Words that rhyme with prehensile

• abseil 0
  n 1: (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body [syn: rappel, abseil] v 1: lower oneself with a rope coiled around the body from a mountainside; "The ascent was easy--roping down the mountain would be much more difficult and dangerous"; "You have to learn how to abseil when you want to do technical climbing" [syn: rappel, abseil, rope down]
• aisle 0
  n 1: a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods) 2: passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores [syn: aisle, gangway] 3: part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns
• assail 0
  v 1: attack someone physically or emotionally; "The mugger assaulted the woman"; "Nightmares assailed him regularly" [syn: assail, assault, set on, attack] 2: launch an attack or assault on; begin hostilities or start warfare with; "Hitler attacked Poland on September 1, 1939 and started World War II"; "Serbian forces assailed Bosnian towns all week" [syn: attack, assail] [ant: defend] 3: attack in speech or writing; "The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker" [syn: attack, round, assail, lash out, snipe, assault]
• carboxyl 0
  adj 1: relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical [syn: carboxyl, carboxylic] n 1: the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids [syn: carboxyl, carboxyl group]
• docile 0
  adj 1: willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation" [ant: obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate] 2: ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters" [syn: docile, teachable] 3: easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient" [syn: docile, gentle]
• domicile 0
  n 1: (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time; "what's his legal residence?" [syn: domicile, legal residence] 2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house] v 1: make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida" [syn: reside, shack, domicile, domiciliate]
• ensile 0
  v 1: store in a silo; "ensile fodder for the cows"
• extensile 0
  adj 1: capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out; "an extensile tongue"; "an extensible measuring rule" [syn: extensile, extensible] [ant: inextensible, nonextensile, nonprotractile]
• facile 0
  adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem" 2: performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand" 3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken]
• fissile 0
  adj 1: capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material" [syn: fissionable, fissile] [ant: nonfissionable] 2: capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood" [ant: nonfissile]
• flexile 0
  adj 1: able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches" [syn: flexible, flexile] [ant: inflexible]
• foresail 0
  n 1: the lowest sail on the foremast of a square-rigged vessel
• headsail 0
  n 1: any sail set forward of the foremast of a vessel
• hydroxyl 0
  n 1: the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols [syn: hydroxyl, hydroxyl group, hydroxyl radical]
• mainsail 0
  n 1: the lowermost sail on the mainmast
• missile 0
  n 1: a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control 2: a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled [syn: projectile, missile]
• reconcile 0
  v 1: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" [syn: accommodate, reconcile, conciliate] 2: bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, reconcile] 3: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up" [syn: reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate, settle] 4: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn: resign, reconcile, submit]
• resale 0
  n 1: the selling of something purchased
• sessile 0
  adj 1: permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; "sessile marine animals and plants" [ant: vagile] 2: attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate" [syn: sessile, stalkless] [ant: pedunculate, stalked]
• skysail 0
  n 1: the sail above the royal on a square-rigger
• spritsail 0
  n 1: a fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit
• staysail 0
  n 1: a fore-and-aft sail set on a stay (as between two masts)
• tensile 0
  adj 1: of or relating to tension; "tensile stress"; "tensile pull" 2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]
• topsail 0
  n 1: a sail (or either of a pair of sails) immediately above the lowermost sail of a mast and supported by a topmast
• wassail 0
  n 1: a punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples; especially at Christmas v 1: celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!" [syn: revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail] 2: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail]
• wholesale 0
  adv 1: at a wholesale price; "I can sell it to you wholesale" [ant: retail] 2: on a large scale without careful discrimination; "I buy food wholesale" [syn: wholesale, in large quantities] adj 1: ignoring distinctions; "sweeping generalizations"; "wholesale destruction" [syn: sweeping, wholesale] n 1: the selling of goods to merchants; usually in large quantities for resale to consumers [ant: retail] v 1: sell in large quantities [ant: retail]
• decile 0
  n 1: (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores
• outsail 0
  v 1: sail faster or better than; "They outsailed the Roman fleet"
• pensile 0
• scissile 0
• trysail 0
• cresyl 0

See also prehensile definition and prehensile synonyms