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Rhymes Here is a list of the words that rhyme with the word descending.This is ordered by best match. Changing color means the start of the next best set of words.
2 syllable words
4 syllable words
Near RhymesHere is a list of the words that nearly rhyme with the word descending.
2 syllable words

descend

dishing

fishing

wishing

kindling

building

printing

squinting

standing

twisting

whistling

wincing

gilding

banding

fencing

funding

glinting

landing

listing

mincing

bidding

ginning

heading

inning

kenning

missing

shedding

hissing

bedding

shredding

sledding

winning

spinning

wedding

ascends

descents

dissents

pinching

rescinds

ascend

bitching

blushing

brushing

crushing

descent

dissent

flushing

gushing

pitching

rescind

resend

ringing

singing

pushing

springing

stinging

stitching

switching

witching

wringing

handling

nestling

westling

binding

belting

blinding

grounding

dancing

heckling

bunting

cresting

founding

breasting

fixing

bonding

evening

fainting

fielding

glancing

finding

chanting

grinding

sprinkling

bounding

helping

hounding

hunting

lifting

melting

pelting

piercing

kipling

minding

painting

panting

pimping

planting

quilting

rounding

quicksands

resting

pounding

scrimping

shelving

shifting

shunting

sibling

smelting

testing

whitling

stripling

vesting

slanting

sounding

thrusting

tilting

trusting

wielding

wrestling

yielding

winding

inkling

airing

banking

beading

bearing

belling

billing

blaring

bleeding

blessing

bookends

braiding

branching

breeding

brimming

budding

bulging

burning

caning

chilling

chipping

churning

cleaning

clearing

clipping

cribbing

cunning

daring

derring

digging

dilling

dipping

draining

dressing

drilling

drinking

dripping

dwelling

earning

earring

erring

fading

feeding

fehling

feigning

filling

fitting

flaring

fledgling

fleming

flitting

flooding

franking

gadding

gearing

getting

girding

giving

glaring

grading

greening

gunning

herring

hilling

hitting

jetting

kicking

killing

knitting

lading

leading

leaning

learning

leasing

legging

lemming

licking

living

lunching

madding

meaning

milling

nanking

netting

nipping

padding

pairing

panning

paring

pegging

petting

picking

planking

pleading

pressing

pudding

quicksand

quilling

reading

resents

ribbing

rigging

running

schilling

screening

setting

shading

shearing

shelling

shilling

shipping

shrinking

sinking

sitting

skilling

skimming

slitting

smelling

sniffing

something

spanking

sparing

spelling

steering

sticking

stinking

straining

stripping

stunning

swearing

sweating

swelling

swimming

tanning

telling

thinking

thrilling

ticking

tipping

trading

training

tricking

trilling

trimming

tripping

turning

veering

wading

waning

wearing

webbing

weeding

wellspring

whipping

willing

wording

wrecking

yearning

yelling

ascent

assent

breathing

bookend

fetching

teething

clanging

flashing

judging

lashing

dumpling

resent

signet

thrashing

touching

foundling

edging

hanging

groundling

washing

crashing

stretching

banging

tempting

disowned

etching

nothing

bathing

dashing

sheathing

shoestring

boarding

boasting

angling

bouncing

buckling

casting

frosting

golding

grasping

hoarding

holding

horning

hosting

pointing

posting

pouncing

pumping

wanting

warning

wasting

weakling

daunting

jumping

basting

costing

coupling

lasting

asking

blasting

coasting

cushioned

folding

cuddling

duckling

lightning

moulding

mourning

scolding

mounting

ousting

lumping

morning

roasting

seedling

straddling

tasting

shuffling

suckling

taunting

toasting

thumping

wilding

offspring

accent

farthing

hamstring

thousandths

launching

seconds

awning

beaming

beating

biding

bleeping

boning

briefing

bracing

brooding

browning

bucking

butting

casing

ceiling

chasing

clouding

clowning

clucking

codding

coming

cooking

creaking

creeping

crooning

