Words that rhyme with numerical

  • chimerical
    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
  • chronological
    adj 1: relating to or arranged according to temporal order; "chronological age"
  • clerical
    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"
  • cull
    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]
  • fickle
    adj 1: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" [syn: fickle, volatile] 2: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [syn: erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)]
  • hysterical
    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"
  • lackadaisical
    adj 1: lacking spirit or liveliness; "a lackadaisical attempt"; "a languid mood"; "a languid wave of the hand"; "a hot languorous afternoon" [syn: dreamy, lackadaisical, languid, languorous] 2: idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way; "she was annoyingly lackadaisical and impractical"; "a...lackadaisical, spiritless young man-about-town"- P.G.Wodehouse
  • mickle
    n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]
  • miracle
    n 1: any amazing or wonderful occurrence 2: a marvellous event manifesting a supernatural act of a divine agent
  • nickel
    n 1: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn: nickel, Ni, atomic number 28] 2: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar 3: five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin" [syn: nickel, nickel note] v 1: plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"
  • obstetrical
    adj 1: of or relating to or used in or practicing obstetrics; "obstetric hospital" [syn: obstetric, obstetrical]
  • oracle
    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
  • oratorical
    adj 1: characteristic of an orator or oratory; "oratorical prose"; "harangued his men in an oratorical way"- Robert Graves
  • pellicle
    n 1: thin protective membrane in some protozoa
  • pickle
    n 1: vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] v 1: preserve in a pickling liquid
  • prickle
    n 1: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet] v 1: cause a prickling sensation [syn: prickle, prick] 2: cause a stinging or tingling sensation [syn: tingle, prickle] 3: make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn; "The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample" [syn: prickle, prick]
  • pumpernickel
    n 1: bread made of coarse rye flour [syn: black bread, pumpernickel]
  • reciprocal
    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]
  • rhetorical
    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]
  • satirical
    adj 1: exposing human folly to ridicule; "a persistent campaign of mockery by the satirical fortnightly magazine" [syn: satirical, satiric]
  • sickle
    n 1: an edge tool for cutting grass or crops; has a curved blade and a short handle [syn: sickle, reaping hook, reap hook]
  • spherical
    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]
  • spiracle
    n 1: a breathing orifice
  • symbolical
    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]
  • symmetrical
    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]
  • tickle
    n 1: a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking 2: the act of tickling [syn: tickle, tickling, titillation] v 1: touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements [syn: tickle, titillate, vellicate] 2: feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine" [syn: thrill, tickle, vibrate] 3: touch or stroke lightly; "The grass tickled her calves"
  • trickle
    n 1: flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip, trickle, dribble] v 1: run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" [syn: trickle, dribble, filter]
  • utricle
    n 1: a small pouch into which the semicircular canals open [syn: utricle, utriculus]
  • ventricle
    n 1: one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid 2: a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries [syn: ventricle, heart ventricle]
  • chicle
    n 1: gum-like substance from the sapodilla [syn: chicle, chicle gum]
  • cul
    n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac, dead end]
  • strickle
    n 1: an implement for sharpening scythes 2: a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure 3: a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand v 1: level off with a strickle in a measuring container; "strickle sand" 2: smooth with a strickle; "strickle the grain in the measure" [syn: strickle, strike]
  • mispickel
    n 1: a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic [syn: arsenopyrite, mispickel]
  • cupronickel
    n 1: a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel
  • karakul
    n 1: hardy coarse-haired sheep of central Asia; lambs are valued for their soft curly black fur [syn: broadtail, caracul, karakul]
  • parabolical
    adj 1: resembling or expressed by parables [syn: parabolic, parabolical] 2: having the form of a parabola [syn: parabolic, parabolical]
  • anticlerical
  • microsurgical
  • psychosurgical
  • nicol
  • nicoll
  • mericle
  • thoracal
  • nichol
  • trimetrical
  • unmetrical
  • lumbrical
  • unhistorical

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