Words that rhyme with doyal

adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]

n 1: a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue [syn: cabal, faction, junto, camarilla] 2: a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) [syn: conspiracy, cabal] v 1: engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government" [syn: conspire, cabal, complot, conjure, machinate]

n 1: a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels v 1: lengthen and slow down or draw out; "drawl one's vowels"

v 1: hold spellbound [syn: enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight] [ant: disenchant, disillusion]

n 1: the season when the leaves fall from the trees; "in the fall of 1973" [syn: fall, autumn] 2: a sudden drop from an upright position; "he had a nasty spill on the ice" [syn: spill, tumble, fall] 3: the lapse of mankind into sinfulness because of the sin of Adam and Eve; "women have been blamed ever since the Fall" 4: a downward slope or bend [syn: descent, declivity, fall, decline, declination, declension, downslope] [ant: acclivity, ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade] 5: a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue" 6: a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" [syn: fall, downfall] [ant: rise] 7: a movement downward; "the rise and fall of the tides" [ant: ascension, ascent, rise, rising] 8: the act of surrendering (usually under agreed conditions); "they were protected until the capitulation of the fort" [syn: capitulation, fall, surrender] 9: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle] 10: when a wrestler's shoulders are forced to the mat [syn: fall, pin] 11: a free and rapid descent by the force of gravity; "it was a miracle that he survived the drop from that height" [syn: drop, fall] 12: a sudden sharp decrease in some quantity; "a drop of 57 points on the Dow Jones index"; "there was a drop in pressure in the pulmonary artery"; "a dip in prices"; "when that became known the price of their stock went into free fall" [syn: drop, dip, fall, free fall] v 1: descend in free fall under the influence of gravity; "The branch fell from the tree"; "The unfortunate hiker fell into a crevasse" 2: move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again" [syn: descend, fall, go down, come down] [ant: arise, ascend, come up, go up, lift, move up, rise, uprise] 3: pass suddenly and passively into a state of body or mind; "fall into a trap"; "She fell ill"; "They fell out of favor"; "Fall in love"; "fall asleep"; "fall prey to an imposter"; "fall into a strange way of thinking"; "she fell to pieces after she lost her work" 4: come under, be classified or included; "fall into a category"; "This comes under a new heading" [syn: fall, come] 5: fall from clouds; "rain, snow and sleet were falling"; "Vesuvius precipitated its fiery, destructive rage on Herculaneum" [syn: precipitate, come down, fall] 6: suffer defeat, failure, or ruin; "We must stand or fall"; "fall by the wayside" 7: die, as in battle or in a hunt; "Many soldiers fell at Verdun"; "Several deer have fallen to the same gun"; "The shooting victim fell dead" 8: touch or seem as if touching visually or audibly; "Light fell on her face"; "The sun shone on the fields"; "The light struck the golden necklace"; "A strange sound struck my ears" [syn: fall, shine, strike] 9: be captured; "The cities fell to the enemy" 10: occur at a specified time or place; "Christmas falls on a Monday this year"; "The accent falls on the first syllable" 11: decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper" [syn: decrease, diminish, lessen, fall] [ant: increase] 12: yield to temptation or sin; "Adam and Eve fell" 13: lose office or power; "The government fell overnight"; "The Qing Dynasty fell with Sun Yat-sen" 14: to be given by assignment or distribution; "The most difficult task fell on the youngest member of the team"; "The onus fell on us"; "The pressure to succeed fell on the youngest student" 15: move in a specified direction; "The line of men fall forward" 16: be due; "payments fall on the 1st of the month" 17: lose one's chastity; "a fallen woman" 18: to be given by right or inheritance; "The estate fell to the oldest daughter" 19: come into the possession of; "The house accrued to the oldest son" [syn: accrue, fall] 20: fall to somebody by assignment or lot; "The task fell to me"; "It fell to me to notify the parents of the victims" [syn: fall, light] 21: be inherited by; "The estate fell to my sister"; "The land returned to the family"; "The estate devolved to an heir that everybody had assumed to be dead" [syn: fall, return, pass, devolve] 22: slope downward; "The hills around here fall towards the ocean" 23: lose an upright position suddenly; "The vase fell over and the water spilled onto the table"; "Her hair fell across her forehead" [syn: fall, fall down] 24: drop oneself to a lower or less erect position; "She fell back in her chair"; "He fell to his knees" 25: fall or flow in a certain way; "This dress hangs well"; "Her long black hair flowed down her back" [syn: hang, fall, flow] 26: assume a disappointed or sad expression; "Her face fell when she heard that she would be laid off"; "his crest fell" 27: be cast down; "his eyes fell" 28: come out; issue; "silly phrases fell from her mouth" 29: be born, used chiefly of lambs; "The lambs fell in the afternoon" 30: begin vigorously; "The prisoners fell to work right away" 31: go as if by falling; "Grief fell from our hearts" 32: come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell" [syn: fall, descend, settle]

