Words that rhyme with statoil

n 1: a painful sore with a hard core filled with pus [syn: boil, furuncle] 2: the temperature at which a liquid boils at sea level; "they brought the water to a boil" [syn: boiling point, boil] v 1: come to the boiling point and change from a liquid to vapor; "Water boils at 100 degrees Celsius" [ant: freeze] 2: immerse or be immersed in a boiling liquid, often for cooking purposes; "boil potatoes"; "boil wool" 3: bring to, or maintain at, the boiling point; "boil this liquid until it evaporates" 4: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn: churn, boil, moil, roil] 5: be in an agitated emotional state; "The customer was seething with anger" [syn: seethe, boil]

n 1: cooking by direct exposure to radiant heat (as over a fire or under a grill) [syn: broil, broiling, grilling] v 1: cook under a broiler; "broil fish" [syn: broil, oven broil] 2: heat by a natural force; "The sun broils the valley in the summer" [syn: broil, bake] 3: be very hot, due to hot weather or exposure to the sun; "The town was broiling in the sun"; "the tourists were baking in the heat" [syn: bake, broil]

n 1: a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops; "a coil of rope" [syn: coil, spiral, volute, whorl, helix] 2: a round shape formed by a series of concentric circles (as formed by leaves or flower petals) [syn: coil, whorl, roll, curl, curlicue, ringlet, gyre, scroll] 3: a transformer that supplies high voltage to spark plugs in a gasoline engine 4: a contraceptive device placed inside a woman's womb 5: tubing that is wound in a spiral 6: reactor consisting of a spiral of insulated wire that introduces inductance into a circuit v 1: to wind or move in a spiral course; "the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action"; "black smoke coiling up into the sky"; "the young people gyrated on the dance floor" [syn: gyrate, spiral, coil] 2: make without a potter's wheel; "This famous potter hand- builds all of her vessels" [syn: handbuild, hand-build, coil] 3: wind around something in coils or loops [syn: coil, loop, curl] [ant: uncoil]

v 1: force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; "They were swept up by the events"; "don't drag me into this business" [syn: embroil, tangle, sweep, sweep up, drag, drag in]

n 1: a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil" 2: anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils" [syn: foil, enhancer] 3: a device consisting of a flat or curved piece (as a metal plate) so that its surface reacts to the water it is passing through; "the fins of a fish act as hydrofoils" [syn: hydrofoil, foil] 4: picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector [syn: foil, transparency] 5: a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button v 1: enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background" 2: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk] 3: cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"

n 1: a boil or abscess on the gums

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] 2: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn: churn, boil, moil, roil] 3: moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter"

n 1: a slippery or viscous liquid or liquefiable substance not miscible with water 2: oil paint containing pigment that is used by an artist [syn: oil, oil color, oil colour] 3: a dark oil consisting mainly of hydrocarbons [syn: petroleum, crude oil, crude, rock oil, fossil oil, oil] 4: any of a group of liquid edible fats that are obtained from plants [syn: vegetable oil, oil] v 1: cover with oil, as if by rubbing; "oil the wooden surface" 2: administer an oil or ointment to ; often in a religious ceremony of blessing [syn: anoint, inunct, oil, anele, embrocate]

v 1: cook (vegetables) briefly; "Parboil the beans before freezing them" [syn: blanch, parboil]

n 1: the backward jerk of a gun when it is fired [syn: recoil, kick] 2: a movement back from an impact [syn: recoil, repercussion, rebound, backlash] v 1: draw back, as with fear or pain; "she flinched when they showed the slaughtering of the calf" [syn: flinch, squinch, funk, cringe, shrink, wince, recoil, quail] 2: come back to the originator of an action with an undesired effect; "Your comments may backfire and cause you a lot of trouble" [syn: backfire, backlash, recoil] 3: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet] 4: spring back, as from a forceful thrust; "The gun kicked back into my shoulder" [syn: kick back, recoil, kick]

v 1: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn: churn, boil, moil, roil] 2: make turbid by stirring up the sediments of [syn: roil, rile]

n 1: the state of being covered with unclean things [syn: dirt, filth, grime, soil, stain, grease, grunge] 2: the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock [syn: soil, dirt] 3: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good agricultural soil" [syn: land, ground, soil] 4: the geographical area under the jurisdiction of a sovereign state; "American troops were stationed on Japanese soil" [syn: territory, soil] v 1: make soiled, filthy, or dirty; "don't soil your clothes when you play outside!" [syn: dirty, soil, begrime, grime, colly, bemire] [ant: clean, make clean]

n 1: (usually plural) valuables taken by violence (especially in war); "to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy" 2: the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it; "her spoiling my dress was deliberate" [syn: spoil, spoiling, spoilage] 3: the act of stripping and taking by force [syn: spoil, spoliation, spoilation, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation] 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] 2: become unfit for consumption or use; "the meat must be eaten before it spoils" [syn: spoil, go bad] 3: alter from the original [syn: corrupt, spoil] 4: 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] 5: hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of; "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent" [syn: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, cross, frustrate, baffle, bilk] 6: have a strong desire or urge to do something; "She is itching to start the project"; "He is spoiling for a fight" [syn: itch, spoil] 7: destroy and strip of its possession; "The soldiers raped the beautiful country" [syn: rape, spoil, despoil, violate, plunder] 8: make imperfect; "nothing marred her beauty" [syn: mar, impair, spoil, deflower, vitiate]

n 1: productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill" [syn: labor, labour, toil] 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]

v 1: unwind or untwist [ant: coil, curl, loop]

n 1: a light semitransparent fabric

n 1: an English astrophysicist and advocate of the steady state theory of cosmology; described processes of nucleosynthesis inside stars (1915-2001) [syn: Hoyle, Fred Hoyle, Sir Fred Hoyle] 2: English writer on card games (1672-1769) [syn: Hoyle, Edmond Hoyle]

n 1: United States writer (1902-1992) [syn: Boyle, Kay Boyle] 2: Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691) [syn: Boyle, Robert Boyle]