Words that rhyme with al

  • mall
    n 1: a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk [syn: promenade, mall] 2: mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls" [syn: plaza, mall, center, shopping mall, shopping center, shopping centre]
  • barbital
    n 1: a barbiturate used as a hypnotic [syn: barbital, veronal, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea]
  • cabal
    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]
  • canal
    n 1: (astronomy) an indistinct surface feature of Mars once thought to be a system of channels; they are now believed to be an optical illusion 2: a bodily passage or tube lined with epithelial cells and conveying a secretion or other substance; "the tear duct was obstructed"; "the alimentary canal"; "poison is released through a channel in the snake's fangs" [syn: duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel] 3: long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation v 1: provide (a city) with a canal [syn: canal, canalize, canalise]
  • caracal
    n 1: of deserts of northern Africa and southern Asia [syn: caracal, desert lynx, Lynx caracal]
  • chaparral
    n 1: dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes [syn: scrub, chaparral, bush]
  • choral
    adj 1: related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir; "choral composition"; "choral ensemble" n 1: a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune [syn: chorale, choral]
  • chorale
    n 1: a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune [syn: chorale, choral]
  • corral
    n 1: a pen for cattle [syn: cow pen, cattle pen, corral] v 1: enclose in a corral; "corral the horses" 2: arrange wagons so that they form a corral 3: collect or gather; "corralling votes for an election"
  • decal
    n 1: either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface [syn: decal, decalcomania]
  • formal
    adj 1: being in accord with established forms and conventions and requirements (as e.g. of formal dress); "pay one's formal respects"; "formal dress"; "a formal ball"; "the requirement was only formal and often ignored"; "a formal education" [ant: informal] 2: characteristic of or befitting a person in authority; "formal duties"; "an official banquet" 3: (of spoken and written language) adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms; "the paper was written in formal English" [ant: informal] 4: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn: conventional, formal, schematic] 5: logically deductive; "formal proof" 6: refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court; "a courtly gentleman" [syn: courtly, formal, stately] n 1: a lavish dance requiring formal attire [syn: ball, formal] 2: a gown for evening wear [syn: dinner dress, dinner gown, formal, evening gown]
  • furfural
    n 1: a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent [syn: furfural, furfuraldehyde]
  • gal
    n 1: United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters [syn: gallon, gal] 2: a unit of gravitational acceleration equal to one centimeter per second per second (named after Galileo) 3: alliterative term for girl (or woman)
  • locale
    n 1: the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting) [syn: venue, locale, locus]
  • mescal
    n 1: a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons [syn: mescal, mezcal, peyote, Lophophora williamsii] 2: a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant)
  • morale
    n 1: a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose 2: the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed [syn: esprit de corps, morale, team spirit]
  • mortal
    adj 1: subject to death; "mortal beings" [ant: immortal] 2: involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; "the seven deadly sins" [syn: deadly, mortal(a)] 3: unrelenting and deadly; "mortal enemy" 4: causing or capable of causing death; "a fatal accident"; "a deadly enemy"; "mortal combat"; "a mortal illness" [syn: deadly, deathly, mortal] n 1: a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" [syn: person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul]
  • myocardial
    adj 1: of or relating to the myocardium
  • natal
    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
  • oracle
    n 1: an authoritative person who divines the future [syn: prophet, prophesier, oracle, seer, vaticinator] 2: a prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible 3: a shrine where an oracular god is consulted
  • orthogonal
    adj 1: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point" [syn: extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal] 2: statistically unrelated 3: having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system" [syn: orthogonal, rectangular]
  • pal
    n 1: a close friend who accompanies his buddies in their activities [syn: buddy, brother, chum, crony, pal, sidekick] v 1: become friends; act friendly towards [syn: pal, pal up, chum up]
  • pedal
    adj 1: of or relating to the feet; "the word for a pedal extremity is `foot'" n 1: a sustained bass note [syn: pedal point, pedal] 2: a lever that is operated with the foot [syn: pedal, treadle, foot pedal, foot lever] v 1: ride a bicycle [syn: bicycle, cycle, bike, pedal, wheel] 2: operate the pedals on a keyboard instrument
  • portrayal
