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Shortening [SH AO R T AH N IH NG] Alliteration | Wikipedia.com | Dictionary.com | Google.com | Images

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Shortening

2 Steps Apart

Shorten

3 Steps Apart

Running
Shoring
Shortcoming
Shortened
Shunning

4 Steps Apart

Apportioning
Courting
Frightening
Heartening
Morning
Mortician
Morton
Mourning
Rationing
Rationing
Rushing
Shorn
Short
Shortage
Shortage
Shortness
Shutting
Snorting
Sorting
Stunning
Threatening
Torsion
Warning
Wharton
Written

5 Steps Apart

Adoring
Annoying
Aorta
Ashton
Assuring
Austin
Boring
Boughten
Broadening
Brushing
Bunting
Cornish
Cotton
Crushing
Cunning
Cushioning
Daunting
Dawning
Fashioning
Fattening
Fawning
Foreign
Frightening
Goring
Haunting
Heartening
Heightening
Hornet
Horta
Houghton
Hunting
Inshore
Ironing
Laughton
Lawton
Lightening
Loren
Offering
Often
Oration
Organ
Orion
Orphan
Partitioning
Porta
Portion
Pouring
Raining
Ranting
Rating
Rationing
Rattling
Reasoning
Reckoning
Refining
Reigning
Renting
Returning
Returning
Rioting
Ripening
Roaring
Rooting
Rotting
Rubbing
Rusting
Sharing
Shearing
Sheeting
Sheraton
Shining
Shirting
Shitting
Shooting
Shortcut
Shorts
Shouting
Shrink
Snoring
Soaring
Softening
Sporting
Supporting
Tanning
Taunting
Thornton
Threatening
Thwarting
Tightening
Titian
Torrent
Torreon
Touching
Training
Trucking
Tuning
Turning
Warrant
Warren
Warring
Washington
Writing
Yawning

6 Steps Apart

Abortion
Abortionist
Abortive
According
Accounting
Accounting
Aligning
Altering
Annealing
Aortic
Apportion
Arlington
Assigning
Assorted
Attending
Attrition
Auctioneer
Austrian
Autonomic
Awarding
Boarding
Boston
Broadening
Browning
Carting
Chagrin
Charlatan
Chevron
Chortle
Christening
Coordinating
Cordon
Corinth
Corking
Coroner
Coronet
Cortisone
Cortland
Costing
Coursing
Crooning
Crowning
Cushioning
Dalton
Darkening
Distortion
Dorian
Dormant
Dortmund
Draining
Droning
Drubbing
Drugging
Drumming
Farting
Fattening
Faulting
Flooring
Foreigner
Foreman
Forerunner
Foretelling
Forewing
Forging
Forgotten
Forint
Forking
Fortuna
Fortune
Fourteen
Fourteen
Frighteningly
Frosting
Frowning
Fruiting
Funding
Gardening
Georgian
Gorgon
Grating
Greening
Greeting
Grinning
Grudging
Halting
Hardening
Heightening
Hoarding
Horrifying
Horseshit
Immortal
Importance
Important
Importation
Importing
Inordinate
Irritation
Korean
Launching
Laurens
Lawrence
Lightning
Lunching
Mordant
Morgan
Morgen
Mormon
Morrison
Mortal
Norman
Normative
Oarsman
Oceangoing
Oftener
Oncoming
Ongoing
Opening
Orangutan
Orangutan
Ordering
Oregon
Oregon
Organs
Orphaned
Ortega
Outpouring
Parting
Partition
Portage
Portal
Portland
Portraying
Printing
Printing
Pruning
Punished
Punishing
Ranching
Ranging
Rattling
Reckoning
Rending
Renewing
Reporting
Reporting
Resonating
Retraining
Rhetorician
Rinsing
Ripening
Riveting
Roasting
Rotation
Rounding
Ruining
Rustling
Salting
Scoring
Sharpen
Shattering
Sheridan
Shifting
Shoehorn
Shoestring
Shoreline
Short-lived
Short-winded
Shorthand
Shortly
Shotgun
Shrieking
Shrunken
Shuddering
Shuffling
Snorkeling
Softening
Sorted
Staining
Stiffening
Stoning
Straining
Stuffing
Stunningly
Sweetening
Tarnish
Tending
Tenting
Threateningly
Throttling
Thrusting
Tightening
Tortilla
Tortoise
Torturing
Toweling
Troubling
Trouncing
Trusting
Uncaring
Undoing
Undying
Unknowing
Unnerving
Unwitting
Vaulting
Walton
Wanton
Warden
Warming
Warping
Warranty
Washington
Watering
Whitening
Wrenching
Writings

