Words that rhyme with unrevealing

  • appealing
    adj 1: able to attract interest or draw favorable attention; "He added an appealing and memorable figure to popular American mythology"- Vincent Starrett; "an appealing sense of humor"; "the idea of having enough money to retire at fifty is very appealing" [ant: unappealing] 2: (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play" [syn: sympathetic, appealing, likeable, likable] [ant: unappealing, unlikable, unlikeable, unsympathetic]
  • babbling
    n 1: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: babble, babbling, lallation]
  • brambling
    n 1: Eurasian finch [syn: brambling, Fringilla montifringilla]
  • brisling
    n 1: small fatty European fish; usually smoked or canned like sardines [syn: sprat, brisling] 2: small herring processed like a sardine [syn: brisling, sprat, Clupea sprattus]
  • calling
    n 1: the particular occupation for which you are trained [syn: career, calling, vocation]
  • ceiling
    n 1: the overhead upper surface of a covered space; "he hated painting the ceiling" 2: (meteorology) altitude of the lowest layer of clouds 3: an upper limit on what is allowed; "he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him"; "there was a roof on salaries"; "they established a cap for prices" [syn: ceiling, roof, cap] 4: maximum altitude at which a plane can fly (under specified conditions)
  • changeling
    n 1: a person of subnormal intelligence [syn: idiot, imbecile, cretin, moron, changeling, half-wit, retard] 2: a child secretly exchanged for another in infancy
  • cooling
    n 1: the process of becoming cooler; a falling temperature [syn: cooling, chilling, temperature reduction] 2: a mechanism for keeping something cool; "the cooling was overhead fans" [syn: cooling system, cooling]
  • coupling
    n 1: a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together [syn: yoke, coupling] 2: a mechanical device that serves to connect the ends of adjacent objects [syn: coupling, coupler] 3: the act of pairing a male and female for reproductive purposes; "the casual couplings of adolescents"; "the mating of some species occurs only in the spring" [syn: coupling, mating, pairing, conjugation, union, sexual union]
  • cowling
    n 1: protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine" [syn: hood, bonnet, cowl, cowling]
  • crackling
    n 1: the residue that remains after animal fat has been rendered [syn: greaves, crackling] 2: the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackle, crackling, crepitation]
  • 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]
  • dumpling
    n 1: small balls or strips of boiled or steamed dough [syn: dumpling, dumplings] 2: dessert made by baking fruit wrapped in pastry
  • dwelling
    n 1: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house]
  • earthling
    n 1: an inhabitant of the earth [syn: tellurian, earthling, earthman, worldling]
  • failing
    adj 1: below acceptable in performance; "received failing grades" n 1: a flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings" [syn: failing, weakness] 2: failure to reach a minimum required performance; "his failing the course led to his disqualification"; "he got two flunks on his report" [syn: failing, flunk] [ant: pass, passing, qualifying]
  • feeling
    n 1: the experiencing of affective and emotional states; "she had a feeling of euphoria"; "he had terrible feelings of guilt"; "I disliked him and the feeling was mutual" 2: a vague idea in which some confidence is placed; "his impression of her was favorable"; "what are your feelings about the crisis?"; "it strengthened my belief in his sincerity"; "I had a feeling that she was lying" [syn: impression, feeling, belief, notion, opinion] 3: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell] 4: a physical sensation that you experience; "he had a queasy feeling"; "I had a strange feeling in my leg"; "he lost all feeling in his arm" 5: the sensation produced by pressure receptors in the skin; "she likes the touch of silk on her skin"; "the surface had a greasy feeling" [syn: touch, touch sensation, tactual sensation, tactile sensation, feeling] 6: an intuitive understanding of something; "he had a great feeling for music" [syn: feeling, intuitive feeling]
  • filing
    n 1: the entering of a legal document into the public record; "he filed a complaint"; "he filed his tax return" 2: a fragment rubbed off by the use of a file 3: the act of using a file (as in shaping or smoothing an object) 4: preservation and methodical arrangement as of documents and papers etc.; "I have some filing to do"
  • filling
    n 1: any material that fills a space or container; "there was not enough fill for the trench" [syn: filling, fill] 2: flow into something (as a container) 3: a food mixture used to fill pastry or sandwiches etc. 4: the yarn woven across the warp yarn in weaving [syn: woof, weft, filling, pick] 5: (dentistry) a dental appliance consisting of any of various substances (as metal or plastic) inserted into a prepared cavity in a tooth; "when he yawned I could see the gold fillings in his teeth"; "an informal British term for `filling' is `stopping'" 6: the act of filling something
  • fingerling
    n 1: a young or small fish
  • fledgling
    adj 1: (of a young bird) having acquired its flight feathers; "a fledgling robin" [syn: fledgling(a), fledgeling(a)] 2: young and inexperienced; "a fledgling enterprise"; "a fledgling skier"; "an unfledged lawyer" [syn: fledgling, unfledged, callow] n 1: any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant] 2: young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying [syn: fledgling, fledgeling]
