Words that rhyme with sentinel

  • abdominal
    adj 1: of or relating to or near the abdomen; "abdominal muscles" n 1: the muscles of the abdomen [syn: abdominal, abdominal muscle, ab]
  • aboriginal
    adj 1: of or pertaining to members of the indigenous people of Australia; "an Aboriginal rite" 2: characteristic of or relating to people inhabiting a region from the beginning; "native Americans"; "the aboriginal peoples of Australia" [syn: native, aboriginal] [ant: nonnative] 3: having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state; "aboriginal forests"; "primal eras before the appearance of life on earth"; "the forest primeval"; "primordial matter"; "primordial forms of life" [syn: aboriginal, primal, primeval, primaeval, primordial] n 1: a dark-skinned member of a race of people living in Australia when Europeans arrived [syn: Aborigine, Abo, Aboriginal, native Australian, Australian Aborigine] 2: an indigenous person who was born in a particular place; "the art of the natives of the northwest coast"; "the Canadian government scrapped plans to tax the grants to aboriginal college students" [syn: native, indigen, indigene, aborigine, aboriginal]
  • additional
    adj 1: further or added; "called for additional troops"; "need extra help"; "an extra pair of shoes" [syn: extra, additional]
  • altitudinal
    adj 1: pertaining to altitude
  • annul
    v 1: declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea" [syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate] 2: cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate]
  • antiphonal
    adj 1: containing or using responses; alternating; "responsive reading"; "antiphonal laughter" [syn: responsive, antiphonal] 2: relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony [syn: antiphonary, antiphonal] n 1: bound collection of antiphons [syn: antiphonary, antiphonal]
  • archidiaconal
    adj 1: of or relating to an archdeacon or his office
  • arsenal
    n 1: all the weapons and equipment that a country has [syn: arsenal, armory, armoury] 2: a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms [syn: arsenal, armory, armoury] 3: a place where arms are manufactured [syn: armory, armoury, arsenal]
  • attitudinal
    adj 1: of or relating to attitudes
  • bacchanal
    adj 1: used of riotously drunken merrymaking; "a night of bacchanalian revelry"; "carousing bands of drunken soldiers"; "orgiastic festivity" [syn: bacchanalian, bacchanal, bacchic, carousing, orgiastic] n 1: someone who engages in drinking bouts [syn: drunken reveler, drunken reveller, bacchanal, bacchant] 2: a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus [syn: bacchant, bacchanal] 3: a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity [syn: orgy, debauch, debauchery, saturnalia, riot, bacchanal, bacchanalia, drunken revelry]
  • binominal
    adj 1: having or characterized by two names, especially those of genus and species in taxonomies; "binomial nomenclature of bacteria" [syn: binomial, binominal]
  • cacuminal
    adj 1: pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate [syn: cacuminal, retroflex]
  • cantonal
    adj 1: of or relating to a canton
  • cardinal
    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: being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers" [ant: ordinal] n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes 2: the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order [syn: cardinal number, cardinal] 3: a variable color averaging a vivid red [syn: cardinal, carmine] 4: crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male [syn: cardinal, cardinal grosbeak, Richmondena Cardinalis, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird]
  • conditional
    adj 1: qualified by reservations 2: imposing or depending on or containing a condition; "conditional acceptance of the terms"; "lent conditional support"; "the conditional sale will not be complete until the full purchase price is paid" [ant: unconditional, unconditioned]
  • confessional
    n 1: a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions
  • conventional
    adj 1: following accepted customs and proprieties; "conventional wisdom"; "she had strayed from the path of conventional behavior"; "conventional forms of address" [ant: unconventional] 2: conforming with accepted standards; "a conventional view of the world" [syn: conventional, established] 3: (weapons) using energy for propulsion or destruction that is not nuclear energy; "conventional warfare"; "conventional weapons" [ant: atomic, nuclear] 4: unimaginative and conformist; "conventional bourgeois lives"; "conventional attitudes" [ant: unconventional] 5: represented in simplified or symbolic form [syn: conventional, formal, schematic] 6: in accord with or being a tradition or practice accepted from the past; "a conventional church wedding with the bride in traditional white"; "the conventional handshake" 7: rigidly formal or bound by convention; "their ceremonious greetings did not seem heartfelt" [syn: ceremonious, conventional]
