Words that rhyme with patriarchal
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chuckle
n 1: a soft partly suppressed laugh [syn: chortle, chuckle] v 1: laugh quietly or with restraint [syn: chuckle, chortle, laugh softly] -
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] -
debacle
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] -
hierarchal
adj 1: classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers; "it has been said that only a hierarchical society with a leisure class at the top can produce works of art"; "in her hierarchical set of values honesty comes first" [syn: hierarchical, hierarchal, hierarchic] [ant: nonhierarchic, nonhierarchical] -
matriarchal
adj 1: characteristic of a matriarchy [ant: patriarchal] -
sparkle
n 1: merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye"; "there's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes" [syn: sparkle, twinkle, spark, light] 2: the occurrence of a small flash or spark [syn: glitter, sparkle, coruscation] 3: the quality of shining with a bright reflected light [syn: glitter, glister, glisten, scintillation, sparkle] v 1: reflect brightly; "Unquarried marble sparkled on the hillside" [syn: sparkle, scintillate, coruscate] 2: be lively or brilliant or exhibit virtuosity; "The musical performance sparkled"; "A scintillating conversation"; "his playing coruscated throughout the concert hall" [syn: sparkle, scintillate, coruscate] 3: emit or produce sparks; "A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark" [syn: spark, sparkle] 4: become bubbly or frothy or foaming; "The boiling soup was frothing"; "The river was foaming"; "Sparkling water" [syn: foam, froth, fizz, effervesce, sparkle, form bubbles] -
cul
n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac, dead end] -
archil
n 1: a purplish dye obtained from orchil lichens [syn: orchil, archil, cudbear] 2: any of various lecanoras that yield the dye archil [syn: archil, orchil] -
monarchal
adj 1: having the characteristics of or befitting or worthy of a monarch; "monarchical gestures"; "monarchal pomp" [syn: monarchal, monarchical] 2: ruled by or having the supreme power resting with a monarch; "monarchal government"; "monarchical systems" [syn: monarchal, monarchical, monarchic] -
markel
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diarchal
See also patriarchal definition and patriarchal synonyms
