Words that rhyme with central

• ancestral 0
  adj 1: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition" [syn: ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible] 2: of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor
• arbitral 0
  adj 1: relating to or resulting from arbitration; "the arbitral adjustment of the controversy"; "an arbitrational settlement" [syn: arbitral, arbitrational]
• austral 0
  adj 1: of the south or coming from the south; "sailed the austral seas" n 1: the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos
• banal 0
  adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]
• behavioural 0
  adj 1: of or relating to behavior; "behavioral sciences" [syn: behavioral, behavioural]
• cadastral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the records of a cadastre
• cathedral 0
  adj 1: relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne; "a cathedral church" n 1: any large and important church 2: the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese [syn: cathedral, duomo]
• cerebral 0
  adj 1: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" [syn: cerebral, intellectual] [ant: emotional] 2: of or relating to the cerebrum or brain; "cerebral hemisphere"; "cerebral activity"
• cholesterol 0
  n 1: an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues [syn: cholesterol, cholesterin]
• cloistral 0
  adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical]
• conferral 0
  n 1: the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift [syn: bestowal, bestowment, conferral, conferment]
• deferral 0
  n 1: a state of abeyance or suspended business [syn: deferral, recess] 2: act of putting off to a future time [syn: postponement, deferment, deferral]
• dextral 0
  adj 1: of or on the right; "a dextral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the right when facing the observer"; "a dextral flatfish lies with the right eye uppermost" [ant: sinistral] 2: preferring to use right foot or hand or eye; "dextral individuals exhibit dominance of the right hand and eye"
• fibril 0
  n 1: a very slender natural or synthetic fiber [syn: fibril, filament, strand]
• gambrel 0
  n 1: a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper [syn: gambrel, gambrel roof]
• hypaethral 0
  adj 1: partly or entirely open to the sky [syn: hypaethral, hypethral]
• inaugural 0
  adj 1: occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball" [ant: exaugural] 2: serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage" [syn: inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first, maiden] n 1: an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) [syn: inaugural address, inaugural] 2: the ceremonial induction into a position; "the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration" [syn: inauguration, inaugural]
• integral 0
  adj 1: existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth" [syn: built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, inherent, integral] 2: constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged; "a local motion keepeth bodies integral"- Bacon; "was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime"; "fought to keep the union intact" [syn: integral, entire, intact] 3: of or denoted by an integer n 1: the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x)
• kestrel 0
  n 1: small North American falcon [syn: sparrow hawk, American kestrel, kestrel, Falco sparverius] 2: small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind [syn: kestrel, Falco tinnunculus]
• mandrel 0
  n 1: any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts [syn: spindle, mandrel, mandril, arbor]
• mandrill 0
  n 1: baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters [syn: mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx]
• menstrual 0
  adj 1: of or relating to menstruation or the menses; "menstrual period" [syn: menstrual, catamenial]
• minstrel 0
  n 1: a singer of folk songs [syn: folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour] 2: a performer in a minstrel show v 1: celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels
• mistral 0
  n 1: a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter
• mongrel 0
  n 1: derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic" [syn: bastard, mongrel] 2: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: cur, mongrel, mutt]
• natal 0
  adj 1: relating to or accompanying birth; "natal injuries"; "natal day"; "natal influences" 2: of or relating to the buttocks n 1: a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean; "Natal was renamed KwaZulu-Natal in 1994" [syn: Natal, KwaZulu-Natal] 2: a port city in northeastern Brazil
• neutral 0
  adj 1: having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer" [syn: impersonal, neutral] 2: having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction" [syn: inert, indifferent, neutral] 3: not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest 4: possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics [ant: negative, positive] 5: having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white" [syn: achromatic, neutral] [ant: chromatic] 6: lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics; "a neutral personality that made no impression whatever" 7: having no net electric charge [syn: neutral, electroneutral] n 1: one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute
• nostril 0
  n 1: either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose [syn: nostril, anterior naris]
• orchestral 0
  adj 1: relating to or composed for an orchestra; "orchestral score"
• penumbral 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to the region of partial shadow around an umbra
• petrel 0
  n 1: relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land
• petrol 0
  n 1: a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines [syn: gasoline, gasolene, gas, petrol]
• polyhedral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or resembling a polyhedron
• premenstrual 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or occurring during the period just before menstruation
• real 0
  adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling] adj 1: being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow [syn: real, existent] [ant: unreal] 2: no less than what is stated; worthy of the name; "the real reason"; "real war"; "a real friend"; "a real woman"; "meat and potatoes--I call that a real meal"; "it's time he had a real job"; "it's no penny-ante job--he's making real money" [ant: unreal] 3: not to be taken lightly; "statistics demonstrate that poverty and unemployment are very real problems"; "to the man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real" 4: capable of being treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor" [syn: real, tangible] 5: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: actual, genuine, literal, real] 6: of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation; "real prices"; "real income"; "real wages" [ant: nominal] 7: having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare [syn: substantial, real, material] [ant: insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial] 8: (of property) fixed or immovable; "real property consists of land and buildings" 9: coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"- F.A.Olafson [syn: veridical, real] n 1: any rational or irrational number [syn: real number, real] 2: the basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos 3: an old small silver Spanish coin
• referral 0
  n 1: a person whose case has been referred to a specialist or professional group; "the patient is a referral from Dr. Bones" 2: a recommendation to consult the (professional) person or group to whom one has been referred; "the insurance company says that you need a written referral from your physician before seeing a specialist" 3: the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency)
• sacral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or near the sacrum 2: of or relating to sacred rites; "sacral laws"
• scoundrel 0
  n 1: a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately [syn: villain, scoundrel]
• sepulchral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a sepulchre; "sepulchral inscriptions"; "sepulchral monuments in churches" 2: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" [syn: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral] 3: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" [syn: funereal, sepulchral]
• spandrel 0
  n 1: an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them [syn: spandrel, spandril]
• spectral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a spectrum; "spectral colors"; "spectral analysis" 2: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual]
• tendril 0
  n 1: slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support
• transferral 0
  n 1: the act of moving something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance]
• tumbril 0
  n 1: a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution [syn: tumbrel, tumbril]
• urethral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the urethra
• ventral 0
  adj 1: toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal); "the ventral aspect of the human body"; "the liver is somewhat ventral in position"; "ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the hind limbs of a quadruped" [ant: dorsal] 2: nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism; "the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface" [syn: adaxial, ventral] [ant: abaxial, dorsal]
• vertebral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or constituting vertebrae
• wastrel 0
  n 1: someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn: wastrel, waster]
• april 0
  n 1: the month following March and preceding May [syn: April, Apr]
• mandril 0
  n 1: any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts [syn: spindle, mandrel, mandril, arbor]
• mitral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or located in or near the mitral valve; "mitral insufficiency" 2: relating to or resembling the miter worn by some clerics
• nombril 0
  n 1: the center point on a shield
• timbrel 0
  n 1: small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers
• retral 0
  adj 1: moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction [syn: retral, retrograde] 2: at or near or toward the posterior
• dihedral 0
• dodecahedral 0
• octahedral 0
• tetrahedral 0
• trihedral 0
• whimbrel 0
• umbral 0
• ahl 0
• centrale 0
• claustral 0
• avril 0
• tricentrol 0
• entrail 0
• subastral 0
• palpebral 0
• anhedral 0
• decahedral 0
• hemihedral 0
• holohedral 0
• subcentral 0
• rostral 0
• curvirostral 0

See also central definition and central synonyms