Words that rhyme with palpebral

adj 1: inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent; "ancestral home"; "ancestral lore"; "hereditary monarchy"; "patrimonial estate"; "transmissible tradition" [syn: ancestral, hereditary, patrimonial, transmissible] 2: of or belonging to or inherited from an ancestor

adj 1: relating to or resulting from arbitration; "the arbitral adjustment of the controversy"; "an arbitrational settlement" [syn: arbitral, arbitrational]

adj 1: of the south or coming from the south; "sailed the austral seas" n 1: the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos

adj 1: of or relating to behavior; "behavioral sciences" [syn: behavioral, behavioural]

adj 1: of or relating to the records of a cadastre

adj 1: relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne; "a cathedral church" n 1: any large and important church 2: the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese [syn: cathedral, duomo]

adj 1: serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure" [syn: cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal] 2: in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position" [ant: peripheral] n 1: a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication [syn: central, telephone exchange, exchange]

adj 1: involving intelligence rather than emotions or instinct; "a cerebral approach to the problem"; "cerebral drama" [syn: cerebral, intellectual] [ant: emotional] 2: of or relating to the cerebrum or brain; "cerebral hemisphere"; "cerebral activity"

n 1: an animal sterol that is normally synthesized by the liver; the most abundant steroid in animal tissues [syn: cholesterol, cholesterin]

adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical]

n 1: the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift [syn: bestowal, bestowment, conferral, conferment]

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]

n 1: a state of abeyance or suspended business [syn: deferral, recess] 2: act of putting off to a future time [syn: postponement, deferment, deferral]

adj 1: of or on the right; "a dextral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the right when facing the observer"; "a dextral flatfish lies with the right eye uppermost" [ant: sinistral] 2: preferring to use right foot or hand or eye; "dextral individuals exhibit dominance of the right hand and eye"

adj 1: lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods" [ant: lively] 2: emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" [ant: bright] 3: being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" [syn: dull, muffled, muted, softened] 4: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome] 5: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" 6: not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [ant: sharp] 7: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow] 8: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish] 9: not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" [ant: sharp] 10: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather 11: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" [syn: dull, thudding] 12: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [syn: dull, leaden] v 1: make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" 2: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" 3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down] 4: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull] 5: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" [syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen] 6: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull] 7: make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"

adj 1: of or relating to or characterized by fever; "a febrile reaction caused by an allergen" [syn: febrile, feverish] [ant: afebrile]

n 1: a very slender natural or synthetic fiber [syn: fibril, filament, strand]

n 1: a gable roof with two slopes on each side and the lower slope being steeper [syn: gambrel, gambrel roof]

n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug] 2: mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs [syn: gull, seagull, sea gull] v 1: make a fool or dupe of [syn: fool, gull, befool] 2: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across]

n 1: dry outer covering of a fruit or seed or nut 2: persistent enlarged calyx at base of e.g. a strawberry or raspberry 3: United States naval officer who commanded the `Constitution' during the War of 1812 and won a series of brilliant victories against the British (1773-1843) [syn: Hull, Isaac Hull] 4: United States diplomat who did the groundwork for creating the United Nations (1871-1955) [syn: Hull, Cordell Hull] 5: a large fishing port in northeastern England [syn: Hull, Kingston-upon Hull] 6: the frame or body of ship v 1: remove the hulls from; "hull the berries"

adj 1: partly or entirely open to the sky [syn: hypaethral, hypethral]

adj 1: occurring at or characteristic of a formal investiture or induction; "the President's inaugural address"; "an inaugural ball" [ant: exaugural] 2: serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage" [syn: inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first, maiden] n 1: an address delivered at an inaugural ceremony (especially by a United States president) [syn: inaugural address, inaugural] 2: the ceremonial induction into a position; "the new president obviously enjoyed his inauguration" [syn: inauguration, inaugural]

adj 1: existing as an essential constituent or characteristic; "the Ptolemaic system with its built-in concept of periodicity"; "a constitutional inability to tell the truth" [syn: built-in, constitutional, inbuilt, inherent, integral] 2: constituting the undiminished entirety; lacking nothing essential especially not damaged; "a local motion keepeth bodies integral"- Bacon; "was able to keep the collection entire during his lifetime"; "fought to keep the union intact" [syn: integral, entire, intact] 3: of or denoted by an integer n 1: the result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x)

