Words that rhyme with mangonel

• abdominal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or near the abdomen; "abdominal muscles" n 1: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal muscle, ab]
• altitudinal 0
  adj 1: pertaining to altitude
• anti 0
  adj 1: not in favor of (an action or proposal etc.) [ant: pro] n 1: a person who is opposed (to an action or policy or practice etc.); "the antis smelled victory after a long battle"
• antiphonal 0
  adj 1: containing or using responses; alternating; "responsive reading"; "antiphonal laughter" [syn: responsive, antiphonal] 2: relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony [syn: antiphonary, antiphonal] n 1: bound collection of antiphons [syn: antiphonary, antiphonal]
• archidiaconal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to an archdeacon or his office
• arsenal 0
  n 1: all the weapons and equipment that a country has [syn: arsenal, armory, armoury] 2: a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms [syn: arsenal, armory, armoury] 3: a place where arms are manufactured [syn: armory, armoury, arsenal]
• attitudinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to attitudes
• bacchanal 0
  adj 1: used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic] n 1: someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn: drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant] 2: a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [syn: bacchant, bacchanal] 3: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
• binominal 0
  adj 1: having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies; "binomial nomenclature of bacteria" [syn: binomial, binominal]
• cacuminal 0
  adj 1: pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate [syn: cacuminal, retroflex]
• cantonal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a canton
• cardinal 0
  adj 1: serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure" [syn: cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal] 2: being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers" [ant: ordinal] n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes 2: the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order [syn: cardinal number, cardinal] 3: a variable color averaging a vivid red [syn: cardinal, carmine] 4: crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male [syn: cardinal, cardinal grosbeak, Richmondena Cardinalis, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird]
• criminal 0
  adj 1: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious] 2: guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man" 3: involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent" [syn: criminal, felonious] n 1: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor]
• diagonal 0
  adj 1: connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face; "a diagonal line across the page" 2: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping] n 1: (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent 2: a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric [syn: diagonal, bias] 3: an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard; "the bishop moves on the diagonals" 4: (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry 5: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix]
• gastrointestinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to the stomach and intestines; "a gastrointestinal disorder" [syn: gastrointestinal, GI]
• germinal 0
  adj 1: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal, originative, seminal] n 1: seventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (March and April); the month of buds
• hexagonal 0
  adj 1: having six sides or divided into hexagons [syn: hexangular, hexagonal]
• impersonal 0
  adj 1: not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark" [ant: personal] 2: having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer" [syn: impersonal, neutral]
• intestinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or inside the intestines; "intestinal disease" [syn: intestinal, enteric, enteral]
• juvenal 0
  n 1: Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140) [syn: Juvenal, Decimus Junius Juvenalis]
• latitudinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to latitudes north or south
• libidinal 0
  adj 1: belonging to the libido; "libidinal impulses"; "libidinal gratification"
• longitudinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to lines of longitude; "longitudinal reckoning by the navigator" 2: running lengthwise; "a thin longitudinal strip"; "longitudinal measurements of the hull" 3: over an extended time; "a longitudinal study of twins"
• mademoiselle 0
  n 1: small silvery drumfish often mistaken for white perch; found along coasts of United States from New York to Mexico [syn: silver perch, mademoiselle, Bairdiella chrysoura]
• medicinal 0
  adj 1: having the properties of medicine; "medicative drugs"; "medicinal herbs"; "medicinal properties" [syn: medicative, medicinal]
• misspell 0
  v 1: spell incorrectly
• morel 0
  n 1: any of various edible mushrooms of the genus Morchella having a brownish spongelike cap
• motel 0
  n 1: a motor hotel
• nominal 0
  adj 1: relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name; "the Russian system of nominal brevity"; "a nominal lists of priests"; "taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls" 2: insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture" [syn: nominal, token(a), tokenish] 3: pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase" 4: of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation; "the nominal GDP"; "nominal interest rates" [ant: real] 5: named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock" [syn: nominative, nominal] 6: existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party" [syn: nominal, titular] n 1: a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb [syn: noun phrase, nominal phrase, nominal]
• octagonal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like an octagon [syn: octangular, octagonal]
• ordinal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a taxonomic order; "family and ordinal names of animals and plants" 2: being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh" [ant: cardinal] n 1: the number designating place in an ordered sequence [syn: ordinal number, ordinal, no.]
