Words that rhyme with butyl

  • acetyl
    n 1: the organic group of acetic acid (CH3CO-) [syn: acetyl, acetyl group, acetyl radical, ethanoyl group, ethanoyl radical]
  • amphiprostyle
    adj 1: marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure [syn: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, amphistylar, porticoed]
  • brutal
    adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious] 2: harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter" [syn: brutal, unrelenting] 3: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal] 4: disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal honesty"
  • contractile
    adj 1: capable of contracting or being contracted; "the contractile wings of an insect"
  • cyclostyle
    n 1: a writing implement with a small toothed wheel that cuts small holes in a stencil v 1: print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil
  • distil
    v 1: undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature" [syn: condense, distill, distil] 2: extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound" [syn: distill, extract, distil] 3: undergo the process of distillation [syn: distill, distil] 4: give off (a liquid); "The doctor distilled a few drops of disinfectant onto the wound" [syn: distill, distil]
  • ductile
    adj 1: easily influenced [syn: ductile, malleable] 2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
  • erectile
    adj 1: capable of being raised to an upright position; "erectile feathers" 2: filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood; "erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ" [syn: erectile, cavernous]
  • fertile
    adj 1: capable of reproducing [ant: infertile, sterile, unfertile] 2: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific] 3: bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: prolific, fertile] 4: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat, fertile, productive, rich]
  • fictile
    adj 1: of or relating to the craft of pottery; "the fictile art"; "fictile ware" 2: susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda" [syn: fictile, pliable] 3: capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay" [syn: fictile, moldable, plastic]
  • footle
    v 1: be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around] 2: act foolishly, as by talking nonsense
  • freestyle
    n 1: a race (as in swimming) in which each contestant has a free choice of the style to use
  • futile
    adj 1: producing no result or effect; "a futile effort"; "the therapy was ineffectual"; "an otiose undertaking"; "an unavailing attempt" [syn: futile, ineffectual, otiose, unavailing] 2: unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt" [syn: bootless, fruitless, futile, sleeveless, vain]
  • gentile
    adj 1: belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples n 1: a person who does not acknowledge your god [syn: heathen, pagan, gentile, infidel] 2: a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus 3: a Christian as contrasted with a Jew [syn: gentile, non- Jew, goy] 4: a Christian; "Christians refer to themselves as gentiles"
  • hairstyle
    n 1: the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) [syn: hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif]
  • hostile
    adj 1: characterized by enmity or ill will; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" [ant: amicable] 2: not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally; "hostile naval and air forces" [ant: friendly] 3: impossible to bring into friendly accord; "hostile factions" 4: very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes" [syn: hostile, uncongenial, unfriendly] 5: unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business); "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"; "hostile bid" n 1: troops belonging to the enemy's military forces; "the platoon ran into a pack of hostiles" [ant: friendly]
  • infantile
    adj 1: indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior" [syn: childish, infantile] 2: of or relating to infants or infancy; "infantile paralysis" 3: being or befitting or characteristic of an infant; "infantile games"
  • infertile
    adj 1: incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" [syn: sterile, unfertile, infertile] [ant: fertile]
  • instil
    v 1: enter drop by drop; "instill medication into my eye" [syn: instill, instil]
  • lentil
    n 1: round flat seed of the lentil plant used for food 2: the fruit or seed of a lentil plant 3: widely cultivated Eurasian annual herb grown for its edible flattened seeds that are cooked like peas and also ground into meal and for its leafy stalks that are used as fodder [syn: lentil, lentil plant, Lens culinaris]
  • lifestyle
    n 1: a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes [syn: life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi]
  • mercantile
    adj 1: of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism; "mercantile theories"; "mercantile system" 2: profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business" [syn: mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking(a)] 3: relating to or characteristic of trade or traders; "the mercantile North was forging ahead"- Van Wyck Brooks
  • motile
    adj 1: (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement n 1: one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action
  • percentile
    n 1: (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total [syn: percentile, centile]
  • pistil
    n 1: the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma
  • projectile
    adj 1: impelling or impelled forward; "a projectile force"; "a projectile missile" n 1: a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled [syn: projectile, missile] 2: any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine [syn: rocket, projectile]
  • protractile
    adj 1: able to be extended; "protractile muscle" [syn: protractile, protractible]
  • quartile
    n 1: (statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores
  • reptile
    n 1: any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms [syn: reptile, reptilian]
  • retractile
    adj 1: capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back; "cats have retractile claws" [ant: nonretractable, nonretractile]
  • standstill
    n 1: a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible; "reached an impasse on the negotiations" [syn: deadlock, dead end, impasse, stalemate, standstill] 2: an interruption of normal activity [syn: stand, standstill, tie-up]
  • tactile
    adj 1: of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch; "haptic data"; "a tactile reflex" [syn: haptic, tactile, tactual] 2: producing a sensation of touch; "tactile qualities"; "the tactual luxury of stroking silky human hair" [syn: tactile, tactual]
  • textile
    adj 1: of or relating to fabrics or fabric making; "textile research" n 1: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress" [syn: fabric, cloth, material, textile]
  • turnstile
    n 1: a gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering
  • utile
    adj 1: being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society" [syn: useful, utile] [ant: useless]
  • versatile
    adj 1: having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition" [syn: versatile, various] 2: changeable or inconstant; "versatile moods" 3: competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another; "a versatile writer" 4: able to move freely in all directions; "an owl's versatile toe can move backward and forward"; "an insect's versatile antennae can move up and down or laterally"; "a versatile anther of a flower moves freely in the wind"
  • volatile
    adj 1: evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures; "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents" [ant: nonvolatile, nonvolatilisable, nonvolatilizable] 2: liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation" [syn: explosive, volatile] 3: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" [syn: fickle, volatile] 4: tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions" n 1: a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"
  • luteal
    adj 1: of or relating to the corpus luteum
  • tootle
    n 1: the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument; "he enjoyed hearing the tootles of their horns as the musicians warmed up" v 1: play (a musical instrument) casually; "the saxophone player was tootling a sad melody"
  • google
    n 1: a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search v 1: search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine; "He googled the woman he had met at the party"; "My children are googling all day"
  • pantile
    n 1: a roofing tile with a S-shape; laid so that curves overlap
  • peristyle
    n 1: a colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a court
  • prostyle
    adj 1: marked by columniation having free columns in a portico only across the opening to the structure [syn: prostyle, pseudoprostyle]
  • pastille
    n 1: a medicated lozenge used to soothe the throat [syn: cough drop, troche, pastille, pastil]
  • rutile
    n 1: a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium
  • tootal
  • bissextile
  • dentil
  • hypostyle
  • quintile
  • until
  • restyle
  • goutal
  • decastyle
  • epistyle
  • hexastyle
  • octastyle
  • tetrastyle
  • vibratile
  • homestyle
  • postil
  • syndactyl

See also butyl definition