Words that rhyme with purporting

n 1: a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a brief and intense courtship" [syn: courtship, wooing, courting, suit]

n 1: the commercial activity of selling and shipping goods to a foreign country [syn: exporting, exportation]

n 1: the commercial activity of buying and bringing in goods from a foreign country [syn: importing, importation]

n 1: the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television; "they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations" [syn: coverage, reporting, reportage]

n 1: an act of forcible exhalation [syn: puffing, huffing, snorting]

n 1: an operation that segregates items into groups according to a specified criterion; "the bottleneck in mail delivery is the process of sorting" [syn: sort, sorting] 2: the basic cognitive process of arranging into classes or categories [syn: classification, categorization, categorisation, sorting] 3: grouping by class or kind or size

adj 1: exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct" [syn: clean, sporting, sporty, sportsmanlike] 2: relating to or used in sports; "sporting events"; "sporting equipment" 3: involving risk or willingness to take a risk; "a sporting chance"; "sporting blood" 4: preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card- playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies" [syn: dissipated, betting, card- playing, sporting]

adj 1: furnishing support and encouragement; "the anxious child needs supporting and accepting treatment from the teacher" [syn: encouraging, supporting] 2: capable of bearing a structural load; "a supporting wall" [syn: load-bearing(a), supporting(a)] n 1: the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening; "he leaned against the wall for support" [syn: support, supporting]

adj 1: preventing realization or attainment of a desire [syn: frustrating, frustrative, thwarting] n 1: an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts [syn: frustration, thwarting, foiling]