    n 1: a word picture of a person's appearance and character [syn: portrayal, portraiture, portrait] 2: acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture [syn: portrayal, characterization, enactment, personation] 3: a representation by picture or portraiture [syn: depicting, depiction, portraying, portrayal] 4: any likeness of a person, in any medium; "the photographer made excellent portraits" [syn: portrait, portrayal] 5: representation by drawing or painting etc [syn: depiction, delineation, portrayal]
  • primordial
    adj 1: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life" [syn: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial]
  • rainfall
    n 1: water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere [syn: rain, rainfall]
  • rascal
    n 1: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet] 2: one who is playfully mischievous [syn: imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag]
  • rationale
    n 1: (law) an explanation of the fundamental reasons (especially an explanation of the working of some device in terms of laws of nature); "the rationale for capital punishment"; "the principles of internal-combustion engines" [syn: rationale, principle]
  • relational
    adj 1: having a relation or being related
  • riyal
    n 1: the basic unit of money in Saudi Arabia [syn: Saudi Arabian riyal, riyal] 2: the basic unit of money in Qatar [syn: Qatari riyal, riyal]
  • thermal
    adj 1: relating to or associated with heat; "thermal movements of molecules"; "thermal capacity"; "thermic energy"; "the caloric effect of sunlight" [syn: thermal, thermic, caloric] [ant: nonthermal] 2: of or relating to a hot spring; "thermal water" 3: caused by or designed to retain heat; "a thermal burn"; "thermal underwear" n 1: rising current of warm air
  • vocal
    adj 1: relating to or designed for or using the singing voice; "vocal technique"; "the vocal repertoire"; "organized a vocal group to sing his compositions" [ant: instrumental] 2: having or using the power to produce speech or sound; "vocal organs"; "all vocal beings hymned their praise" 3: given to expressing yourself freely or insistently; "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal assembly" [syn: outspoken, vocal] 4: full of the sound of voices; "a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children" n 1: music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment [syn: vocal music, vocal] 2: a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs" [syn: song, vocal]
  • chagall
    n 1: French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985) [syn: Chagall, Marc Chagall]
  • thralldom
    n 1: the state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom]
  • halle
    n 1: a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries [syn: Halle, Halle-an-der-Saale]
  • dal
    n 1: a metric unit of volume or capacity equal to 10 liters [syn: dekaliter, dekalitre, decaliter, decalitre, dal, dkl]
  • lasalle
    n 1: French explorer who claimed Louisiana for France (1643-1687) [syn: LaSalle, Sieur de LaSalle, Rene- Robert Cavelier]
  • pascal
    n 1: a unit of pressure equal to one newton per square meter [syn: pascal, Pa] 2: French mathematician and philosopher and Jansenist; invented an adding machine; contributed (with Fermat) to the theory of probability (1623-1662) [syn: Pascal, Blaise Pascal] 3: a programing language designed to teach programming through a top-down modular approach
  • vidal
    n 1: United States writer (born in 1925) [syn: Vidal, Gore Vidal, Eugene Luther Vidal]
  • guadalcanal
    n 1: a mountainous island; the largest of the Solomon Islands in the independent state that is a member of the British Commonwealth 2: a battle in World War II in the Pacific (1942-1943); the island was occupied by the Japanese and later recaptured by American forces [syn: Guadalcanal, Battle of Guadalcanal]
  • rale
    n 1: a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle" [syn: rattle, rattling, rale]
  • fallal
    n 1: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]
  • ningal
    n 1: (Akkadian) a goddess; wife of the Moon god Sin
  • salal
    n 1: small evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having edible dark purple grape-sized berries [syn: salal, shallon, Gaultheria shallon]
  • acetal
    n 1: any organic compound formed by adding alcohol molecules to aldehyde molecules
  • methanal
    n 1: a colorless poisonous gas; made by the oxidation of methanol [syn: formaldehyde, methanal]
  • thimerosal
    n 1: a light-colored crystalline powder (trade name Merthiolate) used as a surgical antiseptic [syn: thimerosal, sodium ethylmercurithiosalicylate, Merthiolate]
  • amobarbital
    n 1: a barbiturate with sedative and hypnotic effects; used to relieve insomnia and as an anticonvulsant
  • hemiacetal
    n 1: an organic compound usually formed as an intermediate product in the preparation of acetals from aldehydes or ketones
  • ammonal
  • falderal
  • mal
  • musicale
  • shall
  • lall
  • bansal
  • coval
  • yigal
  • devalle
  • vitale
  • boral
  • atabal
  • attabal
  • kal
  • bal
  • cal
  • hal
  • kral
  • lal
  • malle
  • sal
  • schmal
  • thal
  • val
  • cargal
  • coufal
  • doral
  • duval
  • huval
  • pascale
  • prchal
  • roubal
  • royale
  • amaral
  • carbajal
  • carvajal
  • dolezal
  • generale
  • maneval
  • nadal
  • perceval
  • commerciale
  • nasional
  • scall
  • jal
  • adal
  • cheval
  • ghazal
  • lassalle
  • walhall

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