Words that rhyme with raul

adj 1: especially of a ship's lines etc; "with its sails afoul"; "a foul anchor" [syn: afoul(ip), foul, fouled]

adv 1: to a complete degree or to the full or entire extent (`whole' is often used informally for `wholly'); "he was wholly convinced"; "entirely satisfied with the meal"; "it was completely different from what we expected"; "was completely at fault"; "a totally new situation"; "the directions were all wrong"; "it was not altogether her fault"; "an altogether new approach"; "a whole new idea" [syn: wholly, entirely, completely, totally, all, altogether, whole] [ant: part, partially, partly] adj 1: quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class; "we sat up all night"; "ate all the food"; "all men are mortal"; "all parties are welcome" [ant: no(a), some(a)] 2: completely given to or absorbed by; "became all attention"

n 1: a pointed tool for marking surfaces or for punching small holes

v 1: become of; happen to; "He promised that no harm would befall her"; "What has become of my children?" [syn: befall, bechance, betide] 2: happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana) [syn: happen, befall, bechance]

adj 1: neither warm nor very cold; giving relief from heat; "a cool autumn day"; "a cool room"; "cool summer dresses"; "cool drinks"; "a cool breeze" [ant: warm] 2: marked by calm self-control (especially in trying circumstances); unemotional; "play it cool"; "keep cool"; "stayed coolheaded in the crisis"; "the most nerveless winner in the history of the tournament" [syn: cool, coolheaded, nerveless] 3: (color) inducing the impression of coolness; used especially of greens and blues and violets; "cool greens and blues and violets" [ant: warm] 4: psychologically cool and unenthusiastic; unfriendly or unresponsive or showing dislike; "relations were cool and polite"; "a cool reception"; "cool to the idea of higher taxes" [ant: warm] 5: (used of a number or sum) without exaggeration or qualification; "a cool million bucks" 6: fashionable and attractive at the time; often skilled or socially adept; "he's a cool dude"; "that's cool"; "Mary's dress is really cool"; "it's not cool to arrive at a party too early" n 1: the quality of being at a refreshingly low temperature; "the cool of early morning" 2: great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool" [syn: aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang-froid] v 1: make cool or cooler; "Chill the food" [syn: cool, chill, cool down] [ant: heat, heat up] 2: loose heat; "The air cooled considerably after the thunderstorm" [syn: cool, chill, cool down] [ant: heat, heat up, hot up] 3: lose intensity; "His enthusiasm cooled considerably" [syn: cool, cool off, cool down]

n 1: protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine" [syn: hood, bonnet, cowl, cowling] 2: a loose hood or hooded robe (as worn by a monk) v 1: cover with or as with a cowl; "cowl the boys and veil the girls"

adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious]

n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle] 2: saliva spilling from the mouth [syn: drool, dribble, drivel, slobber] v 1: be envious, desirous, eager for, or extremely happy about something; "She was salivating over the raise she anticipated" [syn: salivate, drool] 2: let saliva drivel from the mouth; "The baby drooled" [syn: drivel, drool, slabber, slaver, slobber, dribble]

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] 2: having more than one decidedly dissimilar aspects or qualities; "a double (or dual) role for an actor"; "the office of a clergyman is twofold; public preaching and private influence"- R.W.Emerson; "every episode has its double and treble meaning"-Frederick Harrison [syn: double, dual, twofold, two-fold, treble, threefold, three- fold] 3: a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural); "ancient Greek had the dual form but it has merged with the plural form in modern Greek"

n 1: a person who lacks good judgment [syn: fool, sap, saphead, muggins, tomfool] 2: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug] 3: a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the Middle Ages [syn: jester, fool, motley fool] v 1: make a fool or dupe of [syn: fool, gull, befool] 2: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: fritter, frivol away, dissipate, shoot, fritter away, fool, fool away] 3: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across] 4: indulge in horseplay; "Enough horsing around--let's get back to work!"; "The bored children were fooling about" [syn: horse around, arse around, fool around, fool]

