Words that rhyme with futile

• acetyl 1
  n 1: the organic group of acetic acid (CH3CO-) [syn: acetyl, acetyl group, acetyl radical, ethanoyl group, ethanoyl radical]
• amphiprostyle 0
  adj 1: marked by columniation having free columns in porticoes either at both ends or at both sides of a structure [syn: amphiprostylar, amphiprostyle, amphistylar, porticoed]
• boodle 0
  n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] 2: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card [syn: Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops]
• brutal 0
  adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious] 2: harsh; "the brutal summer sun"; "a brutal winter" [syn: brutal, unrelenting] 3: resembling a beast; showing lack of human sensibility; "beastly desires"; "a bestial nature"; "brute force"; "a dull and brutish man"; "bestial treatment of prisoners" [syn: beastly, bestial, brute(a), brutish, brutal] 4: disagreeably direct and precise; "he spoke with brutal honesty"
• bugle 0
  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
• butyl 0
  n 1: a hydrocarbon radical (C4H9)
• caboodle 0
  n 1: any collection in its entirety; "she bought the whole caboodle" [syn: bunch, lot, caboodle]
• contractile 0
  adj 1: capable of contracting or being contracted; "the contractile wings of an insect"
• cyclostyle 0
  n 1: a writing implement with a small toothed wheel that cuts small holes in a stencil v 1: print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil
• doodle 0
  n 1: an aimless drawing [syn: scribble, scrabble, doodle] v 1: make a doodle; draw aimlessly
• ductile 0
  adj 1: easily influenced [syn: ductile, malleable] 2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
• erectile 0
  adj 1: capable of being raised to an upright position; "erectile feathers" 2: filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood; "erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ" [syn: erectile, cavernous]
• fertile 0
  adj 1: capable of reproducing [ant: infertile, sterile, unfertile] 2: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific] 3: bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: prolific, fertile] 4: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat, fertile, productive, rich]
• feudal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of feudalism [syn: feudal, feudalistic]
• fictile 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the craft of pottery; "the fictile art"; "fictile ware" 2: susceptible to being led or directed; "fictile masses of people ripe for propaganda" [syn: fictile, pliable] 3: capable of being molded or modeled (especially of earth or clay or other soft material); "plastic substances such as wax or clay" [syn: fictile, moldable, plastic]
• footle 0
  v 1: be about; "The high school students like to loiter in the Central Square"; "Who is this man that is hanging around the department?" [syn: loiter, lounge, footle, lollygag, loaf, lallygag, hang around, mess about, tarry, linger, lurk, mill about, mill around] 2: act foolishly, as by talking nonsense
• freestyle 0
  n 1: a race (as in swimming) in which each contestant has a free choice of the style to use
• frugal 0
  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]
• gentile 0
  adj 1: belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples n 1: a person who does not acknowledge your god [syn: heathen, pagan, gentile, infidel] 2: a person who is not a member of one's own religion; used in this sense by Mormons and Hindus 3: a Christian as contrasted with a Jew [syn: gentile, non- Jew, goy] 4: a Christian; "Christians refer to themselves as gentiles"
• hairstyle 0
  n 1: the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair) [syn: hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif]
• hostile 0
  adj 1: characterized by enmity or ill will; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" [ant: amicable] 2: not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally; "hostile naval and air forces" [ant: friendly] 3: impossible to bring into friendly accord; "hostile factions" 4: very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes" [syn: hostile, uncongenial, unfriendly] 5: unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business); "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"; "hostile bid" n 1: troops belonging to the enemy's military forces; "the platoon ran into a pack of hostiles" [ant: friendly]
• infantile 0
  adj 1: indicating a lack of maturity; "childish tantrums"; "infantile behavior" [syn: childish, infantile] 2: of or relating to infants or infancy; "infantile paralysis" 3: being or befitting or characteristic of an infant; "infantile games"
• infertile 0
  adj 1: incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" [syn: sterile, unfertile, infertile] [ant: fertile]
• lifestyle 0
  n 1: a manner of living that reflects the person's values and attitudes [syn: life style, life-style, lifestyle, modus vivendi]
• mercantile 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the economic system of mercantilism; "mercantile theories"; "mercantile system" 2: profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business" [syn: mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking(a)] 3: relating to or characteristic of trade or traders; "the mercantile North was forging ahead"- Van Wyck Brooks
