Words that rhyme with ahl

n 1: a cloud of solid or liquid particles in a gas 2: a dispenser that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray (usually by means of a propellant gas) [syn: aerosol, aerosol container, aerosol can, aerosol bomb, spray can]

n 1: a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent; "alcohol (or drink) ruined him" [syn: alcohol, alcoholic drink, alcoholic beverage, intoxicant, inebriant] 2: any of a series of volatile hydroxyl compounds that are made from hydrocarbons by distillation

n 1: an island consisting of a circular coral reef surrounding a lagoon

adj 1: used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic] n 1: someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn: drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant] 2: a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [syn: bacchant, bacchanal] 3: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]

adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]

n 1: a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue [syn: cabal, faction, junto, camarilla] 2: a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) [syn: conspiracy, cabal] v 1: engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government" [syn: conspire, cabal, complot, conjure, machinate]

adj 1: serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure" [syn: cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal] 2: in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position" [ant: peripheral] n 1: a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication [syn: central, telephone exchange, exchange]

n 1: a pass between mountain peaks [syn: col, gap]

n 1: a small replica of a person; used as a toy [syn: doll, dolly] 2: informal terms for a (young) woman [syn: dame, doll, wench, skirt, chick, bird]

n 1: a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions; made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses [syn: wallboard, drywall, dry wall]

n 1: intermediate floor just above the ground floor [syn: mezzanine, mezzanine floor, entresol]

n 1: the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973" [syn: fall, autumn] 2: a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice" [syn: spill, tumble, fall] 3: the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall" 4: a downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope] [ant: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade] 5: a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue" 6: a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" [syn: fall, downfall] [ant: rise] 7: a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides" [ant: ascension, ascent, rise, rising] 8: the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort" [syn: capitulation, fall, surrender] 9: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle] 10: when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat [syn: fall, pin] 11: a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" [syn: drop, fall] 12: a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall" [syn: drop, dip, fall, free fall] v 1: descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse" 2: move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" [syn: descend, fall, go down, come down] [ant: arise, ascend, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise] 3: pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work" 4: come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: fall, come] 5: fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum" [syn: precipitate, come down, fall] 6: suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside" 7: die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead" 8: touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" [syn: fall, shine, strike] 9: be captured; "The cities fell to the enemy" 10: occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable" 11: decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" [syn: decrease, diminish, lessen, fall] [ant: increase] 12: yield to temptation or sin; "Adam and Eve fell" 13: lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen" 14: to be given by assignment or distribution; "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the youngest student" 15: move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward" 16: be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the month" 17: lose one's chastity; "a fallen woman" 18: to be given by right or inheritance; "The estate fell to the oldest daughter" 19: come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son" [syn: accrue, fall] 20: fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims" [syn: fall, light] 21: be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" [syn: fall, return, pass, devolve] 22: slope downward; "The hills around here fall towards the ocean" 23: lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell across her forehead" [syn: fall, fall down] 24: drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees" 25: fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back" [syn: hang, fall, flow] 26: assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell" 27: be cast down; "his eyes fell" 28: come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her mouth" 29: be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs fell in the afternoon" 30: begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work right away" 31: go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts" 32: come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell" [syn: fall, descend, settle]

n 1: (colloquial) the application of maximum thrust; "he moved the throttle to the firewall" 2: (computing) a security system consisting of a combination of hardware and software that limits the exposure of a computer or computer network to attack from crackers; commonly used on local area networks that are connected to the internet 3: a fireproof (or fire-resistant) wall designed to prevent the spread of fire through a building or a vehicle

n 1: nonsensical talk or writing [syn: folderol, rubbish, tripe, trumpery, trash, wish-wash, applesauce, codswallop]

n 1: a gasoline substitute consisting of 90% gasoline and 10% grain alcohol from corn

n 1: a cardinal number represented as 1 followed by 100 zeros (ten raised to the power of a hundred)

adj 1: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" [syn: broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant] 2: having political or social views favoring reform and progress 3: tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition [ant: conservative] 4: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded] 5: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free, loose, liberal] n 1: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties [syn: liberal, liberalist, progressive] [ant: conservative, conservativist] 2: a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets

v 1: hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled" [syn: droop, loll] 2: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about]

n 1: a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges [syn: maul, sledge, sledgehammer] v 1: split (wood) with a maul and wedges 2: injure badly by beating [syn: maul, mangle]

n 1: a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol [syn: methanol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirit]

n 1: a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter

n 1: the girlfriend of a gangster [syn: moll, gun moll, gangster's moll]

adj 1: relating to or accompanying birth; "natal injuries"; "natal day"; "natal influences" 2: of or relating to the buttocks n 1: a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean; "Natal was renamed KwaZulu-Natal in 1994" [syn: Natal, KwaZulu-Natal] 2: a port city in northeastern Brazil

n 1: a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post

n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]

n 1: a sudden numbing dread [syn: chill, pall] 2: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes] 3: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall] v 1: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull] 2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare] 3: cover with a pall 4: cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: cloy, pall] 5: cause to become flat; "pall the beer" 6: lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn: die, pall, become flat] 7: lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her" 8: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade]

