Words that rhyme with overfall

v 1: become of; happen to; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?" [syn: befall, bechance, betide] 2: happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana) [syn: happen, befall, bechance]

n 1: failure that results in a loss of position or reputation [syn: downfall, ruin, ruination] 2: the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) [syn: precipitation, downfall] 3: a sudden decline in strength or number or importance; "the fall of the House of Hapsburg" [syn: fall, downfall] [ant: rise]

n 1: the sound of a step of someone walking; "he heard footsteps on the porch" [syn: footfall, footstep, step]

n 1: a steep part of a glacier resembling a frozen waterfall

n 1: the seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water) 2: the first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water)

n 1: the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn: twilight, dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle]

n 1: the outlet of a river or drain or other source of water

n 1: an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty [syn: pitfall, booby trap] 2: a trap in the form of a concealed hole [syn: pit, pitfall]

n 1: a fall onto your buttocks 2: an embarrassing mistake [syn: blunder, blooper, bloomer, bungle, pratfall, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo]

n 1: water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere [syn: rain, rainfall]

n 1: the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit" [syn: deficit, shortage, shortfall]

n 1: precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals [syn: snow, snowfall]

n 1: a steep descent of the water of a river [syn: waterfall, falls]

n 1: fruit that has fallen from the tree 2: a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money); "the demand for testing has created a boom for those unregulated laboratories where boxes of specimen jars are processed like an assembly line" [syn: boom, bonanza, gold rush, gravy, godsend, manna from heaven, windfall, bunce]

n 1: a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid [syn: sol, colloidal solution, colloidal suspension] 2: (Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the sun; counterpart of Greek Helios 3: the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization [syn: sol, soh, so]