Words that rhyme with soleil

n 1: a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods) 2: passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores [syn: aisle, gangway] 3: part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns

adv 1: for a short time; "sit down and stay awhile"; "they settled awhile in Virginia before moving West"; "the baby was quiet for a while" [syn: awhile, for a while]

v 1: influence by slyness [syn: juggle, beguile, hoodwink] 2: attract; cause to be enamored; "She captured all the men's hearts" [syn: capture, enamour, trance, catch, becharm, enamor, captivate, beguile, charm, fascinate, bewitch, entrance, enchant]

n 1: a digestive juice secreted by the liver and stored in the gallbladder; aids in the digestion of fats [syn: bile, gall]

v 1: get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard] 2: put together out of existing material; "compile a list" [syn: compose, compile] 3: use a computer program to translate source code written in a particular programming language into computer-readable machine code that can be executed

n 1: the act of refusing to comply (as with a request); "it resulted in a complete denial of his privileges" 2: the act of asserting that something alleged is not true [syn: denial, disaffirmation] 3: (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts 4: renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others [syn: abnegation, self-abnegation, denial, self-denial, self-renunciation] 5: a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; "he gave evidence for the defense" [syn: defense, defence, denial, demurrer] [ant: criminal prosecution, prosecution]

n 1: the face of a timepiece; graduated to show the hours 2: the control on a radio or television set that is used for tuning 3: the circular graduated indicator on various measuring instruments 4: a disc on a telephone that is rotated a fixed distance for each number called [syn: dial, telephone dial] v 1: operate a dial to select a telephone number; "You must take the receiver off the hook before you dial" 2: choose by means of a dial; "dial a telephone number"

adj 1: capable of reproducing [ant: infertile, sterile, unfertile] 2: intellectually productive; "a prolific writer"; "a fecund imagination" [syn: fecund, fertile, prolific] 3: bearing in abundance especially offspring; "flying foxes are extremely prolific"; "a prolific pear tree" [syn: prolific, fertile] 4: marked by great fruitfulness; "fertile farmland"; "a fat land"; "a productive vineyard"; "rich soil" [syn: fat, fertile, productive, rich]

n 1: a set of related records (either written or electronic) kept together [syn: file, data file] 2: a line of persons or things ranged one behind the other [syn: file, single file, Indian file] 3: office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order [syn: file, file cabinet, filing cabinet] 4: a steel hand tool with small sharp teeth on some or all of its surfaces; used for smoothing wood or metal v 1: record in a public office or in a court of law; "file for divorce"; "file a complaint" [syn: file, register] 2: smooth with a file; "file one's fingernails" 3: proceed in line; "The students filed into the classroom" 4: file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife" [syn: charge, lodge, file] 5: place in a container for keeping records; "File these bills, please" [syn: file, file away]

n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness] 2: the quality of being crafty [syn: craftiness, deceitfulness, guile] 3: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan]

adj 1: characterized by enmity or ill will; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions" [ant: amicable] 2: not belonging to your own country's forces or those of an ally; "hostile naval and air forces" [ant: friendly] 3: impossible to bring into friendly accord; "hostile factions" 4: very unfavorable to life or growth; "a hostile climate"; "an uncongenial atmosphere"; "an uncongenial soil"; "the unfriendly environment at high altitudes" [syn: hostile, uncongenial, unfriendly] 5: unsolicited and resisted by the management of the target company ( used of attempts to buy or take control of a business); "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"; "hostile bid" n 1: troops belonging to the enemy's military forces; "the platoon ran into a pack of hostiles" [ant: friendly]

n 1: a small island [syn: isle, islet]

n 1: a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters [syn: mile, statute mile, stat mi, land mile, international mile, mi] 2: a unit of length used in navigation; exactly 1,852 meters; historically based on the distance spanned by one minute of arc in latitude [syn: nautical mile, mile, mi, naut mi, knot, international nautical mile, air mile] 3: a large distance; "he missed by a mile" 4: a former British unit of length once used in navigation; equivalent to 6,000 feet (1828.8 meters) [syn: sea mile, mile] 5: a former British unit of length equivalent to 6,080 feet (1,853.184 meters); 800 feet longer than a statute mile [syn: nautical mile, naut mi, mile, mi, geographical mile, Admiralty mile] 6: an ancient Roman unit of length equivalent to 1620 yards [syn: mile, Roman mile] 7: a Swedish unit of length equivalent to 10 km [syn: mile, mil, Swedish mile] 8: a footrace extending one mile; "he holds the record in the mile"

