answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
answered — Simple past tense and past participle of answer.
answers — a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.: He sent an answer to my letter promptly.
crying — notorious; lamentable (esp in the phrase crying shame)
falling — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
nothing — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
running — an act or instance, or a period of running: a five-minute run before breakfast.
Three-syllable rhymes
anchoring — any of various devices dropped by a chain, cable, or rope to the bottom of a body of water for preventing or restricting the motion of a vessel or other floating object, typically having broad, hooklike arms that bury themselves in the bottom to provide a firm hold.
angering — a strong feeling of displeasure and belligerence aroused by a wrong; wrath; ire.
badgering — any of various burrowing, carnivorous mammals of the family Mustelidae, as Taxidea taxus, of North America, and Meles meles, of Europe and Asia.
bantering — teasing or facetious, or characterized by facetiousness
battering — If something takes a battering, it suffers very badly as a result of a particular event or action.
clamoring — a loud uproar, as from a crowd of people: the clamor of the crowd at the gates.
clattering — to make a loud, rattling sound, as that produced by hard objects striking rapidly one against the other: The shutters clattered in the wind.
factoring — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
flattering — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
mastering — a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something: a master of six languages; to be master of one's fate.
plastering — a composition, as of lime or gypsum, sand, water, and sometimes hair or other fiber, applied in a pasty form to walls, ceilings, etc., and allowed to harden and dry.
scattering — distributed or occurring here and there at irregular intervals; scattered.
shattering — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
smattering — slight or superficial knowledge; smattering.
spattering — to scatter or dash in small particles or drops: The dog spattered mud on everyone when he shook himself.
staggering — tending to stagger or overwhelm: a staggering amount of money required in the initial investment.
swaggering — pertaining to, characteristic of, or behaving in the manner of a person who swaggers.
tampering — to meddle, especially for the purpose of altering, damaging, or misusing (usually followed by with): Someone has been tampering with the lock.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
meandering — to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley.
unflattering — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
Four-or-more syllable rhymes
gerrymandering — U.S. Politics. the dividing of a state, county, etc., into election districts so as to give one political party a majority in many districts while concentrating the voting strength of the other party into as few districts as possible.
manufacturing — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
