17K+ Words That Rhyme With RIPENING

• first or beginning

• an open or empty space in or between things

• a ceremony accompanying the start of some enterprise

• becoming open or being made open

• the first performance (as of a theatrical production)

• the act of opening something

• opportunity especially for employment or promotion

• the initial part of the introduction

• a possible alternative

• an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity

• a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made

• an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship

• a recognized sequence of moves at the beginning of a game of chess

• the first of a series of actions

• a process of becoming deeper and more profound

• accumulating and becoming more intense

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• darkened by clouds

• subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter

• the act of hearing attentively

• becoming stronger

• the act of increasing the strength of something

• the act of making something slightly wet

• the act of inspiring with fear

• causing fear or dread or terror

• the act of prolonging something

• a change downward

• the process of showing signs of life

• the stage of pregnancy at which the mother first feels the movements of the fetus

• the act of accelerating; increasing the speed

• the act of making something slightly wet

• the act of waking

• make sharp or sharper

• make crisp or more crisp and precise

• become sharp or sharper

• put (an image) into focus

• make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper

• raise the pitch of (musical notes)

• give a point to

• make (one's senses) more acute

• (of fluids) moving or issuing in a stream

• of advancing the ball by running

• executed or initiated by running

• (American football) a play in which a player attempts to carry the ball through or past the opposing team

• the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace

• the state of being in operation

• the act of administering or being in charge of something

• the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track

• continually repeated over a period of time

• measured lengthwise

• (of e.g. a machine) performing or capable of performing

• descent of the uterus into the pelvic cavity that occurs late in pregnancy; the fetus is said to have dropped

• changing to a lighter color

• failing to inform or clarify

• not edifying

• not unfriendly or threatening

• an increase in width

• a part of a road that has been widened to allow cars to pass or park

• the act of making something wider

• open again or anew

• changing to a darker color

• becoming dark or darker as from waning light or clouding over

• loud enough to cause (temporary) hearing loss

• reflecting light

• fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods

• act of decreasing in length

• causing or able to cause nausea

• changing to a lighter color

• the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance

• the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill

• a request for information

• perplexed (as if being expected to know something that you do not know)

• marked by or given to doubt

• showing curiosity

• the act of waking

• the act of making something tighter

• made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)

• unrestrained by convention or propriety

• face with defiance or impudence

• dress up garishly and tastelessly

• make glad or happy

• become glad or happy

• To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject, etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).

• (obsolete except poetic) To hear (something) with attention; to have regard to (something).

• To listen; to attend or give heed to what is uttered; to hear with attention, compliance, or obedience.

• To enquire; to seek information.

• The act of one who harkens or listens.

• To make, or to become harsh; render hard and rough.

• To render peevish, morose, or austere.

• listen; used mostly in the imperative

• To make or become hoarse.

• divide or connect with a hyphen

• To give birth to kittens.

• The giving birth of kittens

• made of lead

• darkened with overcast

• made heavy or weighted down with weariness

• (of movement) slow and laborious

• lacking lightness or liveliness

• make lively