Words that rhyme with sleeping

• 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]
• beekeeping 0
  n 1: the cultivation of bees on a commercial scale for the production of honey [syn: beekeeping, apiculture]
• bleeding 0
  n 1: the flow of blood from a ruptured blood vessel [syn: bleeding, hemorrhage, haemorrhage]
• bookkeeping 0
  n 1: the activity of recording business transactions [syn: bookkeeping, clerking]
• breathing 0
  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]
• creeping 0
  n 1: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body; "a crawl was all that the injured man could manage"; "the traffic moved at a creep" [syn: crawl, crawling, creep, creeping]
• eating 0
  n 1: the act of consuming food [syn: eating, feeding]
• heating 0
  n 1: the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature [syn: heating, warming] 2: utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating" [syn: heating system, heating plant, heating, heat]
• keeping 0
  n 1: conformity or harmony; "his behavior was not in keeping with the occasion" 2: the responsibility of a guardian or keeper; "he left his car in my keeping" [syn: guardianship, keeping, safekeeping] 3: the act of retaining something [syn: retention, keeping, holding]
• leaping 0
  n 1: a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce]
• leaving 0
  n 1: the act of departing [syn: departure, going, going away, leaving]
• meaning 0
  adj 1: rich in significance or implication; "a meaning look" [syn: meaning(a), pregnant, significant] n 1: the message that is intended or expressed or signified; "what is the meaning of this sentence"; "the significance of a red traffic light"; "the signification of Chinese characters"; "the import of his announcement was ambiguous" [syn: meaning, significance, signification, import] 2: the idea that is intended; "What is the meaning of this proverb?" [syn: meaning, substance]
• 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]
• safekeeping 0
  n 1: the responsibility of a guardian or keeper; "he left his car in my keeping" [syn: guardianship, keeping, safekeeping]
• seeking 0
  n 1: the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds" [syn: quest, seeking] 2: an attempt to acquire or gain something
• seeping 0
  adj 1: leaking out slowly [syn: oozing, oozy, seeping]
• slipping 0
  adj 1: moving as on a slippery surface; "his slipping and slithering progress over the ice" [syn: slipping, slithering]
• speaking 0
  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]
• sweeping 0
  adj 1: taking in or moving over (or as if over) a wide area; often used in combination; "a sweeping glance"; "a wide- sweeping view of the river" 2: ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction" [syn: sweeping, wholesale] n 1: the act of cleaning with a broom
• weeping 0
  adj 1: showing sorrow [syn: dolorous, dolourous, lachrymose, tearful, weeping] 2: having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers" [syn: cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping] n 1: the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears" [syn: crying, weeping, tears]
• beeping 0
• bleeping 0
• heaping 0
• leaking 0
• peeping 0
• reaping 0
• steeping 0
• cheeping 0

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