Words that rhyme with heelball

n 1: a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" [syn: baseball, baseball game] 2: a ball used in playing baseball

n 1: a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop [syn: basketball, basketball game, hoops] 2: an inflated ball used in playing basketball

n 1: the act of excluding someone by a negative vote or veto [syn: barring, blackball] v 1: expel from a community or group [syn: banish, ban, ostracize, ostracise, shun, cast out, blackball] 2: vote against; refuse to endorse; refuse to assent; "The President vetoed the bill" [syn: veto, blackball, negative]

n 1: a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon [syn: cannonball, cannon ball, round shot]

n 1: the ball-shaped capsule containing the vertebrate eye [syn: eyeball, orb] v 1: look at [syn: eye, eyeball]

n 1: (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity; "he swung late on the fastball"; "he showed batters nothing but smoke" [syn: fastball, heater, smoke, hummer, bullet]

n 1: an especially luminous meteor (sometimes exploding) [syn: bolide, fireball] 2: a highly energetic and indefatigable person [syn: powerhouse, human dynamo, ball of fire, fireball] 3: a ball of fire (such as the sun or a ball-shaped discharge of lightning) 4: the luminous center of a nuclear explosion

n 1: any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal [syn: football, football game] 2: the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football

n 1: a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball 2: a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands

n 1: a no-nonsense attitude in business or politics; "they play hardball in the Senate" 2: baseball as distinguished from softball [ant: softball, softball game]

n 1: a mixed drink made of alcoholic liquor mixed with water or a carbonated beverage and served in a tall glass

n 1: a baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin [syn: knuckleball, knuckler]

n 1: ground meat formed into a ball and fried or simmered in broth

n 1: a small sphere of camphor or naphthalene used to keep moths away from stored clothing [syn: mothball, camphor ball] v 1: put into long-term storage

n 1: a person with an unusual or odd personality [syn: eccentric, eccentric person, flake, oddball, geek]

n 1: a game played on a sloping board; the object is to propel marbles against pins or into pockets [syn: pinball, pinball game]

adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling] adj 1: being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; "real objects"; "real people; not ghosts"; "a film based on real life"; "a real illness"; "real humility"; "Life is real! Life is earnest!"- Longfellow [syn: real, existent] [ant: unreal] 2: no less than what is stated; worthy of the name; "the real reason"; "real war"; "a real friend"; "a real woman"; "meat and potatoes--I call that a real meal"; "it's time he had a real job"; "it's no penny-ante job--he's making real money" [ant: unreal] 3: not to be taken lightly; "statistics demonstrate that poverty and unemployment are very real problems"; "to the man sleeping regularly in doorways homelessness is real" 4: capable of being treated as fact; "tangible evidence"; "his brief time as Prime Minister brought few real benefits to the poor" [syn: real, tangible] 5: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: actual, genuine, literal, real] 6: of, relating to, or representing an amount that is corrected for inflation; "real prices"; "real income"; "real wages" [ant: nominal] 7: having substance or capable of being treated as fact; not imaginary; "the substantial world"; "a mere dream, neither substantial nor practical"; "most ponderous and substantial things"- Shakespeare [syn: substantial, real, material] [ant: insubstantial, unreal, unsubstantial] 8: (of property) fixed or immovable; "real property consists of land and buildings" 9: coinciding with reality; "perceptual error...has a surprising resemblance to veridical perception"- F.A.Olafson [syn: veridical, real] n 1: any rational or irrational number [syn: real number, real] 2: the basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos 3: an old small silver Spanish coin

adj 1: foolish; totally unsound; "a crazy scheme"; "half-baked ideas"; "a screwball proposal without a prayer of working" [syn: crazy, half-baked, screwball, softheaded] n 1: a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball] 2: a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown

n 1: plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions [syn: snowball, sweet sand verbena, Abronia elliptica] 2: ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce 3: ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup 4: snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully) v 1: increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate 2: throw snowballs at

n 1: ball used in playing softball [syn: softball, playground ball] 2: a game closely resembling baseball that is played on a smaller diamond and with a ball that is larger and softer [syn: softball, softball game] [ant: hardball]

n 1: a form of baseball played in the streets with a rubber ball and broomstick handle [syn: stickball, stickball game]

n 1: a game in which two teams hit an inflated ball over a high net using their hands [syn: volleyball, volleyball game] 2: an inflated ball used in playing volleyball

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 city in northwestern Switzerland [syn: Basel, Basle, Bale]

adj 1: slender and graceful [syn: gracile, willowy]

n 1: a village of huts for native Africans in southern Africa; usually surrounded by a stockade 2: a pen for livestock in southern Africa

v 1: make a deliberately low estimate; "The construction company wanted the contract badly and lowballed" [syn: lowball, underestimate]

n 1: any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples; the Hebrews considered Baal a false god

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]

n 1: a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball 2: a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them

n 1: an official language of the Republic of South Africa; closely related to Dutch and Flemish [syn: Afrikaans, Taal, South African Dutch]

n 1: an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing [syn: punching bag, punch bag, punching ball, punchball]