n 1: a substance that can be consumed to produce energy; "more fuel is needed during the winter months"; "they developed alternative fuels for aircraft" v 1: provide with a combustible substance that provides energy; "fuel aircraft, ships, and cars" 2: provide with fuel; "Oil fires the furnace" [syn: fuel, fire] 3: take in fuel, as of a ship; "The tanker fueled in Bahrain" 4: stimulate; "fuel the debate on creationism"

n 1: a precious or semiprecious stone incorporated into a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem, precious stone] 2: a person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry [syn: jewel, gem] v 1: adorn or decorate with precious stones; "jeweled dresses" [syn: bejewel, jewel]

n 1: a unit of electrical energy equal to the work done when a current of one ampere passes through a resistance of one ohm for one second [syn: joule, J, watt second] 2: English physicist who established the mechanical theory of heat and discovered the first law of thermodynamics (1818-1889) [syn: Joule, James Prescott Joule]

n 1: government that is inefficient or dishonest [syn: misgovernment, misrule]

n 1: hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile 2: a slipper that has no fitting around the heel [syn: mule, scuff]

n 1: an excavation that is (usually) filled with water 2: a small lake; "the pond was too small for sailing" [syn: pond, pool] 3: an organization of people or resources that can be shared; "a car pool"; "a secretarial pool"; "when he was first hired he was assigned to the pool" 4: an association of companies for some definite purpose [syn: consortium, pool, syndicate] 5: any communal combination of funds; "everyone contributed to the pool" 6: a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid; "there were puddles of muddy water in the road after the rain"; "the body lay in a pool of blood" [syn: pool, puddle] 7: the combined stakes of the betters [syn: pool, kitty] 8: something resembling a pool of liquid; "he stood in a pool of light"; "his chair sat in a puddle of books and magazines" [syn: pool, puddle] 9: any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets [syn: pool, pocket billiards] v 1: combine into a common fund; "We pooled resources" 2: join or form a pool of people

n 1: an educational institution for children too young for elementary school

n 1: a request by the manufacturer of a defective product to return the product (as for replacement or repair) [syn: recall, callback] 2: a call to return; "the recall of our ambassador" 3: a bugle call that signals troops to return 4: the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort); "he has total recall of the episode" [syn: recall, recollection, reminiscence] 5: the act of removing an official by petition v 1: recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection; "I can't remember saying any such thing"; "I can't think what her last name was"; "can you remember her phone number?"; "Do you remember that he once loved you?"; "call up memories" [syn: remember, retrieve, recall, call back, call up, recollect, think] [ant: blank out, block, draw a blank, forget] 2: go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous remark of his" [syn: hark back, return, come back, recall] 3: call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" [syn: echo, recall] 4: summon to return; "The ambassador was recalled to his country"; "The company called back many of the workers it had laid off during the recession" [syn: recall, call back] 5: cause one's (or someone else's) thoughts or attention to return from a reverie or digression; "She was recalled by a loud laugh" 6: make unavailable; bar from sale or distribution; "The company recalled the product when it was found to be faulty" [ant: issue, supply] 7: cause to be returned; "recall the defective auto tires"; "The manufacturer tried to call back the spoilt yoghurt" [syn: recall, call in, call back, withdraw]

v 1: install again; "She reinstalled the washer after it had been repaired"

v 1: revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving; "We must retool the town's economy" [syn: retool, revise] 2: provide (a workshop or factory) with new tools

