Words that rhyme with shelagh

n 1: the basic unit of luminous intensity adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; equal to 1/60 of the luminous intensity per square centimeter of a black body radiating at the temperature of 2,046 degrees Kelvin [syn: candle, candela, cd, standard candle]

n 1: someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold [syn: trader, bargainer, dealer, monger] 2: a firm engaged in trading 3: a seller of illicit goods; "a dealer in stolen goods" 4: the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account [syn: principal, dealer] 5: the person who distributes the playing cards in a card game

n 1: one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste [syn: antenna, feeler] 2: a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others; "she rejected his advances" [syn: overture, advance, approach, feeler] 3: sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ; "he had a special antenna for public relations" [syn: antenna, feeler] 4: slender tactile process on the jaws of a fish [syn: barbel, feeler]

n 1: an agricultural laborer in Arab countries

n 1: someone acting freely or even irresponsibly [syn: free agent, free spirit, freewheeler]

n 1: a person skilled in a particular type of therapy [syn: therapist, healer]

n 1: a person in a kneeling position 2: a board (sometimes cushioned) for someone to kneel on

n 1: a short novel [syn: novelette, novella]

n 1: a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint [syn: patella, kneecap, kneepan] 2: type genus of the family Patellidae: common European limpets [syn: Patella, genus Patella]

n 1: a performer who provides erotic entertainment by undressing to music [syn: stripper, striptease artist, striptease, stripteaser, exotic dancer, ecdysiast, peeler] 2: a worker who peels the skins from fruits and vegetables 3: a device for peeling vegetables or fruits; "she invented a potato peeler"

n 1: a contagious viral disease that is a milder form of measles lasting three or four days; can be damaging to a fetus during the first trimester [syn: German measles, rubella, three-day measles, epidemic roseola]

n 1: a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface) [syn: sealant, sealer] 2: an official who affixes a seal to a document

n 1: one who reveals confidential information in return for money [syn: informer, betrayer, rat, squealer, blabber] 2: domestic swine [syn: hog, pig, grunter, squealer, Sus scrofa]

n 1: a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it [syn: thief, stealer]

n 1: Mexican liquor made from fermented juices of an agave plant

adj 1: covering or applying simultaneously to a number of similar items or elements or groups; "an umbrella organization"; "umbrella insurance coverage" n 1: a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy 2: a formation of military planes maintained over ground operations or targets; "an air umbrella over England" 3: having the function of uniting a group of similar things; "the Democratic Party is an umbrella for many liberal groups"; "under the umbrella of capitalism"

n 1: a constellation in the southern hemisphere between Carina and Pyxis; "because of its configuration Vela is sometimes called `the Sails'"

adj 1: of or relating to the velum 2: produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate (as `k' in `cat' and `g' in `gun' and `ng' in `sing') n 1: a consonant produced with the back of the tongue touching or near the soft palate [syn: velar, velar consonant]

n 1: Scottish archaeologist (1890-1976) [syn: Wheeler, Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler] 2: someone who makes and repairs wooden wheels [syn: wheelwright, wheeler] 3: the man at the outermost end of the rank in wheeling 4: a person who rides a bicycle [syn: cyclist, bicyclist, bicycler, wheeler] 5: a draft horse harnessed behind others and nearest the wheels of a vehicle [syn: wheel horse, wheeler]

n 1: someone who walks unsteadily as if about to fall [syn: staggerer, totterer, reeler] 2: a dancer of reels

n 1: United States minimalist painter (born in 1936) [syn: Stella, Frank Stella, Frank Philip Stella]

n 1: the brightest star in Auriga 2: snipes [syn: Gallinago, genus Gallinago, Capella, genus Capella]

n 1: small genus of perennial mostly Eurasian having terminal spikes of small purplish or white flowers [syn: Prunella, genus Prunella] 2: type genus of the Prunellidae [syn: Prunella, genus Prunella]

n 1: a woman whose merits were not been recognized but who then achieves sudden success and recognition 2: a fictional young girl who is saved from her stepmother and stepsisters by her fairy godmother and a handsome prince

n 1: the queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and sponsored the voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1451-1504) [syn: Isabella, Queen Isabella, Isabella I, Isabella the Catholic]

n 1: a Hindu disciple of a swami 2: a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods [syn: claw, chela, nipper, pincer]

n 1: an ancient upright stone slab bearing markings [syn: stele, stela]

n 1: a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River [syn: Monongahela, Monongahela River]

n 1: (Norse mythology) goddess of the dead and queen of the underworld [syn: Hel, Hela]

n 1: capital of Vanuatu [syn: Port Vila, Vila, capital of Vanuatu]