• organelle 0
  n 1: a specialized part of a cell; analogous to an organ; "the first organelle to be identified was the nucleus" [syn: organelle, cell organelle, cell organ]
• orthogonal 0
  adj 1: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point" [syn: extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal] 2: statistically unrelated 3: having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system" [syn: orthogonal, rectangular]
• pastel 0
  adj 1: lacking in body or vigor; "faded pastel charms of the naive music" 2: delicate and pale in color; "pastel pink" n 1: any of various pale or light colors
• pentagonal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon [syn: pentangular, pentagonal]
• personal 0
  adj 1: concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers" [ant: impersonal] 2: particular to a given individual 3: of or arising from personality; "personal magnetism" 4: intimately concerning a person's body or physical being; "personal hygiene" 5: indicating grammatical person; "personal verb endings" n 1: a short newspaper article about a particular person or group
• personnel 0
  n 1: group of people willing to obey orders; "a public force is necessary to give security to the rights of citizens" [syn: force, personnel] 2: the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management [syn: personnel department, personnel office, personnel, staff office]
• phenomenal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a phenomenon; "phenomenal science" 2: exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength"; "phenomenaRl feats of memory"
• pimpernel 0
  n 1: European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads [syn: salad burnet, burnet bloodwort, pimpernel, Poterium sanguisorba] 2: any of several plants of the genus Anagallis
• polygonal 0
  adj 1: having many sides or relating to a surface marked by polygons; "polygonal structure"
• pronominal 0
  adj 1: relating to pronouns; "pronominal reference" n 1: a phrase that functions as a pronoun [syn: pronominal phrase, pronominal]
• propel 0
  v 1: cause to move forward with force; "Steam propels this ship" [syn: propel, impel] 2: give an incentive for action; "This moved me to sacrifice my career" [syn: motivate, actuate, propel, move, prompt, incite]
• quell 0
  v 1: suppress or crush completely; "squelch any sign of dissent"; "quench a rebellion" [syn: squelch, quell, quench] 2: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: quell, stay, appease]
• ravel 0
  n 1: French composer and exponent of Impressionism (1875-1937) [syn: Ravel, Maurice Ravel] 2: a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her stocking" [syn: run, ladder, ravel] v 1: disentangle; "can you unravel the mystery?" [syn: ravel, unravel, ravel out] [ant: knot, ravel, tangle] 2: tangle or complicate; "a ravelled story" [syn: ravel, tangle, knot] [ant: ravel, ravel out, unknot, unpick, unravel, unscramble, untangle]
• repel 0
  v 1: 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] 2: be repellent to; cause aversion in [syn: repel, repulse] [ant: appeal, attract] 3: force or drive back; "repel the attacker"; "fight off the onslaught"; "rebuff the attack" [syn: repel, repulse, fight off, rebuff, drive back] 4: reject outright and bluntly; "She snubbed his proposal" [syn: rebuff, snub, repel] 5: fill with distaste; "This spoilt food disgusts me" [syn: disgust, gross out, revolt, repel]
• resell 0
  v 1: sell (something) again after having bought it
• retell 0
  v 1: render verbally, "recite a poem"; "retell a story" [syn: recite, retell] 2: make into fiction; "The writer fictionalized the lives of his parents in his latest novel" [syn: fictionalize, fictionalise, retell] 3: to say, state, or perform again; "She kept reiterating her request" [syn: repeat, reiterate, ingeminate, iterate, restate, retell]
• retinal 0
  adj 1: in or relating to the retina of the eye; "retinal cells" n 1: either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light [syn: retinene, retinal]
• sell 0
  n 1: the activity of persuading someone to buy; "it was a hard sell" v 1: exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent; "He sold his house in January"; "She sells her body to survive and support her drug habit" [ant: buy, purchase] 2: be sold at a certain price or in a certain way; "These books sell like hot cakes" 3: persuade somebody to accept something; "The French try to sell us their image as great lovers" 4: do business; offer for sale as for one's livelihood; "She deals in gold"; "The brothers sell shoes" [syn: deal, sell, trade] 5: give up for a price or reward; "She sold her principles for a successful career" 6: be approved of or gain acceptance; "The new idea sold well in certain circles" 7: be responsible for the sale of; "All her publicity sold the products" 8: deliver to an enemy by treachery; "Judas sold Jesus"; "The spy betrayed his country" [syn: betray, sell]
