Words that rhyme with basipetal

  • barbital
    n 1: a barbiturate used as a hypnotic [syn: barbital, veronal, barbitone, diethylbarbituric acid, diethylmalonylurea]
  • beetle
    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
  • betel
    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]
  • black
    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]
  • capital
    adj 1: first-rate; "a capital fellow"; "a capital idea" 2: of primary importance; "our capital concern was to avoid defeat" 3: uppercase; "capital A"; "great A"; "many medieval manuscripts are in majuscule script" [syn: capital, great, majuscule] n 1: assets available for use in the production of further assets [syn: capital, working capital] 2: wealth in the form of money or property owned by a person or business and human resources of economic value 3: a seat of government 4: one of the large alphabetic characters used as the first letter in writing or printing proper names and sometimes for emphasis; "printers once kept the type for capitals and for small letters in separate cases; capitals were kept in the upper half of the type case and so became known as upper-case letters" [syn: capital, capital letter, uppercase, upper-case letter, majuscule] [ant: lower-case letter, lowercase, minuscule, small letter] 5: a center that is associated more than any other with some activity or product; "the crime capital of Italy"; "the drug capital of Columbia" 6: the federal government of the United States [syn: Capital, Washington] 7: a book written by Karl Marx (1867) describing his economic theories [syn: Das Kapital, Capital] 8: the upper part of a column that supports the entablature [syn: capital, chapiter, cap]
  • capitol
    n 1: a building occupied by a state legislature 2: the government building in Washington where the United States Senate and the House of Representatives meet [syn: Capitol, Capitol Building]
  • centripetal
    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)]
  • coital
    adj 1: of or relating to coitus or copulation [syn: coital, copulatory]
  • congenital
    adj 1: present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development [syn: congenital, inborn, innate]
  • digital
    adj 1: displaying numbers rather than scale positions; "digital clock"; "digital readout" 2: relating to or performed with the fingers; "digital examination" 3: of a circuit or device that represents magnitudes in digits; "digital computer" [ant: analog, analogue, linear]
  • extramarital
    adj 1: characterized by adultery; "an adulterous relationship"; "extramarital affairs"; "the extracurricular activities of a philandering husband" [syn: adulterous, extramarital, extracurricular]
  • foetal
    adj 1: of or relating to a fetus; "fetal development" [syn: fetal, foetal]
  • genital
    adj 1: of or relating to the external sex organs; "genital herpes"; "venereal disease" [syn: genital, venereal]
  • marital
    adj 1: of or relating to the state of marriage; "marital status"; "marital fidelity"; "married bliss" [syn: marital, matrimonial, married]
  • occipital
    adj 1: of or relating to the occiput; "occipital bone"
  • orbital
    adj 1: of or relating to an orbit; "orbital revolution"; "orbital velocity" 2: of or relating to the eye socket; "orbital scale"; "orbital arch"
  • palatal
    adj 1: relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils" [syn: palatal, palatine] 2: produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') [syn: palatal, palatalized, palatalised] n 1: a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast')
  • parietal
    adj 1: of or relating to or associated with the parietal bones in the cranium; "parietal lobe"
  • pentobarbital
    n 1: a barbiturate (trade name Nembutal) used as a sedative and hypnotic and antispasmodic [syn: pentobarbital sodium, pentobarbital, Nembutal, yellow jacket]
  • pivotal
    adj 1: being of crucial importance; "a pivotal event"; "Its pivotal location has also exposed it to periodic invasions"- Henry Kissinger; "the polar events of this study"; "a polar principal" [syn: pivotal, polar]
  • premarital
    adj 1: relating to events before a marriage; "prenuptial agreement" [syn: prenuptial, premarital, antenuptial] [ant: postnuptial]
  • pubertal
    adj 1: of or related to puberty
  • skeletal
    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]
  • societal
    adj 1: relating to human society and its members; "social institutions"; "societal evolution"; "societal forces"; "social legislation" [syn: social, societal]
  • vegetal
    adj 1: composed of vegetation or plants; "regions rich in vegetal products"; "vegetational cover"; "the decaying vegetative layer covering a forest floor" [syn: vegetal, vegetational, vegetative] 2: (of reproduction) characterized by asexual processes [syn: vegetal, vegetative]
  • varietal
    n 1: a wine made principally from one grape and carrying the name of that grape [syn: varietal, varietal wine] [ant: generic, generic wine]
  • urogenital
    adj 1: of or relating to the urinary and reproductive systems
  • chital
  • decretal
  • interdigital
  • ancipital
  • sincipital

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