  • correctional
    adj 1: concerned with or providing correction; "a correctional institution"
  • criminal
    adj 1: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious] 2: guilty of crime or serious offense; "criminal in the sight of God and man" 3: involving or being or having the nature of a crime; "a criminal offense"; "criminal abuse"; "felonious intent" [syn: criminal, felonious] n 1: someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [syn: criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactor]
  • delusional
    adj 1: suffering from or characterized by delusions
  • devotional
    adj 1: relating to worship; "a devotional exercise" n 1: a short religious service
  • diagonal
    adj 1: connecting two nonadjacent corners of a plane figure or any two corners of a solid that are not in the same face; "a diagonal line across the page" 2: having an oblique or slanted direction [syn: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping] n 1: (geometry) a straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent 2: a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric [syn: diagonal, bias] 3: an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard; "the bishop moves on the diagonals" 4: (mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry 5: a punctuation mark (/) used to separate related items of information [syn: solidus, slash, virgule, diagonal, stroke, separatrix]
  • dimensional
    adj 1: of or relating to dimensions 2: having dimension--the quality or character or stature proper to a person; "never matures as a dimensional character; he is pasty, bland, faceless"- Norman Cousins
  • directional
    adj 1: relating to or indicating directions in space; "a directional microphone" [ant: omnidirectional] 2: relating to direction toward a (nonspatial) goal; "he tried to explain the directional trends of modern science" 3: showing the way by conducting or leading; imposing direction on; "felt his mother's directing arm around him"; "the directional role of science on industrial progress" [syn: directing, directional, directive, guiding]
  • dismantle
    v 1: tear down so as to make flat with the ground; "The building was levelled" [syn: level, raze, rase, dismantle, tear down, take down, pull down] [ant: erect, put up, raise, rear, set up] 2: take apart into its constituent pieces [syn: disassemble, dismantle, take apart, break up, break apart] [ant: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together] 3: take off or remove; "strip a wall of its wallpaper" [syn: strip, dismantle]
  • divisional
    adj 1: of or relating to a military division; "divisional artillery" 2: serving to divide or marking a division; "the divisional line between two states" 3: constituting a division or an aliquot part of the basic monetary unit; "American divisional (fractional) coins include the dime and the nickel"; "fractional currency is currency in denominations less than the basic monetary unit"
  • doctrinal
    adj 1: relating to or involving or preoccupied with doctrine; "quibbling over doctrinal minutiae"
  • dull
    adj 1: lacking in liveliness or animation; "he was so dull at parties"; "a dull political campaign"; "a large dull impassive man"; "dull days with nothing to do"; "how dull and dreary the world is"; "fell back into one of her dull moods" [ant: lively] 2: emitting or reflecting very little light; "a dull glow"; "dull silver badly in need of a polish"; "a dull sky" [ant: bright] 3: being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" [syn: dull, muffled, muted, softened] 4: so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; "a boring evening with uninteresting people"; "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"; "a dull play"; "his competent but dull performance"; "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"; "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke; "tedious days on the train"; "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain; "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome" [syn: boring, deadening, dull, ho-hum, irksome, slow, tedious, tiresome, wearisome] 5: (of color) very low in saturation; highly diluted; "dull greens and blues" 6: not keenly felt; "a dull throbbing"; "dull pain" [ant: sharp] 7: slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity; "so dense he never understands anything I say to him"; "never met anyone quite so dim"; "although dull at classical learning, at mathematics he was uncommonly quick"- Thackeray; "dumb officials make some really dumb decisions"; "he was either normally stupid or being deliberately obtuse"; "worked with the slow students" [syn: dense, dim, dull, dumb, obtuse, slow] 8: (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market" [syn: dull, slow, sluggish] 9: not having a sharp edge or point; "the