Words that rhyme with bridewell

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"

n 1: a young woman who is the most charming and beautiful of several rivals; "she was the belle of the ball"

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]

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]

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"

n 1: an acknowledgment or expression of goodwill at parting [syn: farewell, word of farewell] 2: the act of departing politely; "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow" [syn: farewell, leave, leave-taking, parting]

v 1: to exist as an inner activating spirit, force, or principle

n 1: a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped [syn: inkwell, inkstand]

n 1: any plant of the genus Veronica [syn: veronica, speedwell]

n 1: a vertical well around which there is a stairway

adj 1: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy]

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]

n 1: Scottish author noted for his biography of Samuel Johnson (1740-1795) [syn: Boswell, James Boswell] 2: a devoted admirer and recorder of another's words and deeds

n 1: a cgs unit of magnetic flux equal to the flux perpendicular to an area of 1 square centimeter in a magnetic field of 1 gauss [syn: maxwell, Mx] 2: Scottish physicist whose equations unified electricity and magnetism and who recognized the electromagnetic nature of light (1831-1879) [syn: Maxwell, J. C. Maxwell, James Clerk Maxwell]

n 1: imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) [syn: Orwell, George Orwell, Eric Blair, Eric Arthur Blair]

n 1: United States illustrator whose works present a sentimental idealized view of everyday life (1894-1978) [syn: Rockwell, Norman Rockwell]

n 1: United States author remembered for novels about poverty and degeneration (1903-1987) [syn: Caldwell, Erskine Caldwell, Erskine Preston Caldwell]

n 1: English general and statesman who led the parliamentary army in the English Civil War (1599-1658) [syn: Cromwell, Oliver Cromwell, Ironsides]

n 1: a town in southeast New Mexico

n 1: European perennial branching plant; occurs in hedgerows and at the edge of woodlands [syn: gromwell, Lithospermum officinale]