Words that rhyme with directorial

adj 1: nonessential but helpful; "accessorial services included sorting and packing"

adj 1: of or relating to the work of an actuary

adj 1: existing or living or growing or operating in the air; "aerial roots of a philodendron"; "aerial particles"; "small aerial creatures such as butterflies"; "aerial warfare"; "aerial photography"; "aerial cable cars" 2: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal] n 1: a pass to a receiver downfield from the passer [syn: forward pass, aerial] 2: an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals [syn: antenna, aerial, transmitting aerial]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of ambassadors

adj 1: destroying bacteria or inhibiting their growth n 1: any drug that destroys bacteria or inhibits their growth [syn: antibacterial, antibacterial drug, bactericide]

adj 1: of or relating to or formed by trees; "an arborous roof" [syn: arborical, arboreal, arborary, arborous] 2: inhabiting or frequenting trees; "arboreal apes" [syn: arboreal, arboreous, tree-living] [ant: nonarboreal] 3: resembling a tree in form and branching structure; "arborescent coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "dendriform sponges" [syn: arboreal, arboreous, arborescent, arboresque, arboriform, dendriform, dendroid, dendroidal, treelike, tree-shaped]

adj 1: of or relating to heraldry or heraldic arms; "armorial bearing"

adj 1: of or involving or contained in the arteries; "arterial disease"; "the arterial system"; "arterial blood"

adj 1: of or by or typical of an author; "authorial comments"; "auctorial flights of imagination" [syn: authorial, auctorial]

adj 1: relating to or caused by bacteria; "bacterial infection"

adj 1: relating to or marked by qualities associated with the north wind 2: toward or located in the north; "the boreal signs of the Zodiac" 3: comprising or throughout far northern regions [syn: boreal, circumboreal]

n 1: the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave [syn: burial, entombment, inhumation, interment, sepulture] 2: concealing something under the ground [syn: burying, burial]

adj 1: belonging or relating to a censor or a censor's functions

adj 1: made of grain or relating to grain or the plants that produce it; "a cereal beverage"; "cereal grasses" n 1: grass whose starchy grains are used as food: wheat; rice; rye; oats; maize; buckwheat; millet [syn: cereal, cereal grass] 2: foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses [syn: grain, food grain, cereal] 3: a breakfast food prepared from grain

adj 1: relating to or involving combinations [syn: combinative, combinatory, combinatorial] 2: relating to the combination and arrangement of elements in sets

adj 1: relating to or characteristic of conspiracy or conspirators; "a conspiratorial whisper"; "the discovery of possible conspirative codes" [syn: conspiratorial, conspirative]

adj 1: having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett [syn: corporeal, material] [ant: immaterial, incorporeal] 2: affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness" [syn: bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic]

adj 1: of or relating to a curator or the duties of a curator; "curatorial duties"

adj 1: of or relating to diarrhea [syn: diarrheal, diarrhoeal, diarrhetic, diarrhoetic, diarrheic, diarrhoeic]

adj 1: of or characteristic of a dictator; "dictatorial powers" 2: expecting unquestioning obedience; "the timid child of authoritarian parents"; "insufferably overbearing behavior toward the waiter" [syn: authoritarian, dictatorial, overbearing] 3: characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty; "an authoritarian regime"; "autocratic government"; "despotic rulers"; "a dictatorial rule that lasted for the duration of the war"; "a tyrannical government" [syn: authoritarian, autocratic, dictatorial, despotic, tyrannic, tyrannical]

adj 1: of or relating to an article stating opinions or giving perspectives; "editorial column" 2: relating to or characteristic of an editor; "editorial duties" n 1: an article giving opinions or perspectives [syn: column, editorial, newspaper column]

adj 1: of or relating to the endometrium

adj 1: of or relating to an entrepreneur; "entrepreneurial risks" 2: willing to take risks in order to make a profit

adj 1: of or relating to or at an equator; "equatorial diameter" 2: of or relating to conditions at the geographical equator; "equatorial heat" 3: of or existing at or near the geographic equator; "equatorial Africa" [ant: polar] n 1: a telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth's axis and the other one at right angles to it

