Words that rhyme with nepool

adj 1: neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat; "a cool autumn day"; "a cool room"; "cool summer dresses"; "cool drinks"; "a cool breeze" [ant: warm] 2: marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional; "play it cool"; "keep cool"; "stayed coolheaded in the crisis"; "the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament" [syn: cool, coolheaded, nerveless] 3: (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets; "cool greens and blues and violets" [ant: warm] 4: psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike; "relations were cool and polite"; "a cool reception"; "cool to the idea of higher taxes" [ant: warm] 5: (used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification; "a cool million bucks" 6: fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept; "he's a cool dude"; "that's cool"; "Mary's dress is really cool"; "it's not cool to arrive at a party too early" n 1: the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature; "the cool of early morning" 2: great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool" [syn: aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang-froid] v 1: make cool or cooler; "Chill the food" [syn: cool, chill, cool down] [ant: heat, heat up] 2: loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm" [syn: cool, chill, cool down] [ant: heat, heat up, hot up] 3: lose intensity; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably" [syn: cool, cool off, cool down]

adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious]

n 1: an excavation that is (usually) filled with water 2: a small lake; "the pond was too small for sailing" [syn: pond, pool] 3: an organization of people or resources that can be shared; "a car pool"; "a secretarial pool"; "when he was first hired he was assigned to the pool" 4: an association of companies for some definite purpose [syn: consortium, pool, syndicate] 5: any communal combination of funds; "everyone contributed to the pool" 6: a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid; "there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain"; "the body lay in a pool of blood" [syn: pool, puddle] 7: the combined stakes of the betters [syn: pool, kitty] 8: something resembling a pool of liquid; "he stood in a pool of light"; "his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines" [syn: pool, puddle] 9: any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets [syn: pool, pocket billiards] v 1: combine into a common fund; "We pooled resources" 2: join or form a pool of people

n 1: an educational institution for children too young for elementary school

v 1: revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving; "We must retool the town's economy" [syn: retool, revise] 2: provide (a workshop or factory) with new tools

n 1: a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior; "it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast"; "short haircuts were the regulation" [syn: rule, regulation] 2: something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors" [syn: convention, normal, pattern, rule, formula] 3: prescribed guide for conduct or action [syn: rule, prescript] 4: (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice [syn: rule, linguistic rule] 5: a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct; "their principles of composition characterized all their works" [syn: principle, rule] 6: the duration of a monarch's or government's power; "during the rule of Elizabeth" 7: dominance or power through legal authority; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar" [syn: dominion, rule] 8: directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted; "he knew the rules of chess" 9: any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order; "the rule of St. Dominic" 10: a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system; "the principle of the conservation of mass"; "the principle of jet propulsion"; "the right-hand rule for inductive fields" [syn: principle, rule] 11: (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials" [syn: rule, formula] 12: measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths [syn: rule, ruler] v 1: exercise authority over; as of nations; "Who is governing the country now?" [syn: govern, rule] 2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree] 3: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" [syn: predominate, dominate, rule, reign, prevail] 4: decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" [syn: rule, find] 5: have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac 6: mark or draw with a ruler; "rule the margins" 7: keep in check; "rule one's temper" [syn: rule, harness, rein]

n 1: an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900" 2: a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning" [syn: school, schoolhouse] 3: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: school, schooling] 4: a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting" 5: the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session; "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together" [syn: school, schooltime, school day] 6: an educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game" 7: a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" [syn: school, shoal] v 1: educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions" 2: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise] 3: swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"

n 1: a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound [syn: bobbin, spool, reel] v 1: transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage 2: wind onto a spool or a reel

n 1: a simple seat without a back or arms 2: solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection] 3: (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings 4: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne] v 1: lure with a stool, as of wild fowl 2: react to a decoy, of wildfowl 3: grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers [syn: stool, tiller] 4: have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make]

n 1: an implement used in the practice of a vocation 2: the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease" [syn: instrument, tool] 3: a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: creature, tool, puppet] 4: obscene terms for penis [syn: cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, tool, putz] v 1: drive; "The convertible tooled down the street" 2: ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street" [syn: joyride, tool, tool around] 3: furnish with tools 4: work with a tool

n 1: a fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns

n 1: period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 [syn: Christmas, Christmastide, Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide, Noel]

n 1: English mathematician; creator of Boolean algebra (1815-1864) [syn: Boole, George Boole]

n 1: an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork [syn: boulle, boule, buhl]

n 1: a member of a group of Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux

n 1: an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork [syn: boulle, boule, buhl]

n 1: a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there 2: the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world [syn: Thule, ultima Thule]

adj 1: (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring

n 1: the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church [syn: Istanbul, Stambul, Stamboul, Constantinople]