Words that rhyme with stratal

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

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]

n 1: a sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start" [syn: startle, jump, start] v 1: to stimulate to action ; "..startled him awake"; "galvanized into action" [syn: startle, galvanize, galvanise] 2: move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room" [syn: startle, jump, start]

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]