Words that rhyme with benguela

n 1: a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them [syn: blackmailer, extortioner, extortionist]

n 1: the proprietor of a bookstore

n 1: the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin [syn: candle, candela, cd, standard candle]

n 1: the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage [syn: basement, cellar] 2: an excavation where root vegetables are stored [syn: root cellar, cellar] 3: storage space where wines are stored [syn: cellar, wine cellar]

n 1: an agricultural laborer in Arab countries

n 1: a person who fells trees [syn: lumberman, lumberjack, logger, feller, faller] 2: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke]

n 1: a boy or man; "that chap is your host"; "there's a fellow at the door"; "he's a likable cuss"; "he's a good bloke" [syn: chap, fellow, feller, fella, lad, gent, blighter, cuss, bloke] 2: a friend who is frequently in the company of another; "drinking companions"; "comrades in arms" [syn: companion, comrade, fellow, familiar, associate] 3: a person who is member of one's class or profession; "the surgeon consulted his colleagues"; "he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers" [syn: colleague, confrere, fellow] 4: one of a pair; "he lost the mate to his shoe"; "one eye was blue but its fellow was brown" [syn: mate, fellow] 5: a member of a learned society; "he was elected a fellow of the American Physiological Association" 6: an informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?" [syn: fellow, dude, buster] 7: a man who is the lover of a girl or young woman; "if I'd known he was her boyfriend I wouldn't have asked" [syn: boyfriend, fellow, beau, swain, young man]

n 1: Eurasian perennial herb with white flowers that emit flammable vapor in hot weather [syn: fraxinella, dittany, burning bush, gas plant, Dictamnus alba]

n 1: a gay festivity [syn: gala, gala affair, jamboree, blowout]

n 1: the blade of a rotor (as in the compressor of a jet engine)

n 1: a dispenser that produces a chemical vapor to be inhaled in order to relieve nasal congestion [syn: inhaler, inhalator]

adj 1: between or among stars; "the density of hydrogen in interplanetary and interstellar space"

n 1: someone who guards prisoners [syn: prison guard, jailer, jailor, gaoler, screw, turnkey]

n 1: any of the radiating leaflike spore-producing structures on the underside of the cap of a mushroom or similar fungus [syn: gill, lamella] 2: a thin membrane that is one of the calcified layers that form bones 3: thin plate

n 1: United States writer (born in 1923) [syn: Mailer, Norman Mailer] 2: a person who mails something 3: an advertisement that is sent by mail 4: a container for something to be mailed

n 1: mild white Italian cheese

n 1: a short novel [syn: novelette, novella]

n 1: saffron-flavored dish made of rice with shellfish and chicken

n 1: a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint [syn: patella, kneecap, kneepan] 2: type genus of the family Patellidae: common European limpets [syn: Patella, genus Patella]

adj 1: near or relating to the patella or kneecap; "patellar tendon"

n 1: a mechanical device that rotates to push against air or water [syn: propeller, propellor]

n 1: a merchant who sells goods at retail [syn: retailer, retail merchant]

n 1: a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester [syn: German measles, rubella, three-day measles, epidemic roseola]

n 1: any member of a ship's crew [syn: sailor, crewman] 2: a serviceman in the navy [syn: bluejacket, navy man, sailor, sailor boy] 3: a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown [syn: boater, leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer, straw hat]

n 1: rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; cause typhoid fever and food poisoning; can be used as a bioweapon

n 1: a small container for holding salt at the dining table

adj 1: of or relating to a musical scale; "he played some basic scalar patterns on his guitar" 2: of or relating to a directionless magnitude (such as mass or speed etc.) that is completely specified by its magnitude; "scalar quantity" n 1: a variable quantity that cannot be resolved into components

n 1: a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) [syn: shillelagh, shillalah]

n 1: someone who spells words [syn: speller, good speller, poor speller] 2: an introductory textbook to teach spelling

adj 1: indicating the most important performer or role; "the leading man"; "prima ballerina"; "prima donna"; "a star figure skater"; "the starring role"; "a stellar role"; "a stellar performance" [syn: leading(p), prima(p), star(p), starring(p), stellar(a)] 2: being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars; "an astral body"; "stellar light" [syn: stellar, astral]

n 1: someone who tells a story [syn: narrator, storyteller, teller] 2: someone who tells lies [syn: storyteller, fibber, fabricator]

n 1: a person whose occupation is making and altering garments [syn: tailor, seamster, sartor] v 1: adjust to a specific need or market; "a magazine oriented towards young people"; "tailor your needs to your surroundings" [syn: tailor, orient] 2: style and tailor in a certain fashion; "cut a dress" [syn: cut, tailor] 3: create (clothes) with cloth; "Can the seamstress sew me a suit by next week?" [syn: sew, tailor, tailor-make]

n 1: music composed in six-eight time for dancing the tarantella 2: a lively whirling Italian dance for two persons [syn: tarantella, tarantelle]

