Words that rhyme with pupal

• couple 0
  n 1: a pair who associate with one another; "the engaged couple"; "an inseparable twosome" [syn: couple, twosome, duo, duet] 2: a pair of people who live together; "a married couple from Chicago" [syn: couple, mates, match] 3: a small indefinite number; "he's coming for a couple of days" 4: two items of the same kind [syn: couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad] 5: (physics) something joined by two equal and opposite forces that act along parallel lines v 1: bring two objects, ideas, or people together; "This fact is coupled to the other one"; "Matchmaker, can you match my daughter with a nice young man?"; "The student was paired with a partner for collaboration on the project" [syn: match, mate, couple, pair, twin] 2: link together; "can we couple these proposals?" [syn: couple, couple on, couple up] [ant: decouple, uncouple] 3: form a pair or pairs; "The two old friends paired off" [syn: pair, pair off, partner off, couple] 4: engage in sexual intercourse; "Birds mate in the Spring" [syn: copulate, mate, pair, couple]
• decouple 0
  v 1: disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds" [syn: uncouple, decouple] [ant: couple, couple on, couple up] 2: regard as unconnected; "you must dissociate these two events!"; "decouple our foreign policy from ideology" [syn: decouple, dissociate] [ant: associate, colligate, connect, link, link up, relate, tie in] 3: eliminate airborne shock waves from (an explosive) 4: reduce or eliminate the coupling of (one circuit or part to another)
• duple 0
  adj 1: consisting of or involving two parts or components usually in pairs; "an egg with a double yolk"; "a double (binary) star"; "double doors"; "dual controls for pilot and copilot"; "duple (or double) time consists of two (or a multiple of two) beats to a measure" [syn: double, dual, duple]
• pupil 0
  n 1: a learner who is enrolled in an educational institution [syn: student, pupil, educatee] 2: the contractile aperture in the center of the iris of the eye; resembles a large black dot 3: a young person attending school (up through senior high school) [syn: schoolchild, school-age child, pupil]
• quadruple 0
  adj 1: having four units or components; "quadruple rhythm has four beats per measure"; "quadruplex wire" [syn: quadruple, quadruplicate, quadruplex, fourfold, four-fold] 2: four times as great or many; "a fourfold increase in the dosage" [syn: quadruple, fourfold, four-fold] n 1: a set of four similar things considered as a unit [syn: quartet, quartette, quadruplet, quadruple] 2: a quantity that is four times as great as another v 1: increase fourfold; "His stock earning quadrupled"
• quintuple 0
  adj 1: having five units or components [syn: quintuple, fivefold, five-fold] n 1: a set of five similar things considered as a unit [syn: quintet, quintette, quintuplet, quintuple] v 1: increase fivefold; "The population of China quintupled"
• sextuple 0
  adj 1: having six units or components [syn: sextuple, sixfold, six-fold]
• supple 0
  adj 1: moving and bending with ease [syn: lissome, lissom, lithe, lithesome, slender, supple, svelte, sylphlike] 2: (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; "a supple mind"; "a limber imagination" [syn: limber, supple] 3: (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely [syn: limber, supple] v 1: make pliant and flexible; "These boots are not yet suppled by frequent use"
• uncouple 0
  v 1: disconnect or separate; "uncouple the hounds" [syn: uncouple, decouple] [ant: couple, couple on, couple up]
• scrapie 0
  n 1: a fatal disease of sheep characterized by chronic itching and loss of muscular control and progressive degeneration of the central nervous system
• cupel 0
  n 1: a small porous bowl made of bone ash used in assaying to separate precious metals from e.g. lead [syn: bone-ash cup, cupel, refractory pot]
• decuple 0
• centuple 0

See also pupal definition and pupal synonyms