Words that rhyme with calicle

adj 1: used in or characteristic of or containing allegory; "allegorical stories"; "an allegorical painting of Victory leading an army" [syn: allegorical, allegoric]

adj 1: of or pertaining to alphanumeric characters [syn: alphanumeric, alphanumerical, alphameric, alphamerical]

adj 1: of or relating to angels; "angelic messenger" [syn: angelic, angelical] 2: having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub; "an angelic smile"; "a cherubic face"; "looking so seraphic when he slept"; "a sweet disposition" [syn: angelic, angelical, cherubic, seraphic, sweet] 3: marked by utter benignity; resembling or befitting an angel or saint; "angelic beneficence"; "a beatific smile"; "a saintly concern for his fellow men"; "my sainted mother" [syn: angelic, angelical, beatific, saintlike, saintly, sainted]

adj 1: characterized by asymmetry in the spatial arrangement or placement of parts or components [syn: asymmetrical, asymmetric] [ant: symmetric, symmetrical] 2: irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with a crooked hemline" [syn: asymmetrical, crooked]

n 1: a small conical pouch projecting from the upper anterior part of each atrium of the heart [syn: auricle, atrial auricle, auricula atrii] 2: the externally visible cartilaginous structure of the external ear [syn: auricle, pinna, ear]

adj 1: relating to atmospheric pressure or indicated by a barometer; "barometric pressure" [syn: barometric, barometrical]

adj 1: of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible; "biblical names"; "biblical Hebrew" [syn: biblical, scriptural] 2: in keeping with the nature of the Bible or its times or people; "biblical styles in writing"; "a beard of biblical proportions"; "biblical costumes"

adj 1: relating to the activities and applications of science to clinical medicine; "biomedical research laboratory"

n 1: a group of bracts simulating a calyx as in a carnation or hibiscus [syn: epicalyx, false calyx, calycle, calyculus] 2: a small cup-shaped structure (as a taste bud or optic cup or cavity of a coral containing a polyp) [syn: calyculus, caliculus, calycle]

adj 1: relating to or included in a category or categories [syn: categorical, categoric] 2: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional]

adj 1: being or relating to or like a chimera; "his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush [syn: chimeric, chimerical, chimeral] 2: produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush

adj 1: of or relating to clerks; "clerical work" 2: of or relating to the clergy; "clerical collar" 3: appropriate for or engaged in office work; "clerical skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff"

n 1: a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain

n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject] v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd" 2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn: pick, pluck, cull]

adj 1: recurring in cycles [syn: cyclic, cyclical] [ant: noncyclic, noncyclical]

adj 1: having the form of a cylinder [syn: cylindrical, cylindric]

adj 1: showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil; "devilish schemes"; "the cold calculation and diabolic art of some statesmen"; "the diabolical expression on his face"; "a mephistophelian glint in his eye" [syn: devilish, diabolic, diabolical, mephistophelian, mephistophelean] 2: extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell; "something demonic in him--something that could be cruel"; "fires lit up a diabolic scene"; "diabolical sorcerers under the influence of devils"; "a fiendish despot"; "hellish torture"; "infernal instruments of war"; "satanic cruelty"; "unholy grimaces" [syn: demonic, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, hellish, infernal, satanic, unholy]

adj 1: related to or along a diameter; "the diametral plane" [syn: diametral, diametric, diametrical] 2: characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions" [syn: diametric, diametrical, opposite, polar]

adj 1: relating to the technical aspects of drama [syn: dramaturgic, dramaturgical]

adj 1: relating to or concerned with electricity; "an electrical engineer"; "electrical and mechanical engineering industries" 2: using or providing or producing or transmitting or operated by electricity; "electric current"; "electric wiring"; "electrical appliances"; "an electrical storm" [syn: electric, electrical]

adj 1: derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical data"; "an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known" [syn: empirical, empiric] [ant: theoretic, theoretical] 2: relying on medical quackery; "empiric treatment" [syn: empiric, empirical]

adj 1: intended for wide distribution; "an encyclical letter" n 1: a letter from the pope sent to all Roman Catholic bishops throughout the world [syn: encyclical, encyclical letter]

