Words that rhyme with setting

• accommodating 0
  adj 1: helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation; "the warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in"; "made a special effort to be accommodating" [syn: accommodating, accommodative] [ant: unaccommodating, unobliging] 2: obliging; willing to do favors; "made a special effort to be accommodating"
• beating 0
  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]
• bedding 0
  n 1: coverings that are used on a bed [syn: bedclothes, bed clothing, bedding] 2: material used to provide a bed for animals [syn: bedding material, bedding, litter]
• betting 0
  adj 1: 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]
• bloodletting 0
  n 1: formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine) 2: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered" [syn: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue]
• discriminating 0
  adj 1: showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment especially in matters of taste; "the discriminating eye of the connoisseur" [ant: indiscriminating, undiscriminating] 2: having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions; "an acute observer of politics and politicians"; "incisive comments"; "icy knifelike reasoning"; "as sharp and incisive as the stroke of a fang"; "penetrating insight"; "frequent penetrative observations" [syn: acute, discriminating, incisive, keen, knifelike, penetrating, penetrative, piercing, sharp]
• fitting 0
  adj 1: in harmony with the spirit of particular persons or occasion; "We have come to dedicate a portion of that field...It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this" 2: being precisely fitting and right; "it is only meet that she should be seated first" [syn: fitting, meet] n 1: making or becoming suitable; adjusting to circumstances [syn: adjustment, accommodation, fitting] 2: a small and often standardized accessory to a larger system 3: (usually plural) furnishings and equipment (especially for a ship or hotel) [syn: appointment, fitting] 4: putting clothes on to see whether they fit [syn: fitting, try-on, trying on]
• fleeting 0
  adj 1: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary]
• getting 0
  n 1: the act of acquiring something; "I envied his talent for acquiring"; "he's much more interested in the getting than in the giving" [syn: acquiring, getting]
• grating 0
  adj 1: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" [syn: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy] n 1: a barrier that has parallel or crossed bars blocking a passage but admitting air [syn: grate, grating] 2: a frame of iron bars to hold a fire [syn: grate, grating] 3: optical device consisting of a surface with many parallel grooves in it; disperses a beam of light (or other electromagnetic radiation) into its wavelengths to produce its spectrum [syn: diffraction grating, grating]
• greeting 0
  n 1: (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting) [syn: greeting, salutation]
• illuminating 0
  adj 1: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"; "an illuminating lecture" [syn: enlightening, informative, illuminating] [ant: unenlightening, unilluminating]
• jetting 0
  adj 1: propelled violently in a usually narrow stream [syn: jetting, spouting, spurting, squirting]
• letting 0
  n 1: property that is leased or rented out or let [syn: lease, rental, letting]
• matting 0
  n 1: a covering of coarse fabric (usually of straw or hemp) 2: mounting consisting of a border or background for a picture [syn: mat, matting]
• meeting 0
  n 1: a formally arranged gathering; "next year the meeting will be in Chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson" [syn: meeting, group meeting] 2: a small informal social gathering; "there was an informal meeting in my living room" [syn: meeting, get together] 3: a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway" [syn: meeting, encounter] 4: the social act of assembling for some common purpose; "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day" [syn: meeting, coming together] 5: the act of joining together as one; "the merging of the two groups occurred quickly"; "there was no meeting of minds" [syn: merging, meeting, coming together] 6: a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers); "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers" [syn: confluence, meeting]
• netting 0
  n 1: a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave [syn: gauze, netting, veiling] 2: creating nets
• outing 0
  n 1: a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, outing, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay] 2: a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering [syn: field day, outing, picnic]
• parting 0
  n 1: the act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow" [syn: farewell, leave, leave-taking, parting] 2: a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions; "his part was right in the middle" [syn: part, parting]
• petting 0
  n 1: affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) [syn: caressing, cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling]