knife was too dull to be of any use" [ant: sharp] 10: blunted in responsiveness or sensibility; "a dull gaze"; "so exhausted she was dull to what went on about her"- Willa Cather 11: not clear and resonant; sounding as if striking with or against something relatively soft; "the dull thud"; "thudding bullets" [syn: dull, thudding] 12: darkened with overcast; "a dark day"; "a dull sky"; "the sky was leaden and thick" [syn: dull, leaden] v 1: make dull in appearance; "Age had dulled the surface" 2: become dull or lusterless in appearance; lose shine or brightness; "the varnished table top dulled with time" 3: deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping [syn: muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down] 4: make numb or insensitive; "The shock numbed her senses" [syn: numb, benumb, blunt, dull] 5: make dull or blunt; "Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge" [syn: dull, blunt] [ant: sharpen] 6: become less interesting or attractive [syn: pall, dull] 7: make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"
  • empanel
    v 1: enter into a list of prospective jurors [syn: empanel, impanel] 2: select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors" [syn: empanel, impanel, panel]
  • flannel
    n 1: a soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing 2: bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body [syn: washcloth, washrag, flannel, face cloth] 3: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth [syn: flannel, gabardine, tweed, white]
  • gastrointestinal
    adj 1: of or relating to the stomach and intestines; "a gastrointestinal disorder" [syn: gastrointestinal, GI]
  • germinal
    adj 1: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal, originative, seminal] n 1: seventh month of the Revolutionary calendar (March and April); the month of buds
  • gull
    n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug] 2: mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs [syn: gull, seagull, sea gull] v 1: make a fool or dupe of [syn: fool, gull, befool] 2: fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!" [syn: gull, dupe, slang, befool, cod, fool, put on, take in, put one over, put one across]
  • hexagonal
    adj 1: having six sides or divided into hexagons [syn: hexangular, hexagonal]
  • impersonal
    adj 1: not relating to or responsive to individual persons; "an impersonal corporation"; "an impersonal remark" [ant: personal] 2: having no personal preference; "impersonal criticism"; "a neutral observer" [syn: impersonal, neutral]
  • intestinal
    adj 1: of or relating to or inside the intestines; "intestinal disease" [syn: intestinal, enteric, enteral]
  • juvenal
    n 1: Roman satirist who denounced the vice and folly of Roman society during the reign of the emperor Domitian (60-140) [syn: Juvenal, Decimus Junius Juvenalis]
  • latitudinal
    adj 1: of or relating to latitudes north or south
  • libidinal
    adj 1: belonging to the libido; "libidinal impulses"; "libidinal gratification"
  • longitudinal
    adj 1: of or relating to lines of longitude; "longitudinal reckoning by the navigator" 2: running lengthwise; "a thin longitudinal strip"; "longitudinal measurements of the hull" 3: over an extended time; "a longitudinal study of twins"
  • medicinal
    adj 1: having the properties of medicine; "medicative drugs"; "medicinal herbs"; "medicinal properties" [syn: medicative, medicinal]
  • nominal
    adj 1: relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name; "the Russian system of nominal brevity"; "a nominal lists of priests"; "taxable males as revealed by the nominal rolls" 2: insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); "the fee was nominal"; "a token gesture of resistance"; "a toknenish gesture" [syn: nominal, token(a), tokenish] 3: pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; "nominal phrase"; "noun phrase" 4: of, relating to, or characteristic of an amount that is not adjusted for inflation; "the nominal GDP"; "nominal interest rates" [ant: real] 5: named; bearing the name of a specific person; "nominative shares of stock" [syn: nominative, nominal] 6: existing in name only; "the nominal (or titular) head of his party" [syn: nominal, titular] n 1: a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb [syn: noun phrase, nominal phrase, nominal]
  • null
    adj 1: lacking any legal or binding force; "null and void" [syn: null, void] n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
  • octagonal
    adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like an octagon [syn: octangular, octagonal]
  • ordinal
    adj 1: of or relating to a taxonomic order; "family and ordinal names of animals and plants" 2: being or denoting a numerical order in a series; "ordinal numbers"; "held an ordinal rank of seventh" [ant: cardinal] n 1: the number designating place in an ordered sequence [syn: ordinal number, ordinal, no.]