v 1: keep from happening or arising; make impossible; "My sense of tact forbids an honest answer"; "Your role in the projects precludes your involvement in the competitive project" [syn: prevent, forestall, foreclose, preclude, forbid] 2: act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn: anticipate, foresee, forestall, counter]

n 1: an open sore on the back of a horse caused by ill-fitting or badly adjusted saddle [syn: saddle sore, gall] 2: a skin sore caused by chafing 3: abnormal swelling of plant tissue caused by insects or microorganisms or injury 4: a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will [syn: resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour] 5: a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats [syn: bile, gall] 6: the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties [syn: crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshness] v 1: become or make sore by or as if by rubbing [syn: chafe, gall, fret] 2: irritate or vex; "It galls me that we lost the suit" [syn: gall, irk]

n 1: an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open; "the elevators were at the end of the hall" [syn: hallway, hall] 2: a large entrance or reception room or area [syn: anteroom, antechamber, entrance hall, hall, foyer, lobby, vestibule] 3: a large room for gatherings or entertainment; "lecture hall"; "pool hall" 4: a college or university building containing living quarters for students [syn: dormitory, dorm, residence hall, hall, student residence] 5: the large room of a manor or castle [syn: manor hall, hall] 6: English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943) [syn: Hall, Radclyffe Hall, Marguerite Radclyffe Hall] 7: United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924) [syn: Hall, G. Stanley Hall, Granville Stanley Hall] 8: United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914) [syn: Hall, Charles Martin Hall] 9: United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871) [syn: Hall, Charles Francis Hall] 10: United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907) [syn: Hall, Asaph Hall] 11: a large and imposing house [syn: mansion, mansion house, manse, hall, residence] 12: a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research; "halls of learning" 13: a large building for meetings or entertainment

n 1: the act of drawing or hauling something; "the haul up the hill went very slowly" [syn: draw, haul, haulage] 2: the quantity that was caught; "the catch was only 10 fish" [syn: catch, haul] v 1: draw slowly or heavily; "haul stones"; "haul nets" [syn: haul, hale, cart, drag] 2: transport in a vehicle; "haul stones from the quarry in a truck"; "haul vegetables to the market"

v 1: set up for use; "install the washer and dryer"; "We put in a new sink" [syn: install, instal, put in, set up] 2: put into an office or a position; "the new president was installed immediately after the election" [syn: install, instal] 3: place; "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz" [syn: install, instal, set up, establish]

v 1: hang loosely or laxly; "His tongue lolled" [syn: droop, loll] 2: be lazy or idle; "Her son is just bumming around all day" [syn: bum, bum around, bum about, arse around, arse about, fuck off, loaf, frig around, waste one's time, lounge around, loll, loll around, lounge about]

n 1: a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk [syn: promenade, mall] 2: mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls" [syn: plaza, mall, center, shopping mall, shopping center, shopping centre]

n 1: a heavy long-handled hammer used to drive stakes or wedges [syn: maul, sledge, sledgehammer] v 1: split (wood) with a maul and wedges 2: injure badly by beating [syn: maul, mangle]

n 1: the girlfriend of a gangster [syn: moll, gun moll, gangster's moll]

adj 1: relating to or accompanying birth; "natal injuries"; "natal day"; "natal influences" 2: of or relating to the buttocks n 1: a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean; "Natal was renamed KwaZulu-Natal in 1994" [syn: Natal, KwaZulu-Natal] 2: a port city in northeastern Brazil

n 1: a sudden numbing dread [syn: chill, pall] 2: burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped [syn: pall, shroud, cerement, winding-sheet, winding-clothes] 3: hanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window) [syn: curtain, drape, drapery, mantle, pall] v 1: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull] 2: cause to lose courage; "dashed by the refusal" [syn: daunt, dash, scare off, pall, frighten off, scare away, frighten away, scare] 3: cover with a pall 4: cause surfeit through excess though initially pleasing; "Too much spicy food cloyed his appetite" [syn: cloy, pall] 5: cause to become flat; "pall the beer" 6: lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall" [syn: die, pall, become flat] 7: lose strength or effectiveness; become or appear boring, insipid, or tiresome (to); "the course palled on her" 8: lose interest or become bored with something or somebody; "I'm so tired of your mother and her complaints about my food" [syn: tire, pall, weary, fatigue, jade]

n 1: a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) [syn: recall, callback] 2: a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador" 3: a bugle call that signals troops to return 4: the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode" [syn: recall, recollection, reminiscence] 5: the act of removing an official by petition v 1: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" [syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block, draw a blank, forget] 2: go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" [syn: hark back, return, come back, recall] 3: call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" [syn: echo, recall] 4: summon to return; "The ambassador was recalled to his country"; "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession" [syn: recall, call back] 5: cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression; "She was recalled by a loud laugh" 6: make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty" [ant: issue, supply] 7: cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" [syn: recall, call in, call back, withdraw]

v 1: install again; "She reinstalled the washer after it had been repaired"

n 1: poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl, cacography] v 1: write carelessly [syn: scribble, scrawl]

n 1: cloak consisting of an oblong piece of cloth used to cover the head and shoulders