adj 1: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal] 2: of or containing or dissolved in ether; "ethereal solution" 3: of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death" [syn: celestial, ethereal, supernal] 4: characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy; "this smallest and most ethereal of birds"; "gossamer shading through his playing" [syn: ethereal, gossamer]

adj 1: outside territorial limits or jurisdiction; "fishing in extraterritorial waters"; "enjoying exterritorial privileges and rights" [syn: extraterritorial, exterritorial] [ant: territorial]

adj 1: originating or located or occurring outside Earth or its atmosphere; "is there extraterrestrial life?" n 1: a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere [syn: extraterrestrial being, extraterrestrial, alien]

adj 1: outside territorial limits or jurisdiction; "fishing in extraterritorial waters"; "enjoying exterritorial privileges and rights" [syn: extraterritorial, exterritorial] [ant: territorial]

adj 1: of or relating to factorials n 1: the product of all the integers up to and including a given integer; "1, 2, 6, 24, and 120 are factorials"

adj 1: of or relating to or being a feria

adj 1: related to or infested with or transmitting parasitic worms especially filaria

adj 1: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" [syn: funereal, sepulchral]

adj 1: of or relating to or resembling gladiators or their combat; "gladiatorial combats"

adj 1: relating to a governor; "gubernatorial election"

adj 1: of no importance or relevance especially to a law case; "an objection that is immaterial after the fact" [ant: material] 2: without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit" [syn: incorporeal, immaterial] [ant: corporeal, material] 3: not consisting of matter; "immaterial apparitions"; "ghosts and other immaterial entities" [syn: immaterial, nonmaterial] [ant: material] 4: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point" [syn: extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal] 5: (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; "whether you choose to do it or not is a matter that is quite immaterial (or indifferent)"; "what others think is altogether indifferent to him" [syn: immaterial, indifferent]

adj 1: long past; beyond the limits of memory or tradition or recorded history; "time immemorial"

adj 1: relating to or associated with an empire; "imperial colony"; "the imperial gallon was standardized legally throughout the British Empire" 2: of or belonging to the British Imperial System of weights and measures 3: befitting or belonging to an emperor or empress; "imperial palace" 4: belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler; "golden age of imperial splendor"; "purple tyrant"; "regal attire"; "treated with royal acclaim"; "the royal carriage of a stag's head" [syn: imperial, majestic, purple, regal, royal] n 1: a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III [syn: imperial, imperial beard] 2: a piece of luggage carried on top of a coach

adj 1: without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit" [syn: incorporeal, immaterial] [ant: corporeal, material]

adj 1: of or relating to or resulting from industry; "industrial output" 2: having highly developed industries; "the industrial revolution"; "an industrial nation" [ant: nonindustrial] 3: employed in industry; "the industrial classes"; "industrial work" 4: suitable to stand up to hard wear; "industrial carpeting"

adj 1: especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge [ant: accusatorial] 2: marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor; "the press was inquisitorial to the point of antagonism"; "a practical police force with true inquisitorial talents"- Waldo Frank 3: having the authority to conduct official investigations; "the inquisitorial power of the Senate"

adj 1: of or relating to a magistrate; "official magisterial functions" 2: offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power; "an autocratic person"; "autocratic behavior"; "a bossy way of ordering others around"; "a rather aggressive and dominating character"; "managed the employees in an aloof magisterial way"; "a swaggering peremptory manner" [syn: autocratic, bossy, dominating, high-and- mighty, magisterial, peremptory] 3: used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person; "his distinguished bearing"; "the monarch's imposing presence"; "she reigned in magisterial beauty" [syn: distinguished, grand, imposing, magisterial]

adj 1: of or infected by or resembling malaria; "malarial fever"

adj 1: of or relating to the function or responsibility or activity of management

adj 1: of or relating to or based on the manor; "manorial accounts"

