Words that rhyme with avital

n 1: a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function 2: United States biologist who discovered how hereditary characteristics are transmitted by genes (1903-1989) [syn: Beadle, George Beadle, George Wells Beadle]

n 1: a small short-legged smooth-coated breed of hound

adj 1: jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" [syn: beetle, beetling] n 1: insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings 2: a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing [syn: mallet, beetle] v 1: be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town" [syn: overhang, beetle] 2: fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home" 3: beat with a beetle

n 1: Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians [syn: betel, betel pepper, Piper betel]

adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: white] 2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: white] 3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" 4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" [syn: black, bleak, dim] 5: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark, sinister] 6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful] 7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: black, blackened] 8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch- black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark] 9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" [syn: black, grim, mordant] 10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" 11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled] 12: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful] 13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar 14: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn: black, smutty] n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn: black, blackness, inkiness] [ant: white, whiteness] 2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black] 3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) [syn: Black, Joseph Black] 4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn: Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple] 5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid] 6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: white] 7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black" v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten]

adj 1: tending to move toward a center; "centripetal force" [ant: centrifugal] 2: tending to unify [syn: centripetal, unifying(a)] 3: of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons" [syn: centripetal, receptive, sensory(a)]

adj 1: of or relating to a fetus; "fetal development" [syn: fetal, foetal]

n 1: the leaf of a conifer [syn: acerate leaf, needle] 2: a slender pointer for indicating the reading on the scale of a measuring instrument 3: a sharp pointed implement (usually steel) 4: a stylus that formerly made sound by following a groove in a phonograph record [syn: phonograph needle, needle] v 1: goad or provoke,as by constant criticism; "He needled her with his sarcastic remarks" [syn: needle, goad] 2: prick with a needle

adj 1: of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles" 2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]

v 1: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along" [syn: wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet- talk, inveigle]

adj 1: of or relating to a fetus; "fetal development" [syn: fetal, foetal]

n 1: a wine made principally from one grape and carrying the name of that grape [syn: varietal, varietal wine] [ant: generic, generic wine]

n 1: dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: oriental cockroach, oriental roach, Asiatic cockroach, blackbeetle, Blatta orientalis]

n 1: Old World dung beetle that flies with a droning sound