Words that rhyme with barometrical

  • geometrical
    adj 1: of or relating to or determined by geometry [syn: geometric, geometrical] 2: characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration; "a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometric designs" [syn: geometric, geometrical]
  • allegorical
    adj 1: used in or characteristic of or containing allegory; "allegorical stories"; "an allegorical painting of Victory leading an army" [syn: allegorical, allegoric]
  • alphanumerical
    adj 1: of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters [syn: alphanumeric, alphanumerical, alphameric, alphamerical]
  • angelical
    adj 1: of or relating to angels; "angelic messenger" [syn: angelic, angelical] 2: having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition" [syn: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet] 3: marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother" [syn: angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted]
  • asymmetrical
    adj 1: characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components [syn: asymmetrical, asymmetric] [ant: symmetric, symmetrical] 2: irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with a crooked hemline" [syn: asymmetrical, crooked]
  • auricle
    n 1: a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart [syn: auricle, atrial auricle, auricula atrii] 2: the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear [syn: auricle, pinna, ear]
  • biblical
    adj 1: of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible; "biblical names"; "biblical Hebrew" [syn: biblical, scriptural] 2: in keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people; "biblical styles in writing"; "a beard of biblical proportions"; "biblical costumes"
  • biomedical
    adj 1: relating to the activities and applications of science to clinical medicine; "biomedical research laboratory"
  • canonical
    adj 1: appearing in a biblical canon; "a canonical book of the Christian New Testament" [syn: canonic, canonical] 2: of or relating to or required by canon law [syn: canonic, canonical] 3: reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern" [syn: basic, canonic, canonical] 4: conforming to orthodox or recognized rules; "the drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"- Sinclair Lewis [syn: canonic, canonical, sanctioned]
  • canticle
    n 1: a hymn derived from the Bible
  • carbuncle
    n 1: deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets 2: an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus
  • categorical
    adj 1: relating to or included in a category or categories [syn: categorical, categoric] 2: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional]
  • cervical
    adj 1: of or relating to the cervix of the uterus; "cervical cancer" 2: relating to or associated with the neck
  • chemical
    adj 1: relating to or used in chemistry; "chemical engineer"; "chemical balance" [syn: chemical, chemic] 2: of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes; "chemical fertilizer" n 1: material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules [syn: chemical, chemical substance]
  • chimerical
    adj 1: being or relating to or like a chimera; "his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush [syn: chimeric, chimerical, chimeral] 2: produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush
  • chronicle
    n 1: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn: history, account, chronicle, story] v 1: record in chronological order; make a historical record
  • classical
    adj 1: of or relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation and its culture; "classic Cinese pottery" [syn: classical, classic] [ant: nonclassical] 2: of recognized authority or excellence; "the definitive work on Greece"; "classical methods of navigation" [syn: authoritative, classical, classic, definitive] 3: of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome; " a classical scholar" 4: (language) having the form used by ancient standard authors; "classical Greek 5: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures; "classical mythology"; "classical [syn: classical, classic, Greco-Roman, Graeco-Roman, Hellenic] n 1: traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste [syn: classical music, classical, serious music]
  • clavicle
    n 1: bone linking the scapula and sternum [syn: clavicle, collarbone]
  • clerical
    adj 1: of or relating to clerks; "clerical work" 2: of or relating to the clergy; "clerical collar" 3: appropriate for or engaged in office work; "clerical skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff"
  • clinical
    adj 1: relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients; "clinical observation"; "clinical case study" 2: scientifically detached; unemotional; "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony"
  • comical
    adj 1: arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics" [syn: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible]
  • conical
    adj 1: relating to or resembling a cone; "conical mountains"; "conelike fruit" [syn: conic, conical, conelike, cone-shaped]
  • coracle
    n 1: a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain
  • cortical
    adj 1: of or relating to a cortex
  • cosmological
    adj 1: pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe; "cosmologic science"; "cosmological redshift"; "cosmogonic theories of the origin of the universe" [syn: cosmologic, cosmological, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmogenic] 2: pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality; "cosmologic philosophy"; "a cosmological argument is an argument that the universe demands the admission of an adequate external cause which is God" [syn: cosmologic, cosmological]
  • cubical
    adj 1: shaped like a cube [syn: cubelike, cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal]
  • cull
    n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject] v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd" 2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn: pick, pluck, cull]
  • cyclical
    adj 1: recurring in cycles [syn: cyclic, cyclical] [ant: noncyclic, noncyclical]
  • cylindrical
    adj 1: having the form of a cylinder [syn: cylindrical, cylindric]
  • diabolical
    adj 1: showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye" [syn: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistophelean] 2: extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [syn: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy]
  • diacritical
    adj 1: capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel [syn: diacritic, diacritical]
  • dialectical
    adj 1: of or relating to or employing dialectic; "the dialectical method" [syn: dialectic, dialectical]
  • diametrical
    adj 1: related to or along a diameter; "the diametral plane" [syn: diametral, diametric, diametrical] 2: characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions" [syn: diametric, diametrical, opposite, polar]
  • dramaturgical
    adj 1: relating to the technical aspects of drama [syn: dramaturgic, dramaturgical]
  • ducal
    adj 1: of or belonging to or suitable for a duke; "ducal palace"
  • electrical
    adj 1: relating to or concerned with electricity; "an electrical engineer"; "electrical and mechanical engineering industries" 2: using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity; "electric current"; "electric wiring"; "electrical appliances"; "an electrical storm" [syn: electric, electrical]
  • empirical
    adj 1: derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical data"; "an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known" [syn: empirical, empiric] [ant: theoretic, theoretical] 2: relying on medical quackery; "empiric treatment" [syn: empiric, empirical]
