Words that rhyme with shining

  • aligning
    adj 1: causing to fall into line or into position [syn: aligning, positioning]
  • assigning
    n 1: the act of distributing something to designated places or persons; "the first task is the assignment of an address to each datum" [syn: assignment, assigning]
  • blinding
    adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]
  • climbing
    n 1: an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) [syn: climb, climbing, mounting]
  • combining
    n 1: an occurrence that results in things being united [syn: combining, combine] 2: the act of combining things to form a new whole [syn: combination, combining, compounding]
  • confining
    adj 1: restricting the scope or freedom of action [syn: confining, constraining, constrictive, limiting, restricting] 2: crowded; "close quarters" [syn: close, confining]
  • defining
    n 1: any process serving to define the shape of something [syn: shaping, defining]
  • designing
    adj 1: concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; "a selfish and designing nation obsessed with the dark schemes of European intrigue"- W.Churchill; "a scheming wife"; "a scheming gold digger" [syn: designing, scheming] n 1: the act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan); "he contributed to the design of a new instrument" [syn: design, designing]
  • dining
    n 1: the act of eating dinner
  • dying
    adj 1: in or associated with the process of passing from life or ceasing to be; "a dying man"; "his dying wish"; "a dying fire"; "a dying civilization" [ant: nascent] 2: eagerly desirous; "anxious to see the new show at the museum"; "dying to hear who won" [syn: anxious(p), dying(p)] n 1: the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: death, dying, demise] [ant: birth]
  • grinding
    n 1: material resulting from the process of grinding; "vegetable grindings clogged the drain" 2: a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears) 3: the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice [syn: grinding, abrasion, attrition, detrition]
  • lighting
    n 1: having abundant light or illumination; "they played as long as it was light"; "as long as the lighting was good" [syn: light, lighting] [ant: dark, darkness] 2: apparatus for supplying artificial light effects for the stage or a film 3: the craft of providing artificial light; "an interior decorator must understand lighting" 4: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]
  • lining
    n 1: a protective covering that protects an inside surface [syn: lining, liner] 2: a piece of cloth that is used as the inside surface of a garment [syn: liner, lining] 3: providing something with a surface of a different material [syn: lining, facing] 4: the act of attaching an inside lining (to a garment or curtain etc.)
  • mining
    n 1: the act of extracting ores or coal etc from the earth [syn: mining, excavation] 2: laying explosive mines in concealed places to destroy enemy personnel and equipment [syn: mining, minelaying]
  • pining
    n 1: a feeling of deep longing
  • reclining
    n 1: the act of assuming or maintaining a reclining position
  • refining
    n 1: the process of removing impurities (as from oil or metals or sugar etc.) [syn: refining, refinement, purification]
  • rhyming
    adj 1: having corresponding sounds especially terminal sounds; "rhymed verse"; "rhyming words" [syn: rhymed, rhyming, riming] [ant: rhymeless, rimeless, unrhymed, unrimed]
  • signing
    n 1: language expressed by visible hand gestures [syn: sign language, signing]
  • timing
    n 1: the time when something happens 2: the regulation of occurrence, pace, or coordination to achieve a desired effect (as in music, theater, athletics, mechanics)
  • trying
    adj 1: hard to endure; "fell upon trying times" 2: extremely irritating to the nerves; "nerve-racking noise"; "the stressful days before a war"; "a trying day at the office" [syn: nerve-racking, nerve-wracking, stressful, trying]
  • brining
  • consigning
  • declining
  • dividing
  • divining
  • fining
  • opining
  • realigning
  • reassigning
  • redefining
  • redesigning
  • resigning
  • twining
  • whining
  • wining
  • breining
  • vining
  • vanhyning

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