Words that rhyme with sterile

• aisle 0
  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
• apparel 0
  n 1: clothing in general; "she was refined in her choice of apparel"; "he always bought his clothes at the same store"; "fastidious about his dress" [syn: apparel, wearing apparel, dress, clothes] v 1: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel] [ant: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress]
• barrel 0
  n 1: a tube through which a bullet travels when a gun is fired [syn: barrel, gun barrel] 2: a cylindrical container that holds liquids [syn: barrel, cask] 3: a bulging cylindrical shape; hollow with flat ends [syn: barrel, drum] 4: the quantity that a barrel (of any size) will hold [syn: barrel, barrelful] 5: any of various units of capacity; "a barrel of beer is 31 gallons and a barrel of oil is 42 gallons" [syn: barrel, bbl] v 1: put in barrels
• beryl 0
  n 1: the chief source of beryllium; colored transparent varieties are valued as gems
• carol 0
  n 1: joyful religious song celebrating the birth of Christ [syn: carol, Christmas carol] 2: a joyful song (usually celebrating the birth of Christ) v 1: sing carols; "They went caroling on Christmas Day"
• carrel 0
  n 1: French surgeon and biologist who developed a way to suture and graft blood vessels (1873-1944) [syn: Carrel, Alexis Carrel] 2: small individual study area in a library [syn: carrel, carrell, cubicle, stall]
• febrile 0
  adj 1: of or relating to or characterized by fever; "a febrile reaction caused by an allergen" [syn: febrile, feverish] [ant: afebrile]
• feral 0
  adj 1: wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs" [syn: feral, ferine, savage]
• ferrule 0
  n 1: a metal cap or band placed on a wooden pole to prevent splitting [syn: ferrule, collet]
• ferule 0
  n 1: a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children
• imperil 0
  v 1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril]
• nitrite 0
  n 1: the radical -NO2 or any compound containing it (such as a salt or ester of nitrous acid)
• peril 0
  n 1: a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" [syn: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk, endangerment] 2: a state of danger involving risk [syn: riskiness, peril] 3: a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime"; "there was a danger he would do the wrong thing" [syn: risk, peril, danger] v 1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril] 2: put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position [syn: queer, expose, scupper, endanger, peril]
• puerile 0
  adj 1: of or characteristic of a child; "puerile breathing" 2: displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity; "adolescent insecurity"; "jejune responses to our problems"; "their behavior was juvenile"; "puerile jokes" [syn: adolescent, jejune, juvenile, puerile]
• quarrel 0
  n 1: an angry dispute; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" [syn: quarrel, wrangle, row, words, run-in, dustup] 2: an arrow that is shot from a crossbow; has a head with four edges v 1: have a disagreement over something; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" [syn: quarrel, dispute, scrap, argufy, altercate]
• rural 0
  adj 1: living in or characteristic of farming or country life; "rural people"; "large rural households"; "unpaved rural roads"; "an economy that is basically rural" [ant: urban] 2: of or relating to the countryside as opposed to the city; "rural electrification"; "rural free delivery"
• sorrel 0
  adj 1: of a light brownish color [syn: sorrel, brownish- orange] n 1: any plant or flower of the genus Oxalis [syn: oxalis, sorrel, wood sorrel] 2: any of certain coarse weedy plants with long taproots, sometimes used as table greens or in folk medicine [syn: dock, sorrel, sour grass] 3: East Indian sparsely prickly annual herb or perennial subshrub widely cultivated for its fleshy calyxes used in tarts and jelly and for its bast fiber [syn: roselle, rozelle, sorrel, red sorrel, Jamaica sorrel, Hibiscus sabdariffa] 4: large sour-tasting arrowhead-shaped leaves used in salads and sauces [syn: sorrel, common sorrel] 5: a horse of a brownish orange to light brown color
• squirrel 0
  n 1: a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail 2: the fur of a squirrel
• virile 0
  adj 1: characterized by energy and vigor; "a virile and ever stronger free society"; "a new and virile leadership" 2: characteristic of a man; "a deep male voice"; "manly sports" [syn: male, manful, manlike, manly, virile] 3: (of a male) capable of copulation [syn: potent, virile] [ant: impotent]
• jural 0
  adj 1: of or relating to law or to legal rights and obligations [syn: jural, juristic]
• carroll 0
  n 1: English author; Charles Dodgson was an Oxford don of mathematics who is remembered for the children's stories he wrote under the pen name Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) [syn: Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Dodgson, Reverend Dodgson, Charles Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson]
• there'll 0
• scleral 0
• ural 0
• jerrell 0
• baril 0
• behrle 0
• berrill 0
• burel 0
• burell 0
• carole 0
• caryl 0
• ceryl 0
• cheryl 0
• darrel 0
• darrell 0
• darryl 0
• daryl 0
• deryle 0
• erol 0
• errol 0
• farrel 0
• ferol 0
• ferrall 0
• harrell 0
• herrell 0
• herrle 0
• jerel 0
• jheryl 0
• karel 0
• merrell 0
• merrill 0
• meryl 0
• meryll 0
• sharyl 0
• sherrell 0
• sheryl 0
• terrell 0
• ocarroll 0
• ofarrell 0
• antifebrile 0

See also sterile definition and sterile synonyms