  • fooling
    adj 1: characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter" [syn: fooling, casual]
  • fosterling
    n 1: a child who is raised by foster parents [syn: foster- child, foster child, fosterling]
  • foundling
    n 1: a child who has been abandoned and whose parents are unknown [syn: foundling, abandoned infant]
  • gangling
    adj 1: tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man" [syn: gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy] 2: tall and thin [syn: gangling, gangly, lanky]
  • gatling
    n 1: United States inventor of the first rapid firing gun (1818-1903) [syn: Gatling, Richard Jordan Gatling]
  • gosling
    n 1: young goose
  • grilling
    n 1: cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) [syn: broil, broiling, grilling]
  • groundling
    n 1: in Elizabethan theater: a playgoer in the cheap standing section
  • gruelling
    adj 1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]
  • grumbling
    adj 1: continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound; "the rumbling rolling sound of thunder" [syn: grumbling, rumbling] n 1: a loud low dull continuous noise; "they heard the rumbling of thunder" [syn: rumble, rumbling, grumble, grumbling] 2: a complaint uttered in a low and indistinct tone [syn: grumble, grumbling, murmur, murmuring, mutter, muttering]
  • hatchling
    n 1: any recently hatched animal (especially birds)
  • hireling
    n 1: a person who works only for money [syn: hireling, pensionary]
  • inkling
    n 1: a slight suggestion or vague understanding; "he had no inkling what was about to happen" [syn: inkling, intimation, glimmering, glimmer]
  • killing
    adj 1: very funny; "a killing joke"; "sidesplitting antics" [syn: killing, sidesplitting] n 1: an event that causes someone to die [syn: killing, violent death] 2: the act of terminating a life [syn: killing, kill, putting to death] 3: a very large profit [syn: killing, cleanup]
  • kindling
    n 1: material for starting a fire [syn: kindling, tinder, touchwood, spunk, punk] 2: the act of setting something on fire [syn: ignition, firing, lighting, kindling, inflammation]
  • mailing
    n 1: mail sent by a sender at one time; "the candidate sent out three large mailings" 2: the transmission of a letter; "the postmark indicates the time of mailing" [syn: mailing, posting]
  • 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)
  • misspelling
    n 1: a spelling that is incorrect
  • mumbling
    n 1: indistinct enunciation 2: ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) [syn: mumbling, gumming]
  • 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
  • rambling
    adj 1: spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly] 2: (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects; "amusingly digressive with satirical thrusts at women's fashions among other things"; "a rambling discursive book"; "his excursive remarks"; "a rambling speech about this and that" [syn: digressive, discursive, excursive, rambling] 3: of a path e.g.; "meandering streams"; "rambling forest paths"; "the river followed its wandering course"; "a winding country road" [syn: meandering(a), rambling, wandering(a), winding]
  • rattling
    adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling] adj 1: extraordinarily good or great ; used especially as intensifiers; "a fantastic trip to the Orient"; "the film was fantastic!"; "a howling success"; "a marvelous collection of rare books"; "had a rattling conversation about politics"; "a tremendous achievement" [syn: fantastic, grand, howling(a), marvelous, marvellous, rattling(a), terrific, tremendous, wonderful, wondrous] 2: quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy] n 1: a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle" [syn: rattle, rattling, rale]
  • revealing
    adj 1: disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down" [syn: revealing, telling, telltale(a)] 2: showing or making known; "her dress was scanty and revealing" [ant: concealing] n 1: the speech act of making something evident [syn: disclosure, revelation, revealing]
  • rifling
    n 1: the cutting of spiral grooves on the inside of the barrel of a firearm [syn: grooving, rifling]
  • 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]
  • rumbling
    adj 1: continuous full and low-pitched throbbing sound; "the rumbling rolling sound of thunder" [syn: grumbling, rumbling] n 1: a loud low dull continuous noise; "they heard the rumbling of thunder" [syn: rumble, rumbling, grumble, grumbling]
  • 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
  • scantling
    n 1: an upright in house framing [syn: scantling, stud]
  • schilling
    n 1: formerly the basic unit of money in Austria [syn: schilling, Austrian schilling]
  • schooling
    n 1: the act of teaching at school 2: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: school, schooling] 3: the training of an animal (especially the training of a horse for dressage)
  • seedling
    n 1: young plant or tree grown from a seed
  • shilling
    n 1: the basic unit of money in Uganda; equal to 100 cents [syn: Ugandan shilling, shilling] 2: the basic unit of money in Tanzania; equal to 100 cents [syn: Tanzanian shilling, shilling] 3: the basic unit of money in Somalia; equal to 100 cents [syn: Somalian shilling, shilling] 4: the basic unit of money in Kenya; equal to 100 cents [syn: Kenyan shilling, shilling] 5: a former monetary unit in Great Britain [syn: British shilling, shilling, bob] 6: an English coin worth one twentieth of a pound
