Words that rhyme with febrifugal

n 1: the bone in the ankle that articulates with the leg bones to form the ankle joint [syn: anklebone, astragal, astragalus, talus] 2: a beaded molding for edging or decorating furniture [syn: beading, bead, beadwork, astragal]

n 1: a brass instrument without valves; used for military calls and fanfares 2: any of various low-growing annual or perennial evergreen herbs native to Eurasia; used for ground cover [syn: bugle, bugleweed] 3: a tubular glass or plastic bead sewn onto clothing for decoration v 1: play on a bugle

adj 1: tending to move away from a center; "centrifugal force" [ant: centripetal] 2: tending away from centralization, as of authority; "the division of Europe into warring blocs produces ever- increasing centrifugal stress" 3: conveying information to the muscles from the CNS; "motor nerves" [syn: centrifugal, motor(a)]

adj 1: of or relating to marriage or to the relationship between a wife and husband; "connubial bliss"; "conjugal visits" [syn: conjugal, connubial]

adj 1: avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally" [syn: economical, frugal, scotch, sparing, stinting]

adj 1: of or relating to or in the style of a musical fugue

n 1: an unaccompanied partsong for 2 or 3 voices; follows a strict poetic form v 1: sing madrigals; "The group was madrigaling beautifully"

adj 1: recklessly wasteful; "prodigal in their expenditures" [syn: extravagant, prodigal, profligate, spendthrift] n 1: a recklessly extravagant consumer [syn: prodigal, profligate, squanderer]

n 1: Australian wild horse [syn: warrigal, warragal] 2: wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia [syn: dingo, warrigal, warragal, Canis dingo]

n 1: a republic in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula; Portuguese explorers and colonists in the 15th and 16th centuries created a vast overseas empire (including Brazil) [syn: Portugal, Portuguese Republic]