Words that rhyme with chordal

  • boggle
    v 1: startle with amazement or fear 2: hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear 3: overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!" [syn: flabbergast, boggle, bowl over]
  • boondoggle
    n 1: work of little or no value done merely to look busy v 1: do useless, wasteful, or trivial work
  • bottle
    n 1: a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped 2: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle, bottleful] 3: a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children [syn: bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle] v 1: store (liquids or gases) in bottles 2: put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"
  • caudal
    adv 1: toward the posterior end of the body [syn: caudally, caudal] adj 1: constituting or relating to a tail; "caudal appendage" [ant: cephalic] 2: resembling a tail [syn: caudal, taillike] 3: situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises; "caudal fins"; "the caudal end of the body"
  • choral
    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]
  • chortle
    n 1: a soft partly suppressed laugh [syn: chortle, chuckle] v 1: laugh quietly or with restraint [syn: chuckle, chortle, laugh softly]
  • cobble
    n 1: rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads [syn: cobble, cobblestone, sett] v 1: pave with cobblestones [syn: cobble, cobblestone] 2: repair or mend; "cobble shoes"
  • cockle
    n 1: common edible European bivalve 2: common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate] 2: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit]
  • coddle
    v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge] 2: cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs"
  • dawdle
    v 1: take one's time; proceed slowly [syn: linger, dawdle] [ant: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hasten, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it] 2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally, dawdle] 3: hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc. [syn: lag, dawdle, fall back, fall behind]
  • model
    adj 1: worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens" [syn: exemplary, model(a)] n 1: a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process; "the computer program was based on a model of the circulatory and respiratory systems" [syn: model, theoretical account, framework] 2: a type of product; "his car was an old model" 3: a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor; "the president didn't have time to be a model so the artist worked from photos" [syn: model, poser] 4: representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) [syn: model, simulation] 5: something to be imitated; "an exemplar of success"; "a model of clarity"; "he is the very model of a modern major general" [syn: exemplar, example, model, good example] 6: someone worthy of imitation; "every child needs a role model" [syn: model, role model] 7: a representative form or pattern; "I profited from his example" [syn: model, example] 8: a woman who wears clothes to display fashions; "she was too fat to be a mannequin" [syn: mannequin, manikin, mannikin, manakin, fashion model, model] 9: the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) [syn: model, modelling, modeling] v 1: plan or create according to a model or models [syn: model, pattern] 2: form in clay, wax, etc; "model a head with clay" [syn: model, mold, mould] 3: assume a posture as for artistic purposes; "We don't know the woman who posed for Leonardo so often" [syn: model, pose, sit, posture] 4: display (clothes) as a mannequin; "model the latest fashion" 5: create a representation or model of; "The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights" [syn: model, simulate] 6: construct a model of; "model an airplane" [syn: model, mock up]
  • mollycoddle
    n 1: a pampered darling; an effeminate man v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge]
  • mottle
    n 1: an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green" v 1: mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained [syn: mottle, streak, blotch] 2: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, dapple, cloud]
  • remodel
    v 1: do over, as of (part of) a house; "We are remodeling these rooms" [syn: remodel, reconstruct, redo] 2: cast or model anew; "She had to recast her image to please the electorate in her home state" [syn: recast, reforge, remodel]
  • squabble
    n 1: a quarrel about petty points [syn: bicker, bickering, spat, tiff, squabble, pettifoggery, fuss] v 1: argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" [syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble]
  • swaddle
    v 1: wrap in swaddling clothes; "swaddled the infant" [syn: swaddle, swathe]
  • toddle
    v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
  • twaddle
    n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
  • waddle
    n 1: walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other; "ducks walk with a waddle" v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
  • noddle
    n 1: an informal British expression for head or mind; "use your noddle"
  • audile
    adj 1: of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory processing"; "an audile person" [syn: auditory, audile, auditive] n 1: one whose mental imagery is auditory rather than visual or motor
  • aristotle
    n 1: one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
  • acaudal
    adj 1: lacking a tail or taillike appendage [syn: acaudate, acaudal] [ant: caudate, caudated]
  • caudle
  • popple
  • wadle
  • podoll
  • rodell
  • subcaudal
  • caudill
  • longicaudal

See also chordal definition