Rhyme Dictionary
Rhymes with “Swelling”
/ˈswɛl.ɪŋ/
To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.
♬100 rhyming words found
🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Swelling"
50 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "swelling" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| compelling | 3 | noun | very interesting; able to capture and hold one's attention |
| dwelling | 2 | noun | A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home. |
| quelling | 2 | noun | The act by which something is quelled. |
| telling | 2 | noun | Revealing information; bearing significance. |
| expelling | 3 | noun | The process by which something is expelled. |
| foretelling | 3 | noun | prediction |
| elong | 2 | verb | (transitive, obsolete) To lengthen out; to prolong. |
| propelling | 3 | noun | An act of driving or urging onward; propulsion. |
| repelling | 3 | noun | An act by which something is repelled; repulsion. |
| yelling | 2 | noun | The act of producing a yell. |
| storytelling | 4 | noun | The act and skills of presenting stories and tales. |
| shelling | 2 | noun | An artillery bombardment. |
| celling | 2 | noun | (in combination) confinement in a cell |
| lake dwelling | 3 | noun | A prehistoric structure, built over shallow waters, such as a lake or marsh, supported on piles or artificial mounds of earth or wood. |
| fortune telling | 4 | noun | Alternative form of fortune-telling. [The act or practice of predicting the future (especially for money), as by using a crystal ball, reading palms, reading tea leaves in a cup, etc.; prediction of future events, especially those of a personal nature.] |
| paralleling | 4 | noun | A process of making or becoming figuratively parallel. |
| retelling | 3 | noun | A new, changed, or adapted version of a story. |
| spelling | 2 | noun | (uncountable) The act, practice, ability, or subject of forming words with letters, or of reading the letters of words; orthography. |
| short selling | 3 | noun | (commerce, finance) The practice of selling items or stock which one does not currently possess. |
| misspelling | 3 | noun | (uncountable) Incorrect spelling. |
| smelling | 2 | verb | The act by which something is smelled. |
| rebelling | 3 | noun | An act or feeling of rebellion. |
| well hung | 2 | Alternative form of well-hung. [(informal, vulgar) Having a large penis.] | |
| excelling | 3 | verb | (intransitive) To be much better than others. |
| dispelling | 3 | verb | (transitive) To remove (fears, doubts, objections etc.) by proving them unjustified. |
| jelling | 2 | verb | Synonym of jelly or gel. |
| helling | 2 | noun | A surname. |
| knelling | 2 | noun | The tolling of a bell. |
| quellung | 2 | noun | The swelling of the capsule of a bacterium; once used to identify the bacteria |
| rappelling | 3 | noun | A system used to descend heights with a rope. |
| overselling | 4 | Overselling or overbooking is sale of a volatile good or service in excess of actual supply. | |
| underselling | 4 | noun | The act or practice of underselling. |
| reselling | 3 | verb | To sell again. |
| single dwelling | 4 | noun | a house that stands alone |
| outselling | 3 | verb | (transitive, stative) To sell more than; to surpass in sales. |
| bestselling | 3 | Alternative spelling of best-selling. [(marketing) Highly popular with consumers purchasing goods within a specific class.] | |
| behling | 2 | noun | A surname. |
| bell hung | 2 | — | |
| belling | 2 | noun | Bellowing; the sound of a male deer during the rutting season |
| cell lung | 2 | — | |
| delling | 2 | noun | A small, deep, and wooded valley or sunken area of ground, especially in the form of a natural hollow. |
| fehling | 2 | noun | — |
| felling | 2 | noun | The act by which something is felled. |
| flewelling | 3 | noun | A surname. |
| gehling | 2 | noun | A surname from German. |
| gelling | 2 | noun | A surname. |
| hotel ling | 3 | — | |
| hsieh ling | 3 | — | |
| kelling | 2 | noun | A surname. |
| l hung | 2 | — |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Swelling"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| present | 2 | noun | Relating to now, for the time being; current. |
| presence | 2 | noun | The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand. |
