Words that rhyme with doggerel

• 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]
• burl 0
  n 1: the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer 2: a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree 3: soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; either an imperfection or created by design [syn: slub, knot, burl] v 1: remove the burls from cloth
• churl 0
  n 1: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or refinement [syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, churl, Goth, tyke, tike] 2: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend [syn: niggard, skinflint, scrooge, churl] 3: a bad-tempered person [syn: grouch, grump, crank, churl, crosspatch]
• cockerel 0
  n 1: a young domestic cock; not older than one year
• 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
• conferral 0
  n 1: the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift [syn: bestowal, bestowment, conferral, conferment]
• cowgirl 0
  n 1: a woman cowboy
• curl 0
  n 1: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) [syn: coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll] 2: American chemist who with Richard Smalley and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1933) [syn: Curl, Robert Curl, Robert F. Curl, Robert Floyd Curl Jr.] 3: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, curl, ringlet, whorl] v 1: form a curl, curve, or kink; "the cigar smoke curled up at the ceiling" [syn: curl, curve, kink] 2: shape one's body into a curl; "She curled farther down under the covers"; "She fell and drew in" [syn: curl up, curl, draw in] 3: wind around something in coils or loops [syn: coil, loop, curl] [ant: uncoil] 4: twist or roll into coils or ringlets; "curl my hair, please" [syn: curl, wave] 5: play the Scottish game of curling
• deferral 0
  n 1: a state of abeyance or suspended business [syn: deferral, recess] 2: act of putting off to a future time [syn: postponement, deferment, deferral]
• demurral 0
  n 1: (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings [syn: demur, demurral, demurrer]
• doctoral 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a doctor or doctorate; "doctoral dissertation"; "doctorial candidates" [syn: doctoral, doctorial]
• dotterel 0
  n 1: rare plover of upland areas of Eurasia [syn: dotterel, dotrel, Charadrius morinellus, Eudromias morinellus]
• earl 0
  n 1: a British peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
• 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]
• furl 0
  v 1: form into a cylinder by rolling; "Roll up the cloth" [syn: roll up, furl]
• girl 0
  n 1: a young woman; "a young lady of 18" [syn: girl, miss, missy, young lady, young woman, fille] 2: a youthful female person; "the baby was a girl"; "the girls were just learning to ride a tricycle" [syn: female child, girl, little girl] [ant: boy, male child] 3: a female human offspring; "her daughter cared for her in her old age" [syn: daughter, girl] [ant: boy, son] 4: a girl or young woman with whom a man is romantically involved; "his girlfriend kicked him out" [syn: girlfriend, girl, lady friend] 5: a friendly informal reference to a grown woman; "Mrs. Smith was just one of the girls"
• 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]
• hurl 0
  n 1: a violent throw [syn: hurl, cast] v 1: throw forcefully [syn: hurl, hurtle, cast] 2: make a thrusting forward movement [syn: lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrust] 3: utter with force; utter vehemently; "hurl insults"; "throw accusations at someone" [syn: hurl, throw]
• illiberal 0
  adj 1: narrow-minded about cherished opinions [syn: illiberal, intolerant]
• inaugural 0
  adj 1: occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball" [ant: exaugural] 2: serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage" [syn: inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first, maiden] n 1: an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) [syn: inaugural address, inaugural] 2: the ceremonial induction into a position; "the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration" [syn: inauguration, inaugural]
• 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)
• pearl 0
  n 1: a smooth lustrous round structure inside the shell of a clam or oyster; much valued as a jewel 2: a shade of white the color of bleached bones [syn: bone, ivory, pearl, off-white] 3: a shape that is spherical and small; "he studied the shapes of low-viscosity drops"; "beads of sweat on his forehead" [syn: drop, bead, pearl] v 1: gather pearls, from oysters in the ocean
• 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]
• 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
• purl 0
  n 1: gold or silver wire thread 2: a basic knitting stitch [syn: purl, purl stitch] v 1: flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn: eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl] 2: make a murmuring sound; "the water was purling" [syn: sough, purl] 3: knit with a purl stitch 4: edge or border with gold or silver embroidery 5: embroider with gold or silver thread
• quadrilateral 0
  adj 1: having four sides [syn: quadrilateral, four-sided] n 1: a four-sided polygon [syn: quadrilateral, quadrangle, tetragon]
• squirrel 0
  n 1: a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail 2: the fur of a squirrel
• swirl 0
  n 1: the shape of something rotating rapidly [syn: whirl, swirl, vortex, convolution] v 1: turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind" [syn: twirl, swirl, twiddle, whirl] 2: flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn: eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl]
• 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]
• twirl 0
  n 1: a sharp bend in a line produced when a line having a loop is pulled tight [syn: kink, twist, twirl] 2: the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting" [syn: spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirl] v 1: turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind" [syn: twirl, swirl, twiddle, whirl] 2: cause to spin; "spin a coin" [syn: whirl, birl, spin, twirl]
• uncurl 0
  v 1: move out of a curled position; "He uncurled himself"
• unfurl 0
  v 1: unroll, unfold, or spread out or be unrolled, unfolded, or spread out from a furled state; "unfurl a banner" [syn: unfurl, unroll] [ant: roll up, wrap up]
• 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
• whirl 0
  n 1: confused movement; "he was caught up in a whirl of work"; "a commotion of people fought for the exits" [syn: whirl, commotion] 2: the shape of something rotating rapidly [syn: whirl, swirl, vortex, convolution] 3: a usually brief attempt; "he took a crack at it"; "I gave it a whirl" [syn: crack, fling, go, pass, whirl, offer] 4: the act of rotating rapidly; "he gave the crank a spin"; "it broke off after much twisting" [syn: spin, twirl, twist, twisting, whirl] v 1: turn in a twisting or spinning motion; "The leaves swirled in the autumn wind" [syn: twirl, swirl, twiddle, whirl] 2: cause to spin; "spin a coin" [syn: whirl, birl, spin, twirl] 3: flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn: eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl] 4: revolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis; "The dervishes whirl around and around without getting dizzy" [syn: spin, spin around, whirl, reel, gyrate] 5: fly around; "The clothes tumbled in the dryer"; "rising smoke whirled in the air" [syn: whirl, tumble, whirl around]
• whorl 0
  n 1: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) [syn: coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll] 2: a strand or cluster of hair [syn: lock, curl, ringlet, whorl] 3: a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope" [syn: coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix]
• merle 0
  n 1: common black European thrush [syn: blackbird, merl, merle, ouzel, ousel, European blackbird, Turdus merula]
• birl 0
  v 1: cause a floating log to rotate by treading [syn: birl, birle] 2: cause to spin; "spin a coin" [syn: whirl, birl, spin, twirl]
• awhirl 0
• dipteral 0
• knurl 0
• playgirl 0
• protectoral 0
• scurrile 0
• cottrell 0
• earle 0
• herl 0
• searle 0
• sectoral 0
• septilateral 0
• newsgirl 0
• squirl 0
• choirgirl 0

See also doggerel definition and doggerel synonyms