Words that rhyme with waterwheel

  • awheel
    adj 1: traveling by wheeled vehicle such as bicycle or automobile e.g.; "the public was awheel"
  • cartwheel
    n 1: a wheel that has wooden spokes and a metal rim 2: acrobatic revolutions with the body turned sideways and the arms and legs outstretched like the spokes of a wheel 3: a dollar made of silver [syn: silver dollar, cartwheel] v 1: do cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet
  • cogwheel
    n 1: a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion [syn: gear, gear wheel, geared wheel, cogwheel]
  • flywheel
    n 1: regulator consisting of a heavy wheel that stores kinetic energy and smooths the operation of a reciprocating engine
  • freewheel
    n 1: a clutch (as on the rear wheel of a bicycle) that allows wheels to turn freely (as in coasting) v 1: live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school" [syn: freewheel, drift] 2: coast in a vehicle using the freewheel
  • millwheel
    n 1: water wheel that is used to drive machinery in a mill [syn: millwheel, mill wheel]
  • pinwheel
    n 1: perennial subshrub of Tenerife having leaves in rosettes resembling pinwheels [syn: pinwheel, Aeonium haworthii] 2: a wheel that has numerous pins that are set at right angles to its rim; "he spun the pinwheel and it stopped with the pointer on `Go'" 3: a toy consisting of vanes of colored paper or plastic that is pinned to a stick and spins when it is pointed into the wind [syn: pinwheel, pinwheel wind collector] 4: a circular firework that spins round and round emitting colored fire [syn: catherine wheel, pinwheel]
  • gearwheel

See also waterwheel definition and waterwheel synonyms