Words that rhyme with astle

adj 1: relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical [syn: carboxyl, carboxylic] n 1: the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids [syn: carboxyl, carboxyl group]

n 1: a large and stately mansion [syn: palace, castle] 2: a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack 3: (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard [syn: castle, rook] 4: interchanging the positions of the king and a rook [syn: castle, castling] v 1: move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king

n 1: a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will

adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem" 2: performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand" 3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken]

n 1: an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss, trouble, bother, hassle] 2: disorderly fighting [syn: hassle, scuffle, tussle, dogfight, rough-and-tumble] v 1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]

n 1: the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols [syn: hydroxyl, hydroxyl group, hydroxyl radical]

n 1: a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine

n 1: adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end

n 1: an implement for practical use (especially in a household)

n 1: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord [syn: vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory]

n 1: the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame

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

n 1: the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter [syn: Brazil, Federative Republic of Brazil, Brasil]

adj 1: slender and graceful [syn: gracile, willowy]

n 1: Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981) [syn: Hassel, Odd Hassel]

n 1: an unstable construction with playing cards; "he built three levels of his cardcastle before it collapsed" [syn: house of cards, cardhouse, card-house, cardcastle]

n 1: a port city in northeastern England on the River Tyne; a center for coal exports (giving rise to the expression `carry coals to Newcastle' meaning to do something unnecessary) [syn: Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne]

n 1: (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores