Words that rhyme with whalley

n 1: a narrow street with walls on both sides [syn: alley, alleyway, back street] 2: a lane down which a bowling ball is rolled toward pins [syn: bowling alley, alley, skittle alley]

n 1: a friendly nation 2: an associate who provides cooperation or assistance; "he's a good ally in fight" [syn: ally, friend] [ant: enemy, foe] v 1: become an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage; "He allied himself with the Communists"

n 1: colloquial terms for an umbrella [syn: gamp, brolly]

n 1: an informal social gathering at which there is Scottish or Irish folk music and singing and folk dancing and story telling

n 1: a soft lightweight fabric (usually printed)

n 1: a silky-coated sheepdog with a long ruff and long narrow head developed in Scotland

adv 1: every day; without missing a day; "he stops by daily" 2: gradually and progressively; "his health weakened day by day" [syn: day by day, daily] adj 1: of or belonging to or occurring every day; "daily routine"; "a daily paper" [syn: daily, day-to-day, day-by-day, day-after-day] 2: appropriate for ordinary or routine occasions; "casual clothes"; "everyday clothes" [syn: casual, everyday, daily] n 1: a newspaper that is published every day

v 1: behave carelessly or indifferently; "Play about with a young girl's affection" [syn: dally, toy, play, flirt] 2: waste time; "Get busy--don't dally!" [syn: dally, dawdle] 3: talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions; "The guys always try to chat up the new secretaries"; "My husband never flirts with other women" [syn: chat up, flirt, dally, butterfly, coquet, coquette, romance, philander, mash] 4: consider not very seriously; "He is trifling with her"; "She plays with the thought of moving to Tasmania" [syn: dally, trifle, play]

adv 1: in a demure manner; "the army girl, tall and demurely pretty, threw a quick side-glance at her"

v 1: postpone doing what one should be doing; "He did not want to write the letter and procrastinated for days" [syn: procrastinate, stall, drag one's feet, drag one's heels, shillyshally, dilly-dally, dillydally]

n 1: conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted 2: conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects 3: a small replica of a person; used as a toy [syn: doll, dolly]

n 1: the closing section of a musical composition [syn: finale, coda] 2: the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season" [syn: stopping point, finale, finis, finish, last, conclusion, close] 3: the concluding part of any performance [syn: finale, close, closing curtain, finis]

n 1: the trait of acting stupidly or rashly [syn: folly, foolishness, unwiseness] [ant: wisdom, wiseness] 2: a stupid mistake [syn: stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility] 3: the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness" [syn: folly, foolishness, craziness, madness] 4: foolish or senseless behavior [syn: folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence]

adv 1: in a gay manner; "the scandals were gaily diverting"

n 1: a large medieval vessel with a single deck propelled by sails and oars with guns at stern and prow; a complement of 1,000 men; used mainly in the Mediterranean for war and trading 2: (classical antiquity) a crescent-shaped seagoing vessel propelled by oars 3: the kitchen area for food preparation on an airliner 4: the area for food preparation on a ship [syn: galley, ship's galley, caboose, cookhouse]

n 1: any tree or shrub of the genus Ilex having red berries and shiny evergreen leaves with prickly edges 2: United States rock star (1936-1959) [syn: Holly, Buddy Holly, Charles Hardin Holley]

adv 1: in an immature manner; "his teenage son still behaves very immaturely" [syn: immaturely, jejunely] [ant: maturely]

adv 1: in a tentative and self-conscious manner; "she always acts very insecurely in the presence of her father" [ant: securely] 2: in a manner involving risk; "our positions here at the university are rather insecurely supported by grant money" [ant: securely]

adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably] adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful] n 1: a happy party 2: a yawl used by a ship's sailors for general work [syn: jolly boat, jolly] v 1: be silly or tease one another; "After we relaxed, we just kidded around" [syn: kid, chaff, jolly, josh, banter]

n 1: bushy plant of Old World salt marshes and sea beaches having prickly leaves; burned to produce a crude soda ash [syn: saltwort, barilla, glasswort, kali, kelpwort, Salsola kali, Salsola soda] 2: wife of Siva and malevolent form of Devi; "the black"

