Words that rhyme with sentencing

n 1: the act of gathering something together [syn: collection, collecting, assembling, aggregation]

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]

adj 1: loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss [syn: deafening, earsplitting, thunderous, thundery]

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]

n 1: putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form [syn: editing, redaction]

adj 1: surrounding and closing in on or hemming in; "the army's enveloping maneuver"

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)

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]

n 1: the act of prolonging something; "there was an indefinite prolongation of the peace talks" [syn: prolongation, protraction, perpetuation, lengthening]

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]

n 1: the act of hearing attentively; "you can learn a lot by just listening"; "they make good music--you should give them a hearing" [syn: listening, hearing]

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]

adj 1: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening]

n 1: the act of selling goods for a living [syn: vending, peddling, hawking, vendition]

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]

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]

n 1: a string of words satisfying the grammatical rules of a language; "he always spoke in grammatical sentences" 2: (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; "the conviction came as no surprise" [syn: conviction, judgment of conviction, condemnation, sentence] [ant: acquittal] 3: the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned; "he served a prison term of 15 months"; "his sentence was 5 to 10 years"; "he is doing time in the county jail" [syn: prison term, sentence, time] v 1: pronounce a sentence on (somebody) in a court of law; "He was condemned to ten years in prison" [syn: sentence, condemn, doom]

n 1: a gradual sinking to a lower level [syn: settling, subsiding, subsidence]

adj 1: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; "a baleful look"; "forbidding thunderclouds"; "his tone became menacing"; "ominous rumblings of discontent"; "sinister storm clouds"; "a sinister smile"; "his threatening behavior"; "ugly black clouds"; "the situation became ugly" [syn: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, sinister, threatening] 2: darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" [syn: heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening]

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]

adj 1: very cordial; "a welcoming smile"

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]

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)]

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]