Words that rhyme with turtle

  • curtal
    adj 1: (obsolete) cut short; "a dog with a curtal tail"
  • circle
    n 1: ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length; a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point; "he calculated the circumference of the circle" 2: an unofficial association of people or groups; "the smart set goes there"; "they were an angry lot" [syn: set, circle, band, lot] 3: something approximating the shape of a circle; "the chairs were arranged in a circle" 4: movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance" [syn: lap, circle, circuit] 5: a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary" [syn: traffic circle, circle, rotary, roundabout] 6: street names for flunitrazepan [syn: R-2, Mexican valium, rophy, rope, roofy, roach, forget me drug, circle] 7: a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra; "they had excellent seats in the dress circle" [syn: circle, dress circle] 8: any circular or rotating mechanism; "the machine punched out metal circles" [syn: circle, round] v 1: travel around something; "circle the globe" 2: move in circles [syn: circle, circulate] 3: form a circle around; "encircle the errors" [syn: encircle, circle]
  • curdle
    v 1: turn into curds; "curdled milk" [syn: curdle, clabber, clot] [ant: homogenise, homogenize] 2: go bad or sour; "The milk curdled" 3: turn from a liquid to a solid mass; "his blood curdled"
  • hurtle
    v 1: move with or as if with a rushing sound; "The cars hurtled by" 2: make a thrusting forward movement [syn: lunge, hurl, hurtle, thrust] 3: throw forcefully [syn: hurl, hurtle, cast]
  • infertile
    adj 1: incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple" [syn: sterile, unfertile, infertile] [ant: fertile]
  • kirtle
    n 1: a garment resembling a tunic that was worn by men in the Middle Ages 2: a long dress worn by women
  • myrtle
    n 1: widely cultivated as a groundcover for its dark green shiny leaves and usually blue-violet flowers [syn: myrtle, Vinca minor] 2: any evergreen shrub or tree of the genus Myrtus
  • rebuttal
    n 1: the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument 2: (law) a pleading by the defendant in reply to a plaintiff's surrejoinder [syn: rebutter, rebuttal]
  • scuttle
    n 1: container for coal; shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire [syn: scuttle, coal scuttle] 2: an entrance equipped with a hatch; especially a passageway between decks of a ship [syn: hatchway, opening, scuttle] v 1: to move about or proceed hurriedly; "so terrified by the extraordinary ebbing of the sea that they scurried to higher ground" [syn: scurry, scamper, skitter, scuttle]
  • shuttle
    n 1: badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock, bird, birdie, shuttle] 2: public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points 3: bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads v 1: travel back and forth between two points
  • subtle
    adj 1: difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul" [syn: elusive, subtle] 2: able to make fine distinctions; "a subtle mind" 3: working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way; "glaucoma is an insidious disease"; "a subtle poison" [syn: insidious, pernicious, subtle]
  • unsubtle
    adj 1: lacking subtlety; obvious; "gave us a broad hint that it was time to leave" [syn: broad, unsubtle]
  • guttle
    v 1: eat greedily; "he devoured three sandwiches" [syn: devour, guttle, raven, pig]
  • cuttle
    n 1: ten-armed oval-bodied cephalopod with narrow fins as long as the body and a large calcareous internal shell [syn: cuttlefish, cuttle]
  • surrebuttal
    n 1: (law) a pleading by the plaintiff in reply to the defendant's rebutter [syn: surrebutter, surrebuttal]
  • birtle
  • buttle
  • abuttal
  • oversubtle
  • supersubtle

See also turtle definition