 0
  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]
• motivating 0
  adj 1: impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments" [syn: motivative(a), motive(a), motivating] n 1: the act of motivating; providing incentive [syn: motivation, motivating]
• oscillating 0
  adj 1: having periodic vibrations [syn: oscillatory, oscillating]
• plating 0
  n 1: a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface [syn: plating, metal plating] 2: the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)
• rating 0
  n 1: an appraisal of the value of something; "he set a high valuation on friendship" [syn: evaluation, valuation, rating] 2: act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of [syn: evaluation, rating] 3: standing or position on a scale 4: rank in a military organization [syn: military rank, military rating, paygrade, rating]
• skating 0
  n 1: the sport of gliding on skates
• slating 0
  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
• updating 0
  n 1: the act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something); "criminal records need regular updating"
• waiting 0
  adj 1: being and remaining ready and available for use; "waiting cars and limousines lined the curb"; "found her mother waiting for them"; "an impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests"; "military forces ready and waiting" [syn: waiting, ready and waiting(p)] n 1: the act of waiting (remaining inactive in one place while expecting something); "the wait was an ordeal for him" [syn: wait, waiting]
• weighting 0
  n 1: (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance [syn: weight, weighting]
• deregulating 0
  n 1: the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) [syn: deregulation, deregulating]
• abating 3
• abbreviating 0
• abdicating 0
• abrogating 0
• accumulating 0
• adapting 0
• adjudicating 0
• administrating 0
• advocating 0
• aerating 0
• affiliating 0
• agglutinating 0
• aggregating 0
• alleviating 0
• alliterating 0
• allocating 0
• amalgamating 0
• amputating 0
• annunciating 0
• antedating 0
• anticipating 0
• appreciating 0
• appropriating 0
• approximating 0
• arbitrating 0
• arrogating 0
• articulating 0
• aspirating 0
• assassinating 0
• associating 0
• attenuating 0
• authenticating 0
• automating 0
• awaiting 0
• backdating 0
• bating 0
• bifurcating 0
• calibrating 0
• castrating 0
• celebrating 0
• chatting 0
• checkmating 0
• coagulating 0
• cogitating 0
• collaborating 0
• combating 0
• commiserating 0
• compensating 0
• complicating 0
• concatenating 0
• concentrating 0
• confiscating 0
• conjugating 0
• consecrating 0
• consolidating 0

See also mating definition and mating synonyms