crossing

culling

curing

cutting

dawning

dealing

dicing

dining

drugging

drumming

dubbing

ducking

during

easing

eating

eking

facing

feeling

fining

fleeting

footing

freaking

freezing

fucking

gassing

greeting

grieving

healing

hearing

heating

heaving

hiding

hugging

humming

icing

jeering

jutting

keeling

keeping

leaking

leaping

lining

loading

loaning

looking

loving

meeting

mining

mooring

mugging

nodding

nursing

nutting

pacing

passing

peaking

pining

pleasing

plodding

plugging

plumbing

pruning

puffing

putting

racing

riding

rubbing

scheming

screaming

seating

seeling

shining

seeming

seizing

sheeting

shrouding

siding

signing

sleeping

sneaking

speaking

sneezing

sliding

squeezing

stealing

streaming

strutting

stuffing

sucking

sweeping

sweeting

swooning

teaming

teeming

tiding

tracing

tuning

tossing

trucking

twining

voiding

weaving

weeping

wheeling

rambling

sparkling

thousandth

disjoint

legends

breeching

bleaching

loosened

resound

longing

preaching

recent

decent

kismet

clothing

second

smoothing

soothing

teaching

tithing

accents

discounts

being

viscounts

fraying

laying

paying

peeing

playing

saying

swaying

praying

seeing

stirring

weighing

acting

ashamed

arming

bolting

boxing

carling

camping

carping

carving

charming

coaxing

coursing

crackling

darling

drafting

farming

faulting

forcing

forming

golfing

grafting

grappling

harping

legend

lamping

malting

marking

molting

morphing

parking

parting

rifling

rafting

romping

salting

sapling

scalping

shafting

sharking

snarling

sparling

sporting

stamping

starling

storming

tackling

vaulting

warming

starting

tamping

trifling

warling

warping

discount

docents

earthling

ignites

kismets

miscount

peasants

pheasants

thousands

vignettes

viscount

aching

ailing

baiting

baking

barring

batting

biting

blazing

backing

bagging

blocking

booting

boozing

braving

broiling

browsing

bruting

caulking

chafing

climbing

cloaking

clogging

closing

coiling

colling

combing

craving

curling

doting

doubting

dragging

driving

dropping

failing

falling

fighting

filing

blooming

boating

boiling

bolling

booming

boring

bowling

brawling

breaking

broking

burping

calling

calming

chirping

choking

chopping

clocking

coating

cocking

cooling

coping

cracking

damning

diving

docking

dueling

firing

flagging

flaming

floating

flogging

flooring

foaming

foiling

fruiting

framing

fuming

galling

gaming

glazing

gloaming

grating

grayling

grazing

grooming

grouping

grouting

having

hogging

holing

homing

hopping

housing

hurling

hurting

jailing

jarring

jerking

jogging

joking

knocking

lagging

lapping

laughing

lighting

liking

logging

looming

looping

lopping

loring

losing

mailing

making

mapping

matting

mocking

moving

musing

muting

nagging

napping

nosing

offing

oozing

outing

phasing

packing

paving

phrasing

piling

piping

plating

poking

poling

polling

pooling

popping

pouting

priming

prowling

quaking

racking

railing

raising

raking

raving

rising

roaring

rocking

rolling

roofing

rousing

ruling

regents

roving

sacking

sagging

sailing

saving

scaling

scarring

schooling

serving

shaving

shirting

shocking

shooting

shoring

scraping

sighting

sizing

skirting

slapping

slating

slighting

sloping

slotting

smacking

smoking

snapping

soaking

soaring

sobbing

sopping

sperling

spurling

stacking

stalling

mismatched

snoring

stating

staving

sterling

stocking

stooping

stopping

stowing

strapping

striking

striving

stroking

suiting

tacking

tailing

taking

talking

tooling

topping

trailing

tubing

veiling

viking

voting

waiting

waking

walking

walling

wapping

whacking

whaling

whirling

whiting

whopping

wiring

whooping

working

writing

yachting

yearling

aging

assumed

beijing

besant

birthing

catching

coaching

couching

decant

docent

hatching

ignite

latching

lignite

loathing

lodging

lucent

matching

