Words that rhyme with posthole

  • armhole
    n 1: a hole through which you put your arm and where a sleeve can be attached
  • blowhole
    n 1: the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull 2: a hole for the escape of gas or air [syn: vent, venthole, vent-hole, blowhole]
  • bowl
    n 1: a round vessel that is open at the top; used chiefly for holding food or liquids; 2: a concave shape with an open top [syn: bowl, trough] 3: a dish that is round and open at the top for serving foods 4: the quantity contained in a bowl [syn: bowl, bowlful] 5: a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments [syn: stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium] 6: a large ball with finger holes used in the sport of bowling [syn: bowling ball, bowl] 7: a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling 8: a small round container that is open at the top for holding tobacco [syn: bowl, pipe bowl] 9: the act of rolling something (as the ball in bowling) [syn: roll, bowl] v 1: roll (a ball) 2: hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end 3: engage in the sport of bowling; "My parents like to bowl on Friday nights"
  • bunghole
    n 1: vulgar slang for anus [syn: arse, arsehole, asshole, bunghole] 2: a hole in a barrel or cask; used to fill or empty it
  • buttonhole
    n 1: a hole through which buttons are pushed [syn: buttonhole, button hole] v 1: detain in conversation by or as if by holding on to the outer garments of; as for political or economic favors [syn: lobby, buttonhole]
  • cajole
    v 1: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along" [syn: wheedle, cajole, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet- talk, inveigle]
  • chuckhole
    n 1: a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface) [syn: pothole, chuckhole]
  • coal
    n 1: fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period 2: a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering [syn: ember, coal] v 1: burn to charcoal; "Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything" [syn: char, coal] 2: supply with coal 3: take in coal; "The big ship coaled"
  • condole
    v 1: express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death; "You must condole the widow"
  • eyehole
    n 1: a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep [syn: peephole, spyhole, eyehole] 2: a small hole (usually round and finished around the edges) in cloth or leather for the passage of a cord or hook or bar [syn: eyelet, eyehole]
  • foxhole
    n 1: a small dugout with a pit for individual shelter against enemy fire [syn: foxhole, fox hole]
  • hellhole
    n 1: any place of pain and turmoil; "the hell of battle"; "the inferno of the engine room"; "when you're alone Christmas is the pits"; [syn: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno]
  • keyhole
    n 1: the hole where a key is inserted
  • knothole
    n 1: a hole in a board where a knot came out
  • loophole
    n 1: an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation 2: a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons
  • manhole
    n 1: a hole (usually with a flush cover) through which a person can gain access to an underground structure
  • peephole
    n 1: a hole (in a door or an oven etc) through which you can peep [syn: peephole, spyhole, eyehole]
  • pesthole
    n 1: a breeding ground for epidemic disease
  • pigeonhole
    n 1: a specific (often simplistic) category 2: a small compartment [syn: cubbyhole, pigeonhole] v 1: place into a small compartment 2: treat or classify according to a mental stereotype; "I was stereotyped as a lazy Southern European" [syn: pigeonhole, stereotype, stamp]
  • pinhole
    n 1: a small puncture that might have been made by a pin
  • porthole
    n 1: a window in a ship or airplane 2: an opening (in a wall or ship or armored vehicle) for firing through [syn: port, embrasure, porthole]
  • pothole
    n 1: a pit or hole produced by wear or weathering (especially in a road surface) [syn: pothole, chuckhole]
  • sinkhole
    n 1: a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof [syn: sinkhole, sink, swallow hole]
  • wormhole
    n 1: hole made by a burrowing worm
  • cole
    n 1: a hardy cabbage with coarse curly leaves that do not form a head [syn: kale, kail, cole, borecole, colewort, Brassica oleracea acephala] 2: coarse curly-leafed cabbage [syn: kale, kail, cole]
  • warhol
    n 1: United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987) [syn: Warhol, Andy Warhol]
  • cubbyhole
    n 1: a small compartment [syn: cubbyhole, pigeonhole] 2: a small secluded room [syn: cubby, cubbyhole, snuggery, snug]
  • rathole
    n 1: a hole (as in the wall of a building) made by rats 2: a small dirty uncomfortable room
  • stokehole
    n 1: (nautical) chamber or compartment in which the furnaces of a ship are stoked or fired [syn: stokehold, stokehole, fireroom]
  • asshole
    n 1: insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous [syn: asshole, bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, shit, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, whoreson, son of a bitch, SOB] 2: vulgar slang for anus [syn: arse, arsehole, asshole, bunghole]
  • borehole
  • kneehole
  • waterhole

See also posthole definition and posthole synonyms