Words that rhyme with averil

n 1: the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral [syn: admiral, full admiral] 2: any of several brightly colored butterflies

n 1: a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest [syn: anthill, formicary]

adj 1: composed of two legislative bodies [ant: unicameral] 2: consisting of two chambers; "the bicameral heart of a fish" [syn: bicameral, two-chambered]

adj 1: lasting a very short time; "the ephemeral joys of childhood"; "a passing fancy"; "youth's transient beauty"; "love is transitory but it is eternal"; "fugacious blossoms" [syn: ephemeral, passing, short-lived, transient, transitory, fugacious] n 1: anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form [syn: ephemeron, ephemeral]

n 1: a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; "hundreds of people attended his funeral"

adj 1: applying to all or most members of a category or group; "the general public"; "general assistance"; "a general rule"; "in general terms"; "comprehensible to the general reader" [ant: specific] 2: not specialized or limited to one class of things; "general studies"; "general knowledge" 3: prevailing among and common to the general public; "the general discontent" 4: affecting the entire body; "a general anesthetic"; "general symptoms" [ant: local] 5: somewhat indefinite; "bearing a general resemblance to the original"; "a general description of the merchandise" 6: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world- wide] n 1: a general officer of the highest rank [syn: general, full general] 2: the head of a religious order or congregation [syn: general, superior general] 3: a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular); "he discussed the general but neglected the particular" [ant: particular, specific] v 1: command as a general; "We are generaled by an incompetent!"

adj 1: relating to minerals; "mineral elements"; "mineral deposits" 2: composed of matter other than plant or animal; "the inorganic mineral world" n 1: solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition

n 1: a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing

adj 1: on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area; "Russia's peripheral provinces"; "peripheral suburbs" [ant: central] 2: related to the key issue but not of central importance; "a peripheral interest"; "energy is far from a peripheral issue in the economy"; "peripheral issues" n 1: (computer science) electronic equipment connected by cable to the CPU of a computer; "disk drives and printers are important peripherals" [syn: peripheral, computer peripheral, peripheral device]

adj 1: (used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many; "several letters came in the mail"; "several people were injured in the accident" 2: considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" [syn: respective(a), several(a), various(a)] 3: distinct and individual; "three several times"

adj 1: composed of one legislative body [ant: bicameral]

adv 1: against difficulties; "she was talking uphill" 2: upward on a hill or incline; "this street lay uphill" adj 1: sloping upward [syn: acclivitous, rising, uphill] n 1: the upward slope of a hill

adj 1: relating to or affecting the viscera; "visceral bleeding"; "a splanchnic nerve" [syn: visceral, splanchnic] 2: obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation [syn: intuitive, nonrational, visceral]