7 Steps Apart

Abhorrent
Abounding
Absorbing
Aeronautics
Alteration
Alternating
Apportioned
Argonaut
Ascending
Assortment
Assurance
Astonish
Astonishing
Astounding
Automation
Autumnal
Ballooning
Berating
Branching
Branding
Bundling
Buttressing
Carpeting
Cauldron
Cetacean
Chagrined
Chlorinate
Christening
Cocooning
Commissioning
Concurring
Conforming
Consort
Contort
Contortion
Contras
Controlling
Cormorant
Cornhusking
Corresponding
Cringing
Darkening
Deadening
Deafening
Deepening
Deportation
Determining
Disheartening
Drafting
Drenching
Drifting
Eddington
Efficient
Ellington
Enlightening
Enormity
Enormous
Erecting
Erection
Eruption
Exhortation
Exporting
Extortion
Faltering
Farmington
Fastening
Florence
Foraging
Forbidden
Forecasting
Forefront
Foregoing
Forestalling
Forewarning
Forgoing
Formation
Formative
Forthcoming
Fortieth
Fortify
Fortnight
Fortress
Fortunate
Fourteenth
Fourteenth
Friction
Fruition
Functioning
Gardening
Georgetown
Gordian
Grafting
Gratifying
Grinding
Grounding
Groveling
Happening
Hardening
Historian
Homonym
Hornbill
Horseman
Horsemanship
Informant
Informing
Inheriting
Insurance
Integrating
Irishman
Irritating
Iteration
Kingston
Koranic
Krypton
Lamenting
Laundering
Lessening
Likening
Listening
Loosening
Lorentz
Maddening
Marchioness
Marketing
Mauritania
Mauritania
Mauritius
Moralist
Moralizing
Mormons
Morristown
Mortally
Mortify
Mortimer
Mottling
Nauseating
Nutrition
Offending
Offspring
Operating
Optician
Orbital
Ordnance
Oregano
Organic
Organism
Organist
Organize
Oriental
Orientated
Orientation
Oriented
Oriented
Orinoco
Ornament
Orpiment
Orthodontic
Parachuting
Patrician
Patronizing
Petition
Poisoning
Portend
Portent
Portico
Portrait
Positioning
Pretending
Quarrying
Quartile
Raveling
Reassuring
Recession
Recission
Recording
Recounting
Recounting
Refining
Regaining
Reiteration
Remaining
Remaining
Remission
Rendering
Repeating
Repeating
Repelling
Repetition
Reported
Reshuffling
Retailing
Retaking
Retention
Retinol
Retiring
Retiring
Retiring
Reverting
Rewriting
Right-winger
Rippling
Rumbling
Sanctioning
Scorching
Screening
Scrubbing
Seasoning
Settling
Sharpened
Shetland
Shipment
Shopworn
Short-term
Shortcake
Shortfall
Shortsighted
Shrinkage
Shrinking
Shuffling
Sickening
Smarting
Sorensen
Sportingly
Sportsmanship
Sprouting
Standing
Starting
Stiffening
Strengthening
Struggling
Studying
Stumping
Subordinating
Summoning
Supported
Supportive
Sweetening
Terrifying
Thickening
Thorndike
Threateningly
Throttling
Thundering
Thwarted
Thwarted
Torrential
Traction
Tradition
Traveling
Travelling
Trinket
Tripling
Troubling
Tuition
Unceasing
Underling
Unending
Unfailing
Unfeeling
Unloading
Unreasoning
Unremitting
Unremitting
Unsparing
Untangling
Unwarranted
Unwilling
Vacationing
Varnished
Victorian
Walloping
Waterman
Weakening
Whitening
Whitening
Widening
Wondering
Worsening
Wrestling