merging

nascent

paging

patching

peasant

pheasant

piquant

plaything

purging

raging

recant

recount

scratching

searching

slouching

thousand

vignette

staging

wizened

fashioned

blowing

bowing

jacinth

regent

foxhound

blueing

bluing

brewing

buying

chewing

flying

cooing

crowing

crying

doing

frying

drawing

drying

dyeing

dying

bismuth

mismatch

flowing

glowing

going

growing

knowing

screwing

lawing

lowing

lying

mowing

owing

prying

sewing

showing

suing

throwing

tying

sighing

trying

vying

accounts

acquaint

arching

forging

marching

recounts

scorching

sequent

backhand

pageants

locksmith

agents

checkmate

magnet

account

vacant

magnate

agent

cogent

pageant

checkmates

magnates

magnets

doughnut

doughnuts

3 syllable words

cushioning

accenting

astounding

disgusting

distressing

excepting

expelling

misspelling

respecting

shipbuilding

issuing

reflecting

abounding

affecting

connecting

degrading

disarming

dissecting

concerning

disguising

exceeding

inserting

invading

misgiving

mistaking

regarding

upsetting

eccentric

asserting

becoming

crusading

befitting

deserving

blistering

bustling

crippling

designing

detailing

dividing

drizzling

emitting

fastening

governing

middling

muscling

piddling

preceding

presiding

prevailing

proceeding

reasoning

rendering

reversing

riveting

scribbling

seasoning

sizzling

sweetening

ticketing

visiting

whispering

refreshing

beholding

imprinting

bickering

glimmering

pickering

distracting

outstanding

shimmering

winnowing

compounding

confounding

disjointed

dumbfounding

exacting

expiring

exulting

mishandle

tormenting

unsparing

assuring

belonging

besieging

dissenters

machining

rejoicing

eccentrics

according

agendas

aspiring

bloodletting

bloodsucking

conceding

conserving

declining

defusing

departing

dissolving

resentment

dissenter

dressmaking

dwindling

equating

easterling

exciting

nourishing

imposing

endearing

kidnapping

withering

offsetting

recording

succeeding

reclining

typesetting

aligning

alluring

assuming

colouring

debating

delighting

divining

opening

relieving

repeating

retiring

thundering

reviving

resentful

believing

beguiling

mishandles

ballooning

battening

abiding

correcting

exploring

ensuing

entering

lightening

maddening

scavenging

juggling

surrounding

alerting

twinkling

agenda

softening

pilfering

accented

bushwhacking

centering

happening

undoing

undying

bubbling

pervading

doubling

blustering

amazing

blossoming

challenging

tinkling

blundering

traversing

adjoining

annoying

anything

arranging

attracting

backsliding

beseeching

bettering

billowing

buffeting

byzantine

canoeing

caressing

coloring

complaining

covering

dairying

echoing

enduring

fingering

finishing

frustrating

hairdressing

imploring

importing

improving

ironing

journeying

lettering

lingering

maturing

mellowing

narrowing

peppering

perplexing

pitying

polishing

ravishing

rekindle

resentments

sojourning

stuttering

suffering

tinkering

vanishing

varying

yellowing

comforting

campaigning

commuting

complying

composing

forwarding

observing

patrolling

butchering

foreboding

inviting

feathering

confiding

gardening

good-looking

parceling

pardoning

railroading

resisting

revolving

rumbling

asunder

revolting

shortening

tumbling

trumpeting

underling

amusing

approving

bookkeeping

bumbling

bundling

counseling

bullfighting

darkening

misconduct

mothering

alarming

accusing

weathering

dampening

enticing

hardening

incoming

uprising

measuring

sleepwalking

essential

housekeeping

housewarming

infighting

mismatches

mumbling

persisting

secondhand

annealing

agreeing

appalling

adoring

appealing

leavening

peddling

polluting

acquainted

leveling

provoking

conveying

locating

lumbering

pondering

engaging

arresting

meddling

settling

matchmaking

plastering

wandering

seducing

tempering

deadening

deafening

threatening

whitening

forbidding

freewheeling

