Words that rhyme with sickle

  • acquittal
    n 1: a judgment of not guilty [ant: condemnation, conviction, judgment of conviction, sentence]
  • anarchical
    adj 1: without law or control; "the system is economically inefficient and politically anarchic" [syn: anarchic, anarchical, lawless]
  • arithmetical
    adj 1: relating to or involving arithmetic; "arithmetical computations" [syn: arithmetical, arithmetic]
  • belittle
    v 1: cause to seem less serious; play down; "Don't belittle his influence" [syn: minimize, belittle, denigrate, derogate] 2: express a negative opinion of; "She disparaged her student's efforts" [syn: disparage, belittle, pick at] [ant: blandish, flatter] 3: lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of; "don't belittle your colleagues" [syn: diminish, belittle]
  • bicycle
    n 1: a wheeled vehicle that has two wheels and is moved by foot pedals [syn: bicycle, bike, wheel, cycle] v 1: ride a bicycle [syn: bicycle, cycle, bike, pedal, wheel]
  • brittle
    adj 1: having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal" [syn: brittle, brickle, brickly] 2: lacking warmth and generosity of spirit; "a brittle and calculating woman" 3: (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured [syn: brittle, unannealed] n 1: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets [syn: brittle, toffee, toffy]
  • chronological
    adj 1: relating to or arranged according to temporal order; "chronological age"
  • committal
    n 1: the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital) [syn: commitment, committal, consignment] 2: the act of committing a crime [syn: perpetration, commission, committal]
  • cripple
    n 1: someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back v 1: deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: cripple, stultify] 2: deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life" [syn: cripple, lame]
  • cull
    n 1: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality [syn: cull, reject] v 1: remove something that has been rejected; "cull the sick members of the herd" 2: look for and gather; "pick mushrooms"; "pick flowers" [syn: pick, pluck, cull]
  • deckle
    n 1: rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper [syn: deckle edge, deckle] 2: (paper making) a frame used to form paper pulp into sheets
  • fickle
    adj 1: marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" [syn: fickle, volatile] 2: liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [syn: erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)]
  • mickle
    n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad]
  • nickel
    n 1: a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn: nickel, Ni, atomic number 28] 2: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar 3: five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a nickel deck of heroin" [syn: nickel, nickel note] v 1: plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"
  • numerical
    adj 1: measured or expressed in numbers; "numerical value"; "the numerical superiority of the enemy" [syn: numeric, numerical] 2: of or relating to or denoting numbers; "a numeral adjective" [syn: numeral, numerical, numeric] 3: relating to or having ability to think in or work with numbers; "tests for rating numerical aptitude"; "a mathematical whiz" [syn: numerical, mathematical] [ant: verbal]
  • pickle
    n 1: vegetables (especially cucumbers) preserved in brine or vinegar 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] v 1: preserve in a pickling liquid
  • prickle
    n 1: a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf [syn: spine, thorn, prickle, pricker, sticker, spikelet] v 1: cause a prickling sensation [syn: prickle, prick] 2: cause a stinging or tingling sensation [syn: tingle, prickle] 3: make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn; "The nurse pricked my finger to get a small blood sample" [syn: prickle, prick]
  • pumpernickel
    n 1: bread made of coarse rye flour [syn: black bread, pumpernickel]
  • stickle
    v 1: dispute or argue stubbornly (especially minor points)
  • tickle
    n 1: a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking 2: the act of tickling [syn: tickle, tickling, titillation] v 1: touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements [syn: tickle, titillate, vellicate] 2: feel sudden intense sensation or emotion; "he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine" [syn: thrill, tickle, vibrate] 3: touch or stroke lightly; "The grass tickled her calves"
  • trickle
    n 1: flowing in drops; the formation and falling of drops of liquid; "there's a drip through the roof" [syn: drip, trickle, dribble] v 1: run or flow slowly, as in drops or in an unsteady stream; "water trickled onto the lawn from the broken hose"; "reports began to dribble in" [syn: trickle, dribble, filter]
  • brickle
    adj 1: having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped; "brittle bones"; "glass is brittle"; "`brickle' and `brickly' are dialectal" [syn: brittle, brickle, brickly]
  • chicle
    n 1: gum-like substance from the sapodilla [syn: chicle, chicle gum]
  • cul
    n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac, dead end]
  • picul
    n 1: a unit of weight used in some parts of Asia; approximately equal to 133 pounds (the load a grown man can carry)
  • strickle
    n 1: an implement for sharpening scythes 2: a tool or rod used to level off grain or other granular material that is heaped in a measure 3: a tool used in a foundry to shape a mold in sand v 1: level off with a strickle in a measuring container; "strickle sand" 2: smooth with a strickle; "strickle the grain in the measure" [syn: strickle, strike]
  • mispickel
    n 1: a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic [syn: arsenopyrite, mispickel]
  • cupronickel
    n 1: a 60/40 alloy of copper and nickel
  • ikle
  • dickel
  • fickel
  • hickel
  • hickle
  • mickel
  • mikell
  • nickell
  • nickle
  • nickol
  • nicol
  • nicoll
  • nikkel
  • pickel
  • quickel
  • mcmickle
  • mcnichol
  • mcnickle
  • ferronickel
  • bickel
  • bickell
  • bickle
  • brickel
  • brickell
  • nichol

See also sickle definition and sickle synonyms