adv 1: on a small scale; "think small" [ant: big] adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group" [syn: small, little] [ant: big, large] 2: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket- size country" [syn: minor, modest, small, small- scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized] 3: (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" [syn: little, small] 4: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between" 5: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest, small] 6: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" [syn: little, minuscule, small] 7: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" [syn: little, small] 8: have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty rain" 9: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way" [syn: modest, small] 10: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small" [syn: belittled, diminished, small] n 1: the slender part of the back 2: a garment size for a small person

n 1: an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities [syn: conurbation, urban sprawl, sprawl] 2: an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about [syn: sprawl, sprawling] v 1: sit or lie with one's limbs spread out 2: go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far" [syn: sprawl, straggle]

n 1: sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation v 1: make high-pitched, whiney noises [syn: squall, waul, wawl] 2: utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall] 3: blow in a squall; "When it squalls, a prudent sailor reefs his sails"

n 1: a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed 2: small area set off by walls for special use [syn: booth, cubicle, stall, kiosk] 3: a booth where articles are displayed for sale [syn: stall, stand, sales booth] 4: a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge; "the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it" 5: seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater 6: small individual study area in a library [syn: carrel, carrell, cubicle, stall] 7: a tactic used to mislead or delay [syn: stall, stalling] v 1: postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn: procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally] 2: come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway" [syn: stall, conk] 3: deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling" 4: put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse" 5: experience a stall in flight, of airplanes 6: cause an airplane to go into a stall 7: cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"

adj 1: great in vertical dimension; high in stature; "tall people"; "tall buildings"; "tall trees"; "tall ships" [ant: little, short] 2: lofty in style; "he engages in so much tall talk, one never really realizes what he is saying" [syn: grandiloquent, magniloquent, tall] 3: impressively difficult; "a tall order" 4: too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story" [syn: improbable, marvelous, marvellous, tall(a)] n 1: a garment size for a tall person

n 1: the state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom] 2: someone held in bondage

n 1: a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) [syn: trawl, trawl line, spiller, setline, trotline] 2: a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths [syn: trawl, dragnet, trawl net] v 1: fish with trawlers

n 1: an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure; "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls were covered with pictures" 2: anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect; "a wall of water"; "a wall of smoke"; "a wall of prejudice"; "negotiations ran into a brick wall" 3: (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure; "stomach walls" [syn: wall, paries] 4: a difficult or awkward situation; "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall" 5: a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) 6: a layer of material that encloses space; "the walls of the cylinder were perforated"; "the container's walls were blue" 7: a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden); "the wall followed the road"; "he ducked behind the garden wall and waited" 8: an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; "they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down" [syn: rampart, bulwark, wall] v 1: surround with a wall in order to fortify [syn: wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround]

n 1: part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines [syn: greater omentum, gastrocolic omentum, caul] 2: the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) [syn: caul, veil, embryonic membrane]

n 1: tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics [syn: pigeon pea, pigeon-pea plant, cajan pea, catjang pea, red gram, dhal, dahl, Cajanus cajan] 2: small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant [syn: cajan pea, pigeon pea, dahl]

n 1: a person of French descent [syn: frog, Gaul] 2: a Celt of ancient Gaul 3: an ancient region of western Europe that included what is now northern Italy and France and Belgium and part of Germany and the Netherlands [syn: Gaul, Gallia]

n 1: the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites [syn: gram molecule, mole, mol]

n 1: small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits [syn: pepper tree, molle, Peruvian mastic tree, Schinus molle]

n 1: United States feminist (1885-1977) [syn: Paul, Alice Paul] 2: (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle; "Paul's name was Saul prior to his conversion to Christianity" [syn: Paul, Saint Paul, St. Paul, Apostle Paul, Paul the Apostle, Apostle of the Gentiles, Saul, Saul of Tarsus]

n 1: a person active in party politics [syn: politician, politico, pol, political leader]

n 1: (Old Testament) the first king of the Israelites who defended Israel against many enemies (especially the Philistines) 2: (New Testament) a Christian missionary to the Gentiles; author of several Epistles in the New Testament; even though Paul was not present at the Last Supper he is considered an Apostle; "Paul's name was Saul prior to his conversion to Christianity" [syn: Paul, Saint Paul, St. Paul, Apostle Paul, Paul the Apostle, Apostle of the Gentiles, Saul, Saul of Tarsus]

n 1: a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid [syn: sol, colloidal solution, colloidal suspension] 2: (Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the sun; counterpart of Greek Helios 3: the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization [syn: sol, soh, so]

n 1: French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985) [syn: Chagall, Marc Chagall]

n 1: a small landlocked Asian country high in the Himalayas between India and China [syn: Nepal, Kingdom of Nepal]

n 1: a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers

n 1: a city in southern Quebec province on the Saint Lawrence River; the largest city in Quebec and 2nd largest in Canada; the 2nd largest French-speaking city in the world

n 1: a republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic; formerly a French colony but achieved independence in 1960 [syn: Senegal, Republic of Senegal]