Words that rhyme with bungle

  • angle
    n 1: the space between two lines or planes that intersect; the inclination of one line to another; measured in degrees or radians 2: a biased way of looking at or presenting something [syn: slant, angle] 3: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Saxons and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons v 1: move or proceed at an angle; "he angled his way into the room" 2: to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister" [syn: lean, tilt, tip, slant, angle] 3: seek indirectly; "fish for compliments" [syn: fish, angle] 4: fish with a hook 5: present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders" [syn: slant, angle, weight]
  • antifungal
    adj 1: capable of destroying fungi [syn: fungicidal, antifungal] n 1: any agent that destroys or prevents the growth of fungi [syn: antifungal, antifungal agent, fungicide, antimycotic, antimycotic agent]
  • bangle
    n 1: jewelry worn around the wrist for decoration [syn: bracelet, bangle] 2: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]
  • bespangle
    v 1: decorate with spangles; "the star-spangled banner" [syn: spangle, bespangle] 2: dot or sprinkle with sparkling or glittering objects
  • commingle
    v 1: mix or blend; "His book commingles sarcasm and sadness" 2: mix together different elements; "The colors blend well" [syn: blend, flux, mix, conflate, commingle, immix, fuse, coalesce, meld, combine, merge]
  • cringle
    n 1: fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines [syn: cringle, eyelet, loop, grommet, grummet]
  • dangle
    v 1: hang freely; "the ornaments dangled from the tree"; "The light dropped from the ceiling" [syn: dangle, swing, drop] 2: cause to dangle or hang freely; "He dangled the ornaments from the Christmas tree"
  • dingle
    n 1: a small wooded hollow [syn: dell, dingle]
  • disentangle
    v 1: release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task" [syn: extricate, untangle, disentangle, disencumber] 2: extricate from entanglement; "Can you disentangle the cord?" [syn: disentangle, unsnarl, straighten out] [ant: entangle, mat, snarl, tangle] 3: free from involvement or entanglement; "How can I disentangle myself from her personal affairs?" [syn: disinvolve, disembroil, disentangle] 4: separate the tangles of [syn: unwind, disentangle] 5: smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb; "comb your hair before dinner"; "comb the wool" [syn: comb, comb out, disentangle]
  • embrangle
    v 1: make more complicated or confused through entanglements [syn: snarl, snarl up, embrangle]
  • entangle
    v 1: entrap; "Our people should not be mired in the past" [syn: entangle, mire] 2: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord" [syn: entangle, tangle, mat, snarl] [ant: disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl]
  • fungal
    adj 1: of or relating to fungi [syn: fungal, fungous]
  • intermingle
    v 1: combine into one; "blend the nuts and raisins together"; "he blends in with the crowd"; "We don't intermingle much" [syn: blend, intermix, immingle, intermingle]
  • jangle
    n 1: a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs" [syn: jingle, jangle] v 1: make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket" [syn: jingle, jingle-jangle, jangle]
  • jingle
    n 1: a metallic sound; "the jingle of coins"; "the jangle of spurs" [syn: jingle, jangle] 2: a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn: doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle] v 1: make a sound typical of metallic objects; "The keys were jingling in his pocket" [syn: jingle, jingle-jangle, jangle]
  • jungle
    n 1: a location marked by an intense competition and struggle for survival 2: a place where hoboes camp [syn: hobo camp, jungle] 3: an impenetrable equatorial forest
  • mangle
    n 1: clothes dryer for drying and ironing laundry by passing it between two heavy heated rollers v 1: press with a mangle; "mangle the sheets" 2: injure badly by beating [syn: maul, mangle] 3: alter so as to make unrecognizable; "The tourists murdered the French language" [syn: mangle, mutilate, murder] 4: destroy or injure severely; "The madman mutilates art work" [syn: mutilate, mangle, cut up]
  • pentangle
    n 1: a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon [syn: pentacle, pentagram, pentangle]
  • quadrangle
    n 1: a four-sided polygon [syn: quadrilateral, quadrangle, tetragon] 2: a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings [syn: quad, quadrangle]
  • rectangle
    n 1: a parallelogram with four right angles
  • shingle
    n 1: building material used as siding or roofing [syn: shingle, shake] 2: coarse beach gravel of small waterworn stones and pebbles (or a stretch of shore covered with such gravel) 3: a small signboard outside the office of a lawyer or doctor, e.g. v 1: cover with shingles; "shingle a roof"
  • single
