Words that rhyme with demersal

adj 1: connected with or engaged in or sponsored by or used in commerce or commercial enterprises; "commercial trucker"; "commercial TV"; "commercial diamonds" [ant: noncommercial] 2: of or relating to commercialism; "a commercial attache"; "commercial paper"; "commercial law" 3: of the kind or quality used in commerce; average or inferior; "commercial grade of beef"; "commercial oxalic acid" [syn: commercial, commercial-grade] n 1: a commercially sponsored ad on radio or television [syn: commercial, commercial message]

adj 1: marked by or capable of arousing controversy; "the issue of the death penalty is highly controversial"; "Rushdie's controversial book"; "a controversial decision on affirmative action" [ant: noncontroversial, uncontroversial]

n 1: the act of dispersing or diffusing something; "the dispersion of the troops"; "the diffusion of knowledge" [syn: dispersion, dispersal, dissemination, diffusion]

n 1: a practice session in preparation for a public performance (as of a play or speech or concert); "he missed too many rehearsals"; "a rehearsal will be held the day before the wedding" [syn: rehearsal, dry run] 2: (psychology) a form of practice; repetition of information (silently or aloud) in order to keep it in short-term memory

n 1: a change from one state to the opposite state; "there was a reversal of autonomic function" 2: an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating [syn: reverse, reversal, setback, blow, black eye] 3: turning in an opposite direction or position; "the reversal of the image in the lens" [syn: reversal, turn around] 4: a decision to reverse an earlier decision [syn: reversal, change of mind, flip-flop, turnabout, turnaround] 5: a judgment by a higher court that the judgment of a lower court was incorrect and should be set aside [ant: affirmation] 6: turning in the opposite direction [syn: reversion, reverse, reversal, turnabout, turnaround] 7: the act of reversing the order or place of [syn: transposition, reversal] 8: a major change in attitude or principle or point of view; "an about-face on foreign policy" [syn: about-face, volte- face, reversal, policy change]

adj 1: extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis; "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon" [syn: cross(a), transverse, transversal, thwartwise]

n 1: taking a zigzag path on skis [syn: traversal, traverse] 2: travel across [syn: traversal, traverse]

adj 1: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world-wide] 2: applicable to or common to all members of a group or set; "the play opened to universal acclaim"; "rap enjoys universal appeal among teenage boys" 3: adapted to various purposes, sizes, forms, operations; "universal wrench", "universal chuck"; "universal screwdriver" n 1: (linguistics) a grammatical rule (or other linguistic feature) that is found in all languages [syn: universal, linguistic universal] 2: (logic) a proposition that asserts something of all members of a class [syn: universal, universal proposition] [ant: particular, particular proposition] 3: a behavioral convention or pattern characteristic of all members of a particular culture or of all human beings; "some form of religion seems to be a human universal" 4: coupling that connects two rotating shafts allowing freedom of movement in all directions; "in motor vehicles a universal joint allows the driveshaft to move up and down as the vehicle passes over bumps" [syn: universal joint, universal]

adj 1: relating to or affecting a bursa

n 1: English organist at Westminster Abbey and composer of many theatrical pieces (1659-1695) [syn: Purcell, Henry Purcell]

n 1: male hawk especially male peregrine or gyrfalcon [syn: tiercel, tercel, tercelet]