Rhyme Dictionary

Rhymes with “Shortcoming”

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♬74 rhyming words found

🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Shortcoming"

37 words

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

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
forthcoming	3	noun	Willing to co-operate or provide information; candid, frank, responsive.
coming	2	noun	The act of arriving; an arrival.
upcoming	3	noun	Happening or appearing in the relatively near future.
becoming	3	noun	pleasingly suitable; fit; congruous; beautiful
unbecoming	4	noun	Not flattering, attractive or appropriate.
humming	2	noun	Making a hum sound.
gumming	2	noun	The act of chewing without teeth.
rimming	2	noun	(informal, vulgar, slang) The act of performing a rim job; anilingus.
thrumming	2	noun	The sound or action of something that thrums.
limning	2	noun	A depiction.
drumming	2	noun	The act of beating a drum.
incoming	3	noun	Coming (or about to come) in; arriving.
oncoming	3	noun	approaching; coming closer
overcoming	4	noun	The act by which something is overcome, or surmounted.
homecoming	3	noun	The act or event of returning home.
succumbing	3	verb	(intransitive) To yield to an overpowering force or overwhelming desire.
plumbing	2	noun	The pipes, together with the joints, tanks, stopcocks, taps, and other fixtures of a water, gas, or sewage system in a house or other building.
numbing	2	noun	That numbs.
hymning	2	noun	A singing of hymns.
summing	2	noun	The act or result of addition; a sum.
mumming	2	noun	A pantomime or dumb show.
slumming	2	noun	A period of associating with people or engaging in activities with a status below one's own.
thumbing	2	noun	The act by which something is thumbed.
chumming	2	noun	(military, aviation, historical) The use of a lit aeroplane to draw enemy fire so that the enemy can be destroyed by another aeroplane whose lights are off.
bumming	2	verb	(intransitive, colloquial) To stay idle and unproductive, like a hobo or vagabond.
strumming	2	noun	The action of the verb to strum
scumming	2	noun	(video games, derogatory) The strategy of collecting easy rewards in unchallenging areas, e.g. when a high-level character visits levels suitable for low-level characters in roguelike games.
crumbing	2	verb	A small piece which breaks off from baked food (such as cake, biscuit or bread).
shimming	2	noun	(crime) The act of fraudulently copying a chip from a chip-and-pin card, such as found on credit cards and bank cards, through the use of a shimmer
plumming	2	noun	(photography) A plum-colored distortion of prints.
primming	2	verb	(transitive) To dress (one) up affectedly or demurely. [with up or out]
stumming	2		—
dumbing	2	verb	(transitive) To make stupid.
cumming	2	noun	A city, the county seat of Forsyth County, Georgia, United States.
drum hung	2		—
outcome hung	3		—
second coming	4	noun	(Christianity) The prophesied return of Jesus Christ.

🎵 Near Rhymes for "Shortcoming"

37 words

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

Word	Syllables	Type	Definition
stunning	2	noun	(informal) Exceptionally beautiful or attractive.
shortcomings	3	noun	A deficiency or falling short; failure to attain a goal or ideal.
running	2	noun	The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason.
heartening	3		Cheerfully encouraging.
sparkling	3	noun	Of a beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage, containing dissolved carbon dioxide (either naturally or that has been added) that comes out of solution in the form of many tiny bubbles.
disheartening	4		Causing a person to lose heart; making despondent or gloomy.
harnessing	3	noun	The materials used to harness an animal.
marketing	3	noun	(uncountable) The promotion, distribution and selling of a product or service; the work of a marketer; includes market research and advertising.
encircling	4	noun	enclosing, skirting
darkening	3	noun	The act of something becoming darker.
worshipping	3	noun	An act of worship.
determining	4		Determinative; causal.
forfeiting	3	noun	The act by which something is forfeited or surrendered; a giving up.
gardening	3	noun	(horticulture) The process or action of cultivating the soil, particularly in a garden; the care of a garden; horticulture.
circling	3	noun	A circular motion.
telemarketing	5	noun	The business of selling products or services by making unsolicited telephone calls to potential customers.
carpeting	3	noun	Carpet or a piece of carpet, especially when speaking of installation or removal.
harvesting	3	noun	(agriculture) The gathering of a mature crop; a harvest.
surfacing	3	noun	The act of coming above the surface.
purchasing	3	noun	An act or process of making a purchase.
parceling	3	noun	(nautical) Alternative form of parcelling. [(nautical) One of the long, narrow slips of canvas daubed with tar and wound about a rope like a bandage, before it is served; used also in mousing on the stays, etc.]
apportioning	4	noun	apportionment
targeting	3	noun	An instance of targeting.
worsening	3	noun	A worse situation; an aggravation or deterioration
burdening	3	verb	(transitive) To encumber with a literal or figurative burden.
hardening	3	noun	The process by which something hardens.
shortening	3	noun	(US, cooking) Fat that is solid at room temperature, especially hydrogenated vegetable oil (known as vegetable shortening), used to make shortcrust pastry and in deep fat frying.
marshaling	3	noun	Alternative form of marshalling. [(software) The process of transforming the memory representation of an object to a data format suitable for storage or transmission, which is typically used when data must be moved between different parts of a computer program, or from one program to another.]
landscape gardening	5	noun	The development and decoration of open spaces, especially gardens.
snorkeling	3	noun	The act of swimming using a snorkel.
hurdling	3	noun	(athletics) A track and field running event where the runners have to jump over a number of hurdles.
pardoning	3	noun	The act by which somebody is pardoned.
market gardening	5	noun	(British) The relatively small-scale growing of vegetables for market.
marveling	3	noun	Alternative form of marvelling. [The act of one who marvels; amazement.]
cornhusking	3	noun	The removal of the husk from corn (maize).
comings	2	noun	The act of arriving; an arrival.
short comings	3		—