Words that rhyme with rising

  • advertising
    n 1: a public promotion of some product or service [syn: ad, advertisement, advertizement, advertising, advertizing, advert] 2: the business of drawing public attention to goods and services [syn: advertising, publicizing]
  • biting
    adj 1: capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious] 2: causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind" [syn: biting, bitter]
  • capsizing
    n 1: (nautical) the event of a boat accidentally turning over in the water
  • compromising
    adj 1: making or willing to make concessions; "loneliness tore through him...whenever he thought of...even the compromising Louis du Tillet" [syn: compromising, conciliatory, flexible] [ant: inflexible, sturdy, uncompromising] 2: vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion; "she found herself in a compromising situation"
  • despising
    n 1: a feeling of scornful hatred [syn: despisal, despising]
  • devising
    n 1: the act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making" [syn: devising, fashioning, making]
  • housing
    n 1: structures collectively in which people are housed [syn: housing, lodging, living accommodations] 2: a protective cover designed to contain or support a mechanical component 3: stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse [syn: caparison, trapping, housing]
  • musing
    adj 1: deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man"; [syn: brooding, broody, contemplative, meditative, musing, pensive, pondering, reflective, ruminative] n 1: a calm, lengthy, intent consideration [syn: contemplation, reflection, reflexion, rumination, musing, thoughtfulness]
  • revising
    n 1: editing that involves writing something again [syn: rewriting, revising]
  • sizing
    n 1: any glutinous material used to fill pores in surfaces or to stiffen fabrics; "size gives body to a fabric" [syn: size, sizing]
  • stargazing
    n 1: observation of the stars
  • surprising
    adj 1: causing surprise or wonder or amazement; "the report shows a surprising lack of hard factual data"; "leaped up with surprising agility"; "she earned a surprising amount of money" [ant: unsurprising]
  • unsurprising
    adj 1: not causing surprise [ant: surprising]
  • uprising
    n 1: organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another [syn: rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising, uprising]
  • agonizing
    adj 1: extremely painful [syn: agonizing, agonising, excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome]
  • appetizing
    adj 1: appealing to or stimulating the appetite especially in appearance or aroma [syn: appetizing, appetising] [ant: unappetising, unappetizing]
  • downsizing
    n 1: the reduction of expenditures in order to become financially stable [syn: retrenchment, curtailment, downsizing]
  • centralizing
    adj 1: tending to draw to a central point [syn: centralizing(a), centralising(a)] [ant: decentralising(a), decentralizing(a)]
  • socializing
    n 1: the act of meeting for social purposes; "there was too much socialization with the enlisted men" [syn: socialization, socialisation, socializing, socialising]
  • demoralizing
    adj 1: destructive of morale and self-reliance [syn: demoralizing, demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting]
  • advising
  • amortising
  • apprising
  • arising
  • capitalising
  • chastising
  • circumcising
  • comprising
  • disguising
  • disorganizing
  • prizing
  • oversizing
  • aggrandizing
  • analyzing
  • apologizing
  • amortizing
  • authorizing
  • brutalizing
  • criticizing
  • customizing
  • dramatizing
  • antagonizing
  • capitalizing
  • categorizing
  • dehumanizing
  • demobilizing

See also rising definition and rising synonyms