Protecting rhymes with:
detecting, affecting, collecting, connecting, correcting, defecting, deflecting, detecting, directing, disconnecting, disrespecting, dissecting, effecting, ejecting, electing, erecting, expecting, infecting, injecting, inspecting, intersecting, neglecting, objecting, perfecting, projecting, prospecting, recollecting, reconnecting, redirecting, reelecting, reflecting, rejecting, respecting, resurrecting, selecting, subjecting, suspecting, unsuspecting
Protecting sounds like:
predicating, predicting, predictions, production's, productions, productions', protections, protestations, protesting