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of marble [syn: marmorean, marmoreal]

adj 1: concerned with worldly rather than spiritual interests; "material possessions"; "material wealth"; "material comforts" 2: derived from or composed of matter; "the material universe" [ant: immaterial, nonmaterial] 3: directly relevant to a matter especially a law case; "his support made a material difference"; "evidence material to the issue at hand"; "facts likely to influence the judgment are called material facts"; "a material witness" [ant: immaterial] 4: concerned with or affecting physical as distinct from intellectual or psychological well-being; "material needs"; "the moral and material welfare of all good citizens"- T.Roosevelt 5: having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett [syn: corporeal, material] [ant: immaterial, incorporeal] 6: having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare [syn: substantial, real, material] [ant: insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial] n 1: the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat is the stuff they use to make bread" [syn: material, stuff] 2: information (data or ideas or observations) that can be used or reworked into a finished form; "the archives provided rich material for a definitive biography" 3: artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress" [syn: fabric, cloth, material, textile] 4: things needed for doing or making something; "writing materials"; "useful teaching materials" 5: a person judged suitable for admission or employment; "he was university material"; "she was vice-presidential material"

n 1: a recognition of meritorious service [syn: memorial, commemoration, remembrance] 2: a written statement of facts submitted in conjunction with a petition to an authority 3: a structure erected to commemorate persons or events [syn: memorial, monument]

adj 1: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [syn: erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)] 2: relating to or under the (astrological) influence of the planet Mercury; "the Mercurial canals" 3: relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury; "more than Mercurial thievishness" 4: relating to or containing or caused by mercury; "mercurial preparations"; "mercurial sore mouth"

adj 1: of or relating to a minister of religion or the minister's office; "ministerial duties" 2: of or relating to a government minister or ministry; "ministerial decree"

n 1: a projecting bay window corbeled or cantilevered out from a wall [syn: oriel, oriel window]

adj 1: pertaining to or consisting of pictures; "pictorial perspective"; "pictorial records" [syn: pictorial, pictural] 2: evoking lifelike images within the mind; "pictorial poetry and prose"; "graphic accounts of battle"; "a lifelike portrait"; "a vivid description" [syn: graphic, lifelike, pictorial, vivid] n 1: a periodical (magazine or newspaper) containing many pictures

adj 1: relating to or characteristic of the activity of fishing; "a piscatory life" [syn: piscatorial, piscatory]

adj 1: relating to or characteristic of professors; "professorial demeanor"

adj 1: serving to purge or rid of sin; "purgatorial rites" [syn: purgatorial, purging, purifying] 2: of or resembling purgatory; "purgatorial fires"

adj 1: relating to or characteristic of birds of prey; "raptorial claws and bill for seizing prey" 2: living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey; "a predatory bird"; "the rapacious wolf"; "raptorial birds"; "ravening wolves"; "a vulturine taste for offal" [syn: predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous]

adj 1: of or relating to the sartorius muscle 2: of or relating to a tailor or to tailoring

adj 1: of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work

adj 1: of or relating to senators; "senatorial election"

adj 1: involving or derived from the senses; "sensory experience"; "sensory channels" [syn: sensory, sensorial] [ant: extrasensory, paranormal]

adj 1: in regular succession without gaps; "serial concerts" [syn: consecutive, sequent, sequential, serial, successive] 2: pertaining to or composed in serial technique; "serial music" 3: pertaining to or occurring in or producing a series; "serial monogamy"; "serial killing"; "a serial killer"; "serial publication" 4: of or relating to the sequential performance of multiple operations; "serial processing" [syn: serial, in series(p), nonparallel] n 1: a serialized set of programs; "a comedy series"; "the Masterworks concert series" [syn: serial, series] 2: a periodical that appears at scheduled times [syn: series, serial, serial publication]

adj 1: of or relating to the stars or constellations; "sidereal bodies"; "the sidereal system" 2: (of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars; "sidereal time" [ant: civil]

adj 1: characterized by fantastic imagery and incongruous juxtapositions; "a great concourse of phantasmagoric shadows"--J.C.Powys; "the incongruous imagery in surreal art and literature" [syn: phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, surreal, surrealistic] 2: resembling a dream; "night invested the lake with a dreamlike quality"; "as irrational and surreal as a dream" [syn: dreamlike, surreal]