n 1: small North American falcon [syn: sparrow hawk, American kestrel, kestrel, Falco sparverius] 2: small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind [syn: kestrel, Falco tinnunculus]

n 1: a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise" [syn: letup, lull] 2: a period of calm weather; "there was a lull in the storm" [syn: lull, quiet] v 1: calm by deception; "Don't let yourself be lulled into a false state of security" 2: become quiet or less intensive; "the fighting lulled for a moment" [syn: lull, calm down] 3: make calm or still; "quiet the dragons of worry and fear" [syn: calm, calm down, quiet, tranquilize, tranquillize, tranquillise, quieten, lull, still] [ant: agitate, charge, charge up, commove, excite, rouse, turn on]

n 1: any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts [syn: spindle, mandrel, mandril, arbor]

n 1: baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters [syn: mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx]

adj 1: of or relating to menstruation or the menses; "menstrual period" [syn: menstrual, catamenial]

n 1: a singer of folk songs [syn: folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour] 2: a performer in a minstrel show v 1: celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels

n 1: a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter

n 1: derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic" [syn: bastard, mongrel] 2: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: cur, mongrel, mutt]

n 1: a term used in Scottish names of promontories; "the Mull of Kintyre" 2: an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides v 1: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate] 2: heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink; "mulled cider"

adj 1: having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer" [syn: impersonal, neutral] 2: having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction" [syn: inert, indifferent, neutral] 3: not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest 4: possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics [ant: negative, positive] 5: having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white" [syn: achromatic, neutral] [ant: chromatic] 6: lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics; "a neutral personality that made no impression whatever" 7: having no net electric charge [syn: neutral, electroneutral] n 1: one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute

n 1: either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose [syn: nostril, anterior naris]

adj 1: lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn: null, void] n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]

adj 1: relating to or composed for an orchestra; "orchestral score"

adj 1: of or pertaining to the region of partial shadow around an umbra

n 1: relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land

n 1: a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines [syn: gasoline, gasolene, gas, petrol]

adj 1: of or relating to or resembling a polyhedron

adj 1: of or relating to or occurring during the period just before menstruation

n 1: a person whose case has been referred to a specialist or professional group; "the patient is a referral from Dr. Bones" 2: a recommendation to consult the (professional) person or group to whom one has been referred; "the insurance company says that you need a written referral from your physician before seeing a specialist" 3: the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency)

adj 1: of or relating to or near the sacrum 2: of or relating to sacred rites; "sacral laws"

n 1: a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately [syn: villain, scoundrel]

n 1: a long oar that is mounted at the stern of a boat and moved left and right to propel the boat forward 2: each of a pair of short oars that are used by a single oarsman 3: a racing shell that is propelled by sculls v 1: propel with sculls; "scull the boat"

adj 1: of or relating to a sepulchre; "sepulchral inscriptions"; "sepulchral monuments in churches" 2: gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs" [syn: charnel, ghastly, sepulchral] 3: suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial; "funereal gloom"; "hollow sepulchral tones" [syn: funereal, sepulchral]

n 1: the bony skeleton of the head of vertebrates

n 1: an approximately triangular surface area between two adjacent arches and the horizontal plane above them [syn: spandrel, spandril]

adj 1: of or relating to a spectrum; "spectral colors"; "spectral analysis" 2: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual]

n 1: slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support

n 1: the act of moving something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance]

n 1: a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution [syn: tumbrel, tumbril]

adj 1: of or relating to the urethra

adj 1: toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal); "the ventral aspect of the human body"; "the liver is somewhat ventral in position"; "ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the hind limbs of a quadruped" [ant: dorsal] 2: nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism; "the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface" [syn: adaxial, ventral] [ant: abaxial, dorsal]

adj 1: of or relating to or constituting vertebrae

n 1: someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn: wastrel, waster]

n 1: the month following March and preceding May [syn: April, Apr]

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

n 1: any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts [syn: spindle, mandrel, mandril, arbor]

adj 1: of or relating to or located in or near the mitral valve; "mitral insufficiency" 2: relating to or resembling the miter worn by some clerics

n 1: the center point on a shield

n 1: small hand drum similar to a tambourine; formerly carried by itinerant jugglers

adj 1: moving or directed or tending in a backward direction or contrary to a previous direction [syn: retral, retrograde] 2: at or near or toward the posterior