n 1: United States physicist (born in Hungary) who worked on the first atom bomb and the first hydrogen bomb (1908-2003) [syn: Teller, Edward Teller] 2: an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly) [syn: teller, vote counter] 3: an employee of a bank who receives and pays out money [syn: teller, cashier, bank clerk] 4: someone who tells a story [syn: narrator, storyteller, teller]

n 1: someone who takes more time than necessary; someone who lags behind [syn: dawdler, drone, laggard, lagger, trailer, poke] 2: an advertisement consisting of short scenes from a motion picture that will appear in the near future [syn: preview, prevue, trailer] 3: a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor 4: a wheeled vehicle that can be pulled by a car or truck and is equipped for occupancy [syn: trailer, house trailer]

adj 1: covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups; "an umbrella organization"; "umbrella insurance coverage" n 1: a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy 2: a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets; "an air umbrella over England" 3: having the function of uniting a group of similar things; "the Democratic Party is an umbrella for many liberal groups"; "under the umbrella of capitalism"

n 1: a mourner who utters long loud high-pitched cries

n 1: someone who enjoys riotous drinking [syn: wassailer, carouser] 2: someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the health of success of someone or some venture [syn: toaster, wassailer]

n 1: a seaman who works on a ship that hunts whales 2: a ship engaged in whale fishing [syn: whaler, whaling ship]

n 1: someone who buys large quantities of goods and resells to merchants rather than to the ultimate customers [syn: jobber, middleman, wholesaler]

n 1: the person who delivers personal property (goods or money) in trust to the bailee in a bailment

n 1: the arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek [syn: cheekbone, zygomatic bone, zygomatic, malar, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum]

n 1: a worker who attaches something by nailing it

n 1: an electronic pulse counter used to count pulses that occur too rapidly to be recorded individually

n 1: United States minimalist painter (born in 1936) [syn: Stella, Frank Stella, Frank Philip Stella]

n 1: the brightest star in Auriga 2: snipes [syn: Gallinago, genus Gallinago, Capella, genus Capella]

n 1: South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918) [syn: Mandela, Nelson Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela]

n 1: small genus of perennial mostly Eurasian having terminal spikes of small purplish or white flowers [syn: Prunella, genus Prunella] 2: type genus of the Prunellidae [syn: Prunella, genus Prunella]

n 1: a fabric made from a twilled mixture of cotton and wool

n 1: a woman whose merits were not been recognized but who then achieves sudden success and recognition 2: a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince

n 1: the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504) [syn: Isabella, Queen Isabella, Isabella I, Isabella the Catholic]

n 1: a Hindu disciple of a swami 2: a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods [syn: claw, chela, nipper, pincer]

n 1: a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil [syn: Venezuela, Republic of Venezuela]

adj 1: of or relating to the axil [syn: axillary, alar] 2: having or resembling wings [syn: alar, alary, aliform, wing-shaped] n 1: a chemical sprayed on fruit trees to regulate their growth so the entire crop can be harvested at one time [syn: Alar, daminozide]

n 1: Swedish chemist (born in Germany) who discovered oxygen before Priestley did (1742-1786) [syn: Scheele, Karl Scheele, Karl Wilhelm Scheele]

n 1: any alga of the genus Chlorella

n 1: a smooth prominence of the frontal bone between and above the eyebrows; the most forward projecting point of the forehead in the midline at the level of the supraorbital ridges [syn: glabella, mesophyron]

n 1: rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some are pathogenic for warm-blooded animals; can be used as a bioweapon

n 1: oval or circular opening; to allow light into a dome or vault [syn: lunette, fenestella]

n 1: a genus of nonmotile rod-shaped Gram-negative enterobacteria; some cause respiratory and other infections

n 1: the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legionnaires' disease [syn: Legionella pneumophilia, legionella]

n 1: an acute contagious disease caused by herpes varicella zoster virus; causes a rash of vesicles on the face and body [syn: chickenpox, varicella]

n 1: any of various protozoa having a transparent goblet-shaped body with a retractile stalk

n 1: any abnormality following or resulting from a disease or injury or treatment; "paralysis is one of the sequelae of poliomyelitis"

n 1: a trailer having wheels only in the rear; the front is supported by the towing vehicle [syn: semitrailer, semi]

n 1: United States composer and music critic (1885-1966) [syn: Taylor, Deems Taylor, Joseph Deems Taylor] 2: United States film actress (born in England) who was a childhood star; as an adult she often co-starred with Richard Burton (born in 1932) [syn: Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor] 3: 12th President of the United States; died in office (1784-1850) [syn: Taylor, Zachary Taylor, President Taylor]

n 1: United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968) [syn: Keller, Helen Keller, Helen Adams Keller]

n 1: a tavern below street level featuring beer; originally a German restaurant in the basement of city hall

n 1: United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937) [syn: Rockefeller, John D. Rockefeller, John Davison Rockefeller]

n 1: someone who gossips indiscreetly [syn: tattletale, tattler, taleteller, talebearer, telltale, blabbermouth]