adj 1: of or relating to or inhabiting the land as opposed to the sea or air [syn: tellurian, telluric, terrestrial, terrene] 2: of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; "planetary rumblings and eructations"- L.C.Eiseley ; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball" [syn: planetary, terrestrial] 3: operating or living or growing on land [ant: amphibious, aquatic] 4: concerned with the world or worldly matters; "mundane affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality" [syn: mundane, terrestrial] 5: of this earth; "transcendental motives for sublunary actions"; "fleeting sublunary pleasures"; "the nearest to an angelic being that treads this terrestrial ball" [syn: sublunar, sublunary, terrestrial]

adj 1: of or relating to a territory; "the territorial government of the Virgin Islands"; "territorial claims made by a country" 2: displaying territoriality; defending a territory from intruders; "territorial behavior"; "strongly territorial birds" [ant: nonterritorial] 3: belonging to the territory of any state or ruler; "territorial rights" [ant: exterritorial, extraterritorial] n 1: nonprofessional soldier member of a territorial military unit 2: a territorial military unit [syn: territorial, territorial reserve]

adj 1: of or relating to tutors or tutoring; "tutorial sessions" n 1: a session of intensive tuition given by a tutor to an individual or to a small number of students

adj 1: lacking in reality or substance or genuineness; not corresponding to acknowledged facts or criteria; "ghosts and other unreal entities"; "unreal propaganda serving as news" [ant: existent, real] 2: not actually such; being or seeming fanciful or imaginary; "this conversation is getting more and more unreal"; "the fantastically unreal world of government bureaucracy"; "the unreal world of advertising art" [ant: real(a)] 3: contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners" [syn: artificial, unreal] [ant: natural] 4: lacking material form or substance; unreal; "as insubstantial as a dream"; "an insubstantial mirage on the horizon" [syn: insubstantial, unsubstantial, unreal] [ant: material, real, substantial]

adj 1: befitting or characteristic of a wife [syn: wifely, wifelike, uxorial] [ant: husbandly]

adj 1: of or relating to the external sex organs; "genital herpes"; "venereal disease" [syn: genital, venereal]

n 1: (H2SO4) a highly corrosive acid made from sulfur dioxide; widely used in the chemical industry [syn: vitriol, oil of vitriol, sulfuric acid, sulphuric acid] 2: abusive or venomous language used to express blame or censure or bitter deep-seated ill will [syn: vituperation, invective, vitriol] v 1: expose to the effects of vitriol or injure with vitriol 2: subject to bitter verbal abuse

n 1: an advertisement that is written and presented in the style of an editorial or journalistic report

n 1: (Bible) the archangel who was the messenger of God

adj 1: (of limbs and feet) adapted for running [ant: fossorial]

adj 1: of or relating to a doctor or doctorate; "doctoral dissertation"; "doctorial candidates" [syn: doctoral, doctorial]

adj 1: (of limbs and feet) adapted for digging [ant: cursorial]

adj 1: of nerves and nerve impulses; conveying information away from the CNS; "efferent nerves and impulses" [syn: efferent, motorial] [ant: afferent]

adj 1: relating to or resembling a sector; "a sectorial box"

adj 1: adapted for sucking or clinging by suction

adj 1: of or relating to barbers and barbering; "tonsorial work"; "tonsorial parlor"

adj 1: specifically indicating a form of prosecution in which one is publicly accused of and tried for a crime and in which the judge is not also the prosecutor [ant: inquisitorial]

adj 1: of or relating to a mediator or the duties of a mediator

adj 1: of or relating to or near the nares

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of a vicar

n 1: a medicinal drug used to prevent or treat malaria [syn: antimalarial, antimalarial drug]

adj 1: of or relating to the sky or heavens; "the empyrean sphere" [syn: empyrean, empyreal] 2: inspiring awe; "well-meaning ineptitude that rises to empyreal absurdity"- M.S.Dworkin; "empyrean aplomb"- Hamilton Basso; "the sublime beauty of the night" [syn: empyreal, empyrean, sublime]