Words that rhyme with reaching

  • beating
    n 1: the act of overcoming or outdoing [syn: beating, whipping] 2: the act of inflicting corporal punishment with repeated blows [syn: beating, thrashing, licking, drubbing, lacing, trouncing, whacking]
  • beseeching
    adj 1: begging [syn: beseeching, pleading, imploring] [ant: imperative]
  • breathing
    adj 1: passing or able to pass air in and out of the lungs normally; sometimes used in combination; "the boy was disappointed to find only skeletons instead of living breathing dinosaurs"; "the heavy-breathing person on the telephone" [syn: breathing, eupneic, eupnoeic] [ant: breathless, dyspneal, dyspneic, dyspnoeal, dyspnoeic] n 1: the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation [syn: breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation]
  • leaching
    n 1: the process of leaching [syn: leach, leaching]
  • preaching
    n 1: an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) [syn: sermon, discourse, preaching] 2: a moralistic rebuke; "your preaching is wasted on him" [syn: sermon, preaching]
  • screeching
    n 1: a high-pitched noise resembling a human cry; "he ducked at the screechings of shells"; "he heard the scream of the brakes" [syn: screech, screeching, shriek, shrieking, scream, screaming] 2: sharp piercing cry; "her screaming attracted the neighbors" [syn: scream, screaming, shriek, shrieking, screech, screeching]
  • speaking
    adj 1: capable of or involving speech or speaking; "human beings --the speaking animals"; "a speaking part in the play" [ant: nonspeaking, walk-on] n 1: the utterance of intelligible speech [syn: speaking, speech production] 2: delivering an address to a public audience; "people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking" [syn: public speaking, speechmaking, speaking, oral presentation]
  • teaching
    n 1: the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession" [syn: teaching, instruction, pedagogy] 2: a doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he believed all the Christian precepts" [syn: teaching, precept, commandment] 3: the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill; "he received no formal education"; "our instruction was carefully programmed"; "good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded" [syn: education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity]
  • beaching
  • bleaching
  • breaching
  • breeching
  • impeaching
  • meanings
  • leeching
  • ching

See also reaching definition and reaching synonyms