Words that rhyme with mcdowell

n 1: a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something [syn: avowal, avouchment, affirmation]

n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element [syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4] v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" 2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house" 3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" 4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: exist, be] 5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen" 6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ] 7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be] 8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow] 9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify] 10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour" 11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live] 12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be" 13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be]

n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species 2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions

n 1: the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus [syn: intestine, bowel, gut]

n 1: denial of any connection with or knowledge of [syn: disavowal, disclaimer]

v 1: remove the entrails of; "draw a chicken" [syn: disembowel, eviscerate, draw]

n 1: a fastener that is inserted into holes in two adjacent pieces and holds them together [syn: dowel, dowel pin, joggle]

n 1: the jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth [syn: lower jaw, mandible, mandibula, mandibular bone, submaxilla, lower jawbone, jawbone, jowl] 2: a fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging)

n 1: a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping v 1: wipe with a towel; "towel your hair dry"

n 1: a small hand tool with a handle and flat metal blade; used for scooping or spreading plaster or similar materials v 1: use a trowel on; for light garden work or plaster work

n 1: a speech sound made with the vocal tract open [syn: vowel, vowel sound] [ant: consonant] 2: a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken vowel

n 1: a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal); "his bellow filled the hallway" [syn: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring, yowl] v 1: cry loudly, as of animals; "The coyotes were howling in the desert" [syn: howl, wrawl, yammer, yowl] 2: utter shrieks, as of cats [syn: yowl, caterwaul]

n 1: aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil [syn: bacillus, B] 2: originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins [syn: B-complex vitamin, B complex, vitamin B complex, vitamin B, B vitamin, B] 3: a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder [syn: boron, B, atomic number 5] 4: a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels [syn: Bel, B] 5: (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter [syn: barn, b] 6: the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: B, b] 7: the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen [syn: B, type B, group B]

n 1: United States composer best remembered as a composer of works for the piano (1860-1908) [syn: MacDowell, Edward MacDowell]

n 1: United States general who was the first African American to serve as chief of staff; later served as Secretary of State under President George W. Bush (born 1937) [syn: Powell, Colin Powell, Colin luther Powell] 2: English physicist who discovered the pion (the first known meson) which is a subatomic particle involved in holding the nucleus together (1903-1969) [syn: Powell, Cecil Frank Powell]