Words that rhyme with mottl

n 1: an annual Eurasian plant cultivated in North America having showy heads of blue or purple or pink or white flowers [syn: cornflower, bachelor's button, bluebottle, Centaurea cyanus] 2: blowfly with iridescent blue body; makes a loud buzzing noise in flight [syn: bluebottle, Calliphora vicina]

n 1: the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]

v 1: startle with amazement or fear 2: hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear 3: overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!" [syn: flabbergast, boggle, bowl over]

n 1: work of little or no value done merely to look busy v 1: do useless, wasteful, or trivial work

n 1: a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped 2: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle, bottleful] 3: a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children [syn: bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle] v 1: store (liquids or gases) in bottles 2: put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"

n 1: domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen" [syn: cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus]

adv 1: toward the posterior end of the body [syn: caudally, caudal] adj 1: constituting or relating to a tail; "caudal appendage" [ant: cephalic] 2: resembling a tail [syn: caudal, taillike] 3: situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises; "caudal fins"; "the caudal end of the body"

n 1: rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads [syn: cobble, cobblestone, sett] v 1: pave with cobblestones [syn: cobble, cobblestone] 2: repair or mend; "cobble shoes"

n 1: common edible European bivalve 2: common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate] 2: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit]

v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge] 2: cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs"

n 1: a sudden and violent collapse [syn: debacle, fiasco] 2: flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer 3: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping]

adj 1: of or relating to or produced by the glottis; "glottal stops"

n 1: an irregular arrangement of patches of color; "it was not dull grey as distance had suggested, but a mottle of khaki and black and olive-green" v 1: mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained [syn: mottle, streak, blotch] 2: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, dapple, cloud]

n 1: a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine [syn: accelerator, throttle, throttle valve] 2: a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun] v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle] 2: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes" [syn: strangle, strangulate, throttle] 3: reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" [syn: choke, throttle]

n 1: a fleshy wrinkled and often brightly colored fold of skin hanging from the neck or throat of certain birds (chickens and turkeys) or lizards [syn: wattle, lappet] 2: framework consisting of stakes interwoven with branches to form a fence 3: any of various Australasian trees yielding slender poles suitable for wattle v 1: build of or with wattle 2: interlace to form wattle

n 1: the residue of partially burnt tobacco left caked in the bowl of a pipe after smoking

n 1: one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)

n 1: a pot that holds 2 quarts

n 1: blowfly with brilliant coppery green body [syn: greenbottle, greenbottle fly]