n 1: thick gruel

n 1: informal terms for money [syn: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, scratch, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum] 2: ice cream or water ice on a small wooden stick; "in England a popsicle is called an ice lolly" [syn: ice lolly, lolly, lollipop, popsicle]

adv 1: in a mature manner; "she acts very maturely for her age" [ant: immaturely, jejunely]

adv 1: in an obscure manner; "this work is obscurely written"

adv 1: (`ill' is often used as a combining form) in a poor or improper or unsatisfactory manner; not well; "he was ill prepared"; "it ill befits a man to betray old friends"; "the car runs badly"; "he performed badly on the exam"; "the team played poorly"; "ill-fitting clothes"; "an ill- conceived plan" [syn: ill, badly, poorly] [ant: good, well] adj 1: somewhat ill or prone to illness; "my poor ailing grandmother"; "feeling a bit indisposed today"; "you look a little peaked"; "feeling poorly"; "a sickly child"; "is unwell and can't come to work" [syn: ailing, indisposed, peaked(p), poorly(p), sickly, unwell, under the weather, seedy]

adv 1: (of childbirth) before the end of the normal period of gestation; "the child was born prematurely" 2: too soon; in a premature manner; "I spoke prematurely" [syn: prematurely, untimely]

adv 1: restricted to something; "we talked strictly business" [syn: strictly, purely]

n 1: a large gathering of people intended to arouse enthusiasm [syn: rally, mass meeting] 2: the feat of mustering strength for a renewed effort; "he singled to start a rally in the 9th inning"; "he feared the rallying of their troops for a counterattack" [syn: rally, rallying] 3: a marked recovery of strength or spirits during an illness 4: an automobile race run over public roads 5: (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes; "after a short rally Connors won the point" [syn: rally, exchange] v 1: gather; "drum up support" [syn: beat up, drum up, rally] 2: call to arms; of military personnel [syn: call up, mobilize, mobilise, rally] [ant: demobilise, demobilize, inactivate] 3: gather or bring together; "muster the courage to do something"; "she rallied her intellect"; "Summon all your courage" [syn: muster, rally, summon, come up, muster up] 4: return to a former condition; "The jilted lover soon rallied and found new friends"; "The stock market rallied" [syn: rally, rebound] 5: harass with persistent criticism or carping; "The children teased the new teacher"; "Don't ride me so hard over my failure"; "His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie" [syn: tease, razz, rag, cod, tantalize, tantalise, bait, taunt, twit, rally, ride]

n 1: witty remark [syn: wisecrack, crack, sally, quip] 2: a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position [syn: sortie, sally] 3: a venture off the beaten path; "a sally into the wide world beyond his home" [syn: sally, sallying forth]

adj 1: rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf [syn: lepidote, leprose, scabrous, scaly, scurfy] 2: having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles [syn: scaly, scaley, scaled]

adv 1: in a secure manner; in a manner free from danger; "she held the child securely" [syn: securely, firmly] 2: in a confident and unselfconscious manner; "he acts very securely in front of the camera" [ant: insecurely] 3: in a manner free from fear or risk; "the outcome of expansion in the sixties and seventies will be an academic hierarchy securely supported by scholastic selection" [ant: insecurely] 4: in an invulnerable manner; "the agreed line was to involve at several points the withdrawal of French troops from positions which they had quite securely held"

n 1: a cudgel made of hardwood (usually oak or blackthorn) [syn: shillelagh, shillalah]

adv 1: to a great degree; "I missed him sorely"; "we were sorely taxed to keep up with them" 2: in or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded" [syn: painfully, sorely] [ant: painlessly]

adj 1: characterized by short periods of noisy commotion; "a home life that has been extraordinarily squally" [syn: squally, squalling] 2: characterized by brief periods of violent wind or rain; "a grey squally morning"

adv 1: definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely'); "the results are surely encouraging"; "she certainly is a hard worker"; "it's going to be a good day for sure"; "they are coming, for certain"; "they thought he had been killed sure enough"; "he'll win sure as shooting"; "they sure smell good"; "sure he'll come" [syn: surely, certainly, sure, for sure, for certain, sure enough, sure as shooting]

n 1: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" [syn: run, tally] 2: a bill for an amount due [syn: reckoning, tally] 3: the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; "the counting continued for several hours" [syn: count, counting, numeration, enumeration, reckoning, tally] v 1: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree, discord] 2: gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" [syn: score, hit, tally, rack up] 3: keep score, as in games [syn: tally, chalk up] 4: determine the sum of; "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town" [syn: total, tot, tot up, sum, sum up, summate, tote up, add, add together, tally, add up]

