Words that rhyme with scrabble

  • 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]
  • astraddle
    adv 1: with one leg on each side; "she sat astride the chair" [syn: astride, astraddle]
  • babble
    n 1: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: babble, babbling, lallation] v 1: utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention" 2: to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby" [syn: babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither] 3: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle] 4: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth]
  • bagel
    n 1: (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust [syn: bagel, beigel]
  • battle
    n 1: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement" [syn: battle, conflict, fight, engagement] 2: an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition" [syn: struggle, battle] 3: an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"-- Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs" [syn: conflict, struggle, battle] v 1: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget" [syn: battle, combat]
  • bedraggle
    v 1: make wet and dirty, as from rain [syn: bedraggle, draggle]
  • brattle
    v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter, clack, brattle]
  • cackle
    n 1: the sound made by a hen after laying an egg 2: noisy talk [syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle] 3: a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle v 1: talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine" 2: squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens 3: emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing
  • cattle
    n 1: domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen" [syn: cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus]
  • 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]
  • chattel
    n 1: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn: chattel, personal chattel, movable]
  • crackle
    adj 1: having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze" n 1: the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackle, crackling, crepitation] 2: glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface [syn: crackle, crackleware, crackle china] v 1: make a crackling sound; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl" [syn: crepitate, crackle] 2: make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel" [syn: crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle] 3: to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"
  • 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]
  • 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]
  • rabble
    n 1: a disorderly crowd of people [syn: mob, rabble, rout] 2: disparaging terms for the common people [syn: rabble, riffraff, ragtag, ragtag and bobtail]
  • scrapple
    n 1: scraps of meat (usually pork) boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for slicing and frying
  • shackle
    n 1: a restraint that confines or restricts freedom (especially something used to tie down or restrain a prisoner) [syn: shackle, bond, hamper, trammel] 2: a U-shaped bar; the open end can be passed through chain links and closed with a bar v 1: bind the arms of [syn: pinion, shackle] 2: restrain with fetters [syn: fetter, shackle]
  • spackle
    n 1: powder (containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste used to fill cracks and holes in plaster [syn: spackle, spackling compound]
  • straddle
    n 1: a noncommittal or equivocal position 2: a gymnastic exercise performed with a leg on either side of the parallel bars 3: the act of sitting or standing astride [syn: straddle, span] 4: the option to buy or sell a given stock (or stock index or commodity future) at a given price before a given date; consists of an equal number of put and call options v 1: sit or stand astride of 2: range or extend over; occupy a certain area; "The plants straddle the entire state" [syn: range, straddle] 3: be noncommittal
  • straggle
    n 1: a wandering or disorderly grouping (of things or persons); "a straggle of outbuildings"; "a straggle of followers" v 1: wander from a direct or straight course [syn: sidetrack, depart, digress, straggle] 2: go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way; "Branches straggling out quite far" [syn: sprawl, straggle]
  • table
    n 1: a set of data arranged in rows and columns; "see table 1" [syn: table, tabular array] 2: a piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs; "it was a sturdy table" 3: a piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it; "I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant" 4: flat tableland with steep edges; "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water" [syn: mesa, table] 5: a company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game; "he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks" 6: food or meals in general; "she sets a fine table"; "room and board" [syn: board, table] v 1: hold back to a later time; "let's postpone the exam" [syn: postpone, prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve, set back, defer, remit, put off] 2: arrange or enter in tabular form [syn: table, tabularize, tabularise, tabulate]
  • tackle
    n 1: the person who plays that position on a football team; "the right tackle is a straight A student" 2: gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails [syn: rigging, tackle] 3: gear used in fishing [syn: fishing gear, tackle, fishing tackle, fishing rig, rig] 4: (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "it takes a big man to play tackle" 5: (American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground v 1: accept as a challenge; "I'll tackle this difficult task" [syn: undertake, tackle, take on] 2: put a harness; "harness the horse" [syn: harness, tackle] [ant: unharness] 3: seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball
  • babel
    n 1: (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another [syn: Tower of Babel, Babel] 2: a confusion of voices and other sounds
  • brabble
    v 1: argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies" [syn: quibble, niggle, pettifog, bicker, squabble, brabble]
  • schnabel
    n 1: United States composer (born in Austria) and pianist noted for his interpretations of the works of Mozart and Beethoven and Schubert (1882-1951) [syn: Schnabel, Artur Schnabel]
  • psychobabble
    n 1: using language loaded with psychological terminology
  • drabble
  • grabble
  • statal
  • crabill
  • fabel
  • grabel
  • habel
  • kabel
  • krabill
  • rabel
  • schabel
  • vrabel
  • bedabble
  • beall
  • gabelle

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