Words that rhyme with waiting
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aching
adj 1: causing a dull and steady pain; "my aching head"; "her old achy joints" [syn: aching, achy] n 1: a dull persistent (usually moderately intense) pain [syn: ache, aching] -
actuating
adj 1: causing motion or action or change [syn: activating(a), actuating(a)] -
adulterating
adj 1: making impure or corrupt by adding extraneous materials; "the adulterating effect of extraneous materials" [syn: adulterating, adulterant] [ant: purifying] -
aggravating
adj 1: making worse [syn: aggravating, exacerbating, exasperating] -
agitating
adj 1: causing or tending to cause anger or resentment; "a provoking delay at the airport" [syn: agitative, agitating, provoking] -
alienating
adj 1: causing hostility or loss of friendliness; "her sudden alienating aloofness" -
alternating
adj 1: (of a current) reversing direction; "alternating current" [ant: direct] 2: occurring by turns; first one and then the other; "alternating feelings of love and hate" [syn: alternate(a), alternating(a)] -
ameliorating
adj 1: tending to ameliorate [syn: ameliorating(a), ameliorative, amelioratory, meliorative] -
animating
adj 1: giving spirit and vivacity [syn: animating, enlivening] -
annihilating
adj 1: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: annihilative, annihilating, devastating, withering] 2: making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: annihilating, devastating, withering] -
annotating
n 1: the act of adding notes [syn: annotation, annotating] -
assimilating
adj 1: capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution; "an assimilative substance [syn: assimilating, assimilative, assimilatory] -
baiting
n 1: harassment especially of a tethered animal -
baking
adj 1: as hot as if in an oven [syn: baking, baking hot] n 1: making bread or cake or pastry etc. 2: cooking by dry heat in an oven -
batting
n 1: (baseball) the batter's attempt to get on base 2: stuffing made of rolls or sheets of cotton wool or synthetic fiber [syn: batting, batten] -
berating
n 1: a severe rebuke; "he deserved the berating that the coach gave him" [syn: berating, blowing up] -
breaking
n 1: the act of breaking something; "the breakage was unavoidable" [syn: breakage, break, breaking] -
calculating
adj 1: used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community" [syn: calculating, calculative, conniving, scheming, shrewd] -
captivating
adj 1: capturing interest as if by a spell; "bewitching smile"; "Roosevelt was a captivating speaker"; "enchanting music"; "an enthralling book"; "antique papers of entrancing design"; "a fascinating woman" [syn: bewitching, captivating, enchanting, enthralling, entrancing, fascinating] -
circulating
adj 1: passing from one to another; "circulating bills and coins" -
commemorating
adj 1: intended as a commemoration; "a commemorative plaque" [syn: commemorative, commemorating] -
communicating
n 1: the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow" [syn: communication, communicating] -
congregating
n 1: the act of congregating [syn: congregation, congregating] -
contaminating
adj 1: spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "the air near the foundry was always dirty"; "a dirty bomb releases enormous amounts of long-lived radioactive fallout" [syn: dirty, contaminating] [ant: clean, uncontaminating] 2: that infects or taints [syn: corrupting, contaminating] -
coordinating
adj 1: serving to connect two grammatical constituents of identical construction; "`and' in `John and Mary' or in `John walked and Mary rode' is a coordinating conjunction; and so is `or' in `will you go or stay?'" [syn: coordinating(a), coordinative] [ant: subordinating(a), subordinative] -
dating
n 1: use of chemical analysis to estimate the age of geological specimens [syn: dating, geological dating] -
debilitating
adj 1: impairing the strength and vitality [ant: invigorating] -
delegating
n 1: authorizing subordinates to make certain decisions [syn: delegating, delegation, relegating, relegation, deputation] -
denigrating
adj 1: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous] -
deprecating
adj 1: tending to diminish or disparage; "belittling comments"; "managed a deprecating smile at the compliment"; "deprecatory remarks about the book"; "a slighting remark" [syn: belittling, deprecating, deprecative, deprecatory, depreciative, depreciatory, slighting] -
depreciating
adj 1: tending to decrease or cause a decrease in value; "a depreciating currency"; "depreciatory effects on prices" [syn: depreciating, depreciative, depreciatory] -
devastating
adj 1: making light of; "afire with annihilating invective"; "a devastating portrait of human folly"; "to compliments inflated I've a withering reply"- W.S.Gilbert [syn: annihilating, devastating, withering] 2: wreaking or capable of wreaking complete destruction; "possessing annihilative power"; "a devastating hurricane"; "the guns opened a withering fire" [syn: annihilative, annihilating, devastating, withering] 3: physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination; "a crushing blow"; "a crushing rejection"; "bone-crushing" [syn: crushing, devastating] -
discriminating
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] -
dominating
adj 1: most powerful or important or influential; "the economically ascendant class"; "D-day is considered the dominating event of the war in Europe" [syn: ascendant, ascendent, dominating] 2: used of a height or viewpoint; "a commanding view of the ocean"; "looked up at the castle dominating the countryside"; "the balcony overlooking the ballroom" [syn: commanding, dominating, overlooking] 3: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner" [syn: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and- mighty, magisterial, peremptory] -