paneling

reckoning

well-being

diverting

channeling

concurring

laundering

lawmaking

opining

opposing

backhanded

absorbing

completing

childbearing

enclosing

engraving

engrossing

enlisting

essentials

exhausting

existing

handwriting

increasing

inspiring

installing

insulting

investing

misanthrope

painstaking

strengthening

unyielding

battering

ignited

wrongdoing

bullying

diapering

damaging

diverging

gigantic

chattering

favoring

secondly

doddering

recently

sigmoidal

flattering

flavoring

laboring

recondite

motoring

murmuring

neighboring

neutering

offering

papering

powdering

scattering

seagoing

shadowing

smattering

soldering

surveying

tailoring

tapering

watering

enchanting

forthcoming

recommit

wagering

backbiting

blackmailing

consuming

downsizing

consoling

gathering

decreasing

emptying

badgering

erupting

fondling

lactating

nerve-racking

networking

outpouring

pronouncing

relapsing

scaffolding

surprising

trembling

typewriting

crocheting

unfailing

unfeeling

unwilling

unwitting

landscaping

interesting

bungling

converging

flowering

glowering

eavesdropping

languishing

everything

approaching

cowering

discounters

layering

lowering

marshaling

transporting

brainwashing

obliging

souring

towering

warehousing

factoring

promising

surviving

discontents

forgiving

highflying

reducing

rejoinder

faltering

profiling

landholding

ordering

ongoing

outgoing

outlying

hardworking

harvesting

afflicting

conforming

confusing

sequential

shoplifting

consulting

convincing

churchgoing

conjuring

conquering

cosmetic

fascinates

discounter

magnetic

peasantry

recommits

discontent

soldiering

dialing

arriving

carousing

following

toweling

conflicting

groundbreaking

heartbreaking

unthinking

admiring

life-giving

oncoming

outfitting

dignity

magnetics

masonite

cosmetics

decimate

fascinate

carjacking

quiescent

unflinching

abducting

acantha

baffling

bottling

broadcasting

cackling

constricting

contacting

cradling

cycling

forecasting

galloping

hyacinth

modeling

mottling

passionate

profiting

quarreling

raveling

signature

surpassing

tabling

vomiting

huguenots

vaccinate

dogmatic

carpeting

cognition

contracting

gambling

hyacinths

ignition

macintosh

mackintosh

marketing

pageantry

reagents

scrambling

signatures

carrying

copying

jockeying

thanksgiving

blanketing

huguenot

shortcoming

reagent

accountants

acquaintance

pegmatite

cocoanuts

cognitive

raconteur

accountant

magnetron

reignite

magnetite

magnitude

magnitudes

hackmatack

osmotic

4 syllable words

disappointing

disappearing

developing

disabling

disengaging

disparaging

liberating

disconcerting

petitioning

discouraging

intersecting

ascendency

dispiriting

disapproving

embarrassing

enveloping

examining

fascinating

discontinue

awakening

inheriting

partitioning

detonating

notwithstanding

understanding

fingerprinting

corresponding

unrelenting

reentering

discontented

disheartening

fecundity

speechifying

distributing

decentralize

disintegrate

legislating

merchandising

bicycling

domineering

dominating

irritating

laminating

oscillating

vacillating

mitigating

agonizing

hacienda

disinterest

mesenteric

oceangoing

parachuting

disentangle

registering

executing

pioneering

realizing

operating

moderating

overlying

devastating

misunderstand

overwhelming

maximizing

byzantium

disintegrates

disinterested

dysentery

captivating

patronizing

secondary

misinterpret

appetizing

bewildering

diagnosing

fascination

legendary

overbearing

overflowing

overlapping

suffocating

misunderstands

essentially

nonrecurring

underlying

unassuming

overruling

overrating

inquiring

overpowering

implicating

energizing

acquaintances

agitating

encouraging

secondaries

edifying

misinterprets

separating

activating

advertising

interlocking

interviewing

palpitating

penetrating

vaccination

circulating

denigrating

coexisting

aggravating

emphasizing

encircling

enlightening

