Associating rhymes with:
asphyxiating, enunciating, abbreviating, affiliating, alleviating, appreciating, appropriating, asphyxiating, delineating, depreciating, deviating, differentiating, emaciating, enunciating, excoriating, excruciating, humiliating, inebriating, infuriating, ingratiating, initiating, instantiating, mediating, misappropriating, nauseating, negotiating, obviating, officiating, permeating, radiating, recreating, renegotiating, repatriating, repudiating, retaliating
Associating sounds like:
academic, academics, academies, academy's, acceding, accosting, accusations, acquisition's, acquisitions, acquitting, acting, actinomycosis, action's, actions, acuteness, agitating, ashton's, assistance, assisting, association's, associations, astonish, astuteness, auction's, auctioning, auctions, augustinians, augustyniak, austen's, austin's