Words that rhyme with scissile

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]

adj 1: relating to ocean depths from 2000 to 5000 meters 2: resembling an abyss in depth; so deep as to be unmeasurable; "the abyssal depths of the ocean" [syn: abysmal, abyssal, unfathomable]

adj 1: contrived by art rather than nature; "artificial flowers"; "artificial flavoring"; "an artificial diamond"; "artificial fibers"; "artificial sweeteners" [syn: artificial, unreal] [ant: natural] 2: artificially formal; "that artificial humility that her husband hated"; "contrived coyness"; "a stilted letter of acknowledgment"; "when people try to correct their speech they develop a stilted pronunciation" [syn: artificial, contrived, hokey, stilted] 3: not arising from natural growth or characterized by vital processes

adj 1: promoting or enhancing well-being; "an arms limitation agreement beneficial to all countries"; "the beneficial effects of a temperate climate"; "the experience was good for her" [syn: beneficial, good]

n 1: a stiff fiber (coarse hair or filament); natural or synthetic 2: a stiff hair v 1: be in a state of movement or action; "The room abounded with screaming children"; "The garden bristled with toddlers" [syn: abound, burst, bristle] 2: rise up as in fear; "The dog's fur bristled"; "It was a sight to make one's hair uprise!" [syn: bristle, uprise, stand up] 3: have or be thickly covered with or as if with bristles; "bristling leaves" 4: react in an offended or angry manner; "He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program"

n 1: raccoon-like omnivorous mammal of Mexico and the southwestern United States having a long bushy tail with black and white rings [syn: bassarisk, cacomistle, cacomixle, coon cat, raccoon fox, ringtail, ring- tailed cat, civet cat, miner's cat, Bassariscus astutus]

adj 1: relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical [syn: carboxyl, carboxylic] n 1: the univalent radical -COOH; present in and characteristic of organic acids [syn: carboxyl, carboxyl group]

n 1: an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge v 1: engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?" [syn: cheat, chisel] 2: deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money" [syn: cheat, rip off, chisel] 3: carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"

n 1: a supplement to a will; a testamentary instrument intended to alter an already executed will

n 1: a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial [syn: judgment of dismissal, judgement of dismissal, dismissal] 2: official notice that you have been fired from your job [syn: dismissal, dismission, pink slip] 3: permission to go; the sending away of someone 4: the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) [syn: dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking]

adj 1: willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; "the docile masses of an enslaved nation" [ant: obstinate, stubborn, unregenerate] 2: ready and willing to be taught; "docile pupils eager for instruction"; "teachable youngsters" [syn: docile, teachable] 3: easily handled or managed; "a gentle old horse, docile and obedient" [syn: docile, gentle]

n 1: (law) the residence where you have your permanent home or principal establishment and to where, whenever you are absent, you intend to return; every person is compelled to have one and only one domicile at a time; "what's his legal residence?" [syn: domicile, legal residence] 2: housing that someone is living in; "he built a modest dwelling near the pond"; "they raise money to provide homes for the homeless" [syn: dwelling, home, domicile, abode, habitation, dwelling house] v 1: make one's home in a particular place or community; "may parents reside in Florida" [syn: reside, shack, domicile, domiciliate]

v 1: store in a silo; "ensile fodder for the cows"

n 1: a specially long, formal letter 2: a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle

adj 1: capable of being protruded or stretched or opened out; "an extensile tongue"; "an extensible measuring rule" [syn: extensile, extensible] [ant: inextensible, nonextensile, nonprotractile]

adj 1: arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem" 2: performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand" 3: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; "able to dazzle with his facile tongue"; "silver speech" [syn: eloquent, facile, fluent, silver, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken]

adj 1: capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material" [syn: fissionable, fissile] [ant: nonfissionable] 2: capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain; "fissile crystals"; "fissile wood" [ant: nonfissile]

adj 1: able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches" [syn: flexible, flexile] [ant: inflexible]

n 1: tough elastic tissue; mostly converted to bone in adults [syn: cartilage, gristle]

n 1: the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols [syn: hydroxyl, hydroxyl group, hydroxyl radical]

n 1: a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control 2: a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled [syn: projectile, missile]

adj 1: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail" [ant: nonprehensile] 2: having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch 3: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees" [syn: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]

v 1: make (one thing) compatible with (another); "The scientists had to accommodate the new results with the existing theories" [syn: accommodate, reconcile, conciliate] 2: bring into consonance or accord; "harmonize one's goals with one's abilities" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, reconcile] 3: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up" [syn: reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate, settle] 4: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate" [syn: resign, reconcile, submit]

adj 1: permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; "sessile marine animals and plants" [ant: vagile] 2: attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk; "sessile flowers"; "the shell of a sessile barnacle is attached directly to a substrate" [syn: sessile, stalkless] [ant: pedunculate, stalked]

adj 1: of or relating to tension; "tensile stress"; "tensile pull" 2: capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out; "ductile copper"; "malleable metals such as gold"; "they soaked the leather to made it pliable"; "pliant molten glass"; "made of highly tensile steel alloy" [syn: ductile, malleable, pliable, pliant, tensile, tractile]

n 1: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves

n 1: an implement for practical use (especially in a household)

n 1: the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture [syn: whistle, whistling] 2: the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle; "the whistle signalled the end of the game" [syn: whistle, whistling] 3: a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it 4: acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound 5: an inexpensive fipple flute [syn: pennywhistle, tin whistle, whistle] v 1: make whistling sounds; "He lay there, snoring and whistling" 2: move with, or as with, a whistling sound; "The bullets whistled past him" 3: utter or express by whistling; "She whistled a melody" 4: move, send, or bring as if by whistling; "Her optimism whistled away these worries" 5: make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound; "the kettle was singing"; "the bullet sang past his ear" [syn: whistle, sing] 6: give a signal by whistling; "She whistled for her maid"

n 1: the sill of a window; the horizontal member at the bottom of the window frame

adj 1: slender and graceful [syn: gracile, willowy]

n 1: (statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores