Words that rhyme with bael

n 1: a bar to which heavy discs are attached at each end; used in weightlifting

n 1: a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck 2: a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed [syn: doorbell, bell, buzzer] 3: the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells" [syn: bell, toll] 4: (nautical) each of the eight half-hour units of nautical time signaled by strokes of a ship's bell; eight bells signals 4:00, 8:00, or 12:00 o'clock, either a.m. or p.m. [syn: bell, ship's bell] 5: the shape of a bell [syn: bell, bell shape, campana] 6: a phonetician and father of Alexander Graham Bell (1819-1905) [syn: Bell, Melville Bell, Alexander Melville Bell] 7: English painter; sister of Virginia Woolf; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group (1879-1961) [syn: Bell, Vanessa Bell, Vanessa Stephen] 8: United States inventor (born in Scotland) of the telephone (1847-1922) [syn: Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell] 9: a percussion instrument consisting of a set of tuned bells that are struck with a hammer; used as an orchestral instrument [syn: chime, bell, gong] 10: the flared opening of a tubular device v 1: attach a bell to; "bell cows"

n 1: a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals; "she was the belle of the ball"

n 1: sometimes placed in genus Scilla [syn: wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth, bluebell, harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta] 2: one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas [syn: prairie gentian, tulip gentian, bluebell, Eustoma grandiflorum] 3: perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell- shaped blue flowers [syn: harebell, bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia]

n 1: a bell hung around the neck of cow so that the cow can be easily located

n 1: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity; 10 times the logarithm of the ratio of the sound intensity to some reference intensity [syn: decibel, dB]

n 1: a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed [syn: doorbell, bell, buzzer]

n 1: an exercising weight; two spheres connected by a short bar that serves as a handle 2: an ignorant or foolish person [syn: dumbbell, dummy, dope, boob, booby, pinhead]

n 1: sometimes placed in genus Scilla [syn: wild hyacinth, wood hyacinth, bluebell, harebell, Hyacinthoides nonscripta, Scilla nonscripta] 2: perennial of northern hemisphere with slender stems and bell- shaped blue flowers [syn: harebell, bluebell, Campanula rotundifolia]

adj 1: capable of being quantified

n 1: `Johnny' was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; `greyback' derived from their grey Confederate uniforms [syn: Rebel, Reb, Johnny Reb, Johnny, greyback] 2: a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) [syn: insurgent, insurrectionist, freedom fighter, rebel] 3: someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action [syn: maverick, rebel] v 1: take part in a rebellion; renounce a former allegiance [syn: rebel, arise, rise, rise up] 2: break with established customs [syn: rebel, renegade]

n 1: United States writer of satirical novels (1879-1958) [syn: Cabell, James Branch Cabell]

n 1: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels [syn: Bel, B] 2: Babylonian god of the earth; one of the supreme triad including Anu and Ea; earlier identified with En-lil

n 1: Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896) [syn: Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Bernhard Nobel]

n 1: small tree native to Japan [syn: snowbell, Styrax obassia]

n 1: United States writer remembered for her muckraking investigations into industries in the early 20th century (1857-1944) [syn: Tarbell, Ida Tarbell, Ida M. Tarbell, Ida Minerva Tarbell]

n 1: a bell attached to a sleigh, or to the harness of a horse that is pulling a sleigh [syn: sleigh bell, cascabel]

n 1: wife of Ahab who was king of Israel; according to the Old Testament she was a cruel immoral queen who fostered the worship of Baal and tried to kill Elijah and other prophets of Israel (9th century BC) 2: a shameless impudent scheming woman

n 1: a bell that is held in the hand