Words that rhyme with cockerel

• architectural 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to the art and science of architecture; "architectural history"; "architectural design"
• bilateral 0
  adj 1: having identical parts on each side of an axis [syn: bilateral, isobilateral, bilaterally symmetrical, bilaterally symmetric] 2: affecting or undertaken by two parties; "a bilateral agreement between the United States and Japan" 3: having two sides or parts [syn: bilateral, two-sided]
• collateral 0
  adj 1: descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts" [syn: collateral, indirect] [ant: direct, lineal] 2: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying] 3: accompany, concomitant; "collateral target damage from a bombing run" 4: situated or running side by side; "collateral ridges of mountains" n 1: a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
• conjectural 0
  adj 1: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
• doctoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a doctor or doctorate; "doctoral dissertation"; "doctorial candidates" [syn: doctoral, doctorial]
• doggerel 0
  n 1: a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn: doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle]
• dotterel 0
  n 1: rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia [syn: dotterel, dotrel, Charadrius morinellus, Eudromias morinellus]
• electoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to elections; "electoral process" 2: relating to or composed of electors; "electoral college"
• equilateral 0
  adj 1: having all sides or faces equal n 1: a figure whose sides are all equal
• federal 0
  adj 1: national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units; "the Federal Bureau of Investigation"; "federal courts"; "the federal highway program"; "federal property" 2: of or relating to the central government of a federation; "a federal district is one set aside as the seat of the national government" 3: being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman" [syn: Union, Federal] 4: characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities; "a federal system like that of the United States"; "federal governments often evolved out of confederations" [ant: unitary] n 1: a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War [syn: Federal, Federal soldier, Union soldier] 2: any federal law-enforcement officer [syn: Federal, Fed, federal official]
• guttural 0
  adj 1: like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice"; "acres of guttural frogs" [syn: croaky, guttural] 2: relating to or articulated in the throat; "the glottal stop and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural sounds" n 1: a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat [syn: guttural, guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant]
• illiberal 0
  adj 1: narrow-minded about cherished opinions [syn: illiberal, intolerant]
• lateral 0
  adj 1: situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson [syn: lateral, sidelong] 2: lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body; "lateral lemniscus" n 1: a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer [syn: lateral pass, lateral]
• liberal 0
  adj 1: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" [syn: broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant] 2: having political or social views favoring reform and progress 3: tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition [ant: conservative] 4: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded] 5: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free, loose, liberal] n 1: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties [syn: liberal, liberalist, progressive] [ant: conservative, conservativist] 2: a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
• literal 0
  adj 1: 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] 2: without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal depiction of the scene before him" 3: limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation" [ant: figurative, nonliteral] 4: avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth" n 1: a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind [syn: misprint, erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal]
• littoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a coastal or shore region n 1: the region of the shore of a lake or sea or ocean [syn: littoral, litoral, littoral zone, sands]
• mackerel 0
  n 1: flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish 2: any of various fishes of the family Scombridae
• multilateral 0
  adj 1: having many parts or sides [syn: multilateral, many- sided] [ant: one-sided, unilateral]
• nonpareil 0
  adj 1: eminent beyond or above comparison; "matchless beauty"; "the team's nonpareil center fielder"; "she's one girl in a million"; "the one and only Muhammad Ali"; "a peerless scholar"; "infamy unmatched in the Western world"; "wrote with unmatchable clarity"; "unrivaled mastery of her art" [syn: matchless, nonpareil, one(a), one and only(a), peerless, unmatched, unmatchable, unrivaled, unrivalled] n 1: model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal [syn: ideal, paragon, nonpareil, saint, apotheosis, nonesuch, nonsuch] 2: colored beads of sugar used as a topping on e.g. candies and cookies 3: a flat disk of chocolate covered with beads of colored sugar
• pastoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter" 2: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: bucolic, pastoral] 3: (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian, bucolic, pastoral] n 1: a musical composition that evokes rural life [syn: pastorale, pastoral, idyll, idyl] 2: a letter from a pastor to the congregation 3: a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
• pectoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the chest or thorax; "pectoral organ" [syn: pectoral, thoracic] n 1: either of two large muscles of the chest [syn: pectoral, pectoral muscle, pectoralis, musculus pectoralis, pecs] 2: an adornment worn on the chest or breast [syn: pectoral, pectoral medallion]
• pickerel 0
  n 1: flesh of young or small pike 2: any of several North American species of small pike
• postdoctoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed n 1: a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research [syn: postdoctoral, postdoc, post doc]
• procedural 0
  adj 1: of or relating to procedure; "a procedural violation" 2: relating to court practice and procedure as opposed to the principles of law; "adjective law" [syn: adjective, procedural] [ant: essential, substantive]
• puerperal 0
  adj 1: relating to or connected with or occurring at the time of childbirth or shortly following, or to the woman who has just given birth
• quadrilateral 0
  adj 1: having four sides [syn: quadrilateral, four-sided] n 1: a four-sided polygon [syn: quadrilateral, quadrangle, tetragon]
• trilateral 0
  adj 1: involving three parties; "trilateral talks" 2: having three sides; "a trilateral figure" [syn: trilateral, triangular, three-sided] n 1: a three-sided polygon [syn: triangle, trigon, trilateral]
• unilateral 0
  adj 1: involving only one part or side; "unilateral paralysis"; "a unilateral decision" [syn: unilateral, one-sided] [ant: many-sided, multilateral] 2: tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal line only
• behavioral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to behavior; "behavioral sciences" [syn: behavioral, behavioural]
• dipteral 0
• protectoral 0
• cottrell 0
• sectoral 0
• septilateral 0

See also cockerel definition