Words that rhyme with basle

• cabal 0
  n 1: a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue [syn: cabal, faction, junto, camarilla] 2: a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) [syn: conspiracy, cabal] v 1: engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government" [syn: conspire, cabal, complot, conjure, machinate]
• carboxyl 0
  adj 1: relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical [syn: carboxyl, carboxylic] n 1: the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids [syn: carboxyl, carboxyl group]
• castle 0
  n 1: a large and stately mansion [syn: palace, castle] 2: a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack 3: (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard [syn: castle, rook] 4: interchanging the positions of the king and a rook [syn: castle, castling] v 1: move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
• codicil 0
  n 1: a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will
• facile 0
  adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem" 2: performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand" 3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken]
• gnarl 0
  n 1: something twisted and tight and swollen; "their muscles stood out in knots"; "the old man's fists were two great gnarls"; "his stomach was in knots" [syn: knot, gnarl] v 1: twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree" 2: make complaining remarks or noises under one's breath; "she grumbles when she feels overworked" [syn: murmur, mutter, grumble, croak, gnarl]
• hassle 0
  n 1: an angry disturbance; "he didn't want to make a fuss"; "they had labor trouble"; "a spot of bother" [syn: fuss, trouble, bother, hassle] 2: disorderly fighting [syn: hassle, scuffle, tussle, dogfight, rough-and-tumble] v 1: annoy continually or chronically; "He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked"; "This man harasses his female co-workers" [syn: harass, hassle, harry, chivy, chivvy, chevy, chevvy, beset, plague, molest, provoke]
• hydroxyl 0
  n 1: the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols [syn: hydroxyl, hydroxyl group, hydroxyl radical]
• marl 0
  n 1: a loose and crumbling earthy deposit consisting mainly of calcite or dolomite; used as a fertilizer for soils deficient in lime
• nacelle 0
  n 1: a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine
• netball 0
  n 1: a team game that resembles basketball; a soccer ball is to be thrown so that it passes through a ring on the top of a post
• real 0
  adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling] adj 1: being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow [syn: real, existent] [ant: unreal] 2: no less than what is stated; worthy of the name; "the real reason"; "real war"; "a real friend"; "a real woman"; "meat and potatoes--I call that a real meal"; "it's time he had a real job"; "it's no penny-ante job--he's making real money" [ant: unreal] 3: not to be taken lightly; "statistics demonstrate that poverty and unemployment are very real problems"; "to the man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real" 4: capable of being treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor" [syn: real, tangible] 5: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: actual, genuine, literal, real] 6: of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation; "real prices"; "real income"; "real wages" [ant: nominal] 7: having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare [syn: substantial, real, material] [ant: insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial] 8: (of property) fixed or immovable; "real property consists of land and buildings" 9: coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"- F.A.Olafson [syn: veridical, real] n 1: any rational or irrational number [syn: real number, real] 2: the basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos 3: an old small silver Spanish coin
• rial 0
  n 1: the basic unit of money in Yemen; equal to 100 fils [syn: Yemeni rial, rial] 2: the basic unit of money in Oman [syn: riyal-omani, Omani rial, rial] 3: the basic unit of money in Iran [syn: Iranian rial, rial]
• screwball 0
  adj 1: foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working" [syn: crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded] n 1: a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball] 2: a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
• snarl 0
  n 1: a vicious angry growl 2: an angry vicious expression 3: something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations" [syn: tangle, snarl, maze] v 1: utter in an angry, sharp, or abrupt tone; "The sales clerk snapped a reply at the angry customer"; "The guard snarled at us" [syn: snap, snarl] 2: make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise; "Bullets snarled past us" 3: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord" [syn: entangle, tangle, mat, snarl] [ant: disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl] 4: make more complicated or confused through entanglements [syn: snarl, snarl up, embrangle]
• tassel 0
  n 1: adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end
• utensil 0
  n 1: an implement for practical use (especially in a household)
• vassal 0
  n 1: a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord [syn: vassal, liege, liegeman, liege subject, feudatory]
• voile 0
  n 1: a light semitransparent fabric
• windowsill 0
  n 1: the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame
• aries 0
  n 1: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Aries [syn: Aries, Ram] 2: a small zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Pisces and Taurus 3: the first sign of the zodiac which the sun enters at the vernal equinox; the sun is in this sign from about March 21 to April 19 [syn: Aries, Aries the Ram, Ram]
• dahl 0
  n 1: tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics [syn: pigeon pea, pigeon-pea plant, cajan pea, catjang pea, red gram, dhal, dahl, Cajanus cajan] 2: small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant [syn: cajan pea, pigeon pea, dahl]
• gracile 0
  adj 1: slender and graceful [syn: gracile, willowy]
• hassel 0
  n 1: Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981) [syn: Hassel, Odd Hassel]
• kraal 0
  n 1: a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade 2: a pen for livestock in southern Africa
• decile 0
  n 1: (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores
• baal 0
  n 1: any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples; the Hebrews considered Baal a false god
• dhal 0
  n 1: tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics [syn: pigeon pea, pigeon-pea plant, cajan pea, catjang pea, red gram, dhal, dahl, Cajanus cajan]
• paintball 0
  n 1: a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball 2: a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them
• taal 0
  n 1: an official language of the Republic of South Africa; closely related to Dutch and Flemish [syn: Afrikaans, Taal, South African Dutch]
• rale 0
  n 1: a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders); "the death rattle" [syn: rattle, rattling, rale]
• heelball 0
• scissile 0
• toile 0
• cecil 0
• ahl 0
• bahl 0
• bol 0
• bolle 0
• waal 0
• astle 0
• brasel 0
• brassell 0
• cassel 0
• cassell 0
• grassel 0
• grassl 0
• hassell 0
• kasel 0
• kasell 0
• kassel 0
• kastle 0
• vassel 0
• vantassel 0
• vantassell 0
• escorial 0
• baale 0
• iqbal 0
• rollerball 0
• ewbal 0
• goalball 0
• patball 0
• sleazeball 0
• stoolball 0
• setbal 0
• cristobal 0
• carl 0
• harl 0
• karl 0
• harle 0
• cresyl 0

See also basle definition and basle synonyms