Words that rhyme with procedural

  • admiral
    n 1: the supreme commander of a fleet; ranks above a vice admiral and below a fleet admiral [syn: admiral, full admiral] 2: any of several brightly colored butterflies
  • agricultural
    adj 1: relating to or used in or promoting agriculture or farming; "agricultural engineering"; "modern agricultural (or farming) methods"; "agricultural (or farm) equipment"; "an agricultural college" 2: relating to rural matters; "an agrarian (or agricultural) society"; "farming communities" [syn: agrarian, agricultural, farming(a)]
  • bilateral
    adj 1: having identical parts on each side of an axis [syn: bilateral, isobilateral, bilaterally symmetrical, bilaterally symmetric] 2: affecting or undertaken by two parties; "a bilateral agreement between the United States and Japan" 3: having two sides or parts [syn: bilateral, two-sided]
  • clitoral
    adj 1: of or relating to the clitoris [syn: clitoral, clitoric]
  • cockerel
    n 1: a young domestic cock; not older than one year
  • collateral
    adj 1: descended from a common ancestor but through different lines; "cousins are collateral relatives"; "an indirect descendant of the Stuarts" [syn: collateral, indirect] [ant: direct, lineal] 2: serving to support or corroborate; "collateral evidence" [syn: collateral, confirmative, confirming, confirmatory, corroborative, corroboratory, substantiating, substantiative, validating, validatory, verificatory, verifying] 3: accompany, concomitant; "collateral target damage from a bombing run" 4: situated or running side by side; "collateral ridges of mountains" n 1: a security pledged for the repayment of a loan
  • conjectural
    adj 1: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
  • corporal
    adj 1: affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness" [syn: bodily, corporal, corporeal, somatic] 2: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate] n 1: a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines
  • cultural
    adj 1: of or relating to the arts and manners that a group favors; "cultural events"; "a person of broad cultural interests" 2: denoting or deriving from or distinctive of the ways of living built up by a group of people; "influenced by ethnic and cultural ties"- J.F.Kennedy; "ethnic food" [syn: cultural, ethnic, ethnical] 3: of or relating to the shared knowledge and values of a society; "cultural roots" 4: relating to the raising of plants or animals; "a cultural variety"
  • doctoral
    adj 1: of or relating to a doctor or doctorate; "doctoral dissertation"; "doctorial candidates" [syn: doctoral, doctorial]
  • electoral
    adj 1: of or relating to elections; "electoral process" 2: relating to or composed of electors; "electoral college"
  • equilateral
    adj 1: having all sides or faces equal n 1: a figure whose sides are all equal
  • federal
    adj 1: national; especially in reference to the government of the United States as distinct from that of its member units; "the Federal Bureau of Investigation"; "federal courts"; "the federal highway program"; "federal property" 2: of or relating to the central government of a federation; "a federal district is one set aside as the seat of the national government" 3: being of or having to do with the northern United States and those loyal to the Union during the American Civil War; "Union soldiers"; "Federal forces"; "a Federal infantryman" [syn: Union, Federal] 4: characterized by or constituting a form of government in which power is divided between one central and several regional authorities; "a federal system like that of the United States"; "federal governments often evolved out of confederations" [ant: unitary] n 1: a member of the Union Army during the American Civil War [syn: Federal, Federal soldier, Union soldier] 2: any federal law-enforcement officer [syn: Federal, Fed, federal official]
  • femoral
    adj 1: of or relating to or near the femur or thigh
  • funeral
    n 1: a ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; "hundreds of people attended his funeral"
  • general
    adj 1: applying to all or most members of a category or group; "the general public"; "general assistance"; "a general rule"; "in general terms"; "comprehensible to the general reader" [ant: specific] 2: not specialized or limited to one class of things; "general studies"; "general knowledge" 3: prevailing among and common to the general public; "the general discontent" 4: affecting the entire body; "a general anesthetic"; "general symptoms" [ant: local] 5: somewhat indefinite; "bearing a general resemblance to the original"; "a general description of the merchandise" 6: of worldwide scope or applicability; "an issue of cosmopolitan import"; "the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time"- Christopher Morley; "universal experience" [syn: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, general, universal, worldwide, world- wide] n 1: a general officer of the highest rank [syn: general, full general] 2: the head of a religious order or congregation [syn: general, superior general] 3: a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular); "he discussed the general but neglected the particular" [ant: particular, specific] v 1: command as a general; "We are generaled by an incompetent!"
