Words that rhyme with hals

  • convulse
    v 1: make someone convulse with laughter; "The comedian convulsed the crowd" 2: be overcome with laughter 3: move or stir about violently; "The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed" [syn: convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about, slash, toss, jactitate] 4: shake uncontrollably; "earthquakes convulsed the countryside" 5: cause to contract; "The spasm convulses her facial muscles" 6: contract involuntarily, as in a spasm; "The muscles in her face convulsed"
  • falls
    n 1: the petals or sepals of a flower that bend downward (especially the outer perianth of an iris) 2: a steep descent of the water of a river [syn: waterfall, falls]
  • false
    adv 1: in a disloyal and faithless manner; "he behaved treacherously"; "his wife played him false" [syn: faithlessly, traitorously, treacherously, treasonably, false] adj 1: not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery" [ant: true] 2: arising from error; "a false assumption"; "a mistaken view of the situation" [syn: false, mistaken] 3: erroneous and usually accidental; "a false start"; "a false alarm" 4: deliberately deceptive; "false pretenses" 5: inappropriate to reality or facts; "delusive faith in a wonder drug"; "delusive expectations"; "false hopes" [syn: delusive, false] 6: not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article; "it isn't fake anything; it's real synthetic fur"; "faux pearls"; "false teeth"; "decorated with imitation palm leaves"; "a purse of simulated alligator hide" [syn: fake, false, faux, imitation, simulated] 7: designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom" 8: inaccurate in pitch; "a false (or sour) note"; "her singing was off key" [syn: false, off-key, sour] 9: adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham] 10: (used especially of persons) not dependable in devotion or affection; unfaithful; "a false friend"; "when lovers prove untrue" [syn: false, untrue]
  • impulse
    n 1: an instinctive motive; "profound religious impulses" [syn: urge, impulse] 2: a sudden desire; "he bought it on an impulse" [syn: caprice, impulse, whim] 3: the electrical discharge that travels along a nerve fiber; "they demonstrated the transmission of impulses from the cortex to the hypothalamus" [syn: nerve impulse, nervous impulse, neural impulse, impulse] 4: (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star" [syn: pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulse] 5: the act of applying force suddenly; "the impulse knocked him over" [syn: impulse, impulsion, impetus] 6: an impelling force or strength; "the car's momentum carried it off the road" [syn: momentum, impulse]
  • pulse
    n 1: (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients); "the pulsations seemed to be coming from a star" [syn: pulsation, pulsing, pulse, impulse] 2: the rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart" [syn: pulse, pulsation, heartbeat, beat] 3: the rate at which the heart beats; usually measured to obtain a quick evaluation of a person's health [syn: pulse, pulse rate, heart rate] 4: edible seeds of various pod-bearing plants (peas or beans or lentils etc.) v 1: expand and contract rhythmically; beat rhythmically; "The baby's heart was pulsating again after the surgeon massaged it" [syn: pulsate, throb, pulse] 2: produce or modulate (as electromagnetic waves) in the form of short bursts or pulses or cause an apparatus to produce pulses; "pulse waves"; "a transmitter pulsed by an electronic tube" [syn: pulse, pulsate] 3: drive by or as if by pulsation; "A soft breeze pulsed the air"
  • repulse
    n 1: an instance of driving away or warding off [syn: rebuff, snub, repulse] v 1: force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack" [syn: repel, repulse, fight off, rebuff, drive back] 2: be repellent to; cause aversion in [syn: repel, repulse] [ant: appeal, attract] 3: cause to move back by force or influence; "repel the enemy"; "push back the urge to smoke"; "beat back the invaders" [syn: repel, drive, repulse, force back, push back, beat back] [ant: attract, draw, draw in, pull, pull in]
  • stalls
    n 1: a farm building for housing horses or other livestock [syn: stable, stalls, horse barn]
  • waltz
    n 1: an assured victory (especially in an election) [syn: walk- in, waltz] 2: music composed in triple time for waltzing 3: a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat [syn: waltz, valse] v 1: dance a waltz [syn: waltz, waltz around]
  • schmalz
    n 1: (Yiddish) excessive sentimentality in art or music [syn: schmaltz, shmaltz, schmalz]
  • casals
    n 1: an outstanding Spanish cellist noted for his interpretation of Bach's cello suites (1876-1973) [syn: Casals, Pablo Casals]
  • als
    n 1: thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal cord; results in progressive muscle atrophy that starts in the limbs [syn: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease]
  • valse
    n 1: a ballroom dance in triple time with a strong accent on the first beat [syn: waltz, valse]
  • dulse
    n 1: coarse edible red seaweed [syn: dulse, Rhodymenia palmata]
  • dolls
  • else
  • grilse
  • halls
  • reinstalls
  • walls
  • qualls
  • dols
  • mcgols
  • riyals
  • ryals
  • bahls
  • hulse

See also hals definition