Words that rhyme with snarling

  • darling
    adj 1: dearly loved [syn: beloved, darling, dear] n 1: a special loved one [syn: darling, favorite, favourite, pet, dearie, deary, ducky] 2: an Australian river; tributary of the Murray River [syn: Darling, Darling River]
  • marbling
    n 1: the intermixture of fat and lean in a cut of meat
  • middling
    adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably] adj 1: lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best" [syn: average, fair, mediocre, middling] n 1: any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
  • nestling
    n 1: young bird not yet fledged [syn: nestling, baby bird] 2: a young person of either sex; "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngster" [syn: child, kid, youngster, minor, shaver, nipper, small fry, tiddler, tike, tyke, fry, nestling]
  • nursling
    n 1: an infant considered in relation to its nurse [syn: nursling, nurseling, suckling]
  • paling
    n 1: a fence made of upright pickets [syn: picket fence, paling]
  • peeling
    n 1: loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales [syn: desquamation, peeling, shedding]
  • piffling
    adj 1: (informal) small and of little importance; "a fiddling sum of money"; "a footling gesture"; "our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"; "a little (or small) matter"; "a dispute over niggling details"; "limited to petty enterprises"; "piffling efforts"; "giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction" [syn: fiddling, footling, lilliputian, little, niggling, piddling, piffling, petty, picayune, trivial]
  • piling
    n 1: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: pile, spile, piling, stilt]
  • puzzling
    adj 1: not clear to the understanding; "I didn't grasp the meaning of that enigmatic comment until much later"; "prophetic texts so enigmatic that their meaning has been disputed for centuries" [syn: enigmatic, enigmatical, puzzling] 2: lacking clarity of meaning; causing confusion or perplexity; "sent confusing signals to Iraq"; "perplexing to someone who knew nothing about it"; "a puzzling statement" [syn: confusing, perplexing, puzzling]
  • quisling
    n 1: someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force [syn: collaborator, collaborationist, quisling]
  • railing
    n 1: a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports [syn: railing, rail] 2: material for making rails or rails collectively
  • ruling
    adj 1: exercising power or authority [syn: regnant, reigning, ruling] n 1: the reason for a court's judgment (as opposed to the decision itself) [syn: opinion, ruling]
  • rustling
    adj 1: characterized by soft sounds; "a murmurous brook"; "a soughing wind in the pines"; "a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines"- R.P.Warren [syn: murmurous, rustling, soughing, susurrous] n 1: the stealing of cattle 2: a light noise, like the noise of silk clothing or leaves blowing in the wind [syn: rustle, rustling, whisper, whispering]
  • sailing
    n 1: the work of a sailor [syn: seafaring, navigation, sailing] 2: riding in a sailboat 3: the departure of a vessel from a port 4: the activity of flying a glider [syn: glide, gliding, sailplaning, soaring, sailing]
  • sampling
    n 1: (statistics) the selection of a suitable sample for study 2: items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population [syn: sample distribution, sample, sampling] 3: measurement at regular intervals of the amplitude of a varying waveform (in order to convert it to digital form)
  • sapling
    n 1: young tree
  • starling
    n 1: gregarious birds native to the Old World
  • stripling
    n 1: a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity [syn: adolescent, stripling, teenager, teen]
  • suckling
    n 1: English poet and courtier (1609-1642) [syn: Suckling, Sir John Suckling] 2: an infant considered in relation to its nurse [syn: nursling, nurseling, suckling] 3: a young mammal that has not been weaned 4: feeding an infant by giving suck at the breast [syn: suckling, lactation]
  • swelling
    n 1: an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement [syn: swelling, puffiness, lump] 2: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence] 3: the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) [syn: intumescence, intumescency, swelling]
  • veiling
    n 1: a net of transparent fabric with a loose open weave [syn: gauze, netting, veiling]
  • wailing
    adj 1: vocally expressing grief or sorrow or resembling such expression; "lamenting sinners"; "wailing mourners"; "the wailing wind"; "wailful bagpipes"; "tangle her desires with wailful sonnets"- Shakespeare [syn: lamenting, wailing, wailful] n 1: loud cries made while weeping [syn: wailing, bawling]
  • wheeling
    n 1: a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river 2: propelling something on wheels [syn: wheeling, rolling]
  • wrestling
    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]
  • yearling
    n 1: a young child [syn: toddler, yearling, tot, bambino] 2: a racehorse considered one year old until the second Jan. 1 following its birth 3: an animal in its second year
  • darkling
    adj 1: uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure; "a darkling glance"; "secret operatives and darkling conspiracies"-Archibald MacLeish 2: (poetic) occurring in the dark or night; "a darkling journey"
  • trilling
    n 1: United States literary critic (1905-1975) [syn: Trilling, Lionel Trilling]
  • sparling
    n 1: common smelt of Europe [syn: European smelt, sparling] 2: the common smelt of Europe [syn: sparling, European smelt, Osmerus eperlanus]
  • carling
  • mantling
  • mcfarling
  • harling
  • marling