Words that rhyme with dialectical

• acoustical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the science of acoustics; "acoustic properties of a hall" [syn: acoustic, acoustical]
• apocalyptical 0
  adj 1: prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom [syn: apocalyptic, apocalyptical, revelatory]
• canonical 0
  adj 1: appearing in a biblical canon; "a canonical book of the Christian New Testament" [syn: canonic, canonical] 2: of or relating to or required by canon law [syn: canonic, canonical] 3: reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern" [syn: basic, canonic, canonical] 4: conforming to orthodox or recognized rules; "the drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"- Sinclair Lewis [syn: canonic, canonical, sanctioned]
• canticle 0
  n 1: a hymn derived from the Bible
• carbuncle 0
  n 1: deep-red cabochon garnet cut without facets 2: an infection larger than a boil and with several openings for discharge of pus
• categorical 0
  adj 1: relating to or included in a category or categories [syn: categorical, categoric] 2: not modified or restricted by reservations; "a categorical denial"; "a flat refusal" [syn: categoric, categorical, flat, unconditional]
• cervical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the cervix of the uterus; "cervical cancer" 2: relating to or associated with the neck
• chemical 0
  adj 1: relating to or used in chemistry; "chemical engineer"; "chemical balance" [syn: chemical, chemic] 2: of or made from or using substances produced by or used in reactions involving atomic or molecular changes; "chemical fertilizer" n 1: material produced by or used in a reaction involving changes in atoms or molecules [syn: chemical, chemical substance]
• chronicle 0
  n 1: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn: history, account, chronicle, story] v 1: record in chronological order; make a historical record
• classical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the most highly developed stage of an earlier civilisation and its culture; "classic Cinese pottery" [syn: classical, classic] [ant: nonclassical] 2: of recognized authority or excellence; "the definitive work on Greece"; "classical methods of navigation" [syn: authoritative, classical, classic, definitive] 3: of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome; " a classical scholar" 4: (language) having the form used by ancient standard authors; "classical Greek 5: of or pertaining to or characteristic of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures; "classical mythology"; "classical [syn: classical, classic, Greco-Roman, Graeco-Roman, Hellenic] n 1: traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste [syn: classical music, classical, serious music]
• clavicle 0
  n 1: bone linking the scapula and sternum [syn: clavicle, collarbone]
• clerical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to clerks; "clerical work" 2: of or relating to the clergy; "clerical collar" 3: appropriate for or engaged in office work; "clerical skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff"
• clinical 0
  adj 1: relating to a clinic or conducted in or as if in a clinic and depending on direct observation of patients; "clinical observation"; "clinical case study" 2: scientifically detached; unemotional; "he spoke in the clipped clinical monotones typical of police testimony"
• comical 0
  adj 1: arousing or provoking laughter; "an amusing film with a steady stream of pranks and pratfalls"; "an amusing fellow"; "a comic hat"; "a comical look of surprise"; "funny stories that made everybody laugh"; "a very funny writer"; "it would have been laughable if it hadn't hurt so much"; "a mirthful experience"; "risible courtroom antics" [syn: amusing, comic, comical, funny, laughable, mirthful, risible]
• conical 0
  adj 1: relating to or resembling a cone; "conical mountains"; "conelike fruit" [syn: conic, conical, conelike, cone-shaped]
• coracle 0
  n 1: a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain
• cortical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a cortex
• cosmological 0
  adj 1: pertaining to the branch of astronomy dealing with the origin and history and structure and dynamics of the universe; "cosmologic science"; "cosmological redshift"; "cosmogonic theories of the origin of the universe" [syn: cosmologic, cosmological, cosmogonic, cosmogonical, cosmogenic] 2: pertaining to the branch of philosophy dealing with the elements and laws and especially the characteristics of the universe such as space and time and causality; "cosmologic philosophy"; "a cosmological argument is an argument that the universe demands the admission of an adequate external cause which is God" [syn: cosmologic, cosmological]
• cubical 0
  adj 1: shaped like a cube [syn: cubelike, cube-shaped, cubical, cubiform, cuboid, cuboidal]
• cull 0
  n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject] v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd" 2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn: pick, pluck, cull]
• diacritical 0
  adj 1: capable of distinguishing; "students having superior diacritic powers"; "the diacritic elements in culture"- S.F.Nadel [syn: diacritic, diacritical]
• diametrical 0
  adj 1: related to or along a diameter; "the diametral plane" [syn: diametral, diametric, diametrical] 2: characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed; "in diametric contradiction to his claims"; "diametrical (or opposite) points of view"; "opposite meanings"; "extreme and indefensible polar positions" [syn: diametric, diametrical, opposite, polar]
• ducal 0
  adj 1: of or belonging to or suitable for a duke; "ducal palace"
• fantastical 0
  adj 1: existing in fancy only; "fantastic figures with bulbous heads the circumference of a bushel"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: fantastic, fantastical] 2: ludicrously odd; "Hamlet's assumed antic disposition"; "fantastic Halloween costumes"; "a grotesque reflection in the mirror" [syn: antic, fantastic, fantastical, grotesque]
• identical 0
  adj 1: exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; "rows of identical houses"; "cars identical except for their license plates"; "they wore indistinguishable hats" [syn: identical, indistinguishable] 2: being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" [syn: identical, selfsame(a), very(a)] 3: (of twins) derived from a single egg or ovum; "identical twins are monovular" [syn: identical, monovular] [ant: biovular, fraternal] 4: having properties with uniform values along all axes 5: coinciding exactly when superimposed; "identical triangles" [syn: identical, superposable]
• impractical 0