entertaining

recantation

underpinning

undertaking

underwriting

mountaineering

barbecuing

waterproofing

fluctuating

fascinated

astonishing

discountable

disunity

conditioning

engineering

admonishing

inhibiting

annotating

delegating

fireproofing

hesitating

machination

obviating

unavailing

calculating

integrating

vaccinations

acquaintanceship

enterprising

centralizing

complicating

encompassing

reconnoitre

dignitaries

overarching

pagination

accentuate

everlasting

machinations

unbecoming

unbelieving

notifying

unremitting

gratifying

macintoshes

dignitary

undulating

occupying

persevering

babysitting

distinguishing

accentuates

accountable

accountancy

overhauling

diaconate

vicinity

signatories

isentropic

locomotive

signatory

dissymmetry

accommodate

decimation

passionately

overcoming

magnetism

dogmatically

accommodates

locomotion

exhumation

quasimodo

asymmetry

dosimeters

asymmetries

dogmatism

locomotor

Words that rhyme with the word descending

Welcome to the Rhyme Finder! This rhyming dictionary allows users to explore rhymes for any given word. This includes rhymes based on syllables, near rhymes, and more.


How to use the rhyming dictionary

Enter your "starter" word in the FIND RHYMES input box, and click search. It's really that simple! We separate perfect rhymes (near the top) from the imperfect rhymes (toward the bottom). In your rhyming results, colors descend based on the best rhyme. Once the color changes, you will notice the results reset back into alphabetical order. Click on any of the results for the word's definition, part of speech, use in Scrabble, and more. Please note that many of our results are proper nound or slang. While we may not store definitions for all of these words, we can direct you to the Google results for that word.


Perfect Rhymes

Perfect rhymes are just what they sound like. No pun intended! Think of perfect rhymes as words which definitively rhyme. Words that most people would not question. Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Hat
  • Head and Red
  • Egg and Beg
  • Soap and Hope
  • True and Blue

Imperfect Rhymes

Near rhymes, otherwise known as imperfect rhymes, are words that sound the same but are not perfect rhymes. Having trouble deciding if a word is a perfect or imperfect rhyme? Here are some examples:

  • Cat and Bad
  • Head and Mud
  • Egg and Peck
  • Soap and Chap
  • True and Cure

Using Rhymes

Rhymes are most useful in creating lyrics, but they can also be used as a tool to memorize. It is a powerful mnemonic device. This is why song lyrics can be so easy to remember! It's also why rhymes are a great study tool for memorizing! Use this tool to help write poetry, win rhyme games, write a rap song, create lyrics, and expand your vocabulary! Rhyming is very important in music because it creates a rhythm that further creates meaning, emotion, and feeling. It also creates an echo in the lyrics. With children, rhyming is a very important tool. Rhyming teaches children how language works, helps them understand the rhythm of language, and learn how to make predictions. In other words, rhymes teach children phrases to anticipate and rhymes enhance their memory. Within all contexts, rhyming is helpful in expanding your imagination no matter if you’re a child or an adult.

When creating lyrics, there are five types of rhymes to choose from.

  • End rhymes: rhyming of the final word of a line
  • Internal rhymes: rhyming of two words within the same line
  • Slant rhymes: near rhymes
  • Identical rhymes: use the same word at the end of each line
  • Eye rhymes: look like they rhyme but sound different

Different Types of Rhymes
  • Mascline rhymes: have a stressed syllable
  • Feminine rhymes: have a stressless syllable.

Ready for a challenge? Try to come up with rhymes for these surprising words that just aren’t very rhymy. Check them with our dictionary! Examples of tough rhymes:

  • Month
  • Silver
  • Bulb
  • Wolf
  • Husband
  • Walrus
  • Orange

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