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Pretending [P R IY T EH N D IH NG] Alliteration | Wikipedia.com | Dictionary.com | Google.com | Images

2 Steps Apart

Pretend
Pretended

3 Steps Apart

Pending
Pretender
Rending
Tending

4 Steps Apart

Attending
Endearing
Ending
Penning
Portend
Pretended
Pretense
Reading
Reading
Readying
Redding
Rendering
Renting
Returning
Spending
Spreading

5 Steps Apart

Bending
Breeding
Dairying
Drenching
Freestanding
Greening
Greeting
Impending
Lending
Mending
Oriented
Pairing
Paring
Parting
Peddling
Petting
Pleading
Pounding
Preaching
Preceding
Predict
Prentice
Present
Pressing
Preteen
Prevent
Preventive
Preventive
Printing
Printing
Proceeding
Proceeding
Prodding
Pruning
Reckoning
Repeating
Repeating
Resounding
Retraining
Retread
Rounding
Sending
Speeding
Tearing
Tenting
Threatening
Trend
Trendy
Vending
Wrenching

6 Steps Apart

Appendage
Apprehend
Apprentice
Ascending
Attendee
Blending
Branding
Burying
Credit
Creeping
Deadening
Deafening
Deepening
Depend
Depressing
Directing
Disorienting
Draining
Dreaming
Dressing
Droning
Eddington
Editing
Editing
Emptying
Encoding
Enduring
Entering
Eroding
Expending
Ferrying
Friendship
Frightening
Grinding
Grounding
Heartening
Impeding
Impend
Inbreeding
Intend
Offending
Orient
Oriented
Painting
Panting
Parted
Peddling
Pelting
Period
Pondering
Portent
Precede
Precinct
Precinct
Predate
Predate
Predestine
Predestined
Predicate
Prelate
Prepared
Presenter
Preset
Pretension
Pretentious
Prevent
Pristine
Proceedings
Proceedings
Protecting
Protein
Protruding
Radiating
Ranting
Reasoning
Receding
Receding
Reckoning
Recounting
Regenerating
Remaining
Repeated
Repeated
Repent
Replenish
Reporting
Repressing
Reprinting
Rescind
Resent
Retailing
Retaking
Retiring
Retiring
Retrench
Returning
Rewriting
Ripening
Screening
Shortening
Sparing
Sporting
Sprouting
Standing
Staring
Sweetening
Threatening
Threateningly
Trading
Training
Treated
Unending
Unrelenting
Upstanding
Varying
Venting

7 Steps Apart

Accredit
Appendix
Apprehensive
Astounding
Bartender
Broadening
Centering
Centipede
Comprehend
Creditor
Credits
Cyprian
Cypriot
Cypriot
Dampening
Darkening
Deadening
Deafening
Defending
Demeaning
Density
Deprecating
Depreciating
Depressant
Depressed
Depressingly
Depression
Descending
Despairing
Desperate
Directing
Directing
Disorient
Dissenting
Dissenting
Distend
Drafting
Dresden
Drifting
Encrypt
Endicott
Enduring
Enticing
Erecting
Expend
Extend
Foretelling
Frenzied
Friendly
Frightening
Gardening
Groundling
Hardening
Heartening
Imparting
Importing
Impounding
Imprinting
Imprinting
Intended
Interpreting
Intrepid
Intriguing
Intruding
Meandering
Misreading
Misspend
Outpouring
Parachuting
Parakeet
Paranoid
Parisienne
Partitioning
Pedantry
Pendant
Penetrating
Peridot
Periodic
Permeating
Pestering
Pianist
Planting
Plundering
Polytechnic
Portland
Portraying
Pre-emptive
Precedent
Precept
Predator
Predetermine
Predetermined
Predict
Prediction
Predictive
Preempt
Preemptive
Prefect
Prejudice
Prescient
Present
President
Pretext
Prevailing
Preventative
Preventive
Preventive
Priesthood
Processing
Professing
Progenitor
Projecting
Prompting
Propelling
Propensity
Protean
Protean
Protected
Pyrotechnic
Readership
Readmit
Rebuilding
Recasting
Receptive
Reclining
Redeeming
Redeploy
Redskin
Reinvent
Rejected
Reordering
Repeated
Repelling
Reporting
Reprint
Resonating
Respected
Respond
Revolting
Rewarding
Ripening
Shortening
Snorting
Sparingly
Spearhead
Spellbinding
Spendthrift
Splendid
Sportingly
Spreadsheet
Sprouted
Steadiness
Straining
Streaming
Stretching
Studying
Supporting
Sweetening
Tellingly
Tempering
Tempting
Tenderly
Threatened
Threateningly
Treadmill
Trouncing
Typewriting
Unbending
Unprepared
Unreasoning
Unremitting
Unsparing
Untreated
Updating
Updating
Upsetting
Wariness