| fetching | 2 | noun | Attractive; pleasant to regard. |
| overwhelming | 4 | noun | Very great or intense. |
| heaven | 2 | noun | (religion) The abode of God or the gods, traditionally conceived as beyond the sky; especially: |
| felon | 2 | noun | (criminal law) A person who has committed a felony (“serious criminal offence”); specifically, one who has been tried and convicted of such a crime. |
| pending | 2 | Awaiting a conclusion or a confirmation. | |
| flaring | 2 | noun | (oil industry) The deliberate open-air burning of natural gas that is generated as a by-product of various petrochemical processes, especially oil extraction; gas flaring. |
| second | 2 | noun | Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two. |
| melting | 2 | noun | The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point. |
| lesson | 2 | noun | A section of learning or teaching into which a wider learning content is divided. |
| spreading | 2 | noun | The act by which something is spread. |
| whelming | 2 | noun | Something that covers or submerges. |
| dressing | 2 | noun | The activity of getting dressed. |
| killing | 2 | noun | The act of killing. |
| helen | 2 | noun | (Greek mythology) The daughter of Zeus and Leda, considered to be the most beautiful woman in the world; her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. |
| welding | 2 | noun | The joining two materials (especially two metals) together by applying heat, pressure and filler, either separately or in any combination. |
| seven | 2 | noun | The digit/figure 7 or an occurrence thereof. |
| wedding | 2 | noun | A marriage ceremony; a ritual officially celebrating the beginning of a marriage. |
| pellet | 2 | noun | A small, compressed, hard chunk of matter. |
| wrestling | 2 | noun | A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points. |
| getting | 2 | noun | The act of obtaining or acquiring; acquisition. |
| wrecking | 2 | noun | The act by which something is wrecked. |
| felons | 2 | noun | (criminal law) A person who has committed a felony (“serious criminal offence”); specifically, one who has been tried and convicted of such a crime. |
| heading | 2 | noun | The title or topic of a document, article, chapter, or of a section thereof. |
| sweating | 2 | noun | The production and evaporation of a watery fluid called sweat that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. |
| checking | 2 | noun | An act whereby one checks something or someone (in any sense). |
| sharing | 2 | noun | The act by which something is shared. |
| stepping | 2 | noun | The act of taking a step. |
| bailing | 2 | noun | The act by which something is bailed. |
| spilling | 2 | noun | The act of dropping or spreading out of a fluid or particles. |
| melon | 2 | noun | (countable) The large, round to ovoid fruits that have rinds and are of such plants |
| mailing | 2 | noun | An act of sending mail. |
| detecting | 3 | noun | An act of detection. |
| dwellings | 2 | noun | A house or place in which a person lives; a habitation, a home. |
| melons | 2 | noun | (slang, in the plural) A woman's breasts. |
| welting | 2 | noun | The act of making reinforcing welts. |
| helming | 2 | noun | (nautical) The tiller (or, in a large ship, the wheel) which is used to control the rudder of a marine vessel; also, the entire steering apparatus of a vessel. |
| swellings | 2 | noun | The state of being swollen. |
| teaching reading | 4 | noun | teaching beginners to read |
| held in | 2 | — | |
| belting | 2 | noun | (music, uncountable) The act of singing in chest voice above one's vocal break in a higher range typically sung in head voice. |
| drilling | 2 | noun | The act or process of drilling. |
| ellen | 2 | noun | (theology) Strength vouchsafed; comfort; grace. |
| ferdinand magellan | 6 | The Ferdinand Magellan (also known as U.S. Car. | |
| hellen | 2 | noun | A surname. |
| magellan | 3 | noun | Ferdinand Magellan. (Portuguese explorer) |
| mellon | 2 | noun | (rare, chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link. |
| staring | 2 | noun | Looking fixedly with wide-open eyes. |
| watermelon | 4 | noun | The fruit of the watermelon plant, having a green rind and watery flesh that is typically bright red when ripe and contains black seeds. |
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