Words that rhyme with statal

adj 1: occurring or existing before birth; "the prenatal period"; "antenatal care" [syn: prenatal, antenatal, antepartum] [ant: perinatal, postnatal, postpartum]

n 1: fruit with red or yellow or green skin and sweet to tart crisp whitish flesh 2: native Eurasian tree widely cultivated in many varieties for its firm rounded edible fruits [syn: apple, orchard apple tree, Malus pumila]

adv 1: with one leg on each side; "she sat astride the chair" [syn: astride, astraddle]

n 1: gibberish resembling the sounds of a baby [syn: babble, babbling, lallation] v 1: utter meaningless sounds, like a baby, or utter in an incoherent way; "The old man is only babbling--don't pay attention" 2: to talk foolishly; "The two women babbled and crooned at the baby" [syn: babble, blather, smatter, blether, blither] 3: flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise; "babbling brooks" [syn: ripple, babble, guggle, burble, bubble, gurgle] 4: divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth]

n 1: (Yiddish) glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust [syn: bagel, beigel]

n 1: a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war; "Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga"; "he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement" [syn: battle, conflict, fight, engagement] 2: an energetic attempt to achieve something; "getting through the crowd was a real struggle"; "he fought a battle for recognition" [syn: struggle, battle] 3: an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"-- Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs" [syn: conflict, struggle, battle] v 1: battle or contend against in or as if in a battle; "The Kurds are combating Iraqi troops in Northern Iraq"; "We must combat the prejudices against other races"; "they battled over the budget" [syn: battle, combat]

v 1: make wet and dirty, as from rain [syn: bedraggle, draggle]

v 1: make a rattling sound; "clattering dishes" [syn: clatter, clack, brattle]

n 1: the sound made by a hen after laying an egg 2: noisy talk [syn: yak, yack, yakety-yak, chatter, cackle] 3: a loud laugh suggestive of a hen's cackle v 1: talk or utter in a cackling manner; "The women cackled when they saw the movie star step out of the limousine" 2: squawk shrilly and loudly, characteristic of hens 3: emit a loud, unpleasant kind of laughing

n 1: domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen" [syn: cattle, cows, kine, oxen, Bos taurus]

n 1: a place of worship that has its own altar 2: a service conducted in a place of worship that has its own altar; "he was late for chapel" [syn: chapel service, chapel]

n 1: personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc) [syn: chattel, personal chattel, movable]

adj 1: having the surface decorated with a network of fine cracks, as in crackleware; "a crackle glaze" n 1: the sharp sound of snapping noises [syn: crackle, crackling, crepitation] 2: glazed china with a network of fine cracks on the surface [syn: crackle, crackleware, crackle china] v 1: make a crackling sound; "My Rice Krispies crackled in the bowl" [syn: crepitate, crackle] 2: make a crushing noise; "his shoes were crunching on the gravel" [syn: crunch, scranch, scraunch, crackle] 3: to become, or to cause to become, covered with a network of small cracks; "The blazing sun crackled the desert sand"

v 1: dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid 2: play in or as if in water, as of small children [syn: dabble, paddle, splash around] 3: work with in an amateurish manner; "She dabbles in astronomy"; "He plays around with investments but he never makes any money" [syn: dabble, smatter, play around] 4: bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water; "dabbling ducks"

n 1: a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red" [syn: spot, speckle, dapple, patch, fleck, maculation] v 1: colour with streaks or blotches of different shades [syn: mottle, dapple, cloud]

adj 1: bringing death [ant: nonfatal] 2: having momentous consequences; of decisive importance; "that fateful meeting of the U.N. when...it declared war on North Korea"- Saturday Rev; "the fatal day of the election finally arrived" [syn: fateful, fatal] 3: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful] 4: controlled or decreed by fate; predetermined; "a fatal series of events" [syn: fatal, fateful]

adj 1: relating to or accompanying birth; "natal injuries"; "natal day"; "natal influences" 2: of or relating to the buttocks n 1: a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean; "Natal was renamed KwaZulu-Natal in 1994" [syn: Natal, KwaZulu-Natal] 2: a port city in northeastern Brazil

adj 1: relating to or affecting the infant during the first month after birth; "neonatal care"; "the neonatal period"

adj 1: relating to or lying near the palate; "palatal index"; "the palatine tonsils" [syn: palatal, palatine] 2: produced with the front of the tongue near or touching the hard palate (as `y') or with the blade of the tongue near the hard palate (as `ch' in `chin' or `j' in `gin') [syn: palatal, palatalized, palatalised] n 1: a semivowel produced with the tongue near the palate (like the initial sound in the English word `yeast')

adj 1: occurring or existing before birth; "the prenatal period"; "antenatal care" [syn: prenatal, antenatal, antepartum] [ant: perinatal, postnatal, postpartum]

adj 1: occurring during the period around birth (5 months before and 1 month after); "perinatal mortality"; "perinatal care" [ant: antenatal, antepartum, postnatal, postpartum, prenatal]

n 1: nocturnal badger-like carnivore of wooded regions of Africa and southern Asia [syn: ratel, honey badger, Mellivora capensis]