n 1: a principle or condition that customarily governs behavior; "it was his rule to take a walk before breakfast"; "short haircuts were the regulation" [syn: rule, regulation] 2: something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors" [syn: convention, normal, pattern, rule, formula] 3: prescribed guide for conduct or action [syn: rule, prescript] 4: (linguistics) a rule describing (or prescribing) a linguistic practice [syn: rule, linguistic rule] 5: a basic generalization that is accepted as true and that can be used as a basis for reasoning or conduct; "their principles of composition characterized all their works" [syn: principle, rule] 6: the duration of a monarch's or government's power; "during the rule of Elizabeth" 7: dominance or power through legal authority; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar" [syn: dominion, rule] 8: directions that define the way a game or sport is to be conducted; "he knew the rules of chess" 9: any one of a systematic body of regulations defining the way of life of members of a religious order; "the rule of St. Dominic" 10: a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system; "the principle of the conservation of mass"; "the principle of jet propulsion"; "the right-hand rule for inductive fields" [syn: principle, rule] 11: (mathematics) a standard procedure for solving a class of mathematical problems; "he determined the upper bound with Descartes' rule of signs"; "he gave us a general formula for attacking polynomials" [syn: rule, formula] 12: measuring stick consisting of a strip of wood or metal or plastic with a straight edge that is used for drawing straight lines and measuring lengths [syn: rule, ruler] v 1: exercise authority over; as of nations; "Who is governing the country now?" [syn: govern, rule] 2: decide with authority; "The King decreed that all firstborn males should be killed" [syn: rule, decree] 3: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance; "Money reigns supreme here"; "Hispanics predominate in this neighborhood" [syn: predominate, dominate, rule, reign, prevail] 4: decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone guilty" [syn: rule, find] 5: have an affinity with; of signs of the zodiac 6: mark or draw with a ruler; "rule the margins" 7: keep in check; "rule one's temper" [syn: rule, harness, rein]

n 1: an educational institution; "the school was founded in 1900" 2: a building where young people receive education; "the school was built in 1932"; "he walked to school every morning" [syn: school, schoolhouse] 3: the process of being formally educated at a school; "what will you do when you finish school?" [syn: school, schooling] 4: a body of creative artists or writers or thinkers linked by a similar style or by similar teachers; "the Venetian school of painting" 5: the period of instruction in a school; the time period when school is in session; "stay after school"; "he didn't miss a single day of school"; "when the school day was done we would walk home together" [syn: school, schooltime, school day] 6: an educational institution's faculty and students; "the school keeps parents informed"; "the whole school turned out for the game" 7: a large group of fish; "a school of small glittering fish swam by" [syn: school, shoal] v 1: educate in or as if in a school; "The children are schooled at great cost to their parents in private institutions" 2: teach or refine to be discriminative in taste or judgment; "Cultivate your musical taste"; "Train your tastebuds"; "She is well schooled in poetry" [syn: educate, school, train, cultivate, civilize, civilise] 3: swim in or form a large group of fish; "A cluster of schooling fish was attracted to the bait"

n 1: a facial expression of dislike or displeasure [syn: frown, scowl] v 1: frown with displeasure

n 1: poor handwriting [syn: scribble, scratch, scrawl, cacography] v 1: write carelessly [syn: scribble, scrawl]

adv 1: on a small scale; "think small" [ant: big] adj 1: limited or below average in number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a little dining room"; "a little house"; "a small car"; "a little (or small) group" [syn: small, little] [ant: big, large] 2: limited in size or scope; "a small business"; "a newspaper with a modest circulation"; "small-scale plans"; "a pocket- size country" [syn: minor, modest, small, small- scale, pocket-size, pocket-sized] 3: (of children and animals) young, immature; "what a big little boy you are"; "small children" [syn: little, small] 4: slight or limited; especially in degree or intensity or scope; "a series of death struggles with small time in between" 5: low or inferior in station or quality; "a humble cottage"; "a lowly parish priest"; "a modest man of the people"; "small beginnings" [syn: humble, low, lowly, modest, small] 6: lowercase; "little a"; "small a"; "e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters" [syn: little, minuscule, small] 7: (of a voice) faint; "a little voice"; "a still small voice" [syn: little, small] 8: have fine or very small constituent particles; "a small misty rain" 9: not large but sufficient in size or amount; "a modest salary"; "modest inflation"; "helped in my own small way" [syn: modest, small] 10: made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth); "her comments made me feel small" [syn: belittled, diminished, small] n 1: the slender part of the back 2: a garment size for a small person

n 1: a winder around which thread or tape or film or other flexible materials can be wound [syn: bobbin, spool, reel] v 1: transfer data intended for a peripheral device (usually a printer) into temporary storage 2: wind onto a spool or a reel

n 1: an aggregation or continuous network of urban communities [syn: conurbation, urban sprawl, sprawl] 2: an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about [syn: sprawl, sprawling] v 1: sit or lie with one's limbs spread out 2: go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far" [syn: sprawl, straggle]

