Words that rhyme with menacing

• assembling 0
  n 1: the act of gathering something together [syn: collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation]
• buttressing 0
  n 1: a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building [syn: buttress, buttressing]
• canvassing 0
  n 1: persuasion of voters in a political campaign [syn: electioneering, bell ringing, canvassing]
• deadening 0
  adj 1: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome] n 1: the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine) [syn: stultification, constipation, impairment, deadening]
• deafening 0
  adj 1: loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss [syn: deafening, earsplitting, thunderous, thundery]
• developing 0
  adj 1: relating to societies in which capital needed to industrialize is in short supply [syn: developing, underdeveloped] n 1: processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; "the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours" [syn: development, developing]
• editing 0
  n 1: putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form [syn: editing, redaction]
• embarrassing 0
  adj 1: hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign" [syn: awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable] 2: causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word" [syn: embarrassing, mortifying]
• encompassing 0
  adj 1: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide] 2: closely encircling; "encompassing mountain ranges"; "the surrounding countryside" [syn: encompassing(a), surrounding(a), circumferent]
• enemy 0
  n 1: an opposing military force; "the enemy attacked at dawn" 2: an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force); "a soldier must be prepared to kill his enemies" [syn: enemy, foe, foeman, opposition] 3: any hostile group of people; "he viewed lawyers as the real enemy" 4: a personal enemy; "they had been political foes for years" [syn: foe, enemy] [ant: ally, friend]
• enveloping 0
  adj 1: surrounding and closing in on or hemming in; "the army's enveloping maneuver"
• fencing 0
  n 1: a barrier that serves to enclose an area [syn: fence, fencing] 2: material for building fences [syn: fencing material, fencing] 3: the art or sport of fighting with swords (especially the use of foils or epees or sabres to score points under a set of rules)
• focusing 0
  n 1: the concentration of attention or energy on something; "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"; "he had no direction in his life" [syn: focus, focusing, focussing, focal point, direction, centering] 2: the act of bringing into focus [syn: focalization, focalisation, focusing]
• frightening 0
  adj 1: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible] n 1: the act of inspiring with fear [syn: terrorization, terrorisation, frightening]
• leavening 0
  n 1: an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor" [syn: leaven, leavening] 2: a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid [syn: leaven, leavening]
• lengthening 0
  n 1: the act of prolonging something; "there was an indefinite prolongation of the peace talks" [syn: prolongation, protraction, perpetuation, lengthening]
• lessening 0
  n 1: a change downward; "there was a decrease in his temperature as the fever subsided"; "there was a sharp drop-off in sales" [syn: decrease, lessening, drop-off] [ant: increase]
• meddling 0
  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]
• medicine 0
  n 1: the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques [syn: medicine, medical specialty] 2: (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease [syn: medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug] 3: the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" [syn: medicine, practice of medicine] 4: punishment for one's actions; "you have to face the music"; "take your medicine" [syn: music, medicine] v 1: treat medicinally, treat with medicine [syn: medicate, medicine]
• menace 0
  n 1: something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan" [syn: menace, threat] 2: a threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate menace" v 1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril] 2: express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick" 3: act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person"
• menacingly 0
  adv 1: in a menacing manner; "the voice at the other end of the line dropped menacingly" [syn: menacingly, threateningly]
• peddling 0
  n 1: the act of selling goods for a living [syn: vending, peddling, hawking, vendition]
• promising 0
  adj 1: showing possibility of achievement or excellence; "a promising young man" 2: full or promise; "had a bright future in publishing"; "the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career"; "a hopeful new singer on Broadway" [syn: bright, hopeful, promising]
• purchasing 0
  n 1: the act of buying; "buying and selling fill their days"; "shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge" [syn: buying, purchasing]
• questioning 0
  adj 1: perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know); "he had a quizzical expression" [syn: questioning, quizzical] 2: marked by or given to doubt; "a skeptical attitude"; "a skeptical listener" [syn: doubting, questioning, skeptical, sceptical] 3: showing curiosity; "if someone saw a man climbing a light post they might get inquisitive"; "raised a speculative eyebrow" [syn: inquisitive, speculative, questioning, wondering(a)] n 1: a request for information [syn: questioning, inquiring]
• reckoning 0
  n 1: problem solving that involves numbers or quantities [syn: calculation, computation, figuring, reckoning] 2: a bill for an amount due [syn: reckoning, tally] 3: the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours" [syn: count, counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning, tally]
• refocusing 0
  n 1: focusing again
• servicing 0
  n 1: the act of mating by male animals; "the bull was worth good money in servicing fees" [syn: servicing, service]
• settling 0
  n 1: a gradual sinking to a lower level [syn: settling, subsiding, subsidence]
• surfacing 0
  n 1: emerging to the surface and becoming apparent
• terrifying 0
  adj 1: causing extreme terror; "a terrifying wail" [syn: terrific, terrifying]
• trembling 0
  adj 1: vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands" [syn: shaky, shivering, trembling] n 1: a shaky motion; "the shaking of his fingers as he lit his pipe" [syn: shaking, shakiness, trembling, quiver, quivering, vibration, palpitation]
• unpromising 0
  adj 1: unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment; "faced an unpromising task"; "music for unpromising combinations of instruments"
• venison 0
  n 1: meat from a deer used as food
• welcoming 0
  adj 1: very cordial; "a welcoming smile"
• wrestling 0
  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]
• venice 0
  n 1: the provincial capital of Veneto; built on 118 islands within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice; has canals instead of streets; one of Italy's major ports and a famous tourist attraction [syn: Venice, Venezia]
• edison 0
  n 1: United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931) [syn: Edison, Thomas Edison, Thomas Alva Edison]
• trespassing 0
  adj 1: gradually intrusive without right or permission; "we moved back from the encroaching tide"; "invasive tourists"; "trespassing hunters" [syn: encroaching(a), invasive, trespassing(a)]
• leveling 0
  n 1: changing the ground level to a smooth horizontal or gently sloping surface [syn: grading, leveling] 2: complete destruction of a building [syn: razing, leveling, tearing down, demolishing] 3: the act of making equal or uniform [syn: equalization, equalisation, leveling]
• anything 0
• biasing 0
• bussing 0
• caucusing 0
• compassing 0
• crediting 0
• discussing 0
• embezzling 0
• freshening 0
• fussing 0
• grimacing 0
• harassing 0
• harnessing 0
• jaundicing 0
• latticing 0
• mussing 0
• noticing 0
• onrushing 0
• prefacing 0
• prejudicing 0
• premising 0
• purposing 0
• referencing 0
• resurfacing 0
• sentencing 0
• solacing 0
• terracing 0
• trussing 0
• unsettling 0
• witnessing 0
• busing 0
• cussing 0
• practicing 0

See also menacing definition and menacing synonyms