Words that rhyme with thales

  • appease
    v 1: cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer" [syn: pacify, lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle] 2: overcome or allay; "quell my hunger" [syn: quell, stay, appease] 3: make peace with [syn: propitiate, appease]
  • breeze
    n 1: a slight wind (usually refreshing); "the breeze was cooled by the lake"; "as he waited he could feel the air on his neck" [syn: breeze, zephyr, gentle wind, air] 2: any undertaking that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic" [syn: cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake] v 1: blow gently and lightly; "It breezes most evenings at the shore" 2: to proceed quickly and easily
  • cheese
    n 1: a solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk 2: erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced in United States [syn: tall mallow, high mallow, cheese, cheeseflower, Malva sylvestris] v 1: used in the imperative (get away, or stop it); "Cheese it!" 2: wind onto a cheese; "cheese the yarn"
  • chemise
    n 1: a woman's sleeveless undergarment [syn: chemise, shimmy, shift, slip, teddy] 2: a loose-fitting dress hanging straight from the shoulders without a waist [syn: chemise, sack, shift]
  • displease
    v 1: give displeasure to [ant: delight, please]
  • 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
  • please
    adv 1: used in polite request; "please pay attention" v 1: give pleasure to or be pleasing to; "These colors please the senses"; "a pleasing sensation" [syn: please, delight] [ant: displease] 2: be the will of or have the will (to); "he could do many things if he pleased" 3: give satisfaction; "The waiters around her aim to please"
  • valise
    n 1: a small overnight bag for short trips
  • chinese
    adj 1: of or pertaining to China or its peoples or cultures; "Chinese food" 2: of or relating to or characteristic of the island republic on Taiwan or its residents or their language; "the Taiwanese capital is Taipeh" [syn: Taiwanese, Chinese, Formosan] n 1: any of the Sino-Tibetan languages spoken in China; regarded as dialects of a single language (even though they are mutually unintelligible) because they share an ideographic writing system 2: a native or inhabitant of Communist China or of Nationalist China
  • burmese
    adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Myanmar or its people; "the Burmese capital"; "Burmese tonal languages" n 1: a native or inhabitant of Myanmar 2: the official language of Burma
  • belize
    n 1: a country on the northeastern coast of Central America on the Caribbean; formerly under British control [syn: Belize, British Honduras]
  • cadiz
    n 1: an ancient port city in southwestern Spain
  • 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
  • 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'
  • antilles
    n 1: a group of islands in the West Indies
  • agrees
  • appointees
  • bees
  • decrees
  • tales
  • crees
  • beas
  • beese
  • bes
  • brees
  • breese
  • briese
  • cees
  • deas
  • andries
  • ashis
  • aziz
  • brunjes
  • androcles
  • cingalese
  • novelese

See also thales definition