Words that rhyme with whorley

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

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: 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]

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"

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"

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: 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]

n 1: a southeastern suburb of Paris; site of an international airport serving Paris