Words that rhyme with macaulay

• demurely 0
  adv 1: in a demure manner; "the army girl, tall and demurely pretty, threw a quick side-glance at her"
• immaturely 0
  adv 1: in an immature manner; "his teenage son still behaves very immaturely" [syn: immaturely, jejunely] [ant: maturely]
• insecurely 0
  adv 1: in a tentative and self-conscious manner; "she always acts very insecurely in the presence of her father" [ant: securely] 2: in a manner involving risk; "our positions here at the university are rather insecurely supported by grant money" [ant: securely]
• maturely 0
  adv 1: in a mature manner; "she acts very maturely for her age" [ant: immaturely, jejunely]
• obscurely 0
  adv 1: in an obscure manner; "this work is obscurely written"
• poorly 0
  adv 1: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill- conceived plan" [syn: ill, badly, poorly] [ant: good, well] adj 1: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy]
• prematurely 0
  adv 1: (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation; "the child was born prematurely" 2: too soon; in a premature manner; "I spoke prematurely" [syn: prematurely, untimely]
• purely 0
  adv 1: restricted to something; "we talked strictly business" [syn: strictly, purely]
• securely 0
  adv 1: in a secure manner; in a manner free from danger; "she held the child securely" [syn: securely, firmly] 2: in a confident and unselfconscious manner; "he acts very securely in front of the camera" [ant: insecurely] 3: in a manner free from fear or risk; "the outcome of expansion in the sixties and seventies will be an academic hierarchy securely supported by scholastic selection" [ant: insecurely] 4: in an invulnerable manner; "the agreed line was to involve at several points the withdrawal of French troops from positions which they had quite securely held"
• sorely 0
  adv 1: to a great degree; "I missed him sorely"; "we were sorely taxed to keep up with them" 2: in or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded" [syn: painfully, sorely] [ant: painlessly]
• squally 0
  adj 1: characterized by short periods of noisy commotion; "a home life that has been extraordinarily squally" [syn: squally, squalling] 2: characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain; "a grey squally morning"
• surely 0
  adv 1: definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" [syn: surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting]
• trolley 0
  n 1: a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity [syn: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car]
• volley 0
  n 1: rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise" [syn: fusillade, salvo, volley, burst] 2: a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces [ant: ground stroke] v 1: be dispersed in a volley; "gun shots volleyed at the attackers" 2: hit before it touches the ground; "volley the tennis ball" 3: discharge in, or as if in, a volley; "the attackers volleyed gunshots at the civilians" 4: make a volley 5: utter rapidly; "volley a string of curses"
• wally 0
  n 1: a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid
• molly 0
  n 1: popular aquarium fish [syn: mollie, molly]
• pauli 0
  n 1: United States physicist (born in Austria) who proposed the exclusion principle (thus providing a theoretical basis for the periodic table) (1900-1958) [syn: Pauli, Wolfgang Pauli]
• raleigh 0
  n 1: English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618) [syn: Raleigh, Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ralegh, Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh] 2: capital of the state of North Carolina; located in the east central part of the North Carolina [syn: Raleigh, capital of North Carolina]
• smalley 0
  n 1: American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943) [syn: Smalley, Richard Smalley, Richard E. Smalley, Richard Errett Smalley]
• bengali 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people; "Bengali hills" n 1: (Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus) 2: an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India 3: a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal [syn: Bengali, Bangla]
• mccauley 0
  n 1: heroine of the American Revolution who carried water to soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth Court House and took over her husband's gun when he was overcome by heat (1754-1832) [syn: McCauley, Mary McCauley, Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, Molly Pitcher]
• nepali 0
  adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture; "Nepalese troops massed at the border"; "Nepali mountains are among the highest in the world"; "the different Nepali words for `rice'" [syn: Nepalese, Nepali] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Nepal [syn: Nepalese, Nepali] 2: the official state language of Nepal
• somali 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the African republic of Somalia or its people or their language and culture; "Somali coffee is excellent" [syn: Somalian, Somali] n 1: a member of a tall dark (mostly Muslim) people inhabiting Somalia [syn: Somalian, Somali] 2: the Cushitic language spoken by the Somali
• ali 0
  n 1: United States prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942) [syn: Ali, Muhammad Ali, Cassius Clay, Cassius Marcellus Clay] 2: the fourth caliph of Islam who is considered to be the first caliph by Shiites; he was a cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad; after his assassination Islam was divided into Shiite and Sunnite sects
• mali 0
  n 1: a landlocked republic in northwestern Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960; Mali was a center of West African civilization for more than 4,000 years [syn: Mali, Republic of Mali, French Sudan]
• mollie 0
  n 1: popular aquarium fish [syn: mollie, molly]
• morley 0
  n 1: United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923) [syn: Morley, E. W. Morley, Edward Morley, Edward Williams Morley]
• crawly 0
• impurely 0
• rawly 0
• scrawly 0
• brawley 0
• callie 0
• cauley 0
• cawley 0
• crawley 0
• dawley 0
• fawley 0
• frawley 0
• hallie 0
• hawley 0
• lallie 0
• lawley 0
• pawley 0
• qualley 0
• rawley 0
• shawley 0
• swalley 0
• tallie 0
• macauley 0
• mcauley 0
• mccallie 0
• mccaulley 0
• mccawley 0
• mcgauley 0
• ollie 0
• polly 0
• whalley 0
• corley 0
• warley 0
• sclerocauly 0

See also macaulay definition