  • shuffling
    n 1: walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" [syn: shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling] 2: the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: shuffle, shuffling, make]
  • sibling
    n 1: a person's brother or sister [syn: sibling, sib]
  • spelling
    n 1: forming words with letters according to the principles underlying accepted usage
  • sprinkling
    n 1: a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly; "the first scatterings of green"; "a sprinkling of grey at his temples" [syn: scattering, sprinkling] 2: a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby [syn: scattering, sprinkle, sprinkling] 3: the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: aspersion, sprinkling] 4: the act of sprinkling or splashing water; "baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over the malt" [syn: sprinkle, sprinkling, sparge]
  • starling
    n 1: gregarious birds native to the Old World
  • starveling
    n 1: someone who is starving (or being starved)
  • strangling
    n 1: the act of suffocating (someone) by constricting the windpipe; "no evidence that the choking was done by the accused" [syn: choking, strangling, strangulation, throttling]
  • 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]
  • swashbuckling
    adj 1: flamboyantly adventurous [syn: swaggering, swashbuckling] n 1: flamboyantly reckless and boastful behavior
  • 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]
  • tailing
    n 1: the act of following someone secretly [syn: shadowing, tailing]
  • telling
    adj 1: disclosing unintentionally; "a telling smile"; "a telltale panel of lights"; "a telltale patch of oil on the water marked where the boat went down" [syn: revealing, telling, telltale(a)] 2: powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument" [syn: cogent, telling, weighty] 3: producing a strong effect; "gave an impressive performance as Othello"; "a telling gesture" [syn: impressive, telling] n 1: an act of narration; "he was the hero according to his own relation"; "his endless recounting of the incident eventually became unbearable" [syn: relation, telling, recounting] 2: informing by words [syn: telling, apprisal, notification] 3: disclosing information or giving evidence about another [syn: tattle, singing, telling]
  • tiling
    n 1: the application of tiles to cover a surface
  • tinkling
    adj 1: like the short high ringing sound of a small bell; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal" [syn: tinkling, tinkly]
  • towelling
    n 1: any of various fabrics (linen or cotton) used to make towels [syn: toweling, towelling]
  • trembling
    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]
  • unappealing
    adj 1: (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings; "all the characters were peculiarly unsympathetic" [syn: unsympathetic, unappealing, unlikeable, unlikable] [ant: appealing, likable, likeable, sympathetic] 2: not able to attract favorable attention; "they have made the place as unappealing as possible"; "was forced to talk to his singularly unappealing hostess" [ant: appealing]
  • unavailing
    adj 1: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing]
  • underling
    n 1: an assistant subject to the authority or control of another [syn: subordinate, subsidiary, underling, foot soldier]
  • unfailing
    adj 1: not liable to failure; "a foolproof identification system"; "the unfailing sign of an amateur"; "an unfailing test" [syn: foolproof, unfailing] 2: always able to supply more; "an unfailing source of good stories"; "a subject of unfailing interest" 3: unceasing; "unfailing loyalty"; "unfailing good spirits"; "unflagging courtesy" [syn: unfailing, unflagging]
  • unfeeling
    adj 1: devoid of feeling for others; "an unfeeling wretch" [syn: hardhearted, stonyhearted, unfeeling] 2: devoid of feeling or sensation; "unfeeling trees"
  • unsmiling
    adj 1: not smiling
  • unwilling
    adj 1: not disposed or inclined toward; "an unwilling assistant"; "unwilling to face facts" [ant: willing] 2: in spite of contrary volition
  • 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]
  • weakling
    n 1: a person who is physically weak and ineffectual [syn: weakling, doormat, wuss]
  • wheeling
    n 1: a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river 2: propelling something on wheels [syn: wheeling, rolling]
  • willing
    adj 1: disposed or inclined toward; "a willing participant"; "willing helpers" [ant: unwilling] 2: not brought about by coercion or force; "the confession was uncoerced" [syn: uncoerced, unforced, willing] n 1: the act of making a choice; "followed my father of my own volition" [syn: volition, willing]
  • wrangling
    n 1: an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling]
  • 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"
  • fueling
    n 1: the activity of supplying or taking on fuel [syn: fueling, refueling]
  • grueling
    adj 1: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort; "worked their arduous way up the mining valley"; "a grueling campaign"; "hard labor"; "heavy work"; "heavy going"; "spent many laborious hours on the project"; "set a punishing pace" [syn: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, punishing, toilsome]

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