  • encyclical
    adj 1: intended for wide distribution; "an encyclical letter" n 1: a letter from the pope sent to all Roman Catholic bishops throughout the world [syn: encyclical, encyclical letter]
  • evangelical
    adj 1: relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels; "evangelical Christianity"; "an ultraconservative evangelical message" 2: of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament 3: marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause [syn: evangelical, evangelistic]
  • follicle
    n 1: any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity
  • helical
    adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate]
  • hemispherical
    adj 1: of or relating to or being a hemisphere
  • historical
    adj 1: of or relating to the study of history; "historical scholars"; "a historical perspective" [ant: ahistorical] 2: having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary; "the historical Jesus"; "doubt that a historical Camelot every existed"; "actual historical events" 3: belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character" [syn: historic, historical] 4: used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time; "diachronic linguistics" [syn: diachronic, historical] [ant: synchronic]
  • hysterical
    adj 1: characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia" [syn: hysteric, hysterical] 2: marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion; "hysterical laughter"; "a mob of hysterical vigilantes"
  • lackadaisical
    adj 1: lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous] 2: idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse
  • lyrical
    adj 1: suitable for or suggestive of singing 2: expressing deep emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance" [syn: lyric, lyrical]
  • metallurgical
    adj 1: of or relating to metallurgy; "metallurgical engineer" [syn: metallurgical, metallurgic]
  • metaphorical
    adj 1: expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another; "a metaphorical expression"; "metaphoric language" [syn: metaphorical, metaphoric]
  • metrical
    adj 1: based on the meter as a standard of measurement; "the metric system"; "metrical equivalents" [syn: metric, metrical] 2: the rhythmic arrangement of syllables [syn: measured, metrical, metric]
  • miracle
    n 1: any amazing or wonderful occurrence 2: a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent
  • obstetrical
    adj 1: of or relating to or used in or practicing obstetrics; "obstetric hospital" [syn: obstetric, obstetrical]
  • 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
  • oratorical
    adj 1: characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves
  • pellicle
    n 1: thin protective membrane in some protozoa
  • rankle
    v 1: gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The injustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered" [syn: eat into, fret, rankle, grate]
  • 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]
  • reciprocal
    adj 1: concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return; "reciprocal aid"; "reciprocal trade"; "mutual respect"; "reciprocal privileges at other clubs" [syn: reciprocal, mutual] [ant: nonreciprocal] 2: of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function; "the reciprocal ratio of a:b is b:a" n 1: something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else; "risk is the reciprocal of safety" 2: (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7 [syn: multiplicative inverse, reciprocal] 3: hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype [syn: reciprocal cross, reciprocal]
  • rhetorical
    adj 1: of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford 2: given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery" [ant: unrhetorical]
  • satirical
    adj 1: exposing human folly to ridicule; "a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine" [syn: satirical, satiric]
  • scull
    n 1: a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward 2: each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman 3: a racing shell that is propelled by sculls v 1: propel with sculls; "scull the boat"
  • spherical
    adj 1: of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere; "spherical geometry" [ant: nonspherical] 2: having the shape of a sphere or ball; "a spherical object"; "nearly orbicular in shape"; "little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"- Zane Grey [syn: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical]
  • spiracle
    n 1: a breathing orifice
  • symbolical
    adj 1: relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols; "symbolic logic"; "symbolic operations"; "symbolic thinking" [syn: symbolic, symbolical] 2: serving as a visible symbol for something abstract; "a crown is emblematic of royalty"; "the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish" [syn: emblematic, emblematical, symbolic, symbolical]
  • symmetrical
    adj 1: having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts [syn: symmetrical, symmetric] [ant: asymmetric, asymmetrical] 2: exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities [syn: harmonious, proportionate, symmetrical]
  • theatrical
    adj 1: of or relating to the theater 2: suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater; "a theatrical pose"; "one of the most theatrical figures in public life" [ant: untheatrical] n 1: a performance of a play [syn: theatrical performance, theatrical, representation, histrionics]
  • twinkle
    n 1: a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash [syn: twinkle, scintillation, sparkling] 2: merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes" [syn: sparkle, twinkle, spark, light] v 1: gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" [syn: flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle] 2: emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?" [syn: twinkle, winkle, scintillate]
  • umbilical
    adj 1: relating to or resembling the umbilicus; "umbilical cord" n 1: membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta [syn: umbilical cord, umbilical]
  • uncle
    n 1: the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt [ant: aunt, auntie, aunty] 2: a source of help and advice and encouragement; "he played uncle to lonely students"
  • unsymmetrical
    adj 1: lacking symmetry [syn: unsymmetric, unsymmetrical] 2: having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements [syn: anisometric, unsymmetrical]
  • utricle
    n 1: a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open [syn: utricle, utriculus]
  • ventricle
    n 1: one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid 2: a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries [syn: ventricle, heart ventricle]
  • 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]
  • cul
    n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac, dead end]
  • michael
    n 1: (Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews
  • conventicle
    n 1: a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship 2: a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) [syn: conventicle, meetinghouse]
  • karakul
    n 1: hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur [syn: broadtail, caracul, karakul]
  • parabolical
    adj 1: resembling or expressed by parables [syn: parabolic, parabolical] 2: having the form of a parabola [syn: parabolic, parabolical]
  • anticlerical
  • calicle
  • curricle
  • hydrometrical
  • hyperbolical
  • hypermetrical
  • microsurgical
  • psychosurgical
  • unbiblical
  • truncal
  • thoracal
  • trimetrical
  • unmetrical
  • lumbrical
  • unhistorical

See also barometrical definition