Words that rhyme with hooghly

adj 1: tall and thin and having long slender limbs; "a gangling teenager"; "a lanky kid transformed almost overnight into a handsome young man" [syn: gangling, gangly, lanky, rangy] 2: tall and thin [syn: gangling, gangly, lanky]

n 1: a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way [syn: googly, wrong 'un, bosie, bosie ball]

adj 1: having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells; "jingling sleigh bells" [syn: jingling, jingly]

adj 1: lacking neatness or order; "the old man's scraggly beard"; "a scraggly little path to the door"

adv 1: one by one; one at a time; "they were arranged singly" [ant: multiply] 2: apart from others; "taken individually, the rooms were, in fact, square"; "the fine points are treated singly" [syn: individually, separately, singly, severally, one by one, on an individual basis]

adv 1: in a smug manner; "the bureaucrats explained smugly that the facts provided by their own experts show no cause for concern"

adv 1: fitting closely; "the vest fit snugly" 2: safely protected; "concealed snugly in his hideout" 3: warmly and comfortably sheltered; "sitting snugly by the fireside while the storm raged"

adj 1: wavy and twisting

adj 1: spreading out in different directions; "sprawling handwriting"; "straggling branches"; "straggly hair" [syn: sprawling, straggling, rambling, straggly] 2: growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; "straggly ivy"

adj 1: displeasing to the senses; "an ugly face"; "ugly furniture" [ant: beautiful] 2: inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace; "a surly waiter"; "an ugly frame of mind" [syn: surly, ugly] 3: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" [syn: despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched] 4: provoking horror; "an atrocious automobile accident"; "a frightful crime of decapitation"; "an alarming, even horrifying, picture"; "war is beyond all words horrible"- Winston Churchill; "an ugly wound" [syn: atrocious, frightful, horrifying, horrible, ugly]

adv 1: in a vague way; "he looked vaguely familiar"; "he explained it somewhat mistily" [syn: vaguely, mistily]

adj 1: curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines" [syn: sinuate, sinuous, wiggly] 2: moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion; "wiggly worms" [syn: wiggly, wriggling, wriggly, writhing]

adj 1: moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion; "wiggly worms" [syn: wiggly, wriggling, wriggly, writhing]

adj 1: covered with beads or jewels or sequins [syn: beady, gemmed, jeweled, jewelled, sequined, spangled, spangly]

n 1: Swiss theologian whose sermons began the Reformation in Switzerland (1484-1531) [syn: Zwingli, Ulrich Zwingli, Huldreich Zwingli]

adj 1: abounding in small stones; "landed at a shingly little beach" [syn: gravelly, pebbly, shingly]