Words that rhyme with akela

n 1: a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them [syn: blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist]

n 1: the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin [syn: candle, candela, cd, standard candle]

n 1: a gay festivity [syn: gala, gala affair, jamboree, blowout]

n 1: a dispenser that produces a chemical vapor to be inhaled in order to relieve nasal congestion [syn: inhaler, inhalator]

n 1: someone who guards prisoners [syn: prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler, screw, turnkey]

n 1: United States writer (born in 1923) [syn: Mailer, Norman Mailer] 2: a person who mails something 3: an advertisement that is sent by mail 4: a container for something to be mailed

n 1: a merchant who sells goods at retail [syn: retailer, retail merchant]

n 1: any member of a ship's crew [syn: sailor, crewman] 2: a serviceman in the navy [syn: bluejacket, navy man, sailor, sailor boy] 3: a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown [syn: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat]

adj 1: of or relating to a musical scale; "he played some basic scalar patterns on his guitar" 2: of or relating to a directionless magnitude (such as mass or speed etc.) that is completely specified by its magnitude; "scalar quantity" n 1: a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components

n 1: a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) [syn: shillelagh, shillalah]

n 1: a person whose occupation is making and altering garments [syn: tailor, seamster, sartor] v 1: adjust to a specific need or market; "a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings" [syn: tailor, orient] 2: style and tailor in a certain fashion; "cut a dress" [syn: cut, tailor] 3: create (clothes) with cloth; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?" [syn: sew, tailor, tailor-make]

n 1: Mexican liquor made from fermented juices of an agave plant

n 1: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke] 2: an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future [syn: preview, prevue, trailer] 3: a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor 4: a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy [syn: trailer, house trailer]

n 1: a constellation in the southern hemisphere between Carina and Pyxis; "because of its configuration Vela is sometimes called `the Sails'"

n 1: a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries

n 1: someone who enjoys riotous drinking [syn: wassailer, carouser] 2: someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture [syn: toaster, wassailer]

n 1: a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales 2: a ship engaged in whale fishing [syn: whaler, whaling ship]

n 1: someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers [syn: jobber, middleman, wholesaler]

n 1: the person who delivers personal property (goods or money) in trust to the bailee in a bailment

n 1: the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek [syn: cheekbone, zygomatic bone, zygomatic, malar, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum]

n 1: a worker who attaches something by nailing it

n 1: an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually

n 1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke]

n 1: United States minimalist painter (born in 1936) [syn: Stella, Frank Stella, Frank Philip Stella]

n 1: a Hindu disciple of a swami 2: a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods [syn: claw, chela, nipper, pincer]

n 1: an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings [syn: stele, stela]

n 1: a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil [syn: Venezuela, Republic of Venezuela]

n 1: a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River [syn: Monongahela, Monongahela River]

adj 1: of or relating to the axil [syn: axillary, alar] 2: having or resembling wings [syn: alar, alary, aliform, wing-shaped] n 1: a chemical sprayed on fruit trees to regulate their growth so the entire crop can be harvested at one time [syn: Alar, daminozide]

n 1: Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786) [syn: Scheele, Karl Scheele, Karl Wilhelm Scheele]

n 1: (Norse mythology) goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld [syn: Hel, Hela]

n 1: capital of Vanuatu [syn: Port Vila, Vila, capital of Vanuatu]

n 1: a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle [syn: semitrailer, semi]

n 1: United States composer and music critic (1885-1966) [syn: Taylor, Deems Taylor, Joseph Deems Taylor] 2: United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star; as an adult she often co-starred with Richard Burton (born in 1932) [syn: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor] 3: 12th President of the United States; died in office (1784-1850) [syn: Taylor, Zachary Taylor, President Taylor]