Words that rhyme with staphylococcal

• bobble 0
  n 1: the momentary juggling of a batted or thrown baseball; "the second baseman made a bobble but still had time to throw the runner out" v 1: make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up]
• boggle 0
  v 1: startle with amazement or fear 2: hesitate when confronted with a problem, or when in doubt or fear 3: overcome with amazement; "This boggles the mind!" [syn: flabbergast, boggle, bowl over]
• boondoggle 0
  n 1: work of little or no value done merely to look busy v 1: do useless, wasteful, or trivial work
• bottle 0
  n 1: a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped 2: the quantity contained in a bottle [syn: bottle, bottleful] 3: a vessel fitted with a flexible teat and filled with milk or formula; used as a substitute for breast feeding infants and very young children [syn: bottle, feeding bottle, nursing bottle] v 1: store (liquids or gases) in bottles 2: put into bottles; "bottle the mineral water"
• caudal 0
  adv 1: toward the posterior end of the body [syn: caudally, caudal] adj 1: constituting or relating to a tail; "caudal appendage" [ant: cephalic] 2: resembling a tail [syn: caudal, taillike] 3: situated in or directed toward the part of the body from which the tail arises; "caudal fins"; "the caudal end of the body"
• cobble 0
  n 1: rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads [syn: cobble, cobblestone, sett] v 1: pave with cobblestones [syn: cobble, cobblestone] 2: repair or mend; "cobble shoes"
• cockle 0
  n 1: common edible European bivalve 2: common edible, burrowing European bivalve mollusk that has a strong, rounded shell with radiating ribs v 1: stir up (water) so as to form ripples [syn: ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, undulate] 2: to gather something into small wrinkles or folds; "She puckered her lips" [syn: pucker, rumple, cockle, crumple, knit]
• coddle 0
  v 1: treat with excessive indulgence; "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!" [syn: pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulge] 2: cook in nearly boiling water; "coddle eggs"
• cull 0
  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]
• debacle 0
  n 1: a sudden and violent collapse [syn: debacle, fiasco] 2: flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer 3: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping]
• glottal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or produced by the glottis; "glottal stops"
• pinochle 0
  n 1: a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist [syn: pinochle, pinocle, penuchle, bezique]
• streptococcal 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or caused by streptococci [syn: streptococcal, streptococcic, strep]
• throttle 0
  n 1: a valve that regulates the supply of fuel to the engine [syn: accelerator, throttle, throttle valve] 2: a pedal that controls the throttle valve; "he stepped on the gas" [syn: accelerator, accelerator pedal, gas pedal, gas, throttle, gun] v 1: place limits on (extent or access); "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends" [syn: restrict, restrain, trammel, limit, bound, confine, throttle] 2: kill by squeezing the throat of so as to cut off the air; "he tried to strangle his opponent"; "A man in Boston has been strangling several dozen prostitutes" [syn: strangle, strangulate, throttle] 3: reduce the air supply; "choke a carburetor" [syn: choke, throttle]
• toddle 0
  v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
• toggle 0
  n 1: any instruction that works first one way and then the other; it turns something on the first time it is used and then turns it off the next time 2: a hinged switch that can assume either of two positions [syn: toggle switch, toggle, on-off switch, on/off switch] 3: a fastener consisting of a peg or pin or crosspiece that is inserted into an eye at the end of a rope or a chain or a cable in order to fasten it to something (as another rope or chain or cable) v 1: provide with a toggle or toggles 2: fasten with, or as if with, a toggle 3: release by a toggle switch; "toggle a bomb from an airplane"
• topple 0
  v 1: fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it" [syn: tumble, topple] 2: cause to topple or tumble by pushing [syn: topple, tumble, tip]
• twaddle 0
  n 1: pretentious or silly talk or writing [syn: baloney, boloney, bilgewater, bosh, drool, humbug, taradiddle, tarradiddle, tommyrot, tosh, twaddle] v 1: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle- tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble]
• waddle 0
  n 1: walking with short steps and the weight tilting from one foot to the other; "ducks walk with a waddle" v 1: walk unsteadily; "small children toddle" [syn: toddle, coggle, totter, dodder, paddle, waddle]
• wobble 0
  n 1: an unsteady rocking motion v 1: move unsteadily; "His knees wobbled"; "The old cart wobbled down the street" [syn: wobble, coggle] 2: move sideways or in an unsteady way; "The ship careened out of control" [syn: careen, wobble, shift, tilt] 3: tremble or shake; "His voice wobbled with restrained emotion" [syn: shimmy, wobble]
• cul 0
  n 1: a passage with access only at one end [syn: cul, cul de sac, dead end]
• aristotle 0
  n 1: one of the greatest of the ancient Athenian philosophers; pupil of Plato; teacher of Alexander the Great (384-322 BC)
• socle 0
  n 1: a plain plinth that supports a wall
• popple 0
• brockel 0
• knochel 0
• mochel 0
• rockel 0
• stockel 0
• gonococcal 0
• kochel 0

See also staphylococcal definition