• motile 0
  adj 1: (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement n 1: one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action
• noodle 0
  n 1: a ribbonlike strip of pasta 2: informal terms for a human head [syn: attic, bean, bonce, noodle, noggin, dome]
• percentile 0
  n 1: (statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total [syn: percentile, centile]
• poodle 0
  n 1: an intelligent dog with a heavy curly solid-colored coat that is usually clipped; an old breed sometimes trained as sporting dogs or as performing dogs [syn: poodle, poodle dog]
• projectile 0
  adj 1: impelling or impelled forward; "a projectile force"; "a projectile missile" n 1: a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled [syn: projectile, missile] 2: any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine [syn: rocket, projectile]
• protractile 0
  adj 1: able to be extended; "protractile muscle" [syn: protractile, protractible]
• quartile 0
  n 1: (statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores
• reptile 0
  n 1: any cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia including tortoises, turtles, snakes, lizards, alligators, crocodiles, and extinct forms [syn: reptile, reptilian]
• retractile 0
  adj 1: capable of retraction; capable of being drawn back; "cats have retractile claws" [ant: nonretractable, nonretractile]
• rouble 0
  n 1: the basic unit of money in Russia [syn: ruble, rouble]
• scruple 0
  n 1: a unit of apothecary weight equal to 20 grains 2: uneasiness about the fitness of an action [syn: scruple, qualm, misgiving] 3: an ethical or moral principle that inhibits action v 1: hesitate on moral grounds; "The man scrupled to perjure himself" 2: raise scruples; "He lied and did not even scruple about it" 3: have doubts about
• strudel 0
  n 1: thin sheet of filled dough rolled and baked
• tactile 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or proceeding from the sense of touch; "haptic data"; "a tactile reflex" [syn: haptic, tactile, tactual] 2: producing a sensation of touch; "tactile qualities"; "the tactual luxury of stroking silky human hair" [syn: tactile, tactual]
• textile 0
  adj 1: of or relating to fabrics or fabric making; "textile research" n 1: 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]
• turnstile 0
  n 1: a gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering
• utile 0
  adj 1: being of use or service; "the girl felt motherly and useful"; "a useful job"; "a useful member of society" [syn: useful, utile] [ant: useless]
• versatile 0
  adj 1: having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition" [syn: versatile, various] 2: changeable or inconstant; "versatile moods" 3: competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another; "a versatile writer" 4: able to move freely in all directions; "an owl's versatile toe can move backward and forward"; "an insect's versatile antennae can move up and down or laterally"; "a versatile anther of a flower moves freely in the wind"
• volatile 0
  adj 1: evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures; "volatile oils"; "volatile solvents" [ant: nonvolatile, nonvolatilisable, nonvolatilizable] 2: liable to lead to sudden change or violence; "an explosive issue"; "a volatile situation with troops and rioters eager for a confrontation" [syn: explosive, volatile] 3: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" [syn: fickle, volatile] 4: tending to vary often or widely; "volatile stocks"; "volatile emotions" n 1: a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor; "it was heated to evaporate the volatiles"
• tubal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to occurring in a tube such as e.g. the Fallopian tube or Eustachian tube; "tubal ligation"; "tubal pregnancy"
• tootle 0
  n 1: the sound of casual playing on a musical instrument; "he enjoyed hearing the tootles of their horns as the musicians warmed up" v 1: play (a musical instrument) casually; "the saxophone player was tootling a sad melody"
• google 0
  n 1: a widely used search engine that uses text-matching techniques to find web pages that are important and relevant to a user's search v 1: search the internet (for information) using the Google search engine; "He googled the woman he had met at the party"; "My children are googling all day"
• pantile 0
  n 1: a roofing tile with a S-shape; laid so that curves overlap
• peristyle 0
  n 1: a colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a court
• prostyle 0
  adj 1: marked by columniation having free columns in a portico only across the opening to the structure [syn: prostyle, pseudoprostyle]
• refutal 0
  n 1: the act of determining that something is false [syn: falsification, falsifying, disproof, refutation, refutal]
• rootle 0
  v 1: dig with the snout; "the pig was rooting for truffles" [syn: rout, root, rootle]
• rutile 0
  n 1: a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium
• bissextile 0
• hypostyle 0
• quintile 0
• restyle 0
• goutal 0
• tootal 0
• decastyle 0
• epistyle 0
• hexastyle 0
• octastyle 0
• tetrastyle 0
• vibratile 0
• homestyle 0
• bootle 0

See also futile definition and futile synonyms