n 1: a wheeled vehicle that runs on rails and is propelled by electricity [syn: streetcar, tram, tramcar, trolley, trolley car]

n 1: a small guitar having four strings [syn: uke, ukulele]

n 1: a long depression in the surface of the land that usually contains a river [syn: valley, vale]

adv 1: as a verb; "he had a habit of using nouns verbally" 2: by means of language; "verbally expressive"

n 1: rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms; "our fusillade from the left flank caught them by surprise" [syn: fusillade, salvo, volley, burst] 2: a tennis return made by hitting the ball before it bounces [ant: ground stroke] v 1: be dispersed in a volley; "gun shots volleyed at the attackers" 2: hit before it touches the ground; "volley the tennis ball" 3: discharge in, or as if in, a volley; "the attackers volleyed gunshots at the civilians" 4: make a volley 5: utter rapidly; "volley a string of curses"

n 1: a silly and inept person; someone who is regarded as stupid

n 1: United States singer (1918-1990) [syn: Bailey, Pearl Bailey, Pearl Mae Bailey] 2: English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742) [syn: Bailey, Nathan Bailey, Nathaniel Bailey] 3: the outer courtyard of a castle 4: the outer defensive wall that surrounds the outer courtyard of a castle

adv 1: having a grey appearance; "lonely creeks are opal in the dawn, sword-blue in the sun, greyly silver under misty moons" [syn: grayly, greyly]

n 1: popular aquarium fish [syn: mollie, molly]

n 1: a city in the Saxony region of Germany on the Saale River; a member of the Hanseatic League during the 13th and 14th centuries [syn: Halle, Halle-an-der-Saale]

adj 1: (used colloquially) having the relationship of friends or pals [syn: chummy, matey, pally, palsy-walsy]

n 1: city in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area

n 1: United States rock singer who was one of the first to popularize rock'n'roll music (1925-1981) [syn: Haley, Bill Haley, William John Clifton Haley Jr.] 2: United States writer and Afro-American who wrote a fictionalized account of tracing his family roots back to Africa (1921-1992) [syn: Haley, Alex Haley]

n 1: British statesman who as Prime Minister bought controlling interest in the Suez Canal and made Queen Victoria the empress of India (1804-1881) [syn: Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli, First Earl of Beaconsfield]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Israel or its people n 1: a native or inhabitant of Israel

n 1: English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618) [syn: Raleigh, Walter Raleigh, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ralegh, Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh] 2: capital of the state of North Carolina; located in the east central part of the North Carolina [syn: Raleigh, capital of North Carolina]

n 1: American chemist who with Robert Curl and Harold Kroto discovered fullerenes and opened a new branch of chemistry (born in 1943) [syn: Smalley, Richard Smalley, Richard E. Smalley, Richard Errett Smalley]

adj 1: of or relating to or characteristic of Bengal or its people; "Bengali hills" n 1: (Hinduism) a member of a people living in Bangladesh and West Bengal (mainly Hindus) 2: an ethnic group speaking Bengali and living in Bangladesh and eastern India 3: a Magadhan language spoken by the Bengali people; the official language of Bangladesh and Bengal [syn: Bengali, Bangla]

n 1: English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859) [syn: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, First Baron Macaulay, Lord Macaulay]

n 1: popular aquarium fish [syn: mollie, molly]

adj 1: informal intensifiers; "what a bally (or blinking) nuisance"; "a bloody fool"; "a crashing bore"; "you flaming idiot" [syn: bally(a), blinking(a), bloody(a), blooming(a), crashing(a), flaming(a), fucking(a)]

n 1: English physicist who studied the density of gases and discovered argon; made important contributions to acoustic theory (1842-1919) [syn: Rayleigh, Third Baron Rayleigh, Lord Rayleigh, John William Strutt]

n 1: a Bantu language sometimes considered a dialect of Zulu [syn: Ndebele, Matabele]

n 1: United States chemist and physicist who collaborated with Michelson in the Michelson-Morley experiment (1838-1923) [syn: Morley, E. W. Morley, Edward Morley, Edward Williams Morley]