Words that rhyme with scurrile

adj 1: of the south or coming from the south; "sailed the austral seas" n 1: the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos

adj 1: serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure" [syn: cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal] 2: in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position" [ant: peripheral] n 1: a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication [syn: central, telephone exchange, exchange]

adj 1: of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows [syn: cloistered, cloistral, conventual, monastic, monastical]

n 1: the act of conferring an honor or presenting a gift [syn: bestowal, bestowment, conferral, conferment]

n 1: a state of abeyance or suspended business [syn: deferral, recess] 2: act of putting off to a future time [syn: postponement, deferment, deferral]

n 1: (law) a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings [syn: demur, demurral, demurrer]

adj 1: of or on the right; "a dextral gastropod shell with the apex upward has its opening on the right when facing the observer"; "a dextral flatfish lies with the right eye uppermost" [ant: sinistral] 2: preferring to use right foot or hand or eye; "dextral individuals exhibit dominance of the right hand and eye"

n 1: a comic verse of irregular measure; "he had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind" [syn: doggerel, doggerel verse, jingle]

n 1: a very slender natural or synthetic fiber [syn: fibril, filament, strand]

n 1: any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts [syn: spindle, mandrel, mandril, arbor]

n 1: baboon of west Africa with a bright red and blue muzzle and blue hindquarters [syn: mandrill, Mandrillus sphinx]

adj 1: of or relating to menstruation or the menses; "menstrual period" [syn: menstrual, catamenial]

n 1: a singer of folk songs [syn: folk singer, jongleur, minstrel, poet-singer, troubadour] 2: a performer in a minstrel show v 1: celebrate by singing, in the style of minstrels

n 1: a strong north wind that blows in France during the winter

n 1: derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic" [syn: bastard, mongrel] 2: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: cur, mongrel, mutt]

adj 1: having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer" [syn: impersonal, neutral] 2: having only a limited ability to react chemically; chemically inactive; "inert matter"; "an indifferent chemical in a reaction" [syn: inert, indifferent, neutral] 3: not supporting or favoring either side in a war, dispute, or contest 4: possessing no distinctive quality or characteristics [ant: negative, positive] 5: having no hue; "neutral colors like black or white" [syn: achromatic, neutral] [ant: chromatic] 6: lacking distinguishing quality or characteristics; "a neutral personality that made no impression whatever" 7: having no net electric charge [syn: neutral, electroneutral] n 1: one who does not side with any party in a war or dispute

n 1: either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose [syn: nostril, anterior naris]

n 1: relatively small long-winged tube-nosed bird that flies far from land

n 1: a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines [syn: gasoline, gasolene, gas, petrol]

n 1: gold or silver wire thread 2: a basic knitting stitch [syn: purl, purl stitch] v 1: flow in a circular current, of liquids [syn: eddy, purl, whirlpool, swirl, whirl] 2: make a murmuring sound; "the water was purling" [syn: sough, purl] 3: knit with a purl stitch 4: edge or border with gold or silver embroidery 5: embroider with gold or silver thread

n 1: a person whose case has been referred to a specialist or professional group; "the patient is a referral from Dr. Bones" 2: a recommendation to consult the (professional) person or group to whom one has been referred; "the insurance company says that you need a written referral from your physician before seeing a specialist" 3: the act of referring (as forwarding an applicant for employment or referring a matter to an appropriate agency)

adj 1: of or relating to or near the sacrum 2: of or relating to sacred rites; "sacral laws"

n 1: a wicked or evil person; someone who does evil deliberately [syn: villain, scoundrel]

adj 1: of or relating to a spectrum; "spectral colors"; "spectral analysis" 2: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance" [syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual]

n 1: a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail 2: the fur of a squirrel

n 1: slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support

n 1: the act of moving something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance]

adj 1: toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal); "the ventral aspect of the human body"; "the liver is somewhat ventral in position"; "ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the hind limbs of a quadruped" [ant: dorsal] 2: nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism; "the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface" [syn: adaxial, ventral] [ant: abaxial, dorsal]

n 1: someone who dissipates resources self-indulgently [syn: wastrel, waster]

n 1: the month following March and preceding May [syn: April, Apr]

n 1: any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts [syn: spindle, mandrel, mandril, arbor]

adj 1: of or relating to or located in or near the mitral valve; "mitral insufficiency" 2: relating to or resembling the miter worn by some clerics