Words that rhyme with dottle
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bluebottle
n 1: an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers [syn: cornflower, bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus] 2: blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight [syn: bluebottle, Calliphora vicina] -
bobble
n 1: the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up] -
boggle
v 1: startle with amazement or fear 2: hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear 3: overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!" [syn: flabbergast, boggle, bowl over] -
boondoggle
n 1: work of little or no value done merely to look busy v 1: do useless, wasteful, or trivial work -
bottle
n 1: a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped 2: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle, bottleful] 3: a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children [syn: bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle] v 1: store (liquids or gases) in bottles 2: put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water" -
caudal
adv 1: toward the posterior end of the body [syn: caudally, caudal] adj 1: constituting or relating to a tail; "caudal appendage" [ant: cephalic] 2: resembling a tail [syn: caudal, taillike] 3: situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises; "caudal fins"; "the caudal end of the body" -
cobble
n 1: rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads [syn: cobble, cobblestone, sett] v 1: pave with cobblestones [syn: cobble, cobblestone] 2: repair or mend; "cobble shoes" -
cockle
n 1: common edible European bivalve 2: common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate] 2: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit] -
coddle
v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge] 2: cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs" -
debacle
n 1: a sudden and violent collapse [syn: debacle, fiasco] 2: flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer 3: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping] -
double
adv 1: downward and forward; "he was bent double with pain" 2: two together; "some people sleep better double" 3: to double the degree; "she was doubly rewarded"; "his eyes were double bright" [syn: doubly, double, twice] adj 1: having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison [syn: double, dual, twofold, two-fold, treble, threefold, three-fold] 2: consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure" [syn: double, dual, duple] 3: twice as great or many; "ate a double portion"; "the dose is doubled"; "a twofold increase" [syn: double, doubled, twofold, two-fold] 4: used of flowers having more than the usual number of petals in crowded or overlapping arrangements; "double chrysanthemums have many rows of petals and are usually spherical or hemispherical" [ant: single] 5: used of homologous chromosomes associated in pairs in synapsis [syn: bivalent, double] [ant: multivalent, univalent] 6: large enough for two; "a double bed"; "a double room" 7: having two meanings with intent to deceive; "a sly double meaning"; "spoke with forked tongue" [syn: double, forked] n 1: a base hit on which the batter stops safely at second base; "he hit a double to deep centerfield" [syn: double, two- base hit, two-bagger, two-baser] 2: a stand-in for movie stars to perform dangerous stunts; "his first job in Hollywood was as a double for Clark Gable" [syn: double, stunt man, stunt woman] 3: someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor); "he could be Gingrich's double"; "she's the very image of her mother" [syn: double, image, look-alike] 4: a quantity that is twice as great as another; "36 is the double of 18" 5: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff" [syn: doubling, double] v 1: increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years" [syn: double, duplicate] 2: hit a two-base hit 3: bend over or curl up, usually with laughter or pain; "He doubled and vomited violently" [syn: double over, double, double up] 4: do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions; "She doubles as his wife and secretary" 5: bridge: make a demand for (a card or suit) 6: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate] -
glottal
adj 1: of or relating to or produced by the glottis; "glottal stops" -
mottle
n 1: an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green" v 1: mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained [syn: mottle, streak, blotch] 2: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, dapple, cloud] -
scrotal
adj 1: relating to or having or lying within a scrotum; "scrotal mammals"; "scrotal testes" -
throttle
n 1: a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine [syn: accelerator, throttle, throttle valve] 2: a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun] v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle] 2: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes" [syn: strangle, strangulate, throttle] 3: reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" [syn: choke, throttle] -
wattle
n 1: a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards [syn: wattle, lappet] 2: framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence 3: any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle v 1: build of or with wattle 2: interlace to form wattle -
aristotle
n 1: one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC) -
pottle
n 1: a pot that holds 2 quarts -
greenbottle
n 1: blowfly with brilliant coppery green body [syn: greenbottle, greenbottle fly] -
tottle
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twattle
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epicotyl
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hypocotyl
See also dottle definition