  • glycerol
    n 1: a sweet syrupy trihydroxy alcohol obtained by saponification of fats and oils [syn: glycerol, glycerin, glycerine]
  • guttural
    adj 1: like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice"; "acres of guttural frogs" [syn: croaky, guttural] 2: relating to or articulated in the throat; "the glottal stop and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural sounds" n 1: a consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat [syn: guttural, guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant]
  • inaugural
    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]
  • lateral
    adj 1: situated at or extending to the side; "the lateral branches of a tree"; "shot out sidelong boughs"- Tennyson [syn: lateral, sidelong] 2: lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body; "lateral lemniscus" n 1: a pass to a receiver upfield from the passer [syn: lateral pass, lateral]
  • liberal
    adj 1: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" [syn: broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant] 2: having political or social views favoring reform and progress 3: tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition [ant: conservative] 4: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded] 5: not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" [syn: free, loose, liberal] n 1: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties [syn: liberal, liberalist, progressive] [ant: conservative, conservativist] 2: a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets
  • literal
    adj 1: being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; "her actual motive"; "a literal solitude like a desert"- G.K.Chesterton; "a genuine dilemma" [syn: actual, genuine, literal, real] 2: without interpretation or embellishment; "a literal depiction of the scene before him" 3: limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text; "a literal translation" [ant: figurative, nonliteral] 4: avoiding embellishment or exaggeration (used for emphasis); "it's the literal truth" n 1: a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind [syn: misprint, erratum, typographical error, typo, literal error, literal]
  • mackerel
    n 1: flesh of very important usually small (to 18 in) fatty Atlantic fish 2: any of various fishes of the family Scombridae
  • mayoral
    adj 1: of or relating to a mayor or the office of mayor; "mayoral elections"
  • mineral
    adj 1: relating to minerals; "mineral elements"; "mineral deposits" 2: composed of matter other than plant or animal; "the inorganic mineral world" n 1: solid homogeneous inorganic substances occurring in nature having a definite chemical composition
  • natural
    adj 1: in accordance with nature; relating to or concerning nature; "a very natural development"; "our natural environment"; "natural science"; "natural resources"; "natural cliffs"; "natural phenomena" [ant: unnatural] 2: existing in or produced by nature; not artificial or imitation; "a natural pearl"; "natural gas"; "natural silk"; "natural blonde hair"; "a natural sweetener"; "natural fertilizers" [ant: artificial, unreal] 3: existing in or in conformity with nature or the observable world; neither supernatural nor magical; "a perfectly natural explanation" [ant: supernatural] 4: functioning or occurring in a normal way; lacking abnormalities or deficiencies; "it's the natural thing to happen"; "natural immunity"; "a grandparent's natural affection for a grandchild" 5: (of a musical note) being neither raised nor lowered by one chromatic semitone; "a natural scale"; "B natural" [ant: flat, sharp] 6: unthinking; prompted by (or as if by) instinct; "a cat's natural aversion to water"; "offering to help was as instinctive as breathing" [syn: natural, instinctive] 7: (used especially of commodities) being unprocessed or manufactured using only simple or minimal processes; "natural yogurt"; "natural produce"; "raw wool"; "raw sugar"; "bales of rude cotton" [syn: natural, raw(a), rude(a)] 8: related by blood; not adopted 9: being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn: natural, born(p), innate(p)] 10: free from artificiality; "a lifelike pose"; "a natural reaction" [syn: lifelike, natural] n 1: someone regarded as certain to succeed; "he's a natural for the job" 2: a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat [syn: natural, cancel] 3: (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake
  • numeral
    adj 1: of or relating to or denoting numbers; "a numeral adjective" [syn: numeral, numerical, numeric] n 1: a symbol used to represent a number; "he learned to write the numerals before he went to school" [syn: numeral, number]
  • pastoral
    adj 1: of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter" 2: relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" [syn: bucolic, pastoral] 3: (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: arcadian, bucolic, pastoral] n 1: a musical composition that evokes rural life [syn: pastorale, pastoral, idyll, idyl] 2: a letter from a pastor to the congregation 3: a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)
  • pectoral
    adj 1: of or relating to the chest or thorax; "pectoral organ" [syn: pectoral, thoracic] n 1: either of two large muscles of the chest [syn: pectoral, pectoral muscle, pectoralis, musculus pectoralis, pecs] 2: an adornment worn on the chest or breast [syn: pectoral, pectoral medallion]
  • peripheral