  adj 1: not practical; not workable or not given to practical matters; "refloating the ship proved impractical because of the expense"; "he is intelligent but too impractical for commercial work"; "an impractical solution" [ant: practical] 2: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" [syn: airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy]
• lackadaisical 0
  adj 1: lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous] 2: idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse
• logistical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to logistics; "logistic requirements" [syn: logistic, logistical]
• mystical 0
  adj 1: relating to or characteristic of mysticism; "mystical religion" [syn: mystic, mystical] 2: relating to or resembling mysticism; "mystical intuition"; "mystical theories about the securities market" [syn: mystic, mystical] 3: having an import not apparent to the senses nor obvious to the intelligence; beyond ordinary understanding; "mysterious symbols"; "the mystical style of Blake"; "occult lore"; "the secret learning of the ancients" [syn: mysterious, mystic, mystical, occult, secret, orphic]
• obstacle 0
  n 1: something immaterial that stands in the way and must be circumvented or surmounted; "lack of imagination is an obstacle to one's advancement"; "the poverty of a district is an obstacle to good education"; "the filibuster was a major obstruction to the success of their plan" [syn: obstacle, obstruction] 2: an obstruction that stands in the way (and must be removed or surmounted or circumvented)
• optical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or involving light or optics; "optical supplies" 2: relating to or using sight; "ocular inspection"; "an optical illusion"; "visual powers"; "visual navigation" [syn: ocular, optic, optical, visual] 3: of or relating to or resembling the eye; "ocular muscles"; "an ocular organ"; "ocular diseases"; "the optic (or optical) axis of the eye"; "an ocular spot is a pigmented organ or part believed to be sensitive to light" [syn: ocular, optic, optical, opthalmic]
• pentacle 0
  n 1: a star with 5 points; formed by 5 straight lines between the vertices of a pentagon and enclosing another pentagon [syn: pentacle, pentagram, pentangle]
• practical 0
  adj 1: concerned with actual use or practice; "he is a very practical person"; "the idea had no practical application"; "a practical knowledge of Japanese"; "woodworking is a practical art" [ant: impractical] 2: guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory; "a hardheaded appraisal of our position"; "a hard- nosed labor leader"; "completely practical in his approach to business"; "not ideology but pragmatic politics" [syn: hardheaded, hard-nosed, practical, pragmatic] 3: being actually such in almost every respect; "a practical failure"; "the once elegant temple lay in virtual ruin" [syn: virtual(a), practical(a)] 4: having or put to a practical purpose or use; "practical mathematics"; "practical applications of calculus"
• rankle 0
  v 1: gnaw into; make resentful or angry; "The injustice rankled her"; "his resentment festered" [syn: eat into, fret, rankle, grate]
• rascal 0
  n 1: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel [syn: rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet] 2: one who is playfully mischievous [syn: imp, scamp, monkey, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag]
• receptacle 0
  n 1: a container that is used to put or keep things in 2: enlarged tip of a stem that bears the floral parts 3: an electrical (or electronic) fitting that is connected to a source of power and equipped to receive an insert
• scull 0
  n 1: a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward 2: each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman 3: a racing shell that is propelled by sculls v 1: propel with sculls; "scull the boat"
• spectacle 0
  n 1: something or someone seen (especially a notable or unusual sight); "the tragic spectacle of cripples trying to escape" 2: an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale 3: a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase `make a spectacle of' yourself
• statistical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to statistics; "statistical population"
• syntactical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or conforming to the rules of syntax; "the syntactic rules of a language" [syn: syntactic, syntactical]
• tactical 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to tactic or tactics; "a tactical error"
• tentacle 0
  n 1: something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold; "caught in the tentacles of organized crime" 2: any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion
• testicle 0
  n 1: one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away" [syn: testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg]
• twinkle 0
  n 1: a rapid change in brightness; a brief spark or flash [syn: twinkle, scintillation, sparkling] 2: merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes" [syn: sparkle, twinkle, spark, light] v 1: gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing" [syn: flash, blink, wink, twinkle, winkle] 2: emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?" [syn: twinkle, winkle, scintillate]
• uncle 0
  n 1: the brother of your father or mother; the husband of your aunt [ant: aunt, auntie, aunty] 2: a source of help and advice and encouragement; "he played uncle to lonely students"
• vocal 0
  adj 1: relating to or designed for or using the singing voice; "vocal technique"; "the vocal repertoire"; "organized a vocal group to sing his compositions" [ant: instrumental] 2: having or using the power to produce speech or sound; "vocal organs"; "all vocal beings hymned their praise" 3: given to expressing yourself freely or insistently; "outspoken in their opposition to segregation"; "a vocal assembly" [syn: outspoken, vocal] 4: full of the sound of voices; "a playground vocal with the shouts and laughter of children" n 1: music intended to be performed by one or more singers, usually with instrumental accompaniment [syn: vocal music, vocal] 2: a short musical composition with words; "a successful musical must have at least three good songs" [syn: song, vocal]
• cul 0
  n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac, dead end]
• michael 0
  n 1: (Old Testament) the guardian archangel of the Jews
• denticle 0
  n 1: small pointed ridge on the exoskeleton of an arthropod
• conventicle 0
  n 1: a secret unauthorized meeting for religious worship 2: a building for religious assembly (especially Nonconformists, e.g., Quakers) [syn: conventicle, meetinghouse]
• papistical 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church" [syn: Roman, R.C., Romanist, romish, Roman Catholic, popish, papist, papistic, papistical]
• sophistical 0
  adj 1: plausible but misleading [syn: sophistic, sophistical]
• truncal 0
• unpractical 0
• artistical 0

See also dialectical definition and dialectical synonyms