Words that rhyme with becquerel

• apparel 0
  n 1: clothing in general; "she was refined in her choice of apparel"; "he always bought his clothes at the same store"; "fastidious about his dress" [syn: apparel, wearing apparel, dress, clothes] v 1: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel] [ant: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress]
• barrel 0
  n 1: a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired [syn: barrel, gun barrel] 2: a cylindrical container that holds liquids [syn: barrel, cask] 3: a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn: barrel, drum] 4: the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold [syn: barrel, barrelful] 5: any of various units of capacity; "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons" [syn: barrel, bbl] v 1: put in barrels
• bell 0
  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"
• belle 0
  n 1: a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals; "she was the belle of the ball"
• beryl 0
  n 1: the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems
• carol 0
  n 1: joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ [syn: carol, Christmas carol] 2: a joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ) v 1: sing carols; "They went caroling on Christmas Day"
• carrel 0
  n 1: French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944) [syn: Carrel, Alexis Carrel] 2: small individual study area in a library [syn: carrel, carrell, cubicle, stall]
• cartel 0
  n 1: a consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service; "they set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly" [syn: trust, corporate trust, combine, cartel]
• cell 0
  n 1: any small compartment; "the cells of a honeycomb" 2: (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals 3: a device that delivers an electric current as the result of a chemical reaction [syn: cell, electric cell] 4: a small unit serving as part of or as the nucleus of a larger political movement [syn: cell, cadre] 5: a hand-held mobile radiotelephone for use in an area divided into small sections, each with its own short-range transmitter/receiver [syn: cellular telephone, cellular phone, cellphone, cell, mobile phone] 6: small room in which a monk or nun lives [syn: cell, cubicle] 7: a room where a prisoner is kept [syn: cell, jail cell, prison cell]
• compel 0
  v 1: force somebody to do something; "We compel all students to fill out this form" [syn: compel, oblige, obligate] 2: necessitate or exact; "the water shortage compels conservation"
• feral 0
  adj 1: wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs" [syn: feral, ferine, savage]
• ferrule 0
  n 1: a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting [syn: ferrule, collet]
• ferule 0
  n 1: a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children
• laurel 0
  n 1: any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family 2: United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965) [syn: Laurel, Stan Laurel, Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel] 3: (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory [syn: laurel, laurel wreath, bay wreath]
• morel 0
  n 1: any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap
• neural 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder" [syn: nervous, neural] 2: of or relating to neurons; "neural network" [syn: neural, neuronal, neuronic]
• oral 0
  adj 1: using speech rather than writing; "an oral tradition"; "an oral agreement" [syn: oral, unwritten] 2: of or relating to or affecting or for use in the mouth; "oral hygiene"; "an oral thermometer"; "an oral vaccine" 3: of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the surface on which the mouth is located; "the oral cavity"; "the oral mucous membrane"; "the oral surface of a starfish" [ant: aboral] 4: a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated in the mouth; fixation at this stage is said to result in dependence, selfishness, and aggression [ant: anal, anal retentive] n 1: an examination conducted by spoken communication [syn: oral, oral exam, oral examination, viva voce, viva]
• pleural 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax; "pleural muscles"
• quarrel 0
  n 1: an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" [syn: quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup] 2: an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges v 1: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]
• rural 0
  adj 1: living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural" [ant: urban] 2: of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city; "rural electrification"; "rural free delivery"
• sorrel 0
  adj 1: of a light brownish color [syn: sorrel, brownish- orange] n 1: any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis [syn: oxalis, sorrel, wood sorrel] 2: any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine [syn: dock, sorrel, sour grass] 3: East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber [syn: roselle, rozelle, sorrel, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa] 4: large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces [syn: sorrel, common sorrel] 5: a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
• squirrel 0
  n 1: a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail 2: the fur of a squirrel
• auroral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras; "a prominent green line in the spectrum of the auroras is called the `auroral line'" 2: characteristic of the dawn; "a dim auroral glow" [syn: auroral, aurorean]
• carroll 0
  n 1: English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [syn: Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Dodgson, Reverend Dodgson, Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
• cornell 0
  n 1: United States actress noted for her performances in Broadway plays (1893-1974) [syn: Cornell, Katherine Cornell] 2: United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874) [syn: Cornell, Ezra Cornell]
• farrell 0
  n 1: United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979) [syn: Farrell, James Thomas Farrell] 2: United States operatic soprano noted for the clarity and power of her voice (1920-2002) [syn: Farrell, Eileen Farrell]
• befell 0
• scleral 0
• ural 0
• carole 0
• carrol 0
• caryl 0
• darrell 0
• daryl 0
• mccarrell 0
• mccarroll 0
• burrell 0
• ferrel 0
• tyrrell 0

See also becquerel definition