🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Holding"
22 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "holding" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| scolding | 2 | noun | An unloving succession of critical remarks, such as those directed by a parent towards a misbehaving child; an earful; dressing down. |
| withholding | 3 | noun | The deduction of taxes from an employee's salary. |
| molding | 2 | noun | The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder. |
| upholding | 3 | noun | The act by which something is upheld. |
| unfolding | 3 | noun | (often figuratively) The process by which something unfolds or becomes revealed. |
| beholding | 3 | noun | The act by which something is beheld; regard; contemplation. |
| handholding | 3 | noun | Holding hands. |
| folding | 2 | noun | The action of folding; a fold. |
| shareholding | 3 | noun | Owning shares. |
| landholding | 3 | noun | The state or practice of owning land. |
| moulding | 2 | noun | (British spelling) Alternative spelling of molding. [The act or process of shaping in or on a mold, or of making molds; the art or occupation of a molder.] |
| golding | 2 | noun | A surname. |
| stockholding | 3 | noun | (finance) An ownership interest in one or more companies' stock. |
| quirk molding | 3 | noun | a molding having a small groove in it |
| quirk moulding | 3 | noun | a molding having a small groove in it |
| underwithholding | 5 | verb | (finance) To withhold an inadequate amount of tax for an employee etc., leaving a liability to pay the rest at a later stage. |
| bankholding | 3 | noun | — |
| bolding | 2 | noun | The process of putting text in boldface. |
| gold hung | 2 | — | |
| hold ing | 2 | (transitive) To grasp or grip. | |
| kolding | 2 | noun | A port town and municipality of the Southern Denmark region, Denmark. |
| shipholding | 3 | owning a ship or ships |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Holding"
49 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| foreboding | 3 | noun | A sense of evil to come. |
| revolting | 3 | noun | repulsive, disgusting |
| golden | 2 | noun | Made of, or relating to, gold. |
| consoling | 3 | noun | Reducing grief, sorrow, or disappointment; comforting. |
| strolling | 2 | noun | The taking of a stroll. |
| jolting | 2 | Causing or characterized by sudden abrupt movements. | |
| closing | 2 | noun | The act by which something is closed. |
| beholden | 3 | (usually with 'to') Obligated to provide, display, or do something for another; indebted, obliged for a bounden duty. | |
| glowing | 2 | noun | That glows or glow. |
| hoping | 2 | (rare) Filled with or inspiring hope. | |
| choking | 2 | noun | The process in which a person's airway becomes blocked, resulting in asphyxia in cases that are not treated promptly. |
| flowing | 2 | noun | Moving, proceeding or shaped smoothly, gracefully, or continuously. |
| controlling | 3 | noun | The act of exerting control. |
| boding | 2 | foreboding, ominous, portending. | |
| growing | 2 | noun | growth; increase |
| embolden | 3 | verb | To render (someone) bolder or more courageous; to encourage, to hearten. |
| smoking | 2 | noun | (usually) The burning and inhalation of tobacco. |
| swollen | 2 | Protuberant or abnormally distended (as by injury or disease). | |
| clothing | 2 | noun | Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to preserve modesty, or for fashion. |
| blowing | 2 | noun | The act of one who blows, or that which blows. |
| exploding | 3 | noun | (figurative) Having the appearance of an explosion. |
| tolling | 2 | noun | The act by which a bell is tolled. |
| rolling | 2 | noun | Moving by turning over and over about an axis. |
| molting | 2 | noun | A molt; the shedding of skin, feathers, etc. |
| eroding | 3 | noun | (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it) |
| coding | 2 | noun | The process of writing computer software code. |
| polling | 2 | noun | (politics, uncountable) the process of voting in an election. |
| bolting | 2 | noun | An act of bolting or running away. |
| hold in | 2 | verb | (transitive) To keep something to oneself; to prevent from escaping. |
| patrolling | 3 | noun | The act of going on patrol. |
| imploding | 3 | verb | (intransitive) To collapse or burst inward violently. |
| molden | 2 | noun | A surname. |
| loading | 2 | noun | (countable, uncountable) The process by which something is loaded. |
| bowling | 2 | noun | A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; tenpin bowling/fivepin bowling |
| stolen | 2 | noun | That has been stolen. |
| trolling | 2 | noun | The act of one who trolls (in various senses of provoking others). |
| overloading | 4 | noun | (object-oriented programming) A type of polymorphism, where different functions, operators or variables with the same name are invoked based on the data types of the parameters passed. |
| holing | 2 | noun | (mining) undercutting in a bed of coal in order to bring down the upper mass. |
| coaling | 2 | noun | The supplying of a ship or steam locomotive with coal. |
| colden | 2 | verb | (Scotland, ambitransitive, sometimes figurative) To grow or make cold. |
| rolled in | 2 | — | |
| bolden | 2 | noun | (transitive, obsolete except UK, dialectal) Synonym of embolden (“To render (someone) bolder or more courageous”). |
| boldin | 2 | noun | A surname. |
| holden | 2 | noun | A male given name transferred from the surname. |
| holdings | 2 | noun | Something that one owns, especially stocks and bonds. |
| olden | 2 | noun | From or relating to a previous era. |
| poling | 2 | noun | The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles. |
| roling | 2 | noun | A surname. |
| stay golden | 3 | — |
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