• seminal 0
  adj 1: pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen; "seminal fluid" 2: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal, originative, seminal]
• sentinel 0
  n 1: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event [syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket]
• shell 0
  n 1: ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun 2: the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals 3: hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles [syn: carapace, shell, cuticle, shield] 4: the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts 5: the exterior covering of a bird's egg [syn: shell, eggshell] 6: a rigid covering that envelops an object; "the satellite is covered with a smooth shell of ice" 7: a very light narrow racing boat [syn: shell, racing shell] 8: the housing or outer covering of something; "the clock has a walnut case" [syn: shell, case, casing] 9: a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners) [syn: plate, scale, shell] 10: the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod v 1: use explosives on; "The enemy has been shelling us all day" [syn: blast, shell] 2: create by using explosives; "blast a passage through the mountain" [syn: blast, shell] 3: fall out of the pod or husk; "The corn shelled" 4: hit the pitches of hard and regularly; "He shelled the pitcher for eight runs in the first inning" 5: look for and collect shells by the seashore 6: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" [syn: beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish] 7: remove from its shell or outer covering; "shell the legumes"; "shell mussels" 8: remove the husks from; "husk corn" [syn: husk, shell]
• smell 0
  n 1: the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form; "she loved the smell of roses" [syn: smell, odor, odour, olfactory sensation, olfactory perception] 2: any property detected by the olfactory system [syn: olfactory property, smell, aroma, odor, odour, scent] 3: the general atmosphere of a place or situation and the effect that it has on people; "the feel of the city excited him"; "a clergyman improved the tone of the meeting"; "it had the smell of treason" [syn: spirit, tone, feel, feeling, flavor, flavour, look, smell] 4: the faculty that enables us to distinguish scents [syn: smell, sense of smell, olfaction, olfactory modality] 5: the act of perceiving the odor of something [syn: smell, smelling] v 1: inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense 2: emit an odor; "The soup smells good" 3: smell bad; "He rarely washes, and he smells" 4: have an element suggestive (of something); "his speeches smacked of racism"; "this passage smells of plagiarism" [syn: smack, reek, smell] 5: become aware of not through the senses but instinctively; "I sense his hostility"; "i smell trouble"; "smell out corruption" [syn: smell, smell out, sense]
• spell 0
  n 1: a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation [syn: enchantment, spell, trance] 2: a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else); "it's my go"; "a spell of work" [syn: go, spell, tour, turn] 3: a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather" [syn: while, piece, spell, patch] 4: a verbal formula believed to have magical force; "he whispered a spell as he moved his hands"; "inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese" [syn: spell, magic spell, magical spell, charm] v 1: orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of; "How do you spell this word?" "We had to spell out our names for the police officer" [syn: spell, spell out] 2: indicate or signify; "I'm afraid this spells trouble!" [syn: spell, import] 3: write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word); "He spelled the word wrong in this letter" [syn: spell, write] 4: relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn; "She spelled her husband at the wheel" 5: place under a spell [ant: unspell] 6: take turns working; "the workers spell every four hours"
• subliminal 0
  adj 1: below the threshold of conscious perception
• swell 0