n 1: a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward [syn: pawl, detent, click, dog]

n 1: any of a class of weakly acidic organic compounds; molecule contains one or more hydroxyl groups 2: a toxic white soluble crystalline acidic derivative of benzene; used in manufacturing and as a disinfectant and antiseptic; poisonous if taken internally [syn: carbolic acid, phenol, hydroxybenzene, oxybenzene, phenylic acid]

n 1: (computer science) rules determining the format and transmission of data [syn: protocol, communications protocol] 2: forms of ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats and heads of state 3: code of correct conduct; "safety protocols"; "academic protocol"

adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling] adj 1: being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow [syn: real, existent] [ant: unreal] 2: no less than what is stated; worthy of the name; "the real reason"; "real war"; "a real friend"; "a real woman"; "meat and potatoes--I call that a real meal"; "it's time he had a real job"; "it's no penny-ante job--he's making real money" [ant: unreal] 3: not to be taken lightly; "statistics demonstrate that poverty and unemployment are very real problems"; "to the man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real" 4: capable of being treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor" [syn: real, tangible] 5: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: actual, genuine, literal, real] 6: of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation; "real prices"; "real income"; "real wages" [ant: nominal] 7: having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare [syn: substantial, real, material] [ant: insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial] 8: (of property) fixed or immovable; "real property consists of land and buildings" 9: coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"- F.A.Olafson [syn: veridical, real] n 1: any rational or irrational number [syn: real number, real] 2: the basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos 3: an old small silver Spanish coin

n 1: a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) [syn: recall, callback] 2: a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador" 3: a bugle call that signals troops to return 4: the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode" [syn: recall, recollection, reminiscence] 5: the act of removing an official by petition v 1: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" [syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block, draw a blank, forget] 2: go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" [syn: hark back, return, come back, recall] 3: call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" [syn: echo, recall] 4: summon to return; "The ambassador was recalled to his country"; "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession" [syn: recall, call back] 5: cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression; "She was recalled by a loud laugh" 6: make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty" [ant: issue, supply] 7: cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" [syn: recall, call in, call back, withdraw]

v 1: install again; "She reinstalled the washer after it had been repaired"

n 1: poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl, cacography] v 1: write carelessly [syn: scribble, scrawl]

adj 1: foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working" [syn: crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded] n 1: a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball] 2: a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown

n 1: cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders

adv 1: on a small scale; "think small" [ant: big] adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group" [syn: small, little] [ant: big, large] 2: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket- size country" [syn: minor, modest, small, small- scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized] 3: (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" [syn: little, small] 4: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between" 5: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest, small] 6: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" [syn: little, minuscule, small] 7: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" [syn: little, small] 8: have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty rain" 9: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way" [syn: modest, small] 10: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small" [syn: belittled, diminished, small] n 1: the slender part of the back 2: a garment size for a small person

n 1: precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals [syn: snow, snowfall]

n 1: an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities [syn: conurbation, urban sprawl, sprawl] 2: an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about [syn: sprawl, sprawling] v 1: sit or lie with one's limbs spread out 2: go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far" [syn: sprawl, straggle]

n 1: sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation v 1: make high-pitched, whiney noises [syn: squall, waul, wawl] 2: utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall] 3: blow in a squall; "When it squalls, a prudent sailor reefs his sails"

n 1: a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed 2: small area set off by walls for special use [syn: booth, cubicle, stall, kiosk] 3: a booth where articles are displayed for sale [syn: stall, stand, sales booth] 4: a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge; "the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it" 5: seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater 6: small individual study area in a library [syn: carrel, carrell, cubicle, stall] 7: a tactic used to mislead or delay [syn: stall, stalling] v 1: postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn: procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally] 2: come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway" [syn: stall, conk] 3: deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling" 4: put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse" 5: experience a stall in flight, of airplanes 6: cause an airplane to go into a stall 7: cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"

n 1: any of a group of natural steroid alcohols derived from plants or animals; they are waxy insoluble substances [syn: sterol, steroid alcohol]

adj 1: great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" [ant: little, short] 2: lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" [syn: grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall] 3: impressively difficult; "a tall order" 4: too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story" [syn: improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall(a)] n 1: a garment size for a tall person

n 1: the state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom] 2: someone held in bondage

n 1: a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) [syn: trawl, trawl line, spiller, setline, trotline] 2: a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths [syn: trawl, dragnet, trawl net] v 1: fish with trawlers

n 1: part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines [syn: greater omentum, gastrocolic omentum, caul] 2: the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) [syn: caul, veil, embryonic membrane]

n 1: tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics [syn: pigeon pea, pigeon-pea plant, cajan pea, catjang pea, red gram, dhal, dahl, Cajanus cajan] 2: small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant [syn: cajan pea, pigeon pea, dahl]

n 1: a unit of pain intensity 2: the federal department responsible for promoting the working conditions of wage earners in the United States; created in 1913 [syn: Department of Labor, Labor Department, Labor, DoL]

