Words that rhyme with ruttle

v 1: be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; "These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher" [syn: confuse, throw, fox, befuddle, fuddle, bedevil, confound, discombobulate] 2: make stupid with alcohol [syn: befuddle, fuddle]

n 1: a hollow globule of gas (e.g., air or carbon dioxide) 2: a speculative scheme that depends on unstable factors that the planner cannot control; "his proposal was nothing but a house of cards"; "a real estate bubble" [syn: house of cards, bubble] 3: an impracticable and illusory idea; "he didn't want to burst the newcomer's bubble" 4: a dome-shaped covering made of transparent glass or plastic v 1: form, produce, or emit bubbles; "The soup was bubbling" 2: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle] 3: rise in bubbles or as if in bubbles; "bubble to the surface" 4: cause to form bubbles; "bubble gas through a liquid" 5: expel gas from the stomach; "In China it is polite to burp at the table" [syn: burp, bubble, belch, eruct]

n 1: fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong 2: a shape distorted by twisting or folding [syn: warp, buckle] v 1: fasten with a buckle or buckles [syn: buckle, clasp] [ant: unbuckle] 2: fold or collapse; "His knees buckled" [syn: buckle, crumple] 3: bend out of shape, as under pressure or from heat; "The highway buckled during the heat wave" [syn: heave, buckle, warp]

n 1: a soft partly suppressed laugh [syn: chortle, chuckle] v 1: laugh quietly or with restraint [syn: chuckle, chortle, laugh softly]

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]

n 1: a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace [syn: cuddle, nestle, snuggle] v 1: move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags" [syn: cuddle, snuggle, nestle, nest, nuzzle, draw close] 2: hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort, or warmth; "I cuddled the baby"

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)

n 1: the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument 2: (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder [syn: rebutter, rebuttal]

n 1: container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire [syn: scuttle, coal scuttle] 2: an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship [syn: hatchway, opening, scuttle] v 1: to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground" [syn: scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle]

n 1: badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock, bird, birdie, shuttle] 2: public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points 3: bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads v 1: travel back and forth between two points

adj 1: difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul" [syn: elusive, subtle] 2: able to make fine distinctions; "a subtle mind" 3: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" [syn: insidious, pernicious, subtle]

n 1: a sweater or jersey with a high close-fitting collar [syn: turtleneck, turtle, polo-neck] 2: any of various aquatic and land reptiles having a bony shell and flipper-like limbs for swimming v 1: overturn accidentally; "Don't rock the boat or it will capsize!" [syn: capsize, turtle, turn turtle] 2: hunt for turtles, especially as an occupation

adj 1: lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave" [syn: broad, unsubtle]

adj 1: of or relating to or toward the cheek 2: lying within the mouth; "a buccal gland" 3: oriented toward the inside of the cheek; "the buccal aspect of the gum"

v 1: eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" [syn: devour, guttle, raven, pig]

n 1: ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell [syn: cuttlefish, cuttle]

n 1: (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter [syn: surrebutter, surrebuttal]