    adj 1: on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary; the outer area; "Russia's peripheral provinces"; "peripheral suburbs" [ant: central] 2: related to the key issue but not of central importance; "a peripheral interest"; "energy is far from a peripheral issue in the economy"; "peripheral issues" n 1: (computer science) electronic equipment connected by cable to the CPU of a computer; "disk drives and printers are important peripherals" [syn: peripheral, computer peripheral, peripheral device]
  • pickerel
    n 1: flesh of young or small pike 2: any of several North American species of small pike
  • postdoctoral
    adj 1: of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed n 1: a grant that funds postdoctoral study or research [syn: postdoctoral, postdoc, post doc]
  • postural
    adj 1: of or relating to or involving posture; "postural exercises"
  • procedure
    n 1: a particular course of action intended to achieve a result; "the procedure of obtaining a driver's license"; "it was a process of trial and error" [syn: procedure, process] 2: a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work; "the operations in building a house"; "certain machine tool operations" [syn: operation, procedure] 3: a set sequence of steps, part of larger computer program [syn: routine, subroutine, subprogram, procedure, function] 4: a mode of conducting legal and parliamentary proceedings
  • scriptural
    adj 1: of or pertaining to or contained in or in accordance with the Bible; "biblical names"; "biblical Hebrew" [syn: biblical, scriptural] 2: written or relating to writing
  • sculptural
    adj 1: relating to or consisting of sculpture; "sculptural embellishments" 2: resembling sculpture; "her finely modeled features"; "rendered with...vivid sculptural effect"; "the sculpturesque beauty of the athletes' bodies" [syn: modeled, sculptural, sculptured, sculpturesque]
  • several
    adj 1: (used with count nouns) of an indefinite number more than 2 or 3 but not many; "several letters came in the mail"; "several people were injured in the accident" 2: considered individually; "the respective club members"; "specialists in their several fields"; "the various reports all agreed" [syn: respective(a), several(a), various(a)] 3: distinct and individual; "three several times"
  • structural
    adj 1: relating to or caused by structure, especially political or economic structure; "structural unemployment in a technological society" 2: relating to or having or characterized by structure; "structural engineer"; "structural errors"; "structural simplicity" 3: affecting or involved in structure or construction; "the structural details of a house such as beams and joists and rafters; not ornamental elements"; "structural damage" 4: concerned with systematic structure in a particular field of study 5: pertaining to geological structure; "geomorphological features of the Black Hills"; "morphological features of granite"; "structural effects of folding and faulting of the earth's surface" [syn: geomorphologic, geomorphological, morphologic, morphological, structural] 6: relating to or concerned with the morphology of plants and animals; "morphological differences" [syn: morphologic, morphological, structural]
  • supernatural
    adj 1: not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material; "supernatural forces and occurrences and beings" [ant: natural] n 1: supernatural forces and events and beings collectively; "She doesn't believe in the supernatural" [syn: supernatural, occult]
  • temporal
    adj 1: not eternal; "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt 2: of or relating to or limited by time; "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art" 3: of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit); "temporal bone" 4: characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world; "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church" [syn: worldly, secular, temporal] [ant: unworldly] 5: of this earth or world; "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence" n 1: the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb [syn: temporal role, temporal]
  • trilateral
    adj 1: involving three parties; "trilateral talks" 2: having three sides; "a trilateral figure" [syn: trilateral, triangular, three-sided] n 1: a three-sided polygon [syn: triangle, trigon, trilateral]
  • unicameral
    adj 1: composed of one legislative body [ant: bicameral]
  • unilateral
    adj 1: involving only one part or side; "unilateral paralysis"; "a unilateral decision" [syn: unilateral, one-sided] [ant: many-sided, multilateral] 2: tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal line only
  • unnatural
    adj 1: not in accordance with or determined by nature; contrary to nature; "an unnatural death"; "the child's unnatural interest in death" [ant: natural] 2: not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food" [syn: abnormal, unnatural] [ant: normal] 3: speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression [syn: affected, unnatural] [ant: unaffected]
  • visceral
    adj 1: relating to or affecting the viscera; "visceral bleeding"; "a splanchnic nerve" [syn: visceral, splanchnic] 2: obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation [syn: intuitive, nonrational, visceral]
  • behavioral
    adj 1: of or relating to behavior; "behavioral sciences" [syn: behavioral, behavioural]
  • humoral
    adj 1: of or relating to bodily fluids
  • bicultural
  • cameral
  • humeral
  • bicorporal

See also procedural definition and procedural synonyms