Equating rhymes with:
awaiting, waiting, weighting, abating, annotating, awaiting, baiting, berating, crating, creating, dating, debating, deflating, elating, gating, grating, hating, inflating, innovating, mating, misstating, negating, overrating, plaiting, plating, postdating, procreating, rating, reinstating, relating, restating, sedating, skating, slating, stating, translating, updating, waiting, weighting
Equating sounds like:
ecosystems, eighteen's, eighteens, ejecting, equations, esteem's, estonians, exacting, exactions, exceeding, exciting, executing, executions, exhausting, existence, existing, exiting, extinguish, exuding