    adj 1: being or characteristic of a single thing or person; "individual drops of rain"; "please mark the individual pages"; "they went their individual ways" [syn: individual, single] [ant: common] 2: used of flowers having usually only one row or whorl of petals; "single chrysanthemums resemble daisies and may have more than one row of petals" [ant: double] 3: existing alone or consisting of one entity or part or aspect or individual; "upon the hill stood a single tower"; "had but a single thought which was to escape"; "a single survivor"; "a single serving"; "a single lens"; "a single thickness" [ant: multiple] 4: not married or related to the unmarried state; "unmarried men and women"; "unmarried life"; "sex and the single girl"; "single parenthood"; "are you married or single?" [syn: unmarried, single] [ant: married] 5: characteristic of or meant for a single person or thing; "an individual serving"; "single occupancy"; "a single bed" [syn: individual, single(a)] 6: having uniform application; "a single legal code for all" 7: not divided among or brought to bear on more than one object or objective; "judging a contest with a single eye"; "a single devotion to duty"; "undivided affection"; "gained their exclusive attention" [syn: single(a), undivided, exclusive] n 1: a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base [syn: single, bingle] 2: the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number; "he has the one but will need a two and three to go with it"; "they had lunch at one" [syn: one, 1, I, ace, single, unity] v 1: hit a single; "the batter singled to left field"
  • spangle
    n 1: adornment consisting of a small piece of shiny material used to decorate clothing [syn: sequin, spangle, diamante] v 1: glitter as if covered with spangles 2: decorate with spangles; "the star-spangled banner" [syn: spangle, bespangle]
  • strangle
    v 1: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes" [syn: strangle, strangulate, throttle] 2: conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn" [syn: smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress] 3: die from strangulation 4: prevent the progress or free movement of; "He was hampered in his efforts by the bad weather"; "the imperialist nation wanted to strangle the free trade between the two small countries" [syn: hamper, halter, cramp, strangle] 5: constrict (someone's) throat and keep from breathing [syn: choke, strangle] 6: struggle for breath; have insufficient oxygen intake; "he swallowed a fishbone and gagged" [syn: gag, choke, strangle, suffocate]
  • tangle
    n 1: a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven; "they carved their way through the tangle of vines" 2: something jumbled or confused; "a tangle of government regulations" [syn: tangle, snarl, maze] v 1: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" [syn: embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in] 2: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn: ravel, tangle, knot] [ant: ravel, ravel out, unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle] 3: disarrange or rumple; dishevel; "The strong wind tousled my hair" [syn: tousle, dishevel, tangle] 4: twist together or entwine into a confusing mass; "The child entangled the cord" [syn: entangle, tangle, mat, snarl] [ant: disentangle, straighten out, unsnarl]
  • tingle
    n 1: an almost pleasurable sensation of fright; "a frisson of surprise shot through him" [syn: frisson, shiver, chill, quiver, shudder, thrill, tingle] 2: a somatic sensation as from many tiny prickles [syn: prickling, tingle, tingling] v 1: cause a stinging or tingling sensation [syn: tingle, prickle]
  • triangle
    n 1: a three-sided polygon [syn: triangle, trigon, trilateral] 2: something approximating the shape of a triangle; "the coastline of Chile and Argentina and Brazil forms two legs of a triangle" 3: a small northern constellation near Perseus between Andromeda and Aries [syn: Triangulum, Triangle] 4: any of various triangular drafting instruments used to draw straight lines at specified angles 5: a percussion instrument consisting of a metal bar bent in the shape of an open triangle
  • untangle
    v 1: release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task" [syn: extricate, untangle, disentangle, disencumber] 2: become or cause to become undone by separating the fibers or threads of; "unravel the thread" [syn: unravel, unknot, unscramble, untangle, unpick] [ant: knot, ravel, tangle]
  • wangle
    n 1: an instance of accomplishing something by scheming or trickery [syn: wangle, wangling] v 1: achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods [syn: wangle, finagle, manage] 2: tamper, with the purpose of deception; "Fudge the figures"; "cook the books"; "falsify the data" [syn: fudge, manipulate, fake, falsify, cook, wangle, misrepresent]
  • wrangle
    n 1: an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" [syn: quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup] 2: an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling] v 1: to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street" [syn: brawl, wrangle] 2: herd and care for; "wrangle horses"
  • mongol
    adj 1: of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures; "the Mongol invaders"; "a Mongolian pony"; "Mongolian syntax strongly resembles Korean syntax" [syn: Mongol, Mongolian] n 1: a member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia [syn: Mongol, Mongolian]
  • dongle
    n 1: (computer science) an electronic device that must be attached to a computer in order for it to use protected software
  • diphthongal
  • fandangle
  • mungle
  • pringle
  • swingle
  • gangle
  • mangel
  • twangle
  • wrangel
  • atingle
  • surcingle
  • pongal

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