Words that rhyme with zettel

adj 1: jutting or overhanging; "beetle brows" [syn: beetle, beetling] n 1: insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings 2: a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing [syn: mallet, beetle] v 1: be suspended over or hang over; "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town" [syn: overhang, beetle] 2: fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle; "He beetled up the staircase"; "They beetled off home" 3: beat with a beetle

n 1: Asian pepper plant whose dried leaves are chewed with betel nut (seed of the betel palm) by southeast Asians [syn: betel, betel pepper, Piper betel]

adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: white] 2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: white] 3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" 4: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" [syn: black, bleak, dim] 5: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark, sinister] 6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful] 7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: black, blackened] 8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch- black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark] 9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" [syn: black, grim, mordant] 10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" 11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled] 12: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful] 13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar 14: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn: black, smutty] n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn: black, blackness, inkiness] [ant: white, whiteness] 2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black] 3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) [syn: Black, Joseph Black] 4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn: Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple] 5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid] 6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: white] 7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black" v 1: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten]

adj 1: tending to move toward a center; "centripetal force" [ant: centrifugal] 2: tending to unify [syn: centripetal, unifying(a)] 3: of a nerve fiber or impulse originating outside and passing toward the central nervous system; "sensory neurons" [syn: centripetal, receptive, sensory(a)]

n 1: a state of fitness and good health; "in fine fettle" v 1: remove mold marks or sand from (a casting)

adj 1: of or relating to a fetus; "fetal development" [syn: fetal, foetal]

n 1: a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid [syn: kettle, boiler] 2: the quantity a kettle will hold [syn: kettle, kettleful] 3: (geology) a hollow (typically filled by a lake) that results from the melting of a mass of ice trapped in glacial deposits [syn: kettle hole, kettle] 4: a large hemispherical brass or copper percussion instrument with a drumhead that can be tuned by adjusting the tension on it [syn: kettle, kettledrum, tympanum, tympani, timpani]

adj 1: containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal; "a metallic compound"; "metallic luster"; "the strange metallic note of the meadow lark, suggesting the clash of vibrant blades"- Ambrose Bierce [syn: metallic, metal(a)] [ant: nonmetal, nonmetallic] n 1: any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc. [syn: metallic element, metal] 2: a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an alloy of zinc and copper" [syn: alloy, metal] v 1: cover with metal

n 1: the courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball" [syn: heart, mettle, nerve, spunk]

n 1: any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae) v 1: sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation [syn: nettle, urticate] 2: cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations; "Mosquitoes buzzing in my ear really bothers me"; "It irritates me that she never closes the door after she leaves" [syn: annoy, rag, get to, bother, get at, irritate, rile, nark, nettle, gravel, vex, chafe, devil]

n 1: part of the perianth that is usually brightly colored [syn: petal, flower petal]

v 1: settle in a new place; "The immigrants had to resettle"

n 1: a long wooden bench with a back [syn: settle, settee] v 1: settle into a position, usually on a surface or ground; "dust settled on the roofs" [syn: settle, settle down] 2: bring to an end; settle conclusively; "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance" [syn: decide, settle, resolve, adjudicate] 3: settle conclusively; come to terms; "We finally settled the argument" [syn: settle, square off, square up, determine] 4: take up residence and become established; "The immigrants settled in the Midwest" [syn: settle, locate] 5: come to terms; "After some discussion we finally made up" [syn: reconcile, patch up, make up, conciliate, settle] 6: go under, "The raft sank and its occupants drowned" [syn: sink, settle, go down, go under] [ant: float, swim] 7: become settled or established and stable in one's residence or life style; "He finally settled down" [syn: settle, root, take root, steady down, settle down] 8: become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet; "The roar settled to a thunder"; "The wind settled in the West"; "it is settling to rain"; "A cough settled in her chest"; "Her mood settled into lethargy" 9: establish or develop as a residence; "He settled the farm 200 years ago"; "This land was settled by Germans" 10: come to rest 11: arrange or fix in the desired order; "She settled the teacart" 12: accept despite lack of complete satisfaction; "We settled for a lower price" 13: end a legal dispute by arriving at a settlement; "The two parties finally settled" 14: dispose of; make a financial settlement 15: become clear by the sinking of particles; "the liquid gradually settled" 16: cause to become clear by forming a sediment (of liquids) 17: sink down or precipitate; "the mud subsides when the waters become calm" [syn: subside, settle] 18: fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair" [syn: ensconce, settle] 19: get one's revenge for a wrong or an injury; "I finally settled with my old enemy" [syn: settle, get back] 20: make final; put the last touches on; put into final form; "let's finalize the proposal" [syn: finalize, finalise, settle, nail down] 21: form a community; "The Swedes settled in Minnesota" 22: come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell" [syn: fall, descend, settle]

adj 1: of or relating to or forming or attached to a skeleton; "the skeletal system"; "skeletal bones"; "skeletal muscles" 2: very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration" [syn: bony, cadaverous, emaciated, gaunt, haggard, pinched, skeletal, wasted]

v 1: disturb the composure of [syn: faze, unnerve, enervate, unsettle]

n 1: dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: oriental cockroach, oriental roach, Asiatic cockroach, blackbeetle, Blatta orientalis]

n 1: Old World dung beetle that flies with a droning sound