Words that rhyme with sessile

• abseil 0
  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]
• apostle 0
  n 1: an ardent early supporter of a cause or reform; "an apostle of revolution" 2: any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people [syn: Apostle, Apostelic Father] 3: (New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel
• carboxyl 0
  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]
• colossal 0
  adj 1: so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; "colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple"; "has a colossal nerve"; "a prodigious storm"; "a stupendous field of grass"; "stupendous demand" [syn: colossal, prodigious, stupendous]
• cresol 0
  n 1: any of three poisonous colorless isomeric phenols; derived from coal or wood tar; used as a disinfectant [syn: cresol, methyl phenol]
• docile 0
  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]
• domicile 0
  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]
• ensile 0
  v 1: store in a silo; "ensile fodder for the cows"
• extensile 0
  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]
• facile 0
  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]
• fissile 0
  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]
• flexile 0
  adj 1: able to flex; able to bend easily; "slim flexible birches" [syn: flexible, flexile] [ant: inflexible]
• fossil 0
  adj 1: characteristic of a fossil n 1: someone whose style is out of fashion [syn: dodo, fogy, fogey, fossil] 2: the remains (or an impression) of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated from the soil
• hydroxyl 0
  n 1: the monovalent group -OH in such compounds as bases and some acids and alcohols [syn: hydroxyl, hydroxyl group, hydroxyl radical]
• jostle 0
  n 1: the act of jostling (forcing your way by pushing) [syn: jostle, jostling] v 1: make one's way by jostling, pushing, or shoving; "We had to jostle our way to the front of the platform" 2: come into rough contact with while moving; "The passengers jostled each other in the overcrowded train" [syn: jostle, shove]
• mescal 0
  n 1: a small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons [syn: mescal, mezcal, peyote, Lophophora williamsii] 2: a colorless Mexican liquor distilled from fermented juices of certain desert plants of the genus Agavaceae (especially the century plant)
• microfossil 0
  n 1: a fossil that must be studied microscopically
• missile 0
  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]
• nestle 0
  n 1: a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace [syn: cuddle, nestle, snuggle] v 1: move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position; "We cuddled against each other to keep warm"; "The children snuggled into their sleeping bags" [syn: cuddle, snuggle, nestle, nest, nuzzle, draw close] 2: lie in a sheltered position; "The little cottage nestles in the forest" 3: position comfortably; "The baby nestled her head in her mother's elbow" [syn: nestle, snuggle]
• prehensile 0
  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]
• reconcile 0
  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]
• tensile 0
  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]
• trestle 0
  n 1: a supporting tower used to support a bridge 2: sawhorses used in pairs to support a horizontal tabletop
• wassail 0
  n 1: a punch made of sweetened ale or wine heated with spices and roasted apples; especially at Christmas v 1: celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!" [syn: revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail] 2: propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year" [syn: toast, drink, pledge, salute, wassail]
• wrestle 0
  n 1: 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: combat to overcome an opposing tendency or force; "He wrestled all his life with his feeling of inferiority" 2: engage in deep thought, consideration, or debate; "I wrestled with this decision for years" 3: to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); "The prisoner writhed in discomfort"; "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace" [syn: writhe, wrestle, wriggle, worm, squirm, twist] 4: engage in a wrestling match; "The children wrestled in the garden"
• gesell 0
  n 1: United States psychologist noted for his work in child development (1880-1961) [syn: Gesell, Arnold Gesell, Arnold Lucius Gesell]
• decile 0
  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
• pensile 0
• scissile 0
• glossal 0
• basile 0
• bhosle 0
• cawsl 0
• stossel 0
• estle 0
• gessel 0
• hessel 0
• kesel 0
• kessel 0
• kessell 0
• kessle 0
• messel 0
• nessel 0
• ressel 0
• graessle 0
• pressel 0
• cresyl 0

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