n 1: small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits [syn: pepper tree, molle, Peruvian mastic tree, Schinus molle]

n 1: a person active in party politics [syn: politician, politico, pol, political leader]

n 1: (Old Testament) the first king of the Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines) 2: (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle; "Paul's name was Saul prior to his conversion to Christianity" [syn: Paul, Saint Paul, St. Paul, Apostle Paul, Paul the Apostle, Apostle of the Gentiles, Saul, Saul of Tarsus]

n 1: a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid [syn: sol, colloidal solution, colloidal suspension] 2: (Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the sun; counterpart of Greek Helios 3: the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization [syn: sol, soh, so]

n 1: French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985) [syn: Chagall, Marc Chagall]

n 1: a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers

n 1: a republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic; formerly a French colony but achieved independence in 1960 [syn: Senegal, Republic of Senegal]

n 1: Austrian investigator of Nazi war crimes (born in 1908) [syn: Wiesenthal, Samuel Wiesenthal]

n 1: a city in northwestern Switzerland [syn: Basel, Basle, Bale]

n 1: king of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975 (1906-1975) [syn: Faisal, Faisal ibn Abdel Aziz al-Saud]

n 1: ox of southeast Asia sometimes considered a domesticated breed of the gaur [syn: gayal, mithan, Bibos frontalis]

n 1: a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade 2: a pen for livestock in southern Africa

n 1: the second brightest star in Perseus; the first known eclipsing binary 2: (from a combination of ALGOrithmic and Language); a programming language used to express computer programs as algorithms

n 1: the basic unit of money in Thailand [syn: baht, tical]

adj 1: absent without permission; "truant schoolboys"; "the soldier was AWOL for almost a week" [syn: truant, awol] n 1: one who is away or absent without leave

n 1: any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples; the Hebrews considered Baal a false god

n 1: tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics [syn: pigeon pea, pigeon-pea plant, cajan pea, catjang pea, red gram, dhal, dahl, Cajanus cajan]

n 1: the largest freshwater lake in Asia or Europe and the deepest lake in the world [syn: Baikal, Lake Baikal, Baykal, Lake Baykal]

adj 1: of certain seeds (such as cotton) having a tuft or tufts of hair; "comate (or comose) seeds"; "a comal tuft" [syn: comate, comose, comal]

adj 1: proper or legitimate; "the fund earns halal profits in full compliance with the Shari'a" 2: conforming to dietary laws; "halal meat"; "a halal kitchen" n 1: (Islam) meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah

n 1: (Norse mythology) god of dawn and light; guardian of Asgard [syn: Heimdall, Heimdal, Heimdallr]

n 1: a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball 2: a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them

n 1: French writer whose novels were the first to feature psychological analysis of the character (1783-1842) [syn: Stendhal, Marie Henri Beyle]

n 1: an official language of the Republic of South Africa; closely related to Dutch and Flemish [syn: Afrikaans, Taal, South African Dutch]

n 1: Swiss cheese with large holes [syn: Emmenthal, Emmental, Emmenthaler, Emmentaler]

n 1: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery]

n 1: trade name of a drug rich in iron; used to treat some kinds of anemia

n 1: black-coated sheepdog with a heavily plumed tail

n 1: an analgesic for mild pain but not for inflammation; also used as an antipyretic; (Datril, Tylenol, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, and Anacin III are trademarks of brands of acetaminophen tablets) [syn: acetaminophen, Datril, Tylenol, Panadol, Phenaphen, Tempra, Anacin III]

adj 1: of or relating to Provence or its people or their culture n 1: the medieval dialects of Langue d'oc (southern France) [syn: Provencal, Occitan]

n 1: eighth month of the Revolutionary calendar (April and May); the month of flowers

n 1: king of Assyria who built a magnificent palace and library at Nineveh (668-627 BC) [syn: Ashurbanipal, Assurbanipal, Asurbanipal]

n 1: king of Assyria who built a magnificent palace and library at Nineveh (668-627 BC) [syn: Ashurbanipal, Assurbanipal, Asurbanipal]

n 1: ninth month of the Revolutionary calendar (May and June); the month of meadows

n 1: a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation; an organic mat over a grey leached layer [syn: podzol, podzol soil, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil]

n 1: a soil that develops in temperate to cold moist climates under coniferous or heath vegetation; an organic mat over a grey leached layer [syn: podzol, podzol soil, podsol, podsol soil, podsolic soil]

n 1: a picturesque mountainous province of western Austria and northern Italy [syn: Tyrol, Tirol]

n 1: Norwegian anthropologist noted for his studies of cultural diffusion (1914-2002) [syn: Heyerdahl, Thor Hyerdahl]

n 1: barbiturate that is a hygroscopic powder (trade name Pentothal) that is a strong barbiturate that acts rapidly; induces a relaxed state when injected as a general anesthetic [syn: thiopental, thiopental sodium, thiopentobarbital sodium, Pentothal]

n 1: goddess of death and consort of Nergal [syn: Ereshkigal, Eresh-kigal, Ereshkigel]