  adj 1: very good; "he did a bully job"; "a neat sports car"; "had a great time at the party"; "you look simply smashing" [syn: bang-up, bully, corking, cracking, dandy, great, groovy, keen, neat, nifty, not bad(p), peachy, slap-up, swell, smashing] n 1: the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea [syn: swell, crestless wave] 2: a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor) 3: a crescendo followed by a decrescendo 4: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance [syn: dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse] v 1: increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity; "The music swelled to a crescendo" 2: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son" [syn: swell, puff up] 3: expand abnormally; "The bellies of the starving children are swelling" [syn: swell, swell up, intumesce, tumefy, tumesce] 4: come up (as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things); "Strong emotions welled up"; "Smoke swelled from it" [syn: well up, swell] 5: come up, as of a liquid; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up" [syn: well, swell] 6: cause to become swollen; "The water swells the wood"
• tell 0
  n 1: a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap) [syn: Tell, William Tell] v 1: express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name" [syn: state, say, tell] 2: let something be known; "Tell them that you will be late" 3: narrate or give a detailed account of; "Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child" [syn: tell, narrate, recount, recite] 4: give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" [syn: order, tell, enjoin, say] 5: discern or comprehend; "He could tell that she was unhappy" 6: inform positively and with certainty and confidence; "I tell you that man is a crook!" [syn: assure, tell] 7: give evidence; "he was telling on all his former colleague" [syn: tell, evidence] 8: mark as different; "We distinguish several kinds of maple" [syn: distinguish, separate, differentiate, secern, secernate, severalize, severalise, tell, tell apart]
• terminal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route; "freight pickup is a terminal service"; "terminal charges" 2: relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time; "terminal examinations"; "terminal payments" 3: being or situated at an end; "the endmost pillar"; "terminal buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal syllable" [ant: intermediate] 4: occurring at or forming an end or termination; "his concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter"; "the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave" [syn: concluding, final, last, terminal] 5: causing or ending in or approaching death; "a terminal patient"; "terminal cancer" n 1: station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods [syn: terminal, terminus, depot] 2: a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves [syn: terminal, pole] 3: either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix" [syn: end, terminal] 4: electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
• tetragonal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like a quadrilateral
• vicinal 0
  adj 1: belonging to or limited to a vicinity
• well 0
  adv 1: (often used as a combining form) in a good or proper or satisfactory manner or to a high standard (`good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well'); "the children behaved well"; "a task well done"; "the party went well"; "he slept well"; "a well-argued thesis"; "a well-seasoned dish"; "a well-planned party"; "the baby can walk pretty good" [syn: well, good] [ant: badly, ill, poorly] 2: thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form; "The problem is well understood"; "she was well informed"; "shake well before using"; "in order to avoid food poisoning be sure the meat is well cooked"; "well-done beef", "well-satisfied customers"; "well-educated" 3: indicating high probability; in all likelihood; "I might well do it"; "a mistake that could easily have ended in disaster"; "you may well need your umbrella"; "he could equally well be trying to deceive us" [syn: well, easily] 4: (used for emphasis or as an intensifier) entirely or fully; "a book well worth reading"; "was well aware of the difficulties ahead"; "suspected only too well what might be going on" 5: to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree; "the project was well underway"; "the fetus has well developed organs"; "his father was well pleased with his grades" 6: favorably; with approval; "their neighbors spoke well of them"; "he thought well of the book" [ant: badly, ill] 7: to a great extent or degree; "I'm afraid the film was well over budget"; "painting the room white made it seem considerably (or substantially) larger"; "the house has fallen considerably in value"; "the price went up substantially" [syn: well, considerably, substantially] 8: with great or especially intimate knowledge; "we knew them well" [syn: well, intimately] 9: with prudence or propriety; "You would do well to say nothing more"; "could