Words that rhyme with chiral

adj 1: inhibiting or stopping the growth and reproduction of viruses n 1: any drug that destroys viruses [syn: antiviral, antiviral agent, antiviral drug]

n 1: clothing in general; "she was refined in her choice of apparel"; "he always bought his clothes at the same store"; "fastidious about his dress" [syn: apparel, wearing apparel, dress, clothes] v 1: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel] [ant: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress]

n 1: fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed

adj 1: of or pertaining to hearing or the ear; "an animal with a very sensitive aural apparatus" 2: relating to or characterized by an aura; "various aural effects that precede a migraine headache"

n 1: a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired [syn: barrel, gun barrel] 2: a cylindrical container that holds liquids [syn: barrel, cask] 3: a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn: barrel, drum] 4: the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold [syn: barrel, barrelful] 5: any of various units of capacity; "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons" [syn: barrel, bbl] v 1: put in barrels

n 1: the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems

adj 1: relating to or having or hearing with two ears; "binaural hearing" [syn: binaural, biaural] [ant: monaural]

n 1: joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ [syn: carol, Christmas carol] 2: a joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ) v 1: sing carols; "They went caroling on Christmas Day"

n 1: French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944) [syn: Carrel, Alexis Carrel] 2: small individual study area in a library [syn: carrel, carrell, cubicle, stall]

adj 1: of or relating to a catarrh; "catarrhal fever is any of several respiratory or oral diseases of livestock such as bluetongue in horses and sheep"

adj 1: related to or written for or performed by a chorus or choir; "choral composition"; "choral ensemble" n 1: a stately Protestant (especially Lutheran) hymn tune [syn: chorale, choral]

n 1: (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings [syn: demur, demurral, demurrer]

adj 1: on or outside the dura mater [syn: epidural, extradural] n 1: regional anesthesia resulting from injection of an anesthetic into the epidural space of the spinal cord; sensation is lost in the abdominal and genital and pelvic areas; used in childbirth and gynecological surgery [syn: epidural anesthesia, epidural anaesthesia, epidural]

adj 1: wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs" [syn: feral, ferine, savage]

n 1: a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting [syn: ferrule, collet]

n 1: a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children

adj 1: resembling or made of or suggestive of flowers; "an unusual floral design" [syn: floral, flowered] 2: relating to or associated with flowers; "floral organs" 3: of or relating to the plant life in a particular region; "characteristic alpine floral elements"

n 1: small goat antelope with small conical horns; of southern Asian mountains [syn: goral, Naemorhedus goral]

adj 1: deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong [ant: moral] 2: not adhering to ethical or moral principles; "base and unpatriotic motives"; "a base, degrading way of life"; "cheating is dishonorable"; "they considered colonialism immoral"; "unethical practices in handling public funds" [syn: base, immoral]

v 1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril]

adj 1: carried on within the bounds of an institution or community; "most of the students participated actively in the college's intramural sports program" [ant: extramural]

n 1: any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family 2: United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965) [syn: Laurel, Stan Laurel, Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel] 3: (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory [syn: laurel, laurel wreath, bay wreath]

adj 1: of or relating to a mayor or the office of mayor; "mayoral elections"

adj 1: relating to or having or hearing with only one ear; "monaural deafness" [ant: biaural, binaural]

adj 1: concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles; "moral sense"; "a moral scrutiny"; "a moral lesson"; "a moral quandary"; "moral convictions"; "a moral life" [ant: immoral] 2: psychological rather than physical or tangible in effect; "a moral victory"; "moral support" n 1: the significance of a story or event; "the moral of the story is to love thy neighbor" [syn: moral, lesson]

adj 1: of or relating to walls; "mural painting" n 1: a painting that is applied to a wall surface [syn: mural, wall painting]

adj 1: of or relating to the nervous system; "nervous disease"; "neural disorder" [syn: nervous, neural] 2: of or relating to neurons; "neural network" [syn: neural, neuronal, neuronic]

adj 1: using speech rather than writing; "an oral tradition"; "an oral agreement" [syn: oral, unwritten] 2: of or relating to or affecting or for use in the mouth; "oral hygiene"; "an oral thermometer"; "an oral vaccine" 3: of or involving the mouth or mouth region or the surface on which the mouth is located; "the oral cavity"; "the oral mucous membrane"; "the oral surface of a starfish" [ant: aboral] 4: a stage in psychosexual development when the child's interest is concentrated in the mouth; fixation at this stage is said to result in dependence, selfishness, and aggression [ant: anal, anal retentive] n 1: an examination conducted by spoken communication [syn: oral, oral exam, oral examination, viva voce, viva]

adj 1: of or relating to the pleura or the walls of the thorax; "pleural muscles"

adj 1: composed of more than one member, set, or kind [ant: singular] 2: grammatical number category referring to two or more items or units [ant: singular] n 1: the form of a word that is used to denote more than one [syn: plural, plural form] [ant: singular, singular form]

n 1: an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" [syn: quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup] 2: an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges v 1: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]

adj 1: living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural" [ant: urban] 2: of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city; "rural electrification"; "rural free delivery"

adj 1: of a light brownish color [syn: sorrel, brownish- orange] n 1: any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis [syn: oxalis, sorrel, wood sorrel] 2: any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine [syn: dock, sorrel, sour grass] 3: East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber [syn: roselle, rozelle, sorrel, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa] 4: large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces [syn: sorrel, common sorrel] 5: a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color

adj 1: in the shape of a coil [syn: coiling, helical, spiral, spiraling, volute, voluted, whorled, turbinate] n 1: a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center 2: a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle [syn: helix, spiral] 3: a continuously accelerating change in the economy 4: ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center [syn: spiral, volute] 5: a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope" [syn: coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix] 6: flying downward in a helical path with a large radius v 1: to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor" [syn: gyrate, spiral, coil] 2: form a spiral; "The path spirals up the mountain" 3: move in a spiral or zigzag course [syn: corkscrew, spiral]

n 1: a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail 2: the fur of a squirrel

adj 1: relating to or caused by a virus; "viral infection"

adj 1: of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations [syn: jural, juristic]

n 1: English writer of Irish descent who spent much of his life in Mediterranean regions (1912-1990) [syn: Durrell, Lawrence Durrell, Lawrence George Durrell]

adj 1: of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras; "a prominent green line in the spectrum of the auroras is called the `auroral line'" 2: characteristic of the dawn; "a dim auroral glow" [syn: auroral, aurorean]

n 1: a sturdy laced walking shoe 2: a brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side [syn: Balmoral, bluebonnet]

adj 1: relating to or associated with or comprising a convolution of the brain; "the gyral sulcus"

n 1: English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [syn: Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Dodgson, Reverend Dodgson, Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]

adj 1: of or relating the leg from the knee to the foot

n 1: United States writer remembered for his novels (1904-1979) [syn: Farrell, James Thomas Farrell] 2: United States operatic soprano noted for the clarity and power of her voice (1920-2002) [syn: Farrell, Eileen Farrell]

n 1: a rare hard yellow green mineral consisting of beryllium aluminate in crystal form; used as a gemstone

n 1: Greek missionary; the invention of the Cyrillic alphabet is attributed to him (826-869) [syn: Cyril, Saint Cyril, St. Cyril]

adj 1: opposite to or away from the mouth; "the aboral surface of a starfish" [ant: oral]