Yes, rising is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Move upward

2. Increase in value or to a higher point

3. Rise to one's feet

4. Rise up

5. Come to the surface

6. Come into existence; take on form or shape

7. Move to a better position in life or to a better job

8. Go up or advance

9. Become more extreme

10. Get up and out of bed

11. Rise in rank or status

12. Become heartened or elated

13. Exert oneself to meet a challenge

14. Take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance

15. Increase in volume

16. Come up, of celestial bodies

17. Return from the dead

Adjective

1. Advancing or becoming higher or greater in degree or value or status

2. Sloping upward

3. Coming to maturity

4. Newly come into prominence

Noun

1. A movement upward

2. Organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another