Words that rhyme with corpulant

adj 1: of or relating to or taking account of appeals (usually legal appeals); "appellate court" [syn: appellate, appellant] n 1: the party who appeals a decision of a lower court [syn: appellant, plaintiff in error]

adj 1: of surpassing excellence; "a brilliant performance"; "a superb actor" [syn: brilliant, superb] 2: having or marked by unusual and impressive intelligence; "some men dislike brainy women"; "a brilliant mind"; "a brilliant solution to the problem" [syn: brainy, brilliant, smart as a whip] 3: characterized by grandeur; "the brilliant court life at Versailles"; "a glorious work of art"; "magnificent cathedrals"; "the splendid coronation ceremony" [syn: brilliant, glorious, magnificent, splendid] 4: having striking color; "bright dress"; "brilliant tapestries"; "a bird with vivid plumage" [syn: bright, brilliant, vivid] 5: full of light; shining intensely; "a brilliant star"; "brilliant chandeliers" 6: clear and sharp and ringing; "the bright sound of the trumpet section"; "the brilliant sound of the trumpets" [syn: bright, brilliant]

n 1: a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another; "he added more coolant to the car's radiator"; "the atomic reactor used a gas coolant"; "lathe operators use an emulsion of oil and water as a coolant for the cutting tool"

adj 1: excessively fat; "a weighty man" [syn: corpulent, obese, weighty, rotund]

n 1: a commodity that enters competition with established merchandise; "a well publicized entrant is the pocket computer" 2: any new participant in some activity [syn: newcomer, fledgling, fledgeling, starter, neophyte, freshman, newbie, entrant] 3: someone who enters; "new entrants to the country must go though immigration procedures" 4: one who enters a competition

adj 1: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery" [syn: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank]

adj 1: pleasant-smelling [ant: ill-smelling, malodorous, malodourous, stinky, unpleasant-smelling]

adj 1: unflinching in battle or action; "a gallant warrior"; "put up a gallant resistance to the attackers" 2: lively and spirited; "a dashing hero" [syn: dashing, gallant] 3: having or displaying great dignity or nobility; "a gallant pageant"; "lofty ships"; "majestic cities"; "proud alpine peaks" [syn: gallant, lofty, majestic, proud] 4: being attentive to women like an ideal knight [syn: chivalrous, gallant, knightly] n 1: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse] 2: a man who attends or escorts a woman [syn: squire, gallant]

n 1: a faucet for drawing water from a pipe or cask [syn: water faucet, water tap, tap, hydrant] 2: a discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks

adj 1: habitually moving from place to place especially in search of seasonal work; "appalled by the social conditions of migrant life"; "migratory workers" [syn: migrant, migratory] n 1: traveler who moves from one region or country to another [syn: migrant, migrator]

adj 1: arousing affect; "the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene"; "poignant grief cannot endure forever"; "his gratitude was simple and touching" [syn: affecting, poignant, touching] 2: keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety"

adj 1: tending to or capable of propelling; "propellant fuel for submarines"; "the faster a jet plane goes the greater its propulsive efficiency"; "universities...the seats of propulsive thought" [syn: propellant, propellent, propelling, propulsive] n 1: any substance that propels [syn: propellant, propellent]

adj 1: containing pus; "a purulent wound" [syn: purulent, pussy]

adj 1: stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" [syn: fractious, refractory, recalcitrant] 2: marked by stubborn resistance to authority; "the University suspended the most recalcitrant demonstrators"

adj 1: (of angles) pointing inward; "a polygon with re-entrant angles" [syn: re-entrant, reentrant] [ant: salient]

n 1: a person who is formally entered (along with others) in a register (and who obtains certain rights thereby)

adj 1: serving or tending to repel; "he became rebarbative and prickly and spiteful"; "I find his obsequiousness repellent" [syn: rebarbative, repellent, repellant] 2: highly offensive; arousing aversion or disgust; "a disgusting smell"; "distasteful language"; "a loathsome disease"; "the idea of eating meat is repellent to me"; "revolting food"; "a wicked stench" [syn: disgusting, disgustful, distasteful, foul, loathly, loathsome, repellent, repellant, repelling, revolting, skanky, wicked, yucky] 3: incapable of absorbing or mixing with; "a water-repellent fabric"; "plastic highly resistant to steam and water" [syn: repellent, resistant] n 1: a compound with which fabrics are treated to repel water [syn: repellent, repellant] 2: a chemical substance that repels animals [syn: repellent, repellant] 3: the power to repel; "she knew many repellents to his advances" [syn: repellent, repellant]

n 1: a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) [syn: sealant, sealer]

adj 1: of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') [syn: fricative, continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident] n 1: a consonant characterized by a hissing sound (like s or sh) [syn: sibilant, sibilant consonant]

adj 1: marked by absence of sound; "a silent house"; "soundless footsteps on the grass"; "the night was still" [syn: silent, soundless, still] 2: failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent" [syn: mum, silent] 3: implied by or inferred from actions or statements; "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement" [syn: silent, tacit, understood] 4: not made to sound; "the silent `h' at the beginning of `honor'"; "in French certain letters are often unsounded" [syn: silent, unsounded] 5: having a frequency below or above the range of human audibility; "a silent dog whistle" 6: unable to speak because of hereditary deafness [syn: dumb, mute, silent]

adj 1: full of juice; "lush fruits"; "succulent roast beef"; "succulent plants with thick fleshy leaves" [syn: lush, succulent] n 1: a plant adapted to arid conditions and characterized by fleshy water-storing tissues that act as water reservoirs

n 1: natural abilities or qualities [syn: endowment, gift, talent, natural endowment] 2: a person who possesses unusual innate ability in some field or activity

adj 1: haveing a valence of four

n 1: a sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast [syn: topgallant, topgallant sail] 2: a mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel [syn: topgallant, topgallant mast]

adj 1: having a valence of three

adj 1: defiantly aggressive; "a truculent speech against the new government"

adj 1: resembling waves in form or outline or motion [syn: undulatory, undulant]

adj 1: continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties" [syn: aimless, drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant] n 1: a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support [syn: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond]