Words that rhyme with scalpel
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appal
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] -
apple
n 1: fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh 2: native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits [syn: apple, orchard apple tree, Malus pumila] -
brattle
v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter, clack, brattle] -
chapel
n 1: a place of worship that has its own altar 2: a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar; "he was late for chapel" [syn: chapel service, chapel] -
dabble
v 1: dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid 2: play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn: dabble, paddle, splash around] 3: work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money" [syn: dabble, smatter, play around] 4: bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water; "dabbling ducks" -
dapple
n 1: a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red" [syn: spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation] v 1: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, dapple, cloud] -
disable
v 1: make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer" [syn: disable, disenable, incapacitate] [ant: enable] 2: injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident" [syn: disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap] -
fatal
adj 1: bringing death [ant: nonfatal] 2: having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived" [syn: fateful, fatal] 3: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful] 4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events" [syn: fatal, fateful] -
gabble
n 1: rapid and indistinct speech [syn: jabber, jabbering, gabble] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble] -
grapple
n 1: a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding; often thrown with a rope [syn: grapnel, grapple, grappler, grappling hook, grappling iron] 2: a dredging bucket with hinges like the shell of a clam [syn: clamshell, grapple] 3: the act of engaging in close hand-to-hand combat; "they had a fierce wrestle"; "we watched his grappling and wrestling with the bully" [syn: wrestle, wrestling, grapple, grappling, hand-to-hand struggle] v 1: come to terms with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas"; "They made do on half a loaf of bread every day" [syn: cope, get by, make out, make do, contend, grapple, deal, manage] 2: to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match; "the two men grappled with each other for several minutes" [syn: grapple, grip] -
haggle
n 1: an instance of intense argument (as in bargaining) [syn: haggle, haggling, wrangle, wrangling] v 1: wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); "Let's not haggle over a few dollars" [syn: haggle, higgle, chaffer, huckster] -
rappel
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] -
scrapple
n 1: scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying -
appel
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appell
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cappel
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chappal
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chappel
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chappell
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chapple
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happel
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kappel
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mapel
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schappell
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shappell
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snapple
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stapel
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whitechapel
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antechapel
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