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Abhorrence
Absorption
Absorption
Accordance
Accordingly
Accordion
Adornment
Aggravating
Agincourt
Agonizing
Alienating
Alternation
Alternative
Annihilating
Annotating
Annotating
Arbitration
Artificial
Astonished
Attraction
Autocratic
Automated
Automatic
Automaton
Automotive
Autotrophic
Awakening
Balancing
Bargaining
Beautician
Bennington
Blackening
Brainwashing
Bundling
Burlington
Cauterization
Cautionary
Chairmanship
Chandelier
Charlemagne
Charlottetown
Chlorophyll
Cistercian
Combining
Commanding
Concealing
Conceding
Condemning
Conditioning
Conducting
Confining
Confirming
Consenting
Consenting
Consoling
Constraining
Consuming
Contorted
Contrasting
Contrition
Convening
Coordinated
Corncrib
Coronary
Coronation
Corp
Corporation
Correlation
Corsican
Cortical
Cortisol
Crippling
Crustacean
Cunningham
Deficient
Deforest
Deforestation
Dentition
Deportment
Depression
Detection
Detention
Dictation
Dietician
Dietitian
Directing
Directing
Directing
Discordant
Disheartening
Disorienting
Distorted
Dominating
Domineering
Dormancy
Dribbling
Drizzling
Electioneer
Electioneering
Engineering
Enormity
Entertaining
Erudition
Exalting
Exhausting
Exorbitant
Extinction
Extortionist
Fascinating
Filtration
Financing
Florentine
Foreboding
Forefinger
Forensic
Foreshadowing
Forested
Forfeited
Forgiving
Forsaking
Fortified
Fortitude
Fortuitous
Fortunate
Forwarding
Freestanding
Frostbitten
Frowningly
Geronimo
Glistening
Grappling
Gravitation
Groundling
Grudgingly
Grumbling
Guarantor
Gunslinger
Haltingly
Handwriting
Harvesting
Heretofore
Imitation
Imparting
Impatient
Imploring
Importantly
Imported
Impression
Imprinting
Imprinting
Inaugurate
Informal
Information
Informative
Injunction
Inpatient
Installing
Insulting
Integrating
Interesting
Intriguing
Intruding
Intuition
Irrational
Irrigation
Lengthening
Life-threatening
Lincolnshire
Longstanding
Martingale
Minority
Minority
Missionary
Monitoring
Morgantown
Moribund
Mormonism
Mortification
Nestorian
Normandie
Normandy
Northampton
Notorious
Nourishment
Nutritious
Oceanfront
Officiating
Omniscient
Orchestra
Orchestration
Ordinance
Ordinary
Ordination
Organisation
Organismic
Organized
Organizer
Orthodontics
Orwellian
Overrating
Parceling
Partisanship
Partnership
Pejorative
Penetrating
Performing
Petitioner
Plundering
Porcelain
Portable
Portentous
Portrayal
Portsmouth
Practitioner
Praetorian
Precaution
Pretension
Proceeding
Professing
Proficient
Promising
Prompting
Propelling
Proportion
Protecting
Protection
Provoking
Puerto_Rican
Punishingly
Quarantine
Quickening
Radiating
Rambling
Ransacking
Rationality
Reassuringly
Recasting
Reception
Recitation
Reclining
Reclining
Reconciling
Recording
Recovering
Recovering
Redemption
Reduction
Reflecting
Rejection
Relegating
Rendition
Reordering
Reportage
Reported
Repositioning
Reprinting
Reshuffling
Resounding
Restitution
Restoration
Restriction
Resumption
Retraction
Revolting
Revulsion
Rewarding
Rewarding
Rotational
Rumbling
Scorpion
Shamanism
Shortgrass
Shortsightedness
Shortstop
Shostakovich
Showmanship
Shreveport
Skywriting
Slackening
Spiraling
Splattering
Startling
Stifling
Stillborn
Stonewalling
Strengthen
Struggling
Sufficient
Supplanting
Supported
Tactician
Tantalizing
Technician
Tingling
Tinkling
Tormented
Transition
Trembling
Trespassing
Truncation
Tumbling
Typewriting
Unappealing
Unassuming
Unavailing
Unbending
Unchanging
Uncovering
Undaunted
Underlying
Undertaking
Unexciting
Unfinished
Unflagging
Unflattering
Unfolding
Unimportant
Uninsured
Uninviting
Unknowingly
Unpromising
Unpunished
Unrelenting
Unreported
Unsmiling
Unstinting
Unsupported
Unswerving
Unthinking
Unvarnished
Unwanted
Unwittingly
Unyielding
Upstanding
Vacationing
Viciousness
Victoria
Wainscotting
Wantonly
Washingtonian
Waterfront
Wellington
Whitening
Wrangling

