Words that rhyme with whitening

• cunning 0
  adj 1: attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness; "a cute kid with pigtails"; "a cute little apartment"; "cunning kittens"; "a cunning baby" [syn: cunning, cute] 2: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily] 3: showing inventiveness and skill; "a clever gadget"; "the cunning maneuvers leading to his success"; "an ingenious solution to the problem" [syn: clever, cunning, ingenious] n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness] 2: crafty artfulness (especially in deception)
• enlightening 0
  adj 1: tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance; "an enlightening glimpse of government in action"; "an illuminating lecture" [syn: enlightening, informative, illuminating] [ant: unenlightening, unilluminating] 2: enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read" [syn: edifying, enlightening] [ant: unedifying, unenlightening]
• frightening 0
  adj 1: causing fear or dread or terror; "the awful war"; "an awful risk"; "dire news"; "a career or vengeance so direful that London was shocked"; "the dread presence of the headmaster"; "polio is no longer the dreaded disease it once was"; "a dreadful storm"; "a fearful howling"; "horrendous explosions shook the city"; "a terrible curse" [syn: awful, dire, direful, dread(a), dreaded, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, frightening, horrendous, horrific, terrible] n 1: the act of inspiring with fear [syn: terrorization, terrorisation, frightening]
• gardening 0
  n 1: the cultivation of plants [syn: gardening, horticulture]
• heightening 0
  adj 1: reaching a higher intensity; "their heightening fears"
• lightening 0
  n 1: descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped 2: changing to a lighter color [syn: whitening, lightening]
• lightning 0
  n 1: abrupt electric discharge from cloud to cloud or from cloud to earth accompanied by the emission of light 2: the flash of light that accompanies an electric discharge in the atmosphere (or something resembling such a flash); can scintillate for a second or more
• punning 0
  n 1: a humorous play on words; "I do it for the pun of it"; "his constant punning irritated her" [syn: pun, punning, wordplay, paronomasia]
• running 0
  adj 1: (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream; "as mountain stream with freely running water"; "hovels without running water" [ant: standing(a)] 2: continually repeated over a period of time; "a running joke among us" 3: of advancing the ball by running; "the team's running plays worked better than its pass plays" [ant: pass(a), passing(a)] 4: executed or initiated by running; "running plays worked better than pass plays"; "took a running jump"; "a running start" [ant: standing(a)] 5: measured lengthwise; "cost of lumber per running foot" [syn: linear, running(a)] 6: (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing; "in running (or working) order"; "a functional set of brakes" [syn: running(a), operative, functional, working(a)] n 1: (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team; "the defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the coach put great emphasis on running" [syn: run, running, running play, running game] 2: the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit" [syn: run, running] 3: the state of being in operation; "the engine is running smoothly" 4: the act of administering or being in charge of something; "he has responsibility for the running of two companies at the same time" 5: the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track [syn: track, running]
• shunning 0
  n 1: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening [syn: avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging]
• stunning 0
  adj 1: commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance" [syn: arresting, sensational, stunning] 2: causing great astonishment and consternation; "the strike came as a stunning protest against management"; "a stunning defeat" 3: causing or capable of causing bewilderment or shock or insensibility; "laid the poor fellow senseless with one stunning blow"; "a stunning detonation with volumes of black smoke" 4: strikingly beautiful or attractive; "quite stunning with large dark eyes and a beautiful high-bosomed figure"; "stunning photographs of Canada's wilderness areas"
• tightening 0
  n 1: the act of making something tighter; "the tightening of economic controls" [ant: laxation, loosening]
• brightening 0
• gunning 0
• sunning 0
• dunning 0

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