• pipefitting 0
  n 1: fitting consisting of threaded pieces of pipe for joining pipes together [syn: pipefitting, pipe fitting]
• plating 0
  n 1: a thin coating of metal deposited on a surface [syn: plating, metal plating] 2: the application of a thin coat of metal (as by electrolysis)
• rating 0
  n 1: an appraisal of the value of something; "he set a high valuation on friendship" [syn: evaluation, valuation, rating] 2: act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of [syn: evaluation, rating] 3: standing or position on a scale 4: rank in a military organization [syn: military rank, military rating, paygrade, rating]
• sitting 0
  adj 1: (of persons) having the torso erect and legs bent with the body supported on the buttocks; "the seated Madonna"; "the audience remained seated" [syn: seated, sitting] [ant: standing] 2: not moving and therefore easy to attack; "a sitting target" n 1: (photography) the act of assuming a certain position (as for a photograph or portrait); "he wanted his portrait painted but couldn't spare time for the sitting" [syn: sitting, posing] 2: the act of assuming or maintaining a seated position; "he read the mystery at one sitting" 3: a meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor" [syn: seance, sitting, session] 4: a session as of a legislature or court
• slating 0
  n 1: thin layers of rock used for roofing [syn: slate, slating] 2: a severely critical attack; "the reviewers gave his book a sound slating" 3: the act of laying slates for a roof
• stimulating 0
  adj 1: rousing or quickening activity or the senses; "a stimulating discussion" [ant: unexciting, unstimulating] 2: that stimulates; "stimulant phenomena" [syn: stimulant, stimulating] 3: making lively and cheerful; "the exhilarating effect of mountain air" [syn: exhilarating, stimulating]
• suffocating 0
  adj 1: causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless" [syn: smothering, suffocating, suffocative]
• sweating 0
  n 1: the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid; "perspiration is a homeostatic process" [syn: perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosis]
• thermosetting 0
  adj 1: having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured; "the phenol resins and plastics were the original synthetic thermosetting materials" [syn: thermosetting, thermoset] [ant: thermoplastic]
• undeviating 0
  adj 1: going directly ahead from one point to another without veering or turning aside; "some people see evolution as an undeviating upward march from simple organisms to the very complex"; "a straight and narrow tree-lined road unswerving across the lowlands" [syn: undeviating, unswerving] 2: used of values and principles; not subject to change; steady; "undeviating loyalty"
• unfitting 0
  adj 1: not in keeping with what is correct or proper; "completely inappropriate behavior" [syn: inappropriate, incompatible, out or keeping(p), unfitting]
• unhesitating 0
  adj 1: characterized by quickness and firmness; "his reply was unhesitating" [syn: unhesitating, resolute]
• unremitting 0
  adj 1: uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing; "the ceaseless thunder of surf"; "in constant pain"; "night and day we live with the incessant noise of the city"; "the never-ending search for happiness"; "the perpetual struggle to maintain standards in a democracy"; "man's unceasing warfare with drought and isolation"; "unremitting demands of hunger" [syn: ceaseless, constant, incessant, never-ending, perpetual, unceasing, unremitting]
• unwitting 0
  adj 1: not done with purpose or intent; "an unintended slight"; "an unintentional pun"; "the offense was unintentional"; "an unwitting mistake may be overlooked" [syn: unintentional, unplanned, unwitting] 2: not aware or knowing; "an unwitting subject in an experiment" [ant: witting] 3: unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge; "he was completely ignorant of the circumstances"; "an unknowledgeable assistant"; "his rudeness was unwitting" [syn: ignorant, unknowledgeable, unknowing, unwitting]
• upsetting 0
  adj 1: causing an emotional disturbance; "his disconcerting habit of greeting friends ferociously and strangers charmingly"- Herb Caen; "an upsetting experience" [syn: disconcerting, upsetting]
• weighting 0
  n 1: (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance [syn: weight, weighting]
• wetting 0
  n 1: the act of making something wet 2: a euphemism for urination; "he had to take a leak" [syn: leak, wetting, making water, passing water]
• witting 0
  adj 1: aware or knowing; "a witting tool of the Communists" [ant: unwitting] 2: intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more slowly"; "a conscious policy" [syn: conscious, witting]
• abetting 0
• bayoneting 0
• begetting 0
• besetting 0
• coquetting 0
• forgetting 0
• fretting 0
• knotting 0
• offsetting 0
• phototypesetting 0
• regretting 0
• stetting 0
• typesetting 0
• vetting 0
• whetting 0
• fetting 0
• reseting 0
• gatting 0
• sweeting 0
• keating 0
• photosetting 0
• texting 0

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