Words that rhyme with tholl

adj 1: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; "bromidic sermons"; "his remarks were trite and commonplace"; "hackneyed phrases"; "a stock answer"; "repeating threadbare jokes"; "parroting some timeworn axiom"; "the trite metaphor `hard as nails'" [syn: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, old-hat, shopworn, stock(a), threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn]

n 1: a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue [syn: cabal, faction, junto, camarilla] 2: a plot to carry out some harmful or illegal act (especially a political plot) [syn: conspiracy, cabal] v 1: engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together; "They conspired to overthrow the government" [syn: conspire, cabal, complot, conjure, machinate]

n 1: the state of being under the control of another person [syn: bondage, slavery, thrall, thralldom, thraldom] 2: someone held in bondage

n 1: a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) [syn: trawl, trawl line, spiller, setline, trotline] 2: a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths [syn: trawl, dragnet, trawl net] v 1: fish with trawlers

n 1: an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness; used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure; "the south wall had a small window"; "the walls were covered with pictures" 2: anything that suggests a wall in structure or function or effect; "a wall of water"; "a wall of smoke"; "a wall of prejudice"; "negotiations ran into a brick wall" 3: (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure; "stomach walls" [syn: wall, paries] 4: a difficult or awkward situation; "his back was to the wall"; "competition was pushing them to the wall" 5: a vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) 6: a layer of material that encloses space; "the walls of the cylinder were perforated"; "the container's walls were blue" 7: a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden); "the wall followed the road"; "he ducked behind the garden wall and waited" 8: an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes; "they stormed the ramparts of the city"; "they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down" [syn: rampart, bulwark, wall] v 1: surround with a wall in order to fortify [syn: wall, palisade, fence, fence in, surround]

n 1: part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines [syn: greater omentum, gastrocolic omentum, caul] 2: the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) [syn: caul, veil, embryonic membrane]

n 1: tropical woody herb with showy yellow flowers and flat pods; much cultivated in the tropics [syn: pigeon pea, pigeon-pea plant, cajan pea, catjang pea, red gram, dhal, dahl, Cajanus cajan] 2: small highly nutritious seed of the tropical pigeon-pea plant [syn: cajan pea, pigeon pea, dahl]

n 1: a colloid that has a continuous liquid phase in which a solid is suspended in a liquid [syn: sol, colloidal solution, colloidal suspension] 2: (Roman mythology) ancient Roman god; personification of the sun; counterpart of Greek Helios 3: the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization [syn: sol, soh, so]

n 1: French painter (born in Russia) noted for his imagery and brilliant colors (1887-1985) [syn: Chagall, Marc Chagall]

n 1: a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers