Words that rhyme with minting

adj 1: serving to begin; "the beginning canto of the poem"; "the first verse" [syn: beginning(a), first] n 1: the event consisting of the start of something; "the beginning of the war" [ant: conclusion, ending, finish] 2: the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her" [syn: beginning, commencement, first, outset, get-go, start, kickoff, starting time, showtime, offset] [ant: end, ending, middle] 3: the first part or section of something; "`It was a dark and stormy night' is a hackneyed beginning for a story" [ant: end, middle] 4: the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root" [syn: beginning, origin, root, rootage, source] 5: the act of starting something; "he was responsible for the beginning of negotiations" [syn: beginning, start, commencement] [ant: finish, finishing]

adj 1: having brief brilliant points or flashes of light; "bugle beads all aglitter"; "glinting eyes"; "glinting water"; "his glittering eyes were cold and malevolent"; "shop window full of glittering Christmas trees"; "glittery costume jewelry"; "scintillant mica"; "the scintillating stars"; "a dress with sparkly sequins"; "`glistering' is an archaic term" [syn: aglitter(p), coruscant, fulgid, glinting, glistering, glittering, glittery, scintillant, scintillating, sparkly]

n 1: a learning process in early life whereby species specific patterns of behavior are established

n 1: (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat [syn: inning, frame]

n 1: a mutual promise of a couple not to date anyone else; on college campuses it was once signaled by the giving of a fraternity pin

n 1: text handwritten in the style of printed matter 2: the business of producing printed material for sale or distribution 3: reproduction by applying ink to paper as for publication [syn: printing, printing process] 4: all the copies of a work printed at one time; "they ran off an initial printing of 2000 copies" [syn: impression, printing]

n 1: a publication (such as a book) that is reprinted without changes or editing and offered again for sale [syn: reissue, reprint, reprinting]

adj 1: transgressing a moral or divine law; "if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most sinning soul alive"- Shakespeare n 1: an act that is regarded by theologians as a transgression of God's will [syn: sin, sinning]

n 1: creating thread

adj 1: having eyes half closed in order to see better; "squinched eyes" [syn: squinched, squinting]

n 1: the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" [syn: cutting, thinning]

n 1: the application of a thin layer of soft solder to the ends of wires before soldering them; "careful tinning of the ends of wires results in a better joint when you solder them" 2: the application of a protective layer of tin [syn: tinning, tin-plating]

n 1: the act of adding a tinge of color; "the hairdresser gave her hair a modest tinting"

adj 1: producing two offspring at a time [syn: biparous, twinning]

adj 1: very generous; "distributed gifts with a lavish hand"; "the critics were lavish in their praise"; "a munificent gift"; "his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent"; "prodigal praise"; "unsparing generosity"; "his unstinted devotion"; "called for unstinting aid to Britain" [syn: lavish, munificent, overgenerous, too-generous, unsparing, unstinted, unstinting]

adj 1: having won; "the victorious entry"; "the winning team" [syn: victorious, winning] 2: very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality" [syn: fetching, taking, winning] n 1: succeeding with great difficulty; "winning is not everything"