not well refuse" 10: with skill or in a pleasing manner; "she dances well"; "he writes well" [ant: badly] 11: in a manner affording benefit or advantage; "she married well"; "The children were settled advantageously in Seattle" [syn: well, advantageously] [ant: badly, disadvantageously] 12: in financial comfort; "They live well"; "she has been able to live comfortably since her husband died" [syn: well, comfortably] 13: without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor; "took the joke well"; "took the tragic news well" [ant: badly] adj 1: in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury; "appears to be entirely well"; "the wound is nearly well"; "a well man"; "I think I'm well; at least I feel well" [ant: ill, sick] 2: resulting favorably; "it's a good thing that I wasn't there"; "it is good that you stayed"; "it is well that no one saw you"; "all's well that ends well" [syn: good, well(p)] 3: wise or advantageous and hence advisable; "it would be well to start early" n 1: a deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine 2: a cavity or vessel used to contain liquid 3: an abundant source; "she was a well of information" [syn: well, wellspring, fountainhead] 4: an open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway) 5: an enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps v 1: come up, as of a liquid; "Tears well in her eyes"; "the currents well up" [syn: well, swell]
• yell 0
  n 1: a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition; "the speaker was interrupted by loud cries from the rear of the audience" [syn: cry, outcry, call, yell, shout, vociferation] 2: a loud utterance of emotion (especially when inarticulate); "a cry of rage"; "a yell of pain" [syn: cry, yell] v 1: utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall] 2: utter or declare in a very loud voice; "You don't have to yell--I can hear you just fine" [syn: yell, scream]
• brunei 0
  n 1: a sultanate in northwestern Borneo; became independent of Great Britain in 1984 [syn: Brunei, Negara Brunei Darussalam]
• l 0
  adj 1: being ten more than forty [syn: fifty, 50, l] n 1: a metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints) [syn: liter, litre, l, cubic decimeter, cubic decimetre] 2: the cardinal number that is the product of ten and five [syn: fifty, 50, L] 3: a cgs unit of illumination equal to the brightness of a perfectly diffusing surface that emits or reflects one lumen per square centimeter [syn: lambert, L] 4: the 12th letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: L, l]
• cornell 0
  n 1: United States actress noted for her performances in Broadway plays (1893-1974) [syn: Cornell, Katherine Cornell] 2: United States businessman who unified the telegraph system in the United States and who in 1865 (with Andrew D. White) founded Cornell University (1807-1874) [syn: Cornell, Ezra Cornell]
• marcel 0
  n 1: a hairdo characterized by deep regular waves that are made by a heated curling iron v 1: make a marcel in a woman's hair
• moselle 0
  n 1: German white wine from the Moselle valley or a similar wine made elsewhere
• nobel 0
  n 1: Swedish chemist remembered for his invention of dynamite and for the bequest that created the Nobel prizes (1833-1896) [syn: Nobel, Alfred Nobel, Alfred Bernhard Nobel]
• noel 0
  n 1: period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 [syn: Christmas, Christmastide, Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide, Noel]
• crenelle 0
  n 1: one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) [syn: scallop, crenation, crenature, crenel, crenelle] 2: a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement [syn: crenel, crenelle]
• spinel 0
  n 1: a hard glassy mineral consisting of an oxide of magnesium and aluminum; occurs in various colors that are used as gemstones
• fontanelle 0
  n 1: any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus [syn: fontanelle, fontanel, soft spot]
• matutinal 0
  adj 1: pertaining to or occurring in the morning; "took his matutinal walk"
• luminal 0
  n 1: a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative [syn: sodium thiopental, phenobarbital, phenobarbitone, Luminal, purple heart]
• embryonal 0
  adj 1: of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic stage"; "embryologic development" [syn: embryonic, embryologic, embryonal]
• adnominal 0
• decanal 0
• dentinal 0
• diaconal 0
• epiphenomenal 0
• heptagonal 0
• officinal 0
• quenelle 0
• transpersonal 0
• villanelle 0
• cognominal 0
• del 0
• mel 0
• pell 0
• chanel 0
• rochelle 0
• jargonelle 0
• vaticinal 0
• subabdominal 0
• connell 0
• liminal 0
• purnell 0
• aspinall 0
• testudinal 0
• lionel 0

See also mangonel definition