Rhyme Dictionary

Rhymes with “Lighting”

/ˈlaɪtɪŋ/

To start (a fire).

♬100 rhyming words found

🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Lighting"

50 words

These words rhyme exactly with "lighting" — same ending sound.

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
exciting	3	noun	Creating or producing excitement.
inviting	3	noun	Alluring; tempting; attractive.
moonlighting	3	noun	The act of, or a period of, working on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night, either openly or secretly.
highlighting	3	noun	The visual emphasis of text by means of a highlight.
flyting	2	noun	A poetic contest of insults or invective.
writing	2	noun	(uncountable) Graphism of symbols such as letters that express some meaning.
reciting	3	noun	A recitation.
biting	2	noun	Causing a stinging sensation.
slighting	2	noun	In the manner of a slight; belittling, deprecative
uninviting	4		Not inviting, not attractive, not welcoming.
blighting	2	noun	The act by which something is blighted.
sighting	2	noun	The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for.
kiting	2	noun	(banking) The act of writing a check on an account with insufficient funds, expecting that funds will become available by the time the check clears.
uniting	3	noun	The act by which things are united; the formation of a union.
unexciting	4		Not exciting.
songwriting	3	noun	(authorship) The work of a songwriter.
handwriting	3	noun	The act or process of writing done with the hand, rather than typed or word-processed.
fighting	2	noun	The act or process of contending; violence or conflict.
skywriting	3	noun	Messages, left by leaving a trail of smoke from an airplane, that are visible from the ground.
infighting	3	noun	Fighting or quarreling among the members of a single group or side.
backbiting	3	noun	Slanderous or speaking badly, especially of a person without that person's knowledge.
knighting	2	noun	The act of making somebody a knight.
delighting	3	verb	To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
expediting	4		a concept in purchasing and project management for securing the quality and timely delivery of goods and components.
reuniting	4	noun	An act of reunion.
miting	2	noun	(obsolete, term of endearment) A little one; a mite.
screenwriting	3	noun	(uncountable) The art of writing screenplays.
scriptwriting	3	noun	The writing of scripts, usually for film or television.
white tongue	2	noun	A disease in which the tongue becomes pale due to dehydration, smoking, or alcohol consumption.
underwriting	4	noun	The act of something being underwritten financially.
bullfighting	3	noun	A traditional spectacle, popular in Spain and many former Spanish colonies, in which a matador manipulates and ultimately kills a bull at close range.
typewriting	3	noun	The act, or the skill, of using a typewriter.
firefighting	3	noun	The extinguishing of a fire.
rewriting	3	noun	The process or result of writing again; a rewrite.
righting	2	noun	The act of putting something right.
citing	2	noun	Citation.
extraditing	4	verb	(transitive) To remove a person from one state to another by legal process.
overwriting	4	verb	(transitive, computing) To destroy (older) data by recording new data over it.
picture writing	4	noun	a writing system using pictographs
igniting	3	verb	(transitive) to set fire to (something), to light (something)
indicting	3	verb	To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
plighting	2	noun	The act by which something is plighted or pledged.
siting	2	noun	The act of finding a site for something.
spiting	2	verb	(intransitive, originally US) To quarrel or argue pettily briefly.
spotlighting	3		Spotlighting or lamping (also known as jacklighting, shining, illuminating, pit-lamping, and the killing lamp) is a method of hunting nocturnal animals using off-road vehicles and high-powered lights, spotlights, lamps or flashlights, that makes special use of the eyeshine revealed by many animal species.
northern whiting	4	noun	A fish of species Sillago sihama.
silver whiting	4	noun	A southern school whiting (Sillago bassensis)
smiting	2	noun	The act of one who smites.
alphabetic writing	6	noun	a writing system based on alphabetic characters
frighting	2	noun	(arachaic) An instance of frightening; a fright;

🎵 Near Rhymes for "Lighting"

50 words

These words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
enticing	3	noun	That entices; alluring; attractive; charming
striking	2	noun	Making a strong impression.
abiding	3	noun	Continuing or persisting in the same state: lasting, enduring; steadfast.
enlighten	3	verb	(transitive, figurative) To make something clear to (someone); to give knowledge or understanding to.
frightened	2		Afraid; suffering from fear.
providing	3	noun	Something provided; a provision.
chiding	2	noun	A scolding.
rising	2	noun	The act of something that rises.
gliding	2	noun	The action or motion of something that glides.
heighten	2	verb	To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
shining	2	noun	Emitting light.
piping	2	noun	The sound of musical pipes.
trying	2	noun	Difficult to endure; arduous.
smiling	2	noun	The action of the verb to smile.
coinciding	4	noun	Act or situation by which things coincide; coincidence.
crying	2	noun	The act of one who cries; a weeping or shouting.
guiding	2	noun	Guidance.
pining	2	noun	The act of one who pines.
lightning	2	noun	A flash of light produced by short-duration, high-voltage discharge of electricity within a cloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the earth.
lighten	2	verb	(transitive) To alleviate; to reduce the burden of.
presiding	3		(law) Having authority over; vested with the authority to preside over.
flying	2	noun	That flies or can fly.
hiding	2	noun	(uncountable) A state of concealment.
sliding	2	noun	The motion of something that slides.
subsiding	3	noun	The act by which something subsides.
driving	2	noun	The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
confiding	3	noun	Having or showing confidence or trust in another person.
surviving	3		still in existence
whining	2		long and high-pitched like a whine or plaintive crying
biding	2	noun	An awaiting; expectation.
wiping	2	noun	The act by which something is wiped.
describing	3	verb	(transitive) To represent in words.
mining	2	noun	The activity of removing valuable resources (often minerals) from the earth.
tighten	2	verb	(transitive) To make tighter.
diving	2	noun	The action of the verb to dive in any sense.
brighten	2	verb	(transitive, figuratively) To make more cheerful and pleasant; to enliven
frighten	2	verb	(transitive) To cause to feel fear; to scare; to cause to feel alarm or fright.
spiking	2	noun	Associated with or causing one or more sudden sharp increases.
knifing	2	noun	An instance of stabbing with a knife.
tiding	2	noun	(archaic or literary, usually in the plural) News; new information.
transcribing	3	verb	To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to a written representation of it. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.
lining	2	noun	A covering for the inside surface of something.
riding	2	noun	The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion.
wiring	2	noun	A mass of electric wires.
deciding	3	noun	The act of making a decision.
dividing	3	noun	An act of division.
dining	2	noun	Eating dinner as a social function.
griping	2	noun	Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; gripe.
hiking	2	noun	Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport.
residing	3	verb	To dwell permanently or for a considerable time; to have a settled abode for a time; to remain for a long time.

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