Words that rhyme with carboxyl

• abseil 0
  n 1: (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body [syn: rappel, abseil] v 1: lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing" [syn: rappel, abseil, rope down]
• codicil 0
  n 1: a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will
• docile 0
  adj 1: willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation" [ant: obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate] 2: ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters" [syn: docile, teachable] 3: easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient" [syn: docile, gentle]
• domicile 0
  n 1: (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time; "what's his legal residence?" [syn: domicile, legal residence] 2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house] v 1: make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida" [syn: reside, shack, domicile, domiciliate]
• ensile 0
  v 1: store in a silo; "ensile fodder for the cows"
• extensile 0
  adj 1: capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out; "an extensile tongue"; "an extensible measuring rule" [syn: extensile, extensible] [ant: inextensible, nonextensile, nonprotractile]
• facile 0
  adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem" 2: performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand" 3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken]
• fissile 0
  adj 1: capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material" [syn: fissionable, fissile] [ant: nonfissionable] 2: capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood" [ant: nonfissile]
• flexile 0
  adj 1: able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches" [syn: flexible, flexile] [ant: inflexible]
• hydroxyl 0
  n 1: the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols [syn: hydroxyl, hydroxyl group, hydroxyl radical]
• missile 0
  n 1: a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control 2: a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled [syn: projectile, missile]
• prehensile 0
  adj 1: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail" [ant: nonprehensile] 2: having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch 3: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees" [syn: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]
• reconcile 0
  v 1: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" [syn: accommodate, reconcile, conciliate] 2: bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, reconcile] 3: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up" [syn: reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate, settle] 4: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn: resign, reconcile, submit]
• sessile 0
  adj 1: permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; "sessile marine animals and plants" [ant: vagile] 2: attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate" [syn: sessile, stalkless] [ant: pedunculate, stalked]
• tensile 0
  adj 1: of or relating to tension; "tensile stress"; "tensile pull" 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]
• utensil 0
  n 1: an implement for practical use (especially in a household)
• windowsill 0
  n 1: the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame
• gracile 0
  adj 1: slender and graceful [syn: gracile, willowy]
• decile 0
  n 1: (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores
• pensile 0
• scissile 0
• cecil 0
• cresyl 0

See also carboxyl definition and carboxyl synonyms