n 1: sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation v 1: make high-pitched, whiney noises [syn: squall, waul, wawl] 2: utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, holler, hollo, squall] 3: blow in a squall; "When it squalls, a prudent sailor reefs his sails"

n 1: a compartment in a stable where a single animal is confined and fed 2: small area set off by walls for special use [syn: booth, cubicle, stall, kiosk] 3: a booth where articles are displayed for sale [syn: stall, stand, sales booth] 4: a malfunction in the flight of an aircraft in which there is a sudden loss of lift that results in a downward plunge; "the plane went into a stall and I couldn't control it" 5: seating in the forward part of the main level of a theater 6: small individual study area in a library [syn: carrel, carrell, cubicle, stall] 7: a tactic used to mislead or delay [syn: stall, stalling] v 1: postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn: procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally] 2: come to a stop; "The car stalled in the driveway" [syn: stall, conk] 3: deliberately delay an event or action; "she doesn't want to write the report, so she is stalling" 4: put into, or keep in, a stall; "Stall the horse" 5: experience a stall in flight, of airplanes 6: cause an airplane to go into a stall 7: cause an engine to stop; "The inexperienced driver kept stalling the car"

n 1: a simple seat without a back or arms 2: solid excretory product evacuated from the bowels [syn: fecal matter, faecal matter, feces, faeces, BM, stool, ordure, dejection] 3: (forestry) the stump of a tree that has been felled or headed for the production of saplings 4: a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination [syn: toilet, can, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne] v 1: lure with a stool, as of wild fowl 2: react to a decoy, of wildfowl 3: grow shoots in the form of stools or tillers [syn: stool, tiller] 4: have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make]

n 1: an implement used in the practice of a vocation 2: the means whereby some act is accomplished; "my greed was the instrument of my destruction"; "science has given us new tools to fight disease" [syn: instrument, tool] 3: a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else [syn: creature, tool, puppet] 4: obscene terms for penis [syn: cock, prick, dick, shaft, pecker, peter, tool, putz] v 1: drive; "The convertible tooled down the street" 2: ride in a car with no particular goal and just for the pleasure of it; "We tooled down the street" [syn: joyride, tool, tool around] 3: furnish with tools 4: work with a tool

n 1: a rectangular piece of absorbent cloth (or paper) for drying or wiping v 1: wipe with a towel; "towel your hair dry"

n 1: a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) [syn: trawl, trawl line, spiller, setline, trotline] 2: a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths [syn: trawl, dragnet, trawl net] v 1: fish with trawlers

n 1: a fine (often starched) net used for veils or tutus or gowns

n 1: period extending from Dec. 24 to Jan. 6 [syn: Christmas, Christmastide, Christmastime, Yule, Yuletide, Noel]

n 1: English mathematician; creator of Boolean algebra (1815-1864) [syn: Boole, George Boole]

n 1: an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork [syn: boulle, boule, buhl]

n 1: a member of a group of Siouan people who constituted a division of the Teton Sioux

n 1: an inlaid furniture decoration; tortoiseshell and yellow and white metal form scrolls in cabinetwork [syn: boulle, boule, buhl]

n 1: a town in northwestern Greenland; during World War II a United States naval base was built there 2: the geographical region believed by ancient geographers to be the northernmost land in the inhabited world [syn: Thule, ultima Thule]

adj 1: (spoken slang) unfashionable and boring

n 1: the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church [syn: Istanbul, Stambul, Stamboul, Constantinople]

n 1: part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines [syn: greater omentum, gastrocolic omentum, caul] 2: the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) [syn: caul, veil, embryonic membrane]

n 1: a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid [syn: sol, colloidal solution, colloidal suspension] 2: (Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the sun; counterpart of Greek Helios 3: the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization [syn: sol, soh, so]

v 1: strike with disgust or revulsion; "The scandalous behavior of this married woman shocked her friends" [syn: shock, offend, scandalize, scandalise, appal, appall, outrage] 2: fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised; "I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview"; "The news of the executions horrified us" [syn: dismay, alarm, appal, appall, horrify]

n 1: a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers

n 1: a republic in northwestern Africa on the coast of the Atlantic; formerly a French colony but achieved independence in 1960 [syn: Senegal, Republic of Senegal]