Shortening(1) [SH AO R T N IH NG] Alliteration | Wikipedia.com | Dictionary.com | Google.com | Images

1 Step Apart

Shortening

2 Steps Apart

Shoring

3 Steps Apart

Courting
Morning
Mourning
Shorn
Short
Shortage
Shorten
Snorting
Sorting
Warning

4 Steps Apart

Boring
Cornish
Daunting
Dawning
Fawning
Frightening
Goring
Haunting
Heartening
Hornet
Inshore
Ironing
Offering
Pouring
Raining
Ranting
Rating
Rationing
Reigning
Renting
Returning
Returning
Roaring
Rooting
Rotting
Running
Schnorr
Sharing
Shearing
Sheeting
Shining
Shirting
Shitting
Shooting
Shortcoming
Shortened
Shortness
Shorts
Shouting
Shrink
Shunning
Shutting
Snoring
Soaring
Sporting
Tanning
Taunting
Threatening
Thwarting
Torn
Training
Tuning
Turning
Warring
Writing
Yawning

5 Steps Apart

Adoring
Altering
Aortic
Apportioning
Assuring
Austen
Austere
Boarding
Borscht
Broadening
Browning
Carting
Corking
Costing
Coursing
Crooning
Crowning
Cushioning
Draining
Drawing
Droning
Farting
Fattening
Faulting
Flooring
Foretelling
Forewing
Forging
Forint
Forking
Fourteen
Fourteen
Frightening
Frosting
Frowning
Fruiting
Grating
Greening
Greeting
Grinning
Halting
Heartening
Heightening
Hoarding
Horseshit
Importing
Knitting
Launching
Lightning
Mortician
Morton
Netting
Norris
Ongoing
Onshore
Orange
Ordering
Ornate
Outpouring
Parting
Portage
Portraying
Printing
Printing
Pruning
Ranching
Ranging
Rationing
Rationing
Rattling
Rawness
Reckoning
Rending
Renewing
Reporting
Reporting
Retraining
Rightish
Ringgit
Rinsing
Rioting
Ripening
Roasting
Rounding
Ruining
Rushing
Rusting
Salting
Scoring
Shattering
Shifting
Shoehorn
Shoestring
Shoreline
Short-lived
Short-winded
Shortage
Shorthand
Shortly
Shrieking
Shrift
Snort
Softening
Sorted
Staining
Stoning
Straining
String
Stunning
Supporting
Talking
Tarnish
Tearing
Tearing
Tending
Tenting
Threatening
Tightening
Tiring
Torsion
Torturing
Towering
Trouncing
Trying
Turing
Vaulting
Warming
Warping
Watering
Wharton
Whitening
Wrenching
Writings

