Nearing rhymes with:
auctioneering, bioengineering, domineering, electioneering, engineering, imagineering, oceaneering, pioneering, reengineering, sneering
Nearing sounds like:
naranja, naranjo, narrowing, narrowness, nehring, neurons, noramco, norenco, norenko, norinko, norman's, normick, norming, norms