n 1: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus] 2: (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] 3: a large sum of money (especially as pay or profit); "she made a bundle selling real estate"; "they sank megabucks into their new house" [syn: pile, bundle, big bucks, megabucks, big money] 4: fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) [syn: down, pile] 5: battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta [syn: voltaic pile, pile, galvanic pile] 6: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: pile, spile, piling, stilt] 7: the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave; "for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction" [syn: pile, nap] 8: a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy [syn: atomic pile, atomic reactor, pile, chain reactor] v 1: arrange in stacks; "heap firewood around the fireplace"; "stack your books up on the shelves" [syn: stack, pile, heap] 2: press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam] 3: place or lay as if in a pile; "The teacher piled work on the students until the parents protested"

v 1: spread negative information about; "The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews" [syn: vilify, revile, vituperate, rail]

v 1: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" [syn: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil] 2: make turbid by stirring up the sediments of [syn: roil, rile]

n 1: a facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement [syn: smile, smiling, grin, grinning] v 1: change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure 2: express with a smile; "She smiled her thanks"

adj 1: lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; "stale bread"; "the beer was stale" [ant: fresh] 2: lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new; "moth- eaten theories about race"; "stale news" [syn: cold, stale, dusty, moth-eaten] v 1: urinate, of cattle and horses

n 1: an upright that is a member in a door or window frame

n 1: how something is done or how it happens; "her dignified manner"; "his rapid manner of talking"; "their nomadic mode of existence"; "in the characteristic New York style"; "a lonely way of life"; "in an abrasive fashion" [syn: manner, mode, style, way, fashion] 2: a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper" [syn: expressive style, style] 3: a particular kind (as to appearance); "this style of shoe is in demand" 4: the popular taste at a given time; "leather is the latest vogue"; "he followed current trends"; "the 1920s had a style of their own" [syn: vogue, trend, style] 5: (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma 6: editorial directions to be followed in spelling and punctuation and capitalization and typographical display 7: distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer" [syn: dash, elan, flair, panache, style] 8: a pointed tool for writing or drawing or engraving; "he drew the design on the stencil with a steel stylus" [syn: stylus, style] 9: a slender bristlelike or tubular process; "a cartilaginous style" v 1: designate by an identifying term; "They styled their nation `The Confederate States'" [syn: style, title] 2: make consistent with a certain fashion or style; "Style my hair"; "style the dress" 3: make consistent with certain rules of style; "style a manuscript"

n 1: the posterior part of the body of a vertebrate especially when elongated and extending beyond the trunk or main part of the body 2: the time of the last part of something; "the fag end of this crisis-ridden century"; "the tail of the storm" [syn: fag end, tail, tail end] 3: any projection that resembles the tail of an animal [syn: tail, tail end] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 5: a spy employed to follow someone and report their movements [syn: tail, shadow, shadower] 6: (usually plural) the reverse side of a coin that does not bear the representation of a person's head [ant: head] 7: the rear part of an aircraft [syn: tail, tail assembly, empennage] 8: the rear part of a ship [syn: stern, after part, quarter, poop, tail] v 1: go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn: chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track] 2: remove or shorten the tail of an animal [syn: dock, tail, bob] 3: remove the stalk of fruits or berries

n 1: a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program; "his narrative was interesting"; "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children" [syn: narrative, narration, story, tale] 2: a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" [syn: fib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle]

n 1: a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces 2: a thin flat slab of fired clay used for roofing [syn: tile, roofing tile] 3: game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc. v 1: cover with tiles; "tile the wall and the floor of the bathroom"

n 1: a track or mark left by something that has passed; "there as a trail of blood"; "a tear left its trail on her cheek" 2: a path or track roughly blazed through wild or hilly country 3: evidence pointing to a possible solution; "the police are following a promising lead"; "the trail led straight to the perpetrator" [syn: lead, track, trail] v 1: to lag or linger behind; "But in so many other areas we still are dragging" [syn: drag, trail, get behind, hang back, drop behind, drop back] 2: go after with the intent to catch; "The policeman chased the mugger down the alley"; "the dog chased the rabbit" [syn: chase, chase after, trail, tail, tag, give chase, dog, go after, track] 3: move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly; "John trailed behind his class mates"; "The Mercedes trailed behind the horse cart" [syn: trail, shack] 4: hang down so as to drag along the ground; "The bride's veiled trailed along the ground" 5: drag loosely along a surface; allow to sweep the ground; "The toddler was trailing his pants"; "She trained her long scarf behind her" [syn: trail, train]

