Words that rhyme with achey

n 1: any member of Athapaskan tribes that migrated to the southwestern desert (from Arizona to Texas and south into Mexico); fought a losing battle from 1861 to 1886 with the United States and were resettled in Oklahoma 2: a Parisian gangster 3: the language of the Apache

adj 1: having concealed difficulty; "a catchy question"; "a tricky recipe to follow" [syn: catchy, tricky] 2: likely to attract attention; "a catchy title for a movie" [syn: attention-getting, catchy]

adj 1: irregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc.; "a patchy essay"; "patchy fog"

adj 1: full of fighting spirit; "a scrappy admiral"

adj 1: causing abrasion [syn: abrasive, scratchy] 2: easily irritated or annoyed; "an incorrigibly fractious young man"; "not the least nettlesome of his countrymen" [syn: cranky, fractious, irritable, nettlesome, peevish, peckish, pettish, petulant, scratchy, testy, tetchy, techy] 3: lacking consistency; "the golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty" [syn: spotty, uneven, scratchy] 4: unpleasantly harsh or grating in sound; "a gravelly voice" [syn: grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchy]

adj 1: showing signs of wear and tear; "a ratty old overcoat"; "shabby furniture"; "an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains" [syn: moth-eaten, ratty, shabby, tatty] 2: mean and unworthy and despicable; "shabby treatment"

adj 1: (of businesses and businessmen) unscrupulous; "a shady operation" [syn: fly-by-night, shady] 2: of questionable taste or morality; "a louche nightclub"; "a louche painting" [syn: louche, shady] 3: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious] 4: filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands" [syn: shady, shadowed, shadowy, umbrageous]

adj 1: used of hair; thick and poorly groomed; "bushy locks"; "a shaggy beard" [syn: bushy, shaggy, shaggy-haired, shaggy-coated] 2: having a very rough nap or covered with hanging shags; "junipers with shagged trunks"; "shaggy rugs" [syn: shagged, shaggy]

adj 1: inclined to shake as from weakness or defect; "a rickety table"; "a wobbly chair with shaky legs"; "the ladder felt a little wobbly"; "the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky" [syn: rickety, shaky, wobbly, wonky] 2: vibrating slightly and irregularly; as e.g. with fear or cold or like the leaves of an aspen in a breeze; "a quaking bog"; "the quaking child asked for more"; "quivering leaves of a poplar tree"; "with shaking knees"; "seemed shaky on her feet"; "sparkling light from the shivering crystals of the chandelier"; "trembling hands" [syn: shaky, shivering, trembling] 3: not secure; beset with difficulties; "a shaky marriage" [syn: precarious, shaky]

adj 1: resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky ridges in the sand" [syn: serpentine, snaky, snakelike]

adj 1: apt to speak irritably; "a snappish tone of voice" [syn: snappish, snappy] 2: smart and fashionable; "snappy conversation"; "some sharp and whipping lines" [syn: snappy, whipping] 3: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy] 4: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce] 5: quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy]

adj 1: having a grey or brown streak or a pattern or a patchy coloring; used especially of the patterned fur of cats [syn: brindled, brindle, brinded, tabby] n 1: a cat with a grey or tawny coat mottled with black [syn: tabby, tabby cat] 2: female cat [syn: tabby, queen]

adj 1: (of a glutinous liquid such as paint) not completely dried and slightly sticky to the touch; "tacky varnish" 2: tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy]

adj 1: ludicrous, foolish; "gave me a cockamamie reason for not going"; "wore a goofy hat"; "a silly idea"; "some wacky plan for selling more books" [syn: cockamamie, cockamamy, goofy, sappy, silly, wacky, whacky, zany] 2: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats, batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft, dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco, loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around the bend, wacky, whacky]

adj 1: having relatively great weight; heavy; "a weighty load"; "a weighty package" [ant: weightless] 2: powerfully persuasive; "a cogent argument"; "a telling presentation"; "a weighty argument" [syn: cogent, telling, weighty] 3: of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; "grave responsibilities"; "faced a grave decision in a time of crisis"; "a grievous fault"; "heavy matters of state"; "the weighty matters to be discussed at the peace conference" [syn: grave, grievous, heavy, weighty] 4: weighing heavily on the spirit; causing anxiety or worry; "weighty problems" 5: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund]

adj 1: of the color of slate or granite; "the slaty sky of dawn" [syn: slate-grey, slate-gray, slaty-grey, slaty- gray, slaty, slatey, stone-grey, stone-gray]