8 Steps Apart

Accenting
Accepting
Accepting
Apportioning
Appreciated
Apprehended
Apprentice
Asperity
Bennington
Breadwinner
Broadening
Carpeting
Cherrystone
Comparing
Completing
Compounding
Compressing
Conceding
Condemning
Copyrighted
Credited
Creepiness
Dampening
Darjeeling
Darjeeling
Darkening
Daydreaming
Debriefing
Decreasing
Decreasing
Decrepit
Dendritic
Denigrating
Dentistry
Departed
Departmental
Dependent
Depicting
Depleted
Depreciate
Depressive
Detecting
Detested
Direction
Directive
Disappearing
Disheartening
Disoriented
Dispensed
Dispiriting
Distressing
Empty-handed
Enchanting
Enlisting
Enterprising
Enterprising
Entertaining
Eritrean
Exporting
Expounding
Extended
Fairyland
Fermenting
Friendliness
Frighteningly
Frowningly
Gardening
Handwriting
Hardening
Hendrix
Hyperion
Imported
Impregnate
Increasing
Indexing
Inebriate
Inebriated
Ineptness
Inheriting
Inspiring
Interbred
Intrepidly
Lamenting
Life-threatening
Meatpacking
Mendacity
Misspend
Nauseating
Nearsighted
Never-ending
Outstanding
Pancreatic
Pandemic
Paramedic
Parenthood
Parodist
Partnership
Patented
Paternity
Patriotic
Patronizing
Peasantry
Pedestrian
Pediatric
Pedicure
Penitent
Pentagon
Percentage
Peregrine
Pindaric
Pirandello
Pitchblende
Pointedly
Portentous
Potemkin
Praetorian
Preadolescent
Precision
Precondition
Predatory
Predetermine
Predicament
Predicate
Predictor
Predispose
Preeminent
Preemption
Preexisting
Pregnant
Premeditate
Premeditated
Preordain
Presenter
Presently
Presidency
Prevention
Princeton
Printmaking
Probenecid
Progestin
Prophetic
Protection
Protective
Prurient
Pyrotechnics
Rancidity
Receptionist
Recounting
Red-handed
Redevelop
Rejected
Remembering
Remembering
Repairman
Repeatedly
Repellent
Reported
Reported
Represent
Represented
Represented
Repressive
Requested
Resettled
Resident
Resoundingly
Respected
Respective
Resplendent
Retreated
Serendipity
Spirited
Springfield
Springtime
Strengthened
Strengthening
Stunningly
Supported
Suspended
Technically
Tendency
Tennessean
Terrifying
Tormented
Transcend
Trembling
Tremendous
Trespassing
Trespassing
Unappealing
Unattended
Unimpaired
Unpretentious
Unprotected
Unreported
Unyielding
Venerating
Wellspring
Wrongheaded

9 Steps Apart

Accordingly
Accredited
Adrenalin
Alienating
Apparently
Appendicitis
Appreciative
Apprehensive
Apprenticed
Apprenticeship
Approvingly
Benedictine
Breathtaking
Completed
Comprehended
Comprehensive
Condensing
Conducting
Consenting
Contented
Corresponding
Creditworthy
Department
Departmental
Dependence
Dependency
Deportation
Depositary
Depositary
Depravity
Desperately
Determining
Dignitary
Directorship
Disappearing
Disappointing
Disappointing
Disheartening
Disparaging
Disparity
Dispensary
Dispensary
Distressingly
Dressmaking
Dysentery
Encrusted
Engineering
Enlightening
Entertaining
Expenditure
Expression
Extended
Geriatric
Gerrymander
Guardianship
Hairdressing
Hypertensive
Impairment
Imperative
Important
Impressionist
Impressment
Imprisoned
Imprudent
Indemnity
Indiscreet
Ineptitude
Infuriating
Inherited
Integrating
Intensity
Interesting
Interpreted
Intervening
Invariant
Iridescent
Lipoprotein
Longstanding
Menacingly
Mistreated
Orientated
Orthopedic
Outstandingly
Painstaking
Paralytic
Parasitic
Parliament
Patronized
Pediatrician
Pediatrics
Penitentiary
Periodical
Periodically
Periodontal
Periodontal
Pituitary
Planarian
Planetary
Pleasantry
Plentiful
Polyandry
Polytechnic
Potentially
Precedence
Preconceived
Predictable
Predictive
Predisposed
Preeminence
Preexist
Pregnancy
Prejudiced
Prejudicial
Premeditation
Premonition
Preparedness
Prepayment
Prerecord
Presentment
Prestigious
Presumptive
Prevalent
Preventable
Principally
Productive
Productive
Profoundly
Projected
Proletarian
Propellant
Prosthetic
Protectionist
Protectively
Protropin
Protropin
Provident
Prudential
Prudently
Punishingly
Purportedly
Recipient
Recipient
Reconciling
Rededicate
Redefinition
Redemption
Redemptive
Redeployment
Redeposition
Reflecting
Reflecting
Refreshingly
Regimented
Reintroduce
Relegating
Relentless
Repentance
Repentant
Repetition
Reportedly
Repositioning
Repossession
Represent
Represented
Represented
Reprimand
Reptilian
Requested
Residency
Respected
Restricting
Retardant
Reverberating
Shareholding
Short-winded
Splattering
Splintering
Springboard
Stupendous
Supplanting
Suppressant
Technically
Transpiring
Trembling
Tremendous
Tremendously
Trepidation
Unappreciated
Undertaking
Unfriendly
Unimpeded
Unimpressed
Unintended
Unpatriotic
Unremitting
Unsupported