n 1: concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child; "she was in labor for six hours" [syn: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed] 2: use of physical or mental energy; hard work; "he got an A for effort"; "they managed only with great exertion" [syn: effort, elbow grease, exertion, travail, sweat] v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil]

n 1: the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial" [syn: test, trial, run] 2: trying something to find out about it; "a sample for ten days free trial"; "a trial of progesterone failed to relieve the pain" [syn: trial, trial run, test, tryout] 3: the act of undergoing testing; "he survived the great test of battle"; "candidates must compete in a trial of skill" [syn: test, trial] 4: (law) the determination of a person's innocence or guilt by due process of law; "he had a fair trial and the jury found him guilty"; "most of these complaints are settled before they go to trial" 5: (sports) a preliminary competition to determine qualifications; "the trials for the semifinals began yesterday" 6: an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague" [syn: trial, tribulation, visitation]

v 1: remove the veil from; "Women must not unveil themselves in public in Islamic societies" [ant: veil] 2: make visible; "Summer brings out bright clothes"; "He brings out the best in her" [syn: uncover, bring out, unveil, reveal] 3: remove the cover from; "unveil a painting"

n 1: a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river [syn: valley, vale]

n 1: a garment that covers the head and face [syn: head covering, veil] 2: a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms [syn: veil, velum] 3: the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) [syn: caul, veil, embryonic membrane] 4: a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl [syn: humeral veil, veil] v 1: to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; "women in Afghanistan veil their faces" [ant: unveil] 2: make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat" [syn: obscure, blot out, obliterate, veil, hide]

adj 1: having great diversity or variety; "his various achievements are impressive"; "his vast and versatile erudition" [syn: versatile, various] 2: changeable or inconstant; "versatile moods" 3: competent in many areas and able to turn with ease from one thing to another; "a versatile writer" 4: able to move freely in all directions; "an owl's versatile toe can move backward and forward"; "an insect's versatile antennae can move up and down or laterally"; "a versatile anther of a flower moves freely in the wind"

adj 1: morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar" [syn: despicable, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched] 2: causing or able to cause nausea; "a nauseating smell"; "nauseous offal"; "a sickening stench" [syn: nauseating, nauseous, noisome, queasy, loathsome, offensive, sickening, vile]

n 1: a cry of sorrow and grief; "their pitiful laments could be heard throughout the ward" [syn: lament, lamentation, plaint, wail] v 1: emit long loud cries; "wail in self-pity"; "howl with sorrow" [syn: howl, ululate, wail, roar, yawl, yaup] 2: cry weakly or softly; "she wailed with pain" [syn: wail, whimper, mewl, pule]

n 1: a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions [syn: wale, welt, weal, wheal] 2: thick plank forming a ridge along the side of a wooden ship [syn: wale, strake]

n 1: a very large person; impressive in size or qualities [syn: giant, hulk, heavyweight, whale] 2: any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head v 1: hunt for whales

n 1: a period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition; "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather" [syn: while, piece, spell, patch]

n 1: the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them) [syn: trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan]

adj 1: sufficiently valuable to justify the investment of time or interest; "a worthwhile book"

n 1: a university in Connecticut [syn: Yale University, Yale] 2: English philanthropist who made contributions to a college in Connecticut that was renamed in his honor (1649-1721) [syn: Yale, Elihu Yale]

n 1: the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization [syn: Nile, Nile River]

n 1: a tribe of ancient Athenians

n 1: a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure [syn: pile, spile, piling, stilt] 2: a plug used to close a hole in a barrel or flask [syn: bung, spile]

n 1: a covered gravy holder of silver or other metal containing a detachable central vessel for hot water to keep the gravy warm [syn: argyll, argyle] 2: a design consisting of a pattern of varicolored diamonds on a solid background (originally for knitted articles); patterned after the tartan of a clan in western Scotland [syn: argyle, argyll] 3: a sock knitted or woven with an argyle design (usually used in the plural) [syn: argyle, argyll]