Words that rhyme with mericle

adj 1: being or relating to or like a chimera; "his Utopia is not as chimeric commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush [syn: chimeric, chimerical, chimeral] 2: produced by a wildly fanciful imagination; "his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush

adj 1: of or relating to clerks; "clerical work" 2: of or relating to the clergy; "clerical collar" 3: appropriate for or engaged in office work; "clerical skills"; "a clerical job"; "the clerical staff"

n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject] v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd" 2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn: pick, pluck, cull]

adj 1: derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical data"; "an empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known" [syn: empirical, empiric] [ant: theoretic, theoretical] 2: relying on medical quackery; "empiric treatment" [syn: empiric, empirical]

adj 1: characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria; "during hysterical conditions various functions of the human body are disordered"- Morris Fishbein; "hysterical amnesia" [syn: hysteric, hysterical] 2: marked by excessive or uncontrollable emotion; "hysterical laughter"; "a mob of hysterical vigilantes"

adj 1: suitable for or suggestive of singing 2: expressing deep emotion; "the dancer's lyrical performance" [syn: lyric, lyrical]

n 1: any amazing or wonderful occurrence 2: a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent

adj 1: measured or expressed in numbers; "numerical value"; "the numerical superiority of the enemy" [syn: numeric, numerical] 2: of or relating to or denoting numbers; "a numeral adjective" [syn: numeral, numerical, numeric] 3: relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers; "tests for rating numerical aptitude"; "a mathematical whiz" [syn: numerical, mathematical] [ant: verbal]

adj 1: of or relating to or used in or practicing obstetrics; "obstetric hospital" [syn: obstetric, obstetrical]

n 1: an authoritative person who divines the future [syn: prophet, prophesier, oracle, seer, vaticinator] 2: a prophecy (usually obscure or allegorical) revealed by a priest or priestess; believed to be infallible 3: a shrine where an oracular god is consulted

adj 1: characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves

n 1: thin protective membrane in some protozoa

adj 1: concerning each of two or more persons or things; especially given or done in return; "reciprocal aid"; "reciprocal trade"; "mutual respect"; "reciprocal privileges at other clubs" [syn: reciprocal, mutual] [ant: nonreciprocal] 2: of or relating to the multiplicative inverse of a quantity or function; "the reciprocal ratio of a:b is b:a" n 1: something (a term or expression or concept) that has a reciprocal relation to something else; "risk is the reciprocal of safety" 2: (mathematics) one of a pair of numbers whose product is 1: the reciprocal of 2/3 is 3/2; the multiplicative inverse of 7 is 1/7 [syn: multiplicative inverse, reciprocal] 3: hybridization involving a pair of crosses that reverse the sexes associated with each genotype [syn: reciprocal cross, reciprocal]

adj 1: of or relating to rhetoric; "accepted two or three verbal and rhetorical changes I suggested"- W.A.White; "the rhetorical sin of the meaningless variation"- Lewis Mumford 2: given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery" [ant: unrhetorical]

adj 1: exposing human folly to ridicule; "a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine" [syn: satirical, satiric]

adj 1: of or relating to spheres or resembling a sphere; "spherical geometry" [ant: nonspherical] 2: having the shape of a sphere or ball; "a spherical object"; "nearly orbicular in shape"; "little globular houses like mud-wasp nests"- Zane Grey [syn: ball-shaped, global, globose, globular, orbicular, spheric, spherical]

n 1: a breathing orifice

adj 1: relating to or using or proceeding by means of symbols; "symbolic logic"; "symbolic operations"; "symbolic thinking" [syn: symbolic, symbolical] 2: serving as a visible symbol for something abstract; "a crown is emblematic of royalty"; "the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish" [syn: emblematic, emblematical, symbolic, symbolical]

adj 1: having similarity in size, shape, and relative position of corresponding parts [syn: symmetrical, symmetric] [ant: asymmetric, asymmetrical] 2: exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities [syn: harmonious, proportionate, symmetrical]

n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac, dead end]

n 1: hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur [syn: broadtail, caracul, karakul]

adj 1: resembling or expressed by parables [syn: parabolic, parabolical] 2: having the form of a parabola [syn: parabolic, parabolical]