  • orthogonal
    adj 1: not pertinent to the matter under consideration; "an issue extraneous to the debate"; "the price was immaterial"; "mentioned several impertinent facts before finally coming to the point" [syn: extraneous, immaterial, impertinent, orthogonal] 2: statistically unrelated 3: having a set of mutually perpendicular axes; meeting at right angles; "wind and sea may displace the ship's center of gravity along three orthogonal axes"; "a rectangular Cartesian coordinate system" [syn: orthogonal, rectangular]
  • pentagonal
    adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like a pentagon [syn: pentangular, pentagonal]
  • personal
    adj 1: concerning or affecting a particular person or his or her private life and personality; "a personal favor"; "for your personal use"; "personal papers"; "I have something personal to tell you"; "a personal God"; "he has his personal bank account and she has hers" [ant: impersonal] 2: particular to a given individual 3: of or arising from personality; "personal magnetism" 4: intimately concerning a person's body or physical being; "personal hygiene" 5: indicating grammatical person; "personal verb endings" n 1: a short newspaper article about a particular person or group
  • phenomenal
    adj 1: of or relating to a phenomenon; "phenomenal science" 2: exceedingly or unbelievably great; "the bomb did fantastic damage"; "Samson is supposed to have had fantastic strength"; "phenomenaRl feats of memory"
  • polygonal
    adj 1: having many sides or relating to a surface marked by polygons; "polygonal structure"
  • pronominal
    adj 1: relating to pronouns; "pronominal reference" n 1: a phrase that functions as a pronoun [syn: pronominal phrase, pronominal]
  • retinal
    adj 1: in or relating to the retina of the eye; "retinal cells" n 1: either of two yellow to red retinal pigments formed from rhodopsin by the action of light [syn: retinene, retinal]
  • seminal
    adj 1: pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen; "seminal fluid" 2: containing seeds of later development; "seminal ideas of one discipline can influence the growth of another" [syn: germinal, originative, seminal]
  • subliminal
    adj 1: below the threshold of conscious perception
  • terminal
    adj 1: of or relating to or situated at the ends of a delivery route; "freight pickup is a terminal service"; "terminal charges" 2: relating to or occurring in a term or fixed period of time; "terminal examinations"; "terminal payments" 3: being or situated at an end; "the endmost pillar"; "terminal buds on a branch"; "a terminal station"; "the terminal syllable" [ant: intermediate] 4: occurring at or forming an end or termination; "his concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter"; "the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave" [syn: concluding, final, last, terminal] 5: causing or ending in or approaching death; "a terminal patient"; "terminal cancer" n 1: station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods [syn: terminal, terminus, depot] 2: a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves [syn: terminal, pole] 3: either extremity of something that has length; "the end of the pier"; "she knotted the end of the thread"; "they rode to the end of the line"; "the terminals of the anterior arches of the fornix" [syn: end, terminal] 4: electronic equipment consisting of a device providing access to a computer; has a keyboard and display
  • tetragonal
    adj 1: of or relating to or shaped like a quadrilateral
  • vicinal
    adj 1: belonging to or limited to a vicinity
  • impanel
    v 1: enter into a list of prospective jurors [syn: empanel, impanel] 2: select from a list; "empanel prospective jurors" [syn: empanel, impanel, panel]
  • mangonel
    n 1: an engine that provided medieval artillery used during sieges; a heavy war engine for hurling large stones and other missiles [syn: catapult, arbalest, arbalist, ballista, bricole, mangonel, onager, trebuchet, trebucket]
  • matutinal
    adj 1: pertaining to or occurring in the morning; "took his matutinal walk"
  • luminal
    n 1: a long-acting barbiturate used as a sedative [syn: sodium thiopental, phenobarbital, phenobarbitone, Luminal, purple heart]
  • embryonal
    adj 1: of an organism prior to birth or hatching; "in the embryonic stage"; "embryologic development" [syn: embryonic, embryologic, embryonal]
  • aberrational
  • adnominal
  • decanal
  • dentinal
  • depositional
  • diaconal
  • disannul
  • epiphenomenal
  • heptagonal
  • officinal
  • transpersonal
  • cognominal
  • binational
  • mcdanel
  • vaticinal
  • subabdominal
  • liminal
  • aspinall
  • testudinal
  • lionel
  • decagonal

See also sentinel definition and sentinel synonyms