adj 1: relating to or being a Christian church believing in personal conversion and the inerrancy of the Bible especially the 4 Gospels; "evangelical Christianity"; "an ultraconservative evangelical message" 2: of or pertaining to or in keeping with the Christian gospel especially as in the first 4 books of the New Testament 3: marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause [syn: evangelical, evangelistic]

n 1: any small spherical group of cells containing a cavity

adj 1: of or relating to or determined by geometry [syn: geometric, geometrical] 2: characterized by simple geometric forms in design and decoration; "a buffalo hide painted with red and black geometric designs" [syn: geometric, geometrical]

adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate]

adj 1: of or relating to or being a hemisphere

adj 1: of or relating to the study of history; "historical scholars"; "a historical perspective" [ant: ahistorical] 2: having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary; "the historical Jesus"; "doubt that a historical Camelot every existed"; "actual historical events" 3: belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character" [syn: historic, historical] 4: used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time; "diachronic linguistics" [syn: diachronic, historical] [ant: synchronic]

adj 1: characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia" [syn: hysteric, hysterical] 2: marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion; "hysterical laughter"; "a mob of hysterical vigilantes"

adj 1: suitable for or suggestive of singing 2: expressing deep emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance" [syn: lyric, lyrical]

adj 1: of or relating to metallurgy; "metallurgical engineer" [syn: metallurgical, metallurgic]

adj 1: expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another; "a metaphorical expression"; "metaphoric language" [syn: metaphorical, metaphoric]

adj 1: based on the meter as a standard of measurement; "the metric system"; "metrical equivalents" [syn: metric, metrical] 2: the rhythmic arrangement of syllables [syn: measured, metrical, metric]

n 1: any amazing or wonderful occurrence 2: a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent

adj 1: of or relating to or used in or practicing obstetrics; "obstetric hospital" [syn: obstetric, obstetrical]

n 1: an authoritative person who divines the future [syn: prophet, prophesier, oracle, seer, vaticinator] 2: a prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible 3: a shrine where an oracular god is consulted

adj 1: characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves

n 1: thin protective membrane in some protozoa

adj 1: concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return; "reciprocal aid"; "reciprocal trade"; "mutual respect"; "reciprocal privileges at other clubs" [syn: reciprocal, mutual] [ant: nonreciprocal] 2: of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function; "the reciprocal ratio of a:b is b:a" n 1: something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else; "risk is the reciprocal of safety" 2: (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7 [syn: multiplicative inverse, reciprocal] 3: hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype [syn: reciprocal cross, reciprocal]

adj 1: of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford 2: given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery" [ant: unrhetorical]

adj 1: exposing human folly to ridicule; "a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine" [syn: satirical, satiric]

adj 1: of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere; "spherical geometry" [ant: nonspherical] 2: having the shape of a sphere or ball; "a spherical object"; "nearly orbicular in shape"; "little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"- Zane Grey [syn: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical]

n 1: a breathing orifice

adj 1: relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols; "symbolic logic"; "symbolic operations"; "symbolic thinking" [syn: symbolic, symbolical] 2: serving as a visible symbol for something abstract; "a crown is emblematic of royalty"; "the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish" [syn: emblematic, emblematical, symbolic, symbolical]

adj 1: having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts [syn: symmetrical, symmetric] [ant: asymmetric, asymmetrical] 2: exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities [syn: harmonious, proportionate, symmetrical]

adj 1: of or relating to the theater 2: suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater; "a theatrical pose"; "one of the most theatrical figures in public life" [ant: untheatrical] n 1: a performance of a play [syn: theatrical performance, theatrical, representation, histrionics]

adj 1: relating to or resembling the umbilicus; "umbilical cord" n 1: membranous duct connecting the fetus with the placenta [syn: umbilical cord, umbilical]

adj 1: lacking symmetry [syn: unsymmetric, unsymmetrical] 2: having unsymmetrical parts or unequal dimensions or measurements [syn: anisometric, unsymmetrical]

n 1: a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open [syn: utricle, utriculus]

n 1: one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid 2: a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries [syn: ventricle, heart ventricle]

n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac, dead end]

n 1: hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur [syn: broadtail, caracul, karakul]

adj 1: resembling or expressed by parables [syn: parabolic, parabolical] 2: having the form of a parabola [syn: parabolic, parabolical]