elating
adj 1: making lively and joyful [syn: elating, exhilarating] -
equating
n 1: the act of regarding as equal [syn: equation, equating] -
frustrating
adj 1: discouraging by hindering 2: preventing realization or attainment of a desire [syn: frustrating, frustrative, thwarting] -
grating
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] -
hesitating
adj 1: lacking decisiveness of character; unable to act or decide quickly or firmly [syn: hesitant, hesitating] -
making
n 1: the act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making" [syn: devising, fashioning, making] 2: an attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something; "her qualifications for the job are excellent"; "one of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree"; "she has the makings of fine musician" [syn: qualification, making] 3: (usually plural) the components needed for making or doing something; "the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake" -
mating
n 1: 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] -
motivating
adj 1: impelling to action; "it may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function"- Arthur Pap; "motive pleas"; "motivating arguments" [syn: motivative(a), motive(a), motivating] n 1: the act of motivating; providing incentive [syn: motivation, motivating] -
oscillating
adj 1: having periodic vibrations [syn: oscillatory, oscillating] -
plating
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) -
playing
n 1: the act of playing a musical instrument 2: the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation 3: the performance of a part or role in a drama [syn: acting, playing, playacting, performing] -
rating
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] -
saying
n 1: a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression" [syn: saying, expression, locution] -
skating
n 1: the sport of gliding on skates -
slating
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 -
taking
adj 1: very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality" [syn: fetching, taking, winning] n 1: the act of someone who picks up or takes something; "the pickings were easy"; "clothing could be had for the taking" [syn: pickings, taking] -
updating
n 1: the act of changing something to bring it up to date (usually by adding something); "criminal records need regular updating" -
weighting
n 1: (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance [syn: weight, weighting] -
overrating
n 1: a calculation that results in an estimate that is too high [syn: overestimate, overestimation, overrating, overreckoning] -
deregulating
n 1: the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations) [syn: deregulation, deregulating] -
adjudicating
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abating
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abbreviating
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abdicating
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abrogating
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accumulating
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adapting
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administrating
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advocating
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aerating
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affiliating
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agglutinating
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aggregating
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alleviating
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alliterating
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allocating
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amalgamating
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amputating
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annunciating
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antedating
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anticipating
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appreciating
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appropriating
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approximating
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arbitrating
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arrogating
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articulating
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aspirating
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assassinating
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associating
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attenuating
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authenticating
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automating
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awaiting
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backdating
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bating
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bifurcating
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busting
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calibrating
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castrating
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celebrating
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chasing
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chatting
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checkmating
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coagulating
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cogitating
See also waiting definition and waiting synonyms