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Abortive
According
Alternating
Assorted
Attending
Awarding
Berating
Branching
Branding
British
Broadening
Brownish
Brushing
Brutish
Bunting
Chagrin
Chanting
Christening
Corbett
Cornet
Counting
Crashing
Crawling
Cringing
Crossing
Crushing
Cushioning
Darkening
Daunted
Deport
Drafting
Drenching
Drifting
Entering
Erecting
Exhort
Exporting
Faltering
Fashioning
Fattening
Florin
Foraging
Forecasting
Foregoing
Forest
Forestalling
Forewarning
Forfeit
Forgoing
Fortieth
Fortify
Fortnight
Fortuna
Fourteenth
Fourteenth
Gardening
Garnish
Georgetown
Grafting
Greenish
Grinding
Grounding
Hardening
Haunted
Heightening
Hornbill
Hunting
Import
Import
Inborn
Informing
Koranic
Krypton
Laundering
Lightening
Lorentz
Mortify
Mortimer
Mounting
Narrowing
Nauseating
Neutering
Newport
Nordic
Normative
Nourishing
Offspring
Oncoming
Operating
Orangutan
Orangutan
Oration
Organic
Orient
Oriented
Ostrich
Painting
Panting
Partitioning
Portend
Portent
Portion
Pretending
Quarrying
Quartile
Rattling
Reasoning
Reckoning
Recounting
Recounting
Refining
Refining
Regaining
Remaining
Remaining
Rendering
Repeating
Repeating
Report
Resort
Retailing
Retaking
Retinol
Retiring
Retiring
Retiring
Reverting
Rewriting
Right-winger
Ripening
Riveting
Scorching
Screening
Sheraton
Shipwright
Shopworn
Short-term
Shortcake
Shortcut
Shortfall
Shortsighted
Shrinkage
Shrinking
Smarting
Sneering
Snorter
Softening
Sportingly
Sprouting
Stalking
Stalling
Standing
Staring
Starring
Starting
Steering
Stiffening
Storage
Straying
Stringer
Strings
Stringy
Sweetening
Thorndike
Thornton
Thrashing
Threateningly
Throttling
Thrusting
Thwarted
Tightening
Torino
Torrent
Torreon
Township
Tracing
Tracking
Trading
Trailing
Trapping
Trilling
Trimming
Tripping
Trolling
Trucking
Trusting
Varnish
Varnished
Venting
Wanted
Wanting
Warrant
Warship
Washington
Whitening
Whitening

7 Steps Apart

Abortion
Abortionist
Absorbing
Accounting
Anorthite
Apportion
Arlington
Astonish
Astonishing
Attrition
Auctioneer
Austerely
Austrian
Authentic
Bantering
Bargaining
Begotten
Bighorn
Brainwashing
Brandish
Carpeting
Centering
Chagrined
Charlatan
Christening
Conforming
Consort
Contort
Coordinating
Corncrib
Cornhusking
Coronet
Cortisol
Crocheting
Crosstown
Directing
Directing
Directing
Disheartening
Disorienting
Distort
Distortion
Divorced
Doctrine
Dormant
Endearing
Enduring
Enforced
Enormity
Enormous
Enormous
Entertaining
Enticing
Exalting
Exhausting
Finishing
Florist
Foreboding
Forefinger
Foreshadowing
Forfeited
Forgiving
Forsaking
Fortitude
Forwarding
Freestanding
Frighteningly
Frosted
Furnishing
Glinting
Groveling
Haltingly
Handwriting
Horowitz
Horrifying
Immortal
Imparting
Imploring
Importance
Important
Importation
Imported
Importer
Imprinting
Imprinting
Inheriting
Inordinate
Installing
Integrating
Intriguing
Intruding
Inviting
Irritating
Irritation
Jaundiced
Life-threatening
Long-range
Longhorn
Longstanding
Lordship
Lorgnette
Marketing
Martingale
Mauritania
Mauritania
Mordant
Morrison
Nestling
North-east
Northeast
Oceangoing
Ornately
Overrating
Parachuting
Partition
Partnership
Performing
Planting
Prompting
Punishing
Radiating
Ravishing
Reassuring
Recasting
Reclining
Recording
Recording
Refinish
Relishing
Reordering
Reportage
Reporter
Reprinting
Resonating
Revolting
Rewarding
Rewarding
Rhetorician
Rotation
Sheridan
Shipboard
Shortgrass
Shortsightedness
Shortstop
Shreveport
Shrunken
Skywriting
Slanting
Snorkeling
Songwriter
Sprawling
Standish
Starling
Startling
Starving
Stiffening
Stillborn
Stonewalling
Storminess
Strapping
Streaming
Stretching
Striking
Stripping
Striving
Stroking
Swordfish
Teutonic
Threateningly
Throttling
Torment
Torment
Tormented
Tornado
Toronto
Torrential
Trappings
Traveling
Travelling
Trifling
Trimmings
Trinket
Tripling
Troubling
Typewriting
Uncaring
Unreasoning
Unremitting
Unremitting
Unwitting
Vacationing
Vanishing
Wainscotting
Warranty
Washington
Whitening
Wrongdoing