Words that rhyme with tales

  • details
    n 1: true confidential information; "after the trial he gave us the real details" [syn: details, inside information]
  • displease
    v 1: give displeasure to [ant: delight, please]
  • entrails
    n 1: internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity); "`viscera' is the plural form of `viscus'" [syn: viscera, entrails, innards]
  • isosceles
    adj 1: (of a triangle) having two sides of equal length
  • journalese
    n 1: the style in which newspapers are written
  • legalese
    n 1: a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law
  • new
    adv 1: very recently; "they are newly married"; "newly raised objections"; "a newly arranged hairdo"; "grass new washed by the rain"; "a freshly cleaned floor"; "we are fresh out of tomatoes" [syn: newly, freshly, fresh, new] adj 1: not of long duration; having just (or relatively recently) come into being or been made or acquired or discovered; "a new law"; "new cars"; "a new comet"; "a new friend"; "a new year"; "the New World" [ant: old] 2: original and of a kind not seen before; "the computer produced a completely novel proof of a well-known theorem" [syn: fresh, new, novel] 3: lacking training or experience; "the new men were eager to fight"; "raw recruits" [syn: raw, new] 4: having no previous example or precedent or parallel; "a time of unexampled prosperity" [syn: new, unexampled] 5: other than the former one(s); different; "they now have a new leaders"; "my new car is four years old but has only 15,000 miles on it"; "ready to take a new direction" 6: unaffected by use or exposure; "it looks like new" [ant: worn] 7: (of a new kind or fashion) gratuitously new; "newfangled ideas"; "she buys all these new-fangled machines and never uses them" [syn: newfangled, new] 8: in use after medieval times; "New Eqyptian was the language of the 18th to 21st dynasties" 9: used of a living language; being the current stage in its development; "Modern English"; "New Hebrew is Israeli Hebrew" [syn: Modern, New] 10: (of crops) harvested at an early stage of development; before complete maturity; "new potatoes"; "young corn" [syn: new, young] 11: unfamiliar; "new experiences"; "experiences new to him"; "errors of someone new to the job"
  • rails
    n 1: a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll [syn: track, rail, rails, runway]
  • sales
    n 1: income (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time [syn: gross sales, gross revenue, sales]
  • tails
    n 1: formalwear consisting of full evening dress for men [syn: dress suit, full dress, tailcoat, tail coat, tails, white tie, white tie and tails]
  • valise
    n 1: a small overnight bag for short trips
  • belize
    n 1: a country on the northeastern coast of Central America on the Caribbean; formerly under British control [syn: Belize, British Honduras]
  • congolese
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of the Congo region or its people; "Congolese rulers"; "the Congolese republic" n 1: a native or inhabitant of the Republic of the Congo
  • nepalese
    adj 1: of or pertaining to or characteristic of Nepal or its people or language or culture; "Nepalese troops massed at the border"; "Nepali mountains are among the highest in the world"; "the different Nepali words for `rice'" [syn: Nepalese, Nepali] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Nepal [syn: Nepalese, Nepali]
  • sinhalese
    adj 1: of or relating to the Sinhalese languages; "the Sinhalese versions of the Ramayana" [syn: Sinhala, Singhalese, Sinhalese] 2: of or relating to the Sinhalese people; "Sinhalese rebels fighting the Tamils" [syn: Singhalese, Sinhalese] n 1: a native or inhabitant of Sri Lanka [syn: Sinhalese, Singhalese] 2: the Indic language spoken by the people of Sri Lanka [syn: Sinhalese, Singhalese, Sinhala]
  • senegalese
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Senegal or its people; "Senegalese villages"; "Senegalese herdsmen" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Senegal
  • versailles
    n 1: a city in north central France near Paris; site of the Palace of Versailles that was built by Louis XIV in the 17th century 2: a palace built in the 17th century for Louis XIV southwest of Paris near the city of Versailles [syn: Versailles, Palace of Versailles]
  • damocles
    n 1: the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)
  • heracles
    n 1: (classical mythology) a hero noted for his strength; performed 12 immense labors to gain immortality [syn: Hercules, Heracles, Herakles, Alcides]
  • pericles
    n 1: Athenian statesman whose leadership contributed to Athens' political and cultural supremacy in Greece; he ordered the construction of the Parthenon (died in 429 BC)
  • praxiteles
    n 1: ancient Greek sculptor (circa 370-330 BC)
  • sophocles
    n 1: one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC)
  • togolese
    adj 1: of or relating to the African country of Togo or its people; "the Togolese capital" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Togo
  • anopheles
    n 1: malaria mosquitoes; distinguished by the adult's head- downward stance and absence of breathing tubes in the larvae [syn: Anopheles, genus Anopheles]
  • empedocles
    n 1: Greek philosopher who taught that all matter is composed of particles of fire and water and air and earth (fifth century BC)
  • officialese
    n 1: the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure
  • themistocles
    n 1: Athenian statesman who persuaded Athens to build a navy and then led it to victory over the Persians (527-460 BC)
  • achilles
    n 1: a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles' heel'
  • wales
    n 1: one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria [syn: Wales, Cymru, Cambria]
  • antilles
    n 1: a group of islands in the West Indies
  • thales
    n 1: a presocratic Greek philosopher and astronomer (who predicted an eclipse in 585 BC) who was said by Aristotle to be the founder of physical science; he held that all things originated in water (624-546 BC) [syn: Thales, Thales of Miletus]
  • ails
  • assails
  • bales
  • curtails
  • dales
  • dale's
  • derails
  • entails
  • fails
  • females
  • impales
  • jails
  • males
  • nails
  • pales
  • prevails
  • quails
  • sails
  • scales
  • snail's
  • snails
  • trails
  • travails
  • wails
  • whales
  • brailles
  • qualls
  • quayles
  • swailes
  • swails
  • swales
  • chontales
  • emails
  • regales
  • androcles
  • cingalese
  • novelese
  • ailes
  • ales
  • alles
  • ayles
  • bailes
  • bails
  • balles
  • bayles
  • cales
  • calles
  • hales
  • shales
  • telesales