Operating rhymes with:
cooperating, cooperating, evaporating, exasperating, incorporating, nonoperating, recuperating, reincorporating, separating, accelerating, collaborating, commemorating, cooperating, corroborating, decelerating, decorating, degenerating, deliberating, deteriorating, elaborating, evaporating, exaggerating, exasperating, exhilarating, exonerating, generating, inaugurating, incarcerating, incinerating, incorporating, invigorating, liberating, moderating, nonoperating, obliterating, perforating, proliferating, recuperating, redecorating, regenerating, reincorporating, reinvigorating, reiterating, reverberating, saturating, separating, tolerating, venerating
Operating sounds like:
operation's, operations, operations', overdoing, overeating, overheating, overrating, overriding, overtones, overwriting